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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
eSPUr
o1MeN1Or1Qnt
PANCAkElESS DAY

According to a western paper, Bro.
Hoover has, through the proper chan
nels. requested all householders to
refrain from making griddle cakes and
pies. OF course. such request is
equivalent to an order, which will no
doubt be universally obeyed. And this
leads Fitz Nigel. an old contrib. to
send in the following:
Like straw that broke the camel's
back,
Now Hoover strikes the fatal blow.
No griddle cakes. no griddle cakes,
For US poor mortals here below.
Deprived OF such luscious food,
Our lives will be dreary waste
Without the flapjack sweet and brown
To see, to smell, admire or taste.
ITO win the war we'd gladly die
And Hoover praise to our last
breath,
Could We but quickly pass away.
But how we hate lingering DEATH"
Now they are talking Of uniforms
for farmers. Not a bad idea. The
farmers are serving their country.
How about hickory or blue denim
overalls with bib and straps over the
shoulder, cowhide boots and large
straw hat?
That is the way farmers are sup
posed to dress, but no farmer in the
world ever dressed that way-off the
stage.
They really should have some sort
Of uniform to distinguish them from
the city folks. Nowadays the farmers
and the city folks look much alike.
only the farmers are slightly better
dressed.
Aerial mail service is to be estab-
lished between New York and Wash
ington The postage will be q cents
instead of 3 cents.
1t will not be used exclusively by
authors sending manuscripts to the
magazines.
And now we must give little space
to NJ. NJ, a contributor, who has said
that last word on the Jericho business
and has driven all other jokesters on
that subject from the field:
The British. everybody knows, pro-
verbally slow,
Have oft impatiently been told to "go
to Jericho"
The British are so literally minded,
you must know.
They took it at face value and they
went to Jericho.
The British like themselves. yet no
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
Billy Sunday Says War Is in Last Half
of Ninth Inning
TBy Billy Sunday.1

by Billy Sunday.]
That international game of war being PLAYED
on the western firing line in France is in the last
half of the ninth inning-Uncle Sam has been
called in clean up hitter He needs our help
to win the game. He must have cannon, guns.
ships autos, trucks, flying machines. battIeships,
submarine chasers, clothes, medicine, food and
it is up to us to do something beside sit in the
grandstand and yell.
We mus. win or Liberty will perish in the
trenches.
Our little trouble with Spain was a coon hunt
compared with this scrap we have on hand with
that bunch of pretzel. chewing sauerkraut spawn
Of bloodthirsty Huns.
Sympathy is one of the loveliest traits of hu-
man character. but all the sympathy in the world
can't win this war unless we come across with the
COIN
We did not win the war when we declared war,
we did not declare war because we wanted Ger
man gold or land, we do not want dollar of their
dough nor one acre of their land.
We drew the sword in defense of free govern
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
SST!0GR RiHESS

Uncle Hiram bought clock so tall
that it was almost impossible to get
it into the house.
The old man was extremely proud
OF it and found it very good company
He would lie awake nights to hear
it tick.
One night the clock got out OF or
der and began to strike. The old man
awoke and counted 102. He promptly
sat up in bed and called to his wife:
Betsy, get up. get up! It's later
than I've ever knew it to be-
A Philadelphia servant sought her
mistress with the announcement that
her mother was sick, and that she
therefore desired permission to go
home for few days.
Certainly" said the woman, "but
do not stay longer than necessary, as
we need you
week passed and not word from
the maid. Then a note came which
read: y
Dear Mrs. Jones--I will be back
next week. Please keep my place for
me. as my mother is dying as fast as
she can"
"Why, I fell in love with first one
girl and then another before I got
married." said the susceptible young
man. II scattered my affections all
over the map"
That's all right. son." replied the
elderly philosopher. Nobody will OBJ
ject to what you did then, just so you
broke yourself of the scattering habit
on your wedding day"
II wish I could skate better. Flub-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

