Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 111, 19 March 1921 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM " - AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published ; Every Evening Except Sunday by 1. Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Bonding, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as . Second-Class Mail Matter. ME Mil Ell OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Prf8 Is exclusively entitled tQ 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!! rlgrhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Expedite Tax Revision Revision of war-revenue taxation should have been undertaken by congress two years ago. Business expected action on the tax question last year, but congress failed to take up the problem. Leaders of the national legislature are now debating whether they should first take up tax revision or readjustment of the tariff. If they are wise they will heed the complaints of taxpayers from all parts of the country and give the right of way to the tax problem. Closely-akin to the problems of high taxes are the big appropriations which congress has made despite its , promise of economy and retrenchment. The people are wondering if congress is trying to sidestep tax revision because it will inevitably result in reduced revenue and a forced curtailment in the appropriations. Because of these ramifications, the question should be taken up at once by congress and settled. Reports from all parts of the country indicate a heavy reduction in the income taxes which were paid on or before March 15, as compared with payments of former years. The number of individual taxpayers undoubtedly has increased, but the heavy payments which were made in the boom period of 1918 and 1919 have shown a substantial decrease. Another factor in the decrease of the income tax payments is that persons of great wealth have transferred their holdings into tax-exempt securities and into other forms of income that are not taxable under the law. It is becoming more and more evident that the higher surtaxes on income and the excess profits tax are not obtaining the results which were hoped for, but have become severe handicaps and burdens, on industry and business. The complaint against the present tax laws that they prevent the expansion of trade and industry is nation-wide. If congress could enact an equitable tax law within a reasonably short time that would remove the burden which is strangling prosperity, the action would be regarded as an excellent example of congressional efficiency. Roger W. Babson, one of the ablest statisticians of the United States, . estimates that the
time which 5,000,000 persons have given to the preparation of federal statements between March 1 and March 15 has resulted in a loss of about $1,000,000,000 in sales, $550,000,000 in manufacturing, and $500,000,000 in other lines. He describes our present tax system as a drag on prosperity, and adds: "Buts some say: ..Think of the $4,000,000,000 which the government will be able to spend this year.' This is where we are all being fooled. If the making out of these returns and the collecting of the money did not cost one cent, the country would not be any better off. The whole process is simply the 'robbing of Peter to pay Paul,' and the 'robbing' costs the American people about $2,000,000,000 a year in actual cash. Add to this the psychological effect upon men of
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921.
enterprise (I refer to the retarding, the dampening effect of this whole tax business on the ambitions and efforts of the men who play and promote great enterprises the men who really make prosperity) and the losses above indicated must be multiplied many fold." If congress will resolutely face the issue and, irrespective of other considerations, decide to reduce federal taxes, the country will respond favorably to the action and industry and trade will again prosper. Congress need fear no criticism from the people if reduced taxation gives it less money to spend for appropriations. The taxpayers are quite willing to join in a movement to help the government save money. The country has gone through the period of helping congress and the government to spend its revenue. Reduced taxes and reduced appropriations are a program to which every taxpayer will heartily subscribe.
Corn for the Starving The farmers of Wayne county are taking the lead in Indiana in the humanitarian movement of supplying the starving people of China and the Near East with corn. Center township set an example for the whole state a few days ago when its farmers contributed an entire carload and its citizens eneraged in exercises to com
memorate the event.
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vvayne county s contnouuons win oe lar ui excess of the quota. This is the right spirit to
show. This county always has responded nobly to a call for aid, and the Wayne County Farm
Bureau acted with commendable dispatch in enlisting its members in the enterprise. The wealth of a community is not measured entirely in what it possesses, but in its disposition to share it with the starving and the needy. The spiritual endowment of every farmer who has given to this cause is enriched by the gift. The gratitude of hundreds whose lives will be spared by their generosity, although it may never be expressed to the donors personally, nevertheless is a benediction on a deed well performed. The tragic suffering of these people, we hope, is being adequately met by ' the warm-hearted generosity of the farmers of this country, who are taking from their cribs the food that will transform despair into hope, and let China know that the American farmer knows neither race nor creed in the dispensation of his charity. The accusation that we are living in a thoroughly materialistic age is refuted by the benevolence and kindness of the Wayne county farmers
: and their associates elsewhere. The historian of
some future day that looks back upon this period of American history will be forced to acknowledge that the gigantic campaigns for the relief of the unfortunate people of the war devastated countries and of stricken countries elsewhere have no parallel in the annals of the world. America has given dollars, food and clothing on an unheard of scale. No appeal has been rejected. No cry has been spurned. If America entered the war pursuant to high ideals, her record as an agent of mercy since the war exemplifies in a still higher degree her devotion to the highest principles of love and mercy. The American farmer has taken a conspicuous part in the ministration of help to suffering humanity.
Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton
Referring to the statement of Topeka people regarding the street car service, and that every town says the same thing:, a reader is reminded of the fact that every town in the United States has the purest drinking water; also that the golf course hos been pronounced by Donald Ross to be the finest In the country. FIENDS ARE OUT OF WORK. Want ad. in Mount Vernon Argus: TWO FIENDS, cook and chambermaid would like position together. Inquire Argus.
