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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14
SIR BASIL CONTRIBUTES
MORE INSIDE. STUFF"

Some one finally says a good
word for the .ex-kaiser. The
'some one" is Sir Basil Thomson,
former head of Scotland Yard
detectives.
Thomson, now lecturing in
America, and revealing "inside
stuff" Of the British secret SER
vice, says:
"The German general staff.
had resolved upon the invasion
of Belgium and they put their
plans before the kaiser. He We
toed them.
"This situation continued for
48 hours and after the general
staff had issued the orders for
the army to advance, Won Moltke
went to the kaiser's bedroom at
2 in the morning and asked him
to sign the order. He refused.
Won Moltke then said that the
safety Of the Fatherland had de-
yolved upon the general staff and
If your majesty refuses to sign,
the general staff must take the
responsibility
in other words" according to
Thomson, the kaiser must
choose between abdication and
approval, and he took the latter
course
Thomson's lecture, instead of
y absolying the ex-kaiser from
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14
WHY SOME MEN PAST 40
OVERLOOK MANY THINGS.

Discussing fake trance med
iums, B. ]. Walton, magicion
known on the stage as Professor
Heller, says in a letter to the
Detective Story Magazine:
Gas for the evidence of scien-
tifc men, would say that as a
magician and medium | dread
eyes of the average small boy
more than those of the average
scientist, so far as the detection
Of deception is concerned. And
l know, for l have worked before
both audiences"
Children are keen observers
because, to them, everything is
fresh and new, hence interest
ing.
As we become older, we OBJ
serve that life is a series Of rep
etitions, generally dull, frequent
ly stupid and boresome. We
lose interest, and with it, the in
caIculably valuable power Of
close observation.
You have noticed how easy it
is to put something over" under
the very eyes of the aged.
After the average person
reaches 40, his brain cells be-
come set" like concrete.
Vanity convinces the ego or
inner self that it has become
fairly familiar with life, that
the routine of existence is COM
pretended to the last detail.
The individual loses interest,
stops observing, becomes "set in
his ways" 1t is difficult to drive
a new idea through his head.
Brain cells are closed and locked
instead of open and receptive.
That is the reason why midle-
aged people are not as quick to
see and grasp opportunities as
the young fellows, despite their
superior ability and "back-
ground" of experience.
Ancient alchemists searched
for the universal solvent-a fluid
that would dissolve anything.
The search lasted centuries, con-
sumed an infinite amount of en-
ergy and time. 1t stopped when
an observant young man said, "If
you get it, what will you keep it
iN?"
When the power of close OBJ
servation becomes feeble or
nearly paralyzed-goodby to
opportunities
Without keen and unlagging
sense of obseryation;' success is
elusive or, if already achieved,
slips from ones grasp.
Force yourself to become in
terested in every detail of life.
Develop thereby your powers of
observation. and analysis. Like
fabby muscles, they can be
trained into strength.
Observation is the key to sue
cess-also the handouts that
prevent youth slipping away from
you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14
FUTURE MOVIES TO
RIVAL GRAND OPERA.

In 10 years the motion picture
will rival grand opera as an ar
tistic production.
This is the prophecy, not by
the ghost of Bill Nye talking
over the ouija board, but by
Samuel L. Rothafel, celebrated
designer and director of the Cap
itol Theater in New York.
If f:othafel is right, the NOV
les have long way to go and it
will have to be at a fast clip.
The movies, however, come in
for a lot of unjust criticism.
Critics forget that the motion
picture is a baby among the va
rious kinds of theatrical enter
tainments.
1t took thousands of years for
the legitimate stage to develop
modern scenic effects. Even in
Shakespeare's day, scenery con-
sistcn of a bare stage with signs
like This is a forest" or This
is a street in Rome"
The movies are like everything
else. Americans expect a new
device to be perfected the day
after it is invented.
Do you remember the movies,
back before the days of John
Bunny? Compared with the pres
ent, they were mechanical
frights.
Movie photography has be-
come an art.
The badly-ventilated vacant
storeroom in which movies were
exhibited 10 years ago has de-
veloped into an art-palace.
The best of modern movie act
ing, too, is an art alongside the
crude shadowland acting of a de-
cade ago.
The only real fault in the
movies is that they tell the
wrong stories-often stupid or
asinine. Time will change that.
Rothafel has a golden dream
of future movies. He believes
movie theaters will be shaped
like an egg, the pictures made
realistic by a fusion of colors,
hlgh-grade music, magic light
ing effects, the characters "talk-
ing their lines, with sounds and
even odors reproduced to COM
pleta the hypnotic state of the
audience.
Rothafel even predicts that
movie theaters will be endowed
by national, state and city gov
ernments, like the endowed
theaters of ancient Greece.
In the background, however, is
the possibility that 10 years
from now movie theaters may be
closed, with the finest movies
brcadcasted by wireless to the
humblest homes.
In that case, you wonder, who
would pay the actors? 1t would
be the same process as the fu-
ture Of radio music. The finest
of vocal and instrumental talent
will undoubtedly be employed by
the radio industry as free in
duccment to further sales of
their instruments.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14
A THOUGHT