IF you ask me How shall build up the King
dom Of God?' my answer is: BE good German
Stand fast by the Fatherland. Do your duty and
fulfill your mission. Seek to subnierge yourself
in German spirit, in German mind. Be German
in piety and WILL which simply means be true,
faithful, and valiant. Help as best you can to-
ward our victory; help to make our Fatherland
grow and wax mighty" -Protestantenblatt No.
13, 1915. H., p 134]
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
CUT THIS QUILT IS WORTH
MONEY

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip,
enclose with sc and mail it to Foley &.
writing your name and address clear
ly. You will receive in return 4 trial
package containing Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound, for coughs. colds and
Group; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in
sides and back: rheumatism, backache.
kidney and bladder ailments: and Foley
Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and
thoroughly cleansing cathartic. for
constipation. hiliousness, headache and
sluggish bowels. For sale by A. G.
LUken & Co.-Ady.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
Courtesy Pays

Uncle Sam appreciates the worth of courtesy
as business asset He is collecting $3,5o0OO0,-
900 in internal revenue this year.
collection agency with contract to collect
this sum would hold a school of instruction for
the employees that were to approach the persons
who owed the money Employees would be taught
first of all that it pays to be courteous.
Uncle Sam is insisting that his collectors be
fair and courteous in their dealings with the
thousands of taxpayers who are being assessed
to help win the war. His motto is, when you
start out to collect So, 100000. 900 be nice"
The bureau of internal revenue has prepared
a manual for the guidance of the men who come
into contact with the taxpayers. 1t has codi-
fled the suggestions of collectors Of internal rev.
field force.
Some of the suggestions follow:
THE Government representative should be
courteous at all times, have CHEEKY manner and
forget the crouch. never. under any circum-
stances lose his temper and avoid all arguments.
HE should never accept gift or favor OF any
kind from taxpayer
"Should there arise difference Of opinion
with regard to details the attitude and manner of
the representative Of the Government must in
variably be one which gives no suggestion of
doubt as to the taxpayers motives
Never put anything over on the taxpayers,
because that is kaiser-like abuse of authority
and the man who does it isn't fit to be vested
with authority"
Tell the taxpayer all his rights. The Gov
eminent wants every cent due it and it wants the
taxpayer to keep every cent he is entitled to
keep"
"A man in the field force should never lose
sight of the fact that ours is a Government Of
the people. by the people and for the people. The
people with whom we come in contact constitute
this Government which employees US to serve
them"
1t is pleasure to note that the bureau which
has in hand the collecting of $3,50O,0O 900 be-
lieves in tact, fairness and courtesy. 1t is
operating on the theory that the taxpayer is not
a crook but an honest person, possessed of pa
triotism that believes it pleasure to pay the tax
as his bit to help make the world safe for democ-
racy.
1t is a compliment to the bureau that it has
instructed its employees to make courtesy the
basis of their dealing with the men and women
who must pay the tax.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
The White Comrade

rom New York Times
~ AR out upon the battlefieos
r. In watches Of the night,
II IT'S said the wounded soldier sees
A conrade robed in white.
He bends upon each sufferer
A look of tender grace,
Ineffable compassion lights
His marred but kingly face.
He touches dying brows and 10.
The fear and pain fled
And smiles OF joyful wonder wreathe
The faces OF the dead.
He lifts His hands all bleeding,
Nor robe, nor sandals hide
The print of nails upon His feet.
The spear-L thrust in His side
Oh, II It's true know not
Or vision Of the night,
Formed by the fevertortured brain
The Comrade robed in white;
Well might the agony OF earth
Have called Him once again
To nngle in Ills human form
Among the of men.
Seen or unseen, He walketh
Within the place of pain
Let not the Great White Comrade
Call to your soul in vain.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
Ohio Fire Marshal Will
Prohibit Fireworks

COLUMBUS, O., March 14.-Stats
Fire Marshal Alfred r. Fleming an
nounced today that he will issue an
order later this year absolutely pro.
hibiting the use of fire works in Ohio
this fourth Of July. The announce
ment was made In conjunction with
the beginning of campaign against
fireworks as waste Of money and pow
der that could be used In prosecuting
OF the war. The state fire marshal
said he was starting his campaign at
this time so that dealers would not
purchase fireworks.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
THOUGHTS TO THINK
ABOUT.

