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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Answers to Questions

(Any reader can get the answer to
Information bureau. Frederick ]; Hask-
in, director, Washington, d. C This Of
fer applies strictly TO information; The
medical and financial matters. It does
not attempt to settle domestic troubles
nor to rt nnsstIon
plainly and briefly. Give full name and
address and enclose two cents in stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to the inquirer.
Q. Were songleaders in the army
during the war connected with def
mite units? If so, with what rank?-
G. A. B.
A. The war department says that
song leaders were not attached 10
definite units, but to camps, but that
they had no rank in the army, being
civilians employed by the Commission
on Training Camp Activities.
@. What is meant by the grace
of God"?-J. r.
A. Grace of God is an expression
from the writings of Saint Paul who
frequently used the term in the sense
of a gift which enables those to do
what they could not do without it,.
The Church of England and the Pro-
testant Episcopal church in the United
States teach that grace is the assis
lance given by God to those who be
lieve in Him so that they may please
Him and keep His commandments.
The Roman Catholic church teaches
that for all acts conducive to salvation
the inner grace of the Holy Spirit Is
necessary.
O. What was the first daily news
paper in England?-W. T.
A. The first English daily paper,
the Daily Courant, appeared in 1909,
and the first Sunday papers, the Brit
ish Gazette, and the Daily Monitor,
in 1870.
O. Is there an international agree
ment regarding white slavery?-F. c.
II.
A. White slave traffic was for
merly extensive in Europe, America,
parts of Asia, Africa and Australia.
The suppression of the traffic was
agreed upon by an international treaty
signed May, 1904 by representatives OF
France. Germany, Great Britain. Italy,
Russia. Sweden. Denmark, Belgium,
Holland, Spain, Portugal, Norway, and
switzerland. The United States sig
nified it's adherence to the treaty IN
1905.
@. How long can a trolley wire be
used "A B. D.
a. The period of time trolly wire
can be used before being replaced de
pends entirely on the amount of traffic
However. as an average, it would last
10 years.
@. What is the oldest piece of liter
atlre in existence?-F. A.
A Probably the oldest known piece
of literature in existence is the Baby
Ian Tablet, produced by the people oil
Babylonia.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
By FREDERICK j. HAsKIN

