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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-30

CHICAGO. March 3d. The grains
look lower overnight but corn and
oats are so debated that their decline
may be small. The coming April z,
winter wheat report may show $50
million and might produce 700 million.
Overnight if no bull news comes to
the rescue May wheat may enter new
ground. Who will buy wheat to load
up at this level?
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LIVE STOCK PRICES
fRv Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS. March 80 - Hogs
Receipts. 5000; lower Cattle - Re-
ceipts, LOO; unchanged. Calv eS--Re-
ceipts. coo; unchanged. Sheep - Re-
ceipts, so; lower.
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LIBERTY BONDS.

NE WORK, March 30-Final prices
on Liberty bonds today were:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-30

LOCAL GRAIN MARKET
Richmond -four mills are paying
$1.4O for NO. 2.
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RANGE OF FUTURES
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BuII0In0.
CHICAGO, March 30.-Following is
the range of futures on Chicago board
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Markets
GRAIN PRICES

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No sooner does Fashion predict a
tremendous vogue for these wrap
Ply wraps than We provide a way
of securing the ultra-smart models
at marvelously low prices.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Ambassador Davis

Good luck attended the late Ad-
ministration when it named John
w. Davis as Ambassador to Great
Britain to succeed the late Walter
II. Page. For the record of Mr.
Davis abroad has been one of dis
tinguishcd service to his country.
When he left these shores upon
his mission there were some mis-
givings. He was not conspicuous
figure, and many believed great
national figure, Of fixed luster
should have had the post at a cru
cial time. We were in the dark
days of 1918 and conditions seemed
to demand a solid American known
to our allies. And here was Mr..
Davis, who was almost obscure. But
TO this man, scarcely known person.
ally to his fellow countrymen at
large, it may be said upon the home
coming that he asks for, "Well
done, Mr. Davis."
Mr.. Davis is Of the new school of
diplomats, Of the kind which the
United States is best suited to pro-
duce, since we have never taken up
the European custom of choosing
governmental careers for our boy
babies and molding them, from
earliest tutelage, for posts in the
Colonial Office, the Foreign Office,
the Home Office, the Treasury, the
army, the navy, the Church.
But Mr.. Davis furnished, as sub
stitutes for formal preparation,
an invulnerable tact, grace in
Office and great personal charm.
The raw recruit fowered into prob
ably the most popular figure of the
London diplomatic corps When
many things were being done to es-
TRANCE the friendship Of the British
public, when Senators and Repre-
sentatives Of we'll known type
were twisting the lions tail to
please particular circles, when Hy-
Ian awarded the freedom of New
York City to De Valera, when the
tag Of our British ally was stoned
or torn down-Mr. Davis held the
slipping friendship of Britain for
America. Not by flattery. Not by
apology. Not by salving explana-
'ion. But by suggesting uninten-
tlonally, through his own acts and
appearance, that nation that could
produce Mr. Davis and regard him
as representative citizen was not
the America of Bottomley's head
lines.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Inemciency and Worse

The decision of the American Lc-
gion to investigate the treatment Of
sick and disabled eX-soldicrs in gov
ernment hospitals is timely For
many months reports have been cur
rent tending to show that anything
but square deal was being given.
The preliminary investigation at
Fox Hills by the Lcgion's committee
is said to have shown intolefable
conditions among them -- hretrap
buildings, unsanitary and i'll
equipped; lack of discipline, and an
insufficient supply Of doctors and
nurses. Payments of compensation
to patients were reported unduly de-
layed. In addition, many com
plants of actual cruelty and petty
tyranny have been lodged with the
committee.
If such conditions can exist in one
government hospital, unchecked until
outside agencies take hand, they
can exist in other hospitals. Con-
temptation Of the subject would be
dlscouraglng and disheartening but
for the Legion's determination to
set matters right.
AS if lack of proper hospital care
were not distress enough for the sick
soldier, he is also reduced to penury
as he is passed from one jurisdiction
to another. If he is under the juris
dlctlon of the War Risk Insurance
Bureau and is transferred to the
Vocational Board, his war risk COM
pcnsatlon ceases and he receives
maintenance pay from the board. If
he becomes sick and is sent to a hos
pital, he is taken from the pay roll
of the Vocational Board and comes
rnder the Public Health Service.
which does not distribute compensa
ton.
1t is nobody's business to sec that
the ex-soldier's compensation is re-
stored to him. The War Risk Bu-
reau has wiped him off the record.
He must rcapply for compensation,
be examined and wait for the b,,-
reau to act. Such division Of respon-
slbility and authority cannot but re-
suit in chaos. The remedy is less
red tape.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Over-Nationalized

