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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-18

The bagpipe is the earliest musical
instrument on record. 1t appears on
sculptures dating from 1000 B. C.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
TWO TOILERS

From the Louisville ,Courier-Journal
 M oBERT LOUIS STEVENSON died IM about the time Dr4cyrus Town Ss send Brady, who died few days ago. began to reel off with amaz- ing speed and durability" to use a term of the county fair ring, books which ran beyond three score before their authors busy life ended. He plunged into letters at 3s and stacked high books which one of his critics de- scribes as constituting agreeable jour neys for mind pleased casually along the way
 Stevenson began composing when he was years old and carried in his pocket blank book in which he strove to set down his impressions of scenes, vorite authors might have done. He studied engineering, under parental di- rection. without interest or success, but won silver medal for a paper upon lighthouse apparatus He studied law, but forsook it, sticking to writing and the requirement of style as a hound sticks to the trail his health broke down, and he travelled for its benefit, writing about his travels. He had been hard at work 20 years acquiring the art of writing before his first book was published. sixteen years later. at yailima. Samoa, ended his travels in search of health. which. as he said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
RIG TRUTHS IN A NuTsHELL

From Capper's Weekly. Topeka, Kan.
 "Hellfiree Jack" Fisher head of the English navy during the war, puts his life experiences into these few phrases
 Federation is the secret of convic- tion.
 Consistency is the bugbear Of fools.
 Importantly is the secret of success.
 The mountains of the future are the molehills Of the past.
 The pavement of lifa is strewn with orange peel.
 History is record of exploded ideas
 He hates you nest who has wrong ed YOU most
 Economy brings victory.
 There are snaH shots at great truths here. In the opinion of this master of the sea. the man who does not change his mind has no mind and if you would convince man. you must tell 1t to him over and over It is. true the mountains of the fu- lure become molehills as We pass them by but while history is record of kex plcded ideas it also is al record of it. eo1firuea and accepted. His hiss astn ii3 fewest words is that vic 8 Nm nrough economy. We hase 1tcaf ef thls all around us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
Census Enumeration
 Virtually Completed

I ENSUS SUPERVISOR CRUIK- N SHANK whose district em- braces Jefferson county, will be among the first to forward his re- port to the census bureau New York City and several other large districts have already turned in their papers and the bureau has begun the work of tabulation, but it will be sev- eral weeks before the result of the count is known in Washington.
 Some of the smaller cities may show a. slight falling off in popula- tion, but growth has been the rule.
 What will Birmingham show? One can only guess until the census bu- reau is ready to give out the actual figures. It is safe to predict, how ever, that this city's population will be considerably above two hundred thousand.
 If there is any disappointment, it will be because ignorant or indiffer- ent persons have lodged the census takers.
 MT. Cruikshank was careful in SC. lecting his enumerators. Never were public servants more faithful in the discharge of their duties, and the supervisor is inclined to believe the prophets of Birmingham will be sat isfied when the census bureau i. heard from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
Significant Protests Made
 By the Farmers of America

II HE WlueSpIedu uHISSt dliioHS 0 American farmers, revealed in more than forty thousand replies to a ouestionnaire sent out by the Post office Department, constitutes a menace to the future prosperity of the United States.
 The farmers have hitherto kept silent. In the popular mind they have been pictured as monarchs of all they survey, living on the Tat of the land, prosperous and independ- ent The city man was supposed to envy the care-free life of the farmer, who raised his own food and sat down to a groaning board regardless of the prices prevailing in city markets.
 An altogether different impr ession is gained from the gloomy letters re- ceived by the Postoffice Department. The farmers of America are not bol- sheviki-far from it. They have no fault to find, particularly, with . American laws and the American government, but they are heartily sick of profiteers; they are tired oi working sixteen hours day to feeo non-producers who draw high wages and strike at frequent intervals anc the heavy toll exacted by the middle nan has become so burdensome tha /; is driving many farmers off theil land. Another problem with which they have to contend is the shortage of labor. When day laborers ar, paid high wages in the city, the .lver age young man in the country canno be kept on farm. The work is hart and pays far less than unskillet workmen can earn in cities.
 There is food for thought in man. of these letters. A reaction is com ing and the present era of higl prices and resultant high wages, 'vicious circle" will pass away, car rying with it profiteers and checking our national extravaganza with fey hard lessons from the school of ad versity. By that time it is probable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
FLATTERING "CHIEL AMANG US''

