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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
RANGERS
TO BE ENLISTED
FOR HOME DUTY
Automobile Owners of Indi-
ana to Form Part of State
Militia.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 29.--"Gasoline
Rangers"-motor car owners enlisted,
with their autos, for military transport
service, subject to the emergency call
Of the GOvernor-are to form new
and important branch of the Indiana
state militia now being organized by
the protection department of the State
Council of Defense under the authority
of Adjutant General Harry B. Smith
and Governor James P Goodrich
Indianapolis car owners have taken
the lead under the direction of George
Harvey of the protection section Of
the State Council of Defense, and en-
listments are being made rapidly, with
prospects of an early offer of services
to the Governor
The purpose is to organize auto
owners throughout Indianapolis and
over the state, subject to military
emergency call. and to use the cars
and drivers SO enlisted whenever and
wherever they may be needed within
the state to carry militia forces to
points where trouble or disaster
menaces the public safety.
The autos will be used for militia
or for other military forces when
needed. For example, in a case such
as the tornado at Newcastle, where
troops were needed in a rush, a mobile
corps such as the Gasoline Rangers"
now being formed in Indianapolis
could have been modified at the
Monument circle, bodies of troops
could have been loaded Immediately
in the motor cars at that point and
the needed soldiery could have been
on duty at the emergency zone in
brief hour or two from the time of
the first distress signal
Oklahoma is abreast of Indiana in
starting an organization of motor car
owners for service in the war emer-
gency. 1t is the purpose of the Okla
homa movement to put every auto in
that state at the call Of the nation.
The organization is being pushed by
the Oklahoma Automobile association.
The Oklahoma idea includes the en-
ployment Of the autos for Liberty
Loan, Red Cross and other war drives.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
WANT WOMEN coPPERs

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-One of the
first petitions to be presented to the
new city administration when it takes
office on Jan. /, will contain a request
of the Council of WOmen's organiza-
ton of New York city, that ten wom-
en- protective officers be appointed to
the police force. AT meeting of the
council. at which more than 325 Or
CARNATIONS were represented. en-
phasis was laid upon the need for
women protective officers to supple
ment the work of the police and meet
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
Officer Christens Man,
Then Takes Him for Macy

DALLAS, Tex. Dec. 29.-The chief
yeoman at the naval recruiting sta
ton here faced puzzle when youna
man, almost perfect physically. blu,
who said he did not know his name
knew OF no place to call home, and
could not remember ever having seen
his parents. applied for enlistment in
the navy. The only name he knew
according to applicant, was "Puddy."
The chief yeoman entertained seri-
Gus doubts as to whether he could
accept the man, but at the insistence
OF the applicant callec m Capt. Walter
Ball. chief recruiting officer. After
hearing the mans story, Captain Ball
said:
Il now christen you John Puddy,
aged Is, and tell you that your home
Is in Fort Worth
John Puddy was accepted today as
an apprentice seaman.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
"A Stubborn CouQh
Lo0seras Right Up
Thls homemade remedy fr a wonder
for quick results. Easily and
Cheapiy made.

The prompt and positive action of this
simple. Inexpensive homemade remedy
in quickly healing the inf1smed or swollen
membranes of the throat. chest or bron-
chlal tubes and breaking up tight
coughs. has caused it to be used in more
homes than any other cough remedy.
Under it's healing. soothing influence,
chest soreness goes, phlegm loosens,
breathing becomes easier, tickling in
throat stops and YOU get good night S
restful sleep. The usual throat and
chest colds are conquered by it in %
hours Or less. Nothing better for bron-
chitis, hoarseness, Group, whooping
cough. bronchial asthma or winter
coughs.
To make this splendid cough syrup,
pour 2l2 ounces of Pinex $50 cents
worth. into a pint bottle and fill the
bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup
and shake thoroughly. You then have
a full pint--a family supply-cf much
better cough syrup than you could buy
ready made for $3.50. Keeps perfectly
and children love it's pleasant taste.
Pinex is a special and highly concen-
trated compound of genuine Norway
pine extract, and is known the world
over for its promptness. ease and cer-
tainty in overcoming stubborn coughs
and chest colds.
To avoid disappointment ask your
druggist for "21a ounces of Pinex" with
full directions, and don't accept any,
thing else. Guaranteed to give absolute
satisfaction or money promptly refunded.
The Pinex Co.. TT. Wayne. Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
Retailers Selling
to Hotels ClGssed
as Wholesalers Nou

