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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
JUDGES ARE NAMED
FOR ANNUAL PREbLE
LITERARY CONTEST

EATON, O., April 21.--Five Of the
six judges for the annual literary and
music contest of the district schools
of Preble county. to be conducted Fri
day night in West Alexandria, have
been announced. -...
The literary contest will be judged
by Prof. ]. B. Mcmillan, state high
school inspector and professor in
Miami University; A. A. Maysilles. of
Dayton, superintendent of the schools
of Montgomery county, and Prof. E.
P. Trueblood, of Earlham college,
Richmond, Ind.
Miss Emma Kiefer, of Dayton, SUI
pervisor of music in the Dayton pub
lie schools, and J. H. Garster, of the
schools of West Carrollton, and one
other person, yet to be announced will
judge the music contest.
The contest will be presided over
by w. S. Fogarty. superintendent of
Preble county schools.
Winners in each of the five depart
ments of the contest will receive a
gold medal. Following is the de.
tailed program:
Impromptu Bible Reading-Selec
ton by judges. Ruth Farr; selection
Gladys Hill; selection, Mary Leas; Sc
lection. P"+h Eh'er.
Piano Solo-"The Grand Poke De
Concert" sherwood. Alice Hamm
Rustic of Spring" Sindig, Magdaline
Maloney; WHITTIER" Rolling, Very
Zech; "Salut a Pesth," Kowalski
Irene Leas.
Recitation-"What Three Womer
Said" Mabel Selby; Just Being Glae
Came" Pollyanna, Ellene Button
The Country Cousin Speaks Hel
Mind" Martha McQuiston; "Child's
Bear Story" Riley, Emma Moore.
Vocal Solo-"The Wind Song,' Loi.
Creager; THE Barefoot Trail" Mil
ford Burdsall; Goodbye, Sweet Day,
Hilda Ewing; "Oh, Dry Those Tears,
Alene Gleadel1.
Discussion - Immigration to thu
United States Should be Prohibited
for Five Years." Rosetta McGill; "Th'
Centralized School is the Best Rura
School," Helen Campbell; THE Unit
ed States, Great Britain and Japal
Should Enter into an Agreement II
Limit Naval Armaments. Clifford
James; Disarmament. the Great II
lusion," Charles Swafford.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
Labor Meetings Continued
on May | This Year
NV Associated Pressp

PARIS, April 21.-Although May l
falls on Sunday this year, no excep-
ton will be made to the general rule
of meetings and demonstrations of
other years. This has been decided by
the administrative commission Of the
General Labor Federation.
The transport services OF Paris and
the tram and omnibus services of other
large cities will not be stopped, in
order that no workers may have an
excuse for not attending the meetings.
The demonstrations will be held in
support of the demands Of the Inter
national Syndicalist Federation, which
call for the specialization Of the prin
cipal means of transport.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21

Observation-Disclosures
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
TRIAL OF BOY, II, ALLEGED
MURDERER. SET FOR MAY 3

LAPORTE, Ind, April 21.-The trial
with numbering Bonnie Slavin, years
old, a playmate, was set today to be-
gin in the Knox circuit court, May 81.
The trial recently was postponed on
account Of the serious illness OF
Prosecutor Dilts. Judge w. E. Pente-
cost will preside.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
ACCIDENTAL SHOT KILLS
DELAWARE COUNTY FARMER.

MUNCIE, Ind, April 21.-Willard
Mahoney, 81 years old, widely &C
quainted Delaware county farmer, was
killed instantly Wednesday while pull
ing a shotgun over a fence, which he
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21

a list Of nominations of major gener
ais recently sent to the senate was
introduced Wednesday by Represent
alive Flood, Democrat. Virginia.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
COLBY SAILS FOR ENGLAND.

