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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06
GREENSBORO

Miss Sarah Gambler returned from
Shirley after a few weeks visit with
her cousin Ruth Beeson.. Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Smith and family, Darwin,
Craig and Roy Williams motored to
Indianapolis Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ell Hill Of Spiceland spent Wednes-
day with the sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary
W. Hill and Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Smith.
-. Shannon Neff left for the annual
educational association at Pittsburg,
Penn, Monday evening and will make
a trip through the East before return
ing. .Verl Davis of Spiceland spent
Wednesday with Abner Bond and old
friends in Greensboro. "A large dele
cation attended the celebration at
Richmond Thursday. =. Mrs. Martha
Wisehart returned home after a few
days in Richmond the guests of rela-
tive and friends. -. The Red Cross
went over to Richmond in their decor
ated truck and marched in the parade.
-. Mr.. and Mrs. George Watts Of
Doddridge Chapel spent the Fourth of
July with his daughter and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Simpkins and
Paul and Alma Jean.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06

guests were Mr.. and Mrs. John Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark, Mr. and
Mrs. w. l.. Hahn, Misses Ada and Ella
Hall and William Hall of Dayton, Sam
uel Schlar Of Richmond, Va, Gilbert
Wrenn of Odessa, Fla, Mildred Clark
and Janice Hahn. Mr.. and Mrs Ray
Jordan motored to Crete Sunday and
spent the day. :. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Boyle and daughter, Imogene, OF Rich
mond spent the weekend with Mr..
Boyle's parents. ;. Local. friends OF
Miss Margaret Cunningham, Chicago.
will be sorry to hear that she was the
victim of an auto accident recently
and received severe injuries Her sis
ter, Mrs. T. j. Canny, has been at her
bedside since the day Of the accident
Miss Nettie Sinck will leave Fri
day to attend school in Indianapolis
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Brown and daugh-
ter were Sunday guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Earnest Brown and family.
On Friday evening the Eastern Star
lodge will have inspection and the mi
state inspector, besides several other
tation of nineteen candidates. The
out-of-town visitors, Is expected. A
banquet will be served and both the
banquet and the lodge work will be
in the X. Of P. hall because OF the
large crowd which is expected
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06
w. D. Foulke to Speak at
Opening of Milton Library

MILTON, Ind, July civilian
Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, will de-
liver an address at the formal opening
of the library rooms at Milton next
Tuesday evening. A special program
has been arranged and will be given in
the Christian church at o'clock.
Mrs. M. l.. Tweedy will lspeak on
Library Administration" followed by
an address by Mr.. Foulke. Responses
will be made by the Rev. Mr.. McCor-
mick Following the exercises, the H.
brary rooms will be thrown open.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06
Unlimited WAR
PROFITS SHOWN
IN U. S. REPORT
Figures Sent to Senate Show
Heavy Increases Made by
All Concerns.