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 29-Any gro
Ger supplying hotel is classed as q
wholesaler and must have 4 license
under the federal food control act, &C
cording to advices just received by
Harry e. Barnard, federal food admin
ist1ator, for Indiana.
The ruling came from the legal de-
partment of the federal administra-
ton, which holds that the food coz
troll should obtain as much with refer
ence to this class of retailers, even
though many of them may he small,
as exists in reference to the dealers
whose sales total 100000 per year
County food administrators in Indi-
ana have been advised by Dr. Barnard
to see to it that all retailers conform
to this regulation and secure federal
licenses at once.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
Cutting Down on the Non-Essentials

LBy Edward Hungerford Of The vgilantesl
man coming into one of the large New York
hotels today, for the first time in some months.
would not gain very vivid impression that the
country was at war; involved in one of the very
great crises of its existence. True it is that the
dining-rooms are draped in flags, that Mr. Hoov-
er's injunctions are solemnly spread upon the
menu-cards, that officers in khaki seated here
and there and everywhere and that all rise upon
the playing of the national anthem. These evil
dences of patriotism not difficult. An effort,
more or less successful, has been made to close
restaurant and cabaret festivities at one o'clock
in the morning. But that is about all Jazz
bands still bang out their discordant melodies in
the cheap places, with softer-toned orchestras for
the more expensive ones. There is gaiety N the
air. And prosperity to sign the check.
We're keeping them cheered up said the
sleek proprietor Of the restaurant, with wink
you know. Business usual
But he means, pleasure usual"
Go over upon Fifth Avenue. The press of
limousnes is as great as in any other December;
perhaps even greater. Cars run in second-speed
all the way from Thirty-third street to Sixty
third and there is tremendous wastage of gaso-
lene What matters it that the president of one
of the very largest of our oil companies warns us
that we are using gasolene far faster than we are
producing it. that there is less than five years re-
serve remaining and that soon we will have to be-
gin putting side large amount of the best pro-
duct for that great aviation fleet which is to
be Americas chief contribution to the war?
Does that worry the men in any one of those
cars? AS for that matter does it worry you IN
yours? Is it any of your business that there are
$4,000 men-nearly ten full-sized regments-to-
day engaged in driving private pleasure automo-
biles in the city of New York; perhaps twice that
number elsewhere in the country. Is that your
business-or mine"
Is it any of our business that we cannot manu-
facture monographs rapidly enough to fill the
demand at this time that it is big season in
furs; that florists never had a better year?
Should we not rejoice that the non-essentials are
doing so we'll in these bitter times?
Why not business as usual?
England can answer that question.
She went through the same performances?
She tried to stretch her industrial productivity
despite great shortage of man-power-intoI
making an increased output of both essentials
and non-essentials. and failed We shall fail if
we persist in trying to do the same thing. Only
in our case such failure would be more
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
OKH@5PaT
|df,f@M9Mn}ott|
n Nou KWouHon.

II | use some choice quotations
Think not i'll of me for that
General Pershing has established a
second base. Though it sounds like a
baseball game we trust there will be
no short stop.
EXCESS BAGGAGE.
President of vassar says some beau
tiful girls are brainy. . -.
But brains are always like side
line when girl is beautiful.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29

In compliance with Food Admins
traitor Hoover's request for all posi-
BILE conservation of sugar, the Kansas
ice cream manufacturers, represent
ing practically all of the large manu-
facturers in the state, have voted to
manufacture 10 more sherbets or ices
as long DIS the country is at war
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29

So prolific was the Island of Min.
doro, in the Philippines, at one time
in the production of rice that it was
popularity called "the granary Of the
Philippines" Sugar, cotton, hemp and
other crops thrive on the island when
properly cultivated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
III n n e =
s or / e -