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 M RALLY, it seems almost too ex- IN traordinary. when one remem- Se bers the long success of Beaux Arts folk who came over from Paris and told all interviewers at Sandy Hook that of course we had no art anu our skyscrapers were ugly. to nave d blithe Frenchman. who built . theatre at Is and who, like the Italians or 'ne Renaissance, will design you costume make vou n tiara. decorate your walls, work out pattern in faorics' pant your portrait and caricature you 100 tell us that we are altogether wonder ful as art creators But that is just what NJ. Paul Tribe says of us. for he is sure of Several things. and one Is that the future of art lies with Amer- ca. As he puts it:
 "A new art must come from America. Europe has about reached ner hni'. You have already created enough to in dicate theextent of your possibilities. For one thing. you have actually ere ated q new city scape. The volume ana proportion of your skyscrapers are ao- solutelv perfect. In fact. l consider ,be silhouette of the skyscraper as per feel in it's own way as the Parthenon. We believe too much in the past and think it a holy duty to know classic art We must know it. certainly. but |only in order to forget it immediately
 -'sf is quite significant and true in ,ae in, and that NJ. Tribe is also up- to-da4ss in other ways IS shoWn Tn tna' he is lot afraid Of quantity production Of ar designs oy machinery since ne Is cos finced that when. people under staaa machinery as well as they un-
 s.. nd hand process unbelievable thfasa may be accomplished in fabrics as ta tive art and jewelry This art
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
IA STUBBORN WoRLD-FIE UPON IT
From the. Kansas city star.

From the>Ksnsas City Star.
 1T ORD, how this world is given to Il science, as Falstaff might have said. if he hadn't been so taken up with observing how it was given to something else. Science and fact those twin demolishers of all the pleasant and airy structures of our fancy, never seem to tire of patrolling their beat up and down the world, trying doors, questioning suspicious characters and turning their bulrs-eye light on all corners where they think something may be revealed to the advantage oi their trade, and to imagination's undo. ing.
 It doesn't make any difference how innocent and dpleasing may be the fan cies with which we invite our specula. tive senses. whether it's a League of Nations or a signal from Mars. cold blooded scientific Analysis must come along and show it up. Why cant we be let alone? If we want to devote a little time in season of otherwise slack thought to wondering if Mars really is trying to talk to us. and to oevising means of replying, what busi- ness is 1t of this hard headed frater- nity of fact dispensers?,
 The Mars proposition looked pretty good until they came along. Mysteri- ous sound waves from somewhere were being Recorded by wireless stations al widely separated points. We don't know where they came from, so why not from Mars? It was as good an exnla ii@lion as any rational one, and mucf more attractive, since it had no basi: whatever in accepted scientific fact If these signals proceeded from terres trial sources they could have no inter. est Tor us whatever The earthss al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
BLOOD AND NOODLE

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal
 A Pennsylvania girl described as being socially prominent, eloped With a full-blood Lenape Indian and was married in Maryland. As the Lenape Indians are believed to have been in a high state of cultural development when the mastodon roamed the At 1 lantic seaboard the bridegroom's fel- low tribesmen >feel, no doubt. that again blood has mated for poodle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
EnjoynbIe Evening

"One of the most eniovable evenings that I have ever spent." stated Dr. H.
 A. Elkourie. Twas at the home of Mir and Mrs. K. H. Wehbv. when the
 Young Mems Phoenieian Club gave an Arabian Nights entertainment on Wed
 nesday night of last week.
 "A majority of those present were
 young men and womeJ members of the club. Of course. there were mum
 Der of onl heads there, however enjoyed myself most when taking part
 in the antics of the young folks. The
 weird beating of the Oriental drums and the unusual strains from the various musical instruments were like summer breeze from the east. For three wonderful hours I was a boy once again and when the party ended for the night it was just like waking from a beautiful dream. l can safely say that it was one of the most en- joyable evenings that it has been my good fortune 70 spend and I sincerely hope that the dav is not far off when another similar entertainment will -bs given by the club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

