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Again The Assassin A constitution is not the only requisite for a republic. A basic law may clearly define the rights of the people, but if the people do not have the spirit of republicanism in their hearts, the constitution is only a scrap of paper. Poland has a constitution and the form of a republican government, but, seemingly its people lack the spirit necessaryto translate the docu'ment into practice. ' A president, recently elected, was shot and killed by an assassin, on the third day of his administration. There is an element of comfort in the fact that the assassin is declared to be demented, but this circumstance is offset by the

THE MANIA FOR OWNING THINGS By George Matthew Adams

i could nevef quite' understand all the scramble that there is for . ownership of things in this world. " "' It is well to have a few things that you can call your own for a little while but why the racking of body and soul for so many things? A small home, a few books, a handful of endeared belongings that warm one when it gets chilly, but oh, not a large nuinher of thing to worry and fret about. . - I fear that none of us really realize how rich we are with a world of beauty in a billion and more of ways offering separate appeals to the finest appreciation within us. The Hudson River. I pass along its banks nearly every day. I own it! And so does every man, woman and child who is able to appreciate its beauty. . But the rich man, for instance, whose house is filled with expensive paintings and other works of alt which his money has enabled him to bring into his temporary possession, isn't the real owner but every human being who may step within and love them. My dog owns nothing but the deep affection of his master. But how content he is! I was entertained in a smalPhome the other day. A mother and her boy lived there. A delightful simplicity was evident in every part of the place. Restfulness, peace, and an individual spirit that was like rare perfume. No servants to worry over. No large grounds to keep up, nothing -that meant, big expenditure of money or excess energy. Taste, refine- ' ment,' a love of fine, quiet things that's what I got as prevailing notes. Beauty, even though it cost great sums of money, cannot be entirely owned by anyone. For just the minute that it becomes beautiful it belongs to the world. " Love and appreciate much actually own little and what a wealth of happiness will be yours!

Answers to Questions (Any reader can pet the answer to nv question by writing The Palladium information Bureau, Frederick J. Haskln. 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 Bent direct to the Inquirer. . Q. Do quail hatch young more than 6nce a year? W. A. Z. A. The department of agriculture says that they do not usually do so, but that there are exceptions to the rule. , Q. What will soften rubber that has hardened with age? S. G. ' A. The Bureau of Standards says that rubber which has become hardened can not be restored to its original condition. The hardening is due chiefly to oxidation of the rubber by the cxycren of the air. New substances, which are not like rubber, are formed. - Q. What is the difference between a couch and a lounge? F. J. R. A. Often in the furniture trade a couch is distinguished as having one . . , ....... . ! arm, or raisea ena, ana no uacit; a lounge as having one arm and a back; a sofa as having two arm3 and a back. Q. Does a racoon make a noise similar to a screech owl? -S. B. H. I A. The Department: of Agriculture says that the sound is not similar. A racoon growls'. - . Q. Who carried the news of the Boston Tea jWty to New York? II. c. p. rv:-'.'.;--.".'--:'.' A. Paul Revere participated In It and afterwards carried a report of it to New York. This was more, than a year before his celebrated midnight ridf. - Q. What were Lincoln's favorite hymns? C. C. M. A. His favorites are said to have 'been: "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?'; "How Tedious and Tasteless the Hours"; "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blcod"; "Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed?" . - Q. Is blood transfusion a new idea? L. II. A. The transfusion of -blood from the veins of one living animal to those of another, or from those of a man or one of the lower animals into a man, is a very old operation, having been performed in 1492. Q. What is a Cape foot? J. J. D. , A. A Cape foot Is a South African unit of measure equal to 1.033 English feet. Q. How long have we had traveling libraries ? -G. F. M. A. Traveling libraries were known in England as early as 1S17, while the first general American traveling American traveling libraries supported by public funds were authorized by the New York state legislature in 1S92. For Colds, Grip or Influenza and as a Preventive, take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets. The genuine bears the. signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure j'ou get BROMO.) 30c. . Advertisement.

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general turbulence preceding , the death of the' president. Four were killed and more than 100 wounded in the rioting which followed the election of Narutowicz. There were scores of potential assassins in Warsaw and the artist who shot the president was the first to reach him. Reactionaries in that country are following the example of the monarchist groups in Germany and other countries. To check the progress of democratic ideas in government they are resorting to assassinations and terrorism. They have lost control of the government and are trying to thwart the will of the people by political assassinations. Poland will never be able to realize her ambitions unless her, people learn that constitutional government .will not prosper unless there is respect for law and the application of lawful methods in removing objectionable officials. "--The assassination of the' first president of Poland is one incident in a long array of political murders in Europe. Outstanding leaders in many countries have been ruthlessly cutdown by persons, probably representing dissatisfied cliques and parties. All of this is contributing to the general unrest of Europe and postponing the day of tranquility and normalcy.

