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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Dinner Stories

How about that college graduate
who is ambitious to break into the
newspaper gamer"
Il have hopes for him." replied the
city editor.
'Yes?'
Some of these days he's going to
write a story without trying to use
all the six-syllable words in the die
tionary, and it will be a corker."
A minister. meeting a parishioner
of his who had been quite recently
married, and about whose domestic
happiness terrible stories were rife,
saluted him and said
We'll, John, and how is all going
now?"
ooh, happy enough" returned John.
"I'm glad to hear it. You know,
there were rumors of rows Or
Rows" said John. ooh, yes, there
are plenty or rows; whenever she sees
me she catches the first thing at hand,
a dish or anything, and fires it at me.
If she hits me, she's happy; if she
doesn't, l am. Oh, we're getting on
fine!''
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Mexicans to Safeguard
American Property

WASHINGTON, July %. - Acting
under special instructions from Presi.
dent Carranza, Mexican military au.
hor1t1es in Tampico are making I'm.
usual efforts to capture the bandits
who on July held up boat from the
United States steamship Cheyenne
when on the Tamesi River and robbed
the crew. This information was con.
tanned in a radio message to the Navy
department today from Commander
E. P. Finney, senior American naval
officer at Tampico.
The message said the Mexican au-
thorities had adopted a conciliatory
attitude and that General Gonzales,
military commander in the Tampico
district. had been instructed by Presi.
dent Carranza to increase safeguards
and guarantees in interest of Ameri-
can lives and property.
Attitude Conciiatory.
Commander Finney's message said
General Gonzales, who is Mexican
military commander at Tampico, has
Informed me that the robbery was
committed, he believes, by an isolated
group Of brigand bands of civilians,
who are operating in the swampy
lands adjoining the Tamesi River, near
Tampico, under the leadership of a
chief named Aguilar.
1.-THE President of Mexico has issued
special instructions, he informed me-
to put forth every effort to apprehend
those guilty of the robbery and to in
crease the guarantees of protection for
the lives and property of Americans
in this section. The attitude of Gen.
eral Gonzales is very concilitory"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Condensed Classics of Famous Authors
THACKERAY

Tn the creation Of living charae-
ter, Thackeray stands simply alone
among novelists." says Saintsbury.
Becky Sharpe, INSCRIPTIONS and fas-
cinating; Colonel Newcome. noble and
lovable; Give and Pendennis, natural
young men-all. from Barry Lyndon
to Denis Duval, live and have a being
Of their own.
"once created" says Thackeray,
they lead me and I follow where
they direct. I have never seen
the people I describe nor heard the
conversations I put down. am
often astonished myself to read It.
1t seems as II an occult power
was moving the pen"
1t was this very quality Of a life
outside his own mind which made his
characters SO vivid to himself as we'll
as to his readers. He says: IT know
these people utterly-I know the
sound Of their voices" He even visit
ed after the publication of Vanity
Fair" the hotel in Brussels where
Becky Sharpe had stopped. He never
grew tired Of most of these people
who were born out Of his magma
ton. The one who bored him was
Esmond and he lived in the only novel
of Thackeray's which was complete
1y planned.
Paradoxically enough. while his
people thus lived outside OF himself,
settings and episodes throughout his
novels are traceable to his own ex-
perience. His school, Charterhouse,
appears as Slaughterhouse and Grey
Friars; Pendennis at his university
relived Thackeray's own life; Grub
Street and it's inhabitants existed in
reality as in "Pendennis." Personali-
ties and scenes. however, which live
again in his books, are SO transmitted
creations.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28

