Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 35, 9 February 1923 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 1923.

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Astonishing Immigration Proposals "A bill which expresses itself as designed to revise present immigration quotas downward has been reported favorably by the house committee on immigration." says the Chicago Tribune. "According to Washington dispatches it is expected to cut the number of immigrants now admissible in half. It proposes to do that chiefly by reducing, the present 3 per cent limitation to 2 per cent. But it has other features. "Some of these special provisions would allow any immigrant who is husband, wife, father, mother, unmarried orphan niece or nephew or a resident United States citizen to enter without regard to the quota.' Such a provision opens the gates -to unlimited fraud and almost unlimited immigration. Such a provision alone is sufficient to defeat the whole purpose of any bill designed to restrict immigration. Under it hundreds of thousands of the most undesirable persons in Europe could come to this country. It is astonishing. "All that would be necessary to gain admit

tance would be conspiracy between a natural immigrant and any number of prospective immigrants. The' most undesirable and dangerous elements would be the readiest to conspire and commit perjury to enter this country. 'Families' would grow phenomenally over night. Unmarried 'children' and unmarried orphan 'hieces and nephews' would appear by thousands to further crowd American slums and ghettos. "Ample evidence is available to indicate that such results would be immediate and overwhelming. The 'picture bride' trick of the Japanese to dodge the 'gentlemen's agreement' and flood California with Japanese laborers is in point. If such increase in oriental immigration could be made possible through importation of women definitely guaranteed to become wives of residents, what limit could be expected for immigration of Europeans who would be checked only by some oath of blood relationship with some one already in America? Any one who doubts that such fraud would be common should have walked along the Hoboken water front a few years ago when a municipal ordinance required that all women working as entertainers in the beer halls should be of the family of the proprietor. Scores of beer hall proprietors suddenly produced 'families' of young women of questionable character. Every ona wq,s a blood relation, by oath. "The new bill has some good features, but they are overwhelmed by the jokers. Its adoption would threaten disaster.

Burning the Boat to Make It Go Faster

Giants are Teter-Pauls who steal their own vitality to produce abnormal growth.? . Sir Mackey Edgar accuses us of giantism, an economic as well as human disease. ire informs London that America's reckless Industrial appetite will soon exhaust local cupboards and force us to send the raw material basket shopping abroad. : - We are the supreme spendthrifts of history. No nation ever dissipated a greater iiatural inheritance in-so few rears. - Mark Requa, late federal oil administrator, largely agrees with him. Ever since the war, Requa has been picturing Columbia, as a very foolish virgin. Within a decade we shall be compelled to fill not only figurative lamps, but actual motor tanks, locomotive tenders and marine furnaces from foreign fields. He and the geologists know within a few million barrels exactly how much petroleum is still in the family cellar. New wells simply tap these old pools. The pools are fast running dry. Expect gasoline to-cost.you more every year. """The President Explains Lumber Prices And lumber, 'too. " Most of,the shingles and beams and studding required for our $3,000,000,000 building program will come out of the Pacific Northwest. And lots of it from British Columbia. The prire of southern pine arid by-products ha3 more than trebled in a generation. We've destroyed our main forests and left loafing ground behind. Carelessness and neglect around bonfires which annually burn billion-dollar holes in the common1 pockef.' - 'If Sir Mackey Edgar rode through Montana last month, he passed a morning-ful of mountains furred to the dimmest horizon with black bristles. Those bristles are -charred timber stands. The gre'at forests. of the nation are gone. Until they re brought back, there's faint hope of cheaper homes and lower rents. The president announces that fiO per cent, of our lumber source is wiped out. One-fourth of government land is and will continue useless unless reset with original growth. -- lie is for the Clark! biU. , Everybody should be behind it. China Warns Us to Act Promptly The Clark bill asks congress for $3,800,900. This mnny will be apportioned among the several states. F.ach must match federal grants, dollar for dollar. Barrens are. to be brought back to bearing. Miles and miles nf useless acres will. Phoenix-like, rise from their ashes. Ranger stations will be established throughout the continent. Fifty-eight per cent of the national loss from forest conflagrations belongs to six southern states, and just one of them has any sort of fire control. Observe how the welfare of all is affected by minority neglect. Senator-elect Copeland. when health officer of New York, couldn't interest Congressman Good in an appro-

There's at Least One in Every Office

priation to lock out European plagues until he assured him that Iowa was as much In danger as Manhattan. This isn't a sectional situation, either. It's a general cost of living problem. It taxes the very cases in which food and shoes are shipped. It concerns matches and tootpicks and stovewood and hammer handles. It oppresses every wage a hundred times more than the maximum expense of safeguards and reforestation.

