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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Honoring the Old Men

The Rotarians did a splendid and thoughtful
thing today when they invited men who had
passed their SEVENTEEN birthday to their weekly
luncheon, and turned the meeting over to one of
"reminiscences of days that are gone.
Youth sometimes forgets that soon it will be
gray and bent. Sometimes it dsmisses with a
shrug of the shoulder and curt judgment the
works which its forefathers performed. Some
times it forgets entirely that the sacrifices and
vision of the men of the last generation have
made possible the advantages of today.
Sometimes nagging and fault finding spirit
creeps into our community, which discredits what
our forbears did, and pays scant consideration to
the memory of the many great men who brought
distinction to the community and served city,
state and nation with honor to themselves and to
their old home town.
Sometimes we insinuate that the who
are seventy and eighty now were not possessed
of a community spirit when they were thirty
and forty; but we neglect to go back with them
to those days to discover that they active
and alert in promoting the welfare of the city in
those days are today.
Richmond's unexcelled railroad facilities, for
instance, did not come by chance, but were the
results of the encouragement of the progressive
men of that day. AS early as 1874, Richmond
and Wayne county were noted throughout Indi-
ana as an industrial and commercial center, be-
cause it's citizens were progressive and ready to
accept the latest ideas in business and industry.
Many of the substantial concerns of today date
back to Civil war days.
The Rotarians deserve to be praised for re-
Numbering the men who have grown old in this
city-nen who have been active in all spheres Of
our varied life, and in the October days of their
life are looking. back up years we'll spent in a
community which they helped make and are
proud to claim their own.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
FLAT TIRES.


! rode with Johnson in the rain, in
his new 5ohorsepower vain. The
rain was pouring down, gadzooks,
The road was crossed by running
brooks. But we were snug and dry in
side. and carried smiles three cubits
wide. And then, kerplunk, tire went
fiat; and Johnson merely sighed there
at. And then he left his cozy seat, and
sloshed around on squirting feet You
stay" he said lust where you are; I'll
do the fussing with the car" And out
there in the tempest wild he toiled
around. and still he smiled. He seem
ed to think his labors fun, and wills
tied Johnny, Get Your Gun" And
when he'd changed the ruber tire, and
climbed in from the rain and mire,
and srasped the costly steering wheel.
as cheerful as a locoed eel 'Ods
fish,,' ! said "a saint you are! Were
l compelled to leave my car and tinker
around In the wet, my language would
be blue, you bet!" And Johnson heav-
ed-a smile ar me; I've lived for many
years ;" said he; land l have known
my ups and downs, and wilted meath
misfortune's frowns. I've found when
things were going wrong, 1t braces one
to shed song; in times of sorrow
and despair, it doesn't help me out to
swear.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01

and at the end of three years and a
half he had risen to the high estate
of taking $45 from his Saturday pay
envelope. He branched out into the
practice of law on his own account,
and made $4,000 cleanup the first
year. At this time he was living in
his home town of Wheaton, ILL.,, where
he had gone to the public school as
a farmers boy, and he also practiced
law in Chicago.
He was the first mayor of the city
ofWheaton, and later was county
judge for two terms, since which time
he has always been known as Judge
Gary
After leaving the bench he practiced
law in Chicago 25 years, retiring to
organize the Federal Steel company,
of which ne was first president Later
he was prominently identified with
the U. S. Steel corporation, of which
for several years he has been an
active head.
Among his first clients as a lawyer
were William Deering and John w.
Gates, the latter of whom was ready
even then to wager a million dollars
that the young lawyer would get one
Mr.. Deering and Mr.. Gary attended the
same church in Chicago, and although
Mr.. Gates was not pewholder, Mr..
Deering brought him and Mr.. Gates
together. Mr.. Gates was then making
barbed wire and Mr.. Deering agricul-
tural implements.
Out of the acquaintanceship of the
three men grew many important de-
velopments in steel and wire industry,
which in the course of time brought
about the merger of many corpora
tons and finally the creation of the
United States Steel corporation.
The reason that Judge Gary sue
ceeded SO well is that he had a Won
derful creative mind and had genius
for amalgamation. which he displayed
in the case OF the great combination
which is composed of more than a
dozen steel companies, all working
harmoniously toward a common goal
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
The Basketball Tourney

