Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 36, 10 February 1923 — Page 6

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Seeds of Hatred The Ku Klux Klan has no place In American institutions, which are based on the theory of equal rights for alL The klan espouses religious bigotry and indoctrinates its members with class hatred. It believes that members of certain religious bodies are' better citizens than

those affiliated with the Catholic church. It

draws a line of demarkation on a religious basis,

as if adherence to one church body or to another

were the true test of citizenship, something

which the founders of our republic repudiated

forever when they asserted that every individual had the right to worship God according to the

dictates of his conscience.

The klan's animosity against members of

certain races also lacks a Justifying basis. The

constitution draws no racial lines, and the Civil

war was fought to liberate one race against whom the klan vents its spite. Insidious attacks

on members of races against whom the klan draws the line will inevitably lead to unrest and trouble. The friendly and harmonious relation

ship, which should exist between different races

living in the same country, gives way to mutual

distrust and hatred that are inimical to peace and welfare.

Whenever a community becomes divided over

religious and racial questions, which have no basis in fact, but are kindled and fanned by a body of men whose organizers are outsiders, a

community ceases to be a body of men and women seeking the common welfarel Harmonious action for the attainment of civic purposes is jeopardized and often fails to attain results. The klan denies that it is a disturbing ele

ment in a community and boasts of its co-operation with the authorities in enforcing the law. The recent invasion of Portland by Muncie klansmen, over the protest of the mayor that they were violating a city ordinance, is sufficient proof that law evasion is practiced by the klansmen. The Portland incident is all the more striking because members of the National Guard of that city marched at the side of the klansmen, ostensibly to protect the American flag, but in reality as a body guard for invaders from a neighboring city who were violating a Portland ordinance. The atrocious tragedy recently exposed in Louisiana is another illustration of what happens when a group of men places itself above the law.

Living Costs Rise and Fall at the Polls

By HERBERT KAUFMAN Copyright 1923 by King Feature Syndicate

Jason went to the Hesperides to find the Golden Fleece. The American Woolen company and associate tariff pets went to Washington. Forty-five percent wool duty means at least fire dollars advance on each medium grade man's suit and overcoat bought in "the next two years. Women and children ride In the same elevator. The glad tidings are from Mr. Morse, president of the Retail Clothiers association. "That famous outfit at ten dollars,' so dear and cheap to recent memory will, shortly cost from thirty-fire to forty. .. . . ' We begin to realize the result of changing Congress into a Rotary Club where every little Interest has a watch dog of its own. Stanfield, the 6 elf -confessed "greatest shepherd in the world," helped to draft and pass the firty-five percent schedule.

He's his own legislative collie. The Senate's quite a

convenience for the gentleman from Oregon. Democracies, however, deserve their administrators. Popular representatives are never superior to the judgment which selects them. Cure for all federal mismanagement is bottled in the ballot. If we won't use the cure, we must endure the consequences. Living costs rise and fall at the polls. A Big Public Watch Dog

The average farmer and hl3 family won't be much of a

tariff beneficitary according to Jesse Straus, president of

the National Dry Goods association. Mr. Straus is in a position to obtain very accurate In

formation on the subject. His association is probably the greatest distributing organization on earth. Its two thousand members employ four hundred thousand people and

purchase two and a quarter 'billion dollars worth of merchandise yearly.

Expert analysis and opinion from forty-eight states, Is

magna-voxed when he predicts "increased prices of manufactured product disproportionate to any increase in the

prices of agricultural products." Store keepers from all over the country, now compar

ing notes in New York, protest that "a comparatively small group of manufacturers without regard for common

prosperity, are the main beneficiaries of the Fordney-Mc Cumber bill.

This sounds suspiciously like more of the profiteering

suggested by recent outrageous stock dividends.

The retailer for some time under a cloud, went before

Congress, submitted records and secured a clean bill of

health.

Investigation proved that merchants were not boosting

markets then. And their investigators find no justification

lor rumored general advances now.

The public at least has this watch dog. - Smashing Some More Furniture. Thirty thousand garment workers have quite their machines. Among other grievances, they complain that their

employers refuse to permit an examination of balance

sheets.

Before making new contracts the operators want all the

facts and figures of the businesst

However, they do not promise to readjust their wages

as profits fluctuate.

The losses resulting from this strike, aa- from all sua

pensions of production will Immediately be charged in the

overhead and marked on the price ticket. The consumer

always pays for the furniture capital and labor smash.