; ; A hundred Muscle Shoals won't furnish enough fertilizer if America doesn't keep her precious top soil locked and enriched with tree roots and leaf rot. And that's another very important phase to consider. Industry's Appetite. Also the Boll Weevil Sir Mackey Edgar also claims that in 1914 we produced 65 per cent of the world's supply of cotton, oil, copper, lead and zinc, and kept 35 per tent of it for local factories. In 1923 we require half the 'world's entire output of these commodities for home use. Before the war, domestic mills absorbed one-fifth, now they take more than two-thirds, of the local cotton crop. If we don't take some prompt, persistent measures against the boll weevil, that omniverous pest won't leave 60 per cent for us to use. The $29,000,000 carried in the pending rivers and harbors bill, which Senator Wadsworth and Senator Smoot both assert is unadulterated pork, might wisely be devoted to defending the south's chief source of wealth. Deeper rivers and better harbors won't be necessary if the plantations are destroyed. The Hole in the Fish Net No use discussing game resources. There's hardly enough- wild life left in the country to satisfy the zoo trade. Recklessness has cut a hole in the' fish net, too. Streams and both oceans show a steady decrease in food yield. United States Commissioner O'Malley, whose annual report also is before us, warns that many once flourishing fisheries threaten to survive tonly in historical records. Conservation has brought the seal herds to the 581,000 mark, but other marine crops keep shrinking. Halibut, white fish and crabs are passing from the menu. The sturgeon is practically gone. Oyster beds are answering greedy -exploitation and pollution with sterility.

In 1921 Gloucester and Portland shipped 27,000,000 less

pounds of sea products than in 1920, the Alaska salmon pack shrank by 1,800,000 cases, the income of Maine sardine canneries showed a $3,750,000 decrease. And last, but not least, California seines" went shy 125,000 tons. . ; Consuming Ourselves Out of House and Home Read a few of these facts and fteures to your income, which can't understand what's putting such crimps in it. We're eating, digging and chopping ourselves out of house and home. And meanwhile making no preparation for inevitable rainy days. Nature won't continue to support us in present style and luxury without a helping hand. To paraphrase a pioneer slogan, it's "conservation or bust." (Copyright, 1923, by King Features Syndicate).

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Alter u inner 1 ricks Be a side-line observer I I B George, Matthew Adams.

Who's Who in the Day's News

WILLIAM M. HUGHES Another of the allied war-time premiers has followed in the footsteps of his former colleagues, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando and President Wilson. The last

to step down into political oblivion is

t William Morris Hughes, who , con-

i " tv''1t 1915 has been at

the helm or the Australian ship of state. He first came into power at the head of a labor cabinet and shortly after, when the ranks of Australian labor-was split by the conscr i p t i o n question, he headed

a coalition government which later developed into the nationalist party. Radical to a degree, Hughes frequently embarrassed Lloyd George during the peace conference deliberations, but his views only served to increase his popularity by leaps and bounds. . Hughes, who is 58, was born in

Wales and emigrated to New South i Wales at 20. At once he became ac- j tive in trades union circles and soon I

was representing labor in the New South Wales parliament. , Later he went to the federal parliament. Hughes was a victim of a breakup in hts coalition. Last December Australia rejected his high tariff platform at the polls, and since that time Hughes has unsuccessfully attempted to form a coalition of the three non-labor parties.