Who's Who in the Day's News DUKE OF ABERCORN James Albert Edward Hamilton, third duke of Abercorn, has been appointed governor-general of Ulster. The Duke is a member of the Ulster ' 1 - m j parliament, aiiu w as treasurer of His Majesty's household from 1903-05. He is a Conservative. He was born in 18C9, the son of the second Duke and Lady Mary Anna Curzon. In 1894 married Lady Rosaline Bingham, daughter of the Earl of Lucan. The couple have five children, two sons - --I-ttr.Tiffrrftti ft Wufl6ti)8M an(J three daugh. ters. Abercorn was educated at Eton. He entered the first life guards of the British army in 1S92 and resigned in 1903. He is now major of the North Irish Horse Guards. Kv is one of the larger iana owners nommg a Dout L't,000 acres. Ripn!ir7 Rhymes By Walt Mason TALKING SHOP When guests remove their bonnets and sit around my fire. I do not talk of sonnets, or of my super-lyre. I know that one who twitters of "shop" makes people sad; I talk of Wahoo Bitters and Shumways Liver Pad; I talk about the weather, of hunters and their camps, discuss the price of leather, and bargain sales in stamps. 1 know how people bore me when they discups their trade; they throw a shadow over me that takes a month lo fade. The butcher seeks my shanty, what time the night wind moans, and tells me and my auntie long tales of blood and bones. The grocer to my dwelling has ambled once or thrice; he wearied me by telling of predigested rice. The doctor talks of curing a cancer or a cold, nor notes that I'm enduring large agonies untold. The tinsmith is a spieler whose theme is motor cars; the town alfalfa dealer discourses on cigars. And by the glowing ember, I fain would talk of song, but I always re member that such a course is wrong; if people seek my palace to while nine hours away, I'd show a deadly malice by talking shop all day." Methinks there's nothing meaner than boring friends with "shop." and so IJ:alk of wiener, and hay and lemon pop. Your skin tingles with awakened life when you use Graham Lemon Cocoa Hard-Water Soap. Advertisement. Guticura Soap Will Help You Clear Your Skin 3p.OfntTn'j!t,T1Tim. We. eerrwher. Samples fre of CoUtr Ltbontortal. Ea;t. X. Mlaa, Mm.

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No. S55 Water Up the Sleeve A-' clever little trick that always creates surprise may be done with a tumbir. Some one picks up the glass to fill it with water and is surprised when a splash of water flies up his fcleeve. He is usually uuable to discover just where the water came from. The tumbler must be one with a set-in-bottora. It is first inverted, and then the hollow at the bottom is carefully filled with watpr. (See diagram.) When the victim picks up the glass he invariably turn it toward him, and he gets the splash up his sleeveCopirioht, l3t, hj fuhlio ledger Company Musings For The Evening Cou's method is to say to yourself. "Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better." How easily some actors will adapt them selves to this new idea. Babe Ruth has retired from the public eye for the winter and is getting in shape to live up to his reputation next summer. Babe has appar ently got the proper angle on himself at last. THHE WISDOM OF GOTHAM "Professor Hayman Yaffe Suicide by Gas Was 111 and Without Funds."' New York Evening Mail headline. Excel in some art that's of little Import, Indite a ridiculous book, . Or gladden the fans in commercial ized sport, ' ur pose as a prince thougn a crook; The papers and posters will broad cast your, name And the crowds will come flocking to pay. But if you persist in deserving real fame God help you; you'll fall by the way. Better shine as a star in a cinema show, Or prove to the mob you can fight. The glad hand will greet you wherever you go You're "a man among men" overnight. So take this advice, whosoever you be: If you're young and desire renown, Don't look for the same in a college degree Unless you own half of the town. James Iawlor. A French idea that is soon to spread throughout the United States is a crusade against bat-tipping in winter weather. This salute will be restricted to the warm weather, as it is be lieved the custom leads to many cases of pneumonia. According to the new rule, gentlemen will raise their hats frcm Easter to October 1, and then keep said hats firmly on their head? whether they are passing a lady, ma ing a public speech, laymg a corner stone or waiting in front of a delica tessen store to listen to a radio machine. , When hat raising i? taboo, the gen tleman may salute his lady friends with a wave of the hand, a shrug of the shoulders, a movement of the el bows or a wink. In the absence of hat-tipping, and incidentally it is plea ant to know that there is something we will not have to tip, we suggest Rnnff halm m rA o trill wj bold a few mlnDtca. Do thi twlc dally and tt will lv you quick relief from yoor Catarrh. Fuoaa for tkoa f eaeratioaa. Have You Tried the Delightfully Appetizing RAISIN BREAD Made by ZWISSLEJTS On sale at all groceries every Wednesday at 12c a loaf.

