Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 86, 18 February 1921 — Page 6
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THE KICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, LND., FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 1921.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM .
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Why They Are Broke? During the war and untif last summer they made from $40 to $60 a week. Today some of them are standing in the soup lines of our cities thankfully receiving food from charity organizations. Why this strange' reversal from a high priced worker to a beggar? Most of the men of this class spent their money on silk shirts, silk stockings, silk combinations, and luxuries of all kinds. Few of them looked ahead to the day' when work would be scarce and a reserve in a savings bank would be the means of maintaining their independence. They are paying for their folly now. They were unwilling to forgo expensive raiment and high priced amusement in a season of prosperity, and now in a period of depression are forced to beg for the very necessities. The contrast in their condition points to a moral. When times are good, lay aside a portion of your income for the dull season ; in youth save for old age. It is the only method whereby you may escape the' accusations of your conscience and the pangs of privations. Happily for us, the average worker in Richmond is thrifty. He did not squander his earnings in the boom, but put aside a goodly portion in the sayings bank;, the result being that he is able to tide himself over a period of unemployment and does not have to appeal to charity for
food and clothing. , One of the' genuine elements of strength in this community" is its' habit of thrift. It is not a recent manifestation, but one of the characteristics that has marked Wayne county for many years. The heavy interest payments which our savings banks make on deposits indicate the widespread adherence of our population to the doctrine of thrift, while the thousands of houses that are owned by their occupants prove that they are well satisfied to make this city and the towns of the county their permanent home. Whenever you find these conditions, you may rest assured that the population is composed of men and women who have assumed the right attitude toward the problem of life. They do not squander their income in reckless living on the theory that the government and society must take care of them in adversity. They are opposed to a paternalistic and pauperizing tendBncy, which undermines the determination to fight life's battle single-handed, and suggests that we depend upon governmental and other agencies for relief and succor. Nothing will destroy the morale of an independent people faster and more effectively than dependence upon others, and especially upon the government, for relief in matters which the individual should and could provide for himself either by exertion of his own ability or by provisions which he should have taken in prosperous periods. " , The Social Service bureau recognizes this principle in its administration of relief in this community. No hungry person is ever turned away, but the bureau believes that many persons
are .hungry because they do not know how to
manage the money which they earn. Hence, it seeks to prevent poverty by teaching dependent persons how to live right, how to economize, how to handle their money. It seeks the cause of poverty, and believes that when this is removed by the co-operation of the indigent man or woman, a dependent person is transformed from a social
liability to a social asset a condition that benefits both the individual and the community. If charity is administered indlscrinainately and persons know that they may obtain relief on the slightest pretext of want, it develops a false dependence upon others instead of a reliance upon their own initiative and energy, and they remain "objects of charity" and do not become selfreliant citizens. Richmond's whole-hearted support of the Social Service bureau, which is working on the correct theory of relieving want and distress, shows that we believe in approved methods of relief work and know that our community does not want to pauperize its needy citizens but seeks to train them to become masters of their own fate.
Answers to Questions
The Cost of the State Highway Commission Although the majority of voters of Wayne county have been in favor of a state highway
commission, believing that a general supervision
and direction of the highway system is preferable to purely local administration, the fact remains that from time to time considerable criticism of the cost and operation of the system has been heard. The report of the state board of accounts, suggesting radical changes in the administration and operation of the commission, expresses some of the censure that has been passed. Enormous expenditures, for overhead expenses in comparison with the amount of actual construction work and failure of the commission
to award contracts for supplies to the lowest bidder are two of the important subjects touched on bythe report of the accountants. The overhead expenses alone amounted to 31.7 per cent of the total expenditures, or, in other words, almost one-third of every dollar went for that purpose instead of being applied to
the construction and maintenance of the highway system. The Ohio commission operates on an overhead charge of 5.7 per cent of its total expenditures. When repairs were being made on the National road, east .and west, attention was called to the fact that it would have to be repeated within a few years. The highway needed to be thoroughly overhauled, but all the commission ordered done was to fill some of the holes and to oil the surface. The company which held the contract for the oil work was delayed for weeks because the commission failed to fill the holes with crushed rocik. More recently a comparison-of the maintenance cost per mile of roads that are under the supervision of County Highway Superintendent Jones with that of the state commission was all in favor of the Wayne county official. The commission can hardly point to a single project of state-wide proportions which it has planned and carried to a successful completion. Promises of completing the hard surfacing of the National road firom the Ohio to the Illinois line have been heart! ever since the commission was organized, the rnost recent promise being that it would be done t3iis year. The highway commission has fallen down badly not only in respect'to the amount of money it has spent without obtaining results but also as to its general supervision of the road system.