High school basketball players from neigh
boring cities and towns will be our guests late
this week. They will contest for the district
championship, which carries with it oppor-
tunty to try for state honors. Naturally rivalry
between the teams will be intense and school en-
thusiasm and spirit will run high.
All the contenders will honor the winning
team, for it's success will not have been won by a
fluke or an accident. These exigencies are i'm
possible in a tourney in which the elimination
games are arranged to prevent just such occur
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
TODAY'S TALK
BY George Adams "up-
THE FRAGMENTS OF US
BY George Matthew

little show amounts little Of what For
fragment of him. And yet those ag
then his life before had
o is had o showing them the time!
careful how show fragments since
people by samples only.
our reals w can
remembered understood.
precousness
who
flint hammerng against some
a kndt
with telescope
of by the naked but which showed
which
hidden
if
telescope and-ook carefully!
fragments of us-wel unseen, they
to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
The Increase in American Shipping

< The amount of our export trade which is
being carried in American bottoms, is increasing
steadily, according to figures of the department
of commerce. Last year, for instance, American
ships carried 43 per cent of the water-borne ex-
ports, as compared with less than 20 per cent in
1913.
This may mean little to residents of the Mid
die West, but it is nevertheless significant fact
in our national development. Formerly the
greater part of our exports was carried in for
egn bottoms. The freight was paid to the own
ers of these ships who were citizens of foreign
countries. Thousands of dollars were thus taken
from the United States annually to enrich other
nations. Now not only are selling our goods,
but also delivering them in our own ships, and
the freight money returns to the United States
to increase our national wealth and to develop
our industries.
While the amount of American exports car
red in ships increased in the last year, Great
Britain, which formerly carried the bulk, showed
decrease. n : vs. Is -ftt
u The American merchant marine, which grad
.ually had disappeared from the ocean after steam
had supplanted sails, came into it's own during
the war, when the United States was forced to
build ships a gigantic scale to overcome the
losses sustained by foreign shipping from SUBJ
marines.
S These ships are the ones that are carrying
our exports and returning dividends to American
owners. American shipping should receive such
encouragement that it will regain the prestige it
held in the first half of the last century. Our
commercial security is intimately connected with
our shipping. If control the trade routes by
virtue of ships, in a position to
control the trade. Germany's pre-war COM
mercial expansion was in a large measure the
fruit of her mercantile policy, and the present
trade supremacy of Great Britain is due to her
traditional encouragement of her merchant
marine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Answers to Questions

NJ J. W-G). How is the center
of population reckoned? This question
was answered in this column Feb. 81.
(2). How do railroad engineers on
trains leaving the eastern standard
time manage their watches when they
read central time and western or
mountain time? Do they change their
watches? They change their watches.
J. D. N.-Prof. Hudson in his work
on psychic phenomena states that
Zersh Colburn, a boy 8 years old, liv-
ing in 1872. instantly raised the num-
Der progressively to the 10th power
being 2S1, 474976,719,656. Do you be-
lieve it was possible? Are there any
such mathematical prodigies living to-
day? We are unable to answer your
question.
Mrs. J. N.-What is the length of the
Panama canal? 1t is AZ miles in
length between shore lines.
Readers may obtain answer to
questions by writing the Palladium
Questions and Answers department..
All questions should be written plainly
and briefly. Answers will be given
briefly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01