Doll weevil and forest fires are just two wasting forces.

Industrial conflict is another. '

Public interest does not seem to concern the dress and

suit trade, any more than it bothers mine owners or

workers.

The one incessant problem of engineering Is the elim

ination of friction. Business is in the same boat.

Caroline Ribout's Collapsible Hat

For generations women have found it impossible to

carry an extra hat about except in a container or a trunk

Then a Parisienne thought of taking the wiring out.

She probably sat down and wondered, "What stunts

haven't been done yet in millinery? What are the objec

tions to present hats? What advantages can be added to

them? Or perhaps a customer suggested: "I'd like to

take another bonnet along. Cant you design one to slip

in a suitcase? I'm making a quick trip and don't want to

be burdened with a bandbox." There's room for constructive curiosity anywhere al ways a chance to do SOMETHING better. This Miracle Shop of Ours

The first men to make sails and wheels and pots and looms, and their descendants who puddled steel and de

signed cogs and created dynamos, also began to achieve

notably through wondering how things could be done

better.

They whetted imagination on possibility and sought

and wrough out until this earth changed from a raw rough chunk of star dust into the miracle shop from which

we nowleisurely and comfortably satisfy all requirements

You don't pause sufficiently to ponder why you are not still a mangy beast, leaping from tree to tree, grousing about marshes and prowling jungles, entirely dependent upon the careless mercies of nature for sustenance and

shelter.

If you realized oftener what an interminable procession

of efforts preceded the civilization to which you were born

your own, empty, undistinguished career might spur you

to a use of that cuckoo's nest of inherited ideas you call

a brain.

Until you in turn design a tool or improve a method, or

do something that a million available substitutes can't as

easily accomplish your time will be bought and sold at the

reigning market price of mediocrity. (Copyright 1923 by King Features Syndicate).

YOUR IMAGINATION By George Matthew Adams

You carry your imagination around with you all the time. Eut you don't get one-half of what it can give you. You probably are starving it. Or, perhaps, you are giving it a diet that it can only creep along on. What a tribute the world has to pay to the imagination of man.. That deathless bronze or painting, that towering building, the book which has kept you from sleep and work thrilling you to the bone and so all along the line. It is impossible to think of anything great and enduring that has not been, to a large degree, the product of the imagination of some man or woman. Most of your day is mapped out in your Imagination within the first hour after awakening. , You must first see what you want In your mind's eye, then command your will to bring it to pass. But it is important to give your imagination definite commissions. It must not be allowed to wander idly. Stimulate it with beauty, with music, and a love for the out-of-doors. Float, with it, to the uttermost parts of the earth. What an agency it is! Recently I took up a book about Japan, and for hours I was walking quaint streets, watching interesting people, feeling the sunshine as it bathed that gorgeous Oriental empire. Many time, when I do not feel very happy and am discouraged. I imagine that I am happy, that all i3 well, that I am greatly blessed and soon I am happy! Most of our ills are imagined ills and happiness that is not ours now might be ours, If we would use our imagination more. - '

MUSINGS FOR THE EVENING During the glacial period the Ice dealers had some difficulty in creating an "ice famine" but, being ice dealers, they probably managed somehow. UNRELIABLE HISTORY

"Bring me the morning paper,", commanded King Henrv VIII. "I want to see who it was I married last

night." , i NaDoleon. In Italy, watched "his 6oldTers dig a fortifi

cation. They unearthed an ancient Roman sarcophagus, filled with skeletons. Turning to Marshal Ney, the little pornoral said:

"See what fanatics can dol This place has gone bone

dry!" -

There is an argument whether men can work better, at night, when most people are asleep and there is little conflict of minds, or in the daytime, when all minds are active.- We have interviewed three or-four burglars on

R I P P LING RHYMES By Walt Mason The Game of Chance

I once was fond of betting and playing slot machines

and had some dreams of getting a roll by easy means.

backed full many a pony that never won a race, and bet on fighters phony who were the ring's disgrace. Sometimes I made a killing, and cleaned up iron men, but

sports were always willing to make me broke again. For years in chance I trusted, and joined the sporty crush, and nine days saw me busted, where one day found me flush. I found the gambling fever was sizzling through my trunk, so I applied the cleaver and killed that habit punk. I know a lot of .stagers with get-rich-easy aims, they're always ripe for wagers, and little quiet games; and they are men of sorrow, with bandogs at their heels; they know not if tomorrow will bring them beds and meals. I do not bet or gamble or spend long hours in play, and to the bank I amble with bundles every day. The packages are smaller than misers might design, but every hard-earned dollar is safely put in brine; and when I'm sick and silly, my timbrel out of tune, and age comes, bleak and chilly, this coin will be a boon. Where one gets rich by gambling ten thousand try in vain, and we behold them rambling adown the poorehouse lane.