Two Minutes of Optimism By HERMAN J. STICH
A home for Geraldine is the bie question facing: congress at the present time. Geraldine is a "pctftil" Jersey cow which ha3 been presented to Mr. Harding by a man in Libertyville, O. The president is not able to accept the ?ift, however, until congress makes some provision in the way of a cow Flved for the white house grounds. But it would seem, now that a home has been provided for the ambassador at London, by a private citizen there should bo somebody patriotic enough to convs forward and present the sovernment with a home for Geraldine. The government itself could hardly afford to finance such a proposition, of course, and congress should not be embarrassed by the matter. That the White House cow should not be treated as well as the ambassador to England seems incredible. This is a wonderful opportunity for some publicspirited citizen. President Harding has fallen heir to a graveyard at Lancaster, O., which has been presented to the last 22 presidents in turn. Strange to say, none of them has cared to accept it. It may be necessary to turn that bit of ground Into a form, and no president will get out an injunction to stop this plan.
Colonel. Roosevelt's particular pet while in the White House, was his riding horse. Mr. Taf t was particularly fond of his favorite cow, Pauline Wayne. Mr. Wilson's pets consisted of a flock or sheep. Mr. Harding's pet is an . Airedale pup. . '. Which leads us to wonder how many iidminis'iratlons it will be before they get dawn to white mice" and goldfish. 'The ntyles, under a -new arrangement, are to be cabled from Paris to
ALONZO HERNDON His father and mother were both slaves in a backwoods county in Georgia, and he himself was too young to comprehend when Lincoln's famous edict removed the shackles from their shoulders and proclaimed him a "free" child. At twelve he had "hired out" and was working fourteen hours a day for a crust and a mattress. The only money he saved was by surreptitiously selling burnt pine tar for grease, making baskets for cotton pickers, gathering black walnuts, which he held over until winter and sold at ten cenls a hundred; burning charcoal at night and carrying it five miles to sell at five cents a bushel, cultivating and marketing the tiny crop of his Lilliputian cotton patch. By dint of stint and scrape he managed to hoard up enough pennieat to buy a regular suit of clothes, and make his way to the metropolis of his state, Atlanta, where, with capital consisting solely of health, ambition, ordinary intelligence and a horror of being a "no-account" boy, he determined he would some day enjoy the comforts and some of the luxuries he felt every man was entitled to who wanted them badly enough to be willing to pay their full price. His first job was the last chair in a barber shop, where his smiling willingness, courtesy, industry and genial bearing soon won him a foremanship Later he was made manager. And still later he had laid by enough to buy a barber shop of his own. Today Alonzo Herndon owns and operates chain tonsorial shops on many of Atlanta's most fashionable streets. His biggest establishment is worth $30,000. Some of his others are worth $15,000 each. He himself is rated at $500,000; and he is one of the richest members of his race in the south. Herndon's career was brought to light by his recent purchase and equipment of a magnificent house to be used as a day nursery and kindergarten for Negro children. Some years ago he founded the Herndon Community Center, a group of orphanages and hospitals. He has" given large sums to the Y. M. C. A. and to Atlania University. His endowments, benefactions and charities are statewide, and the character of many of them is such that they do not get into print paying the rent for old, poor people; sending sick children to the country and seashore; supplying medical aid and food to those who are In need. This human document is worth recording for two of many reasons first, because it warms the human heart, which in drawing inspiration from, or extending appreciation and congratulations for a victory over poverty, ignorance, prejudice and other handicaps, draws no color line and, second, because in its larger and more general aspects, it gives a true picture of America, furnishes a refutation of the fallacious plaint that the day of opportunity in America is passed.
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Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today
t, Congressman Flnley Grey of the sixth district, who first saw service in the ranks of the special session which was called by President Taft as one of his first offcial duties, called upon the war department on the request of Sol Meredith Post of the G. A. R., and asked for the donation of a mounted field cannon, that was to be placed in the court house yard.
