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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, JAN. 18, 1921.
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t Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Street. Entered, at the Post -Office at Richmond. Indiana, M t Second-Class Mall Matter. " MRMBER OF THUS AfiSOCUTBD Pltf!! Tn "Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use fo republication-of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication ot ape clal dispatches herein are also reserved. f Indiana's Agricultural Showing ' The per capita production in agriculture of Indiana in 1920 was $102.29, say the farm crop figures of the department of 'agriculture. The total value for the state -was $299,751,000, and
of states,; .. , '' ' We ranked above Illinois, Ohio and Michigan, and were below Kentucky. This is a surprise to most of us, as Ohio and Illinois, in the popular estimation, usually are . regarded as more productive than Indiana. The average per capita production of these states follows: Ohio, $65; Illinois, $71 ; Michigan, $79 ; Kentucky, $112. Indiana's high per capita average is a glowing tribute to the skill of Hoosier farmers and indicates that agriculture occupies a high place as a wealth' producer in this state. The figures become. still more impressive if we take. into ac-r
count that Indiana also is one of the leading
manufacturing states of the Union. Great indus
trial centers' mihany parts of the state keep us in the front rank as a commonwealth producing many commodities for the home and export The diversification of our industries is one of our strongest assets. We are proud not only of the development of our industrial centers but also of the progress which agriculture, admitted
ly the basic industry xf the country, has made. The development of the farm in Indiana must keep pace with the progress of our manufacturing establishments. The excellent record of Indiana farmers in 1920 shows that they are not lagging behind the manufacturers. . One reason, perhaps, for the fine showing of our farms is the interest which the farmer himself is taking in his business. He is applying the latest methods of agriculture and is perfecting his knowledge of husbandry annually. Farm institutes are not neglected, but are attended for the information which the experts impart to the farmer. That is one reason why Wayne qounty farmers, for instance, are keenly interested in the corn show and institute that is to be conducted
here next month. They are anxious to learn tne new methods of farming and to avoid the mistakes which they made in the past. -
house, where immediate action probably will betaken. ' r .'-,',, -"J-..'. . The contemplated move to increase the membership of the huse -of representatives by -48 members has little argument in its favor. The house is unwieldy enough with its present constituency. "''..-."
A membership of 4&5 legislators is quite large enough to give the entire nation a fair and equitable representation. The. lower house-does not need 48 more members, but an increase of 48 per cent, if not more, in efficiency and ability to transact the public business. y ; The addition of almost 50 more members means a substantial increase in the amount of money annually expended by the nation for salaries for these representatives, plus the amounts paid to their secretaries, clerical help, and other accessories that attend the addition of more members to the body. ' The great majority of Hoosiers believe that the present number of representatives can transact the business that comes before the house. Additions will neither expedite the enactment of bills into laws nor guarantee that the new statutes and legislation will be improved in quality.
Increase in National House Not Needed Most Hoosiers will agree heartily with the concurrent resolution, opposing an increase in the number of members of the national house of representatives, which was passed by the Indiana conafp vpstprHav and forwarded to the lower
Ben Franklin's Birthday c Monday was the 250th anniversary of the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer, patriot, philosopher, diplomat. "In honor of his advocacy of "thrift, this week is being observed throughout the nation as a special season in which the value of that virtue is extolled and its necessity emphasized. Franklin's memory has not faded from our national consciousness, because he united practical, common sense' with his preaching and exhorting. He was not only a teacher of thrift, but made this virtue-one of the cardinal precepts of his own life. He expounded the spiritual value of the virtue and exemplified in his own daily life how it may develop character and serve his fellow men. His life was simple and sane, both as a private citizen in his home city and as a diplomatic representative of the republic in the courts of Europe a fit exponent of the truths he taught and believed. In the lapse of years that have rolled by since Franklin has been called into the great beyond, no discovery has supplanted his maxims of right living as the source of happiness and the means of acquiring financial independence. men may speculate and gamble to acquire wealthbut the surest and best method is the laying aside of a portion of your income regularly and consistently as the basis of a future income. The biggest financiers of the country recommend tha principle highly, and thousands who today are happy and contented know that it was the denial of yesterday that made possible the enjoyment of today. Franklin's message to the citizens of the republic has not lost its potency in the passage of time, but has been vindicated splendidly and conclusively. Thrifty men and women are the backbone of the nation and thef strength of the republic.