WASHINGTONs D. C, Oct. 23.-An-
thony Comstock may be dead, but, as
they sang of John Brown, his soul goes
marching on The organization which
he founded to fight vice will soon cele.
brate its fiftieth anniversary and its
latest report indicates that it is as
busy as ever. In fact, it's activity
may be even more effective and more
far-reaching than it was in the days
when Comstock was the nemesis of
producers of purient plays and pub
fishers of literature of the same char
acter.
1t is not generally known that the
New York Society for the Suppression
of Vice does not confine its work &c
the city and state which give it is name
Most of publicity it has received has
been in connection with its efforts
to Suppress plays staged or books pub
lished in New York City. However
the society's report shows that it has
participated in Investigations anc
prosecutions in several cities in Penn
sylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri
mad Wisconsin, and that it CO ?operated
with a somewhat similar organization
in Paris.
In the course of its work the so
ciety has been instrumental in pro
curing the arrest of more than 4,60C
persons of whom more than $500 were
convicted or pleaded guilty. Sentences
aggregating 646 years Imprisonment
have been imposed upon the guilty
and fines assessed them amounting
to more than quarter of a million
dollars.
In connection with these cases there
have been confiscated 127 ,904 pounds
of book and sheet stock, 1921 ,6SS OBJ
scene pictures and postcards, 21,616
photo negatives and films, 1884;
plates for printing books, 432,459 ar
ticles of immoral use and 3,719057 cir
culars, catalogues, ct cetera. Las
year there were also taken on search
warrant 1869 magazines and as evi
dence two reels of obscene motor
picture films.
In addition to all this the officer;
of the society also point with pride
to the part it has taken in the Better
Public Shows Movement in New YORK
City and in bringing about the enact
ment of the law establishing the New
York State Motion Picture Commits
sion and license may be refused or
the grounds of indecency, tendency tc
incite to crime and for other causes.
Morgan One of
The Founders
]. Pierpont Morgan, the elder, was
associated with Anthony ComstocH
as one of the founders of the society
and other prominent men included
in the list of incorporators were Will
lam E. Dodge, Jr., Morris X. Jessur
and Robert B. McBurney Its list OF
contributions for 1921 totaled some
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cover fundamentals upon which to base struc-
ture for right living and right doing.
Many things are made moral issues that in
themselves are not harmful. Often an agitation
to change them leads to the enactment of rules
that are ignored by the public generally, which
sees no reason for the statutory regulation of
matters which are open questions.
Referring to some of the criticisms aimed at
girls, Miss Hamilton comments thus:
"And after all, it is not moral issue-this
powdering and painting and bobbing of hair.
Really the chief objection to all this makeup,
as l see it, is that it takes so much variety out
of the human countenance. Walking down
Broadway in my own New York last winter
was struck with the hundreds of girls, all about
the same age. every one made up just alike. 1t
is the same in the main street of the village as
it is in New York City, and the sameness be-
comes appalling to one who enjoys variety of
countenance, as it seems to me the good Lord
intended.
But why make all this fuss about it 1t is
not moral issue. Older people, fear, who are
interested in young people, make the mistake
very generally of shooting all the ammunition at
the rabbit-and then there is nothing left to
shoot with when there is really something big
that needs to be shot.
"This tendency on our part, seems to me one
of the reasons the young people despise our
authority so much-we have so little sense Of the
relative importance of things"
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TODAY'S TALK
Matthew Adams Authoe-of You Can Take IT. up
I'm WHICH GEAR DO YOU DRIVER
BY George Matthew Adams.

life makes difference IN
accomplishment with and failure
under difficulties
that the ground
and IN
lie most comfortable
thigh" all the
the low speeds In
easily avoid ustt he they shifted to high
of emergencies-when
there climb where special pull is
demanded.
exactly that human being is built He too
right the
difficulties the low but for the average everyda
of
But bear can't start high Use the
where 1t absolutely
or unusual difficulty
travel all their days IN low
Many people walk around day after day only
half awake don't know it
Wake up-speed up!
with
which get things done
don't getting
where bodily and mental machines and
shop
you that wearing out engine by
travelin a speed
Begin today things hills!
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New York's Anti Vice Society
Anthony Comstock, It's Founder Dead But Organization
Vaiantly Carries Work in East.

