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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
BY FREDERICK J. HAsKIN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. S.-For
more than a half century the ia
vorite guessing game of the travelling
public has been to speculate as to
who names the Pullman cars and why
To see romantic names, Lancelot and
Adonis, and names such as Farragut
and Hector, suggesting heroic deeds,
emblazoned on the side of Pullman
cars long ago aroused train passen-
gers to curiosity and then to specu-
lation
The public enjoyed guessing and
Imagination ran riot. Passengers have
solemnly averred that the Pullman
company employs an official manner
of cars" with the chief duty of see
ing that each new car is fittingly and
artistically named. Others have in
sisted that employees of the company
are encouraged to suggest names, and
that dollar is given for an accept
able suggestion.
One extravagant explanation was
that the company long ago made a
large collection of slips bearing names
ct cetera, and that these slips are
kept in large box and one is cere'
moniously drawn forth by the presi-
dent of the company when it becomes
necessary to christen new car.
The reasons given to explain why
the cars are named instead of pro
saically numbered have run from the
suggestion that passengers undoubt
eddy have a more personal feeling to-
ward car with a name, to the story
that the little daughter of a high of
ficial once insisted on calling a certain
car Violet
The majority of the stories are
offshoots of the most popular expla
nation This is that the daughter OF
the founder of the Pullman company
now Mrs. Frank o. Lowden, began to
name the cars When she was a girl
and received a reward for each idea
The2 sum- she was supposed to re-
ceiye was generally limited only by
the imagination of the teller of the
tale Some who stuck to probability
said that she received q dollar a car
Others said $500, and the most fanci.
full narrators whispered that 100000
a year was the sum she drew for
her services.
Now the Pullman company has de-
MED this interesting story and all of
its variations in its magazine for EN-.
ployes of the company. 1t says Flor
ence Pullman never had such a job
or did any systematic car naming"
1t seems that the custom of naming
the cars arose naturally soon after
the Pullman's invention was intro.
duced. The first Pullman sleepers
were remodeled day coaches already
known by numbers When Pullman
began to build his own cars, letters
of the alphabet were used to distin-
guish the new slepers from the num-
bered day coaches. But letters ran
out too quickly and numbers were
unsatisfactory because of the need
for readily distinguishing the Pullman
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
ETERNAL FAME TO THOSE WHO SERVE
BIZ eeorae Matthew Adams

thing nothing
Nature lost but that in Nature all creation is eternal
Change changebut something better something
useful
And he who would wish him but little will
outside world unfolds its
a
show
blooms all its
willis
mayt be heavenborn in all With no
of
because did
that
And would
natur their full
forgetting small selves dedicate every ore
selfish desire
light ability restricted individual
throwing best impulses
opportunities, bidding them to grow and multiply INTO acua
deedsf for benefit of large number as possible
call for of history fine words OF approval
onpr nodded bronze
Eternal am do with the heart-the soul wholly
the Within reach who read this
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

Saxon are natural enemies anywhere to the east
of the Mediterranean. Their alliance during the
war was an unnatural one. Whether Gar ruled
at Petrograd or the Red Duumvirs sat at Mos
cow, that alliance was doomed to break
Russia, as always, wants the Straits, that
outlet into warm seas. In her view it is better
that the Turk should hold the Dardanelles rather
than the English fleet shall be free to come into
the Black Sea. She is willing to let the Turk
come and take them.
"Once, and once only, has England wavered
in her opposition to the Russian pressure tow
ard the Straits Russia was firing of the great
war. Fighting for her existence against the Ger
man and angered by the Turkish alliance with
the Central Powers, Great Britain forgot Dis
raeli and her traditions and agreed that the Slav
might take and keep Constantinople. Against
this one inconsistency of Great Britain is set the
eternal consistency of the Russian.
'"The Bear That Walks Like Man remains
a menace to England in all of Asia as much today
as he was when Kiplng warned, Make We no
peace with AdamZadY The Near East Peace
Conference was Red Russias opportunity 1t
would have been equally the opportunity of
White Russia had the Reds been overthrown.
The one unvarying Russian policy, whether Mon
archist or 'Bolo is to reach and hold the Straits.
'"The pressure of hundred millions of Rus
slams is back of that push toward the warm wa
tiers of the Mediterranean. 1t is old and slow.
but it is relentless and is always there"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
The Lion and the Bear