AS chairman of the
board of the United
States Steel corpo-
ration he gets $780,
600 a year, a nom
lnal sum, w h i C h
does not nearly rep
resent his annual
income, as he also
has certain stocks
and bonds.
. w h e n he was
graduated from the
law department of
the University of
Chicago, he was
glad to get $12 a
week 9S q clerk
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Dinner Stories

you are late for dinner, as usual"
said Mrs. Twobble. GROSSLY.
Il believe l ON, my DEAR" answered
Mr.. Trowbble, apologetically.
81 dare say you've been standing in
front of a baseball bulletin board"
mo, indeed"
"Ah! l thought you would try to
deceive me. Mrs. Wapples told me
she saw you there"
Il wasn't in front of the bulletin
board. The crowd was so large l
could not get in front of it. 1 was
away around on one side"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Memories of OldDays
In This Paper Ten Years
Ago Today

Manager Schornstein of the Rich
mond Light, Heat and Power company
announced the completion of improve
ments at the gas plant which cost ap-
proximately $4,000 and stated that in
would permit, the company was going
to make Improvements on about four
miles of mains within the city limits.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Correct English
Don't Say:

MY brother and MYSELF intend
to go.
They invited you and MYSELF.
/ went with him to the hotel,
WHERE we dined.
l saw your sister, WHO told me you
were coming.
/ was at home i'll is the reason
didn't go.
Say:
My brother and l intend to go.
They invited you and me. ss
/ went with him to the hotel, AND
THERE we dined.
/ saw your sister, AND SHE told
me you were coming.
l was at home i'll, THAT is the
reason / didn't go.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Who's Who in the
Day. News
ebert n, GARY.

Ebert Fl. Gary, steel magnate, is
who is optimistic regarding the near
future in the industrial situation.
Gary's life has taught him optimism.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
WOULD IMPOSE STATE TAX
ON BACHELORS OVER 80

(By Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Mar. ALI
bachelors over 80 years of age would
be required to pay an annual tax of IS
under provisions of bill introduced
in lower house of the state legislature
here Monday by Representative Dean.
The house gave consent for introduc,
ton of the measure.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Protect The Children

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
SUCH TAKING" MAYS

SUCH TAKING" WAYS
Last night, at gorgeous restaurant,
Sweet Fanny and l did dine;
The repast was enjoyable
Delicious, tasty and fine.
The checkroom took my overcoat,
A maid took Fanny's wrap
They took us to table,
There our waiter took a nap.
They took me for farmer
From the wildwoods of N. j.;
The meal was so expensive
1t most took my breath away.
The proprietor looked DER my
shoulder
AS / wrote this little stint
But he vanished ere l finished,
S So ! guess he took the hint.
Jesse Mittelmann.
Things are really getting back to
normal in Lamar. Says the Demo
craft" ut is declared that quite a
number of women in Lamar who used
to do washings have not only been
away from the suds and wringer for
some time, butt have been sending
their own washings to the laundry.
Now. however, there is a change. A
good many of these same women are
not only doing their own washing
again, but are once more out doing the
washing for others"
We have received letter from one
satisfied worker. He says all he has
to do is load the.pig iron into the wag-
on. The horses do all the pulling.
what are we going to do If the
farmers loaf?"-New York Herald
Maybe well have to go t0-work.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01
Good Evening
IMPORTANT, IF TRUE
BY Eoy X. Moulton

A silk-hatted. young man IN evening
clothes stood in front of an ex-cafe aft
er midnight, holding unsteadily to
sign that held great clock. Said ex-
cafe place is now a bank. This young
man was weeping.
When a policeman came along to
find out what troubled him it was
some time before the young man could
restrain his sobs to reply. At last he
said: Il was just thinking of the Or
ange blossom cocktails and the plates
Of sailed nuts they used to serve
here"
- Then he Strengthened up, looked at
the policeman and said frankly: Of
fisher, is it true that we are going to
have prohi bition Odd Mcintyre.
Man wants but little here below"
sang the poet. And woman wants but
little here below-the knee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01

what are we going to do If the
farmers loaf?"-New York Herald
Maybe we'll have to go to-work.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-01

