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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM . AND SUN-TELEGRAM

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, DEC 9, 1922.

Published Every Evening Except Sunday by Palladium-Printing Company. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets, entered at the Post Office at Richmmd, Indiana, as Second-Class Mail Matter'

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively ecatltled to the use lor republication of all news dispatches hredited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, an a also the local .T8 Published herein. All rights of republication of spe'clal dispatches herein are also reserved.

Christmas Clearing Committee The appeal of the Christmas charing committee for funds to distribute cheer and happiness to the needy families merits a prompt and generous response from all of us. Some of us delude ourselves into believing that we have given in abundance for enterprises that make for the comfort and happiness of

mankind. But how meager, comparatively

speaking our donations, when they are. placed at the side of the money we spend for our own pleasure and amusement! Our gifts of love and

benevolence are pretty small when they are con

trasted with this item of expense. We are all acquainted with the sentiment that suggests that we do good while we have opportunity to do so, but some of us cannot

translate that sentiment into direct action which freaks loudly through deeds. The Christmas clearing committee is organized for the purpose of seeing that every family needing aid, will receive it on Christmas in the form of a tangible gift from a generous community. These gifts will not be of a transitory kind V If a family is in need of coal, the (Jhristrnas gift will be fuel. If warm clothing is lacking, garments will be provided. If substantial foodstuffs are a pressing want, groceries will be sent. It is apparent at a glance that the committee will be guided by the actual want3, and will supply Christmas cheer along practical lines without overlooking entirely some of the gifts that make the holiday cheerful. Such a distribution of Christmas cheer is based on most approved methods of giving sub

stantial aid, and will be applied to suit the in

dividual needs. This project invites all of us to participate. The incomes of most of us have been increased to a marked degree in recent years, but it seems that, many of us still measure our gifts of love by standards that prevailed a number of years ago. The increase, in our donations has not been in proportion to the increase in our incomes, in many cases. ' The saope of the distribution will be in direct ratio to the volume of our contributions.

Biggest Law Office vin World 500 lawyers needed to handle questions in legal division of veterans bureau

Br FREDERICK J. HASKIX WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 9. "What ia probably the largest law office In the world a survival of the war is located in this city. Practically all of the "biggest things" in Washington belong to Uncle Sam, and the record breaking law practice is no exception. The 500 lawyers of whom we write work for the government in the legal division of the Veterans Bureau. They handle questions of real estate, domestic relations, criminal law, contracts; in tact, all varieties of legal problems that arise in the course of administering the insurance compensation, and rehabilitation affairs of 600,000 war veterans. That 500 lawyers are needed Is enough to show the immensity of the task, and it is not likely that the legal force will be cut down to any extent for the next four or five years. There are still a great many insurance cases that requires legal decisions. There are cases in which a soldier dies and two or more people claim to be the rightful beneficiary of his 4nsurance . In thousands of cases soldiers have made their ..insurance payable to their estates, and in thousands of others the beneficiary named has died. As the men involved in the cases have scattered to all parts of the country, and even to Europe, Asia, and the South Sea Islands, the bureau lawyers have to ascertain and apply the laws of every Jurisdiction in the world. One of the most unusual features of the law work of the bureau relates to contracts for training of veterans. The average student who is placed in a school pays as he goes. The Veterans' Bureau has 96,000 men in vocational training with 5000 institutions and instructors, and the only way to keep track of the different arrangements agreed to by so many schools and individuals is to draw up legal

contracts. 1 The real estate and contract section, which now has probably the most work of any section in the legal division, also handles all the contracts for hospitals being built under the two Langley bills. The first of these bills calls for an expenditure of $18,600,000 and the second $17,000,000, all for hospitals. Law Violators Are Prosecuted. Another section prepares for prosecution cases where the law is violated. An official of the bureau says that considfring the Immense number

of cases the bureau has to handle there are not so many cases of fraud and false claims as might be supposed. He says that of the cases actually prosecuted by the department of justice, however, the proportion of acquittals is almost negligible, indicating that the courts are not inclined to be lenient with persons who defraud the ex-service man and the government. Special attention has been given by this section to cases involving excessive fees of attorneys." The original war risk insurance act allowed claim agents and attorneys to charge not more than 10 per cent of the sum awarded a client. Unscrupulous claim agents saw in this provision a great opportunity for business and they pestered every person having a semblance of a claim against the War Risk 'Bureau. The condition became so objectionable that congress amend ed the act in 191S making it unlawful to charpe more than three dollars for rssistance rendered as agent or at

torney in any one case and imposing

a "penalty cf fine -and imprisonment at hard labor for violation of this pro

vision. Even this did not put a stop

to extortionate fees.