The Lord preserveth the sim
pie; l was brought low, and He
helped me.-Psalm 1865.
A consciousness of the whole
is the sign of a sound mind;
and there is nothing more to be
desired at the present moment.
Plato.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14

(These verses were composed bv
NJ, A, York, Americas, Ga, and are
dedicated to the boys who died in
France, and the American Legion.)
Although in a few cases national
anthems date back several centuries,
none assumed its representative
character until comparatively re-
Gently.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14

The first appearance of the negro
IN the English colonies in America
was in 1919, when a cargo of slaves
was landed at Jamestown.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14

Crude diving suits are described
in mechanical works as far back as
1864 and the diving bell was used
still earlier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14

An aeroplane travelling constantly
at a speed of 100 miles an hour
would take nearly los years to
reach the sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-14

Morocco formerly was the Roman
province of Mauretania, for which
the giant liner of that name was
called.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03

562.19, and for 1922, sS5, 5,769.2o. These
figures mean the 1922 receipts total
s6,534.55 more than the 1920 receipts,
and $5.2O7o1 more than the 1921
receipts.
During 1922 the postal receipts have
been large, with the peak reached i'll
May. The amounts for each of the
first six months of this year follow:
January, S11, ,645.04; February, $14,-
273.57; March, $14,56213; April, s15.-
47267; May, s16,521.7S, and June,
$13,29401
Richmond has taken a place il gov
ernment savings certificate sales that
is equalled by few cities in this postal
district. Sales here have led Indianap-
oils several months, and has stood at
the head. of the list of sales for many
cities larger than Richmond.
Beginning with the first sale of the
certificates Dec. Is, 1921. the local
office has sold the following amounts,
face value, for each of the succeeding
months:
December. 1921. s1,340; January
s35,08S; February. $22.535; March
$2S.595; April, $16.S74; Mary. SSe,151;
June, $13,063, and July. s18,542, max
ing a total OF $174,1S8.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
Increase in Postal Receipts
Shows Healthy Business Tone

The prosperous tone of Richmond
business is shown by postal receipts
at the local postoffice. Reports COM
piled by Assistant Postmaster Henry
Deuker for the six months of 1922,
ending June 80, are more than satsfac-
tory, Mr.. Deuker says.
Thrift of Richmond people also Is
firmly indicated by the more than
STA, 900 worth of government savings
certificates sold since Dec. Is, 1921.
Receipts during the past three
months are the most indicative Of the
trend of local business" said Mr..
Deuker While there has been a
steady gain over 1920 and 1921, the
business of the last three months
makes an excellent showing"
In permit postage alone, the in
crease in the first six months of 1922
over the same period of 1921. lacks but
$12.61 of being $1,000 Permit postage
sold during the corresponding six
months of 1921 totaled S1,6S9.0l, while
the same kind of postage for the same
six months in 1922 totaled S2.671.40.
Receipts Show Increase
Postal receipts have shown a
healthy rise. Total receipts for the
first six months of 1920 was $79, 234 65,
for the same six months in 1921, $780,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
Seniority Issue Not Stumbling
Block as Claimed by Rail Chiefs

solutely inconsistent with what Pres
ident Harding proposed.
II the railroad executives had the
wish to be helpful as some of them
seemed to have last week. their prom
ises of preferred seniority to the work
ers now with them need not stand in
the way These promises are a thing
which can be put forward as an
insuperable handicap or which can
readily be handled, according to
whether the executives are disposed
to be helpful or to be recalcitrant
The one thing the administration has
steadily insisted. on, and will continue
to insist on. is the supremacy of the
railroad labor board.
Solution Possible
A controversy is not made impos
sible of solution merely because one
additional party to it has been adde's
in the shape of the body of loyaI
workers and of the new men who took
the places of the strikers.
The seniority question as it stands
today is not bit more complex thar
many of the questions which tba rail
road labor board has already handled
Continued on Page Nine)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
ADDITIONAL RETURNS
CUT SENATOR REEDS
LEAD TO 1861 VOTES