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Some f1g-
ures on war profits were sent to the
Senate by the Treasury today In re-
Borah OF Idaho. calling for information
regarding profiteering.
Although some enormous profits were
shown, the letter said the report was
incomplete, that for the present the
names of the concerns listed were
withheld and that mo special signifi-
canoe" should be attached to the data,
as II was secured from income and ex-
cess profits returns as they were filed.
Information regarding capital stock.
invested capital, profits OF 1916 and
1917 and the percent of excess Of net
income for last year over 1916 was
given.
Increases Run High.
The dairy interests listed showed
profit increases from zero to $50 per-
cent; banks up to so percent; con-
tractors as high as 596 percent, and
iour mills as high as 437 percent.
The maximum increased profit list
ed, 2,1S3 percent, was Of a food dealer
with 1000 capital, who showed loss
Of 4S4 percent in 1916. Another food
concern with $325.000 made 3475 per
cent excess.
In clothing trades a concern with
100000 capital increased Its profits
Is percent; one with 100000 made
nothing, and one with $1,000 capital
reported 191 percent increased profits.
Chemical manufacturers capital and
profits, respectively, included $345, 900,
81 percent; 100000. none, and $780,
900, 50 percent
Some OF the -four mills capital and
profit increases reported were respec-
lively: $4,000, 112 percent; $4,000, 95
percent; 100000, 236 percent; profits
in 1915 being $4,000 and $260,O00 in
1917; $4,000 capital. 437 percent.
Data Are Missing.
Among meat packers data on none
of the larger concerns available.
Comparative capital and increased
profits OF electrical machinery manu-
facturers cited included $4,000. 21s
percent: $4,000. 81 percent: $1,000
900. 2.10 percent.
Figures on machine tool manufac-
turers included $4,140 capital, 422 per
cent increased profits; $4,000, 1888 per
cent; 100000, 513 percent; 100000,
81 percent.
Data regarding the coal trade show
ed 5O4 percent, increased profits Of a
company with $4,000 capital and
1915 percent for one with $2,OOO,O 900
capital.
Department Store Gains.
In the paper trade, profits ranged
from nothing to 176 percent increase.
Among department stores the fol-
lowing were shown: $4,000, 331 per
cent; $4,000. none; 100000, none.
Retail clothing trade statistics in
cluded the following: 100000 none;
100000, 81 percent; $4,000, 1T per
cent; $4,000, 1,181 percent.
A, concern listed under the heading
Coal. wood and lumber trades" with
s1,250.000 capital reported an 80 per
cent increase in profits.
In the liquor trade these compari-
sons were given: $4,000 capital, 1920
percent; 100000, none, and $1.O0O,O0O
1872 per cent.
In the grain and electrical storage
field, capital and profit increases in
cluded $4,000, 472 per cent; $249, 900,
81 per cent; $4,000, 2 percent
A garment manufacturer with 1884,.
600 capital reported 24s percent in
crease in profits.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06
MILITIA TEAM WILL
NOT PLAY TOMORROW

The Company X Militia team viii
not play Sunday Most of the players
will be out Of town and Manager Pen
tacost thought 1t best to have no
game.
The tie game between Richmond and
Liberty will be played off as son as
a date can be arranged
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06

and family. :. Mrs. Charley Richards
and daughters, Edna an dEthel. spent
last Sunday afternoon with Mrs. En-
est Ginger and family. Miss Hannah
Nossett, Miss Nonene Mikesell. Mr..
Guy Van Ormer and Mr.. Albert Swath-
ford spent Fourth of July in Eldorado.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06
Age 80, Shocks Wheat

HAGERSTOWN, Ind, July 6-Mar-
tin Ulrich. age eighty. farmer here,
celebrated his birthday anniversary
Wednesday by shocking wheat the en-.
tire day He said he wished to do
his bit to feed the allies in the war
and to help win the war. He has
been laborer in the field the present
season, assisting the neighboring far
mers who are short of help.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06

Clean the gas burners on gas
stove by boiling in water and potash
for an hour: keep the burners cover
ed with the water.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-06

Eiderdown bed covers can be restor-
ed to freshness by hanging in the sun
a few hours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Gangway for the Tank Men!

We understand that the order stopping
volunteer recruits until the new draft
registration is complete has cut off the
principal source of recruiting for the
tank corps, viz, volunteers over thirty
one. Since last March some seven or
eight thousand men have offered them
selves for this particularly difficult and
dangerous work. They are necessarily,
men Of mettle and daring, for the task
of the tanks is, on the whole, probably
as arduous and nothing like so thrilling
and spectacular as the most hazardous
exploits of the air. AS the dispatches
from the front have told, the new tactics
with these steel turtles are to send them
forward in the morning fogs or under a
dense smoke screen, where infantry or
cavalry could scarcely venture. 1t is
work that requires a cold-chisel kind of
nerve, and for this reason the tank corps
has sought to gain it's members by a
sharp self-selection rather than by rely
ing on allotments from the draft. 1t
would seem, therefore, that an execution
could we'll be made to the present order
so that the fine dare devils who want
this kind of action can have their wishes
satisfied.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
All American

