Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 215, 21 July 1921 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1920.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM : -; -, AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published ; Every! Evening Except Sunday by r. ; ; , ' Palladium Printing Co. Msl!1 XV4V. V(IV y Of

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as j

. : ' Second-Class Mail Matter. -' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the as for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local

news published herein. All rlgnts of republication or special dispatches herein are also reserved. j . Economy in City and County In preparing estimates for the city budget, officials ought not to be told that extreme care to eliminate all unnecessary expenses should be the determining factor. In their effort to keep expenses to a minimum city and county officials should have the support of the public. Nearly every taxpayer is shouting in protest against the heavy tax burden. And yet the very next day he probably will ask the city or county to make an appropriation for some purpose, laudable and well worth having in normal times, but something with which the community can dispense now. If you will notice, the men who yell loudest against , the tax rate are usually the very ones who appear before the city council and the county council to ask for an appropriation for some pet scheme with which they hope to soften man's lot or improve" him in one way or another. The life of a public official is not an easy one these days. On one hand, he finds the public clamoring for reduced taxes, and on the other, the same public is refusing to give up the frills and accessories which increase the tax burden. Taxes will never come down until the public is willing to demand less of the city and county.

We have acquired the habit of demanding that the government perform a multitude of services for us, little realizing that service costs

money, which is raised only by taxation.

cannot enjoy service without paying for it. Every now and then a new set of drains on the public treasury is invented- City and county become hard pressed to meet the bills, and the public wonders where the money went. If the government would confine its activities exclusively to the task of providing good administration, and would forget its paternalistic attention for a short while, the public treasuries would be able to recuperate. There will be no relief until this is done. In our own city, as an example, advance reports show that the tax rate will be no lower next year. Citizens who had hoped for that event might just as well make up their minds to the contrary at once.

If the mayoralty candidates want to do a real favor to the people of Richmond, let them show how they will be able to operate the city on a lower tax rate and still be able to give efficient service. The people are more interested in that one question than any other issue in the whole pri

mary. And that candidate, who is able to show

where he can eliminate expenses without im

pairing the normal functioning of the departments of the city, will receive a heavy block of

votes from the taxpayers.

We all have heard if said that a city is a business corporation in which the taxpayers are stockholders. In the present era of high taxes,

the stockholders are looking for a board of direc

tors who can cut down expenses without destroy

ing efficiency. '

Let the candidates for mayor came out with a detailed and specific announcement as to how

they will attain this purpose, which is one important matter in which the voters are interested.

Let the candidates forget platitudes and generalities to explain specifically how they will give an economical administration of the city's affairs, and perhaps be able to reduce the tax rate. That is something which every voter would like to hear.

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Good Evening By ROY K. MOUUTON

It 19-cheaper to travel ia Germany now than ever before, but after you have traveled you don't get anywhere, The hardest thing we have . ever tried to get Interested in Is the situation at Silesia. STATISTICS. Eighty per cent of the women like to wear a bathing suit on a beach.

Ninety-eight per cent of the men like to look at them. Forty per cent of the tourists take cameras and photograph at considerable expense views which can be bought at a newsstand for SO cents a bunch- . . Words will pay for most things, but not the rent. . Love kills with a golden arrow. It is a pleasant death. The percentage of playwrights who understand dramaturgy has never been established. It is 70 per cent harder to think nr statistics in hot weather than in winter. A CHEERFUU SENOOFF. New England paper Reverend E. Thompson will preach his farewell sermon on Sunday next. The choir will render an anthem of joy and thanksgiving specially composed for the occasion. A young fellow was driving a Ford car along the road near here Sunday when a duck flew out of a pond and smashed through the wind shield cf the car, hitting the driver on the ear. Some of the glass cut him and several stitches were necessary. What he needs is not a windshield but a duckshield. It Is a very dull day in the Russian news when Lenine does not imprison Trotzky and Trotzky does not Imprison Lenine. When a man and woman are mar

ried they are made one. but the ques

tion always Is. which is the one? WONDERS THAT NEVER CEASE.