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-Additional pre-
cincts heard from today from Tues
days primary cut slightly the lead of
United States Senator James A. Reed,
seeking denomination over Brecken-
ridge Long, former assistant secretary
in the Wilson cabinet. With 3,492
nearly all precincts reporting, Reed
was ahead by 1861. The vote: Reed,
186.607; Long, 178,806.
When told of the latest returns by
the Associated Press, the former third
assistant secretary of state said:
"I'll win out yet"
The belief of Reed supporters that
he had won the contest apparently
was strengthened this morning when
the ST.. Louis Globe Democrat, an in
dependent newspaper, who fought
Reeds candidacy, appeared with a
two-column picture of the senator on
the first page under the caption wins
nomination"
The Globe Democrat asserted Reed
apparently had been victorious by
1000 to 5000 votes, adding that the
districts yet unheard from are remote
from populous centers and their vote
is small.
Reeds lead of $4,000 yesterday morn
ing. on the fact of returns from more
than half the precincts of the state
but which included Kansas City and
st. Louis, was whitfield down steadily
yeterday afternoon as returns from
rural precincts drifted in
Many rural precincts gave Long Z
big vote, and returns early today from
3,406 precincts gave Reed 1S5.3S0 anC
Long 176,455.
AS the unreported precincts are IL
the rural districts, Long stated the,
would be favorable to him, while ReeC
supporters declared a number of thu
precincts. being in southwest Missouri
would poll a heavy Republican vot,
and that the democratic returns wouIC
be negligible.
The complete vote will have to de
termine the outcome, many politica
observers believe, and the reported
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
ny MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.-It is felt
here that the public needs more clari-
fcation of the facts, and especially
the facts about seniority. This is a
technical term difficult for the pub.
lie to understand adequately in its ap-
plication to the railroads.
The railroad executives have treated
the subject of seniority in such a wav
as to make it seem to have very great
importance. In taking the position
that they cannot go back on promise
of preferred seniority made to the
men who remained loyal to the rail-
roads, and to the new men brought
in to take the places of the strikers.
the executives seem to be on strong
ground.
1t is especially strong because it in
wolves the moral element of keeping
or breaking a promise But what the
administration believes, and what
some of the railroad men admitted
last week when they were in a less
recalcitrant mood is that these prom
ises can be taken care of, and are
not in any black and white sense alb
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
NOT TO TRY !
TO EVADE her DEBTS,
AMERICA IS ASSURED.
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, Aug. g. That Great
any alteration of her financial obliga-
tions to the United States was re-
emphasized in the house of commons
today by Sir ROBERT Horn, chancellor
of the exchequer. in reviewing the
British position on German repara.
tions.
Il wish to make it clear beyond all
question of misapprehension," declared
Sir Robert, that we recognize to the
full our obligation to pay our debts
to the United States and we Go not
m can in any shape or form to evade
that obligation"
WASHINGTON. Aug. d Great
Britain's note to her debtor nations
suggesting cancellation of the whole
interallied Indebtedness will cause no
change in the policy to the United
States toward its foreign debts, it was
stated officially today at the treasury
PARIS. Aug. 3-Separation of the
Rhineland from Germany with its own
parliament and government and sep
arate financial regime supervised by
the allies, is a part of the scheme of
penalties presented to Premier Poin-
care as representative of the opinion
of the French parliament, and which
he is known to have taken under con-
sideration.
The scheme which would be put into
effect upon the definite refusal of the
German government to fulfill the
agreement for payment of private
debts owing to French citizens by Ger
mans since before the war, also in
wolves the expulsion of all the Prus-
sian functionaries from the Rhineland,
the officials to be replaced by natives.
Other provisions include an exten-
sion in the powers of the allied Rhine
land commission and measures of
economic pressure upon the principal
/ German industries amenable to the
action of the commission such as the
anilin dye industry. the iron industries
of Hugo SHINES, August Thyssen, the
! Krupps and Franz Haniel, and others
which are more or less dependent
upon the occupying forces for the free.
dom Of transit of raw materials in the
region Of Dusseldorf, Duisburg and
Ruhrort.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
Whitewater SCHOOL
CORNERSTONE IS Laid
BY MASONIC ORDERS