The proud heart may be in
want yet cover up its needs
with snowy pomp.
The good heart gives the fra
grant bloom to life; mans JOY
fulness makes him live to ripe
old age.
Most men can hatter you to
your face; those men seldom
praise you to your back.
Let Want Ad be your sales
man. 1t tells the truth. obeys
Your orders, costs little and
brings quick results. Phone 1884
today and ask for a Palladium
Want Ad Taker.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
AGED OXFORD WOMAN FALLS

OXFORD, O., March 14.-Mrs. John
P. Clough, one of the best known
women Of this village, fell last even
ing and broke her hip. On account
of her advanced age. Sc years, her
recovery is doubtful.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
Conquest and Kultur

eve are the salt of the earth '-kaiser's
speech, Bremen, March %, 1905. Christian Gauss,
The German Emperor as Shown in His Public
Utterances, 1915, p. 239.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

The wise man makes hay while the
sun shines. but the fool sows wild oats
by electric light.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

dub"
why so?"
Then I'd be teaching that pretty
girl as well as you"
Stick around, anyhow. She can
use you to fall on
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

Fly traps will be manufactured by
the Curry Fly Trap Co.. Tulsa, Okla.
incorporated with s125,00o capital.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

Lazy men evidently don't believe in
the theory that God helps those who
help themselves.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

T. r. is out OF the hospital and deaf
in his left ear
But he is still there with strong
right, as usual.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
The
Food Administration Says:

The small daily service in food
substitution asked by the Food I'D
ministration can be done by all;
the saving in waste by the major
ity, and the lessening of food con-
sumed by many This individual
daily service in 100000 kitchens
and on 100000 tables multiplied
by 100.000,00O, which is the sum
OF all Of us, will make that total
quantity which is the solution of
the problem.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
M asonic Calendar

Saturday, March 16.-Loyal Chapter
No. 40, Q. E. S. Stated meeting and
initiation of candidates.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
MARCH a. 1918

trumphets did they blow.
They simply took couple OF guns and
captured Jericho.
The farce in Russia is about over.
Lenine and Trotzky have delivered the
goods to the employer, and are no
doubt waiting to receive their money.
Our only hope is that they don't get
1t.
A celebrated temperance advocate
has been shocked by the information
that 80 per cent OF the bartenders in
this country are sober and industrious
citizens.
If nobody drank any more whisky
than the bartenders do. there would
never be an agitation for prohibition.
It's a queer world, after all.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

Coal land near Hazard, KY. will
be developed by the Cumberland, Haz-
ard Coal Co., Cincinnati. Ohio, organ
lied with 100000 capital.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14

IT wish could skate better. Flu
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
M'LEAN CAPTURES
CHAMPIONSHIP
ON SKATES

Saranac Lake, N. Y, Feb. 9-The
title of worlds professional skating
champion passed from Edmund
Lamy of Saranac Lake to Bobby Nc
Lean of Chicago here yesterday. Nc
Lean won the three events held and
had safe lead in each finish to give
him the title. He had previously de-
feated Mathieson, the European
champion. Lamy says that his lack
of condition affected his skating and
Mclean will skate a return match
against him in Chicago in about three
weeks.
McLean's lead in the 440 yards
was 80 feet. 1t was the first race Of
the day, and Lamy's supporters saw
that their favorite had met his
match. Mclean won the half mile by
ten feet, after setting the pace all the
way. Lamy gave hard battle for the
race, but he could not overcome the
sprint which the Chicago skater
made during the last lap. The three
mile race went to Mclean easily He
gained practically aflap on the old
champion.
Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid
carried away the amateur honors. He
won the 44O, the half-mile. and the
220-yard.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
MAY NOT
RUN ON ARMY
CAMP TEAM