The abolition by the railroad ex-
ecutives of their general labor COM
mittee is another step toward that
decentralization in operation which
they regard as necessary to efficient
railroading. The naturalization Of
all wage standards, forced on them
through one of the dying acts Of the
Federal railroad administration, is
the greatest obstacle in the way
of economic management-econo
management meaning not neces-
sarlly reduction of basic wages
but the elimination of wage allow
ances which bring no equivalent in
service
The public has to, pay the excess
costs OF an eXtravagant nationwide
Standardization. It's interest lies
with that of the operating companies
IN retprn to territorial working
conditions, especially with regard to
unskilled labor. A rigid, uniform
rule ignores the wide divergences In
economic relations between various
parts of the United States. The GEN
oral wage scale varies greatly.
When the uniform higher railroad
scale is applied in sparsely settled
regions, where ordinary labor is
cheap and living costs are relatively
low, a dislocation j., caused which not
only penalties the carrier but also
artlticially affects other EMPLOYERS of
labor.
The Federal railroad administra-
ton laid down a new law. II didn't
prescribe current wages for the ,n
skilled railroad workers, but Jumped
them all together as entitled to
maximum nationwide WAGE. II
would be absurd for the Postoffjce
to pay all postmasters
the same compensation, whether they
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Fooling the Twins

Moscow appears to be under the
delusion that the new Administra-
ton in Washington will reverse the
policy of the United States toward
Soviet Russia as declared in the
American note to The Italian Ambas-
sador Of August 10, 1920, and will
not only enter into trade relations on
a large scale with the Bolsheviki but
will recognize the government of
Lenine and Trotzky.
Who has been "stringing" Russia's
unheavenly twins? Are they relying
on the effect of fake concessions to
fake American billionaires and the
smell of stolen gold to lure on the
American bourgeoisie? Or is the idea
recently expressed by Lenine of
playing America against Japan at
che bottom Of the Bolshevist hope?
Karl Radek, the would-be Talley
rand of Brest, who did not even
protest when General Hoffman made
HIM dance, has recently delivered
some ponderous utterances that
proved with mathematical precision
that the Harding Administration
Will abandon the policy of having
nothing to do with the bloody rule of
Lcnine and Trotzky. But perhaps
Radek is no better prophet now than
when he predicted the Bolshevik con-
quest of the Socialist parties and
labor unions of the world and the
early coming of an all-cleansinp
world revolution d la Russe.
AT any rate, the State Department
at Washington does not vet seem
frightened and Secretary Hughes is
most calm.
Lacking in information as we are
we none the less venture to predict
that the policy of the American gov
ernment toward Russia will remain
unaltered and that it will continue to
ombody the three cardinal principles
iald down by the United States in
this regard: no recognition of the
bolshevlkl, no forced dismemberment
OF Russia, no intervention.
The rest will be taken care of bv
the Russian people, who have begun
to give some demonstration of the
fact that they are seriously prepar-
ing to hurl the rule of Lenine and
Irotzky into oblivion and to set up
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

worked in cities, towns, villages or
hamlets. But by the nationwide
classification scheme station agents
receive the same pay, whether they
arc on a line with twenty trains a
day OF on a line with one or two
trains
The Association of Railway Exccu
tlves stands on this declaration:
Under normal conditions the ad-
justmcnt Of rules and working con-
ditions and Of basic wages cannot
successfully be made the subject of
national conference and negotiation,
as that implies by its very nature a
violation of the differing needs Of
the railroads and of the territories
which they respectively serve" 1t is
hard to argue away so obvious a
statement of fact. The public is be-
ing asked to bear the burden of an
unnatural and uncconomical system
Of labor costs in transportation. 1t
is willing to pay for real service but
not for the padded service which
goes with the extreme theory Of
nationwide, non-economc operation
under government control.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
No Canossa