THE struggle in the Near East Peace Con-
ference at Lausanne is resolving itself into re-
newal of the ancient duel between Graf Britain
and Russia for the control of the Dardanelles, y
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. ITO the
growing uneasiness and fear of the Turk the Red
Russians insist upon fighting his battles. An
CORA is being pushed into the background by
Moscow.
France welcomed the Greek disaster of ear
ly last autumn; but she, too is uneasy the
Russian Bear stretches his mighty paw toward
the Straits. Italy, directed by Mussolini, of the
BLACK Shirts" does not know what she wants.
The other nations there assembled, including the
United States do not count. All they can do is
to form a ring around the two powerful and prin-
cipal duelists and watch the flash of the blades.
This duel between the Bear and the Lion is
an old one. Russia has always pushed toward
the Dardanelles and Constantinople. Lion and
Bear have glared at each other through the Him
alayan passes for generations. Slav and Anglo
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
How Pullman Cars Get Names
No fixed rule followed in choosing titles for 1924 standard
in

cars. The only thing to do was to
name the cars and this was done.
Using names for such purpose was
not altogether an innovation. Back
in 1925 the first real passenger rail-
way carriage had been given the name
Experiment. Early types of locomo-
tives bore individual names such as
Novelty, Rocket, ard Old Ironsides,
and by the time the Pullman car was
being developed engines were regu-
larly named, most frequently for prom
inent men.
The Pullman company says: "Car
A was really the first named car
since it was called the Pioneer. 1t
was the first car built from top to bot
tom by George R. Pullman and it
cost more than $20,000 It was hur-
riedly completed in 1865, so that it
might form a part of the train that
bore the body of Abraham Lincoln
from Washington TO Chicago and
thence to its final resting place at
Springfield. There can be no ques-
ton as the aptness of the name Pi.
oneer since this car led the march of
progress into the waste lands of unim.
proved railroad travel"
After the Pioneer came the Atlantic
Pacific, Aurora, City of Chicago, and
Omaha. The first hotel car, sleep
er with kitchen at one end and NOV
able tables placed in the sections
appeared in 1867, and took as its title
the President. Other hotel cars
named mostly for cities, were added
until the modern dining car replaced
them. The first of Mr.. Pullman's din
ing cars, bearing the name belmont
CO, was operated on the Chicago and
Alton line in 1868 The Mariana, the
first parlor car to be introduced to
the United States, appeared in 1875.
There were no precedents for nam.
ing railway cars, and so the range OF
names at the command of officials OF
the company was practically unlimited
Names given dogs and other pets con
form largely to custom. People and
towns are named along traditional
lines. But there was nobody to say
what sort of name was suitable for
a railway coach, and the company took
advantage of this to associate a wide
variety of names with its cars.
Some attempts were made to use
classes of names for certain types of
cars. At first the parlor cars were
given feminine names or those of
birds or flowers. But the company
found that railroads often wanted
cars named after towns along their
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

lines, and this made it impossible for
an exact system to be followed. In
the first all-Pullman train ruuing be-
tween Chicago and New York, the
sleepers were named after countries
and the dining cars after celebrated
French chefs-Savarin, Aberlin. Mag
delin, Valentin.
Though the officials who name cars
have all the fields of literature, his
tory, geography. botany, and biogra-
ply to search for names, christening
new cars becomes a problem. The
company has 7,214 standard cars,
which means a selection of 1914
names. And remember, parents of
families of 10 sometimes write to the
papers for help in naming the new
baby!
The officials of the company are
as careful in their selection of names
as any parent would be. The names
painted on the car sides go up and
down the country for the public to see
and remember. Perhaps curiosity
aroused by name may lead people
to look it up in reference books.
So when it was recently decided to
name some cars for Greek and Roman
heroes an official is said 10 have con-
Quoted elaborate research to make
certain that "the behavior of the Ia
dies and gentlemen so honored was
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Lessons in Correct English

