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Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

Work on the remodeled Kent county
courthouse is being pushed with all
possible speed, in order to have the
court room ready for occupancy by
middle Of next month. This will make
tne room available for the regular
February term of the court of General
SESSIONS and the Superior Court.
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

OYSTER supper at the home of Joseph
cGdsbOrough, Main and Mt. Vernon
dreets, Wednesday evening, Jan. 29,
tv Jerman Chapel Ladies Aid. Every
bdy invited.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

Inc Smyrna All-Stars were victo-
nous Friday night when they "whal-
Dped' the Smyrna Boy Scouts at
basket Ball Al to II. The line up of
Ie Boy Scouts was as recently pub
.Sned' The All-Stars were: Thomas,
i0f@ard; Sklut, forward; Phillips,
"n'er; Patterson, guard; and Jones,
guard, Turner, substitute. The game
saS last and though one-sided, was
Vigorously contested.
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22
FARMING IMPLEMENTS &c.

1900 ~AS6f OoOu otOShs bEOOu DOW ana Z
ShOats
FARMING IMPLEMENTS &c.
Farm Wagons, good as new; Osborne
Binder. in good order Osborne Mower, Bick-
ford & Huffman Wheat Drill, in good order :;
New Idea Manure Spreader, in good order :
Steel Roller, John Deere Randall Harrow, ID
disc; John Deere Riding Plows, SuIky Gull
tivators. Walking Cutivators. Dearborn, 2
good York Carriages. Sleigh, One-horse Hay
Rake, drag Harrow. Spring-toOth Harrow, 2
No. ID Syracuse PlOws, One-horse Plow Grain
Fan. Seed Sower. Dearborn Pole, Tomato Bed
and Springs, new Hay Rigging, Black Hawk
Corn Planter, in good order; Corn Replanter
Bushel Basket Half Bushel Measure, some
Grain Sacks. Grindstone Storm Front Straw
Knife. Corn Knives. Cross-cut Saw. set of
Double Carriage Harness. in good order; 8
Harness. Collars, Brides. sets of Plow Har-
ness. Forks. Hoes, Shovels. Chains. Single and
Double Trees and numerous other things.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
Black MOhair Parlor Suit. Sideboard, Bur-
eau. Iron Bedsteads and Springs 8-foot
Extension Table. Coal Stove, Sharpless Milk
Separator, No. 2 Barrel Churn, Milk Cans
Buckeye Incubator. 60-egg, new 60-egg Cylin-
der Incubator. About rs Baskets of Potatoes :;
some Side Meat.
About 400 Bushels of Corn on the Cob.
HAY BY THE TON
TERMS-All sums of $40 and under, cash
will be required; over that amount a credit of
10 months will be given by purchaser giving
bankable note with approved security. No
property to be removed until terms are COM
piled with
ADELBERT JOHNSON
d. z. Hutchison. Auctioneer
John Beth, Clerk
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

For neighborly and friendly kind
ness shown during the days of illness
Of her husband and the respect and eff
fiction for him manifested. Mrs.
Helen Mcmahon wishes to express her
high appreciations to all.-Adv.
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

Walter F. Keith, of this town, has
purchased of Mrs. Richard Long, the
residence on lower Main street,
Known as the Megear property, and
has rented it for a year to Mr.. and
Ms. Credick Ennis, of Smyrna!
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22
sNYRNA AND VICINITY

ss,rt Items of General Interest Gath
cred During the Week.
An persons having unfinished Red
r,oss garments, please finish as they
-rst be handed in by Wednesday,
r,ruarv 29th.-Chairman of knitting.
Smyrna times., 1919-01-22

Having other business which employs my
full time. l have decided to offer at private
sale the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Good Evening
BY ROY K. MOULTON
n e r