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During the month of January more mortgages were released on farm lots than weie mortgaged. The mortgages amounted to $3,650 and mortgages released amounted to $36,945. This could not be said of school fund mortgages as $8,000 in mortgages were recorded while $7,500 were re

leased. Chattel mortgages amounting

to $8,249 were recorded while $4,932 were released.

After Dinner Stories "What kind of a man is he, good, bad or indifferent?" "Well that depends a good deal on who is on the other end of the plank with him." "What do you mean?" "Well, of you size him up with Judas Iscariot, he looms up middlin' fair; but whenvou come to set him down between pich fellows as you an" me, he does dwindle terrible surprisin' he does, for a fact.

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Top. French military engineers repairing damaged turntable at Dnsseldorf. Below, railway yards at Dasaeldorf where strikers abandoned trains.

French determination may yet overcome the German policy of "passive resistance." Engineers tre repairing the railroad dam-

t;e don j by strikers and French crews are operating the trains. Orders to "shoot to kill" have been i-aucd to French troops if

tLey find anyone cOiiimi.tlng acts of sabotage. These orJers are expected u keep strikers from damaging railroads.

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No. 411 The MyvUc Croat Cut out the diagram shown In Figure 1, or draw a larger cross on piece of cardboard. When the cross is cut along the dotted lines it will make five sections, as shown in' Figure 2. Hand th five pieces to some one, and ask him to put them together that they form a cross. He will find the task next to impossible. The secret, of course, lies In arranging the five plecea as shown In Figure 1. But even after you have demonstrated the method, If you quickly disarrange the pieces again, your victim will still be unable to solve the trick. Copyright, if SJ. fcy FuhHo L4gr Cwnpa

Historic Blandford Churchyard Many Historic Events are Recalled by Visit to Old Church 1 in Petersburg.

Blue blood was the only thing Mrp. Newriche had not been able to buy. but she had made up for the lack of it by scraping acquaintances with any titled people she came across.

At ' an afternoon party she met a

friend of similar social ambitions.

"Oh, Miss Tuf hunter," she exclaim

ed, 'such, good news! You'll die of envy!"

"Well, out with it," the friend

sneered.'

"Why, my dear," said Mrs. New

riche, "Amy has caught the flu from

the dear duchess!"

Lessons in Correct English DONT SAY: 3 T have several RELATIONS In Bos

ton.

Have you -any RELATIONS In this country? I spend the winter with. RELATIONS In the East. She is a RELATION of mine. He is the only RELATION that she has. say: I have several relatives In Boston. Have you any RELATIVES in this country? I spend the winter with RELATIVES in the East She is a relative of mine. He is the only RELATIVE that she has.

this subject and they all seem to favor the night hours for concentration of their mental faculties. v

When Stephenson put down the wooden rails and began experimenting with the world's first locomotive, every one openly derided him and declared him crazy and called his locomotive an animated tea kettle. "I should worry," mused Stephenson, "so long as it isn't a flivver."

The New York woman who has divorced her husband for the second time probably has Just naturally lost her taste for that man.

At Columbia university they are now testing the mental alertness of students, gauging their brain power almost like horsepower. " It might be better to gauge it like horse sense.

THOSE VERSATILE CHICKENS "I have been instructed by the village council to enforce the ordinance against chickens running at large and riding bicycles on the sidewalk." Red Deer Advance, Alberta, Canada.

Undoubtedly there are many things to be said in favor of the income tax, but, Just at the moment, we cannot think of any of them. -

A man in a western state who moved there from the east to prospect for oil was a regular oil fan and could think of nothing else. He found a likely place, and bored, but struck a rich vein of gold instead of oil. His disappointment was so keen that he shot himself.