Germany had not the slightest inter-
est in the primary contests that occurred
in this state yesterday. The Kaisers
Imperial Foreign Office would not give
q mark to know who on either side car
ried off the nomination for Governor.
All of the candidates were 100 per cent
American That was more important
even than their party affiliations The
attempt to put over alienism in the
camouflage of politics failed utterly. The
people simply would not stand for it. No
politician dared to touch it. Having been
repudiated at Saratoga in manner
which avoided even the mention of his
name, Hearst denounced his party's &C
ton as undemocratic, tried in vain to
give his support to one of the Republican
candidates, attacked the other one hys
terically, desisted on discovering that it
made him ludcrous, accepted the Demo
cratic candidate at last, and ended by
being as little excited over the outcome of
the primaries as in March he had pre-
tended to be cover the possible effects in
Europe of the present war"
, We congratulate Governor Whitman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04

East and Central Africa's hope German
exploitation would make the native of those
vast regions a new, a real terror to all the
peoples of the south and east who want to
live quietly in the world.
This African aspect of the German CO.
lonial question has not received the attcn-
ton it deserves. The wellbeing of the
whole of that vast continent demands
that from it Germany should be thrust
forth. Her presence there would certainly
change peaceful continent into a warlike
one; for there she has found countless
thousands of black men ready TO her mould
ing-the making of an immense army as
brave as any in the world.
So, sir, I would close this letter as I be-
gan it. German colonies must not be given
back. To surrender them would be to sur
render far more than the native races
though that would be crime. It would be
to mortgage the future of that vast CONT
nent, which, neglected and exploited by
other races, has not yet had its chance
Still more it would be to give back to Ger
many the very best opportunity possible to
build up with finest raw material ready to
her wicked hand a new and terrible war
machine, that might help her to the mas
terry of the East.
New York Aug %, 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
"The Great Blond Doer"

There was food for thought in DR..
David Orr Edson's article in last Sun
days Tribune on the contrasting func-
tons of the "blond" and "brunette' in
the everyday work Of the world. Very
broadly, DR.. Edson's observation is that
the active, energetic, driving, busting
part of the community tends to blue eyes
and fair hair. The more reflective, phil
osophica, methodical types tend, he
finds, to be dark of eye and feature. The
"doer" is generally found to have hump
in his nose, while other types tend to be
straight nosed or concave. One did not
have to read very far to see that these
terms are used in rather abstract
sense and that the average person
usually represents blend of both char
acteristics.
DR.. Edison chose President Wilson as
notable representative of this blond
"doer," while Secretary Baker was
chosen to represent the reflective and
philosophical. We fancy that many
readers who do not instinctively think of
doing" type may have felt some confu-
sion from this citation. 1t illustrates the
difficulty, as old as the tentative re-
searches of Gall, to establish hard and
fast relation between character and
physical peculiarties. 1t is an observa-
ton probably tens of thousands of years
older than Caesar that the blue-eyed are
conquering trace; but that there ever
was anything like a pure "blond race"
Aryan or other, has been put strongly
in doubt by the newer knowledge of pre-
historic man. Even in the most north
erly or arctic climcs we find the dis
tinctly brunette types, like the Esqui-
mau, while within the tropics are to be
found sporadic tribes of blends. Cesar,
as his name tells, was probably blue
eyed, and so was Napoleon, but both
came from peoples prevailingly of the
brunette order
But DR.. Edson's endeavor to correlate
certain distinct features with distinct
mental characteristics is in line with
modern mechanistic tendencies, and as
fast as these relationships are discovered
they can be put to eminently practical
uses. Our everyday world is full of
obvious insists, people trying hopelessly
to do what they are little called by nat
ural gifts to do. The world will be a
gamer and these misfts indicted into a
far happier and more useful life when
this new science can clearly predict the
probabilities Of success or failure for a
given individual in a given line Of work.
The usufruct would be immense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04

