Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 160, 17 May 1921 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921.
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; ' Tho Associated press 1 exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or i not otherwise credited in. this paper, and also the local news published heroin. All rights of republication of epe- ! , cUd dispatches herein are also reserved. I . Mr; Edison Wants to Know "The questionnaire Thomas A. Edison pre- ! sents to. applicants for employment at his plant is not a thirfg easily judged of in the absence of knowledge of what particular qualities of "mind j Mr. Edison is looking for," says the Washington J Star. "Probably he has a reason for asking a i prospective employe where shellac comes from. : Most persons would say, offhand, that it comes : from a hardware store. For the most of us that : is about all the information we need on, that sub- ; ject. r , c I '; "But the character of Mr. Edison's questions, when examined further, does not seem to be wholly technical. Who, he asks, was Cleopatra? j Most anybody; could make a stagger at answeri ing that, but what -the answer -would prove as the qtiatitl'ffltopsitifnthfe 'answerer is pot so easily
guessed.. If .the question were as to when Cleopatralivd and what she did besides inserting
: the asp into the neck of her dress, the test might
! have a point. So as to the question about condors. Few would hesitate in fixing the habitat
of the condor in the Andes, though there is, we j believe, some vagueness in the popular mind as ; to whether, a condor is a bird or a snake. If it's ! a snake it eats birds," and if it's a bird it carries ' off snakes. We distinctly remember a picture
; of it-in the geography, and it was either flying
; away with a snake in its talons or was being
; fatally enfolded in the coils of a snake, but we ' don't remember which. What's the difference, Wegg? "From condors Mr. Edison passes rapidly to ; the voltage used in . street cars. Here again he ; is technical. The average man leaves voltage to the street car company. They ought to know. 5 They ought to know the necessary voltage even ; if they .haven't, got it.. We do not say it is not ; necessary knowledge in Mr. Edison's plant, but if it's that quality of mind he wants why does he then skip to the author of 'Home, Sweet Home?' Mere people know who wrote 'Home, Sweet Home' than know about voltage. They know it was written either by Francis Scott Key or John Howard Payne, and in either case is very hard to sing. It should also be sung standing, ; although Mr. Edison does not ask about that we simply throw the information in for good measure. I "Next Mr. Edison wants to know what a monl soon is. Now, what in the world has a knowledge of Chinese musical instruments to do with the Edison plant? You see, the object of the questionnaire is not at all plain. "Why is cast iron called pig iron? Because ; it is supplied by the steel trust, of course. Of .what kind of wood are ax handles made? Pass.
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Where is Spitzbergen? Also at sea. Where do we. import cork from? The tariff bill knows. Where do we get sardines ? It doesn't seem important. '
"The job of finding out how much a person!
knows is not easy, of course. He might answer a hundred questions correctly, and then suddenly reveal total ignorance as to the process of of removing seeds from raisins. About the best we can do it to cling to a few facts necessary to the job in hand. If technical knowledge is necessary it can be acquired by concentration. If general, that's another thing. We wish Mr. Edison would call his shots."
Mme. Marie Curie The visit of Mme. Curie, the quiet little
woman wrho discovered the element radium, to!
this country, has made her one of the prominent figures in the news. Mme. Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867. Her father was a Jew and her mother of Swedish birth. He father later became a convert to Catholicism. Her father was a professor of physics, and from her sixth year the little Marie spent much of her time in his laboratory. When she was IS years old, having passed through the Girls' Gym
nasium of Warsaw with honors, she won a schol- J
arship which provided the sum of $20 a month for further study. On this allowance she went to Paris and continued her scientific education, living for the most part on black bread and milk, occupying a tiny bare room equipped only with an iron bed and one chair, and dressing in the dark, useful frock and simple hat characteristic of the Russian girl students in the French capital and which differentiates them so entirely from their more coquettishly attired French companions. While a student in his class she met Pierre Curie, a promising young French physicist, who fell in love with her. Although they were very poor, they were married and lived a happy life devoted to scientific research. It was in 1903 that Mme. Curie discovered radium during experiments in the analysis of pitch-blende which were being conducted by her husband. Althdugh both are equally credited with the discovery, it is generally agreed that the woman was the more persistent and courageous explorer. "Other women have been credited with deeper and wider scientific knowledge," says Dr.'Robert Abbe in his book on Mme. Curie, "but no other woman, by sheer force of energy and brain power, has pursued a trail into an unknown jungle and brought to light such an unsuspected new factor in the world's makeup, which has had such revolutionary influence in science." Mme. Curie has twice won the Nobel prize for accomplishments in science. At present she fills a full professor's chair at the Sarbonne, an honor never conferred on any woman before. Her private life is modest and domestic, as she is the head of a quiet and unpretentious household, and herself directs the education of her two daughters.
TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author ef "You Caw," Tako It." . MME. MARIE CURIE
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This month 'America will honor itself anew by honoring- the greatest woman in the world Mme. Curie. Like most notable men and women, she was born poor. Her father,, however, was distiguished in science. And so the little girl's first lore was not for dolls, but for test tubes. They tell us that her nursery was a laboratory. Born in Warsaw, she was compeUed after the death of her father, to earn a living. And so she went to Paris. She went with a fortune tied up in quite a big bag, called Courage, and a little matter of money amounting to exactly 50 francs. But the girl had knowledge that she herself hardly realized the extent of. She lived in an obscure garret. She lived on black bread and blue milk! I have read that she endured this diet. so long that she had to learn to get used to meat aad wine. But ber light was not kept under a bushel for long. Soon she attracted the attention of a bright young scientist named Pierre Curie. In 1895 she married him. She was then but 23 years of age. Three years later Radium was discovered! But it was no accident as has been supposed. It came about through intense poverty, long work, and dauntless faith. Great credit is due the husband that ho generously divided the credit with his wife. - In 1906. at the height of his fame. Pierre Curie was run over by a cart and killed. There was, no scientist to take his place as lecturer at the Sorbonne excepting his widow. For the first time in the history of the world a woman was appointed to what is one of the most distinguished positions possible for a scientist. No woman has been more greatly honored for what she has done. She has shared the Nobel Peace Prize, and has refused more medals than most great men have received. She is shy. modest and very intent. She dresses plainly. She has no desire for applause. It is said that she risks nothing that is unproved. "It is not the personalities of people that interest," she says, "but their work!" America's tribute to this wonderful woman can be no greater than the one she has given to herself. The entire world honors her.
Who's Who in the Day's News
E. MONT REILLY E. Mont Reilly, appointed by President Harding to be governor general of Porto Rico, is an old friend and political associate of Harding, and is
known as the "original Harding man
of the
west. He was active both before the nomination at
way of calling for help to relieve this irritation.
Readers may obtain mr to qeatlo hy Trrlttafc The Palladlom Questions and Anairera department. All queatlnas should be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be riven briefly.
Good Evening
"We are not. metropolitan town," announces a western editor. "It never
m i d d 1 e: causes a ripple or excitement in our
town when a man comes into a public gathering with his own wife." "If you carry liquor in your fountain
Chicago and after-j pen," says Tennyson J. Daft, "don't
t h e I write to me. Just send your blotter.
ward during
cam-
presidential
paign. Reilly hails from Kansas City, and has been active in Missouri politics during several campaigns. In
1921 he was a member of the Roosevelt Progressive party. He claims some fame as a political prognosticator, basing this claim on the fact that he organized in 1921 the
OFTEN TOO OFTEN. Pear yRoy Do you ever have to sit
at the next table to a couple of recent-1 says
PASTORS TO DISCUSS CHURCH SCHOOL VALUE IN SERMONS MAY 22 Ministers of Protestant churches all over Indiana have been asked in an announcement mad public today by
the secretaries of the church federaj tions of Indiana and Indianapolis, to discuts the value of the state and the community, of the church colleges of Indiana, In their sermons on May 22.
the first day of Indiana college week. The request to the ministers, signed by Dr. Frank W. Merrick, executive
secretary of the Church Federation of
Indiana, and Dr. C. H. Winders, exec
utive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, reads as follows:
j "The Church Federation Secretaries ; of the Commonwealth and of its Capi
tal City, Indianapolis, heartily comj mend the splendid proclamation of ! Governor McCray. whereby, following legislative direction, the governor has l set apart the week of May 22-29 as Ini diana College Week. Calls For Rally. ! "The history of these institutions. their priceless value to the state, to ! our communities and to our homes.