Germany will not stand at Ca
nossa every week." exclaims DR..
Simons, the German Foreign Min
lister, after confessing that he has
been talking out the window" to the
German people, and concluding with
the rather meager expression OF pen
itence that "by signing the Treaty
of Versailles Germany admits she
lost the war"
The world has regretfully reached
the conviction that Germany not only
has not stood at Canossa every week,
but has never gone near the place.
In tho dead of winter, according to
the old narrative, Henry the Ger
man Emperor, having laid aside all
belongings of royalty, wretchedly,
with bare feet and clad in wool, con-
tinued to stand for three days before
the gates of the castle" DR.. Simons
Is not down to his shirt. He insists
on the best suite for his lodging and
roars at the head waiter because he
hasn't the best seat and the best
food.
:. Yet the first article of the rep
aration section Of the Versailles
Treaty says: Germany accepts the
possibility of Germany and her
allies for causing all the loss and
damage to which the Allied and as
sociated governments and their ma
tionals have been subjected as a
consequence of the war imposed upon
them by the aggression of Germany
and her allies"
And this is paraphrased and
diminished by the German Foreign
Minister, even when trying to ap-
pear as repentant, as merely an ad-
mission that Germany ."lost" the
war. If Ludendorff had had a few
more divisions Germany would have
been free of guilt. Could mocking
cynlclSm go further! We have
merely a reassertion of the Bern
hardi doctrine that might makes
right. The old German Gott has
made q few changes in costume, but
not in his heart.
Some not enemies Of France have
been disposed to think that France
exaggerated her reasons for fear.
But how would this country like to
be neighbor to more numerous and
potentially more powerful people
which says plainly that it would do
again what it did? Would we not
ask for substantial bonds against
aggression? In many respects the
present mood of Germany is more
ominous than in her Kaiser days.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Two-Language Diplomats

The French government is said to
j have asked the United States to send
to Paris an ambassador who can
speak French. 1t is a reasonable re-
quest and, if complied with, would
benefit us as we'll as the French. 1t
might establish the wholesome GUS
tom of picking for the more impor-
tant diplomatic posts men who can
use the language of the country to
which they are accredited.
=, There are necessary limitations to
such rule, of course. An ambas-
sador to Japan or China doesn't need
Ito know japanese or Chinese. Eng
lish and French are spoken in Toxic
q and Peking and the native tongue is
s. not important as diplomatic or
political medium. Nor is close asso-
citation with circles outside the roy-
ernment very practicable in Asiatic
countries. A minister to Hungary
might not need to know Hungarian
or minister to Poland Polish.
q French is the political language of
most of the smaller states of CONT
mental Europe and would suffice for
official relations, which are the main
thing there.
'"- But in countries where a diplo-
mats modern function is to appeal
to public opinion and to get in touch
with the press, industry and intel
]ec..Hal life. ability to speak the ma
tlonal language is a prime requisite.
French, Spanish, Italian and Ger
man are four tongues which dip
lQmat should master, if his assign
ment puts him in post where he
can broaden his capacity for service
by learning one or more of them.
Our relations with Latin America
would be far better if only Spanish
speaking ministers and ambassadors
were sent to represent us in that
part of the world. Brazil is some
thing of an exception, perhaps,
though Portuguese isn't very diff
cult to one who has learned Spanish.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
The Navy League
Will Resume Its Useful Activities
Now the Ban Is To Be Lifted
a. nI
By Quarterback