three hundred individuals and organi-
cations.
The society was legalized by an &C:
of the legislature of the State of New
York passed May 16, 1873, and it's OBJ
ject, as stated in the law, is the en'
forcement of the laws for the suppress
sion of the trade in and circulation of
obscene literature and illustrations,
advertisements, and articles of indie
cent and immoral use, as it is or may
be forbidden by the laws of the State
of New York or of the United States.
The law further provided that the
police force of the city of New York,
as well as of other places where po-
lice organizations exist, shall, as oc-
casion may require, aid this corpora.
ton, its members or agents, in the
enforcement of all laws which now
exist or which may hereafter be enact
ed for the suppression of the acts and
offenses specified in Section of the
Act.
Thus it is apparent that the society
is an extraordinary organization with
altogether unusual functions and
powers. Law enforcement is generally
regarded as something to be entrusted
solely to public officials duly created
and commissioned by the body that
enacts the laws. Such officials are
paid by the Government, Federal, state
or municipal, as the case may be, their
responsibility is fixed and their au.
thority carefully defined.
Yet here was group OF private in
diyiduals, almost all of whom were
officers, directors, or life members of
the Y. M. G. A. of New York, who we're
empowered to enforce certain laws
and the police-the usual law enforc-
ing officials-were directed to assist
them None of them and none of their
agents was required to furnish bond
or otherwise establish his responsible
ty and no control whatever over the
officers and agents of the society was
reserved to the state.
Received Half
The Fines.
The original act even went so far
as to provide the "one-half of the fines
| collected through the fundamentally
of this society or its agent, for the VIC
lation of the laws in this Act specified
shall accrue to its benefit This
clause was speedily repealed and pro.
vision was made for the division of the
fines between the Female Guardian
Society and the Prison Association of
New York, but the fact that it was in
/ the law as il was first passed is ills
trative of the confidence imposed by
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the press and burlesqued on the stage.
and most people had the idea that he,
was either joke or an officious old
busybody who sought constantly to
stick his nose in other peoples bust
ness"
Those who violated the laws which
his society was commissioned to en-.
force learnedin time that Saint An
thony, as he was dubbed, was no joke
whether he undertook to suppress
books and plays that were not object
ionable save to prudes, and whether
he sought to establish standards of
morality that were not acceptable TO
a great majority of the people, may
be debatable questions. However, IL
is not of record that anything he orhis
society has ever done, has harmed any
one save those who sought profit in
transactions against which the laws
might be invoked Anyone Comstock
may have been derided as a gloom"
and in some quarters it may be argued
that he took a great deal of the sun
shine out of life, but the data compiled
by the society, the figures of which
have been quoted, indicate that there
must have been some need for the
work which he undertook to do.
John s. Sumner who now carried on
the work started by Comstock des-
cribes the society as "a law-enforcing
agency acting as proxy for the ordi-
nary citizen in seeing that specific
laws, aside from the usual duties of
the police, are respected and enforc-
ed" He also says in his report that
any feeling of antagonism toward the
society heretofore existing has disap-
peared and the society now enjoys the
respect and has the willing co-opera-
ton of all the established agencies OF
the law both local and national, as well
as the aid of other organizations en-
gagged in related work
THE children of any country are its
greatest asset" says Mr.. Sumner.
One of the chief duties of govern
ment is TO protect the child, and Others
mentally immature, from the mercer
airy vicious influences. A branch o.
that specific duty has been delegated
to this society. We oppose those who
for a price, or to satisfy some vicious
impulse, would place in the way of the
susceptible unnecessary temptations
to do wrong-those who would de-
bauch the mind and body of youth.
the thoughtlessly curious and the
mentally unstable"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
After Dinner Stories

Grove City, Pa, has one of the worst
golf courses, if not the worst, in the
United States. ]. W. Aver, of the
Sharon Golf club, Sharon, Pa, tells
this story of playing on it: 81 was
playing with my friend, H. G. McClel-
Ian, who drove off the number one
tee. 1t was a fairly good drive but a
little in the rough. I followed with
one down the fairway. / put my golf
bag down near my ball and went over
into the rough to help Mack. After
search We found his ball and return.
ed to where l had left mine, but my
bag was gone! There are no caddies
on this course, and cafeteria golf is
popular in the neighborhood."
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the legislature in the society at tha
time it was formd.
However, it was many years before
the general public accorded it SINH
lar recognition. 1t was something en-.
tirely new to the courts, prosecuting
attorneys, the police, and the news.
papers and it was an object of sus.
picion and sometimes of active ami
mostly, as It now admits in its pub
LEGATIONS. Anthony Comstock, wh1
the executive secretary and director OF
its activities from the date of its
founding until his death in 1915, was
subjected to all manner of criticism
He was lampooned and caricatured in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Cost OF AUSTRIAN
LIVING ADVANCES
10000 Per CENT
nv Associated Press,