We have received letter from one
satisfied worker. He says all he has
to do is load the. pig iron into the wag-
on. The horses do all the pulling.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29
Business Conditions.
Henry CLOVIS BuIletin:

Henry CLOVIS Bulletin: -
Adoption of bill by Congress settles tho long
activities of for tho coming year HI
least II is that the outcome mas
been a severe disappointment the commercial com,
murity Members of Congress themselves evdenty Iee
done. There is manifest growing body of senti-
mont in either the sales tax some similar
pan teAson this Is taking form In tho proposed
visit Of q Congressman Canada Tor the pur-
in that country The adjustment. such as IT 49,
is II Will probHbly be ohy
short tine before revision must be made Sug-
extensive taxation for the purpose
paying soldiers is likely to be imposed mas
naturally disagreement and objection
The Importance the Arms Conference as a H.
nancaI and business factor has more and more
maritest II certain that the programme of
President Harding Secretary Hughes VIII DC ac-
ceptci practically it stands by the foreign doieEat
II, of / respective countries
Brains building operations on new bstte
classes earnest OF her good faith IN
With this beginning 1T Will be possible
tive bodies countries disposed to CO.
op, rate. apparently they will be. This should al
least rave way toward lower taxation The market
is mere apprecating the work OF the Arms
exists for expecting exchange questions TO
be ak either a this conference at supple
called in the relatively near fu
turc one result action should be to improve
prospects foreign financing in this market not
wisandins offerings have been seriously IN
terfercd Will. during weeks by the ncrcas
ing rrorrarity foreign exchange. The German marx
has shown signs improvement, but has mantained
abe m level which had been established
two ago. while advices Berlin showing that
The preparations the nsallment payment have
bee very small afford discouraging prospect in the
absence of some national action.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29
Telephone Heroines.

Officials of the Mountain States Telephone conf
pany honor themselves in honorng those employees who
stayed their post of duty the night of the great
Pueblo flood, and who played most important part
in lessenins the number of the victims OF that
catastrophe.
Heroism does not consist. as is the common but
false idea in going outside the of ordinary actv-
tiles for feat of superhuman valor or endurance 1t
consists rather in meeting the great emergency In the
spirit of fidelity and competence. In other words,
hero is not who meets the great emergency with
something quite outside the of everyday eSper-
ience but rather who has in every day experience
the qualities that adequate TO meet the tests of great
emergencies.
Pueblo is proud to number among It's people the
employees of the Telephone company who met their test
with the same spirit that shown by so many other
men and women in Pueblo, spirit general and so
splendid in its results that it may fairly be called the
spirit of Pueblo.
Pueblo is pleased to have in charge of one of Its
great public utilities company and officials of that
company who recognize beroism the Towering OF
fathfulness competency and give it its just need
of appreciation
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29
One Voice But Many Minds.

Americans find it easy to understand that while the
delegates the United States the peace conference
speak for the whole nation they do not speak for all
public sentiment in this country is in favor of the
policy expressed by Secretary Hughes but the voice OF
America the present time is the voice of the Harding
administration There many persons in the United
States who hold varying contrary opinions
Some of them favorable to the League of Nations;
some of them frankly mtarst, at least to the
of believing that national safety may be secured
only by military preparedness.
Even with their knowledge that change of ad-
minstration. change of party the United States
might bring important differences in the national policy
Americans are apt to overlook the fact that political
conditions in other countries very much like those
Japan and the other nations tho they individuals
with single mind and continuous purpose, and we
apt attribute to dishonesty, Inconsistencies that
due wholly to political changes.
The delegates now at Washington constitute
gathering of peace seeking delegates from nine great
nations. This gathering is devoted to peace than
any previous gathering of national representatives and
the sentiment of the nations whole is more strongly
and more sincerely for peace than ever before.
But that is very far from saying that all the people
in all the nations sincerely devoted to the peace
program That is not the case The most that
hope for is that the delegates Washington will be
able to upon progressive steps toward peace and
that public sentiment of the majority of the people IN
all these nine nations will approve what has been done
and will give the program continued support.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