Answers to Questions j WIDOW. Will you please print some statistics on the O. A. It.? Statistics on the Grand Army of the Republic show that more than a quarter of a century elapsed after the Civil War ended before Father Time began thinning the organization's ranks and that, although a man who was 21 years old when the war started would be 80 years old today, there are still more than 104,000 G. A. R. veterans in line on the march that Is stuad.
lly being diminished. Until 1890 the
organization nan a steady growth, in 1890 It had 409.000 mtmhan After
that each succeeding year saw a smaller number answering the roU call. OLD TIMER. When was Jumbo killed? This was the big elephant that Barnum brought, to America from Europe. The big elephant Jumbo was brought to. America in 1880 and exhibited with Barnum's Circus until it was killed at St. Thomas, Canada, by a Grand Trunk railway train on Sept 15, 1885. Jumbo was the largest captive elephant known. STUDENT. -What is Rudyard Kipling's address? It is Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, England. Readers may ofcrala umr aeatlaa y writ lac. the Palladium Questions aa Answers department. All questions should bo vrrlttea plainly and briefly. Answers will be ajlvoa briefly. -
Who's Who in the Day's News
TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of "You Can", Take It", "Up". - . ;;'.; ., THE woods - I am quite sure that the spirit of the immortal Shakespeare will not object if I place with those whom he spoke of as not loving music, those who find no thrill In trees so closely akin are these two gifts of the Almighty. ' ;. ." - ? - ' Oh, to get out into the woods! . To lie on the leaves under some " great tree and to hear the crackle of the broken sticks to relax there, to close one's eyes and to listen to the chirp of squirrels and the heart-Bong of some bird, or just to drink in the deep silence of the 1 vast overhead any maybe to fall asleep! Greater than any medicine ever prescribed by any medicine man is a long bike to some dense forest there to become burled for hours. Have you never walked for hours through such 'glory all of 'a sudden to come upon some streak of broken, golden light, paved at its base with some rippling stream? ' No wonder the' Indians lived but to eat and roam! For the trees have messages, whether wrapped in their luxury of Summer greens and browns, or just nakedly clad to bear upon their barks the cold of Winter's winds. To me there is a touch of pathos to every fallen" tree to every field studded with the stumps ot yesteryears. . And what a gigantic tragedy of Nature the sight of great acres of land, blackened by the cruel tread of the forest fire! To this minute I see the dead hearts ot mammoth 'pines, as their charred bodies stand out in the soft sunlight of the western coast, like mute monuments appealing for life again.. ',"".' On the other hand, how beautiful is the tiny tree, looking up Into the face of the Sun and asking to become great!
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Mother Has It Changed (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 17. Starting to school the first o the new year, little Frances Schlegelmilcher, seven years of age, felt badly because all the other little . girls readily could write their names and she couldn't. She complained to her mother, Mrs. Ruth Schlegelmilcher, frequently and Insistently, and her mother in turn sought surcease from the worries by petitioning the probate court to change the family name to Shelburn. That's the story as told in the woman's petition. It was granted.
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today
, Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton
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Two Minutes of Optimism By HERMAN J. STICH
Aphasia Victims A man we will call "John Brown", who had $27,000 to his credit, was found the other day living in miserable poverty. He was a victim of aphasia, and he did not realize he had all that money in the bank. Aphasia is a peculiar and a puzzling disease. It is a species of blindness, dumbness and deafness that attacks a man even though all his facilities remain sound. The aphasia victim's vision is unimpaired, yet he does not "see" things. His vocal cords are normal, yet he does not talk. His auditory apparatus is in shipshape, yet he does not understand. And his mind continues to be impressionable, but nothing leaves its imprint. ... There are a good many people who, like-"John Brown", are aphasia victims, and do not know it. Their eyes are perfectly all right, but they never see the diamonds they tread upon. They could wake a dead city, but they never respond to the appeals of opportunity. Their hearing 13 acute enough to hear a pin fall, yet they remain deaf to the loud voice of ambition. And though their thoughtworks are in first-class working order, they produce nothing of note. Many gradations of this form of aphasia exist, from slight to severe. Aphasia is simply a failure to draw upon one's assets. And in our power of will, in our good health and energy, in the great outdoors, in our physical, mental and spiritual strengths, in our public evening schools and libraries, in our leisure hours and vacations in these and in many other common possessions, practically every single one of us has resources which comparatively few of us requisition. We seem content to stay hopeless and helpless victims of aphasia. Fortunately, it is within the power of each man to shake himself out of this rma, to "com to", to jolt himself into sensibility, and awareness. And he man who does, the man who uses his ears to hear, his eyes to observe, his "talkcry" to ask questions, his brains to think, his hands to work, his strength to keep on, his will to "stick", his common sense to avail himself of twentieth century advantages that is the man who keeps his wife a maid and an automobile, and who 'presides at the meetings of the board of directors.
