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PAGE SIX THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, AUG. 8, 1922. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM J AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Bunding, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. ntered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, a3 Second-Class Mail Matter. EKBBR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press is exclusively entitled a the use ror republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not oth!.-Tvls8 credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved. Proving That We Are Saving A report of the savings department of the treasury department shows the savings of small investors in the United States amount to ap proximately $27,000,000,000, or, accepting the population at 108,000,000, a per capita savings of about $250 for each man, woman and child in the United States. Of this sum, the treasury department says $21,000,000,000 is invested in government se curities and the other $6,000,000,000 is depos ited in savings banks. The department adds that the government securities are mainly held by small investors, who learned the lesson of period, and took to heart its value to such an ex tent that they have not forgotten it. Referring to the deposits in the savings bank, the controller of currency says that the deposits during the period of depression exceeded the withdrawals. This indicates that the savers doubled their energy to lay aside money during dull times. And that's one reason, too, why bankers and industrial leaders are so firm in their belief that prosperous times are ahead of u. ' The purchase of $174,188 of government sav ings certificates here since Dec. 15, 1921, is in dicative of the extent to which local citizens are investing their money in these securities. De posits in the savings banks and the building and loan associations also show a substantial increase over last year. There is no dearth of money in the United States. The extent to which citizens have laid aside money in small sums in the savings insti tutions and in the purchase of .government se curities indicates too plainly that the people have purchasing power. This is a healthy condition, gratifying to both the people who have saved and to the financiers who thereby are able to see that the people as a whole are appreciating the importance of saving their money apd investing it in sound securities Movie of a Man Trying to Read the Paper on the Front Porch thrift and systematic saving during the war or putting it in the savings bank Answers to Questions i Any reader can sret the answer to any question bv writing: The Pallr.dium Information Bureau, Frederick J. Hask In. direr-tor, Washington, D. C. This of fer applies strictly to Information. The bureau does not pive advice on lesal. rnedical and finunc.ial matters. It does not attempt to settle demestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on anv subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name an.1 Address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the Inquirer. - R. R. TV. The Einstein theory em bodies the idea of the relativity of all motion. The hypothesis in the main is that it is impossible by physical experi ment to measure the a.bsolute motion' nothing out in space in the nature of a fixed set of coordinates with regard to which motion can be measured. There is no such thing as absolute motion of one body with respect to an other. A detailed explanation o this ilicorv is contained in the book entitled 1'The Theory of the Relativity of Mo tion," by R. C. Tolman. published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. According to Bible chronology the Flood of Deluge is believed to have taken place about the year 234S B. C. Assuming the Christian era to com mence with the year one (1), this would mean that the Flood occurred 234S years before. Q. What is the record for parachute jumping? S. C. R. A. Captain A. W. Stevens of Mc Cook field, in jumping 24,200 feet with a parachute established a new record. ' What are the five leading industries In New York Citv? F. T. A. 1919 the clothing industry rank ed first; tobacco, printing, millinery and lace goods and manufactured furs following in the order named. Q. Is it necessary to have okra in soup in order to call it gumbo? H. McD. A. Since gumbo is derived from a word of African origin, kingombo meaning okra, it follows that gumbo is a soup which is thickened with okra. Q. Why are there holes in cactus wood? D. M. B. ; A. Scientists do not agree upon this subject. An explanation generally ac cepted is that the cactus does not re ceive enough nourishment to support solid wood. The holes represent an economy of nature. - Q. Who said "Now twilight lets her Curtain down, and pins it with a star"? M. A. T. '. A. This is the best known couplet written by McDonald Clarke, aft Amer ican who was known as the Mad Poet because of his eccentricity and conceit. Q. What is the principle which de termines the amount of rent land yields? H. M. A. Authorities regard rent as due to a preferential value. If we assume that there is always free land, that is, land which can be had free of charge, then the utmost which will be paid for the use of a particular piece of land is the equivalent of the superiority of this land over such free land as may be had. Q. What is Gresham's Law? N. G. R. A. Sir Thomas Gresham, director of the British mint, laid down the dic tum '"Bad money drives good money out or circulation, wmcn lias since been known as Gresham's Law. As an illustration of its application, if any considerable quantity of the gold coins of a country should be clipped or sweated or otherwise reduced in their bullion value the good gold coins those of full bullion value--would speedily disappear from circulation. . . V Facts About Indiana ; (By Associated Press) All the banks' of Indiana at the end of the last fiscal year bad assets total ing $533,908,854.74. This was a de crease in assets of $12,S9S,594.1S from the last year. ' There are. twenty-five accredited nurses' training schools in'Indiana, There are-three divisions of the state department -of banking. They are the banking -department, the building and .loan department and the loan and credit, department It is-theduty-of thebank commis- sionersto make- at least-five called re- Sports--each year of 'each state bank iand trust company under 'his super vision in.