An old horse collar floated down ths flooded Arkansas. A man saw it and IJ I (T.1 I j '

oiu a-uoiutr. lue seconu man in relating the story attached a horse to the collar. The third man gave oa account which had the horse harness ed up and the fourth narrator had the collar, horse and harness hitched to a wagon. Great Bend Tribune. Speaking of taking of long chances, a New Jersey couple have named their new baby after the editor of this column.

Two Minutes cf Optimism By HERMAN J. STICH

IT MIGHT JUST AS WEUL BE YOU "The ocean's old, centuries old; and forever 'twill be uncontrolled," sang a poet whose imagination was at low tide! We have not yet completely harnessed the sea; but wave motors and tide motors are in sight. Also, flawless incubators, puncture-proof tires, draft equalizers, lighter and tougher airplane fabrics, aerial life preservers, cheaper compositions for billiard balls, practicable folding umbrellas, egg testers and automatic typewriter erasers that will save time, trouble and profanity. More efficient foods and fuels are potential millionaire makers; condensed, compressed vest-pocket victuals are still virgin prospecting; soil enrichers would unprecedentedly enrich their discoverers; the filthy brown juice that oozes from oil wells is a vast, unknown treasure trove; radium, nitrogen, electricity, steam and wind are sluggard and untapped forces. Edison sponsors the statement that modern machinery is 90 per cent Inefficient. Lathes do not cut clean; typewriters are inconvenient, clumsy mechanisms; a machine for musical composers and another that would transcribe from dictated cylinders would prove El Dorados; spark plugs and vacuum cleaners are still in the tender stages of their infancy; locomotives smoke; fool-proof, automatic elevators would automatically create a Croesus. All industry is agape with holes waiting filling. - Chalk is constantly breaking; car couplers snap; railway ties wear out too quickly; nuts slip from bolts; aluminum can't be economically soldered; tips annoyingly work loose from laces; guns erode; substitutes are badly needed for high-priced paper and rubber; reliable shock absorbers would sell like hot cakes; trouser shapers have thus far failed to turn the trick; keyless locks would preserve the sanctity of the Lord's name and be opensesame to Midas' wealth. Today we are looking for a better, more efficient way of doing what we did yesterday. Good workmen continually quarrel with their tools. Precedent temporarily ties their hands, shackles their ingenuity, fetters their efficiency; but it cannot confine their imagination; it cannot constrain their vision; it never warps their resourcefulness. Precedent is time's refuse. It is the gauge of an age that could not utilize our opportunities; that did not dream of our advantages; that never conceived our daily commonplaces. Progress is simply the product of men who looked a little deeper, worked a lot harder4, endured a little more than the average man. Genius? Hardly! Observation? Thought? Grit? RIGHT! It might just as well be you!

TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of "You Can", "Take If, "Up" I, i i i i GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN Today I read 'for the first time the story of "Sam", by Elbert Hubbard. I wish that I might tell it all as he told it in bis inimitable way. Briefly it was like this : Sam was the Chinese servant of a rich San Francisco lawyer. This servant was cook, valet, watchman, friend. No detail of service was too great or too small for him to anticipate. Between the two there was a perfect understanding. Each sought to show the other his gratitude. But one morning, as the coffee was being poured for the master, Sam quietly without a shade of emotion on his yellow face exclaimed: "Next week I leave you!" The lawyer merely smiled, offered more money and shamed his excuses. But Sam added again: "Next week I leave you. I hire for you better man." Convinced by the earnestness and determination of the servant, however, the lawyer asked for his reasons for leaving. "I will not tell you why I leave you laugh,'. said Sam. "No, I shall not laugh." "You will." "I say, I will not." "Very well, I go to China to die!" "Nonsense! You can die here. Haven't I agreed to send your body back if you die before I do?" "I die in four weeks, two days ! " t "What!" . "My brother, he in prison. He young, twenty-six, I fifty. He have wife and baby. In China they accept any man same family to die. I go to China, give my money to my brother he live, I die!" The next morning a new Chinaman came to be servant to the lawyer. In a week be also knew everything, and nothing, just as Sam had done. But as the master at times called for "Sam", when he should have said "Charlie", there came "a kind of clutch at his heart" but he said nothing.