New York, Feb. 9-Howard Berry,
the world renowned University Of
Pennsylvania athlete, will not be seen
at the preparedness games of the
Metropolitan Association at the 18th
Regiment armory on Monday night
unless the military authorities at
Camp Dix see their way clear to
sending him from Wrightstown with
the Camp Dix relay team, which is
entered in the one-mile race for SOL
der and sailor teams.
According to the list of members
of the team, which was received at
the Amateur Athletic Union office
yesterday, Berry's name is not down
to run at the Brooklyn meet. The
four men named are Lieuts. William
Anderson, o. c. Anderson. William
Kelly and W. Howard. Howard ran
in Berry's place on the Camp Dix four
at the Boston A. A. games last week.
With Berry out, the Camp Dix
team will be greatly weakened be-
cause the Quaker runner is good for
quarter mile in 81 seconds or there
bouts every time he puts on a shoe.
and when he is feeling right can do
better than this. Howard is new
conner in athletics hereabouts, but
the two Andersons and Kelly need no
introduction.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
anti PUCILISM
LAWS SELDOM
effective

Just fifty years ago today, Feb. s,
1868, the Missouri legislature passed
an act making prize fighting punish
able by imprisonment from six to
twelve months, or fine of from $500
to $1,000. This act was designed to
put an end to the disgraceful scenes
which so often attended the ring bat
ties pulled off in st. Louis and vicin
ity, but like many other prohibitory
laws, it was a dismal failure. The
fighting crowd held their little festivi-
ties on islands in the Mississippi
river. In 1859 Tom Allen and Bill
Davis fought for the American title
on Chottoau Island. Fosters Island
was the scene of the championship
engagement between Allen and Mkt
McCoole, the big Irishman, who was
the hero of the St. Louis fans. Allen
was the best man, but the toughs
present forced the referee to decide
in Mikes favor A little later a
similar disgraceful scene was enacted
when Allen fought Charlie Gallagher,
Larry Vessel, the referee, was for.-
ed to give in to the mob and declare
against Allen. Allen and Gallagher,
a Cleveland scrapper, had previously
fought on Carroll Island, when Tom
was knocked out Allen also fought
Ben Hogan near St. Louis, and the
law was soon a dead letter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
AD WOLGAST HAD
HIS SHARE OF
HARD LUCK

Although Ad Wolgast is still far
from being an old mamie is thirty
years old today,-the Cadillac bear
cat' has quite evidently seen his best
days as a fighter, and a few of his
worst. The Michigan lightweight
warrior, or ex-warrior, is said to be
well heeled financially, and owns
much paying real estate. Wolgast
has certainly had more than his just
share of hard luck. Soon after he
won the lightweight title from Bat
thing Nelson in 1910 the Michigan
boy broke an arm in a battle with
Jack Redmond in Milwaukee. The
following year he was stricken with
appendicitis on the eve of his con-
test with Freddie Welsh at Vernon.
The operation probably permanently
weakened Wolgast, for it is a rule that
athletes who have undergone an OPP
Grafton for the removal of their ap-
pendix are seldom good afterward.
Ad had scarcely recovered from his
experience with the surgeons when he
was stricken with pneumonia In
1914 Wolgast broke his right arm in
a bout with Freddie Welsh in New
York. He also had a couple of
ribs fractured in a battle with Bat
ting Nelson in Milwaukee, and broke
two small bones in his left paw while
preparing for a fight with Joe Rivers.
This is not a complete record of Ads
accidents, but sufficient instances
have been cited to show why the
former ''bearcat," on his thirtieth
| birthday, is a has-been as far as the
ring is concerned.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
Higgins Declares He'll
Not Trade Ray Caldwell
Manager Of Yankees Says
Pitcher Has Promised to
Do His Best-Pratt' I'm
signed Contract Arrives.

