Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 61, 20 January 1921 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND,, INU., THURSDAY, J AM. 2U,

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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MEMBER OF THR AfiKOCUTBD PRRM The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the aae for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In tils paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of ape . cial dispatches herein are also reserved.

J Agricultural Institutes Programs , , for agricultural institutes to be held Jn. various centers are being prepared now,

and within a few weeks fanners will meet to

discuss matters of general interest to their industry and to their particular localities. These gatherings have not only a professional interest for the farmers but also embrace a social aspect that cannot be ; denied. Farmers, their wives and children, meet on a common footing to discuss their individual problems and to gain inspiration and encouragement from their conversation with neighbors and friends An institute of this kind is one of the proofs of the democracy of our, nation.. In the display

Df the products of the farm and kitchen and of

the handiwork of the mothers and sisters are seen some of the products of the agricultural industry. Friendly interest is aroused in the exhibits; friendly criticism is passed; 4 and the winner receives the hearty congratulations of his neighbors. This neighborly interest in the activity of others should be encouraged not that it is absent in our rural communities. The finest and best examples of neighborliness and co-operation are to be noted among the farmers. Let one become ill, and his neighbors will see that his crops are put in or harvested. In winter, they will see that the fuel supply does not dimnish and that J he afflicted family suffers no want. How vastly different in this respect from the conduct of many city dwellers. Scant attention is often paid to illness in the home of a neighbor and too infrequently does a fellow citizen offer those services of kindness which are the voluntary and unsolicited practices of the farmers. If an institute did nothing more than to keep alive and deepen this spirit of affection and kindness for the neighbor, it would richly repay the trouble which it involves. Local institutes deserve to be encouraged not only for the practical good which the farmer receives but also for the great social service which they perform.

: The Direct Primary Law

j To amend the direct primary law so that it will operate more efficiently is quite a different proposal from changing the measure so that its vital features will be almost entirely eliminated. Every advocate of the direct primary admits cheerfully that the law has some defects, but these can be remedied so that control of the nomination of candidates will remain in the hands' of the people where it rightly belongs. Members of the general assembly are sounding out sentiment in the state to ascertain the wish of the people before they vote in support of the bill that is now pending." Most of them realize that the people fought hard for the enactment "of the primary and will not reliquish it without a struggle. The future legislative career of some members will be jeopardized if they destroy the potency of the measure by supporting the present bill.

None of the weaknesses of the measure is so

undamental that it cannot be remedied by amendments. What the people want is an effective direct primary. They do not want the power of nominating candidates to fall back into the hands of the bosses of the two parties, restoring a privilege 'for which they pine. Let the law be amended, if this is necessary, but it must not be amended to favor the professional politician.

.Another Cheerful Aspect of Richmond Visit the public art gallery where the Richmond Art association is conducting its twentyfourth annual exhibit of Indiana artists. What will you see? Of the 37 artists who have paintings in he gallery, 11 are residents of Richmond. Of the 100 pictures, 32 were done by Richmond artists. The winner of the Mary T. R. Foulke purchase prize is a former resident of this city. Not a bad record for the Quaker city ! Some may believe that our pride in the cultural and moral conditions of Richmond is far fetched and overdrawn; but you can't very well deny facts that are incontrovertibly true. The Richmond group of artists is mainly composed of men and women who were born here, who attended our schools, and who are well satisfied to make this city their home. "The gallery is in the high school, where hundreds of our boys and girls are receiving their scholastic training. They are surrounded with ennobling influences, and the effect of the environment is to be seen in their culture and refinement. One of the contributing factors in their moral development is the unseen but potent influence of the exhibits which the Art association conducts.

TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of "You Can", "Take It", "Up-. TIME POETIC HEART If you are able to open your eyes in the morning with a happy sense of satisfaction If you have learned the secret of song in Its sacred relation to beauty in the world song that having seemingly been spent, yet forever is bathing its rhythmic notes in the air If you can always see the touch of the Master Artist in the sky across fields, in darkened alleys as well as in lighted and crowded streets warmed by rapid running tints of the sun If you feel with human beings as they pass you one by one through the busy hours, and can say to each, "God bless you" If in the hurly-burly of each quickened hour, you can stop at any moment and aid a hungry, fallen, crippled traveler, or break bread and change thought with one whom you may love If through the thrill of a baby's emile and the touch of its soft, warm hands, you can climb into a new kind of heaven right here and now If every moving bird or beast, every swaying tree or bush or flower, every changing wind whether in the garb of Winter's snow, or Summer's rain if every mood of Nature's ways, leaves you happier and makes you want to be bigger and better If you never get tired of giving, though many times you feel that you have given in vain Then I would say that you have a poetic heart and something plus besides!

a , fighting the paving of North D street

from Ft. Wayne avenue to Doran bridge, council at a special session was expected to approve a resolution tor permanent improvement or to order the city engineer to draw up plans, which besides calling for pavement, will provide for widening 'he street six feet.