Answers to Questions

Who's Who in the Day's News

Rippling Rhymes By WAUT MASON

THE STRAIGHT PATH. It doesn't pay to rob the mails, diough profits be enormous; at last the robbers lie In jails, the records all inform us. And if in prison they don't rot, through warrants and subphoenas, they're hunted down at last and shot like warthogs or hyenas. The bandits flouuifh for a time, when favored by conditions, and striplings read the tale of crime, and have some wild ambitions. Why hew the log or till the soil, or stick to labor cheesy, why buckle down to honest toil, when robbing is so easy? In fiction and in movie shows the thieves appear before us, romantic figures, who are foes to all the' laws that bore us. We see them there as Robin Hoods ,in colors most alluring, fine heroes d-iven to the woods by wrongs beyond enduring. The stripling sees the lurid screen, or reads the lurid story, and sighs, "I'll get a gun, I ween, and harvest coin and glory." And it is well if some one's there to tell him where he's headed, that crime can only bring despair, and sorrow double leaded. In films the bandits wear

glad smiles, as though by life enchanted; but they're shot down like choco-

dilcs, and jailed and hanged and planted. Not two in ninety-nine escape the

prison or the cleaver, and when they

croak there is no crepe on any mourn er's beaver.

Summer CoId3 Cause Headaches

GROVE'S Laxative BROMO QUININE

Tablets relieve the Headache bv cur

ing the Cold. The genuine bears the signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure

you get tiftu.uu.j sue. Advertisement '

MARTIN B. MADDEN. Should Martin B. Madden, Repub

lican congressman from Chicago, be selected as chairman to head the allimportant house committee on appropriations, the life's ambition of that

man wouia ue

realized

Mr. Madden has

been a hard worker

on the committee for many years. If the seniority rule is followed Congressman Davis, of Minnesota, will get the post. But considerable opposition to Davis has developed, and Madden, who has been in congress since 1905, bids fair to be the beneficiary of much of that oppo

sition. Martin Barnaby Madden was born In Darlington, England, on March 20, 1855. He received a rather scant education in the public schools and night schools, and began work at the age of ten in the stone business. He

came to the United States while very

young, settling in Chicago. Madden actively took ud politics In

1889, when he became a member of

tne Chicago city council, a Dosition

he held for eight years. He was a

delegate to the Republican national

conventions of 1S96 and 1900. He has represented the first Illinois district in congress since 1905.

M.B.MADDEM

are just a little bit thicker, and in stead of being brass they are steel." The Scotch grocer was talking to a friend when a customer entered to Fettle his account. He handed the grocer a packet of $5 bills and the latter laid them flat on the counter and proceeded to count them as a bank teller does. When the customer had gone the friend remarked, "I noticed you did not flick up the last ?5 bill." "No, was the canny reply. "I dinna dae more than look at the last one. That's guid enough for me without touching it ye see there might be anither underneath it."

Correct English

Don't Say: Has EITHER of you three gentlemen a knife? I have two dictionaries, ANY ONE of which you may use. EACH of the soldiers were given guns. He paid $1 a piece to ALL of ns. HAS EVERYBODY finished their work? ' Say: Has ANY ONE of you three gentlemen a knife? I have two dictionaries, EITHER ONE of which you may use. ALL the soldiers were given guns. He paid $1 apiece to EACH of us. HAVE ALL finished their work?