An official says: "Flagrant violations still occur. In a . recent out

standing case a fee of $5,000 was

charged for obtaining $10,000 war risk insurance where the only thing . done or necessary to be done for the claimant was to write a few letters to the Bureau in reference to the

claim." At one time the work of this government law office was even heavier than it is now. The exemption section was ,four years ago the biggest court of- domestic relations in the world. This was when the allotment and allowance business was at its height. Enlisted men misunderstood the law and failed to arrange for allowances for their families. Other enlisted men with families " were claiming exemption from making compulsory allotment:Jndw

asking that the government make their soldier husbands contribute to their suppdrt. The questions that the government lawyers hajd to settle in these mixups ran the gamut of domestic experience. One case would center on the possibilities of a soldier being a bigamist, another on insanity of a wife, and others on alimony and funeral expenses. More than 100,000 of these cases have been investigated and settle. This domestic relations court existed on a lasge scale less than a year. In the sprinr of 1918 its work began to grow ana by fall 400 employees were struggling with an avalanche of cases. After Christmas the worst was over, and now that the allotment and allowance lair is inoperative 26 employees handBs all the hang-over adjustments. While this section Is In main past history, it rera-esents one of the most humanly imfejresting phases of the Veterans' Bureau work. Most of the evidence was obtained by correspondence, and this made the cases more informal than if they . had been brought to a mlemn court room. Bureau officials found that when plaintiffs are not restrained by oath to tell the truth and are not subject to having their testimony shaken by cross examination as in court there is almost no limit to which they will not go in order to prove a case. The case ran. from the pathetic to the humorous. One of the near tragedies was that f a blind soldier married to a wom;m who said that she wanted only to take care of him. Taking advantage of his blindness, ehe had made harself out to be much

younger than shi&was and a woman of wealth. She haul told him j that she was an interior decorator, artist, music teacher, anS wireless operator.

Once married slu took what money the blind soldier had and then filed claim for compr3sory allotment and family allowance. Her pretenses were discovered, and ti e claim was not allowed. At the other end of the emotional scale was the case of a colored soldier who made affidavit that his wife was dead. He cos'tinued to exchange letters with her wlhile he was in service, however, and she regularly sent him generous sami les of her cooking. One day, she learned that she had the right to make her husband support her while he . was in the Army,

and she promptly wrote a letter to the

government filing a claim and sending some of her husband's letters as proof that he was tn service. The letters showed that while the soldier might find it convenient to have his wife officially dead she was certainlyN alive to him. One of his

letters, written in verse, ended with the line, "Just Itindly remember wherever you roam lhat Shakespeare was right, there's no place like home.' The letters were Incriminating evidence against the soldier who would

be a widower. His wife was officially restored to life and granted her allot

ment and allowance. -

After Dinner Tricks 5c lll?r WATER. A SP4 VV INTO ' -- - -,

Na. S57 Tfce Over-FoQ Tumfeier Two tublers and a pitcher of water re set on a tray. The performer asks bow can he place a quantity of water ia glass A and a quantity of water in -rlass B, then poor the content of B into A and yet have less water In A than In the beginning? The question sounds Impossible ; nevertheless the performer proves that he can do it. Fill glass A and set it Km the tray. Poor a little water in glass B. Now there Is a quantity of water in both tumblers. Dash the contents of glaas B violently into glass A (aee figure). The water in glass B wO enter glass A so rapidly that some of the water in the latter will overflow on to the tray, and glass A will be not quite full. Hence it contains lest water than before, although tbe contents of B have been added to ft! CaayrteM. JllJfc tor rhMa l&or Compaxf