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WILLIAM MILLER COLLIER
Each day brings a new batch of reports as to who will be appointed toi fill the positions left racant by the j Democrats. Much interest is being) centered on the post of ambassador j to Franoe. William Miller Collier has
been suggested and! supported by the two New York sen-
ator?, William Calder and James'
Wadsworth. Collier is wellj known in diplomatic circles. At present he is the presi- j dent of Georgei
Washington University, Washington. Collier is fifty-four years old, a graduate of Hamilton college and Columbia college law
school. Admitted to the bar in 1892, he rose rapidly until in 1904 he was appointed special assistant to the attorney general of the United States by President Roosevelt President Wilson appointed him plenipotentiary and head of the American
delegation to the international confer-1 ence at Christiania, Norway. He was! elected president of George Washing
ton University, December 4, 1917. Collier is the author of many books on
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YOURSELF
A great magazine recently wrote a famous writer to send them an article on the "most interesting person" he knew. The writer sent them an article on himself! He stated that he spent more time with himself and knew himself better than anybody else therefore, he was the most interesting of all human beings to himself. He was quite right. You are the most absorbing personage In thQ world to yourself. But to come fully to this realizfttion means that you must make yourself very interesting. You must read, observe, study, love, travel, associate with minds greater than yours in many respects and keep out of ruts! You spend a large part of your life alone. To ask yourself frequently whether you are growing or not, whether you are expanding your mind so as to take in a b'gger part of the world each day is to spur you to effort that will bring back its rewards a hundredfold. Most people are very ready to give what they consider sound advice to any who may ask. But they neglect asking questions of themselves. It you are at a crossroads, or find yourself In a difficult quarter, why not ask yourself about the best procedure? It's a quality of strength to depend upon, yourself just a little bit more than on anybody else. Seek advice, ask counsel but decide for yourself! You are your best friend and your most dangerous enemy. A personality has tentacles it is always reaching out. Sometimes it gets what it doesn't want. But that's where the chance for selection comes in. Be good to yourself!
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W'hether he ATTEND the game or
not. it is ins duty to buy a ticket. Though he CENSURE me, yet I respect him. It WERE well you let him know. "To hold, as 'TWERE, the mirror up to nature." Shakespeare. "Bonutiful cloud! I WOULD I WERE with thee." William Cuilen Bryant.
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trail that hints of sin; and tne wnoiesome lads are sweating as the golden moments flit, only worrying and frettins; when the darkness makes them quit.
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"Mamma, what did you say papa did all day?" "Why, he samples coffee, dear that is. he tastes it." A paus-e. "Mamma, do they ever hire ice cream samplers?"
ton park will be named after Henry Clay and the ceremonies incident to the naming of the two parks will be held April 19, the day the statue of
Bolivar, the famous Venezuelan states man. Is to be unveiled in New York.
Mrs. X. W. A. (1) What president of the Tlcited States was a murderer' None. (2) How many nations signed tfte league of nations, and please name them? Representatives of the fotowing nations signed it, but not all their governments ratified it: UnitcWl States. England. France. Italy, Jara-n, Belgium. Bolivia, Brazil. China, Cirtwu Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala Hai.'Ji, Hedjaz, Honduras, Liberia. Nicaranga Panama, Peru, Poand, Portugal, Romnania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene states Siam, Czecho-Slovakia and Uruguay. The league was rejected bv the United! States senate on Nov. 19. 1919. (3) 3Iow does the United States stand on the league? The rejection of it by tlw senate, leaves us outside of its provisions. Reader Can a citizen of the United States enlist in the Canadian army a the present time? Canada has no army. We suggest that you write to Hon. Hugh xuthrie. minister of militia and defensei Ottawa, Canada, for information. SubscribeiB Is there a surplus of cotton, in tfcve United States, and if so, how many Ibnles? There is a surplus of 3,500,000 (bales. ltaflm ntar tata niwn a 4attlaa y wrttlBK the Fallaa'fam aetloaa mm Aaawera 4eaartaiat. All aaestlaaa. ahanM be vrrtttea alalaly aad briefly. Aaavtera will aa slvea briefly.
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my neighbors sinnins I suppose fhey're actinsr fine. While I fumigate my chickens or renair fh Vitoh.
en flue, folks may act up like the dickens, I don't notice what they do. Oh, I'm singing, angel-throated, as I tinker in the rain, and mv Uimihto are
Mil devoted to my labors safe and uie. So I do not hear the scandals bnt are flying through the town, and I do not meet the vandals who would wreck some fair renown. And I miss the vicious stories that the cossiDs
weave all day, for I hoe my morning glories in the good old fashioned way. Busy people do not peddle tales that stir up human strife; busy people do not meddle with the dirty dregs of life; they are thinking of achievement,
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Jim Peters was very much in love . but too bashful to propoe. Finally, he recided to pop the question by tele-;
"Maggie. I love you," he breathed, !
softly. "Will you marry me?" There was a moment's hesitation before the answer came. "Of course I will, George. "Why did'nt you come over and ask me, you
simpleton?" j And Jim yelled back: I "You will have to break the aws j to him yourself. I will be darned if j
I will." Life "Hereafter bring me your pay envelope as it is handed to you, unbroken. There is a shortage here. Explain." "I took out my car fare and lunch money, which under the income tax law, I interpret as my personal exemption."
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VENEZUELA PAYS TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON'S MEMORY CARACAS, Venezuela, March 19. A government decree issued here gives the name of Washington to an important avenue and orders the building of a new park to be called Washington park, in which the statue of Washington will be placed. The old Washing-
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STEEL FURNACES Don't let any one tell you that the STEEL FURNACE will not last. Ask the junk dealer what kind of furnaces are txnought to him as scrap iron. We are prepared to back up the statement that the STEEL FURNACE lasts longer than the cast, as we have the evidence right here in Richmond. The FRONT RANK is made of steel and still leads all others. Sold by ROLAND & BEACH Phone 1611 , n38 Ma 8t
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