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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SU-'iELKGKAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., MONDAY, FEB. 14 1921.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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Benefiting Those Who Benefit None

The confiscation of twenty-five per cent of her citizens' capital which France is considering as an ante-war tax measure, will be an interesting and illuminating experiment. First of all, it will result in a twenty-five per cent reduction in her domestic held government and municipal debts. People with money in banks or building and loan associations will pay their assessments at one time, enabling the French government to retire several million barrels of its cheap paper , money. This will increase the value of the paper money still remaining in circulation, to the marked advantage of those who converted property into cash and forget to turn in the latter for the twenty-five per cent assessment. People with property, household goods, etc., will have to pay their assessments on the instalment plan. They can't sell because every property owner will be under the same necessity, hence, there will be np buyers. Mortgages will afford the only means of payment, the interest and principal payments thereon constituting but another form of annual tax. It will be a decidedly tough tax on the thrifty, who have loaned their savings to their government in its hours of great need, to the benefit of not only themselves but also of the thriftless whose destinies were protected thereby from ruthless destruction in the late war. In fact, the thriftless and the forgetful, those who forget to turn in for the twenty-five per cent assessment cash or other assets they have hidden, are the sole beneficiaries of the proposed capital tax.

Pushing the Home Rule Bill Friends of the home rule bill, elated over the progress which the measure has made in the general assembly, are forgetting that the session is more than half over and that the bill has only been advanced out of committee and still has to be voted on in the house. The senate has taken ;,no action. ; Opponents may amend the measure : to destroy its worth. Effective work must still be done before pro

ponents of the measure may rest on their oar3 and feel sure that the legislation will be enacted into law. No measure is safe in the lower house until a favorable vote has been recorded. In the senate, the bill probably will meet stiff opposition. Advocates of home rule are trying to create enough favorable sentiment in the upper house to give the bill a fair chance. How far they have succeeded is unknown. The action of the senate on other bills has

indicated a disposition on the part of senators to carry out the will of the people. If the senators

are swayed by the same consideration, friends of home rule may rest easy; but no assurance to this effect is obtainable. It has been said all along that the senate would act unfavorably on the measure. Consequently it behooves the supporters of the measure to be prepared for attacks in the upper body. In the meantime, a vote of the house on the measure should be obtained. Many a good bill has been killed in the final days of a session, and the home rule bill, if it is not kept sharply to the front, may meet the same fate. Another menace to the enactment of a good home rule bill is the power of amendment which opponents of the measure may exercise. The original bill carried a provision requiring that

only 10 per cent of the voters of a city were needed to petition for an election upon the adoption or rejection of home rule. This has been increased to 20 per cent. Ten per cent of the voters should suffice to call for an election. The political bosses probably believe that by increasing it to 20 per cent difficulty will be experienced in getting enough signers to the petition. There is no recall provision in the measure. Since the voters are trying to obtain efficient home rule, they might just as well incorporate this feature, so that this power may act as an incentive upon officials to perform their duties faithfully. The initiative and referendum on city ordinances should also stay in the bill. These provisions will give the people adequate and complete control over the municipal government. Political bosses fight the initiative, referendum and recall, because they are potent mediums through which the people' may exercise their power. If opponents of home rule are convinced that a bill of some sort will pass both houses, we may rest assured that they will try to destroy the efficacy of the legislation by amending it so adroitly that much of its force will be lost. Against these insidious attacks, proponents of the measure should be prepared to muster their forces.

Answers to Questions

P. H. When was the Christian Endeavor founded? The Christian Endeavor, a young people's society, was originated by the Rev. Francis E. Clark, pastor of the Willlston Congregational church In Portland. Me. On

Feb. 2, 1881, about 50 boys and girls met in the pastor's study and nledced

j themselves to attend and take some

pari m a. weeiuy prayer meeting ana once a month to hold a consecration meeting. Other duties, social, religious, literary, and of various kinds, were assigned to different members. They met with instant acceptance and today there are more than 75,000 societies in the United States and Canada and in other lands. M. S. O. Will you please tell me something about Grace S. Richmond? Grace S. Richmond, author of "The Whistling Mother," a war story, and many other stories of the home, was

i born Grace Smith at Pawtucket, R. I.

i She was educated at the Syracuse, N.

Y., high school and by private tutors. In October, 1887, she was married to Dr. Nelson Guernsey Richmond of Fredonia, N. Y. She is a Presbyterian. W. L. F. Where did Abraham Lincoln's mother die? Abraham Lincoln's mother died two years after the Lincoln family moved to Indiana. Her

I maiden name was Nancy Hanks. She

was of humble parentage, but possessed of a keen intellect and considerable force of character. Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, was a carpenter and farmer, ' illiterate and thriftless. After several removals in Kentucky Thomas Lincoln went in 1816 to Spencer county, Indiana. At the new home the wife and mother died about two years later. Readers may obtain annwcr ( qneatlona by writing- the Palladium Questions and Answers department. All questions shonld be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be siren briefly

TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of "You Can", "Take It"

"Up"

