Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 95, 1 March 1921 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM v.. . ?Afrt SUN-TELEGRAM ' "

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Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office1 at Richmond, Indiana, as ' Second-Class Mall Matter. f MEMBEIl OP THE ASSOCIATED PI1ESS " The Aosorlated Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or '..not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local .news published herein. A!! rights of republication of apecial dispatches herein are also reserved The Increaseln American Shipping The amount of our export trade, which is being carried in American bottoms, is increasing 'steadily, according to figures of the department hi commerce. Last year, for instance, American 'hips carried 43 percent of the water-borne exsports, as compared with less than 20 per cent in 1918. J-'ftf-X&& ' : ' ;v: ' 'rThis may mean little to residents of the Middle West, but it is nevertheless a significant fact in our national; development. - Formerly the greater part o our -exports vwaa carried, in foreign bottoms.:? The freight was paid to the owners of these ships who were citizens of foreign 'countries. Thousands of dollars were thus taken 'from the United States annually to enrich other 'nations. -Now we not only are selling our goods, but also' delivering them in bur own ships, and the freight money returns to the United States to increase our national wealth and to develop

our industries. . While the amount of American exports carried iu our ships increased in the last year, Great Britain, which formerly carried the bulk, showed a decrease. ' lt , ' ''. 1 l The American merchant marine, which' grad-

had supplanted sails, came into its own during the war, - when the United States was forced to build ships on a gigantic scale to overcome the losses sustained by foreign shipping from submarines. C These ships are the ones that are carrying our exports and returning dividends to American owners. American shipping should receive such encouragement that will regain the prestige it held in the first half of the last 'century. Our commercial security is intimately connected with our shipping. If we control the trade "routes by virtue of our ships, we are in a position to control the trade. Germany's pre-war commercial expansion was in a large measure the fruit of her mercantile policy, and the present trade supremacy of Great Britain is due to her traditional encouragement of her merchant marine.

rk The Basketball Tourney ? High school basketball players from neigh

boring cities and towns will be our guests late this week. They will contest for the district

championship, fwhich? carries with it an oppor

tunity to try for state honors. Naturally rivalry

between the teams will be intense and school en thusiasm and spirit will run high.

All the contenders will honor the winning team, for its success will not have been won by a

fluke or an accident. These exigencies 'are im

possible in a tourney in which the elimination

games are arranged to prevent just such occur

ences. And the losing teams need not weep and wail, either. If they play the game with true sportsmanship, which all of them do, they can cheer themselves with the thought that they played fair and square and that the better team won. ' , District basketball tourneys and . the state meeting are arranged to develop the right kind of school spirit and sportsmanship. Every group of rooters will be yelling for its own team, but none will be so partisan as to deny a token of appreciation for a brilliant play by the opposing team. Every player will do his utmost to win, but none will overstep the boundaries of fair play. By showing this spirit all players and spectators will be exemplifying the highest ideals of sportsmanship and will be contributing to the real success of the meeting. Richmond has been honored in the selection of this city as a district center. The high school authorities have made many preparations to make the athletic event a success, and the pupils, realizing that they are hosts to scores of visitors, are ready to make strangers feel art; home, to see that they receive fair play on the floor, and to make them feel that Richmond truly is a. hospitable city.

Honoring the Old Men The Rotarians did a splendid and thoughtful thing today when they invited men who had passed their seventieth birthday to their weekly luncheon, and turned the meeting over to one of reminiscences of days that are gone. Youth sometimes forgets that soon it will be gray and bent. Sometimes it dismisses with a shrug of the shoulder and a curt judgment the works which its forefathers performed. Sometimes it forgets entirely that the sacrifices and vision of the men of the last generation have "made possible the advantages of today. , Sometimes a nagging and fault finding spirit creeps into our community, which discredits what our forbears did, and pays scant consideration to the memory of the many great menvho brought distinction to the community and served city, state and nation with honor to themselves and to their old home town. Sometimes we insinuate that the men who are seventy and eighty now were not possessed of a community spirit when they were thirty and forty; but we neglect to go back with them to those days to discover that they were as active and alert in promoting the welfare of the city in those days as we are today. Richmond's unexcelled railroad facilities, for instance, did not come by chance, but werethe results of the encouragement of the progressive men of that day. As early as 1844, Richmond and Wayne county 'were noted throughout Indiana as an industrial -and commercial center, because its citizens were progressive and ready to accept the latest ideas in business and industry. Many of the substantial concerns of today date back to Civil war days. The Rotarians deserve to be praised for remembering the men who have grown old in this city men who have been active in all spheres of our varied life, and' in the October days of their life are looking, back up years well spent in a community which they helped make and are proud to claim their own.

