Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 241, 10 October 1922 — Page 6

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Published Every Evening Except Sunday by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building:. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, aa Second-Class Mall Matter. MEMnEH OF" THE! ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the us for republication of all news dispatches cred'ted to ft or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Day Nursery Activity The appeal of the Day Nursery for waste material, which is being made now, preparatory to its collection Oct. 19 to 21, calls attention to the beneficent work which this institution performs in Richmond. Besides the purely routine attention it gives to children who are left in its care while their mothers work, the nursery teaches the little boys and girls many matters of sanitation, hygiene and right living, which they cannot obtain in their own homes. We are prone to overlook the constructive social service in judging the efforts of the institution to provide a shelter for boys and girls while their mothers are earning money for their support. This training is a social factor which will show itself in the home life of the boys and girls in later life. - The Day Nursery organization is not coming before the public .with a request for money. It is limiting its appeal to the simple request that housekeepers save old magazines, papers, shoes and rubbers, which will be collected by the association during the three days of the campaign. From the sale of this material, the association derives money to help defray the expenses of the institution. The request of the association is such a modest one that general participation should follow without any urging. It will take only a few minutes of time to set aside waste material for this purpose, but the results of this action will be seen in the happy faces of the children in the nursery, and in the gratitude of the mothers who are .forced to make their own living or to help support the dependents in the family. : The co-operation of all of us will promote a successful waste material campaign. Here is an opportunity to do good that one should not overlook or consider too trivial to bother about. Th:3

Answers to Questions fAny reader can pet the answer to anv question by writing The Palladium Information Bureau. Frederick J. Hask-. In, director, Washington. D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau does not give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents' in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer. Q. Is the boll weevil aa great a menace as the ravages of the insects which afflicted the Egyptians in the olden days? D. S. A. Government authorities are convinced that the boll weevil is a pest or as great magnuuue as any wmcn afflicted the Egyptians. Some authorities claim that it has disturbed our economic situation more than any single factor in our history. Q. Which state leads in the number of camp sites for automobiles touring (he country? W. P. L. A. California has more camp sites for tourists than any other state. Q. Is it proper to say "I reckon I will be there on Thursday"? A. H. D. A. The verb reckon should not be used. It means to estimate or count up. Q. Is Castile soap known by any other name? T. M. B. A. It is also known as olive oil soap, Marseilles soap, Spanish soap and Venetian soap. The name Castile records its Spanish origin, but Marseilles, France, is the chief modern place of its manufacture in fact in Europe it is generally known as Marseilles soap. If genuine and of the first quality it is made entirely of olive oil. The bulk of Castile soap of modern manufacture contains a considerable percentage of peanut, rope seed, and other similar vegetable oils. Q. Where does the expression "a little bird told me" come from? C. P. G. A. This is borrowed from Ecclesiaste3 10:20 wheie it reads "For a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell ihc matter." Q. What proportion of the earth's area was directly involved in the World war? R. D. R, A. Of Europe's approximately 4,000,000 square miles of territory, seveneights was directly involved in the conflict. For Africa the fraction is larger, "2 out of 33 parts having been in belligerency. Asia with her 17,000,000 square miles, shows twenty-four twenty-fifths of ' her territory involved, while Australia was completely in the throes of war. In North America fourfifths of an area of nearly 10,000,000 square miles is occupied by two of the preat countries that were in the struggle. Only about one-half of South America remained nominally neutral. Therefore of the 52,000,000 square miles of the globe's area, exclusive of Antarctica. ' more than 45,000,000 square miles belong to the belligerent nations, and the remaining few million were more or less affected. Lessons in Correct English Don't Say: Did you buy this hat for YOU? He boucht this shirt for HIM. He invited you and I to accompany him. He invited you and HE to accompany him. He invited you and SHE to accompany him. Say: Did you ' buy this hat for YOURSELF? He bought this shirt for HIMSELF. He invited you and ME to accom pany him. He invited you and HIM to accompany him. He invited you and HER to accompany him. The assessed value of real estate in ,T hiladelnhia. Pa., subject to taxation .i.., . . ft -in i- ei 4-o ruin .. . .