HER
All, how I loved her graceful lines.
She was a beauty, / VOW.
How for her my poor old heart pines,
My tale of grief you must allow.
Last summer l did spend with her;
I loved her with passion mad.
In my spare hours I would not stir
Away from her, had it bad
She had me dashed right to the mast.
I'll tell you that is true, by heck.
The trouble was she was too fast,
And now she is a total wreck
How l yearn for the days gone by.
The passing years cannot atone.
can't forget her, though I try
That motor boat I used to own.
WHAT A LIAR DAVID HAS TURNED
OUT TO BE
I stood on the bridge at midnight,
The sun was shining fair;
When somebody took the bridge away
And left me standing there.
David Rogers.
The average man climbs to success
while his wife holds the ladder. II
he gets there she may be left behind
but II he takes a tumble, she is right
on the Job to take the blame.
THE AUTcTAST
THE OUTCAST
Old Judd Lewis says the very shape
of child is conclusive proof that the
Lord intended 1t to be spanked on
certain occasions.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Prices Can't Go Down
Until Production Begins
In Europe---Poundstone

An increase in the price Of sugar
next year is probable, says John Y.
Poundstone, of the John w. Grubbs
company, wholesale grocers, because
the contract with Cuba which provide
that we shall take all she has at a
certain price expires January 1 and
there will be higher competitors in
the market.
Just as long as we have a demand
greater than our supply we shall have
high prices" declared Poundstone.
This applies not alone to food, but to
clothing. shoes, ETC., only food prices
are attracting more attention because
food is the one necessity of life.'
Our expectations are far greater
than they were last year. We are
feeding peoples in countries where
practically nothing Is being produced.
So long as this condition exists we
shall have high prices. believe that
prices will 60 down when production
begins in the devastated countries. So
1t will probably be in other things as
we'll"
Just now It is between order sea-
sons and it is not known whether re-
tailers will order normally or not. In
September and October deliveries will
be made and the orders for next fall
will be taken in January.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Dinner Stories

Captain Lbaire was particularly
sensitive about his hearing. He was
deaf, or at least the members Of the
board believed such to be the case
One morning Fred Rock. a fellow
member, who was hard up, said to
Libaire:
Captain, won't you please lend me
800 until Saturday."
Libaire, placing his auricular ap-
pendage in his left hand. asked, What
was that you said, Rook?"
Fred answered.: Il asked you to lend
me a couple Of hundred dollars until
Saturday"
The captain flashed back: you said
man of his word-be honest''-and he
went off in high dudgeon.
The head of one house where Boil
shevism had left the place helpless
drove his daughter to party.
The head of the house where the
party was held was perforce acting as
his own carriage man and door open
er.
Afterward, when they were formally
presented, one said:
81 certainly must beg your pardon
for something, sir
What is it,"
"You know that night when you
drove your daughter to my daughters
party"
well, when I came to open the
door I thought you were your chauf-
feur."
Cheer up! / thought you were
your butler"
"Say, can you let me have five or
ten-'
NO"
o. minutes? I think I can show
you how to make some money"
6 objection, old chap. You can
have twenty, if you want"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
An Echo of Roosevelt

"The spirit of Theodore Roosevelt must have
been brooding over the war department when it
issued it's order that every officer below the
grade of brigadier general must take half an
hours physical exercise every day." says the
New York Times. cat the same time the ex-
presidents ghost must have been grimly amused
by the solemn announcement that the European
war had demonstrated the need for it-had DEM
instrated that physical fitness one of the
essential qualities of an efficient officer. 1t did
not really take such cataclysm as that war to
demonstrate anything of the kind. 1t is now
twelve years since President Roosevelt ordered
horseback exercise for officers, was rdculed for
his pains, and yet was right about it. Horseback
exercise by the way, is one of the things provided
for in the order.
There was good deal Of testing then about
swivel chair colonels.' Well, there are not so
many of them now. They have been tried out on
European fields. The regular army has given a
good account of itself, and we imagine there will
be little merriment of that kind over their new
regimen. But the order of 1907 merely one
of the ways in which Mr.. Roosevelt proved him.
self ahead of the times, especially in the two
parts of the United States machinery most dear
to his heart-the army and navy"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19