time when the whole world is common
stamping ground, when journey to
France is the usual thing now, and stay
at-homcs are out Of it all.
But here Wells hasn't quite played
fair. For after all that one sentence OF
his is monster, and most anybody could
say anything and go anywhere if he had
three hundred and three words at his
disposal. Wells always has taken liber
ties; his audacity runs ahead of us all
in every book he sets his pen to. But
that sentence-well, it isn't good to have
all your standards let down, even in war
times; there must be something Of the
old days left to venerate, even if it's only
the rule about subjects and predicates
and such things, and the decent length
of sentences.
But he's perfectly shameless, and does
not even propitiate with semicolons.
One lone semicolon in the second line,
and after that Peter goes racing on with
no obstacle save commas. Yet they say
European travel is difficult.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Step Up for the Skip-Stop!

The motorists had their first taste of
the wars economies last Sunday. AS a
similar measure in war economies the
government now asks those who do not
ride in motor cars to support and assist
IN the idea of the skip-stop for street.
cars and trolleys. The power needed to
start a car is three times that required
to run it to the next block, so that con-
siderable part Of the power for streetcar
operation is used up in making stops,
often at almost every corner. The gov
eminent asks that the stops be reduced
to eight per mile in the business districts
and four per mile in the open country.
Already in Chicago and other large
cities the skip-stop is now saving one
half million tons of coal year. For the
whole country it could be three times
this. And you are asked to think about
it in this way: The victorious prosecu-
ton of the war now waits on steel, for
ships and munitions. Every ton of steel
requires five tons of coal to make it and
haul it, so if you will support the skip
stop you will help save coal enough to
make several hundred thousand tons of
steel. And if this and great number of
other small economies planned are car
ried out promptly they will hardly need
to be in force possibly more than six or
eight months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Overalls Over All

1t is not often that mere men can make
any pronouncement on the subject of
women's dress and get away with it, but
that is what the members Of the City
Council of Bloomington, Ind, have done.
There is state law which forbids the
wearing Of loose clothing near machin-
ery-a very proper precaution where
women are concerned. SO the girls in a
furniture factory at Bloomington, fol-
lowing the rule Of safety first, put on
overalls. This was not very revolution
airy step, but it excited the wrath of "the
women members of reform organiza
tlon," especially when the girls wore
their overalls in the street. Fancy the
embarrassment, the shame, Of profess
slonal uplifters at this insidous attack
upon the public morals! "But, ma'am,"
said George Sampson when Mrs Wilfer
reproved him for referring to a petit
coat, 1--WE know it's there" The stern
moralists of Bloomington knew that
girls are bipeds, but they resented hav-
ing the fact emphasized by overalls
One may know SO many things if one
doesn't talk about them. =
AS an inland city Bloomington prob
ably has little experience of bathing
suits, or mere overalls would not have
created ripple on the surface of it's
moral appreciation. But the fight
waxed so hot that the law had to litter
vene. The girls stuck to their overalls;
the men backed them up in it; the May
or called special session of the City
Council, at which working women and
society women were present." and the
offending garments were formally sane
toned. We get faint echo of what
must have been an illuminating debate
in the brief statement that "the working
girls made it clear that they THOUGHT
overalls were more modest than manv of
the prevailing styles of womens dress"
We're it not that womens dress. what
ever style it follows, is always both mod
est and becoming, that might be called a
hit-a palpable hit. At all events. the
uplifters were voted down, as thew de-
served to be. 1t is difficult to think of
overalls as a graceful garment, but if a
woman may not dress as she peases the
world will never be made safe for democ-
racy Let us rejoice in the triumph of
good sense at Bloomington. Overalls
over ALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04