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greater the participation of all of us, the greater the returns for the support of the nursery and the happiness which it brings to mothers and children alike. And not the least to be benefited by the exercise of the philanthropic sentiments will be the persons who, out of a full heart and with gladness, contribute the material. A little gift that brings happiness to others increases our own well being and happiness.

Better Homes in America Citizens have been asked to ponder this week the advantages of better homes in America, from both the material and spiritual standpoint. Men who are conversant with the architectural phase believe that we do not let the designers create beautiful and lasting homes for us, but are satisfied with conventional plans calling for a structure that presently loses charm and permanence. The same observation holds true, they say, of the interior decorations and furnishings. The campaign to which the press ' is calling attention all over the United States would enlist the public into developing better art appreciation n the architecture and furnishings of the home, so that the building really will be a place where the charm of domestic life is enhanced by material surroundings. The home is the center of our civilization. It is the pivot of the family life. From it emanates a sentiment which endures throughout life, that calls back the wayward and beckons with irresistible power the roamer. Sentiment about the old home place may seem hackneyed and commonplace to some, but in reality it is the very heart of our nation. If the home ceases to exercise its power of direction, uplift, encouragement and betterment, the nation begins to retrograde and crumble. Anything that helps to make the home a better and more congenial rallying place for the whole family is to be welcomed. Some critics feel that the home is gradually disappearing and that too many of us are looking at it as only a place to eat our meals and to sleep. If this is so, we should bend our efforts to restore it to its former place. If the campaign this week increases our spir itual appreciation of the home and teaches us that a pleasant environment, made possible by utility and beauty in construction and furnishings, increases our love for the home, the movement will have served a good purpose.

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TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew Adams, Author of "You Can," "Take It," "Up" NEVER BE AFRAID - I have often wondered why fear was ever put into the world. How it chills one to see another who is frightened and how it must chill others to see us frightened. I have noticed that the nobler a character is, the less afraid it is, and the rarer it is for such a one to be frightened. The surer a man is of his ground, the more confidence there is in everything he thinks, says and does. And the higher in spiritual intelligence a man becomes, the calmer and more courageous he presents himself before every emergency calling for control. After a noted address by the great Henry Ward Beecher, a man came to his hotel and asked to see him. Walking up to Beecher, the man commanded him to retract what he had said during the evening. "Take it back," said the man, pointing a gun in Beecher's face, "or I will shoot you." . , , "Shoot ahead!" were the only words the great preacher uttered. It is not recorded that Beecher was shot. Fear is distinctly an inherited lower trait. Animals are all fearful. Jesus was always telling His disciples not to be afraid. "Fear not," He would say, "for I am with you." How much it means to have those about us who can come to us and tell us not to fear, when we become frightened along life's way! How beautiful the trust of a little child as it takes its mother's or father's hand and blindly trusts that it will be led aright. Today I saw a mother cross a crowded street with four small children. Two of them had her hands and the other two held the hands of the two that held hers. A regular chain of trust, I thought as I watched. And when we are extremely lonely in spirit, how fine it is to feel that someone's invisible hand holds ours and sends a message through telling us not to be afraid. The more you believe in an intelligence higher than your own, the less will you be afraid.

