Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 300, 16 December 1922 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND,SATURDAY, DEC. 16, 1922.

PAGE-ELEVEN

ILLINOIS WATERWAY TO GIVE STATE LOW CHARGE ON FREIGHT

T$y Astoclated Press) CHICAGO, Dec 16. The Illinois "waterway connecting link between the : Great Lakes and the Mississippi 'will

give the state the second lowest built

freight transportation rate In the world, according to figures prepared by

M. G. Barnes, chief engineer of the di

f vision of waterways. Mr. Barnes, who designed the Pan-

ama Canal locks and later was assoc

iated In .the rebuilding of the New York state barge canal, says the huge

locks planned for the Illinois water

way, with a capacity of 9,000 tons of

freight at a time, will cut transport

tion costs 50 percent under the New York rate. The New York canal locks

can handle from 2,500 to 3,000 tons at

each lockage.

The table prepared by Mr. Barnes

shows that transportation on the big bulk freighters developed on the Great

Lakes, with their 10,000 to 13,000 tons

capacity, is the cheapest In the world

One dollar will carry a ton of freight

1,000 miles in one of these chips, he says. The Illinois canal will come next, rthe table shows, with one ,ton being Carried 750 miles for $1. European 'canals average a 500-mile haul for $1 'a ton and the New York barge canal ! stands fourth, with a 300-mile haul of J one ton for $1. American railroads average 100 miles to the dollar; truck J transportation over improved highl ways, 20 miles to the dollar; and four 'miles by horse and wagon, according to Mr. Barnesl

WORLD FAILS

(Continued from Page One) Und exact sum which she must pay

Knowing that, both Germany and the

rest of the world will have a fixed goal toward which to work, and we can look forward to the slow beginnings of restoration." ! Assuming that these views are correct, it is difficult to say that the world lis iu a materially better position than it was a year ago. About the only comforting thing you can say is that, assuming the world is ever to be cured and started forward again, the passage iof 12 months makes us one year nearer to better things than we were a year ago. This form of comfort is really mot much more than a whimsical trick of words and thought. Curiously enough, one of those few portions of the earth's surface on which it is .possible to say that things are a little better today than they were a year ago is Russia. Russia today is measurably closer to normal than it was at the beginning of the year. The gigantic experiment in idealistic communism is 12 months nearer to acknowledged impossibility. Indeed it is possible to go farther and say that the impossibility of the project is pretty completely acknowledged and that the present Russian governj ment, by various concessions in the ! fchape of partially definite land tenure and the like, has made certain concrete steps back toward the acknowledgment of those property rights which are an essential part of the nature of modern civilization. Russia, in

fact, is at this moment making rather ! rapid progress toward whatever kind of modified capitalism is likely to bei

the civilization of that country m the future. Progress In Far East.

Another portion of the. world in ; which definitely measurable progress; has been made toward hope and achievement Is in the Far East. A i ' little more than a year ago the world was disturbed by apprehension of trou- j ble between Japan and the United; States. Today, no thoughtful person j entertains that apprehension. As aj result of the Wshington conference for the limitation of armament, both the United States and Japan, as well as Great Britain, have taken definite and immense steps toward actual limitation . of armament and toward the elimination of the causes of war. Japan, indeed, has -gone farther in the fuliillment of the promises made at the Washington conference than the letter of those promises called for. Japan's promise to evacuate Siberia for example was indefinite as to time, and within the letter of the promise might have been postponed for years. As a matter of fact, Japan had withdrawn all of her troops from Siberia within eight months after the Washington conference closed. Similarly, in leaving Shantung, and

in other ways Japan lias taken long

steps, not merely toward a narrow living up to the letter and spirit of the Washington conference. Actually it can probably be said with truth that during the past year, Japan has done more toward helping civiliiation out of the mud than any other one nation. In the broadest way, the achievements of the Washington conference for the limitation of armament are one of the

bright spots of the past year. It is true that France has not yet ratified the treaties growing out of that conferencse. Her failure b do so is a part of the tense suspicion between nations which, in. Europe, presents so somber a contrast to what has been accomplished on the other side of the world, in the far east But even if France should stubbornly refuse to ratify those treaties, even if the accomplishments of the Washington conference should stop where they are now, It would still be true that those accomplishments are the brightest spot In the present year. Conform to Limitation. Japan, Great Britain, and the totted States have actually stopped new construction, and are otherwise conforming to the limitations agreed upon. As to the Four Power pact

guaranteeing peace- in the Pacific, if

ranee snould refuse to ratify that, it can be taken for granted that the other three will go ahead with it as a Three Power pact As to the internal affairs of our own country, It can hardly be claimed that they have gone much more hopefully than the affairs of the world, as a whole. That the course of the country has been disappointing to tho bulk of our people is sufficiently

proved by the results of the recent election. These results were almost wholly in the nature of disappointment,protest, condemnation. The politicians and others are not yet through with the effort to analyze the cause3 of the surprise which came upon them Nov. 7. But they have gone far

MOTHERS AND , THEIR

The "Kitty-Cat Book" Making a . "Kitty-Cat Book" kept my little girl amused when she wai getting over a recent illness. I made her a little cambric book and provided her with scissors, a tube of paste and a pile of old magazines and dilapidat

ed picture books. She searched for

pictures of cats, which she arranged

attrattively in the book. This later

made a, fln present for her littlo

cousin. (Copyright, 1922, Associated Editors.)

enough to know that the principal

cause wos protest, and the effort to

make that protest enectlve.