One way to save yourself a lot of disappointment is to get the idea out of your head that you are going to have less trouble with vour wife than other men have with their wives.
 Logic is logic. But you are going to have hard time convincing the defendant that hung jury ish~t a vindication.
 The fact that she has ugly teeth won't make girl encourage her moustaches to grow. But it is differ ent with man.
 It pays to advertise in the right
 way But the results you get by send
 ing out circular bearing a one-cent
 stamp seldom amount to even ont
 cent.
 And what has become of the O. f American girl who used to marry s Duke.
 When a man and a maid are chattine the man says things and doesn'i
 think them. and the maid thinks then and doesn't say them Our idea of ieny fish is a mGr who marries widow and puts ur the coin for monument to her frs husband.
 Funny how man who can hold l; ! one hundred nd ten-pound girl ,n hT. knee for two hours. can't hold a ten pound boy on. his knee Tor two minutes If all of her cylinders are workins smoothly it does not take a wife nor, than three hours to tell her husband that she is woman of few words. A careful man will put on his rub bers before he starts to read one O the magazines that carry sex serials He is bound to wade around in slush A p,edieal authority tells us tha a weak heart makes the ankles big Then some of the corn feds must b.
 In the last stages of heart disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02

old story What we want is something new. It is quite natural that Mars should want to talk to us, and qiute as natural that the signals selected should be in our own telegraphic code. There is nothing in that to challenge belief since it is perfectly obvious to any mind not hopelessly skeptical that Mars would pick our language instead of it's own. which we don't understand It would save time. But, of course, some electrical expert has to pop up somewhere and explain that the sig nals could only have come from wire | less station on the earth. We suppose he has lot of scientific reasons for that belief, but we haven't examined them. The other explanation was more interesting. and we suppose that's why it is attacked
 Then here's a hard headed Gradgrind sort of person, in New York who wants to bet the Psychical Research Society 1 5000 that it can't produce scientific evidence of spirit communication. He won't accept the usual manifestations 1 such as knockings, table tipping and 1 sgate writing. He says he can do those i things himself. We suppose he's one of those materialists woh want a spirit
 to come in and pay him s5 it owes him
 or something. Anyway. it shows what we're up, against in world full of that
 sort of people. They're the kind that
 can have no faith in message from
 Mars when they can't get one through l MT. Burleson's postoffice. They will
 accept no testimony from a spirit until
 some way has been found to get two eyewitnesses to tell the same story on
 a court witness stand. They are stub
 born, unimaginative and very annoying
 persons, andd there's an awful lot of | them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02

Lenine also found that he could not
 "nationalize" the land, so he gave it
 to the peasants to keep them quiet, and
 he had to compromise with the bour-
 geois element in the cooperative socie-
 ties in order to get raw material for
 his nationalized factories. Little by
 little he has made peace with the mem
 sheviki, the moderate socialists, who
 have dropped opposition to the bolshe-
 wiki because of the threat of counter
 revolution in such movements as those
 of Kolchak and Deniken. It would not
 be strange if the reds have made peace
 with some of the Russian soldiers, like
 Brusiloff, and secured help from them.
 Brusiloff is supposed to be organiz-
 ing an army to fight Poland. If so he can make the same kind of an appeal to the average Russian that Kolchak sian mujik may be told that the allies took Russian Poland from Russia. which is a fact. Kolchak and Deniken opposed the separation of Finland, Es- 1 thonia and the other Baltic provinces | from Russia. They might have opposed the giving up of Russian Poland also Brusiloff, if he is really to fight the Poles is as logical as Kolchak and Denikin- There's is no doubt of Brusi- Iloff's ability and there is no doubt of irthe Russian soldiers ability when well led. So if these late reports from Rus sa are true, bolshevism may shortly | resolve itself into military Instead
 of a social nroblem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02

lightly in one of his books, he never found. Twenty-six years have passed sine ethat time The other day the Boston Transcript said of him.
 He was of the breed of great crea- tive artists. Re-reading hims we thank him a every step for his pa tient mastery of form, for his wizardry of words. Is there a poem written since Stevenson died, which. in the next thirty or the next thousand years will go as far as My Wife" with it's passionate breathing of married love:
 :" ""Trusty dusky, vivid, true,
 With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel true and blade straight
 Unless it is is such lines as these: Home is the sailor, home from the
 And the hunter home from the hill"
 stevenson's hardest work was learn ing to write. The result was finely de- veloped art-and enduring fame. The comparison will be of little interest to prosperous writers of best sellers.
 Prolific writers of free verse to whom soul is everything, form nothing. will not understand why-or realize that-when they have been dead al long as Stevenson has it will be impos- sible to discover their names in refer ence books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
BRUSILOFF AS A RED GENERAL