Correct English j V Don't Say: Every young man and every old man WERE drafted. Each beast and each bird HAVE instincts of THEIR own. Neither love nor money WERE strong enough to induce him to commit the crime. Both wealth and power IS to be considered. Power, and power alone, WERE what he wanted. Say: Every young man and every old man WAS drafted. Each beast and each bird HAS instincts of ITS own. Neither love nor money WAS strong enough to induce him to commit the crime. Both wealth and jower ARE to be considered. Power, and power alone, WAS what he wanted.
I Dinner Stories t The Polite Visitor You played that very nicely, dear. But shouldn't you observe the rest more closely? The Infant Prodigy Oh, I never bother about rests. Playing the piano doesn't make mo a bit tired. The teacher in one of the grades asked her young pupils to write essays, character sketches. Up went one little hand. "May I 'write about you. Miss Brown?" "Certainly," said Miss Brown politely. , The essay when completed read as follows: "She is my teacher. She has amber colored hair and green beads. She is smart, and she does not like you if you are not smart. She has ' nice manners and pretty clothes and Is soft of speech when not mad." , i i i ! Rippling Rhymes J By WALT MASON iccniwff r ITU
Yes, yes, well do the best we can o keep our New Year pledges, and look with scorn on any man who loses nerve and hedges. Temptations every hour assail, and say, "Your pledges
hurt you," but up to date our vows prevail, and we are strong for virtue. We made our vows with might and main, eschewing habits cheesy, and if our friends would treat us right, our triumph would be easy. If men would say to us, "Gee whiz! You brave repentant sinners, we know how hard the struggle is, but 6urely you'll be winners," we'd Ke inspired to carry on, to press the moral battle; alas, the words of James and John are prone our souls to rattle. Too cynical are John and James; they take It all for granted that we've gone back to those cheap games from which we gallivanted. They laugh at all the sacred vows o'er which we brood and ponder; VJt is a shame the law allows such guys at large to wander. For they discourage soulful jays who would old sins abandon, and when they've guyed us, forty ways, we have no vows to stand on. Oh. reader, as you travel by the highways and the hedges, dont Josh or jeer the earnest guy who's made a string of pledges. It may be vows all suffer blight, but why should you remind him? Just help him struggle to the light and' leave his sins behind him.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN Healthy Blood and a Healthy System is a Child's best protection against Colds, Grip and Influenza. Give them GROVE'S IRON TONIC SYRUP, 75c. Advertisement.
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lacks ambition and energy and cannot
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Mrs. Ralph Smith ,who is expected to become minister of education for British Columbia, will bring to that office a good equipment in public experience. She has already served in the provincial parliament as member
for Vancouver, and was re-elected lately. She will be the first woman to hold office in the Canadion cabinet. Mrs. Smith's hus
band was promi-1 nent in public life
and she became partial to political activity through him. He was minister of finance in the provincial cabinet at the time of his death in Vic
toria in 1917. The pair moved into British Columbia in
1892. Mr. Smith was born in Newcostle, England, and grew up as a
miner. That was his occupation in the new home, but in his career he had
developed skill as a speaker, and for a time he preacehd in trial in Methodist pulpits. The miners elected him
general secretary of the union at Nana-
imo, and in 1898 he was chosen president of the Dominion Trades and La
bor Congress. He served on the Chinese and the British Columbia fisheries commis
sions. In 1907 he declined an appoint
ment as commissioner of the Yukon.
One of his chief subjects on the lecture
platform was "The Right Relations Be
tween Capital and Labor." He was labor representative in the bouse of
commons of the district, and was one of the party's representatives at the
coronation of King George in 1911. In all these activities Mrs. Smith
was his helpful and sympathetic comrade, thus unwittingly preparing her
self for the role of public life she has once assumed.
You can thank this column for the hot winter we are enjoying. We bought a heavy stormproof overcoat about a month ago. THE ANGRY BRIDE. "The bride wore a frown of white tulle, and accordion-pleated georgette." Buffalo Courier. IN 1921. The ice famine will begin promptly on July 1 and continue until the coal famine begins, October 15. -It will" be quite cool in Montana in the winter and rather warm in Florida in the summer. Approximately 2,753 authors will work all year on the great American novel, but none of them will write it. Upward of one million love-sick and impetuous young gents will go wrtmg during the month of June. Mount Everett will be the highest mountain on the continent by the end of the year. ,
Battleships launched in March will be out of syle by the end of June. There. will be a lot of new faces in the postoffice windows. WE HAVE OFTEN WONDERED WHERE THE GENIUS SHOWED D. W. Griffith has imparted some illuminating information" on the subtle significance of sensitive nostrils. Said this producer, speaking of Lady Diana Manners, "She is so sensitive in her nostrils; that's where film genius shows." Were it not for the ex-stage women who seep in, , there wouldn't be so many beautie in high society. TONSORIAL ASSISTANCE. "Fighting with an insane negro on the top of a five-story building, Patrolman Martin Gill was about to be hurled to the street, when an ex-sailor gTabbed Gill's legs and shaved him." Chicago Herald-Examiner. CANNIBALISM? "A baked spiced HIM makes a good Sunday dinner, and what Is left may be used In many ways during the following week." Omaha Bee.