of free gold in the London market. The British
government has imposed various restrictions on
the withdrawal Of gold from the Bank of England
whether for export or for domestic use in the
arts. Sterling exchange Bills in reality no longer
represent claims in gold, but reflect depreciation
in British legal tender notes. British jewelers.
and other industrial consumers of gold are re-
ported paying as high as 20 per cent above mint
prices and have found it profitable to import
10 million dollars of the precious metal from the
United States, notwithstanding shipping costs
change.
"Some bankers believe that sterling exchange
has been permitted to become demoralized for the
express purpose of fastening action on the part
of American financiers to extend foreign credits.
The rehabilitation of world finance will prove to
be most intricate problem and undoubtedly will
create many anomalous situations.
notwithstanding heavy current indebted
ness in international markets Great Britain is still
creditor nation, even a greater creditor nation
than the United States is today. The United
States has lent to the Allies approximately 10
billion dollars. 1t is estimated England has made
foreign investments of something like Is billion
dollars. Her foreign investments before the war
were in excess of 20 billion dollars. The United
proximately $4,300,000,0O0, while Great Britain
on the other hand has lent her Allies IL billion
dollars. According to these figures Great Brit
aims borrowings are more than offset by the
amount owed to her by the Allies"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Fattest Man In World
Is Dead Of Paralysis

NEW YORK, July 2S.-Jack Wilson,
latest man in the world. died Sunday
Of paralysis. He was stricken last
week while on exhibition at a Coney
Island side show.
He was too heavy for the ordinary
ambulance and had to be conveyed to
the hospital in a motor truck and car
ried into the ward on a special stretch
er. The doors had to be removed to
make way for the stretcher
Wilson weighed $50 pounds, al
though he was only feet 5 inches in
height. He was % years old. The
body will be taken to Chicago by his
parents for burial.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Japanese Promises

possible safely introduce the contemplated reforms
the necessary legal requirements have been full
filled. He concludes by declaring that
of the plan campete form shall be withheld
for the present"
Now with the best will in the world to be fair to
Japan what the facts of the case? Perhaps the most
important this: The Japanese system of public
service fashioned it is almost entirely the German
model renders initiative subordinates practically
possible under the Japanese
it abundanty possible under the Russian sys
of the old regime for enterprsng ambassa dor,
officer official of degree to launch out into
policy of his own policy which would be dsowned
fathered by his according it succeeded
failed In Japan obeys the orders of
him. up fountain head of all authority in To-
kyo. To anyone, therefore, who has acquaintance
with Japanese system, the picture Of the japanese
premier seriously concerned abuses in Korea.
ly searching of putting end to them
simply absurd The council is concerned tina
brutality torture inhuman treatment, religious
cuton and massacres shall verywhere,' and it
adds that evidence Of the wide prevalence of such deeds
Korea has become convincing. If this the
is undoubtedly, then nothing will convince those who
who really know Japan but that it is the the
full knowledge and intention Of Tokyo. In other
country in the world is the Subordinate Official
unconvincing scapegoat than in Japan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Memories Of Old Davs
In This Paper Ten Years
AGO Today

DR.. Fred s. Anderson, local dentist,
was named by Governor Marshall a
member of the State Board of Dental
Examiners.
Arrangements were made by the
Young Mems Business club to send q
delegation to Hagerstown to attend
the fair there and boost the fall festi-
val
Elmer McConaha, Of this city, was a
passenger in Premier touring car No.
2, entered in the Glidden tour endur-
ance contests from Detroit to Denver
and back to Kansas City.
e. L. Reynolds Of this city, was a
member Of the Marx orchestra, play
ing at Bay View, Mich.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Food Pirates