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More Business Methods in Govt. Many Steps Under Way to Stop Waste and Put Operations on Efficient Basis.

Br FREDERICK J. HA SKI V WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20 It haa often been said that the United States Government is the biggest in stitution in the world. It has also been said that it is the worst. Th.e first assertion tends to make us swell with national pride. The second reduces the swelling. Both assertions are substantially After Dii ter umner otonesr An applicant for a part once asked the late Sir Beerbchm Tree to engage him solely on a newspaper report. ''I enclose you a newspaper cutting about myself," he wrote, "to show that I have aptitude for the stage." The cutting ran as follows: "The prisoner, who denied the assault, conducted his own case, and defended himself in a somewhat dramatic manner." Answers (London); A teacher in one of our public schools the other day received some first-hand information on how the other half of the world lives. It was a school in the mill district and the class was struggling with its reading lesson. Little Ivan was progressing more or less successfully until he came to the word "plate." There he stumbled. To help him, the schoolma'am inquired: "P-l-a-t-e, Ivan. What is it that mother brings in the bread on?" Little Ivan's face lit up with a proud gleam of understanding. "A newspaper," he responded quickly. New Bedford Evening Standard.. Lessons in Correct En dish DON'T SAY: 1 Violent quarrels SPRUNG up be tween them. I SPRUNG to his aid. Some one else had SPRANG before me. Has the boat SPRANG a leak? I will spring when he has SPRANG. SAY: Violent quarrels SPRANG up be tween theni. I SPRANG to his aidSome one else had SPRUNG before me. Has the boat SPRUNG a leak? I will spring when he has SPRUNG. that the following rules De followed When passing an old friend of the family, wave the hand. When passing a homely woman, shrug the shoulders slightly. When passing an old lady, bow politely. When passing a flapper, wave tha elbows fiantically. When passing a vamp, wink with one or both eyes. When passing a beautiful woman, throw her a kiss. When passing your own wife, wiggle the left ear. When passing her mother, wiggla both ears disdainfully. When in an elevator, keep the hat screwed tight on the head and smoke your cigar furiously so that "Vou wi'.l catch cold neither ia the head nor in the threat FOR COUGHS and COLDS RICHMOND GASOLINE More Miles per Gallon Richmond Oil Co. 6th St. and Ft Wayne Ave. For More Pep, Use COKE For Baseburners Klehfoth-Niewoehner Co. "If Service and Quality Coun' Try Us" Phone 2194 - N. 2nd 4 A

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7elu ;him The I STUFF1 HE BROUGHT To HE LAST CHRISTMAS WASM'T A0 Good To ASK - - AfJD I VJON" Tese for. a. m5thinJ'- t fjouJ Yoo see TeL' PHONG true. There ?an be no doubt about the size of the business establishment conducted by Uncle Sam, and there have been so many revelations as to the wasteful and Inefficient manner in which he does business that othing of that sort shocks anybody any more. It is all thet more Interesting, accordingly, to learn that something has actually been accomplished In the way of iniectine real business methods into On Kiirh Ktpn in that dirpotirm was the creation of a Federal Specifications Board with Dr. S. W. Stratton, head of the Bureau of Standards, as chairman, and now a second has been taken through the appointment by the American Engineering Standards Committee of a standing committee on cooperation with the Federal Specifications board. This will give the government the best brains and talent at the command of the 200 Industrial organizations that are co-operating in the work of the American Engineering Standards committee. The members of the committee who are to work with Dr. Stratton's board are: chairman, A. H. Hall, assistant treasurer and superintendent of distribution, Central Union Gas company, New York; John A. Oapp, chief of testing laboratory, General Electric company, Schnectady; and Sullivan W. Jones, chairman of the Structural Service committee, American Institute of Architects, New York. In commercial circles it has long been a common saying that it costs 10 per cent more to do business with the government than with "other customers. This waste and surely unnecessary expense must be "so termed has been due largely to a lack of uniform ity in government specifications covering articles to be purchased by various governmental agencies and to the fact -that the government specifications were rarely if ever identical with those of ordinary commercial concerns. Standardization Difficult This has mean: that an individual or a corporation that wanted to sell a certain article to the government has found differing specifications issued by various departments of bureaus, none of which conformed exactly with the specifications which must be met in dealing with private buyers. Thus it has been practically impossible to produce a standard article that would meet all ordinary requirements, governmental and commercial. Df. Stratton's board aims to bring into line with the best commercial practice, not only the specifications which are to be approved by the board in the future but also those which have already been approved. Of the latter there are about 40 and these (RONCHITIS At bedtime rub the throat and c le6t thoroughly with V aro Run Over 17 Million Jan Uted Fri rt?itiiHtiTiitiiiiiii!niH!tiittiiiiiittiiiimuimiitmntiiimtimiiiiifiiiinfttmiiifiit!m I . Gifts that come from i cDunm Will Be Appreciated 1 winHiniiiiiinniitiiHtnHiiiiiiiiHHiiiiiiiMtitiiiiiuMuituuiiitiitiititfimnmiiiiiMi Let His Xmas Gift Be A Kings Klassy O'Coat VWMMWaaga Join Our 1923 Xmas Savings Club Now. Second National Bank Only 3 More Hays To Shop for Xmas