Rippling Rhymes By Walt Mason . - RIGHT AND WRONG Last week some fiend in human fonn worked off on me a phony buck, and wrath rose in me like a storm, I strongly yearned to run amuck. "Ah, well," I sighed, when cooling down, "all is not lost, there's hope ahead; there's some poor fish in this man'a town who'll fall for this bum coin of lead. The grocer's eyes are weak and dirn, he'd never wise up to my game; I'll Mhove this bogus plunk on him he'll never know from whom it came." First impulse always sways me thus, for self defense is in me born; I mus: get even with the cuss who steps upon my choicest corn. But second impulse comes and swings my mind around when I get cool; it is the outcome of the things I learned at home and Sunday school. "Some guy has wrought me ill," I think, "but that's no reason, sound or true, why I should seek some other gink, and play a scurvy trick or two. The grocer is aa honest wight, and it would be a rotten deal to take advantage of his sight, and sting him with this pewter wheel. I'll meet him oft in future days, and if I pulled so coarse a stunt I'd always dread to meet his gaze, I'd surely show a guilty front. So I will throw his buck away. I'll drop it down in yonder well, where it can tempt no other jay to hit the path that leads to Hannibai. Mo." After Dinner Stories A young man and his grandfather were riding the St. Lawrence in a highpowered motor boat. The grandfather, a self-opinioned old man who had made good in the business world and was now enjoying life leisurely was driving the boat at a pretty good clip. "Grandfather," spoke up th3 young man rather anxiously, "there are a lot of shoals in this river." "I know every shoal in the St. Lawrence, my son." No sooner had the old man said this that the craft hit a rocky bottom and reared to the right. "There's one of 'em, now," he said, never lessening the speed of the boaf Judge. Mike was building a stone wall on a very swampy piece of land. . His

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After Dinner Tricks fICr.1 No. 313 A Bulb Full or Water The performer takes an ordinary electric light bulb and asks that it be examined to prove that the top is not detachable from the glass. He allows a label or any other mark of identification to be stuck on the bulb, and then steps from the room for a few moments. When he returns, the bulb is entirely filled with water (Fig. 1). There is virtually no air inside an electric light bulb, so that all the performer has to do is to dip the pointed end of the bulb into a pitcher or basin of water. With a knife he knocks off the little point at the end of the bulb (Fig. 2) and the water rushes in. A tiny dab of gum or wax will close the hole where the water entered and the bulb is ready to show. Copvrioht. 19!. by Public Ledger Company friend, passing by, realizing that a grievous mistake was beine mario hail ed Mike and asked why he built a stone wan on sucn a very unreliable piece of soil. "No sooner will vnn liavo n built," said he, "than it will topple over." "Shure," said Mike, "all thim things have been thought of. If you notice, I am building the wall three feet high and five feet wide so that when it topples over it will be better than before." Los Angelea Times. l.IXGERIG COIGH RELIEVED "Had a bad cough for -three years" writes H. E. Campbell. Adrian, Michigan. "Found no relief until I tried Foley's Honey and Tar." Lingering coughs, severe colds, croup; throat, chest and bronchial trouble quickly relieved with Foley's Honey and Tar. No need to suffer and take chances with neglected coughs and colds. Free from opiates ingredients printed on the wrapper, largest selling cough medi ci ine in -the world. A. G. Luken Drug ;o., 626-628 Main t Advertisement, C

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ARCHITECTS say that it is easier to . design a large house than a small one, but in the case of this little dwelling the architect has succeeded in producing an extremely attractive effect with restricted masses and simple lines. The fine chimney, the roof, the gabled porch, the proportion of height to length and breadth, and the fenestration combine into a very pleasing whole. To begin with the house is to be built of materials that offer maximum resistance to fire and are known for their durable and substantial characteristics. Although face brick were in mind when the plans were drawn, concrete block or hollow tile and stucco could be used with pleasing effect. The large square porch forms a complete protection for the entrance, which opens directly into the ample living room where a convenient coat closet accommodates wraps, umbrellas and the like. A cheerful fireplace gives the room a very homey feeling in addition to providing warmth on cold days. A closet for a disappearing bed practically makes the i . living room into another bedroom should I occasion arise. A short hall leads from the living room to the dining room and ! kitchen and connects the bedroom with the bath. The rear porch is glazed,

Fireproofing Frame Buildings New Method Minimizes Hazard of Fire Without Greatly Increasing Building Cost.