NEW YORK, April 21.-Bainbridge
Colby, ex-secrelary of state, sailed
Wednesday for England. He will be
abroad about two months on a bust
ness trip.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21
FLOOD WANTS TO KNOW WHY
BUNDY WAS NOT PROMOTED

WASHINGTON, April 21.-A resolu-
ton asking the secretary of war why
the name of Brig. Gen. Omar Bundy
of Newcastle, Ind, was not included in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-21

had climbed. The charge entered his
heart. The tragedy occurred at his
farm home near Gilman. northwest OF
Muncie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
From the New

From the New York Times.
 N ARAH BERNHARDT, according nN) to the cables. is planning to appear next season in her own theatre In Paris in new play by NJ. Ifenri Bataille.- Mme. Bern hardt is nearly 76, but her spirit is still fresh and vibrant and her determina- tion to keep at work until death rings down the curtain seems unyielding.
 Last winter some of the younger members of the Comedie Franchise where one sees the finest dramatic art on the continent, agitated in favor of an age-retiring limit for players. They held that when an actor reached 70 he should step down without urg- ing. For an actress they thought that 66 was old enough. The veter- ans of the Comedie were for time extremely bitter /at this scheme to shelve them and they cited numerous hard and fast line of retirement. Their strongest card was Mme. Bernhardt and they were quick to point out how her artistry had grown with her age. And there was Mme. Rejane, also, who remained popular to the day of her death at 63.
 In this country Joseph Jefferson was active after he had passed his seventieth birthday. Mr. Sothern Is still on the sunny side of 65, and though he has not been prominent in recent seasons few of his admirers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
DO YOU-KNOW

The Mongolian antelope can run at a speed of at least 60 miles an hour. according to Roy c. Andrews orrthe American Museum of Natural rIis- tory.
 The Chinese and Japanees dug oil wells in the early centuries of the Christian era. Some of them were as much as 900 feet deep.
 The dye most widely used in this country is sulphur black, (which is prepared from carbolic and nitric acids. In 1919, thirteen American manufacturers produced a total of 14,500,o00 pounds, some of the brands being superior to the finest imported from Germany before the war.
 The polar snowcaps of Mars not only grow and shrink with the Mar tian seasons, but also vary in size from year to year, apparently on ac- count of fluctuations in the am ount of heat given offs by the sun.
 Guillaume Amontons, a French physicist of the seventeenth century. having lost his hearing when a boy. refused to be treated for his deaf ness, declaring that the admission of terfere with his scientific studies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17


 ice in the crisis of the great war.
 The springs Of faith, of mutual
 trust. of fellowship have not
 dried up.
 The foreign policy of this govern ment is being conducted in the faith and on the principle here expressed. MT. Hughes is in true line with American thought and impulse when he declares that we have not lost capacity for Thigh and unselfish en- desvor." Some of Us may have thought so immediately after the war ended, but America is the same now as when the boys charged at Chateau -Thierry and the Rainbow division gave it's young life that the world-the whole world-might be made place fit to live in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
A MYSTERY SOLVED

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 A mystery is solved.
 A gentleman residing in Trenton informs the New York Times that records show the name of George Harvey as aide de camp of Gov. Rob ert $. Greene of New Jersey, with the raRk of colonel"
 The original Robert Greene was an Englishmaa of the sixteenth century. tIe inclined toward conviyiality, so much so that he sometimes was un- able to maintain his equilibrium. A good fellow" he had few enemies. History mentions only one. His name was Gabriel Harvey.
 It is plain, to any Kentuckian at least. that Gov, Robert s. Greene Of New Jersey was descendant of Robert Greene of Norwich. He was at heart feudist. Not knowing his man fully, he decided to even scores with the clan to wxch belonged the enemy of his distinguished ancestor. In obedience to the impulse he tagged his contemporary, George Harvey, a aubernatorial colonel. His failure was as signal as that of Cupid. who rebuked the fatuous rose by throw- ing moss upon it and created the moss rose, flower grateful ever att erward for the distinction.
 |
 The incident recalls the obserVa- +;on of Robert Burns as to the best laid schemes of mice and men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
Country Needs All Its
 Transportation Systems