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Rippling Rhymes 8y WALT MASON

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ANTI-TOBACCO Crusaders say their plans are ripe, they've hitched their wagons to pome Mars, end soon they'll take away my lipp. and shut, me off from long cigars. When I am smoking I am mild, I never raise a fuss or rant. I sni gentle as a child, and harmless as my maiden aunt. But when they take my pipe away I fear I'll train with t-avage men; I really am afraid to say what tragedies may happen then. Our lives are full of ugly curves and what we suffer no one knows; tobacco soothes the tired man's nerves, and phfs his jaded soul repose. There's peace in forty million homes because

Tired Fathers puff and puff; with wreaths of smoke around their domes, they know tobacco is the stuff. They do not care to beat their wives or break the crockery and chairs: for

moking calms their troubled lives, as it would heal sore heads of bears. In moral fits, at divers times. I've thrown my trusty pipe away; then I wrote pessimistic rhymes and scrapped with neighbors every day. I'd sternly say, "No stack of pelf will ever make me

Fmoke again:" and then Id sit and

hate myself, and also hate my fellow-

men.

Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton

CONFESSIONS OF A CYNIC. I hare no use for ministers- who desert their families and elope with young women of their congregations, nor for any sentimental boobs who slobber over them afterward. I am not a creature of habit, but for twenty years I have carried a keyring containing a dozen keys and I don't know what any of them fit.5. . T wonld rather the country spent a million ddllars on Harding's inauguration than on Wilson's trips to Paris, because Harding's inauguration means something. 'e believe that any man. who eaja

he would rather marry beauty than brains usually gets his wish, because no brainy woman would have him on a bet. I don't know what they put in pork sausages these days, but I know what they leave out, and that is pork. I often wonder why these efficiency experts don't start businesses of their own and make a lost of money. I am now at work on a musical comedy, and It is so bad I believe it will stand a good chance of being pro duced. I believe that any person who has a crayon portrait made of a deceased relative should be arrested because there never was a crayon portrait that

didn t make the subject look like a

retired chorus man or a pirate.

I no longer wonder why the bine law leaders are what they are. I have

seen newspaper pictures of them.

Watch out for bogus $1,000 and $10,000 bills," warns the treasury department. We hav been watching for them for thirty years and have never

seen one bogus or genuine. ALSO, DON'T KNOCK THE POLICE FOR THE SAME REASON. In a saloon and dance hall out west r.any years ago, as everybody will remember, there was a sign reading: "Don't Shoot the Piano Player. He Is Doing His Best." Tho British are going to climb Mount Everett. It would be just their blawsted luck to find the American flag planted at the peak when they get there. WE'LL SHOW THIS TO THE EDITOR IT'S IMPORTANT IF TRUE. I maintain that the colyumist is the most wideawake member of the entire newspaper staff. He simply has got to keep awake. Editorial writers may take a sleep for a time, but the man who runs the column has got to keep

on his toes. Marcel Steinbrugge.