Answers to Questions (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Palladium

inrormatlon Bureau. Frederick J. Hask in, director. Washington. D. C - This of

fer applies strictly to information. The

oureau does not eive advice on lesral

medical and financial matters . It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write .voir question plainly and briefly Give fult rame and

aanress and enclose two cents !n stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the Inquirer. Q. How can I estimate the number of tons of ice ' that can be cut on a pond? H F. C. A. It depends upon the thickness of the ice. When the ice is eight inches thick, it will take 12.5 cakes 22x22 inches to make a ton This is 52.6 squa-e feet of cutting space. If the ice is only four inches thick it will take 105.6 square feet to yield a ton of ice. Theie will be 31.3 cakes. Q When was the pipeline for

transporting oil fis used? M. Y.

A General S. D. Ka.nes, of Park-

ersburg. W Va. firi sugeested pipe lines in I860 but thev were not de-

vp'oped and successfully operated until 10 years 'ater. Q How long did America fight in the Wo-ld wnr? :T. A. A. The American participation in

the World war was 19 months. Thev

had 200 days of battle.

Q. When was the piano invented?

F. K. C. A. The first tru pianoforte, as now understood by that term was in

vented bv Bartolommeo Christofori, a Paduan harpischord maker, in Florence, about 1709. Theie are two grand pianos still in existence, made by Crietofori, and dated respectively 1720 and 1726. Q. Which-is the coldest month .of the year in the United States. A. The weather bureau fays that January is usually the coldest month of the year. The coldest weather oc curs in the northern parts of North Dakota and Minnesota, where the average temperature for the month is about zero, while the worruest January is found in southern Florida, with an average of 60 degrees Farenheit. Q. Is there such a thing as a "thunder and lightning snake"? J. N. S. A. The pine snake, or bull snake, prevalent in the pine covered coastal region from New Jersey southward, in some localities is known as the thunder and lightning snake. Q. What is the smallest country? A. C. 0. A. The republic of San Marino is regarded as the smallest country in

Br FREDERICK J. HASKIX ; PETERSBURG, Va., Feb. 10. When a stranger in Petersburg meets an old inhabitant he Is sure to be asked eagerly, "Have you seen Blandford?" As a result of this spontaneous press agent work on the part of Petersburg citizens, few visitors leave town without seeing' Blandford, and the fame of old Blanford church and its historic graveyard steadily increases. Five minutes ride from the center of the town you come upon a little colonial brick chapel, overgrown with English ivy. The church is freshly painted, and 11 fine stained glass windows make it a shrine for art lovers as well as students of the past. About the little church is a neatly kept lawn dotted with old and crumbling tombstones. This is Blanford, It is a bit of Colonial Virginia. Legends on the stones tell of men and women born in England. Scotland and Ireland who came to Virginia before the Revolutionary war. Blandford was once the most important and fashionable section of Petersburg. To its church in preRevolutionary days Virginians of wealth and culture gathered on Sundays for worship. The high old pulpit, like a watch tower, still stands in the church. You can imagine the

silk and satin clad colonials sitting in three wings of the cross shaped chapel and the rector bending from his

carved balcony to counsel his parishioners regarding their duty in those

troublous times.

The chapel was abandoned as old in 1800, when the National capital was just being established at Washington. But the history of Blandford was not complete. The dead of three more wars were to be added to the revolutionary heroes in the churehvard, and one of the hottest battles of the Civil war was to be fought close enough to the church to damage its walls and break the old gravestones. After that siege, 25,000 Confederate

dead were laid to rest in Blandford cemetery, and the chapel was left a picturesque ruin of the war with ivy growing over its broken walls." About 20 years ago the chapel was carefully restored and painted and its vines trimmed. Eleven stained glass windows were presented by the southern states. Blandford became formally a memorial chapel to the Confederate dead. English Officer Buried There Petersburg calls Blandford unique, and it has facts to back the claim. For one thing, one corner of the churchyard holds the body of the only

British officer ever buried abroad before the recent World war. England, it seems, had always the policy of bringing all her officers home for Burial. But during the revolution. General William Phillips was taken' ill with fever while Petersburg was a center of fighting. Cannon balls weie falling around BolUngbrook Mansion where the general lay, and he was removed to the basement for safety. The old coloiexl cook. Molly was accidentally killed by a ball as she stood in the doorway with the geneial's dinner in her hands.. Phillips died and was buried at Blandford. But because local senti

ment was strong against him, it was said that old Molly was buried over his grave, so that his body might not be found and desecrated. When steps were taken to remove the general to England, the body could not be located. The whereabouts of General Phillips became one of the mysteries of the day a persistent mystery. The British had to abandon the quest. Shortly before the recent war, however, the British government was reminded of the strange fact that an English general lay under American sod and another request for the missing officer was sent. But Phillips, called by Jefferson the proudest man of the proudest 'nation on earth, lay in an unmarked and forgotten grave. A fire in 1843 had destroyed the oldest records of the churchyard, and the story of old Molly was vague tradition.