By FREDERICK J. HASKIX WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 10 A new type of frame building construction which, without the use of any of the so-called fire-proofing materials at all, will cut in two the fire hazard to w-hich wood dwelling houses are exposed, has been evolved by engineers employed by the lumber industry of America. The announcement comes from the National Lumber Manufacturers association, of Washington, a scientific bureau devoted to the solution of problems affecting the industry which maintains it. Not only will the new frame construction greatly add to the safety, financial and physical, of the futurehome builders who adopt it, it is claimed, but the discovery will have a profound effect upon city building regulations. With some further refinements not deemed necessary in dwelling houses, the new construction has been adapted to factory and business buildings. These plans have been approved by the fire insurance underwriters, and as a result some of the largest cities in the country. New York among them, are considering readmitting frame construction into fire districts for years barred to wooden buildings of any sort. The evolution of fire-resistive frame Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today Jeff Tesreaux pitched for the Giants when they lost to the Boston Red Sox in the. first, game of. the world series. Boston won the game, 4 to 3. New York jumped to an early kad, but Boston came up and out in front by means of a three game rally in the seventh inning. Twenty-five thousand persons saw the game, which was played a: th-e Polo grounds. New York. Mi usmgs ror ine livening Premier Triantafillakos of Greece has quit, which will not enrage the proofreaders a bit. A Kansas wife shot her husband by mistake for a mule, a mistake which is liable to happen in a, good many families. Detroit is planning to have a world's fair. There will probably be a checkroom for flivvers. . AN OCCUPATION GONE ' The anthracite coal strike is over. We're not going to freeze, after all. The railroads are getting in order To handle the traffic this fall. We're not going to go bolshevistic. The "civil war's" not coming yet. The foreign trade seems to be booming. And Europe is far in our debt. The people are sane and are happy Except here and there one or two. The knockers have no occupation. Say, what are they going to do? London women are wearing flowers instead of jewels. Are they in earnest orchid-ing themselves? Results, Yes after suffering for over two years with stomach and bowel trouble that caused him to loose weight and strength and caused great nervousness, Mr. W. J. Penquite, 121 Chestnut street, Richmond, says that he has at last found a medicine. Redwood's , Tepee Herb tonic, that is reaching his case and giving him relief, and that he feels much better than for many months and can't praise Tepee Tonic enough for what it has done for him and that it will be only a short time until he is as good as he ever was. Tepee Tonic sells at $1 a bottle at Quigley's drug stores. Redwood gives his free health talks and free show every night at 7:30, South G and 5th St tome and bring the family, a valuable prize given away every night. Advertisement.