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 TN EPoRTS that Gen. Alexel A. Bru. )M siloff is now commander of th' = armies of Lenine and Trotzkg lack confirmation, but it is quite poss- ble that this brilliant soldier and pop ular Russian hero has thrown in his lot with the Reds. One thing is cer- tain. the Bolshevist armies have been well organized and well led so they are receiving competent direction from some source. Suspicion has pointed to Germany, and it is a fact that many German officers are to be found in the Red armies. but there must be some Russians of ability helping the anna teur Trotzky with his military ma chine
 Little has been heard of Brusiloff since the fall of Kerensky. He has been reported killed and captured, and his house in Moscow was damaged dur
 ing the bolshevist revolt. Brusiloff
 may have escaped and he may be help ing Lenine. If so, the explanation is No Do iouiio ~iA eiio hlHu oA appeal HoW l being made to Russians by the bolshe- wiki. Lenine long ago gave up the idea of putting his complete communist plan
 into effect. It wouldn't work. He I found that he couldn't run factories | without expert help. so he called in l bourge ois managers and paid them
 good salaries. the only difference in their status being that they wear a strip on their sleeve indicating that
 they are commissioners of the soviet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
ALL GOING SMOOTHLY

From the Home Sector.
 The chaplain came plodding along the road coming back from the front several hours after the infantry had gone over the top.
 How are things going up there?' inquired an artillery lieutenant
 Fine, fine" said the chaplain, We're knocking them for goal"
 Haven't seen many prisoners" said the lieutenant, skeptically,
 "No. and I guess you won't" re- piled the chaplain Our machine guns haven't damned all morning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02

that farm labor will no longer be so hard to obtain.
 But there is one phase of the farm CTS difficulty that will not remedy itself, and that is the alleged extor- tion of the middle man. When the farmer sells butter to the dealer for forty-five cents a pound and it is sold to the consumer for eighty cents a pound, somebody is making too wide a margin of profit between the producer and the consumer.
 < $ #
 English Editor Sees
 No Good In Americans 6f7 HERE is more than one Briton 9 who thinks Americans are a lot of "bally bounders," regardless of our somewhat conspicuous participa- tion in the war. Horatio Bottomley is one of these and in a recent issue of the paper he edits, John Bull, he poured out the vials of his wrath in a scathing denunciation of the Amer ican people.
 England and France produced great men to meet great emergen- cies, but we had only professor and few "pygmies" at Washington. It is high time, thinks Brother Bot tomley, that America be handled without gloves, that Englishmen speak their innermost thoughts, even if these thoughts happen to be of the contemptuous kind, and find out if America is really friend or foe to England.
 By the average American, not given to hysteria, the outbursts of such Englishmen as BottomIey are not regarded seriously. Every intel ligent American knows that there are Englishmen who are so prejudiced against the United States that they can see nothing but our faults, who magnify our national failings and ig- nore our virtues. Such persons, when reference is made to what America did in the war-especially l if the claim is advanced that Amer ica won the war-cannot contain their indignation.
 1 But if there are Bottomleys in England, there are plenty of Amer jeans who cordially dislike the Eng fish, and they are not all friends of Irish freedom, either. Such antipa- thies will always exist between diff ferent nations, even though they happen to be blood kin and speak the same language, That is human ma ture.
 Luckily for the future of democ. racy and Anglo-Saxon supremacy the bulk of the American and Eng. fish people have high respect fol one another's good qualities anc cheerfully overlook traits that some times rub them the wrong way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02

will come from the thought which has created the skyscraper and the wonder ful machinery you have devised in this country.
 Whatever may be some of the per- sonal reasons for this flattery it can
 be said that the French visitor is tell
 ing the truth, and it would not be a bad thing for the schools of applied and in- oustrial arts to take lesson from his
 notebook. The old and worn-out Rus Kin indictment or machinery has done
 duty- long enough in American schools and should be kicked overheard. with
 other follies of the sickly remanticism f that came from the man whose seven lamps gave scant illumination to the
 real facts about the art of the past and the art. of today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-02
1.-THE NIGHT WIND.

From the Atlanta Constitution. A sound-not whisp'ring moan nor
 sigh. But smooth and soft and low and
 deep So sad yet ceaseless in it's croon. Its croon. that sings the world to
 sleep. The pund-tis Night. and Nights
 great choir When Natures harD-strings are at
 tune. When Nature rests and all is still. Breathes out it's secret. plaintive
 croon. One song, one tune. one vibrant
 strain
 That Nature choir breathes through
 the pines. With patience. anguish, love and joy All mingled in it's softened lines. The sound-tis soft. and deep. and
 low.
 'Tis whisp' ring now 'tis almost
 gone; A sigh q breath caimness still: And Nature meets another dawn