When a Feller Needs a Friend

Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON

FLAT TIRES. I rode with Johnson In the rain, in ' his new 50horsepower wain. The rain was pouring down, gadiooks! The" road was crossed by running brooks. But we were anug and dry inside, and carried smiles three cubits wide. And then, kerplunk, a tire went flat; and Johnson merely sighed thereat. And then he left his cozy seat, and sloshed around on squirting feet "You stay," he said "just where you are; I'll do the fussing with the car." And out there in the tempest wild he tolled around, and still he smiled. -He seemed to think his labors fun. and whistled "Johnny, Get Your Gun." And when he'd changed the ruber tire, and climbed in from the rain and mire, and grasped the costly steering wheel, as. cheerful as a locoed eeL "Ods fish.," I said, "a saint you are! Were I compelled to leave my car and tinker around in the wet, my language would be blue, you bet!" And Johnson heaved smile at me; "I've lived for many years ," said he; "and I have known my ups and downs, and wilted 'neath misfortune's frowns. I've found when things were going wrong, it braces one to shed a song; In times of sorrow and despair, it doesn't help me out to swear."

Who's Who in the Day's News

Good E

looa evening

By Roy K. Moulton

IMPORTANT, IF TRUE A silk-hatted' young man in evening clothes stood ia front of an ex-cafe after midnight, holding unsteadily to a sign that held a great clock. Said excafe place is now a bank. This young man was weeping. v When a policeman came along to find out what troubled him it was some time before the young man could restrain his sobs to reply. At last he said: "I was Just thinking of the orange blossom cocktails and the plates of salted nuts they used to serve here." Then he straightened up, looked at the policeman and said frankly: Offisher, is it .true that we are goin to have prohibition?" Odd Mclntyre. ., "Man wants but little here below." sang the poet. And woman wants but little here below the knee. SUCH "TAKING" WAYS Iast night, at a gorgeous restaurant, .Sweet Fanny and I did dine; Tiie repast was enjoyable Delicious, tasty and fine. The checkroom took my overcoat, A maid took' Fanny's wrap They took us to a table, There our waiter took a nap. .They took me for a fanner From the wildwoods of N. J.; ' jrhe meal was so expensive

it most took my Dream away. The proprietor looked o'er my shoulder i As I wrote this little stint. But he vanished ere I finished, Z So I guess he took the hint. Jesse Mittelmann. Things are really getting back to normal in Lamar. 8ays the "Democrat:" "It is declared that quite a number of women in Lamar who used to do washings have not only been away from the suds and wringer for some time, .but. have been sending their own washings to the laundry. Now, however, there Is a change. ,A good many of these same women are not only doing their own washing again, but are ones more out doing the washing for others." We have received a letter from one satisfied worker. He says all he has to do is load the-pig iron, into the wag- ' on. The horses do all the pulling. J?'What are e going to : do if the " J. J VnrV Herald.

L Ll ItltTl O iwai a.v... Maybe we'll have to go to-work. : ' N

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Two Minutes of Optimism By HERMAN J. STICH