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screened and heated and has a concrete foundation wall around it so that it may be used for more than a back porch. It could easily be transformed into a yearround dining porch. In the basement are the laundry and heater as well as coal, vegetable and storage rooms. This part of the house is well ventilated and lighted by carefully placed windows, wltile its concrete construction insures dryness, comfort and protection against rats and mice. Indestructible steel windows for basement use are now available. They come directly from the factory with hinges and locks riveted on. They will not warp, stick or rot, and furnish fifty per cent more light than the older types. It is for modest homes of this type that architects are laying greater stress than ever on the need for permanent plaster bases to forestall the formation of disfiguring plaster cracks. Strips of metal lath, 12 inches wide, bent into the corners of the walls and ceilings are found to be an inexpensive, but effective means of preventing corner cracks, which are those most likely to form. This type of house lends itself to a charming landscape treatment which by no means requires large spaces. It is a matter of lawn, shrubbery, flowers and construction was incidental to a campaign inaugurated some years ago by the lumber industry to remove from wood the single disadvantage under which it competed for business in the building-materials market. For many years ever since the invention of fireproof building construction in Tact lumber has been subjected to the attacks of the makers of fire-proof materials. Nobody could gainsay the cheapness of wood, nor its beauty and comfort, nor even its durability, since many of the old colonial mansions still in existence are made of wood. But there has been no gettinng around the fact that wood -will burn. If you built of wood and three-foilrths of all home builders do use wood you simply risked losing your building by fire. Many an owner of a beautiful and commodious frame house hasvwished regretfully that he could have afforded to build his home of fire-proof materials. In ascribing an undue fire hazard to frame construction, the producers of fire-proofing invented no new argu ment. They merely used what for years has been common belief namely, that there is a direct relation between the extensive use of frame construction in the United States and the enormous annual fire losses to which this country is subjected. Three cf every four buildings in American cities are made of wood throughout. The United States has the greatest annual fire loss of any country in the world. To assume that one of these facts results from the other seems to be only putting two and two together. Science and Fire Hazards. But, -like some- other American industries producing standard commodities which suffer from adverse popular opinion, the hewers and sellers of wood have been turning the cool searchlight of science upon the alleged fire hazard resting upon frame, construction. In this column not lone ago it was shown how successfully the scientist has refuted the opinion that it is dangerous to eat canned food. Now another group of scientists has demonstrated beyond argument the surprising fact'-that frame buildings even as they are constructed today, are not nearly go subject to fire as buildings of other sorts, including the steel-frame buildings which are known as fire-proof. To make this demonstration, the scientists of the technical and research department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' association took the 1921 figures on fires in 83 of the largest American cities as compiled by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. These figures, to be sure, show that over half the fires in those cities that year occurred in frame buildings, but the figure loses its apparent significance when it is set down beside the fact that three-fourths of all the build DYE OLD DRESS COAT, SKIRT WITH "DIAMOND DYES Each package of "Diamond Dyes" contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint her old, worn, faded things news. Even if she has never dyed before, she can put a new, rich color into shabby skirts, dresses, waists, coats, stockings, sweaters, coverings, draperies, hangings, everything. Just tell your druggist whether the material you wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton or mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, fade or run. Advertisement

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vines, so disposed as to serve as embellishment for the general mass of the house. Brick or concrete walks would add to the general appearance of the grounds. ings in the 83 cities are of frame construction. To everv thousand frame buildings there was a fraction in ex cess or lb fires, but the fires in brick and stone buildings ran over 24 to the thousand and in all sorts of buildings other than frame, 25 to the thousand. These figures bring out a point which observant fire chiefs have been emphasizing for a long time the hazard from fire results not so much from the materials of which a building is constructed as from what goes on inside the building. A building may be made entirely of steel and brick, but if it houses an automobile garage or a paint shop or a paper-box factory or any other fire-hazardous industry, a fire may break out and destroy the building totally. Fires Result From Carelessness. The lesson in this for the average householder is that he himself and his: family constitute a large part of the fire hazard in his home. Nearly half the fires in dwelling houses result from carelessness. Faulty construction accounts for nearly all the rest of them. Fires communicated to dwelling houses from outside sources are so few in number as to be negligible. Even the shingle roof, that favorite scapegoat, is exonerated. The investigation is showing that when the cause of a dwelling-house fire is given as "sparke on roof," the truth usually is that a defective chimney was the incendiary. Poor, mortar, and an insufficient quantity of that, was probably used in the first place. The flues in the chimney were unlined with tile. In time a brick drops out of the chimney, and the adjacent shingles catch fire at the first opportunity. The new building 'plans developed by the National Lumber Manufacturers' association are designed to cut Time to Face the Facts "So much has been said against the use of patent medicines that I have had a strong prejudice against them. But after four years doctoring with six different doctors, without results, for acute indigestion, gastritis, constipation, appendicitis and other ailments, I was said to possess, I was encouraged to try Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, seeing what it had done for a friend similarly afflicted. I also was entirely relieved of my trouble, and am sure this medicine will do all and more than is claimed for it." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince ot money refunded. Clem Thistlethwaite Drug Stores. A. G. Luken Drug Co. and druggists everywhere. Advertisement. RICHMOND GRINDING CO. Cylinders Reground. Pistons, Pins and Rings Fit. Guaranteed Quality and Service Henley BIdg. N.16th & R.R. Ph. 3452 Weekly Payment Terms At Cash Store Prices This friendly Family Clothing Store solves your clothes problem for it offers you ace-high styles, ace-high quality, new low level prices and a generous CREDIT arrangement that is abeolutely without equal. HIRSCH'S ' 718 Main St. Victor Adding Machines $100 ' BARTEL & ROHE I 921 Main St. niniunttniiitnnmi(nimitmttminrtimmmifiiunii Yon can start nrv. Ings account with ' fIIICIIL 91 more and sam t.-. . .