The Navy League of the United
States received a hearty Endorsement
and new lease of life upon the occ..
sion of its eighteenth annual dinner in
Washington Saturday night. Its pas,
services to the country and to the navy
were fully recognized by Secretary
DENLY, Secretary Weeks and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt. Mr.. Denby let it
be known that the ban placed upon +.
by the last Administration would be
lifted and that the league would resume
Its activities in hearty cooperation with
the Navy Department 70 cultivate and
perpetuate an interest in naval affairs
among the people of this countrs. Thi,
Is quite as it should be
The Navy League is primarily an
association of men and women in civil
life who advocate naval preparedness.
not as an aggressive policy, but, as
Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson declares,
as a necessary means of securing proper
defense for the interests of the United
~S~@ONS NQOAi viz Scd II IL UOL III auy
sense a jingo organization. but it Is
patriotic and helpful in all matters a.
fecting the navy and its personnel.
The need of navy league is as urgcn.
to-day as in times past. There is sl-
ways tendency to return to pacifistic
principles after a war, and it is, there
fore, of the utmost Importance that tn.
people shall realize the broad functions
of a navy in peace as we'll as in war
1t must not be forgotten that tho
navy Is not only an element in national
defense but that it bears vitally I'M
portant relation to the maintenance and
security Of the commercial activities
foreign trade and business interests OF
the country This relationship is world
VIDE IN scope. Thus the navy is
necessary link in the chain OF agencies
that secure national prosperity. It is
the duty of the Navy League to bring
this fact home to the people of the
United States.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

To know country and to impart
the flavor of personal sympathy in
intercourse with it's government and
people the barrier of language should
be cut away. 1t will mark a happy
change in our diplomatic methods if
we insist hereafter on having am
bassadors and ministers who can
present the American point of view
without hindrancc in their associa-
ton with other peoples and who
themselves can absorb more naturally
and completely the point of view of
the'nations with which they deal.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Rain Turning to Snow

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wonder if others besides my
self have noticed how seldom snow
storms begin with rain in New York
10 my knowledge there have been but
three, including the blizzard of 1888.
think they were about 1896 and 1912
but am not positive as to dates. For
merly we often read in the weather
reports: Rain, turning to snow," but,
failing to materialize, the forecast
seems to have been dropped. Such
storms, when they do come, remain
longer, it has been said, and arc more
frequent up state. l suppose the sal.
air has something to do with their
absence in New York. When Boston
friends have been asked how it was
there they have "never noticed" AS
am writing from Lake Champlain,
may | add that for the second season
IN record of tfty-two years the broad
lake between Port Kent ard Burling-
ton has failed to freeze Tn. other
lapse was two years ago, the winter
of 1919 FANNY KELLOGG
Plattsburg, N. Y, March I, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
'2l Has Been a Big Year

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is just four hundred years ago
that Magellan, intrepid Portuguese
navigator, was attacked and killed bv
the natives of the Philippines.
Three hundred years ago, after the
Pilgrims had passed through a severe
winter, Samoset visited the Plymouth
colony with the greeting: "Welcome.
Engllshmen.' On May ~, 1921, the
hrst marriage took place in the Plym
outh colony. In the fall of the same
year the harvest was good, and Gov
ornor Bradford appointed December IL.
1921, as Thanksgiving Day. The usage
in time became general in the United
States.
In the year 172N occurred the births
Of the statesman Roger Sherman and
of the British novelist Smollett. The
New England Courant was first issued.
41n 1921 occurred the births of James
Longstreet, engineer and soldier;
Charles Scrbner and James Leslie.
publishers; Linus Yale jI., lock in
ventor; Edward l.. Youmans. scientist
and founder of Popular Scientist; Will
liam f. Poole, originator of Poolo's
index; Joseph B. Grinnell, founder of
Iowa College; Elizabeth Blackwell. who
received the first medical dip|oma
granted to woman John b. Cornell
who invented tireproof lathing and
iron rolling shutters, and Elizabeth
Thompson, who presented the picture
signing of Emancipation Proclama-
ton by Lincoln in Presence of Cabinetv
to the United States Congress. The same
year Missouri was admitted to the
Union; Junius B. Booth made his first
appearance in America; Amherst Col
lege was opened and the University Of
Alabama incorporated.
Macaulay states in his ESSAY on Mil
ton: Every generation cnioys the use
of a vast hoard bequcathed to it bv
antiquity" C.R. GREEN
New York, March 5. 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