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S'o. 413 Tha Three Colna Hold half dollar between the thumb ind forefinger. Upon it set a nickel, ind a dime on top of all. TLe trick to r-ki tin hair dollar un'il the two smaller coins attain the position i'nwn in i-'iir: 2; no they sre side by de on tha half dollar, but do not overnp each other. The trick requires some skill and jatlence. But unless the secret Is town, It Is virtually impossible to do t successfully. Every one will move he half dollar sideways tn an effort o slide the smaller coins Into position. The correct method is to Jerk the coins p and down, so that they will bounce 3to position. Topyrickt, j$MI, by Pallio Ledowr Company

Fashions in Trunks Women's Styles Govern Lining of Bags and Trunks Say Manufacturers of This Commodity.

Br FREDERICK J. HVSKI'V PETERSBURG. Pa., Feb. 9. Spring bonnets an dtrunk linings may seem to have nothing whatever in common but a.--k the trunk maker! He will tell you that he watches' closely the trend in women's styles, and that he

li.ns his trunks and bags accordingly. It is not. that the trunk manufae-! truer wants to keep up with the mad! pacfl iif fashion, lie has no panic-! ular-'desire to buy new lining stocks i -ery few months. But sad expert-1 ence! has shown that when a woman i

selects a trunk she pays as much attention to the lining as she does to strength, convenience, and outside appearance. If blue is the fashionable color for women's clothing, trunks with blue linings take a sudden leap into popularitv as far as women buyers are

conuorned. The same occurs in the!

case of plain or figured materials. If -oats are being lined with gayly patterned goods, and flowered and figured silks are fashionable, trunk linings that simulate flower gardens and sunsets," considerably conventionalized, are In high favor. A woman selecting a trunk or bag probably does not pick out a yellow or nile green lining with any conscious thought of its being fashionable. The color in vogue at the moment merely makes a favorable impression upon her wherever it appears. This is a trilling bit of feminine psychology, but it can play an important part

in profit and loss sheetsot tne truntt maker who ignores it. In the case of linings, the manufacturer is guided by styles in other industries. It is harder to foresee whether the public will like a new invention for making a trunk more convenient, and whether it will prefer its baggage unobtrusively simple or decorated with plenty of brass trimmings. Most of us never think of style in connection with trunks, but the public taste changes, sometimes rapib'. This is just one little known phase of the trunk business. You ca walk miles through the 24 buildings here which house th biggest trunk and bag factory in the world, and At eirery turn a trunk becomes a more remark

able object. Apparently trunks and bags are among the most complex articles in everyday use, so far as the making of them is concerned. Complicated Job In Manufacture. A plant of this sort is too vast and the handling of the 4,200 articles that go into the making of trunks and bags

is too complicated for any layman tofollow the process comfortably. He can only gasp at the scale on which baggage is being turned out for a steadily moving public, and at the variety of the machinery and work involved. Whole rooms are stored with single kinds of material. There are rooms filled with barrels of tacks, buckles, and other hardware, rooms stacked with bolts of figured linings, rooms stored with heaps of skins, and others piled to the ceiling with veneer. Still other storerooms hold nothing but rolls of Japanese matting and fibres. It is not uncommon for one storage to hold half a million dollars worth of some one material that goes into the making of a modern trunk. The workshops are equally remarkable. Everywhere you go through endless series of rooms there are workers doing .something that the average person would never associate with his baggage. In one building men are bending wire into handle shapes to be covered by leather. Another force is sewing

corners on bags. Others are riveting on the brass trimmings, putting on locks, making bindings, shaping wire frames for suitcases, and so on through a long series of processes. Linings are cut by an electric cutting machine which disposes of 60 layers of goods at a time. Leather is cut in a far more painstaking way. Almost every hide has some imperfections, and it is the work of an expert to cut each one to the best advantage. The top layer of the hide, known as the full grain, is the heaviest and

hardest in texture. It wears better

than the second and third cuts, and therefore it goes into the most expen

sive baggage. Small pieces of leather

tax? went to a division of the plafat

'where 75 different kinds of handles

are made. Scraps too small for handles are sold to companies who use them in making fibre. A feature of the industry that catches the eye of the visitor is the extensive use of fibre. Once trunks were made of natural cowhide with the hair of the animal on it. These shaggy little trunks were supposed to be unusually durable, but gradually smooth leather replaced them. Now, a leather trunk of any sort is a novelty. Fi

ber, fitted over- a framework o?1

veneer, is the usual trunk material, and bags of fiber are made in large quantities.