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Hfllo! HOWARD Talk,k,3--IS goikJG will be revised at intervals of aibout one year. The specifications which have already been submitted to the American Egineering Standards committee under the new cooperative arrangement cover the following: Hose for various industrial purposes, wood screws, sterilizing equipment, cotton duck, phosphor tin, silicon copper and pig lead. It 13 the unanimous opinion of Federal officials and the officers of the American Engineering Standards committee that this cooperation between manufacturing industries, the government and other consumers will result in a widening of the source of supply for all government requirements and in important economies not only to the government but to other consum ers of those products which are also required by the government depart ments. It is expected that this saving will amount to many millions of dollars each year. The first thing that standardization does, according to P. G. Agnew, sec retary of the American Engineering Standards committee, is to enable buyer and seller to speak the same language and to make it possible to compel competitive sellers to do likewise. In thus placing tenders on an easily comparable basis, fairness in competition is promoted both in domestic and in foreign trade. Mass production is made possible, with the result that unit costs to the public are lowered. The matter of carrying stocks is simplified which makes deliveries quicker. The big idea is to save money for the government, which benefits everybody, and at the same time make possible better products in all lines of industry, which will be to the advantage of all consumers, public and private. The work of the Stratton board in cooperation with the representatives of the American Engineering Standards committee is directly in line with the drive for the elimination of wastes in industry and may be said to be a part of it. It all goes to show that business men are taking a genuine interest in government affairs and may mark the end of the ra characterized by the saying that "everybody's1 business is nobody's business." One of these days a board or a commission may be created to eliminate wastes in politics and political campaigns, and then the millenium will be in sight. It may also be expected that sconer or later those who believe In and subscribe to the slogan "more business in government and less government i business" will start a movement to put a man in the White House who is distinctively a business man. Some years ago in a preliminary campaign an organization was formed r

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'RIGHT oMACK 'O k&d. Memories of Old Days In This Peper Ten Years Ago Today William Dahry, an Armenian ehawl peddler, came to grief here when taken into custory by the police after complaints had been made to headquarters that he was selling ipiperfec; articles as new ones One coniplaint. was that a shawl with a hole in it bda been sold for $1.50. Dahry was caught and asked to refund the money. He offered to give back Jl and said tha. was all he got for th article. He finally gave back the amount of the purchase. in New York that udertook to get a line on public sentiment as to a business man candidate for president. Advertisements were published throughout the country asking for responses from those who believed in the genrai proposition that inasmuch as the government i3 a monumental business enterprise the man at the head of it should be the biggest and ablest business executiv who could be found. No candidate was advocated, but it was said that a number of men were available, any one of whom might fill the bill. The returns from this propaganda were surprisingly large, it is said, and the organization soon had a mailing list of hundreds of thousands of voters in all parts of the country who had indicated a desire to cooperate in a campaign for a business man candidate. For some reason, the movement "died a-bornin' ", but it went far enough to indicate that when a real fight is started along those lines the old-line politicians and statesmen will have cause to sit up and take notice. Of the men in sight who might lead such a fight, those on the Republican side include such as Herbert- Hoover, former Governor Frank Lowden, of Illinois, and Gilford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, while on the Democratic side William Gibbs McAdoo loom.3 up prominently and James M. Cox, the nominee of 1920, may claim to be more of a business than a professional man. Henry Ford, who is suspected of presidential aspirations, is a business man, but he is also somewhat of an anomaly. He has been a candidate for a Republican nomination and then the Democratic nominee for the same office, so no one may be quite sure of his politics at this time, and he is looked upon as a radical rather than as a business man's candidate. However, if and when it should appear that the running is good foF business men there is little doubt that there will be a sufficiency of entries who can qualify. How to Get It For the Mere Nominal Cost oi Manufacture and Distribution Coupons and 98c secure this INtV authentic Dictionary, bound in black seal grain, illustrated with full pages in color.4J Present or mail to this paper three Coupons with ninety-eight . cents to cover cost of handling, vackinx. clerk' hire, etc. Add lor Postage: - MAIL Up to 150 miles Sff ORDEKfUp to 300 miles .10 W ILL For greater disBE tances, ask PostFILLED master rate for 3 ' pounds. '

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