While driving to the city one morn
ing a short time ago Cy Pretlow met
a neighboring farmer. and they paused
to talk over their crops, each striving
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29

to Guido the other Presently their
conversation turned into another
channel, whereupon Cy asked:
Are you In the market for good
horse, Eb?"
"You know me, Cy. Always ready
to dicker."
well, here's the critter. She's
sound and gentle; any woman can
drive her. She's yours at rock bottom
price"
Fb gathered up his lines prepare
tory to starting, at the same time
replying:
well, Cy, I'd buy her this morning,
but hate to bust a dollar
Two insurance agents "a Yankee
and an Englishman were Dragging
about their rival methods The Brit
Usher was holding forth on the system
of prompt payment carried out by his
people-no trouble, no fuss, no attempt
to wriggle out of settlement.
eff the man died tonight" he con-
tinued, his widow would receive her
money by the first post tomorrow
morning"
you don't say" drawled the
Yankee. See here, now; you talk of
prompt payment! WAL, our office is
on the third floor of a building forty
lived in that forty-ninth story, and he
fell out of the window. We handed
him his check az he passed"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
IN THE CLOAMiNC.

In the cleaning, 0, my darling.
| 60 down the cellar stair
With the coal hod to bring up some
OF the anthracite that's there.
am clad in my pajamas
And my faltering feet are bare.
And my teeth ever chatter
From the frost that's in the air
In the cleaning, o, my darling,
When | see where | am at,
When it's darker than dungeon,
And when ! as quick as scat
Tumble headlong with the scuttle
And land headiirst on the cat,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
A LITTLE SLICE O. LIFE.

A LITTLE SLICE o. LIFE.
One of the nieces had been away
For long time taking course in
Domestic Science at a school near
After she had finished her course she
came home
And the relatives gathered all round
To enjoy some swell eats. for the ad-
vance
Notices she had sent US had been very
favorable.
The young lady didn't exactly hate
1.r own cooking.
We had visions, and we revcled in
them.
One evening. shortly after she got
home,
She prepared the meal, and we all
gathered round.
The piece de resistance was cheese
rankin.
a cheese rankin, as ! take it, is
Piece of asphalt pavement esrnished
with parsley.
The stage settings were immense, but
the rankin
That is something else again.
The ten Of US managed to blast off
about one.third
OF it, and we were all chewing on It
when we started home.
The next day Uncle Peter had the
doctor,
And now he has a fifty.ffty chance.
Uncle Jake hasn't been down to his
office,
Three aunts are confined to their beds
What's the idea-domestic science?
Il is more like domestic suicide
More frightfullness.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29

new situations arising from war con-
dirions.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13

and consumes more mailorder whisky
than any other member of the Bap-i
fist church in this county, is doing a
poor business. His store is dirty and
dusty. 1t is wonder he has any bus
mess at all.
Rev. Sly preached last Sunday
right at the Christian church. His
sermon was punk and uninteresting,
except some stuff ne quoted from Bob
IngersoIl, for which he failed to give
Bob any credit. He also recited a
few passages from one of William
Ebert Munsey's sermons and had the
gall to palm it off as his own.
Dave Charter died at his home two
miles north of this place, last Thurs
day night. Dock Holderness, who is
an old friend of the family, attended
him few minutes before he expired.
He gave it out that Dave died of heart
failure. That is lie. Dave died
from drinking too much of very
poor grade of mail order ticker. This
paper prints the truth.
Tom Spradlin married Miss Cordie
Meador last trades day at the coun-
ty seat. 1t amt generally known, but
the marriage was brought about
mainly by Remington shotgun man
ipulated by the brides father, Tom
concludin' that marryin' was the
healthiest thing he could do until
other arrangements could be made.
Roger Lloyd, cashier of the State
Bank at Willow Grove, died Wednes-
day evening and was buried Friday
by the Odd Fellows in Pleasant
Mound cemetery. He has been tax
ing this paper seven years and so far
hasn't paid US cent; we thinking
that he being banker, would pay
some time. We will sell the account
for two bits worth of fresh greens.
Married: Miss Susie Scruggs and
Horace Guffin, last Saturday, at the
Methodist parsonage, Rev. James c
Williams officiating. The bride is
very ordinary town girl who fiirt:
with all the travelling men she meet.
and never helped her mother three
days all put together in her whole
life. She is anything but beauty
resembling a gravel pit in the face
and walks like duck. The groom il
a natural-born loafer and bum. HI
never did a lick of work until hi
stepdaddy run him off from home las
fall. He went to the county seat. an,
just before starving to death, accept
ed a job as chambermaid in liver
stable. AS soon as his ma found on
where he was, she went and got hir
and brought him home. He now re
sides at the home of his wife's fathe
and says that he has no definite plan
for the future. Susie will have
hard row to hoe.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
CLIFF STANDS UP
FOR HIS COUNTY