It was finally agreed that the general must remain in Blandford, and the D. A. R. put a stone to his memory, close by the church. The devotion of two children for one another, the tragedy of an unrequited love, affairs of honor fought to the death, and the early signs of American democracy can be read in the old stones of Blandford. Cocslcan Tragedy

Is Recalled The tragic lover of the churchyard was a Corsican named Antomatti, who in 1844 made himself famous in the history of Petersburg by shooting himself in the Blandford chapel. He was buried outside the churchyard in accordance with the custom forbidding a suicide to lie in consecrated ground. His story became known back in Corsica, It appealed to friends in that land of violent love affairs, and money was raised for a headstone. The inscription is practically unreadable now. It said: "Honor was hi3 only vice." Two duels were fought in the churchyard. Apparently being killed

by some one else for love of honor was not regarded with the same moral aversion as killing oneself, for several

duelists lie buried near the church. The aristocratic colonials of Blandford lie beneath tables of stone with their coat of arms and their virtues chiseled into the slabs. Evn here, however, the approach of American democracy is seen. Some of the small stones of the plainer citizens are marked proudly with the fact that th? deceased was-a grocer or a merchant. These stones and stories are historic but Blandford is chiefly remembered as a war cemetery. It is a quiet place, yet on every hand ;vo associations of fighting and bloodshed. Old stones are chipped by shel's-. Fighters of four American wars lie under stones carved with the weapons of their victories. On a hillside of the cemetery is a monument to t'le unknown Confederate dead, surrounded by markers to group those who fell according to states. The McRae shaft, called the mot-t warlike monument in America, is in this cemetery. This shaft was erected to the Petersburg men who went to Canada to fight in the war of 1812. A bronze war eagle surmounts the stone, and on one side is carved the

order of the war department in 1S13

praising the little band of volunteers

and regretting that their term of enlistment was over. The order states

that they "have for 12 months borne

hardships and privations "of military life in the midst of an unhospitaole

wilderness with a cheerfulness and

alacrity which, have never been sur

passed." The enclosure about the monument is decorated with sabers,

flint lock muskets, ammunition boxes.

laurel wreaths, battle axes and the

American shield.

Blandford is connected with the re

cent war in a new way. Petersburg has planted trees in a memorial avenue stretching toward Blandford, and

at the foot of every tree is a bronze marker to a Petersburg boy who fought and fell In the World war.

the world. It lies in the peninsula of Italy near the Adriadic coast. Its area is 38 square miles; its population in 1910 was 10,489. Q. What is meant by a brace game? D. T. E. A. This is a card term given to a conspiracy between the dealer and the case keeper at Faro, when cards are improperly taken from the dealing box to be properly marked by the case-

A D VER TI SEME XT.

CURED HIS RHEUMATISM

"I am eighty-three years old and I doctored for rheumatism ever since I

came out or me army, over 50 years

ago. J.iKe many others, I spent money

freely for so-called cures and I have read about 'Uric Acid' until I could

almost taste it. I could not sleep

nignts or waiK wnnout pain; mv hands were so sore and stiff I could not hold a pen. But now I am again in active business and can walk with east, re

write ail day with comfort. Friends are surprised at the change." You might just as well attempt to put out a fire with oil as try to get rid of your rheumatism, neuritis and like complaints bv taking treatment supposed to drive Uric Acid out of your blood and body It took Mr. Ashelman fifty years to find out the truth. He learned how to e-et

rid of the true cause of his rheumatism other disorders. and recover his strength from "The Inner Mysteries" now being distributed free bv an authority who devoted over twenty years to the scientific study of this trouble. If an v -reader of "The Palladium" wishes "The Inner Mysteries of Ilheumatims" containing facts overlooked bv doctors and scientists for centuries past, simplv send a post card or letter to It. P. Clearwater. Xo. 3S4-F Street, Hallowell. Maine. Send now, lest von forget! If not a sufferer, out out this notice and hand this good news and opportunity to some afflicted friend. All who send will receive it by return mail without any charge whatever. Advertisement.

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