placed against Captain Frayatt who
was shot by the Germans during tho
war? It was an odd word that
cannot remember.-6;. J. Fl.
a. Captain Frystt of the British
Ship Brussels was executed by the
Germans on the charge OF being a
Franc-tireur. Literally translated this
means a 'sharpshooter' The word
was first introduced into information
al law as n result of the organization
of bands of irresulars or Franc-tircurs
during tho Franco Prussian War.
Q. What Is the largest park In the
United states within n city?--J. Y. n.
A. Fairmount Park in Philadel-
phia has an area of 3.242 acres. This
is probably the largest park within
the limits Of any city in tho country.
Q. What is used in the msnufac-
turc of fiber phonograph needles?--
W. ". V. s.
A. The Forest Service says that In
most cases fiber needles arc manu-
facturcd from foreign tropical woods
which arc closely associated with
bamboo.
Q. What is Basil Kings real
name III. IT.
A. Basil King is listed in who's
who as king, (William Benjamin)
Basil"
Q. Did tho "knights of old wear
both chain and plate armor?-D. IL.
II.
A. Plate armor was worn in battle
and tournament. while chain armor
was worn at times when there was
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29
TODArS EVENTS

The Federal election campaign in
Canada today enters upon its final
week.
The 25th anniversary OF the .estab-
lishment OF the Knights of Columbus
in Pennsylvania is to be celebrated
with a banquet in Philadelphia to-
night
Both houses of the Ulster ParlIa-
ment, the North Ireland legislative
body, have been summoned to meet in
Belfast today.
Tho annual convention of the Louis
lana Federation of Women's Clubs Will
meet at Baton Rouge today for n ses-
sion that will continue thru the week
The official trial of the new super
drosdnouSht Maryland. one OF the
most powerful vessels ever built for
the Y. $. navy, is 10 begin today off
Rochland. Me.
New efforts to consolidate the Pres
hyterians OF the North and South are
TO be undertaken at meeting of rep
resentattves of the two denominations
at Richmond. Va. today.
oral arguments are to be heard by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
today in the reopening of the case
brought by tho New England railroads
to obtain larger proportion Of reve-
nue. from traffic handled jointly by
them with other roads OF the country,
Jesse Pomeroy. the famous 'lifer" In
The massachusetts State prison.
reaches his sixty-third birthday TODAY
Forty-fve years OF his life have been
spent in prison, and forty years of that
period were passed in solitary connne-
ment
AT Plymouth. Mass. today the So
ciety of Colonial Danes of America
will dedicate the new canopy over his
toric Plymouth Rock and present IL to
the state OF Massachusetts. 1t will
be rcdedication OF the Rock itself.
az tho rock now lies on a new level
and under a new roof.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-29

the United States result of the Washington con-
ference 1t is certain that all of this saving Will
be passed to the people in reduction of the costs
of government.
Already there signs of increased activity among
the hosts of schemers of every kind who are ready with
their plans for comforting inestimable boons upon
suffering humanity with the help of congressional
appropriation. We have become familiar with the
argument that with the cost of single battleship a
of colleges could be built and endowed that the
fortdcations of city cost than ranscont'nentai
highway. Now shall hear that since congress was
able to build and maintain navy of the oden kind 1t
surely spare the money required to do and to build
all kinds of things that urged upon its attention
Strong public sentiment should be directed against
these treasury raiders before they begin their often
sive The money saved from naval preparedness should
be passed the relief of the overburdened taxpayer
and part of it should to the satisfaction of cranks
and schemers.
There is vast field of activity open in the line OF
saving money in department in order that 1t may
be more benefciay spent in another way, and reforms
of this kind should provide all the funds necessary for
new governmental activities without taking up the well
come relief due to disarmament.