Leather Substitutes Are Often Used. Some people think of the fiber used

in suitcases as a single grade of mate

rial, a leather substitute. As a matter of fact 40 grades are used in this particular plant. You can see sheets of brown fiber that will tear like blotting paper, and other sheets so tough that they air. likely cowhide. The former grade is made chiefly of paper. The latter is chiefly fibrous material. Some grades .will stand long and hard usage. Others will not. Fiber can now be stamped with a leather design so perfectly that a fiber bag can scarcely be distinguished from a leather bag by a person unacquainted with skins. In one of the

rooms at this plant hydraulic presses put an alligator stamp on sheets of heavy black fiber. Other types of

leather are also copied. The aim,

we are told, is not merely to imitato the appearance of leather, but to give the material a rough surface. The uneven surface design of seal or walrus wears better than the smooth finish of unstamped fiber. Although leather substitutes are coming into widespread use, the trend of the public in buying luggage is not toward the very cheap grades. Factory officials say that sales in cheap trunks and bags are decreasing, due partly at least to the higher wage scales in industries. Old style box trunks, for instance, are still sold in large quantities for packing and storage purposes, but 80 per cent of the demand in traveling trunks now is for wardrobe types. When veneer, fiber, lining, hinges, bolts, and screws are all fitted together in the proper proportions to make a trunk, the finished product is prepared for shipment. A trunk is put up very much like a breakfast food. Each one is wrapped first in oiled japer and then in heavy wrapping pa-

Musings for the Evening Tattooed man cut his a-m off because he got tired of the pictures on it. After all it costs very little to go to the Museum of Art and there isn't much sense in carrying pictures around.

There are now three women in congress. It will soon be necessary for the "Congressional Record" to establish a style department.

There is said to be a ghost in the prison at West Orange, N. J. Maybe it is the ghost of the Hall case.

-There is not much use in trying to Uo arfything for a person who" enjoys poor health.

Two old men were rivals for the hand of a beautiful modern young woman in marriage. One of them told her he was worth $5,000,000 and was fifty-two years old. She refused him. The other told her he was worth only three millions but was eighty-two years old. She married him that same day.

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A negro went fishing. He hooked a big catfish, which pulled him overboard. As he crawled back into the boat, he said, philosophically, "What I wanna know is dis. Is dis niggah fishin,' or is dis fish niggerin'?" Poor Pat spent almost his last dollar for passage to America. After a week in New York looking for work he was dead broke. As he sat on a bench in the Battery he saw a diver being pulled up on the deck. "Arrah!" said Pat, "If I had known you could

walk over I would have saved me passage mon.y."

j -r per. Dampness in the express cars might cause a trunk to sweat if the oiled paper did not protect it. Suitcases are also put up in, carton like

packages and stored away by the thousands to await shipping. Petersburg is a center of the baggage indiVry. It has several large trunk and bag factories, and the traveling goods turned out by these plants averages $12,000,000 a year.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

For information I would go to the one who talks the least. I would trust the observer the one who used his eyes. Words too often smother ideas and make impossible the healthy growth of the mind. In a discussion I keep my eyes on the silent man knowing full well that at the proper time I will hear word3 of wisdom worth waiting for. The side-line observer is always a storer of knowledge. To forget all about the mere making of money, to dismiss every worry of the mind, and just to center one's thought on the things around one, for the pure pleasure of observing and reflecting what could bring greater relaxation and renewal of spirit? And of all the advantages of being a side-line observer one of the greatest is that you can form your own opinion and keep them to yourself, as. well. You can dream dreams, too, paint masterpieces in your imagination, and be a great leader of yourself. And as a side-line observer you wield judicial power people will seek you out as one who is fair and impartial. The world owes its best prizes to its side-line observers who have kept cool heads and stqut hearts during intense excitement and sore distress. Most of us are side-line observers. Let us, then, make the most of this privilege and use our power for happiness to the largest number.

The Commercial club committee on lakes and parks met at the Comercial club rooms and relet the contract for the building of the dam in the Whitewater at Seventeenth street, to I.-iaac Smith. It was necessary to go over the plans with Engineer John Mueller cf Newcastle, and make a new bid for the contract to construct the dam. The bid amounted to $20,000.