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FOR WHICH ROCKEFELLER, JR., WOULD TRADE MILLIONS John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in a recent address in which he announced a donation of a million dollars to help provide for Europe's starving children, made a remark which for a billionaire is as startling as it was unquestionably sincere. "It is the regret of .my life," he said, "that I did not have to work as my father had to work; and to overcome the obstacles my father had to overcome." Young Rockefeller is in many respects an exceptional man. He is exceptional because of his unparalleled generosity, his diversified bountifulness, his far-seeing vision. And he is exceptional, too, because of the evidence he is giving that he will not be numbered among the many rich men's son who finish up where the old man began. - Yet, for all young Rockefeller's capability and strength, it is virtually certain that he will never acquire the ability and the capacity of his father such ability and such capacity are things that nobody can bestow or bequeath they can be obtained only in the hard school of necessity, ordeal, selfdependence and the ambition bred by deprivation. ' Privation is a priceless spur, and the effort that holds a gun at Old JVIan Want and a hand bomb at the malignant wolf is an incubator for incomparable red corpuscles and gray matter. It is nature's plan that we should grow strong only by bearing burdens. She seems to think that no one needs strength excepting the struggler; and, being kind, she comes to his rescue. So the man who puts forth no effort, whose character, courage and endurance have not been tried and tested, usually remains a weakling and a failure to the end. Whether Rockefeller, Jr., should be sad or glad that he did not have to go through what his father had to go through may be open to argument; but that his father's millions have robbed him of much, most everybody will agree. , ... Young Rockefeller has missed the keenest enjoyment of the possession of anything and that is the winning of it. He has missed the .breathless hope of anticipation; the sweet joys of dreaming; the prayers, pleasures and excitement of combat; the thrills and spur of conquest; the zest and exhiliration of victory, the intoxicating ecstasy i? . U .timet

Anri these are much these are things for which Rockefeller, Jr., would;

trade millions; they are the things which form the regret of his life; and these are the things which are the possessions and animating forces in the lives of hundreds of thousands of men and women throughout the world who are climbing.

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My brother and MYSELF intend to go. They invited yoir and MYSELF. I went with him to the hotel, WHERE we dined. 1 saw your sister, WHO told me you were coming. I was at home 111 is the reason I didn't go. v Say: , ' My brother and I intend to go. They invited you and me. I went with him to the hotel, AND THERE we dined. I saw your sister, AND SHE told me you were coming. I was at home ill, THAT IS the reason I didn't go.

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WOULD IMPOSE STATE TAX ON BACHELORS OVER 30 Bv Associated Pi-ess) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Mar. 1. All bachelors over 30 years of age would be required to pay an annual tax of $3 under provisions of a bill introduced in lower house of the 6tate legislature here Monday by Representative Dean. The house gave consent for introduction of the measure.

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ELBERT H. GARY. Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate, is one of the big men of the country who is optimistic regarding the near future in the industrial situation. Gary's life has taught him optimism.

V,X.. ..7 As chairman of the f board of the United

States Steel corporation he gets $100,000 a year, a nominal sum, which does not nearly represent his annual income, as he also has certain stocks and bonds. When he was 111 ta1 tkn

Jk1J law department of

the University of

.Chicago, he was e U. Gary. gia(i to get $12 a week as a clerk, and at the end of three years and a half he had risen to the high estate of taking $45 from his Saturday pay envelope. . He branched out into the practice of law on his own account, and made a $2,800 cleanup the first year. At this time he was living in his home town of Wheaton, 111., where he had gone to the public school as a farmer's boy, and he also practiced jaw in Chicago. He was the first mayor of the city ofWheaton, and later was a county judge for two terms, since which time he has always been known as Judge Gary. After leaving the bench he practiced law in Chicago 25 years, retiring to organize the Federal Steel company, of which he was first president. Later he was prominently identified with the U. S. Steel corporation, of which for several years he has been an active head. Among his first clients as a lawyer were William Deering and John W. Gates, the latter of whom was ready even then to wager a million dollars that the young lawyer would get one. Mr. Deering and Mr. Gary attended the same church in Chicago, and although Mr. Gates was not a pewholder, Mr. Deering brought him and Mr. Gates together. Mr. Gates was then making barbed wire and Mr. Deering agricultural implements. Out of the acquaintanceship of the three men grew many important developments in steel and wire industry, which in the course of time brought about the merger of many corporations and finally the creation of the United States Steel corporation. The reason that Judge Gary succeeded so well is that he had a wonderful creative mind and had a genius for amalgamation, which he displayed in the case of the great combination which is composed of more than a dozen steel companies, all working harmoniously toward a common goal.