VIENNA. Oct 23.-It is estimated
that the cost of living in Austria has
increased over 10000 percent since
January of this year.
Each monthly index number, on
which all government salaries as well
as agreements between employees and
employed are based has mounted stad
lily, until this month government en-
ployes receive salaries equal to 156
times the amount paid in March 1921.
This and other government outlay has
been met largely by the printing press
until the current statement of the Aus
tro-Hungarian bank shows total note
circulation of nearly two thousand bill
hons OF kronen. One weeks increase
alone was 1S0,000,000, 900.
Within the last month strict govern
ment control over all dealings in for
eisn exchange has raised the krone
from about $4,000 to $4,000 to the dol
lar. But despite this there has been
no appreciate check in rising prices.
/ 1t Is claimed, for example, that flour.
margarine, beef, fats, coffee, clothing,
shoes and fuel are above world parity.
Fight Index System.
Inc government and private. inter
est recently initiated fight against
the index number system. An amend
ment to the statute was brought in by
which the government will pay only
one-half of any future increase, while
private employers served notice they
would not meet it, but would negotiate
the basis of increase with the unions
Organized labor of every kind rose as
a man.. and more than half a dozen
unions are still on strike.
The unions claim that the index sys-
tenn is not cause of increased prices,
but thermometer, and that the basic
fault is lack of control over profiteer-
ing in necessities.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Ripping Rhymes
AUTUMN
BY Walt Mason

Another year is skipping right
smartly to its close, the skies will soon
be shipping some novelties in SHOWS ::
and all the bathing peaches have left
the ocean beaches, and through the
woodland reaches a keen wind shrewd
~ blows. There's something sad and
dreary about the days of fall; They've
seldom bright and cherry; spring DAYS
they don't recall; the nights are long
and chilly; the roads are rough and
htlly; along them Weary Willie hunts
for a winter stall. We face increased
expenses, though we are in the hole.
We'll have to burn the fences, so easily
is the coal; the price of grub is
sleeper; and yet, why be a weeper
For rubber tires are cheaper, and still
cur buses roll. We dodge a lot OF
sorrow and woe that makes us yell,
II we'd vacate tomorrow the shacks in
which we dwell, old ties and customs
sever, old forms of dull endeavor, and
in our cars forever abide till LIES fare
wen. Why should we live in shanties.
and pay for heat and light. and bon
nets for our aunties, and everything
we bite? The long white road is ".
ing outdoors where wheels are flying,
and motor horns are crying-why not
put out tonight? Thus foolishly twit.
ter; such vagrant dreams will come.
rightly figure, as bills grow big and
life seems out of plumb; when I can't
rightly future, as bills grow big and
bigger, inst how I'll stand the rigor
of winter, bleak and glum.
------
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Stop Itching Eczema
Penetrating, Antiseptic Zemo
Will Help You.

Never mind how often you have
tried and failed, you can stop burning
itching Eczema quickly by applying
Zemo furnished by any druggist for
S5c. Extra large bottle, $100. Healing
begins the moment Zemo is applied
In short time usually every trace OF
Eczema, letter, Pimples, Rash, Black.
heads and similar skin diseases will
be removed.
For clearing the skin and making it
vigorously healthy, always use Zemo
the penetrating. antiseptic liquid.
When others fail it is the one depend
able treatment for skin troubles of all
Observation-Disclosures.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23

I6CSLNC Gu AAo OoAAy
education on this
side of the Allan
tic. He was born
in New Brunswick,
Canada, on Sept.
Is, 1858, and at
tended school there
before going to
Glas gov, Scotland,
where he finished
high school. He
has given the great
er part of his life
to the iron bust
ness, b e c o m i n e
noted as an iron
merchant.
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After Dinner Trick S

w. LhO AOOp
A length of string is wound several
times about the left thumb, as shown
in Figure l. The end "a" Figure ID
is bumped up into little loop. which
is held between the thumb and fore
finger (Figure p.
The performer now states that he
will take the end "a" Figure y
and, with his eyes shut, will thrust it
through the loop. He takes the end
and, with a quick thrust, pushes it
right through the loop, so that the
string comes out, as shown in Fig
ure 8.
The end "A'' is not actually pushed
through the loop at all What the
performer really does Is this: He drops
end "A" for a moment, and picks VI
end ''B' instead Figure p. Then,
with a quick motion, be swings end
"B" around over the tip of the thumb
and draws the string tight. The string
is automatically looped as in Figure 3,
just as though the end "a" were
actually pushed through the loop.
COPYRIGHT, 1929. oy Public Ledger Company
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Lessons in Correct English