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BUILD ME ANEW EACH HOUR, EACH DAY! By George Matthew Attains

Keep building me anew, each hour, each day, each year, God. Fashion my way and will toward better things. Mark plainly the ways of error before me, so that I may not go their routes. Stimulate my mind to see and my heart to feel. . Take the various phases of my nature and spread them clearly before me as though a pictured book, so that I may recognize my weaknesses as well as my gifts of strength. Keep walking around with me, God. Keeptalking to me, so that your Palship may grow in fondness and beauty to me. Cleanse my mind and heart -so that people may see what worth there is in me, as I see the loveliness of formation in the rocks and flowers that play like pals with the crystal streams that ripple among the mountain bases. Build me anew each hour, each day. Tear down that which I have faultily constructed and lead me to new locations there to start all over again. I know that I am made of the elements that minglein the soil of the earth, and that sometime I shall return to the play of their atoms, but I am also convinced that you have breathed into this frame of mine an immortal soul, whose journey has just begun. Keep me simple, God. Attract my mind to simple things those which are easiest understood. And mingle me with the great crowd, so that what little influence I may possess may spread deepest and farthest, helping, uplifting, the largest number. ' " " With the sun of your love, God, kill every germ of conceit and selfinterest within me. Develop these shoulders of mine so that I may be Btrong to give a lift to those less strong or fortunate than L Build me anew each hour, each day!

After Dinner Stories

An old soldier at one of the army

posts was very much impressed by some of the modern procedures in the medical department One day.

gathering about him a bunch of recruits and seating himself on an upturned galvanized iron bucket, he expounder the situation as follows.

Things ia gettin exeat: nowadays

when you take on (enlist), the doctors round you up and scratch your arm no more smallpox; then they shoot some bugs into you no more typhoid fever; then they shoot some more bugs into you no more pneumonia. By-and-by, they'll tattoo a pork chop and a

fried egg on your arm and there you

are rationed for vour hitch." Judge.

It was a very small crib pillow, but it reposed in the place of honor in a case in one cf the great hlstorcal museums. , "I can't see anything remarkable about that pillow," remarked one of a group of visitors. "My dear madam," explained the uide, "it is very valuable. It is Washinlon's original headquarters. Indianapolis Star.

Rippling Rhymes By Walt Maaon

Lessons in Correct English Don't Say What ARE THE news? WHOM did you see there? " If I WAS boss I would fire him. The ORIGINAL way of living had its drawbacks." He was a CREATIVE author. Say What IS THE news? WHO did you see there? If I WERE boss I would fire him. The PRIMITIVE WAY of living had its drawbacks. ' He was an INGENIOUS author.

PETERING OUT

The wan year's waxing older, his feet are tired and sore, and soon he'll go to molder with years that -are no more; he's lame in knee and shoulder, his journey is a bore. , With ecstacy we hailed him, we boosted loud and long; but when Old Time's derailed him we'll say his course was wrong. He brought us much affliction, tried us with gins and snares, and in his jurisdiction were strikes and wobbly scares; each month was full of friction that chafed us unawares. And now we see him shiver, his long beard on his chest; our warwhoops we deliver, and speed the parting guest; each Old Year is a flivver, each New Year i3 the best Ahead we're always looking, tomorrows are in view; beshrewing and gadzooking, ' we say to old things, "Shoo!" The poor Old Year now going has few to sing his praise, we say that he is showing a record of dark days, and dornicks we are throwing, Tjhere once we gave him bays. No doubt the year

that's coming will have his smile on

straight; with dulcimers a-thrumming we'll greet him at the gate, and twelve months hence be humming the old time Kymn of hate.

Musings For llie E

THOIOLED WITH WEAK KIDXEYS -Have been troubled with weak kldny since childhood." writes Mrs. O. Hyde. BemoniA. Mlchlgran. "Now past 40 and have had terrible backache and that tired out feelin. hardly able to l my work. By usln Foley Kidney Pills Bccompanied with Foley Cathartic Tableta I aoon felt like a new person." liackaohe. rheumatic pains, disilness and blurred vision symptomi i ot kidney trouble. FoJey Kidney Vill. rfve Mtilck relief. A. O. t,uken !ru Co.. 61f Main St. Advertisement. -.

or ine livening

The most inefficient man in the world is the man who spends his time

trying to deceive his wife.