Economically we seem to be much better oft than we were a year ago. And yet, it is clear that so far as the farmer is concerned, he regards himself, and regards himself justly, as being in a situation that cries to Heaven for remedy. It is true that as regards one Important crop there has been great iaiprovement. Corn, which a year ago was selling for

25 cents a bushel, now brings 50 cents.

But as regards most of the otnor

crops, there has been no material improvement. Wheat is about the same price that it was . a. year ago,

and that price, ia so low , as to do alone a just and sufficient cause for the widespread discontent among the farmers. Potatoes are actually about half the price they were a.year ago; beef and pork are about th same, or a little better. -' t - , But the etory ot the unhappy position of the fanner in America is not

merely one ot comparative pricesDetween the present and a year ago. The universally conceded ifact. is that th$ farmer, compared to the - other elements of the country, is la a very baa way. As to these other elements, there is undoubtedly at this moment satisfactory activity tet rising prices. - Fear "About' Market The unemployment which was general a year ..ago does not now exist at all. . But even the manufacturer who nmsncra rtnfa ro wih uneasy appre

hension. He Is compelled .to wonder how long he cail continue to be proenormia ft t a timA when the farmers o.

this country have a steady diminishing capacity , to .buy manufactured goods, and when Europe as a potential buyer of American 'goods merely goes

from bad to worse, , Many of the most thoughtful per: eons within the writer's acquaintanca believe that this apprehension about America's . business future' 13 well founded. They do not hesitate to say In the most dogmatic terms that American business cannot-be-permanently

prosperous, American .labor cannot ne permanently employed at good wages and the American farmer cannot hope to get adequate prices for his products until there is Dolitical stability and

economic regeneration in Europe. And that sentence unhappily brings us back

to where we were at the start, namely, that the troubles of Europe seem only

faintly nearer to solution today than

they were a year ago. If one wers

TELEPHONE EMPLOYE

GETS HONOR MEDAL

INDIANAPOLIS,' Dec. 16. Otis Payne, a lineman for the Indiana Bell

Telephone company, was presented with the Theodore N, Vail silver medal.

a citation and a cash award of $250 for

prompt and intelligent effort in saving

the life of a fellow employe. The

award took place at a meting and reception held in the Athenaeum in thi3

city Friday night. C. H. Rottger, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone company, representing H. B. Thayer, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, New York City, who was unable to be present, made the presentation speech.

"Loyalty and service rarely go without "reward sometimes it is by mate

rial recognition and sometimes by that highly and more gratifvine acknowl

edgement that comes from hearts of sincere appreciation. It is to honor one of our fellow employes by material recognition that we have gathered here tonight and he Is also being honored by the very presence of each of his

co-workers in this vast audience who

nave come to show their appreciation

for his manly and courageous act.

were "the remarks of E. C. Belier,

chairman of the meeting.

BUILDING PROGRAM PROPOSED, INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 16. An ap

propriation to carry on an extensive building program ia asked for in a

budget submitted : to State Budget

Clerk Farmer by the board of trustees of the Boys' school at Plainfiehl.- The building program includes the erection

of a new home for the superintendent

and a number of cottages. Budgets

submitted by the various .benevolent institutions ot the state show that the

institutions are seeking increase in their appropriation to provide for additional physicians ' and caretakers

.CI T THIS fUT IT IS WORTH MONEY Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Folev & Co.. 2S35 Sheffield Avti., Chicago, 111-, writing your name find adilrcss clearly. You will receive ,in return, a trial parkas: containing Koley's Honey and Tar Compound for 'on-,'hs, cold:! and croup; Foley Kidney J'ills for pains in sides and back; rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments: and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a v.-hnlosoru; and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for constipation, biliousness, headaches, and slucsish bowels. A. Q. 'I.uken Drug Co., 026-62$ Main St. Advertisement.

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Join Our 1923 Christmas Savings Club Now Second National Bank

Give a Klassy Overcoat for Christmas KINGS, 912 Main

to ask what one thin? more than any

other would hold out the promise of

neip to the world and to ourselves

the answer, on the part of -many

thoughtful persons, Would be a dete

mination on the nart nf the-TTnltpd

States to take off its coat and by

some practicable end acceptable means go to workto help lift Europe out of the mud. Copyright, 1922, by

tne rsew York Evenirg Post.