Don't Say:
WILL appreciate it if you tell me.
We have made a substitution on &C
count of HE being sick.
She might have FELL owing to your
carelessneSs.
Tomorrow IS Friday.
Say:
I SHALL appreciate it If you tell me
We have made a substitution on &C
count of HIS being sick.
She might have FALLEN owing to
your carelessness.
Tomorrow WILL BE Friday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
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. $1.00. 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 1t
vigorously healthy, always use Zemo,
the penetrating, antiseptic liquid.
When others fail it is the one depend
able treatment for skin troubles of all
Advertisement.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Musings For The Evening

Marc Antony strobe haughtily into
the forum and gazed upon the cold,
stark form of Caesar. All present
rose in expectancy to hear the speech
that had been advertised on the bill
boards and in the cars of the Rome
Rapid Transit lines.
Il cannot make my speech today
he said Countless generations will
never read it in its true form as com.
posed by me. Schoolbooks will never
contain it within it's covers"
A murmur of disappointment ran
through the audience.
Today only I met the representa-
tive of a motion picture concern and
signed a contract giving this company
the exclusive right touse the speech ]
had Intended to make here. 1t will be
made into scenario form by an expert
scenario writer and produced under the
title of: Antony Marks Confession
and acted by Cecil de Automat and a
splendid supporting company.
1T is not" continued Antony. at is
not that | love Caesar less but that
love royalties more
Well, anyhow, you can be thankful
this year that it has turned out to be
a much better year than it looked like
when it started.
From the Jefferson CO., Gazette, an
unsigned contrib clips this notice:
Mrs. Laura Hitchcock is trying to
get distinguished service medal for
her brother who served in the Philip
pines and through the recent World
war. He had charge of the Marine
Guard at the main gate at the League
Islands navy yard"
If he can get D. S. NJ. for guard
duty observes our correspondent we
who stayed out of the army altogether
ought to be at least eligible for a croix
de guerre.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Answers to Questions

(Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing me PaliduluIn
Information Bureau, Frederick J. Hask-
ia. director. Washington, D. c. This Of
fer applies strictly to information; 1ne
bureau does not give advice on leSdl,
medical and financial matters. II ooes
not attempt to settle domestic troubles,
nor to undertake exhaustive research
on any subject. Write your question:
address and enclose two cents In stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to the inquirer.
@. How can a toad thrust It's ton
CUES out so far? G. M.
"A. Its tongue is attached to the
front of its mouth and is free behind.
1t is therefore specially adapted for
flinging forward to capture earth
worms, sowbugs, snails. spiders and
the insects upon which it lives.
q. Which are the leading states in
hog raising? n M. D.
A. In 1922 Iowa led with 7,546,000;
Illinois, 100000; Missouri, 3,693,OOO;
Nebraska, 3,6S0000; Indiana, 3,567,OOO.
q. Please tell me how to fix the
breast of pheasant to use 1t Tor nat
trimming. r. K y.
"A. If the skin is blood stained, soak
if in lukewarm water and swab off
with a piece of cotton. II the skin Is
grease stained place it in gasoline and
soak well. Dry it by covering with
cornmeal which will absorb the gas
oline; put on fresh meal from time to
time until skin is thoroughly dry. The
skin should then be rubbed with lit
tie white arsenic on the inside.
o. Is anything known about the cost
of the VOYAGE when Columbus discover
ed America? d. F,
"A. 1t has been estimated that the
first VOYAGE cost only about the equiv
alent Of $1,000 now. Columbus him
self received 1900 pesetas or about
5000 year as commander of the santa
Maria. while the captains of the other
ships. the Nina and the Pinta, recelv'
ed 600 pesetas a year. The members
OF the crews were paid as wages a sum
equal % $3.50 a month now. The 1000
was furnished for about S1.50 month
ner man. The cannon of all three
ships cost about $4,000 pesetas, OIL
about what il costs to fire single
charge from one Of the guns OF pres
eut day dreadnaught.
o. What improvements did Thomas
jefferson make in the plough? c. E
NJ.
"A. Jefferson seems to have been
the dfscoverer of an exact formula for
the construction OF mould boards OF
least resistance for pioughs.
@. Do parrots have 10 have wood tc
peck at? T. O.
A. The birds must exercise thei1
bills and wood fibre seems to be es
sential to their digestive economy
Logs and blocks of soft or of partially
decayed hard wood should be accessi
bic to ell confined parrots.
@. How large was Mt. Vernon in
Washington's time? S. 4. L.
A. Mt Vernon contained 10000
acres, about Is square miles. 1t was
divided into farms of convenient size
which were under the personal super
vision OF Washington. In 1887 he hac
500 acres in grass; sowed 500 acres OF
oats. 700 acres of wheat. as much
more in corn. barley. potatoes, beans
meas, ct cetera, and 80 acres in turn
ms. His stock consisted of 140 horses
1I2 cows, 235 working oxen. heifers
and steers, and 500 sheep. In list
he slaughtered $50 hogs for the use o.
his family and provisions for his ne
orneS
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
After Dinner Trick S
JERK NAPKIN FReM UNDER GLASS