Some people drop out of society, but more often society glides out from

under them. HIS ALIAS

Baltazzls, who has Ibeen a cabinet minister under several ' premiers, was Pe Bonair to the Sast. Pittsburg

Gazette-Times ' J. I S. thinks this uaeans that Bal

tazzis went to his deatJi under an as sumed name. One famous rector says In sermon that the dance is the hope of humanity

inasmuch is it requires pnmitve dignity. The dignity of tlue shimmy, we might say, is almost too primitive to ring true.

COLONEL JAMES G. SCRUGHAM Colonel James Graves Scrugham, governor-elect of Nevada, made his debut as a political candidate at the recent election. It was the first time his

name had ever appeared on an election ballot There seems to be a tradition of Nevada that governors shall be elected, or try to be, from the state engineer's of- , fice. Governor Boyle, a mining engineer was bo elected eight years ago and others before

him took tbe samel course. Scrugham wan annolntrwl ntata

fDLQScZuHAM engineer by Gover

nor Boyle just before America's entrance into the war.

Eighteen years ago the governor-

elect went to the University of Nevada as a professor of engineering. He is a native of Lexington, Ky., and took his degree at the University of Ken

tucky. He married a girl from his home town in 1904 and was afterwards connected with various leading engineering concerns In the west. He finally made his home in Reno, Nev

where he still lives.

At the beginning of the war Scrugham resigned as state engineer to enlist and being from Kentucky it is not surprising . that he soon became a colonel. He had charge of production of gun carriages and mountings. After the war he resumed his work as state engineer. He has traveled 11,000 miles nearly all within the state in two years in that office. As soon as he had voted at the recent election he left for Santa Fe, N. M., to attend a meeting of the Colorado commission of which Herbert Hoover is chairman. The purpose of this commission is to build th egreatest power plant in the world at the Boulder canyon, on the Nevada-Arizona border.

Answers to Questions A n v rflr!r fAn eret the answer to

any question by writing The Palladium

iniormation rsureau, r reami n j nonIn, director, Washington. D. C. This offer applies strictlv to information. The bureau dces not frlve advice on legal, medical a.nd financial matters. It does

not attempt to settle aomestio trouDies. nor to undertake exhaustive research on anv subject Write Tour 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. What were the lines that Mark Twain wrote when Mrs. Clemens died? M. T. Answer Warm summer Bun shine kindly here, Warm summer wind blow gently here, Green sod above lie light! lie light!

Good night, dear heart, good nignt, good night. Q. Is milk a food or drink? H R. S. A. Dr. Roseneau says that milk in not a beverage and should not be used to quench thirst. It is a feed and should be taken slowly. Q. How much was the shilling worth in Bible times? R. Q. A. Mark 6:37 speaks of 200 shillings worth of bread. The word in Greek denotes a coin worth nearly 17 cents. Q. Does the Niagara river flow through a valley? O. T. B. A. It has practically no valley, its channel being cut deeply through r plain. i Q. Who discovered how rubber could be vulcanized? A C. A. The process of vulcanization was . made independently about the flame time 1843 by Charles Good

year, of New Haven, Conn., and Thom-

as Hancock, an Englishman. The credit of priority belongs to Goodyear, but Hancock did much to make tha discovery a commercial success. Q. What is the significance of the motarboard caps that are worn by students? G. G.

A. The giving of the cap to stu

dents in a university is sgid to have denoted that they had acquired full liberty, and were no longer subject

to the rod of their superiors, in imi

tation of the custom of the ancient

Romans, who gave a headcovering to

their slaves in the ceremony of mat

ing them free.

Q. What is the extreme western

point in the United States? K. R. 1:

A. Excluding Alaska, the most

westerly point of the United States is

Cape Alva, in the state of Washington, longitude 124 degrees, 45 minutes.