READER (1) When did Edison Invent the phonograph? In 1877. (2) When was Herbert Hoover born? Aug. 10, 1874, at West Branch, la, SUBSCRIBER. Where is Veile? Veile Is a port and the capital of the district of Veile in Jutland, Denmark. It is situated in a beautiful hilly and forested region, at the mouth of the Veile, and at the head of the Veile Fjord, Bixteen miles northwest of Fredericia. Fisheries principally engage the attention of the people. MRS. V. H. B. What Is the cause and what will stop sweating walls in a room? If the walls are of cement or brick the sweating may be caused by dampness soaking through from rains. To remedy- this a 2-inch furring should be nailed to the walls and on top of this lath and plaster in the usual way. This will allow an air space between the plaster. If the walls are of a frame house the sweating can be avoided by connecting the gas grate or stove, or oil stove, with the chimney so as to carry the products of combustion from the room. Readers mmy nhmtm aaawer 4e ae4la y wrttlaa- the Pallaalara Qneatloas aan Answers departaseat. All aneatleas should be wrlttea plalaly aad briefly. Aaawers will be alvaa briefly.
Dinner Stories
An epitaph reads as follows: This yere is sakrid to the memory of William Henry Skaraken, who was shot by Colt's revolver one of the old kind, brass mounted, and of sich is the kingdom of heaven."
Now that Mr. Wells has called Napoleon a conceited clown, aping the ways of Alexander and Caesar quoting Victor Hugo here and there in the process he may turn to various pages of "Les Miserables" nnd re-read what Hugo said about the Duke of Wellington. A Scotsman came south to have a look at London. He spent a few days in London, and sped back to Scotland again. On the first night of his return to the little village up in the wilds, his
friends gathered around him to hear
; his opinion of the town whose streets
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Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton
VENTURES IN COMMON SENSE
We note the inauguration of a new system of chain shirt stores, and if the shooting keeps up as It lias for the Iast 1wo or throw months vvo will all have to begin wearing chain shirts at that.' But Isn't It Too Bad They Never Fit Around the Back of the Neck. Women who used to borrow a cup of sugar and two eggs from the neighbor over the backyard fence, are now borrowing each other's hair. Madame Louise, beauty expert, who dressed the hair of wives of makers of history all over the United States and Europe, is the authority for the fUatemrnt. "Wigs are becoming more popular .pucb-day, and it is quite usual for women and girls to borrow each others's, said Madame Louise. "Wigs have come to stay, too. They preserve the hair from the rain and snow. Wigs are now considered stySish not to aid nature," she said. THE MUSICAL COW. Wanted Man to look after garden; milk a cow with a good voice accustomed to sing in the choir. Connecticut Country. THE , ESTHETIC BOSTON PHONE.
Dear Roy: While in Boston recently!
I tried to get a friend on the telephone. After" getting a connection I called: "Is this Cambridge 543-W?" "Ah!" replied a man's voice. 1 repeated my number and again came back: "Ah! Ah! louder than before. I appealed to central for the right number and finally got another connection. - ' "Is this Cambridge 543-W?" ' I demanded, as loud as I. could. "Ah! Ah!" called back the same voice.
I was Trantic. "Operator, operator!'' j I yelled, rattling the hook sideways f
and lengthwise, "you have twice given i
me the same insane asylum. All I get is 'Ah! Ah!' M "Pardon me, replied the sweet thing, as calm as you please, "I gave you pathy Ah Instead' of -W." A 'few minutes later I strolled over to the fluffy queen at the hotel switchboard.' "Why do you folks in Boston slight your R's so?" I ventured timidly. "Why. the ldeart" she replied, pull-; ng out a plug. A. Alexander Thomas, i
By EIX HOWE After a young man begins studying the higher branches In college, he forgets the simple, important things he learned in the eighth grade.
When you meet a stranger, let him do the talking; and when he goes away you will know all about him. He will throw a glamor over his history, but you can see through it.
When people are doing well in a financial way, they might as well express it frankly; thus: "I have more to waste than ever before in my life.''
You know how unreliable you are; well, your word probably is as good as anybody's.
The long and short of it Is, whoever catches the fool first is entitled to shear him. I have never seen a painting or statue that impressed me as much as a wild crab apple tree in early b!oom. Nature is always more interesting to me than art representing it.
TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of ''You Can". "Take If, "Up-. POWER . , Power is an inspiring thing. Especially when it seems most latent with only its face just peeking out! We are young in the use of the power that has been given ua by God in Nature. Qur bodies are a network ot power much of it never developed but merely asleep. Not until a man thoroughly wakes up and begins to pick up the tools about him, which are his inheritance, does he really understand the grip that power has. And power is cumulative. It grows Just like the muscles of the athlete do when they are given attention. It stalks ahead and leads the man with it. And although power Itself comes from many sources . and is really greater than the man, yet does the man drive the power that pulls him on and up. Just as the horse of automobile or locomotive is guided by his will and band. Some day the unused power in the Sun is going to be utilized. The use of electricity's enormous power is only in Us infancy. In a few years all trains will be drawn by electric motors of huge design. And there will be smoother travel and better time made. There will be added efficiency all around. Men's plans are-daily being upset. He is just beginning to see that he must build far into the future and this means looking into ways for the developing and concentrating of power. The reason why the lives of so many grow uninteresting early in lire is because they outwear their original clothes made only for a little time. We must begin to think in the terms of the many ot nations and of ages. We must remember also that we are but atoms in the one great plan of the Universe. And if we would gain the greatest amount of individual happiness, we must earnestly seek to bring out the most power of which we are capable and to use it to the full in the work of our every-day lives.
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much padding; then a friend interrupted him. "Ho long yur ye in Lunnon a' the gither, Jock?" "Amoot a week," replied the traveled man. "What did ye think o the toun?" "Hoots, uion, it wur aul right in its way! Lunnon's a fine wee town User, but it is sich a long wa' fra anywhere!"
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Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Yean Ago Today
Cracksmen blew the postoffice safe open in Centerville securing "between $500 and $600 worth of stamps of different denominations, and change amounting to about $15. Otily the
slightest clues were left by the robbers, who escaped in a horse and buggy stolen from Horace Commons, but which was abandoned south of Centerville.
Don't Say: In the battle, the Knight was NOWHERES to be seen. The yeomen could be seen EVERYWHERES. Could the Black Prince be seen ANYWHERES? He EXCEPTED the invitation.
I saw your AD in the paper. Say: In the battle, the Knight was NOWHERE to be seen. The yoemen could be seen EVERYWHERE. Could the Black Prince be seen ANYWHERE? He ACCEPTED the invitation. I saw your advertisement in the paper.
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Rippling Rhymes :, I By WALT MASON I
DAYS OF STRESS. . ' Through weary years of war we wrought, our hearts oppressed by doubt and care, for every, dismal morning brought some tale of bloodshed and desDaJr. whil hlrtnri dranrhMl
armies toiled and fought the endless battles "over there." All through the war we saved and pinched that Kaiser Wllhelm might be cinched and dumped, defeated, in the dirt; we thought that fellow should be lynched who bought himself a Sunday shirt. And" when the guns at last were stilled, and placed in poak were sword and lance, and warriors no longer drilled across the sodden fields of France, the bosoms of the boys were filled with thoughts of pomp and circumstance. For we had lived like hermits gray, and hermits have a beastly time; they live on turnips, peas and hay, and think a sirloin steak a crime; and so we rose and threw away the francthe kopec and the dime. And now this later phase is spent, and sanity resumes her throne, and every wise and thoughtful gent reveres the doubloon and the bone, and to the bank he takes a cent to start a bundle of his own. Released from wartime's doubt and dread, and having lived reaction down, oh, there are better days ahead for every delegate In town; and let us walk with sprightly tread, and spring
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Groceries in Richmond J. M. Eggemeyer, 1017 Main St. Geo. Cutter, 401 South 4th St. C. L. Sinex, 739 South 5th St. Mrs. John Fisher, South H St. Matt Brinker, S01 South 9th St. John Bruening. 501 South 12th St. E. H. Stegman, 401 S. 12th St.L. C. Hasecoster, 233 South 9th St.
Geo. Pille, 308 South Sth St. Harry Sharp, 119 N. 20th St. Aiken & Son, 1415 N. C St. Peerless Grocery. North B and 15th Sam Beumi, 700 N. 19th St. Mrs. Mary Imperial, 805 N. 16th St. Whittington, 933 North 1,2th St. Dominick Sulprizo, 1100 North I.
John McCarthy. 413 N. 8th St. qhas. Sudhoff. 183 Ft. Wayne Ave. Star Grocery, 6th and N C Sts. Guy Bull, South 5th and A Wect Richmond Joe Jordan. North D St. Kane & Wilson. 1029 Sheridan Chas. Ewbank, Ridge and Grant St. John Hensley, Ridge and School St.
Chas. Peterson. 417 North West 3rd St. L. E. Little. 429 Lincoln St. Frank J. Hebbler, 414 North West 3rd St. E. M. and W. Cream Co.. 427 W. Main SL Dave Hodgin, 229 West Main Goodwin, Nat. Rd. and N. W. 3rd St. Dunbar & Son. Centerville, Ind. Ebert & Duschel, Cambridge City, Ind. John Champ, Dublin, Ind.