New York, Feb. S-Ray Caldwell
will be the ace of the Yankee pitch
ing corps in 1918. The lanky mar
vel is to get another chance, and Mill
er Higgins believes he can get away
with it.
Il won't trade Caldwell" said Hug
gins yesterday: The little manager
was very emphatic about it. 81 have
just had a talk with Ray. He came
in to see me and get acquainted He
promises that he will do his best this
year, and. that is all I ask of any
man. We touched lightly on con-
tract matters, but nothing was really
decided. I am sure of one thing,
though, and that is that I will hang
on to Caldwell.
The Yankee leader was told that
Ray last year went up against the
toughest run of luck any pitcher ever
drew. Time and again he was beaten
by one run because his team could
not score behind him, while they were
piling up from five to ten runs for
the other twirlers on the club Cald-
well always drew the assignment to
pitch against the star boXman of the
opposing club, and never faltered.
Higgins appreciates CaldwelIs worth
as a pinch hitter and will give him
plenty of chances with his war club.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
FAMOUS KILRAIN
DIAMOND BELT
UNEQUALLED

In the old days of bare knuckle
fighting a champion who didn't have
an ornate and expensive belt was no
champion at all. In Great Britain,
Lord Lonsda1e revived the old prac-
tice of giving elaborate belts to the
champions in the various divisions,
but on this side of the Atlantic a pu-
gilistic champ doesn't care whether
he has a belt or not.
This is the fifty-ninth birthday
of Jake Kilrain, who was the original
holder of what was perhaps the most
scrumptiouS and valuable belt ever
made. Jake, native of Long ISL
and, whipped a lot of good heavies
in the early sos, and repeatedly
challenged John L. Sullivan to battle
The Bostonian was slow in coming to
terms, so the men who then controll-
ed the destinies of American pugilism
declared Kilrain the champion. The
belt, emblematic of the title, was pre-
scented to Jake in Baltimore about
thirty years ago, and Kilrain success
fully defended it against Jem Smith,
the English champion. Finally, in
1889, Sullivan challenged Kilrain to
fight for the belt and $4,000 a side,
and they met at Richburg, Miss, Sui
Ivan winning after hard battle last
ing seventy-five rounds.
A description of the belt, publish
ed at the time of it's presentation to
Kilrain was as follows: ''It was fif-
ty inches long and eight inches wide
and weighs about 200 ounces in solid
silver and gold. The design is en-
tirely different from any prize ring
belt ever offered in America or Eng.
land, and its intrinsic value has never
been equalled. The work is laid out
by solid silver plates and flexible
woven silver chains, SO that the belt
Notwithstanding it's great and pom
derous weight and size, can be ad-
justed to the body and worn with
ease. The plates are richly orna-
| mented with solid gold figures, and
one of these ornaments is so made
! that a likeness of the winner can be
put in a gold frame, encircled by a
| solid gold laurel leaf, suspended from
the bill of a full-winged eagle. The
center of the belt represents a prize
ring with two men facing each other
| in fighting attitude. The whole Of
| this part is solid gold. The men are
represented in full ring costume"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-09
ECHOS FROM THE PAST

Dick Burge knocked out Jack
Scales in the first round at Lambeth,
England, on Feb. 8, 1900, just eigh-
teen years ago today. This was the
last ring battle of Burge, the IA
nous English lightweight, remember
ed by American fans for his great
fight in London with Kid Lavigne.
Burge was in his thirty-fifth year
when he retired from the game, but
has since been prominent as a
matchmaker and promoter. Burge
who is now over fifty, started fighting
in 1888 He became lightweight
champion of England in 1891 by
whipping Jem Carney, ;::= ==77 of
the great 74-round bout with Jack
McAuliffe at Revere, Mass, which
ended in a row and was called a
draw, although the Britisher had the
best of it. Burge repeatedly chal-
lenged McAuliffe to fight for the
worlds title, but Jack refused. When
Lavigne became champion he accept
ed Burgess challenge, although Dick
was then a welterweight, and defeat
ed him