1T K news accounts from Washing U ton are correct, the transconti- mental railroad lines made a grave error when they proposed to Cali fornia fruit growers that they would lower rail rates from the Pa cific coast to the east provided the fruit growers would agree not to further patronize the steamship lines plying between the two sea boards via the Panama canal.
 The administration is reported to have objected to this proposal, and it is understood that the rail lines will lower rates without the pro visc as to the ships. In fact, the transcontinental lines have filed lower rates to the east on many schedules and the list is growing  daily.
 The country will not suffer a rep etition of old-fashioned transporta- tion tactics. It did not build the Panama canal to be a plaything, and it has not gone into the develop ment of the inland waterways and ports as pastime. It does not pro- pose to throw away the re-estab- lished merchant marine. There is room enough in America flor all it's transportation agencies and America proposes to see that none of them is allowed to swallow the others unless in fair competition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17

f. F. Lamb, in the London Daily Mall. 1T HIDDEN away all over Australia IIII are tiny townships that one eA S day will play an important part in the destiny of this great island continent,
 A few, principally the older ones, are stiTl independent of> the railway. but they are in the minority because the steel rails have linked up the most important with the big cities. A few struggle on in the hope of be- ing one day considered big enough to induce the government to build a spur line Sometimes this happens, but usually settlers flocksto other and more getatable centers. with the result that the sleepy inhabitants Of Opossum Gully have still to rely on the monthly or twice monthly mall coach.
 Along the branch lines that are constantly being constructed to tap the rich agricultural areas are spring. ing up little townships. Their growth. unlike that of mining camp, is slow and sure. On the gold fields settle ments spring up like mushrooms, but the township that is dependent on the needs of the agriculturist IS built on better foundations.
 No flourish of trumpets or minis terial visits to lay foundation stones mark ts,e birth of the average bush town. Tn some instances these towns originate with the few canvas tents I or hessian "humpies" of platelayers l Sooner or later a. storekeeper from l somewhere "up the line" builds a small galvanized iron store and opens up a branch at the "12T miles" A few settlers drift to the neishborhood and take up homestead farming blocks Of 160 acres. Surveyors come along and survey the district, mark ing out town blocks on the site of the
 embryo township.
 A hotel of half dozen iron and
 weather board rooms springs up
 Later on the township = given
 name. and the residents of Bourne broolx-once "127 miles'-petition the ! government for a railway sidins. Later on more settlers take up coun- l try and a real railway stationis built,
 with brick house. the first in the
 neighborhood, for the station mas
 ter. not overwofked individual, who incidentally acts as postmaster porter and general railway factotum.
 Mrs. Brown whose husband was Killed in the war. begins to bake breau for her neighbors. MT. late 4so' Fri yate) Jones. who has lost an arm, 1 builds tiny "humpy' and acts as representative for several Of the big tfty firms. Later on the Provincial | Bank of Australia opens branch. with a sub-manager who travels down once a week for couple of
 hours.
 The government installs q post
 master and Bournebrook no longer has to line up outside the station
 masters office until that dignitary \ has carefully scrutinized every let ter, and possibly read any postcards
 that may be addressed to fellow citi- xens. A state school for tie crowd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
Not Convinced

Julian kendrick, the smiling city engineer, brokes into print with a tale of two-headed snake the other day, Since the appearance of the story MT. kendrick has been the re- cirient of many comments on his veracity and also his avidity for arid conditions when kicking fluids" are mentioned
 However, the climax was not capped until yesterday, when MT, kendrick received a letter contain ing the cryptic message. When do you get this way?'
 For address the headline over the story had been clipped and pasted on the envelope, so that the word, Julian kendrici, teetotaller." ap- peared.
 Mir Kendrick declares that he does not back down on any statement made in connection with the ophidian marvel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
AGE ON THE STAGE

will admit that he ought to retire in Ferguson was playing at Ford's the atre, Washington, on the night that Lincoln was shot yet he continues to give pleasure in his parts and no critic hints that he is interfering with the progress of art. Indeed, the training of his school was so excel lent that the observing theatregoer wishes often that younger players, the names of some of whom now ap- pear in electric lights, might have shared in it.
 When is an actor too old to act? The question cannot be answered if one considers only years as the standard for judging. There is no age limit on the stage any more than there is in any profession. As long as a player is able to interpret character interestingly as long as te retains the ability to get his persona ality over the footlights and satlsiy and please his audience, just so long is he Justified in keeping at wolN. It matters not whether he is At or as old as Mime. Bernhardt. He may know that his day is done, not oy looking at his birth certificate out by learning it direct from the att.- tude of his public, as certain French actress once did in the oal Comedie when gallery god threw her bunch of immortelles ana tne audience showed its approval Dy is dignified silence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
PAPER MILLS IN SOUTH