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"I am sorry to see you. here," said the friend of a convicted bank embezzler. "Oh, there isn't much change, after all," said the prisoner cheerfully. "No?" "You see. I had been shut up in a cage and looking through bars for years before I came here. These bars

SHIFTING WIND SAVES TOWN ADRIAN, Mich, July 21. A sudden change in the wind Wednesday after

noon saved the village of Palmyra,

near here, from destruction by fire,

after a store, two dwellings and the Toledo & Western railway passenger

station had been burned. Loss is estimated at $10,000.

TEXOR SOLOIST RECOMMENDS FOLEY'S John F. "West, 272 Morris Ave., Trenton, N. J., well known tenor soloist writes: "I had a very severe cough and tickling: in my throat. Could not sleep at ni?ht. I tried Foley's Honey and Tar and was relieved at once. Also tickling in my throat has pone. 1 can highly recommend Foley's Honey and Tar." There's no better remedy for couerhs, colds, croups, hay fever and asthma. It is safe, wholesome, and quickly bring-s good results. A. G. Luken & Co., 626-628 Maln.--Ad-vertisement.

READER Who invented the hydroplane and when was it first used? The idea of the hydroplane was first suggested in patent specifications by Hugo Matullath, of New York, in 1899, but it had its practical origin with Glenn Curtiss, who added floats to the airplane with which he was experimenting over Lake Keukak in 1908. These were placed under each wing, so that in case of accident the machine would not sink. Langein, and others, had made experimental flights over

bodies of water for the same reasons.

Probably the first to make the floats a part of the machine was Fabre, who on March 28, 1910, made the first flight with a practical hydroplane at Martignes, on the Seine. Curtiss soon abandoned floats and built boat bodies, and for this accomplishment received the Aero Club trophy of America in 1911. OLD SUBSCRIBER? Can you tell

me when Blondin crossed the Niagara!

river? Blondin crossed the Naagara river, below the falls, on a tight rope on June 3, 1859. Readers may obtain answer to qaes tlons by writing The Palladium Questions and Answers department. All questions should be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be jdven briefly.

FIRE CAUSES $2,500 LOSS. PETERSBURG, Ind., July 21. Fire that started in the Red Men's ball here Wednesday, spread to the Whitman company's dry goods store and caused damage estimated at $2,500. The Red Men's loss was $300, fully covered by insurance. Elsa Brumfield of Terre Haute .owner of the building, suffered $500 loss.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

The reunion of former students and teachers of the Eear Creek school near Hagerstown was held on the school's grounds. There were many from this city who attended and the attendance was in the neighborhood of 500. The veent was featured by the laying of the corner stone for the new school building which was under

construction.

TELEGRAPHER DROWNS IN RIVER AT NEW ALBANY NEW ALBANY. Ind., July 21. Wes-

ley Weaver, 18 years old, a Western Union telegraph operator, drowned

when bathing in the Ohio river here

Wednesday. He came from Brazil,

Ind., where his father, Charles M.

Weaver, is chief of the fire department. The body had not been recovered late last night

CORNS Lift Off with Fingers

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Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift It right off with fingers. Truly!

Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few centsv sufficient to remove every hard corn) soft com, or corn between the toes, and the callouses, without soreness or irritar

tion. Advertisement ' x

SQUEEZED TO DEATH When the body begins to stiffen and movement becomes painful it is usually an indication that the kidneys are out of order. Keep these organs healthy by taking COLD MEDAL

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LUGGAGE OF QUALITY At Prices that are Right

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NEW PRICES on Nash Fours and Sixes WAYNE COUNTY NASH MOTOR COMPANY 19-21 S. 7th ' Phone 6173

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SAFETY FOR SAVINGS

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Pleating Hemstitching Embroidery LACEFS 8 S. 9 St. Phone 175S Over 1st Nat'l Bank

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GOODRICH Quality TIRES Rodefeld Garage West End Main St Bridge Phone 3077

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