Two Minutes of Optimism By HERMAN J. 8TICH

DON'T "GET RID OF" BAD HABITS! Dr. Chambers, the famous Scotch preacher, while riding on a coach alongside the driver, saw him suddenly raise bis whip-and strike the leading horse a sharp blow. The horse reared, pranced and danced about. "What did you do that for?" asked the doctor. "He seemed to be behaving himself." ' . - , "There's a dangerous place in the road a little bit ahead," answered the driver. "And whenever this horse nears It he gets frightened and unmanageable. So just before he comes to it I give him something else to think about. It always works." , Doctor Chalmers did not stop chewing: his cud till he got home. Then he sat down and wrote one ot the world's best sermons on "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection," which for practical purposes mean "How to get rid of one habit by substituting another." . That Scotch driver did not know it, but he had sensed and applied vons of the greatest laws of human nature the law of substitution and -expression. For Instance. Little gangs of Juvenile hoodlums used to infest congested sections of our large cities and make life miserable for everybody with whom they came in contact Then along came the playground movement, based on the idea of supplying plenty of play space in which boys could vent all their dare-devil Impulses on parallel and horizontal bars, trapezes, and ladders and other more or less dangerous apparatus. And the effervescing youngsters who formerly were -promising material for our penitentiaries were put in a fair way to become community-conscious, law-and-order-abldlng citizens. ' And so with prohibition. It is claimed that the enormously increased consumption of candy today is due to the fact that so many people have been deprived of their alcoholic favorites, and, Instead, indulge their craving in sweetmeats. And one of the largest chain retail tobacco establishments In the world has Installed as a' huge side line candy, for which they expect a tremendously greater demand because of prohibition. The same principle holds good almost all along the line. The way to cure Indigestion or obesity is not to stop eating, but to change your diet. Would you cure a man of laziness? Give him plenty to do. Are you pessimistic? Gloomy? Wet-Blankety? Think, read, talk and act optimism. Would you purge yourself . of prejudice? Bigotry? Self-opinionatedness? Think, read, talk and act broad mindedness, tolerance, modesty. Are you sensitive? Undecided? Shy? Easily flustered? Think and try your utmost at all times to act the man of poise, action, self-containment and self-control. . The man who is a victim of habits that make him ashamed and disgusted must practice not so much self-repression as self-expression; not so much self-denial as self-indulgence in those things which make men strong and selfrespecting. For the way to eliminate a low passion is to crowd It out with a high passion: and the way to get rid of a bad habit is not to "get rid of it," but to substitute for it another and a good habit.. And, happily, a good habit is easily acquired. (Copyright, 1920, by Public Ledge Co.)

j ) Correct English I - v Don't Say: His love and friendship ' for her REMAINS unchanged. Harding, and also CooUdge. WERE elected. Mathematics, and not . literature, ENGROSS bia attention. Every man and every woman present WERE pleased with the speaker. The noted scholar and statesman WERE defeated at the polls. Say: His love and friendship for her REMAIN unchanged. Harding, and also CooUdge, WAS elected. Mathematics, and not literature, ENGROSSES his attention. Every man and every woman present WAS pleased with the speaker. The noted scholar and statesman WAS defeated at the polls.

could not find any main traveled

-road.

- He rode on for some time until he met a couple of Italians, who were camping near the side of the road. , He called out, asking for information as to the road he should take, and received this answer: "You go one mile this-a-way, and then one-half mile that-a-way. 'Then you come to a railroad track. He go north-south, and you' go same way as the railroad track."

Dinner Stories

"My friend, have you ever done anything to make the community the better for your living in it?" "I have done much, sir." replied the other earnestly, "to purify the homes of my fellow men." "Ah," said the solemn on, rubbing his hands, "do you distribute tracts, may I ask?" "No; I clean carpets." Coming back from Bear lake this summer a tourist lost his way and

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Answers to Questions j

V . 1 Two Readers To settle a dispute, are there islands in the Great Salt Lake? There are several islands in Great Salt Lake. On these islands, which like the lake's shores, are whitened by salt, immense flocks of gulls, ducks, geese and pelicans breed each year. On Antelope island, the largest, alfalfa is cultivated and cattle are raised. Antelope Island, also known as Church Island, is about 18 miles long. Subscriber Please tell me what day of the week May 24, 1901, and May 24. 1902 were? May 24, 1901 was on Friday; May 24, 1902 was on Saturday. P. K. Are Mars and Venus close together? Mars and Venus were hundreds of millions of miles apart recently, when to the observer they appeared in close proximity to each other, although not as near as they appeared early the evening of January 9. This close proximity of the two planets is a very rare occurence, according to astronomers. Readers may obtain nnvrr t. questions by writing; the Palladlvm Questions and Answers department. All questions should be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be given briefly.

Who's Who in the Day's News

GUY F. ALLEN. The general public had heard little and knew less about Guy F. Allen before President Wilson recently appointed him treasurer of the United States. But Allen has been giving ihe government and

the public his time and energy ever since 1901. In that year he entered the treasury department as a bookkeeper. He was named assistant treasurer a year ago. During the war he drew attention of the government beads by devising a new accounting and bookkeeping system for the American army operating in

the war zone. The system simplified and facilitated checking supplies, etc. Allen was born in Michigan, but for the last five years has made his home in Somerset, Md.

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