Answers to Questions (Any reader can net the answer tf any ouestion by writing The Palladium Information R'lrea-i. Frederick J. Haskin. d'reoor. Washington, t). C. This offer applies strictly to Information. The biiT-HHu doe3 not plve advice on learal, nidk-al rl financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake fhaustive research on any subject. Write your ouestion plainlv 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 nart of a flower contains the odor? M. R. T. A. A French chemist says that the fine oil which gives perfume to the rose is apparently derived from chlorophyl. and is usually located at the upper surfaces of the petals or sepals in very delicate cellues. Chlorophyl is the substance in plants which turns a leaf into a sort of chemical laboratory, when exposed to sunlight. It does not act without sunshine. It is obvious that the odor of a flower Is therefore dependent upon light. Q We have several stones a little too large to be moved by horses. How can they be broken ou without dvnamiting? C. L. C. A.. The geological survey says that a stone which is too large to be moved can be broken by building a fire near the stone. When the stone is hot, the pouring of cold water on it will cause a sudden contraction which will break the stone. Another method is to bore holes in the rock in the winter time, fill them with water and cork up the holes. The water will freexe and break the rock. Q. What is the difference between a photomicrograph and a micrograph? W. R. E. A. A photomicrograph is a photograph of a microscopically small object, while a microphotograph is a very small photograph. Q. What studies are included in a course in physical training?--C. T. C.

Lessons in Correct English DON'T SAY: Oranges are HEALTHY. The climate is HEALTHY. Walking is a HEALTHY exercise. The food is HEALTHY. Her condition is HEALTHFUL. SAY: Oranges are HEALTHFUL. The climate here is HEALTHFUL. Walking is a HEALTHFUL exercise. The food is HEALTHFUL. Her condition is HEALTHY.

MOTHERS AND THEIR CHXL.DK.EN

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Playing Fair When I am in the wrong I do not hesitate to ask my child's pardon. This has caused her to be frank with me, and she never hesitates to admit when she has made a mistake. There is no danger of telling falsehoods to conceal a wrong. (Copyright, 1923, Associated Editors.) A. The subjects studied in normal schools of physical training include physics, chemistry, histology, physiology, anatomy, kinesiology, anthropomotry, biology, cymptcmology, psychology; pedagogy, personal, public and school hygiene, besides the various kinds of practice- work in gymnastics, athletics, swimming and other sports, fencing, games, dancing, voice training and practice teaching. Q. What foreign nationality has the largest population in Minnesota and Wisconsin? L. W. E. A. Swedes lead in the number of foreign born in Minnesota. There are 112,117 Swedes in Minnesota. Germans lead in Wisconsin. There are 151.250 Germans in Wisconsin.

Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON

PLUTE AND PAUPER The plute, he rides in his rich sedan, and cares no hoot for the wearj man who toils on foot up the dusty road, his shoulders scarred by a heavy load. The plute rides on in his rich sedan-; his chauffeur's livery's gold and ian., the shock absorbers upon his car protect his form from the slightest jar; the velvet cushions are broad ant! deep, they're sort and restful, inducing sleep. The plute rides on at indecent speed, and he shuts his eyes, and h gives no heed to the man on foot, ir the dusty track, who packs a stove or his aching back, or a cord of wood or a bale of hay; and such thins, chance on the broad way highwav. The plute rides on, and he heaves nc sigh, for the man on foot, for the walking guy; for the plute has griefs of his own, I wot; his string of troubles has made him hot; he has to eat what the doc prescribes, and he can't chew pie like 'the toiiins: tribes; ho has the sout in his swollen feet, and the throbs are ferce, and the pains repeat; the pressure's high, in his heated blood, and he's apt to crouk, with a ghastly thud. If peradventuro he casts an eye, from his sedan, on tho footsore guy, he doubtless says to the chuff er bold, whose garb is eaged with a royal gold. "I wish like him, I could freely tread, and pack a stole and a feather bed; I would not envy th? stajl -fed man who journeys by in his green sedan!"

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