Don't Say:
His friend insist on HIM becoming a
candidate.
There is no use in Me going.
There is no use in HIM going.
THERE'S no use in Us going.
THERE'S no use in THEM going.
Say:
His friends insist on HIS becoming
4 candidate.
There is no use in MY going.
There is no use in HIS goin.
There is no use in OUR COINS.
There issno use in THEIR going.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23

Even d sick child loves the "fruity''
taste of California Fig Syrup" If the
little tongue is coated, or if your child
is listless, cross, feverish, full Of cold.
or has collie, a teaspoonful will never
fail TO open the bowels. In few hours
you can see for yourself how thorough
ly it works all the constipation poison,
sour bile and waste from the tender,
little bowels and gives you a well.
playful child again.
Millions of mothers keep California
Fig Syrup" handy. They know a tea
spoonful today saves a sick child to-
morrow. Ask your druggist for gen.
Uine California Fig Syrup" which has
direction for babies and children of all
ages printed on bottle. Motheri You
must say California" or you may get
an imitation fig syrup-AdYertise-
ment
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Cause of Piles

DR.. Leonhardt found the cause OF
Piles to be internal. That's why salves
and operations fail to give lasting re-
lief His harmless prescription. HEM
II 1t fails A G. Luken Drug Co.-Ad-
YertiSement.
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have been almost as cheap to have
married her.
The champ optimist is the man who
goes TO political banquet TO get
something TO eat.
Nowadays the sun never sets on
Englands troubles.
A gentleman calling on a Brook
lvn man observed: "Mr. Jones, your
clock is not quite right is il?
well YOU see. sir. nobody don't un-
derstand that clock but me. When the
hands point to Il, then it strikes ..
and then know it is twenty minutes
of -
We are becoming an absentminded
race. A Kansas woman killed man
the other day and hid the body under
her bed, and then forgot all about 1t
until four or five days later, when she
was doing her sweeping.
Personally we can't see why the
Turks want TO get back into Europe.
Almost anybody should be glad to get
out
Headline says Rubber Bands op-
Grating on East Side All, making
1T snappy?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
Memories of OldDays
In This Pepper Ten Years
Ago Today

The first touch of winter forced
many extremely poor people to ask aid
of the charitable institutions of the
city Again the question arose with
the township trustee and officers of
benevolent associations if those who
requested fuel, clothing and food dur
ing the winter were worthy of assist
ance. In most cases, however, inves-
tigation proved the first assertions of
those requesting aid, to be true.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23

Feodar Chaliapine the Russian bari
tone. will make Is appearances in
America. with the Metropolitan Opera
company. receiving $4,000 night.
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Musings For The Evening

Boston actress asks $IUU,UUU heaII
balm from manufacturer, 1t would
have been almost as cheap to have
married her.
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Who's Who In the
Day S News
ANDREW RoNAR LAW

Andrew Bonar Law, the man select
I'd by King George to form new
British cabinet, which resigned with
Premier Lloyd George. was born and
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Not Chinese, but japanese, are the
greatest rice eaters. Each Japanese
eats on an average of 300 pounds of
rice in the course of a year
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23

When constipated, bilious or<sick.
enjoy all the splendid physic-action on
the bowels of dose of epson salts
without the awful taste and nausea.
A few cents buys a package of "Ep-
sonade Salts" the wonderful discovery
OF the American Epson association.
Even children gladly take it. Drug
stores
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23

The champ optimist is the man wh1
goes TO a political banquet to get
something TO eat.
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Nowadays the sun never sets on
Enslands troubles.
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an imitation fig syrup.-Advertise-
ment