The reddish color of Mars is suo

posed to be due to great stretches of desert on that planet

HUNTS FOR DIAMONDS FOSTORIA. Ohio. Dec. 16. Harry I

Porter of Fostoria. will enter the in

terior of Africa shortly after January

1 to begin his prospecting trip for diamonds for the Belgium Congo com

pany, controlled by King Alfred of Belgium. This information has been re

ceived by relatives of Porter here.

Porter is only 25 years Old. He eradu-

ated from the local high school in 1916

ana rrom Ohio state university as a

mining engineer this year.

Moonshine Operations -

Explains Loski of Bottles CON?ERSVlLL, IndDec. 16 The

disappearance of 500 milt bottles from

the equipment of a local ffalry-within

10 daya after all cases had been oompletely filled was explained by the identification of the bottles used by

Oscar Hardy, a competing; dairyman,

who alw carried a. tide line of moonshine, for which he was arrested recently. The company which lost the bootleg had charged them to" profit and loss and. used the circumstance to explain their high overhead which made high prices necessary. MRS. M. L. ROTHSCHILD, WIFE OF MERCHANT, DIES CHICAGO. Dec.- 16. Mrs. Maurice L. Rothschild, 60'years old, wife of a' wealthy Chicago clothing merchant, and sister of Ira Nelson Morris, American minister-to Sweden, died suddenly late yesterday. Her - husband and brother were with her when she died. -

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THEATRE '

sunday 'v;.";: A picture of fhrills arid fun, with the most likable star in western screen plays. ' ' '." : . - .- .

Starting Sunday, December 17

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COUgTESY.SERVlCg flPaLUXE PROGRAMS ALWAYS)

for a Four-Day Showing

The Season's Finest Heart-Drama , A real, big picture you will be proud to talk about. Far greater than any previous Holt drama. A strong, unusual story superbly pic-turized.

Peter B. Kyne Special

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5 y f 11, i Al JESSE L.IASKY "PRESENTS JjOlC HOLT While Satan S.lps-

By Albert Shelby LeVino

Directed by Joseph Henabery -

Based on the novel "The Parson o'f Pcmamint" by Peter B. Kyne Showing Also the Big Mermaid Comedy-

STEEPLE CHASERS"

Admission

Evenings and Sunday Children 15c, Adults Sac Matinees Children 15c, Adults 35c

Time of Shows 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 and 9:30

Last Times T,oday WALLACE REID and BEEBE DANIELS

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"NICE PEOPLE"

Coming Thursday

A -Ralph' I nee Production x "Red Foam" A simple story of home folks

COLISEUM Thursday, Dec. 28th

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Orchestra

DAN RUSSO, Director

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The Musical Treat of the Season The Greatest Dance Orchestra Outside of New York This orchestra will give a concert from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m. Price of single admission to the concert is $1.10. Those attending concert are permitted to remain in their seats throughout the Semi Formal Dance which this orchestra will play for the local chapter Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity from 9:30 to 1:30. No one permitted to dance except those receiving Invitations or by special permission from the box office. Couples attending concert holding invitations can dance for $2.20 extra. Admission to both dance and concert, $4.40 per couple. Tickets for Concert Now Selling by members and at Darter's Violet Ray, O'Brien Cleaner, Ed! Wilson Cleaner, Itomey's, Price's Confectionery and The Handy Shop.

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COURAGE'

A Rollicking Rousing Western Story of a New and .Fas-, cinating type from Peter B. Kyne's smashing story of a 3roung westerner who laughed as he cleaned, up a whole town:. "The Sheriff of Cinnabar." - With it another of those unexcelled Sunshine Laugh Makers

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est : is ' Ve:?t

Chester Conklin in a Big Ray of Gloom Chasing ; Comedy

Good Music.

Open at 1 p. m.

j PipeOrgim RIUfK A Y Conrt Orcteslra; l - ""BETTER COME EARLY" ;- ... , ' . - I Two Big Shows for one Admission. Four Big Time yaudeville Acts ;. ;j j and a Feature Photoplay. . . flj! S". Mon., Tues.f Wed. . Sun., MonTueM

j . FLORENCE VIDOR

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"The Real Adventure" Six reels from the novel by . Henry Kitchell Webster.

CURRENT OF FUN Vaudeville's most; interesting electrical display presented by Mile. Burnell and assistants who handle hundreds of volts from marvelous machines. Jftadio currents and lightning flashesre seen in this l$zz.

ling electrical display.

KELLY AND POLLACK h "Vaudeville Past and Present""; Here're two talented artists who have a refined comedy act of high-class caliber. , They are fresh from the big-time theatres. OCTAVO (?) He or she sings in three octaves A vocal oddity. We don't know; perhaps you can figure it out. PAGE AND GREEN - "Eccentric Silent Funsters'

Coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday The sensational act of the season-Al MoorcV.U. S. Naval Jazz Band: Famous Broadway Syncopators, the biggest and best act we have' ever booked; Van and Carrie Avery, great blackface act. ; . , - :

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