Of course, the wild spending for non-essen-
tials for uxuries, simply drives all prices higher.
There is relief short of a God sent miracle
that would bring people to their senses and make
them be thrifty-wise spenders-or, finally, the
inevitable over-production Of luxuries, the cur
failing of further production thereof, that is the
shutting down of factories, the attempt to work
off the unwieldy and unwanted surplus by cutting
and slashing prices, in other words, liquidation
both voluntary and forced, then depression.
Depression the inevitable working out of the
immutable law Of compensation. The profiteer-
ing business man will be without business or
profit. The profiteering laborer will be without
work or wages. And so it will be throughout the
list.
The savers Of all these classes will receive the
reward their thrift and lack of waste entities
them to-. Their savings will gain in purchasing
power as prices fall. Many bargains will come
their way. The spenders of all these classes will
know want and will many times wish back the
dollars they threw away on foolish extravaganza
You can't get something for nothing. If you
want protection against the evils of both pros
perity booms and depressions, produce the maxi
mum amount you are individually capable Of,
spend wisely and thriftily and your savings will
guarantee you against want due either to the
high prices of boom or the lack of work or bust
ness during depression. But you have to do
this for yourself. If everyone were doing this
life would proceed normally and there would be
neither booms nor panics. And there is happi-
ness in normal living.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
DR.. Murray Buffers Views

Oft from the markets of western Europe great
supplies formerly obtained from Russia, Roumania
and Hungary. Our governments policy of price fixing
and rigid control has contributed to this particular
Whenever governments other forms Of human
attempt control the operation Of natural
mic laws the results or later disastrous
"4-The heavy taxation introduced in Great Britain
and this country. particularly profits taxes We
need equitable revision of the income and prof
It's taxes with view relieving wealth Of its proper
public burden, but with view to distributing these
to business, promote employment,
increase production tend decrease the of
living
5-Profiteering by corporations, par
ticularly retailers This profteering should be stern
ly punished but all the profiteering would have
Grated affect the of living seriously had it
been other and purely economic that
have just been described
when the question Of present day costs is gone
carefully WILL think, be found that capital is
curing very little if return than before the
while greatly increased amounts paid out for labor
and taxation, unless greatly mistaken. Therefore,
thorough inquiry into the high of living would make
it plain that the problem is worldwide one
DR.. Butler then goes into discussion of what he
considers the remedies He the first step toward
solution is and private thrift
leading the discharge of outstanding obligations and
to bring the national expenditure within the limits Of
annual income, the increase Of economic production by
better shop organization by laborsaving Devices
by effective and economical of disribu-
ton, by opening effective and scientific argi-
culture without delay the rich grain producing
of Russia Roumana and Hungary and, finally
ing proiteering offense against the public welfare
There is much to be added. except DR.. Butler
is necessary have speedy action In the long
the American people, who got safely the green
back and the free silver faacy will find effect
i've solution of their present ills. And shall find it,
not through revolution but rather through evolution
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Indiana News Brevities

TERRE HAUTE-Terre Haute fire
men and patrolmen were granted a
wage increase Monday from five to
fective September 1.
GARY-Henry G. Gray, Sr., 70, as
sistant treasurer Of the United States
Steel Corporation, and pioneer builder
of the west, died here Tuesday of
heart disease.
BLUFFTON-Robert Dick, 20, was
bound over to circuit court Monday
for involuntary manslaughter of his
nephew, John Grim, July 20. DR. Blue
testified that Grim's death was due
to heart disease, brought on by the
excitement of quarrel.
BLOOMINGTON-Isaac Matthias, rs.
died suddenly Monday, in his buggy,
six miles south of here, from apoplexy.
FRANKLIN - Frederick H. Hodge,
for nine years head of the mathemat-
les department of Franklin college,
has resigned, to become head of the
mathematics department at Purdue
university.
HARTFORD CITY-Sergt. George
Overmeyer returned home here from
overseas Monday, wearing an Ameri-
can Distinguished Service Cross, he
Croix de Guerre, vice presened him,
and he Victory ribbon with five ma
jor action citations.
LUMBUS-Thirteeen hogs, val
ued at $500. belonging to Ely Garst, a
former near here, were killed by
lightning Monday.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis pa
trolmen won the first step for their
wage increase to 81 a day when the
city council passed an ordinance
granting the increase Monday night
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Condensed Classics of Famous Authors
RUSSELL