The country at large is coming to the conclu-
sion in double-quick time that shameless prof.
teering has been practiced in the sale of food
stuffs. Protests are arising everywhere. In re-
viewing the experiences of Chicago housewives
The Indianapolis News says:
Chicago food handlers are not going to have
an easy time in generating themselves of the
charge of profteering, in the case made by local
housewives. In preliminary investigation the
women first obtained from butcher a statement
as to what constitutes fair profit on different
meat cuts. The estimate, made from the dealers
viewpoint, averaged from to or 8 cents
pound. By comparing packing house charges
with retail prices the women found that the deal
er's own estimate of fair profit far exceed
ed. Instead of the scent advance figured as a
reasonable profit on leg of lamb the dealers were
getting double that; instead of cents on shoulder
chops they were making rs cents; instead of
cents on veal they were getting 20 CENTS and so
on for the other meat cuts.
On greenstuffs the dealers were found to be
reapng an equally rich harvest. Cantaoupes
bought for 2-3 cents were sold for 10 cents;
peaches costing II cents quart brought rs cents
at retail; tomatoes bought at IA cents pound
were sold for 35 cents, etc. No talk about the
waste in selling perishables can justify such
prices. Either they are clearly extortionate and
the men charging them are guilty of a grave Of
Tense against the common welfare, the whole
system that prevents dealer from making ends
meet on less than 200 to 400 per cent profit is
radically wrong and should be changed. The
opinion of the average buyer will be that such
profits the Chicago dealers asking consti-
tute profiteering of the most indefensible sort.
Public patience with exorbitant living costs is
nearly at an end. Profits of several hundred per
cent on meat are clearly too much, and no expla-
nation can satisfy buyers that they are reason
able. The whole cost of the living problem and
ESPECIALLY the meat situation, is rapidly coming
to crisis. Talk must end and be followed
by action, drastic and effective. The feeling is
deep and general that the country is being VIC
tmized by selfish and short-sighted interests.
Such conditions as the Chicago women have dis
covered do not tend to allay resentment and they
are not confined to Chicago. butcher estimates
that or cents pound is fair profit on meat.
Dealers are found to be demanding and getting
two to four times that profit. The inference is
plain, and it is charged with omnous portent for
the profiteers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor
TNHE urgent cable sent to the Prime Minister
of Japan, time by the Federal Council
Of the Churches Of Christ in America, drawing Mr..
Earas attention to the strong feeling that being
aroused America Japans treatment of the 10
reans, been replied by the Japanese premier
federal council in the of its pointed
the agitation concerning the Korean abuses
increasing seriously and endangering good will The
council moreover insisted that it could longer with
facts. maintained that it urgently important
that Japanese should publish official
statement that abuses had ceased and
able administrative reforms proceeding, and
cluded with the inquiry to whether the government
was in a position cable to this effect
Mr. Haras reply to this message has become avail
able and for the grim tragedy behind it all,
there would be something strangely humorous in the
splendid generalities of the premers statement The
situation in engaging his most serious atten-
ton He is fully prepared to look squarely at actual
facts" He is convinced that the administration inaug
urated in the time of the annexation nearly ten
wears ago. calls Substantial modification to meet the
altered condition things Indeed he has been engaged
on scheme of the country ever since last
September and comprehensive plan Of reorganization
is already ION the tapis For obvious reasons 1t has not
been possible with the initiation OF these re-
forms owing to disturbed condition OF the country
bit improvements in the situation now renoer ]"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
No Free Gold-Pound Drops

Discussing the situation in foreign exchange,
w. L. Hensley, financial expert, said:
"The English pound sterling, which before the
war exchanged into American money for S486,
slumped to $4.26 the other day, record low quo
tation and depreciation of sixty cents to the
pound. Sterling has been at discount for a
until recently.
THE loss of prestige of the English pound is
attributed to various causes. There is an absence
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Shop Of Food Profiteer
Sacked By French Mob
(By Associated Press)


PARIS, July 2S.-Further instances
have been reported Of the public TAX
ing their own measures against prof
iteering by retailers. A grocer in the
poor quarter at Montmartre, seeing
the rush Of purchasers for chicken and
rabbit at frances Is confines a
pound, marked up the price in front
Of customers to francs. The crowd
resented this action and sacked the
shop.
At Dunkirk, northern France, spin
ners who are striking as a protest
against the high cost of living made
a demonstration in the market place.
So effective was the demonstration
that shopkeepers lowered their prices
by one-half. Similar action was taken
by the people Of Rouen last week
with similar results.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
The American Race