From the New Orleans Times Pica-
 yune.
 Addressing & convention of paper mill superintendents In New York city the other day Dr. Sidney Wells of the United States forest product, mept of paper mills close to the pine forests of the southern states" Ex- perts now at work in the government laboratory at Madison. Wis, are, he explained developing "a new process whereby 1t will be possible to use pine trees of the south in making bleached pulp" Development of the vast southern forests adapted to con version into pulpwood should help materially. he added, in solving the problem of increased newsprint sup ply.
 pr. Wells message is highly inn portant and we hope is not prsma- ture. If and when the process he de- scribes has been actually perfected and is commercially feasible. the pa per-making industry already estab- lished in the south should grow to nationally important proportions. A good merchantable quality of kiaft paper already is being manufactured from southern pine in southern mills Manufacture of newsprint from the same wood has only awaited discov- cry of d commercially feasible pro- process has been found, as pr. Wells intimates, the expansion of our prom ising infant industry" should be a matter Of comparatively short time
 Such a development not only would help to solve the problem of n- creased newsprint supply but it should help to solve the southern re- forestation problem. It has been demonstrated that southern pine pulpwood logs can be grown in much shorter time than is required to grow trees of same species adapted to man ufacture into timber and lumber. Es- inmates or the tune required for growing pulpwood crop range from Is to IS years. as against 35 to 50 years required to grow new pine lumber crop. When the pulp from these logs can be "processed" for maanfacture of newsprint. their mar ket will be immensely broadened. ere atinR a permanfnt demand tha. will heaithily stmuiAte the movement for reforestation of the great areas If southern cutover land not suited. or not TOW needed. for aericultura use So that the process Dr. Wells an l nounces~- may conceivably help to solve two problems instead of one-- the national problem of newsprini supply and the sectional problem ol l rAforAatatinn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
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THE CITIzENsHIp OF SIMS

From the Worcester Telegram.
 Any man who feels it incumbent upon him to talk as much and as loudly as the representative in Con- gress from the Twelfth Massachu- setts district feels it incumbent upon him>t do must be pardoned if req sonabile proportion of his words-say 50 per cent--are those of inaccuracy.
 When the Hon. Names F. Gilliyan identified Admiral Sims as "a foreign born citizen of the United States" ne indicates merely that his statesmanly brain Is capable of taking cogni- zance of the fact that the admiral happened to be born in Canada. but inca pablo of taking cognizance of tie fact that the admirals parents were both American citizens. and that therefore, under the constitu- tion and laws of the United States. the admiral Is himself eligible for the presidency of the republic,
 We refer to the presidency of this American republic. in which some of us continue to take . friendly in- l terest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
Found Good Roads

trip to Chattanooga and other Ten nessee points" said A. NJ. Bivens and the roads are in splendid con diton With the exception of few places we found the road very good and enjoyed the trip immensely.
 Tt was indeed pleasure to get back to my old home and the home of my wife, and renew our boy and girlhood friendships. In addition to all this we had so many good things to eat that hated to leave, but Sir min gham is home to me, and there is no city Of town anywhere that can take. it's place."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
NEGRO FARMERS MAKE GAIN


 From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The census bureau has a pleasant story to tell of negro farmers in Is states of the south, which might form an effective contrast to loose state- ments by more or less irresponsible whites to bolster up charsss tiiat can not stand alone. The report just is sued by the census bureau shows that 920.976 farms in the southerA states are operated by negroes, represent ing 2S.7 of all farms in the l6 states under review. This is gain of 40,- 153 farms since the 1910 census. Negro farms tota,ed 41,5i6,sss acres In 1920. a gain Of 62 56T acres since 1910. The largest gain was In the value of land and buildings, the 1920 total reaching s223906a,7s0. as agairst only sS7s.- 403.n1O for 1910.
 The progress has not been rapid or heavy, but enough 10 establish that the negro industrial worker has been advancing. not starling still CT so- Ing bachNuiu ds SuittSsihieS SH"i . WI Mississippi leads in the number Of negro farmers with 1sl.0ol, but Geor- gias t30,175 negro farmers titled 7.011,79S acres against Mississippis 5se6,s91 acres. Texas Is third with 4.460.457. South Carolina next with 4.410,sS7. followed closely by AIa- bama. with 4.sis.otS acres There is q distinct decline as the nortn Is ap- preached. West Virginia and Dela- ware having the lowest number of negro acres. e7.544, and 54,Sss rusp ec- lively. The report Is creditable to the industrious negroes of ths c9asEsrn states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
TIE FALL OF VENIzELOs