The author OF 1.-THE Wreck Of the
Grosvenor" was born in New York,
Feb. "a. 1874; he was the son of Hen
~ Russell. author of the popular
song, Cheer. Boys. Cheer" He was
educated at the famous Winchester
in England. and at Boulogne in
France At thirteen he shipped on q
British merchantmen and served for
eight years, which gave him first
hand information for the stories
which have for SO long been a delight
to all who love a tale Of the sea. His
first book was John Holdsworth,
Chief Mate; 1t was followed by a
rapid and lengthy succession Of tales
of the sea in a clear and picturesque
style with abundant dramatic skill.
This first book won him a devoted
audience. incr eased the next year by
the story which readers will most
readily associate his name. THE
Wreck of the Grosvenor"; in addition
to being a good story, 1t pleads for
better treatment Of English sailors.
especially in matters of food The
proper care of the sailorman has al
ways been one of the things needing
attention. In addition to being a pro-
Life writer OF books. he was also a
newspaper man, writing leaders" or
editorial articles for the London
Daily Telegraph. These were of
enough Importance to be gathered to-
gether in Round the Galley Fire" and
other volumes. He died in 1911.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
From the Grand Rapids News.

From the Grand Rapids News.
BOUT the sanest discussion of the causes Of the
IA high of living and the remedies for present
L "a conditions that has notice is that by
DR. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity of Dr. Butler is in California, where
he has given tabulaton of the Of and the
remedies high prices. which going to quote
length.
Dr. Butler gives as one Of the first OF high
prices initiation of the which is in large part
due public and private extravaganza and waste No
people has monopoly on initiation In the United
States. declares, there has been steady initiation
1881 per capita circulation had never gone
above $40. In 1918 it $50S1.
this alone had operated to affect prices,
express it in another way money growing much
cheaper. Any attempt suddenly to correct initiation
would bring evils in its train.
The real corrective is public economy and private
fugaty and thrift. We stop borrowing in order
to private governmental and
confine borrowing where money be used pro-
ductive industry which will than repay the cost
No fewer than IS states in the union expanding
nually than their income from taxation. The
gate annual charge debts of the governments
of the world estimated to have from billion
to ten billion These and the
consequences which they entail explain of the main
features in the high cost of living"
As the second cause of high prices Dr. Butler ma mes
the decrease industrial production due
part to shortened hours of labor The eight
hour strongly defended for most occupations
he adds. order, however, to prevent general adop
ton of an eighhour day from permanently increasing
prices through diminished production means must
be found of building up production by the Of improved
machinery more scientific Devices better organization
industry economic distribution Of its products
"3-Increased cost of food is due in part to
on Of natural economic laws and in part to the shutting
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
PROTECTING Solely to Blame