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Davis, Cole and Oakland . Motor Cars ! MANLOVE & WILSON I

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BIG - SPECIALS Always at U. S. Army Goods Store ' 405 Main

TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adamo, Author of "You Can", "Take If. "Up". TOE FRAGMENTS OF The little that we show amounts to so little of what we are. For we exhibit ourselves mostly in fragments. Carlyle, in his essay on Robert Burns, says that the Scotch poet's writings were Just "a poor fragment of him." And yet those fragments gave him fame and then took away bis life before it had come to its noon. For he had to keep showing them all the time! We must be careful how we show our fragments since we are -forced to attract people our way by samples only. ' Of our real selves we can show but sketches and bits even to our friends and to our chance acquaintances, simply quick passing glimpses which are rarely remembered or understood. The gold and preciousness of us is a thing that is deep buried only coming to the surface when we are sorely tried, and when those who can see in us the most, are willing to go far and long to find this greatness after much separation of dross and alloy. t You can't get a spark from flint by hammering it against some soap or a board it must strike against its kind it must meet Its near equal. A friend tells me of how he once discovered with a new telescope a nest of stars, unseen by the naked eye, but which showed more stars than in all the heavens are revealed to the natural sight. And I am thinking to myself that the mere fragments of us all which in themselves appear so meager, may after all tfover hidden nests of beauties if onjy those whom we love would take from their hearts some such telescope and look carefully! The fragments of us well, seen and unseen, they make up our life to us.

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SAY, KID They're standing out in the cruel world everywhere wanting to see us. Oh, Pop! What'll we do to get all Richmond in in four days, starting next Sunday?

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It's Time to Buy That " ; USED CAR See us for values -- - Chenoweth Auto Co.

1107 Main St. Phone 192S

Buy Your Furniture Here Pay Less Weiss Furniture Store 505-13 Main St.

Answers to Questions

M. J. W. (1). How Is the center of population reckoned? This question was answered in this column Feb. 21. (2). How do railroad engineers on trains leaving the eastern standard time manage their watches when they read central time and western or mountain time? Do they change their watches? They change their watches. J. D. N. Prof. Hudson in his work on psychic phenomena states that Zersh Colburn, a boy 8 years old, living in 1812, instantly raised the number 8 progressively to the 16th power being 281,474,976,719,656. Do you believe it was possible? Are there any such mathematical prodigies living today? We are unable to answer your question. Mrs. J. N. What is the length of the Panama canal? It is ' 42 miles in length between shore lines. Renrtera mny nhtata nwr question by wrlttagr 4fce Palladlan OarHoa aad Anm drpartmrit All qnealoaa should be writ lea plalaiy aad briefly. Aaawcra will be srlvea briefly.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

; Manager Schornstein of 'the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company announced the completion of improvements at the gas plant which cost approximately $30,000 and stated that in the spring as soon as the weather would permit, the company was going to make improvements on about four miles of mains within the city limits.

$4.00 to $6.00 is what we ask for Men's Spring Hats LICHTENFELS 1010 Main St.

LUMBER and COAL MATHER BROS. Co.

Dinner Stories

"You are late for dinner, as usual," said Mrs. Twobble. crossly. "I believe I om, my dear," answered Mr. Trowbble, apologetically. "I dare say you've been standing In front of a baseball bulletin board." "No, indeed." "Ah! I thought you would try to deceive me. Mrs. Wapples told me she saw you there." "I wasn't in front of the bulletin board. The crowd was so large I could not get in front of it. I was away around on one side."

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On Both CORD and FABRIC - TIRES For a Limitel Time Only

WM. F. LEE, No. 8 South 7th St.

We can save you dealer's profit en a Used Piano or can trade your Silent Piano for a Victrola. WALTER B. FULGHUM 1000 Main St. Phone 2275

DR. R. H. CARNES I

DENTIST Phone 2665 1 i Rooms 15-16 Comstock Building i 1016 Main Street I Open Sundays and Evenings hj f appointment.

FANCY ONIONS Per Bushel Sl.OO E. R. BERHEIDE Phone 1329 244 S. 5th SL Free Delivery

The FAULTLESS CLEANING Co. Merchant Tailors Cleaning and Pressing Garments Called for and Delivered NEWSOM & STAFFORD 203 Union Nat'l. Bank Bldg. 8th and Main Phone 2718

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f"V Ol m and 5 en Time Un &avinfis ru , T 53 .can start savings account any time. Interest paid Jan. 1st and July 1st. The People's Home and Savings Ais'n. 29 N. 8th. Cap. Stock $2,500,000 Safety Boxes for rent

Henry J. Pohlmeyer s Ora E. Stegall Wm. A- Welter Harry C. Downing Murray O. DeHaven POHLMEYER, DOWNING and COMPANY

15 N. 10th St.

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Phone 1335

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