An English journalist, Frank Dilnot, says of
us after visit of two and half years that we
are slowly but surely developing into race dis
tinctive from any other race, ancient or modern.
In other words, we are told that instead Of
continuing as an assortment Of races living to-
gether in one country, we are gradually blending
into one new and different.
We owe our colonial origin for the most part
to Great Britain and we are still indebted to her
for our language and most of our laws and GUS
toms. How, then, does the new American race
differ from the old Anglo-Saxon?
The chief difference lies in qualities of mind
and in the expression of mental activity.
The American is given TO pointed and witty
expression. He is lively, resourceful, always on
the qu vve, always keenly interested in novelties
and ready to try new ways and new implements.
The Englishman turns naturally to sober
forms of thought and expression. He is quiet
when an American is lively. He is apt to be a
closer and deeper thinker, and he prefers thor
oughness in perfecting old methods to expert
ment with the new.
The American race is faster in action than
any other 1t plans and executes with greater
facility and rapidity This is due to two great
underlying influences in national life: 1. I'm
fettered privilege for individual advancement and
achievement; 2. Unprecedented opportunities for
organizing and developing the resources of a
great country. These causes have quickened and
inspired the national mind.
In America, any youth may go as far as his
abilities warrant. Caste does not deter him. The
stimulating influence of this greater opportunity
enlivens and enriches American life, character
and personality to an almost incalculable degree.
While the national conscience still reflects the
influence of the Pilgrim fathers, the American
must own to many inperfections. The melt
ing pot has it's scum. We are young, and bit
raw, crude, and unpublished. AS the race natures,
we shall put greater valuation upon the less
snowy but more worthwhile virtues; truer and
deeper culture of mind and heart, more temperate
speech, higher quality of intellectual honesty,
more generous judgments, more thorough-going
knowledge of mankind and world affairs.
It is seasy to distinguish members of the
American race from others in foreign capital,
like London. Americans appear more hopeful,
more receptive to Impressions, more democratic
ally inclined to make friendships. They go about
in atmosphere of bright-eyed anticipation, as
though expecting next moment to step into some
delectable new adventure.
How potent is vigorous and confident youth,
the hope of our race! And youth and vigor are
the chief national characteristics.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Masonic Calendar

Monday, July 2S.-Webb Lodge, No
"a. F and A. M. Called meeting.
Work in Master Mason degree, be-
ginning at $50; Clarence w. Fore.
man, w. NJ.
Tuesday. July 29.-Richmond Lodge
No. 1876, F. and A. M. Called meeting.
Work in Fellow Craft degree, begin.
ming at $50. N. J. Haas. W. M.
Wednesday, July 30.-Webb Lodge
No. "a, F. and A. M. Called meeting.
Work in Master Mason degree, begin,
ming at $50.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
KEEPING UP WITH THE ETERNAL
FITNESS OF THINGS

FITNESS OF THINGS
John Bonana is in the fruit business
on Eighth avenue, Manhattan.
I. Press is tailor at New Haven,
Conn.
In the ticket cage of the New Haven
railroad in Grand Central station, New
York, the wants of the public are at
tended to by Mr. Cage.
James Debris drives a garbage
wagon in Flatbush.
Annette kelIerman says she Is a
good cook, but a poor seamstress.. 1t
probably never occurred to Annette
that sewing would be an art neces-
sary In her business.
1t isn't so easy to feel wealthy now
as it was before July 1.
Being dead again, Villa may now
be regarded as dangerous once more.
Every time he is killed or loses leg
things pop up in Mexico.
A member of the British parliament
says: ut is easier to face your foes
in front of you than your friends be-
hind your back"
We believe the gentleman is correct.
An optimist is a man who accom-
panies his wife to the fur store.
OUR ANNUAL MENTION OF THIS
JOKE
Dear Boy-This is the canning sea-
son for busy housewives, some of
whom can their husbands regularly
Robby Spec.
A SONG
Sing a song of hghbaIIs,
Bottle full Of rye,
Well mixed up with seller,
Served in glasses high.
Another bottle opened,
It's really not amiss,
But what's the use Of singing
A passe song like this?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
FARMER TAKES LIFE