J coupled with their great needs, call j
j ror a rauy 01 an nnsiian people wun-1 : in the state to their support which!
I shall make their future secure, their
development certain, and their social value still greater. "Will the pastors of Indianapolis and of the state on MayJ!2. in prayer and in sermon, remember this great interest?'' "L. N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction has announced that approximately 12,000 pupils wero graduated from the hleh schools last year," says a bulletin issued by the association. Of this number approximately 4.000 entered college. A few more than 5,000 students were enrolled in the two tax-supported universities at Bloomington and at LaFayette, while nearly 8,000 were en-
rolled in the church schools. The i number of graduates from the latter
institutions numbered 611 while the tax-supported institutions sent forth 813 graduates. , Carry Half of Burden. "These figures show," the bulletin
panding curriculum there should be and must be an increase in fundsThere is an imperative demand foi more and better trained instructors This means that the colleges must b in a position to offer better salaries in order to secure the most competent teachers."
Memories of OH Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today
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Knights of Columbus of Ruehville, Connersville, Union -City, Ft. Wayne Brookville and Richmond and other eastern Indiana cities, announced that they would bold a jollification and business meeting here on' May 28. The important feature of the meeting was to be the initiation of about 100 candidates into the order.
Tennis balls are now being madr which, on going "dead." can be re filled with air with a needle pump.
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MURPHY. Connie Mack should cheer up. The first hundred games are the worst. SCIENCE AND INVENTION A Squirtless Grapefruit Crawford Johnston has invented a squirtless
grapefruit. By creating a vacuum under the fruit, it is impossible to create
first "Roosevelt for President" club' a shower bath while eating it.
in the United States, and in 1919 started the first active work in the west for Harding's candidacy.
Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON
: " " THE HEALERS. Rheumatism in my shoulder, in my feet and neck, makes me feel, as I grow ' wow older, rather like a Avreck. There f.re 40,000 healers who would drive it out: they are optimistic soiel- . ers, each a cheerful Nscout. "Come to "mo and cease to worry," says the heal- ; ing, guy; "I can cure you in a hurry, .if you'il let me try. I've designed a Iiiiodren diet cat what I shall choose, ;and the pain no more will riot through ; vour boDes and thews." "Try my poul tire," nay another, "put it on your toe. and vou'll see how quick 'twil smother
.every ache you know." Say another j : healer solemn. ' Lie down on that i
"bench, and I'll twist your spinal column with a monkey wrench." Like 9 lambkin to the slaughter to the "cures" I go I've been toaked in sulphur water for a week or so I've been deckeU with ;'mustard plasters some stick to me
jBtlli for the healers ase my masiers.
Two Minutes of Optimism By HERMAN J. STICH
A course in relativity it to be given
at Columbia, which will be very lucky for those of us who have no relatives going there.
more than half the burden of higher f
education of the 6tate. "A questionnaire sent to presidents of church schools brought out that the immediate need is for more room larger dormitories, additional class rooms, more complete gymnasia, and better equipped laboratories. To provide for expending enrollment and ex-
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A SAFE "FLIER" An American, traveling recently through Switzerland, on inquiring how many German marks he could obtain for a coo! thousand dollars in Uncle Sam's wampum, was asked: "How many do you need?" The present wave of speculation in foreign exchange recalls a Lincoln story about the wildcat Western currency of seventy years ago, a species of paper money then worth about as much as Confederate bills were worth after Lee's surrender at which time a parcel of the latter containing over a thousand dollars was offered for $5!