Q. What proportion of the butter

is creamery? C. V.

A. The department of agriculture

says that nearly two-thirds of the but

ter produced in this country in 18S1,

was creamery.

NEW METHOD OF

REDUCING FAT

A news Item from abroad informs us

that the American method of producing

slim, trim figure is meeting with as

tonishing success. This system, which has made such a wonderful impression

r,r ihprt. must be the Marmola fre

scriDtion .Tablet method of reducing

rat. It IS sale lu Bay Liiai we nave uuin

ing better for this purpose in this

country. Anything that will reduce tne

excess iiesn steaauy ana raniiy wmium

Injury oi tne stomacn. me cause ui th hr-ln of exercisinsr or diet

ing, or interference with one's meals is a

mighty important ana usciui iquiuuh iu civilization's necessities. Just such a catalogue of good results follow the use of these pleasant, harmless and economical little fat reducers. We say economical because Marmola Prescription

Tablets (made in accordance with the

famous Marmoia frescriptionj can oe obtained of any druggist the world over nr from the Marmola Company, -4612

Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., for one

dollar a case, wntcn is a aeciaeaiy economical price, considering the number of tablets each case contains. They are

harmless. Aaverusement.

For BURNS

Spread brer of Jack Frost Cream nn .I,,,), A

direct to affected parts. Its cooling, aoothinc and healine effect will be Quickly apparent. All drugiasU.

Nobody on earth has ever seen tho other side of the moon, as that satellite always keeps the same face toward us.

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Select Your Xmas Gifts Now GEORGE E. KLUTE CO. 223 Main Street

SHOP FOR CHRISTMAS AT

Over 67 t3ears of

Success

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today

Joe Mikulec. a globe trotter, making

his way across the world on foot, hap

pened into Richmond and purchased a

pair of shoes from a local shoe company. About five years later the company received a letter from Mikulec, written in far off Burma, ordering another pair of shoes of the same make, instructing that they be sent to Cario, Egypt. Officers of the company were

very much pleased with the unexpect

ed compliment extended them by the globe-girdler. .

DrBELL'S

loses Qcnifts-Breaks Colds SOc trays a bottle of this gwonin . yrap of pine-tar and hooey at any draf it ore. It quickly loosens phlegm, soothe dry, irritated throat and make breathfanf easy. Feverish eon- - dition i relieved, cooghins; top and colds ar brokea Dp. Haunle Ingredient nd pleealng taat make It th Ideal ayrup far ehildran M wall a dak.

ALMOST CRAZY lyps On Face. CoukNot Sleep. Cuticura Healed. "Pimple broke out on my forehead and soon spread all over tny

lace, Tney were bard, large and rad and festered. The pimples itched and burned so that I was almost craxy at tiroes. My face was disfigured, and at night I could not sleep on account of tho

irroation. x "I read an advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment and sent for a free Sample. They helped me o I purchased more, and after using four cakes of Cuticura Soap, with the Cuticura Ointmnt,I was healed." (Signed Earl Johnson, R. 9f Box 37, fieebles. Ohio, Mar. 1, 1922.

Use Cuticura for all toilet purposes.'

M)3 Cuticra Soap hay without nui

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Mmiiratnmniifi

Clara M, SwelUer, 1002 Main St.

For Eye Glasses Properly : Fitted Optometrist Richmond

POULTRY! POULTRY! Plenty of Turkeys, Ducks, Gsese and Chickens fqf- the holidays. Booking orders now for Christmas. Geo. C. Schwegman Meat Market and Poultry House Since 189 309 S. 4th St. Phone 2204

FoTCouqhs dndiColds

Do Your Xmas Shopping at

Eversharp Pencils for Xmas Gifts SAM S. VIGRAN 617 Main St

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Zwissler's Mince Pies Are Good Order From Your Grocer

ZWISSLER'S 28 S. 5th St.

BOYS' SUITS All Wool, 2 Pairs Pants $9.50ip You Make the Terma HIRSCH'S 718 Main St. f

FOR THE BLOOD

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HARTMAN WARDROBE TRUNKS

mm 827 Main St.

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