WEST ALEXANDRIA, July 49,
While unloading a wagon of wheat, in
the barn farm employees found the
body Of Harley Snyder, Q farmer. dead
in the haymow with q rope around
his neck. He had complained OF pain
in his head when he rose In the morn
ing, it Is said. Snyder was % years
old.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Flying Boat Passenger
Service Opens in East
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, July 2S.-A regular
flying boat passenger service between
New York and Atlantic City started
Saturday, first machine leaving here
at l p. m. for the New Jersey coast
The boat carried two passengers, Mrs
John A. Hoagland of this city and
Miss Ethel N. Hodges, of Dallas, Tex.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28
Good Evening
nv DIV " MALI r0A
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND
MUCH LATELY, NAME

Dear Roy: I guess the only thins
that can get safely lit up now is &
match. NAME
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28

copyrighe. Dr. by Post Publishing
Co. (The 44Son Posto;
with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
All rights reserved.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-06
TINES MAN NEWS PROVEN.

The statement in a letter published II these
columns recently written by Corp. = j. Parry Of this
paper the Army Of Occupation in Germany. that
he plenty Of signs Of the German propaganda work
ing there among the Yankee troops verified by press
cables yesterday which tell OF tile arrest and conviction
of Germans in American military he charge of
circulating enemy propaganda among American troops
in the occupied OF Germany. The dstrihu ION ot
material which intelligence officers regard propa-
ganda has been carried in various Il has been
given postcards and sold in stores.
One shopkeeper was convicted after having offered
for sale watchfoh with American and German faes
crossed upon t All Treves recently Thousand post
cards We're confscaed BY american officers They pic
tured beautiful German with handful Of
strings and The other end Of the strnes
paratively tiny French british and American soldiers
dancing 70 her caprice.
These cables verify the reports made bs THE TIMES
man, which the first known here that he Germans
were getting busy again and shows tha i,
keeping his eyes and open
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-06
THEY ARE ENTITLED TO 1T.

This newspaper is not in sympathy with the Chicago
Herald Examiners plan ALLOW six months extra
discharged soldiers sailors and marines 1t believes
these who practically gave everything to
civilization should have years To see these boys
corning back penness after giving UP their good posi-
tons and jobs, finding other men and women who did
fight snugy ensconced in their places is outrage
There are those picayunish tghtwads who object
returning soldier being given ANYTHING by the country
saved They declare the country cannot afford it and
when these nondescrpt humans greet St Peter at the
Golden hope he gives them the icy and
directs them unceremonously to the place where the
dieth not and the fire is not quenched
This is the greatest and the richest country the
world II spends billions far less worthier purposes
If the L. s. give these splendid boys
years pay willing to compromise and make it
months. One hundred and eighty dollars 90
long in this day and generation but II will least
siye the heroes who underwent hardship. who gave up
aH comforts, who saved the world from the blight and
infamy OF Prussianism chance 10 draw breath and
look around them little when they come home. 1t
would show that and love these boys ours
Il would prove to the world that Uncle sam can spend
money 70 good advantage when he his heart on it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-06
- - - y " y y
DOES WORRYING HELP?

In all your lie did ever gain anything, ever get
slightest benefit from worrying any situation?
Did help you to bear burden better or &c
lighter What have all tn eyears OF worry ing in
the past done for YOU? You know that worrying ha .
nothing sap your vitality. lower your courage
your initiative handicap executive ability
confuse your mind, thus uniting YOU
for clear thinking decisive acting. Il has probably
off years of your possible life II has deepened the
burrows in your whitened your hair, put drag
your sepus and taken The sponaney and buoyancy out
Of your life. made you poorer husband poorer
father poorer friend. less agreeable and less effective
partner and comrade whether in business or in social
life crippled your efforts and your business
Multitude days have been pretty nearly ruined by
worry and anxiety The fear Of disaster Of misfortune
of possible failure has been your worst You
harbored it, welcomed it, encouraged 10y dwelling
upn II. listening doubts and dire predictions
Multitudes Of people who have harbored it have been
ruined BY t. II has filled our poorhouses. our insane
asgums. hospitals. Fear Is Tie great human curse