Lincoln's story was that he was going down the Mississippi. Fuel was i
getting low, and the captain directed the pilot to steer into the first woodpile that he saw on the river bank. After a while, they reached one; and the captain finding the owner ashore, the following conversation took place: "Is this your wood?" "Certainly." "You want to sell it?" "Yes" "Will you accept currency 7' "Certainly." "How much will you take?" asked the captain. To which the owner replied: "Cord for cord!" This is an actual accurrence, but it would probably take a good many cords of some of the foreign currencies today to buy a whole cord of honest wood. Still the merry game of investing hard-earned savings in them goes
ir.d I do their will Though tne neai-julI huu verua-P0 uul dkjij mi i.uc 6'ciuu"-ui oumtuuuj vv,.s omt-rr-' Kind predictions never are fulfilled, j thing to protect deluded victims against their cwn greed, cupidity, foolish-
lifsa duu igiiurauvc. Unfortunately, there is nothing to prevent any one who so desires from speculating in foreign exchange, but the man who expects ' to tickle the hugely inflated currencies of most of Europe and make them laugh a fortune
is doomed to all kinds of bitter disappointments. Financial experts are unanimous that Russian rubles. Finnish finmarks, Hungarian, Austrian, Czecho-Slovak and Jugo-Slavian crowns, Polish and German marks. Serbian francs, Rumanian leus and the like will never begin to approach their old rate of exchange. In fact, it is claimed that their present quotation is for the most part a nominal quotation, that they will never rise much above their current value, if indeed, bankruptcy and repudiation does not settle them once and for all. England, Franceand Italy, of course, are in a far stronger position, but even ere it will be a long period . or vears, if ever, before the old standards are anywhere nearly in sight. j If vou have any loose change "floating about" and you want to take a
safe, rock-ribbed and re-inforced "flier" try your tinanciai wings on LiDerty
biill I listen to the fictional the heal
-rrs skilled.. Every new one finds nr.' -waiting with my checkbook near, au.l his prophecies elating rob my soul of ifear. And ihe healer, like a linn?t, '-sings his r.ong of praise "One is born "every minute, hence my practice 'pays." .
Answers to Questions
Interested When and where was "Decoration" or "Memorial Day" first observed? According to an interesting story. Memorial Day -was first observed in the South under the direction of a Union soldier. James Ridpath was the soldier. He had marched with Sherman to the sea. Later he returned to the South to teach school at Charleston.' He found the soldiers' graves neglected. After stirring up public sentiment on the question, he went personally to some of the prominent citizens and through their efforts the soldiers' burying grounds were re-fenced, and on May 1, 1866. the school children from Ridpaht's school marched to the burial grounds carrying armfuls of spring flowers which they laid upon the graves. It was not until two years later, however, May 5, 1868. that Gen. John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. issued a request that May 30 of each year be set aside all over the United States as the day on which the bravery of the soldiers of the Civil war should be commemorated and their graves decorated with flowers. The first Memorial Day, which fell on Saturday, was celebrated with great enthusiasm and success. The film production of "Sweet Lavender" was adapted from a play by rinero that has been on the stage for many years. Two Readers To settle a dispute, please tell me why it is that eating salt makes one thirsty? Salt makes a saline saliva which irritates the lining of the stomach. Water dilut the salty condition. Thirst is Nature's Uronchlal Trouble C'ansted Anslety No medicine has a better reputation than Foley's Honey and Tar for quickly relieving roughs, colds anxl croup. It loosens the phlegm and mucus, clears the passages, eases hoarseness, stons tiokline throat. John 0. Hek-
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?ier, discharged her maid and engaged another and otherwise refused ,1o allow herself to be imposed upon ,Yet she did not smile that evening ."when a young man begged 'Let me be your protector through life!" At the annual prize day of a certain school the head boy rose to give u's recitation. "Friends, Romans, countrymen." he Jvociferated, "lend me your ears!" "There," commented the mother of In defeated , pupil, sneeringly. "that iMrs. Brown's boy.'? He wouldn't be his mother's sen if hft didn't. want to Iborrow something.
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(By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES. May 17. A new cabinet has been formed In Bolivia,
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