THE PRODIGAL SON Before me is a magnificent etching one of the greatest produced In a century or so, I would say; It is by Jean Louis Forain, the fam--ous French artist. Two figures dominate a simply suggested landscape. Far in the -distance to the left is a little house with a single tree in outline. To the lower left of the picture is the rude hat and stick of the boy who has thrown it away quickly, that he might rush to the arms of his father. The boy is on his knees. His face is lowered and buried in his hands. The old father bends over his son. His hands rest heavily on the shoulders of the one "who was lost." Sympathy, forgiveness and inexpressible joy are wrapped like a sort of blanket about the younger man as the older one leans to comfort. The lines of the entire picture are filled with poignant expressiveness. The story Is told with rare understanding. Its simplicity fascinates and grips. It is the masterpiece of a master. There is nothing superfluous. But it took a man who had seen and understood much of the deep darkness and tragedy of life to depict a scene so true. The father had gone far on the road to meet the returning wanderer. I can imagine the overwhelming emotion as he recognized the figure of his own flesh and blood eagerly awaiting the touch of his big, calloused hands. It is a beautiful picture. The artist must have taken the steel point from some drawer in his heart before he touched his nervous lines Into the copper plate. I wish that a reproduction of this great print might hang in every home where there is a father and a son.

Correct English

Don't Say: The horse RUN away. The horse has RAN away. He has WENT home. The carpenters found that the structure had FELL. The proposition was PROVEN. Say: The horse RAN away. The horse has RUN away. He has GONE home. The carpenters found that the structure had FALLEN. The proposition was PROVED.

A Roman military standard and a Roman general's camp chair, supposed to have been lost after the defeat of the Ninth Legion by Boadicea, have just been sold at auction in London.

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MARIE CURIE Marie Sklodowska Curie is soon to visit America. She has no special mission. She is coming to America because she desires to see the great

republic of the Occident and take note of the progress of science in this country. It is difficult to avoid superlatives in speaking of Mme. Curie. This Polish woman is undoubtedly the world's foremost chemist. Some would call her the world's greatest chemist of all time. Still others would hold that she Is

the greatest woman of today. She is one of the group of original thinkers and workers which Included Mendeleef, van t'Hoff, Ramsay, Moissan, Fischer, Arrhenius; men who have revolutionized the science of chemistry. But none of these men contributed so epochal a work as Mme. Curie's discovery of radium and her subsequent development of the new science of radio-activity. The old

chemistry, which seemed solidly founded on the bed rock of incontrovertible fact, has been practically destroyed by the tremendous discoveries of this

one unassuming little woman.

" GIRLS LEADING BOYS

IN HIGH HONOR ROLL

The honor roll for the last semester

' fchows high school girls leading the ;boys by a wide margin in scholastic ! standing. Only three students out of lover 700 received "five . A's for the 'term's work. They were: Ruth

Lindeman, Helen Robinson, and Catherine Reid. Three out of the 17 earning four A's were boys. They were Allan Campbell, Harold W. Roberts, and Ralph Sheffer. 'The 13 girls who received the same honor were Vera

! Kinert, W anda Mahan, Virginia Risrhtier. Caroline Bartel. Pauline Wilcox, j Wilma Sudhoff. Lucille Loofborrow, I Queen Webb, Violet Osborn. Gladys j Burns, Frances Martin. Irene Feltman, Mildred Ratlin", and Mary Alice Cot-

i lins. The number getting three A's is 24 I according to the honor roll. They I were: Clara Mote, Margaret Hiatt. ! Emelyn Lard, Irene Bishop, - Lois j Ward, India Stanford, Martha Righter, ; Margaret Nice, Catherine Wellbaum. Jeraldine Harter. Martha Webb, Milidred Whiteley, Mildred Haas, Marguerile Taggart. Helen Roland, Anna

Wicklas, Ruth Doste, Marie Baldwin, Roy Robbins. Harold Malone, Gladys Cosand. Mary Frances Churchill, Wendell Stanley, and Lestle Baldwin.

In South Wales the number of per sons employed underground in tht

Before ! coal mines increased during 1919 fron

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the advent of Mme. Curie the atom had been religiously held to be the minutest particle of matter. Mme. Curie has smashed the amto into 10,000 fragments. Before Mme. Curie it was held that "transmutation of metals" was a folly of the alchemists, and that the atom, as well as being indivisible, was eternally unalterable. Mme. Curie has proved that atoms may be altered, that one element may be changed into another different element, and that, in fact, such changes are constantly in progress in nature without the aid of man and wholly beyond human control.

Dinner Stories

A Boston millionaire was talking about masterful wives. "Masterful wives," he said, "were in the minority heretofore, but with the coming of universal suffrage the majority of wives are getting pretty masterful. "Believe me, he concluded, "it won't be only in his office that the husband of the future, when he starts to dictate, will be taken down."

The Welsh language is peculiarly adapted to poetic effusions.

Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton

We read with considerable interest newspaper accounts to the effect that the Lisle Silk bank has gone out of business. It is always regrettable to Bee an old institution fail, but in this case we might have known it. In the old days it was not unusual to note a slight bulge on a lady's leg just above the ankle and to know that she had there deposited her hard-earned money whether she got it from a job or from her husband, it was hard-earned. Now the stockings are so thin, so diaphanous, in fact, that any passerby could at a glance tell just how much money she was forth holding up. Now the ladies keep their money somewhere else, but may we ask where? All the ladies we have seen lately have been so tightly dressed that a thin dime catched anywhere on the person would stock out as prominently as a full-sized quart on a gentleman's lup. They don't carry it in handbags, because we have found several of those and they have never had a cent in them, and when a-woman does look for a nickel in a handbag she pokes around in it for ten minutes. Still we see women eating in restaurants, riding on street cars and buying cigarets. Thpy carry the stuff somewhere, but Mhere? LAST EDITION IS RIGHT A friend showing me a bottle of Five Star Haig and .Haig said, "What does that look like?" Seeing the five stars, I. quick as a column conductor, said, "It looks like the last edition." Freddie Schwan'. A New York paper publishes a symposium on the following question: "On what salary should a man marry?" There are five answers three from .unmarried girls and two from young fellows just out of their teens. Which .leads to the question: "Why is a ; symposium?"

VENTURES IN COMMON SENSE

By ED. HOWE How weak I am; and how well I know strength pays!

How I realize the

inconvenience and loss of carelessness; yet I am a most careless man, though'

I long to be orderly; If I try to be careful, and put things away in order, I hide them, and never know where they are. Baseball players talk about the "breaks." It seems to me the "breaks" are always against me, and in favor of the other fellow; I have no "luck," and am whipped much more frequently than I am petted. But when I fairly investigate this theory, I find there is a well-defined rule back of all my hits and misses. I have certain worthy ambitions that would do credit to the mind and heart of any man, but they are beyond me: I know it. Who is to blame? My inclination is all right; my mind and soul have been whipped into line; but I drag about a weak body I cannot control. Who is to blame? My ancestors. I often think of some of my acts: "That is like Uncle Nate;" of others, "Father used to do that;" of still others, "That's my Grandfather Irwin sticking out'' I can't reform these people; most of them are dead and gone: so I do the best I can with my handicaps. I say I do the best I can. Asa a matter of fact, does any man do that? I have made several disastrous mistakes that were inexcusable. I certainly didn't do the best I could in these instances, but I thought I did at 'he time: I looked everything over, and came to the worst conclusions possible. Why? Because I didn't give sufficient weight to plain, common sense, of which I believe I am an advocate;

CONFESSIONS OF A CYNIC I never drink coffee in the morning, because I know it will keep me awake. :, 1 love personal liberty, but not "enough to drink rat poison or embalming fluid. If I were a parrot I would hate to be brought up in a chorus girl's apart- . ment. I would rather have my job than ; Harding's the next four years. ; I pay my rent and then I go into retirement for SO days. According to cable news, it is per

fectly legal to kiss in public in Paris

A proprietor of a restaurant got into trouble because he tried to prevent a

couple from kissing each other in his rjlace. There is no legal reason why

'they should not indulge in osculation

in public places, accoraing xo me French law. Osculation Is all right, but who wants to do it In public? That's no f un. t Da-da verse is the latest importation ;from France. Nobody can understand Ut, so It must be real poetry. If you think -you ought to be indicted Ior anything, now Is the time.

Rippling Rhymes "By WALT MASON

I recline, and try to read some helpful tract, but in this old bald dome of mine there bobs up one disturbing tact. I did not fix the kitchen roof, which lets in 19 kinds of rain; and so contentment keeps aloof, 'and all my thoughts are tinged with pain. I cannot read "The Cloven Hoof," or other novels, good or flat; I did not fix the leaking roof, and I can only think of that. The almanac has jest and spoof, o'er which I ought to roundly laugh; but I neglected that old roof, and conscience is a bitter gaff. . When all my duties are performed according to the rvjes of Hoyle, my heart with ecstacy is warmed, the rich reward of honest toil. With duty done one can, in ruth, the evening hours in peace employ, and I can read of Nick, the Sleuth, without a cloud upon my joy. There may be men who do not care what they have done or left undone, when from the restful easy chair they watch the setting of the sun. But peace won't camp upon my brow if I

recall, at close of day, that I have failed to groofr the cow, or give the old blue goose ber hay; And I am glad I'm fashioned thus, though I may miss a lot of fun; I don't admire the careless tasks cuss who recks no hoot for tasks undone.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Memorial services to Abraham Lincoln, the great martyred war president and liberator were held at the First M. E. church in the morning and at the First English Lutheran church and Y. M. C. A. in the afternoon. The exercises were most fitting and appropriate In every particular. Tribute and honor to him who had bridged the nation over the dark days when disruption had been imminent was given In every utterance of the speakers.

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CONTENTMENT Whei sets the good old shining sun, thus winding up another day, if I have left some chore undone, I do not feel serene and -gay. Beneath my flgtree

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