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- -- " , VUUVCUUlg IUOI LUC Clinanta rnnfinim thulr arol(stneslM The principal features of the new type 01 construction are designed 10 mato wooden buildings slow-burning. A slow-burning building is about all the' householder can hope for, even If he builds of fire-proof materials. The fact is that no buildings, except perhaps steel and stone jails and maybe the pyramids Of Ohenns. ro ahKnlntelv fire proof. The Loop fire in Chicago last year ate up a 16- - story steel building, and there have been other instances of supposedly absolutely fire-proof buildings being totally destroyed by fire, . From the standpoint of fire , the chief defect in frame construction of the past has been that it left between walls and between the ceiling of one room and the floor of the room above drafty open spaces which serve as flues when the house catches on fire. A fire originating in the lower part of the house can roar through these spaces, If it gains headway before discovery, and often by the time the firemen-arrive the building is ablaze in a dozen places from cellar to roof. The new construction stops thesa impromptu flues by the simple ani cheap expedient of blocking them at intervals with wooden barriers. Thil cuts off drafts and thus prevents rapid spreading, forcing the fire to consume its own way as it goes. Such a fire could remain undiscovered a considerabel time and still be localized to one part of the house. But the model fire-resistive plans do much more than this. They provide for solidly framed room corners, flue linings for chimneys, all wood kept 2 inches away from fireplaces, no wood; within two inches of chimneys (the spaces being filled with loose incomj bustible materials), top of the furnace 15 inches away from the cellar ceiling and the ceiling itself protecteL from the heat below, heat pipes kepiR an inch away from the woodwork and sheathed with incombustible material where they pass through floors, and numerous other precautions. . These specifications have been brought to the attention of architect 3 and builders generally by trade anl technical publications, and any prospective house builder can now have use of them. By adopting this type of construction, and with attention to the safety of the electric wiring, any home-builder can take advantage ot the cheapness of lumber and still get a house that in fire resistance will compare favorably with slow burning dwellings of twice the cost. Mrs.O.J.McMMon For the Mother Bloomineton. Ind. "I have neA rr Pierce's Favorite Prescription during expectancy and found it to be a bis help to a woman at that time. I have had practically no suffering and my names nave always been strong andhealthy. I have recommended Pierce's medicine to manv other n-n. men and it has helped them all." Mrs. u. J. .AlcMUlon, 340 So. Lincoln St. Why not obtain this famous Prescription now at vour nearpst rtrnrstore in tablets or liquid, or write Dr. Pierce, President Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical advice. -Advertisement. HARTMAN WARDROBE TRUNKS 827 Main SU BUTTER MAID CAKES Are Most Delightful To Serve and Most Pleasing in Taste Your Grocer Has Them ZWISSLER'S 28 S. 5th St. Quality and Service Still in the swim! Yes, still in the swim! We offer you good Lumber, Cedar and Composition Shingles, Wallboard and NeverLeak Cement at reasonable prices. COAL that Burns Well and Give Satisfaction Phophecy: Coldest winter of the 20th century. BELL in Beallviewn

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