Editor Star: In your heading re-
garding the Bowers and Seminole
county board of public instruction af-
fair, think that you were just lit
tie too severe when you speak of the
Seminole county board of public in
struction being dominated by "relig-
ious bigots." / have known prac-
tically the entire board since my
youngest boyhood days and know
them all to be good, clean, hard
thinking, Christian gentlemen, and
know they are doing what they feel
is best for the schools.
Religion is subject very seldom, il
ever, brought up before the board
and all of the members of the board
are broad and open-minded on the
subject. The system of schools in
Seminole county is worthy of the
pride of any county and the people
have chosen well l think in THEN
present board.
Knowing you as / do / know you
would do no man or body of men ar
injustice knowingly, so ! write thi:
simply to correct an impression yor
may have regarding this body of mer
on account of the stand they have
taken on subject that every mar
has right to judge for himself.
Very sincerely yours,
Cliff Peabody.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
TOO MUCH TRUTH

We poor newspaper men are con-
tinually being abused because we do
so often try to gloss things over in
stead of telling the unornamented
truth. The following from the Dali
las Pitchfork may put some of our
friends wise to how the undiluted
facts would sometimes look in print:
A West Texas editor got tired of
being called a ''liar" because of an oc-
casional typographical error or slight
disarrangement of the facts in pub
fishing commonplace news item. In
his wrath, he announced in boldface
type as follows:
"A lot of people in this town fall
out with the editor and brand him as
liar when the ordinary human mis-
takes of life show up in newspaper.
You have little charity and fellow
feelin' for every man in town but
your editor. You claim that you want
the facts, and I'D if ] don't give
'em to you. Read the next issue of
this sheet and you'll see some facts
with the bark off. I'll admit that l
have been a liar, an editorial liar,
ever since have been editing this
sheet, but have never printed lie
in these columns except to save some
body's feelings from being hurt. I'm
not afraid of any of you and I'll be
dad blamed if don't print the plain
truth from now on, or until you get
out of the habit of calling me liar
every time / make some little un-
avoidable typographical error. Watch
my smoke"
Here are some of the paragraphs,
culled from the next issue.
John Bennin, the LATEST merchant
in town, made trip to Belleville yes
terday.
John CoyIe, our groceryman, who
voted with the republicans in 1896,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
TEMPERANCE NOTES
(By the National Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union)
FROM WASHINGTON TO WASH
INGTON.

Five years ago there were nine dry
states, and it had taken over sixty
years to get them. Now there are
twenty-six, the District of Columbia
and Alaska, with at least two states
10 vote upon statewide prohibition
November next. One may now take a
transcontinental trip from Washington
city to Washington state, from Chesa-
peake bay to Puget sound, on a high
way curve that is not merely dry
but, thanks to the Sixty-fourth con
gress, "bone-dry." And one may jour
ney in a straight line from the north
pole to the Gulf of Mexico on abso.
lutely dry land and water and ice
Texas has the only wet land on the
route, and so much of that state is
dry that the traveller can easily avoid
the wet spots.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
CAN YOU BEAT THIS?