pressed industrial wage slaves Wheth =
er the wage slaves were crying out for
liberation or not was d matter of com
piete indifference to the Russian army
once it had received its taste of victory.
To be sure, the Bolsheviki began by
fighting a defensive war. All the great
military adventures have begun that
way. Nobody is able to resist the temp
tations of the counter stroke. Already
Trotzky is wearing boots with spurs on
them, and Mrs. Sheridan, in describing
her adventures in Moscow, said that he
was man much like Napoleon. Only
she added that she was sure he would
never embark on any campaign of world
conquest for military glory. We think
he will try, but he will call it some
thing else.
Granted even money, we would like
to wager the prediction that the end of
the Russian business will be the dicta-
torship not of the proletariat. but of the
military adventurer Naturally, if the
rest of the world ever achieves the
good sense OF keeping hands off and
obvlating the necessity of the Red
army we want to call our bet off.
So far as Utopias go, Wells will take
the world afoot on the journey for
every inch any army could possibly
gain. Unless you have something of
the Wellsian faith in the infinite pos
slbilities of man, right now at this mo-
ment, there isn't any sense in talking
about Ctopias at all. If a revolution
means nothing more than the necessity
of arming and fighting counter revolu-
ton it is about as forward moving a
business as dog chasing his tail.
The only man, the only nation, the
only cause, which deserves to endure is
the one which feels so certain of its
persuasive righteousness that it does
not even dread defeat
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Unsightly Roofs
MIR. Architect, Please Make Build.
ings Good Looking All Over

A'6' NAooo 1oOhlllS All oVcr
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: From my Office window on the
eleventh floor l can see four new build
ings IN course Of construction All arc
evidently the designs of good archi-
tects. They are all nine or ten stories
high. Facades are we'll designed and
pleasing in appearance, but the tops of
the buildings are as ugly as possible.
They arc fiat and unsightly, and are
still further marrcd by tanks, pent-
houses and janitors' quarters
Now, surrounding these buildings are
several that run to more than twice
their height. A great many people,
therefore, look down on this ugliness.
Further down the street are a few of
the old peakcd-roof buildings, the rel
les Of early New York.
1t seems strange to me that at a
time when l suppose no one could fore
see that these old buildings would be
looked down upon from above thev
were built so that they are attractive
from any angle, whereas new build
lngs are mostly being constructed so
that the view over our housetops is an
eyesore.
Mr.. Chesterton probably would enjoy
the paradox that the tops of our build
ings are more attractive from below
l write in the hope that this will
fall under the eye of some one con-
tcmplating the construction of a new
building and that he will instruct his
architect as to the increasing impor-
tancc, IN the days of high buildings and
airships. to finish his job by making
his building good looking all over.
KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, March i, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
The Story Hour in Bermuda

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l read with keen pleasure your
editorial of March l on THE Art OF
Reading"
was particularly interested because
you referred to the story hours in the
New York Public Library. and also
mentioned that "the children's Library
is relatively new development in tbs
country. 1t is unknown in England a.
yet, we believe
You will be glad to know that
"children's library" has been started IN
Hamilton, Bermuda, through the e.
forts of Miss Anna {. Tyler, who IS III
charge of the Story Hours and Library
Reading Clubs of the New York Public
Library.
On October ?, 1919, Miss Tyler
held a story hour in the Bermuda PUP
lIc Library, hoping to interest the
community and show what the real
value of the story hour meant to the
children.
AS result of that meeting chill
dren's room has been opened and regu-
lar story hours are held twice week
with an average attendance Of SiAty
children.
Moreover, the general public mas
become so aroused by this new brane"
of the work that in the library where
the circulation used to be about 4Vo
books per year it now averages thS'
many per month. Also there IS ."
average daily attendance of 250 peop'e'
Miss Seon, the librarian in cnarss'
writes most Enthusiastically of their
progress. ELLIE RAY PHOEBUS.