Former Indianapolis Mayor Heartily Indorses Trutona
"It's Without Equal as a General Tonic for Rundown People," Lew Shank Emphatically Declares. "As a general tonic for building up weakened and rundown men and women, I consider Trutona without an equal, and I believe I'm passing a good word along in making this statement," says Lew Shank, former Indianapolis mayor, from 1910 to 1914, and a widely known Indiana resident. Since retiring from office Mr. Shank has lived at 3547 East Washington street, Indianapolis. "For several years I had been bothered with indigestion and constipation," Mr Shank continued. "I had
tried a number of medicines but with
out success. However, thanks to Tru-! tona, I feel more able to attend to my business than I have for years. I've found Trutona a remarkable medicine for overcoming constipation, indigestion and a weakened condition of the system," When a man of Mr. Shank's prominence publicly indorses a medicine, it is positive proof that that preparation is one of utiusual merit, Trutona, the famous tonic, has won the unstinted praise of scores of equally prominent and well-known people. Have YOU tried Trutona? Trutona is sold in Richmond at Clem Thistlethwaite's drug stores, and in surrounding cities and towns by all good druggists. Advertisement.
Engineer Haynes, -In charge of a southbound C. and0; freight train, jumped from his cab to his death at a point about 200 feet from the Union pike crossing, northwest of the city, after he bad noticed that the cars of his train had jumped the tracks and were bucking. The accident happened about 11 o'clock in the morning. The tank broke loose from the engine turning over on its side and crushing Haynes under it.
28 IDLE HENS NOW LAY 27 EGGS A DAY And This Was in Cold Winter Weather. Plan is Simple.
"I fed Don Sung to my 28 hens that were not laying. But they are laying now. I receive as high as 27 eggs a day and. never less than 22." Mrs. Jennie Davidson, Yates Center, Kan. Mrs. Davidson wrote this letter in February. Figure her profit on two dozen eggs a day from hens that "wouldn't lay." We'll make you the same offer we made her. Here it is: Give your hens Don Sung and watch results for one month. If you don't find that it pays for itself and pays you a good profit besides, simply tell us and your money will be cheerfully refunded. Don Sung (Chinese for egg-laying) is a- scientific tonic and conditioner. It is easily given in the feed, improves the hen's health and makes her stronger and more active. It tones up the egg-laying organs, and gets the eggs, no matter how cold or wet the weather. Don Sung can be obtained promptly from your druggist or poultry remedy dealer, or send $.52 (includes war tax) for a package by mail prepaid. Bur-rell-Dugger Co., 214 Columbia Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Advertisement.
We Recommend DON SUNG for a Tonic, and Wonder Feed for Poultry Mash. Omer G. Whelan THE FEED MAN,, 31-33 So. 6th St. Phone 1679 Richmond, Ind.
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She's discovered the road to meal-time satisfaction through "Bona Coffee". Hubby's always in good humor with "Bona" at his right side. When acquaintances drop in for an afternoon chat, or when she entertains some good friends at an evening supper, the success of the occasion is assured when she serves
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RUBBER BOOTS VULCANIZED Pure gum rubber welded to the soles and heels.
Also, cuts repaired In any part of the boot. WM. F. LEE, No. 8 South 7th St, "Richmond's Reliable Tire Man"
THOR Stanley Plumbing &. 910 Main St.
WASHING MACHINES IRONERS Electric Co. Phone 1286
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"Bona is a full bodied drink that turns to a rich brown color when cream is added. The aroma promises much, and the flavor never disappoints. It's mellow -rich coffee taste is a memory that can not be forgotten. Add the meal-time smile to your next dinner. Order "Bona" today.
O. W. Peirce Co. Coffee Roaster Lafayette Ina
DON'T MISS THE BARGAINS
at the
$1.00 Men's Silk Hose 50c LICHTENFELS 1010 Main St.
BUY A USED CAR NOW if you want the best bargains Chenoweth Auto Co.
1107Maln
Phone 1925
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Weiss Furniture Store 505-13 Main St.
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! DR. R. H. CARNES ! DENTIST Phone 2665 1 Rooms 15-16 Comstock Building I 1016 Main Street i I Open Sundays and Evenings by 1 . appointment.
We can save you dealer's profit on
a Used Piano or can trade your
Silent Piano for a Victrola. WALTER B. FULGHUM
1000 Main St. Phone 2275
A Good Dry Cleaner D. Moody Welling Phone 1072