Can any county in Florida beat
this for cotton? A Hawthorne COM
pany has 400 acres in cotton on the
Anthony Farms Company's land in a
solid body. 1t is as high as a tall
mans head and literally covered with
bolls and bloom, many of the bolls
ready to open. The cotton field is a
beauty and has been given the best OF
work and attention. Speculation is
rife as to whether it will make a bale
to the acre or half that much. Either
means big money.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
PEOPLE OF SEMINOLE
ARE TO BE PITIED

A few weeks ago, we admitted to
the Star an article from Mr.. K. b..
Bowers, expressing his views on theo-l
logical subjects. We did not agree
with the article; some parts of it we
thought unreasonable, but it was in
teresting, and we could see no harm
in printing it. Rev. J. r. Herndon OF
this city replied to it, and we sup
posed the matter was ended.
It appears however that the article
has been submitted to the board OF
instruction of Seminole county, and
the said board has in consequence de-
cided that Mr.. Bowers is not proper
person to teach children, and has de-
cided not to fulfill an agreement that
it had with him to act as principal of
the Sanford schools.
We are not particularly sorry for
Mr.. Bowers. He can obtain better
situation. Only a few days before he
left here, he had turned down much
better offer from g. town in another
state, on account of his agreement
with the officials of Seminole county.
He was faithful to his implied con-
tract, altho it was to his pecuniary
loss. The officials of Seminole are
unfaithful to their agreement for a
reason that the constitution of their
country declares is out of their prov
ince.
We should not want Mr.. Bowers to
teach any of his theological ideas to
children in a public school. And we
should not want a Protestant preach
er, Catholic priest, Jewish rabbi,
an agnostic or an infdel to express
his views. The public schools are no
place for any but secular instruction.
All kinds of people send their children
to them, all are taxed to keep them
up, and the religious beliefs or dis
beliefs of any or all should not be ex-
pressed in them.
1t is rank bigotry however to say
that because a man teaches in the
public schools that he shall not have
his own ideas on religion, and that he
shall not be permitted to express
them to his friends, or in the press.
1t is not on record that Mr.. Bowers
has ever violated the ethics of public
school teaching. He taught for 8
while in the Ocala high school. This
superintendent of public instruction
of this county has just informed VI
that Mr.. Bowers was good teacher
and that while he was in Ocala he di'
nothing that the school authorize
could object to.
During his residence in this city, h
was regarded as good citizen, an
won the sincere friendship of many
His practical persecution by tn
school authorities Of Seminole wi
win him many more.
We are sorry for the people 0
Seminole. Their school board ha
shown that it is tainted with tn
bigotry of the seventeenth century
that its members think they are teach
ing Sunday schools instead of publ
schools. For that matter, Mr.. Bow
ers has been good Sunday schoc
worker, trying to help lead childre
in the path of kindness and truth. A
his discussions on theology have bee
with grown men and women, who al
not supposed to be in need of schot
board members as chaperones.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
A QUESTION OF HEALTH.

Alcoholism, remarks an exchange,
has long ceased to be question of
morals. 1t is now recognized as one
of the country's most important health
problems. This is why all over the
country we find health officials preach
ing against the excessive use of aico-
holic stimulants and indeed, urging
total abstinence as the surest way of
,prolonging life and insuring bodily
health and vigor.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
WAGES INCREASE IN PRoHI5l.
TON. STATES.

The labor department estimates that
wages among miners in Colorado in
creased during 1916 from 10 TO 20 per
cent. In Arizona, among miners, the
increase was at least % per cent, and
among the paper and textile workers
at Maine, 10 per cent. The monthly
pay roll among 10000 miners in the
prohibition state of West Virginia in
creased by $4,000.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13

The backrooms of AS saloons in Chi
cago are said to contribute to- the de-
Iinquency of more than 1,400 girls
every "a hours, according to the Chica-
go Tribune. This was the conclusion
reached by an investigator of the
South Side Woman's clubs of Chicago.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
MARE FOR SALE

One nice b. mare, in perfect con-
dition; work anywhere; any woman or
child can drive her; 10 years old.
Cheap for cash. Address S. H. Cauth-
en-. Summerfeld, Fla. 2-6t
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13

We're in business for YOUR health,
and fill your prescriptions just as
your physician orders them. Prompt
service and pure drugs. The Court
Pharmacy. Phone ga. 15-H