The present crisis in our country is solely the
result of profteering of everybody trying to get
his while the getting is good. 1t is no asking
who started the vicious wheel on its mad circing
as we'll ask one to find the needle in haystack.
Some distributors or middlemen, in other
words retailers and wholesalers, have been in
creasing the percentages they add to the cost of
their stocks and of doing business. That is
profiteering.
Labor in many lines has run wages up to high
figures and cut down production by forcing
shorter hours of work That is profteering.
Some manufacturers have unduly increased
the percentages they charge to the cost of their
materials and of doing business. That is
profiteering.
The farmers are not profiteering because un-
like the distributor laborer and manufacturer,
they do not control the market price of their pro-
ducts. But they have been the beneficiaries of
the most remarkably high prices paid for
farm products, because the world practically quit
farming for fighting for five years. The result
ing great decline in the production of farm pro-
ducts has created famine prices for such have
been produced. Furthermore these high prices
will remain and even go higher until the rest of
the world gets off it's Bolshevist drunk and gets
to work growing it's food.
Even President Wilson's administration has
been guilty of profteering for the government
through the medium of the currency supply.
Just as the INSCRIPTIONS dairyman waters his
milk and thus basely increases the supply but not
the quality thereof, has the supply of currency
been increased. By allowing Liberty bonds the
rediscount feature at the Federal Reserve banks
thus permitting currency to be issued against
them, volume of money has been inflated but
it's quality purchasing power has fallen. BY
printing reams of currency, new money, in this
manner, the sale of Liberty bonds made
much easier and Son-in-law McAdoo gained great
credit for the successful way in which he hand
led the loan campaigns. Today the people are
footing the bill in the higher prices that always
result when moneys purchasing power is debased
by such methods of initiation
Now with the results of their profiteerng
this easy come money, mutitudes of distributors,
laborers and manufacturers, well as many
farmers, suddenly enriched by the high prices
world wide scarcity has handed them on golden
platter, have gone mad money spending
spree. Sudden riches always go to the head this
way This is particularly true of the younger
business men, laborers and farmers who have not
lived through panic and great depression. The
old hard heads of all these classes are thankfully
taking all the extra money coming their way
these days and sailing it away. They learned
why in the panic of their early days. The young
sters still have their stern lesson ahead of them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Memories Of Old DAYS
In This Paper Ten Years
Ago Today
AUGUST 10.

AUGUST 10.
Mrs. William Spalding, riding in a
wagon in front of Glen Miller park,
an automobile.
A. D. Gayle, DR.. Charles Bond, Rus
sell Gaar, James Gaar, Lee Ashley,
Frank Taylor, Sam Dunlap were
among those who attended the races
in Indianapolis.
Matilda Elderkin Stratton, Is years
old, wife Of Stephen S. Stratton, died
at Reid Memorial hospital.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19

ONLY AS YOU BELIEVE
(c)-Underwood 4 Underwood

Of anything is always
lief that backed it from its inception.
Most of the things which we believe we dove do.
heart Of whose blood cold
Small belief small things
whole decade world endless number
lives this:
responsibility and
of
Before believe
yourself And belief
Beleve-and it doesn't
ieve-and
Only believe, a in he world.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
NO LACK OF sPURRlNG MATERIAL

Baltimore American.
Investigations will amount to nothing unless out
ragged public opinion applies the There
FORE if people the OF living lowered
them persisteny necessarily it posi-
that Mayors and Governors and Congressman
President will triing and political pro-
crastination are dangerous for them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-19
Masonic Calendar

Tuesday, August 10 - Richmond
Lodge No. 1876, F. G A NJ. Called
meeting. Work in Master Mason de-
gree, beginning at $50 p. m. N. ].
Haas, w. M.
Wednesday. August 2o-Webb Lodge
No. "a, F. & A. M. Stated meeting.
Clarence w. Foreman, w. NJ.
Friday, August 22-King Solomon's
Chapter No. 4, r. A. M. Called meet.
ing. Work in Master degree. Light
refreshments.
Women in England are buying their
own farms or their own truck and gar
den spaces in rather conspicuous num-
bers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-02-20
CIVIC LEAGUE MEETING

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Civic League was held in the library
last Friday afternoon and although
the weather was somewhat u%nfavor-
able, the attendance was fairly good.
The minutes having been read and
business disposed Of the ladies listened
to a very interesting talk by Mrs.
Flora Mitchell on 1.-THE Legal Status
of Women in South Dakota" AS Mrs.
Mitchell had recently been to Pierre,
she was able to give her hearers the
very latest information along this line.
Our legislators have just remedied
some injustices of long standing by
placing upon our statute books an
equal guardianship law which makes
the mothers of South Dakota legal
guardians of their own children, and
a law which enables a married wom-
an to act as administrators of an es-
tate. The problem of the woman in
industry is receiving attention here
as elsewhere, and there is every indi-