WHITEWATER, Aug. 3-The cor
ner stone of the new centralized high
school building at Whitewater was
laid Thursday afternoon by members
of the Masonic orders of Whitewater
Bethel and Richmond, under the au-
spices of the Grand lodge of the state
of Indiana.
Grand lodge opened at the Masonic
temple at l 80 o'clock Thursday after
noon and at 2:45 O'Clock procession
was formed, headed by the American
Legion band, Of Richmond. The Grand
lodge members were escorted by the
members of the Richmond order,
Knights Templar
The procession proceeded to the
school building where the ceremony OF
laying the corner stone was conducted.
Bert Phillips. of Richmond, grand
master of Masonic lodges of Indiana,
was in charge of the ceremony. Other
members of the grand lodge who took
part in the ceremony were Kenneth
Wright. deputy grand master; Thur
mann Constable, senior grand warden;
Oliver G. Hunt. junior grand warden !;
| c. S. Alexander, senior grand deacon /;
Donald Wendell, junior grand deason
Forrest c. Boren, grand tyler; T. Ma
son Byer, grand marshal; Dr. ]. j.
Rae. grand chaplain; N. z. Davis,
grand treasurer; Earl Freeman, grand
secretary; William Warner, member
of advisory board; Paul Working
architect.
Delivers Address
| The ceremony was followed by short
addresses by c. o. Williams, county
/ superintendent; Mayor L. A. Handley
of Richmond; Charles Jordan, of Rich
mond; j. H. Blose, of Centerville; DR.
| George B. Hunt, of Richmond.
| Mr.. Blose, formerly a resident oi
/ Whitewater, in his address pointed tc
achievements of the past and declared
that they should be an inspiration fol
future excellence.
Charles Jordan spoke on his exper
fence in Whitewater as a former edu
Gator in the township.
/ The corner stone was presented BY
Walter Benfeldt, of Richmond, as {
memorial to his father, z. Benfeldt
who constructed the old schoolhouse il
/ Whitewater.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
HARDING STUDYING
REPLY OF UNIONS;
next step IS DARK
(By Associated Press)


WASHINGTON Aug. 3.-Further
plans of the government in connection
with the railroad strike still we're un-
revealed today although administra-
ton agencies were understood to be
still exploring the possibilities OF set
tlement on the basis of assurances
conveyed by the railway executives
that they would consider favorable
any fair proposals which preserved
the seniority rights of shopmen who
have continued at work during the
strike The executives, in apprisins
the administration that the door TO
further negotiations still was open was
said to be emphatic on the question
as to priority.
President Harding had received for
study today the reply drafted by the
union leaders at Chicago to his pro-
posals for a settlement, upon which
comment was withheld. To Secretary
Hoover's statement after seeing the
president yesterday that no immediate
governmental steps in the rail situa-
ton were to be expected other cabi-
net members added the intimation to-
day that the governments course
would be largely determined by test
during the next few days of the claims
of railroad managements as to their
ability to maintain transportation.
Emphasis, however, still was laid on
the close bearing OF the rail strike sit
uation on the problem of coal supply
as the governments chief concern in
the rail dispute Officials were known
to be giving particular attention to eff
forts to better transportation capacity
on the coal carrying roads of the dis
| trict south of the Ohio river, which
serve the larger non-union fields, with
evidence that unless this was accom-.
: plished soon some degree of govern
ment control might result to meet the
situation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS I
CONSIDER ALLEGED
INTIMIDATI0NS HERE
(By United Press,

CLEVELAND. Aug. 3.-"Guard men
ace" loomed as new crisis in the
rail strike here today when chiefs of
the big railroad brotherhoods advised
their members at two points in Indi-
ana to discontinue operating of trains
if their lives were endangered by ir-
responsible guards"
The two districts affected by to-
days orders of the brotherhood heads
are those of Jeffersonville and Rich
mond, Ind, both located on the Penn
sylvania railroad
According to Davis B. Robertson
president of the brotherhood Of loco
motive firemen and enginemen, the
railroad guards have shot at brother
hood members in some instances and
otherwise intimidated them.
Say Guards Are Shooting.
Not only have they shot at oul
members" Robertson continued, "bui
according to reports the guards have
used numbers on boxcars for targets
while our men were working on the
cars.
The situation from the standpoint
of guards is becoming steadily worse
and the railroads must hold then
guards in check if they expect brother
hood members to remain at work
A general committee representing
the broth erhoods left today for Louis
vile to investigate alleged intimida
tian and attacks on brotherhood mem
bers employed by the Louisville anC
Nashville railroad by guards.
The decision TO investigate the L. &
N, situation was reached late yester
day at special meeting of the broth
erhood heads.
Promiscuous shooting in the rail
road yards had led local trainmen Il
protest to the superintendent tha
they could not work if their live
were in danger. persons in touch witt
the local situation said Friday.
1t was thought, however, that tht
incidents had been closed, as ther.
had been no more shooting While
no notice of the order had been re
ceived in Richmond, it was consid
cred mainly as safeguard for tn,
men and not an indication Of any dan
! gerous conditions.