No. S4s-The Napkin and the Tunbie
A tumbler is set on a napkin, which
has been spread on the table The per-
former states that he can remove the
napkin without disturbing the tumbler.
The trick is done very neatly, and
appears to be a difficult feat of jugglery.
Take the edge of the napkin and give 1t
a swift jerk. 1t win be swept right
out from under the tumbler without
disturbing the latter in the least. With
a little practice, decanter can be
used instead of the tumbler, the decanter
being placed upside down upon the
napkin.
coplwScAe. 1858. by Public LEDGER COs.SoaU
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

Dy u16 I6SlS ndllOA
of Truman H. New
berry, takes h i s
seat in that body
he will be one of
the richest if not
the richest man in
the senate. He is
said to have made
S33, 900, 900 on less
than $4,000 he in
vested in the Ford
enterprise.
CouZens goes to
the senate as a Re
publican but is not
a strong party man.
The millionaire
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Have You Piles?

DR. I,eonhardts HEM-RoID will re-
tisye any form of Piles-quick action in
even old stubborn cases. No cutting
Iba+ Sremoves the cause. Money back II
not satisfied A. G. Luken Drug Co.
Advertise nent.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Headaches from slioht colds

Headaches from Slight Colds
Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets
relieve the Headache by curing the
Cold. A tonic laxative and germ de-
stroyer. The box bears the signature
OF E. w. Grove. (Be sure you get
BROBO.) 30c.-Advertisement
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Ripping Rhymes
The EASY MARKS
BY Walt Mason

The easy marks are waiting, to fall
for sinful tricks; their money they are
Grating to ship for gilded bricks. The
gold mines of Nebraska have looked
to them like plums, peach orchards in
Alaska have cost them mighty sums.
Oh, anything that glitters, that's boom
ed by distant sharks, looks good to
these poor critters We know as easy
marks. Napoleons and promoters in
vent some glossy fake, and catch the
easy voters, and all the coin they
make. Anon some local Caesars pro-
pose to build a mill to manufacture
tweezers, big demand to fill Some
stock they would De selling, and it is
gilt-edge stuff; but all the marks are
yelling, at doesn't pay enough, We're
backing those New Workers, the well
known Fraud & Blk, who, from the
ears of porkers make purses of fine
silk. We soon will hold our rally in
Arctic orange groves; we're shipping
to Death Valley all kinds of heating
stoves. We're raising alligators along
the southern coasts; We ship Tefrig-
orators to Greenland's grateful hosts.
So cease your efforts vocal to get us
to invest; we fall for nothing local,
home projects We detest. We patronize
the faker who has a moral kink, who
prints an acre of bunk in scarlet ink"
everything that it should be, prospect
i've of the customs of the age in which
they lived" Some of the ancients
who stood the test are Antiphon, old
est of the famous ten Attic orators:
Diogenes, of lantern and barrel fame;
Hesiod, a Greek poet; and Hippocra-
ties, father of medicine.
The company points out that Sc
quences have often developed in the
naming of cars. A cor named Charles
Dickens led to others being called
Pickwick, Dodson. and Trotwood A
number of characters from Kipling,
Irving, Tennyson, and Scott have been
immortaliZed on cars and there are
other familiar sequences. There is
a Dewey and Manila, Columbus
and an Isabella, Ruth and a Naomi
The Napoleon group contains seven
names associated with him. There
are IL liquid sounding names taken
from the wine list, bat to balance the
impression of Mosele, Bourbon and
Burgundy there are other cars-of
more recent date. no doubt-namedi
Temperance and Aqua.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Who's Who In the
Day S News