William Linn Westerman, in what
 Really Happened at Paris
 tCharles Scribners Sons.)
 Nenizelos continued to work tire lessly through the fall of 1919 ana the spring of 1920, hut his diplomatic skill could no longer meet the odts acainst him. In last desperate cass against fortune he made promises ia May of 1920 to defeat the forces of Mustapha Renal Pasha in Asia Mi nor. He threw in additional Greek troops who advanced toward Con stantinople and lsmid. The Turks retreated before them. fighting gue- rilla warfare. In October of 1919 will be the tombstone over the repu- tation of Venizelos." And it has been so. In the Turkish treaty the supreme Allied council altered it's smyrna policy. The United States lsd no ha nd in this. Instead of the complete Greek sovereignty ovt. smyrna which Venizelos had hopel for-and almost hai--the Treaty of sevres had made a five-year pro visional arrangement. The sove~ eighty is Turkish. The adihnstre- : tion is in Greek hands. After five years of this situation the popula- tion in the smyrna district is to hold a plebiscite to determine whether it desires to be Turkish or to become part Of Greece.
 The costly and fruitless naints- nance of Greek troops in Asia Minor gradually wore out the support Of Nsa'zelos at home. In the parlis- .Hcntary elections held In Greece ca November {. 1920. he was over.vhelm- ingly eefeated. Venizelos had ridden tie crest of the wave of wot id W i'd e popularity and confidence for seven years. That wave has now throw n him, in self-imposed exile. nigh and dry upon the beach at Nice. His dream of the Aegean Sea As GretA mare clausum is past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
LETTERS TO EDITOR
EDUCATION FOR BoYs

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 Dear Sir: Thanks for your editorial in today's issue. have just closed my twenty third year Of continuous service at the Camp Hill Industrial school. We have helped hundreds of boys and girls, who were illiterste and who are now occupying positions of trust and responsibility all over the south. Some of my finest young men. and women are to be found in Birmingham.
 l wish that l could take 50 noun tain boys and girls this coming year, but this will be impossible. l can and will take five of these mountain youth for the coming year Our scholarships are $50 each, and the editor of The Age Herald may select these five youths or the Daughters of American Revolution chapters Of Birmingham. We hay, assisted over 2,o0o boys and girls during our hs- tory, and we are in the midst of a campasg to raise s1 900, 900 in order that we may do our just and proper share in fighting the ever darkening cloud Of illiteracy in Alabama. Our students erect buildings, operate large plantation, run a print shop have domestic science work, and in short live the best kind of a gospel in that ''he who would be we'll served must serve himself" School opens fo. the fall session September 21, and I greatly hope that Mir. Barrett will let me have the privilege of looking after five of these sturdy youth for whom he pleads so eloauently in to- days issue of The Herald.
 LYMAN WARD, Principal
 Camp Hill, June A. 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
Republicans Fail
 to Lower Taxes

1E INDING no reduction of taxa J ton in sight, the republicans now fall back to the second line trenches and declare they made no such promise. In particular they point to a plank in their national platform, which, while admitting that taxation was staggering burden" and that the character of taxation should be> changed" with equal earnestness averred that "early reduction in the amount of revenue to be raised is not to be expected"
 Nevertheless, the tremendous ma iority accorded the republican party was largely due to the expectation that the excess profits and other burdensome taxes would be ellml- mated. Republican politicians did not hesitate to encourage this be- lief.
 The republican party went into of flee on wave of expectation fiat it would soon lift the burden of az aiion and clear away the tangled conditions following the war. It has accomplished nothing in that di- rection and, moreover, has failed of anything affirgative except in taking up the task where foemor President Wilson left off in dealing with the allies.