N7HEN dusk is glooming over France
w the phantom airmen fly,
A ghostly squadron of the clouds that sweep
the Flanders sky.
They haunt the fields of Picardy; they
know the Marne's red flood
The crimson poppies Of the plains are dyed
with their hearts blood
Like grim gray shades, their soundlcss
planes in battles angle lined.
Above their comrades trenches cross: and
ere they leave behind
The friends they love, they dip down low
then swiftly upward shoot
To pass the staff that held the Aag-a silent
proud salute.
Then on they fly beyond the lines that hold
the hated Huns;
Immune from searchlights' deadly stare and
eagle-hungry guns;
And each one fights his fights again, the
conflicts that he won,
Until the last, when from the sky his shat
tered pinons spun.
They are the men who died for France
who from the heavens blue
Crashed thunderbots that even Jove's red
anger never knew
They killed their foe, in turn were killed.
and died with smiling breath
Brave youths, who drained the cup Of Life
to pledge a toast to Death.
And every Allied fighting man who sees
their ghostly planes
Feels some new strength and courage surg
ing, thrilling through his veins;
But every German heart is chilled; the
phantom fliers drear
Plunge in his heart blade Of steel-a
vague and nameless fear
These noble souls, these vagrant spirits.
nevermore can rest,
But nightly through the fatal skies must
ever wing their quest;
They, may not know the endless peace NJ
Deaths sweet dreamless trance
Until the Hun is driven from the sacred
soil of France.
HARRY VARLEY.
Port Washington, L. L
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
MIR. Wells Set Free

Jules Verne may have been able to
circumvent the world in forty days, but
compared to H. g. Wells and the modern
way, what tedious journey was that!
For the great H. G. does it all in one
sentence; Peter, who is being educated
in the New Republic, fits around from
Harwich to Inter den Linden, over to
Moscow, into cathedrals and monasteres
and back again, all in the span of one
capital and one period. And, although
the reader may lose his breath in the
chase, he manages to catch up with the
young globe-trotter when he stops off at
Moscow to look at the church crosses and
speculate.
1t gives one a very cosmopolitan feel
ing to read this new thing of Wells's,
cncircling the world as it does. One
brides perceptibly at becoming so init
mate with the "Uspenski Cathedral"
Though who on earth knows where it
is?). One feels glow of sophistication
at lingering over the "Troitskaya mon
astery" (even though one isn't sure it
exists any more than the Zingu does).
One may gloat over the Tartar walters
with purple sashes' quite as one revels
in Sindbad and his companions of thor
oughly mythical tale. This leaping from
country to country is quite fitting at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
What MIR. du Pont Didn't Saw

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A considerable number of news
papers have published statement BIZ
Richard M. Hurd, president of the Ameri-
can Defence Society, severely criticising
Alfred l. du Pont for statement attributed
to him to the effect that the country would
trade fully with Germany after the war.
Mr.. du Pont probably has not seen these
criticisms, and | am not authorized to speak
for him, but since l was within hearing
when he commented on this subject | am
in position to say that he was misquoted
What may be said further very definitely
is that in our very first announcement we
stated the countries with which we would
be willing to trade, and excluded the Cen
trail Powers.
Mr. du Pont is chairman of the board of
this corporation. and this should be sufi-
cient answer to Mr.. Hurd's somewhat hastv
criticisms of unverified report.
PHILIP KOBBE
President of the Allied Industries CORPORA
ton.
New York, Aug. 20, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Mobilizing the Pockets

If the revenue bill now passing from
the hands Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee to the knees of Congress brings
the government little over eight billion
dollars, as intended, we shall be paying
perhaps somewhat more than one-third
of the cost of the war out of pocket as
we go. The balance has to be borrowed.
The proportion paid by taxation ought
to be very much higher, but at all events
it is rising, and if it shall continue to
rise until less than half the cost has to
be borrowed, many economic after-pains
will be easier to bear The hardest way to
pay for war is in the long run the
easiest and the cheapest.
The new revenue bill differs from the
last one mainly in these particulars: In
comes of all kinds are more heavily
taxed; there is war profits tax in addi-
ton to the excess profits tax, and luxu
ries, both of kind and quality, are made
to pay, not yet as they should, but still
in a measure that will not only yield
revenue but also reduce the use of vani-
ties and the consumption of non-essen-
tials. The bill as it comes from the Ways
and Means Committee embodies Mr.. Nc
Adoo's irreducible minimum of practical
ity. He was very aggressive consult
ing editor.