When Mayor Jim" Couzens of De-
troit, just appointed by Governor
Groesbeck of Michigan to fill the va
cancy in the United States senate left
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
After Dinner Stories

A display of 125 real 81 bills pinned
on goods in the window of the Ross
store at Bayonne, N. j., made such an
attractive ADVERTISEMENT of the stores
81 sale that burglars entered Monday
night while the store was closed, by
removing rear door from its hinges
and unpinned the 125 attractive bills.
IN. Y. World.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08

A German novel is a book in which
two people want each other in the
first chapter, but do not get each other
until the last chapter.
A French novel is a book in which
two people get each other right in the
first chapter, and from then on to the
last chapter don't want each other any
more.
An American novel is a book in
which two people want each other at
the start, get each other, and then
want each other clear through to the
end.
A Russian novel, however, Is one in
which two people neither want each
other nor get each other, and about
this $50 profoundly melancholy pages
are written.-Translated for World
Fiction from Jugend (Munichl.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-06-02
BLEDSOE NEWS ITEMS
FOR THE PAST WEEK

Misses May and Annabel Thet-
ford are visiting their sister. Mrs.
Geo. King Of this community this
week.
Little Daisey Gibbs spent We'd
nesday and Wednesday night with
Misses Birda. Attic and Eva Pool;
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. King and
Misses May and Annsbel Thetford
were visiting in the Cone commun-
ity Wednesday
Mrs. +. A. Ross and son Walden,
came home with her mother, Mrs.
T. +. Pool Friday Little Walden
has whooping cough.
Mr.. Jas. b. Reid and family were
shopping in Idalou Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth Reid spent Sun
day with Miss Beuiah Day.
Misses Carrie Daughtery and Alice
Kyle spent Sunday with Laurine
Griffiths
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-06-02
Another Low-Rate
Certificate Is to
Be Issued Soon

The Reserve Bank Of Dallas, will
receive subscriptions. beginning this
morning, to an issue Of 5000. 00o,-
600 Of Treasury certificates Of in
dcbtedness az 8 IL per cent, dated
June /, TO mature Dec. 10. 1877.
The quota assigned 10 this district
is $4,s0o,0 900. Notice Of the new is
sue was received yesterday after
noon.
The Treasury has certificates 10
the amount Of 1919 ,000,00 matur-
ing on June is, and these will be
accepted at par and accrued inter-
est on subscriptions TO the new is-
sue. Victory notes Of the 8 50
per cent issue will also be accepted
AZ par and accrued interest on sub
scrfptions TO the rev issue. The
notes have been called for redemp-
ton on June Is, after which date
interest will stop.
As the June issue lacks consid-
cradle Of equaling the maturities
to be met June Is, Il appears that
another issue Of certificates or gold
notes will be offered on the latter
date.
The two issues OF certificates OF
indebtedness due June Is and which
the holders will be permitted TO ex-
change for the new issue both bear
higher rates Of interest than the
new offering. One issue Of 1884,
900, 900 was sold June is, 1921, and
bears l-2 per cent. Another OF
s64, 903 900, sold Dec. 10, 1921,
bears Ia per cent.