-Indiana. . There-are IS private fee charging emproyment agencies in Indiana, lo cated at Indianapolis, Terr Haute, .South Bend, Kokomo and East Chi cago. The three departments of the de partment of banking in Indiana yield ed a net profit to the state of $28,581.87 iand had an unexpended balance of its 'appropriation amounting to $11,989.0 i at the end of the last fiscal year. " The Indiana. free employment serv ; ice has' jurisdiction over all private ;fee charging employment agencies. r' TODAY'S TALK By George Matthew' Adams, Author of "You Can," "Take It." "Up" OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE ' The best educated people are not always those who come out of a college. For education necessarily implies an important amount of control and understanding. And these are things which must come through exercise of our faculties through observation and experience. People with perfectly good eyesight are quite often blind. They do not see it is not that they cannot. The sculptor sees beauty of form and substance in every solid piece, of matter. Let him pass "a great rock and he wields in his im agination some heroic figure from its body. Let the painter pass a quiet meadow and he sees the groundwork for a masterpiece. Where as the wi-iter of fiction hardly misses an attitude or word that is able to reveal some touch of character. And this is important what you see is able to become a part of you! For that is how we are made great. The more you see, the better becomes your vision. You learn to pick the flaws from the woven mesh of life and you see pure gold where others are able to see only the dross. The good observer is always the learner. And through learning, and the application to good ends of all we learn, we get experience. And from this experience we get our viewpoints. How important is observation, how great is experience! How far in the front ranks do all( travel who are equipped with these acquire ments. Get into the habit of seeing when you look at anything. Open the doors of your imagination when you see any particular spot of beauty. Study the people about you. Think much, but say little. Use your experiences to Emooth your way. Get something of per manent value from them, be they experiences that have tried your soul or merely those which have brought happiness. But GROW from both observation and experience. COOL. FRONT OF.VMINO . wo! ' PORCH ANDl The 5Undkt" T) . ff a "jC , , - iSSSS Discovert 5 - . " 2$wr6j" -(t - nJCwen. Fof? -'wDS A rff 7 I 'Wfo& geweRAi. op (&fv3f - 1 ! SAKE Don't yTL )7' l&&&t Best 3f ctoms "iSMig Slame M for it- ssssr- i$m f ctsss '' --: i' u"v ' tj ' i ' S I various and . - sChV , , AA Lr- )VfT - - i finer umner iticksi Who's Who in the Day's News MRS. IZETTA JEWELL BROWN Mrs. William G. Brown of Kingwood, W. Va., is the first woman to lose the race for nomination as a candidate for the senate in the coming elections. She was imm. running against three men candidates. Mrs. Brown's announce ment of her can didacy was unique in that she cast aside the old fash ioned stereotyped form of making a formal address toj. After Dinner Stories Deny naa just naa ner tirst ex perience at Sunday school. On her arrival home, her mother was very anxious to learn just what had hap pened, to determine what Impression Sunday school had made on her small daughter. "Betty," she asked, "what did you do at Sunday school?" w "Well," said Betty, "when I got there they told me to go down stairs." "And what did you do downstairs?" "Why, they sent me back upstairs." "And what did you do then?" "Why, then they sent me home." Young Butterfield had been drink ing, which was not unusual, and he fell into the gutter. His father, no toriously profane, happened along and mea to neip mm up. But the young man was heavy and they both fell again in a tangle of legs and arms to iate and ferS . the delight of the crowd. The father w, o L J straightened up and began to express i What United States Sailors Read Show No Interest in Sex Stories, but Prefer Love Stories of West and Juveniles. No. 341 From Si to Sven Cut out the largest of the above dia gTarns and paste it on a card. Ask some one to count the number of cubes he sees. He will say either six or seven. Whichever he specifies, you state that he is wrong. Tell him to look carefully and count the cubes again. After he has looked intently at the diagram he will be unable to tell just how many he does see six or seven. The diagram forms a very deceptive optical illusion and can be viewed in two different ways, as shown by the smaller diagrams. When the pile of cubes ap pears as in the small diagram A, there will be six. But when looked at for a moment the cubes will shift to the position of those in B, and there will appear to oe seven. Copyright, lltl. bv Public Ledger Company her jackie boy, let's turn back and read the strike news. Women in New York bought a hus band for $150, but wants her money back because he won't work. Maybe she didn't ,wind him up right. MS. J. J. BXOiYM had a heart to heart talk with them instead. Mis. Brown is known in West Virginia as a political i campaigner. Before her marriage to the late Representative William G. : Brown she was Izetta Jewell, an act-i ress. She was in the company with James K. Hackett and Otis Skinner before she appeared in Poll's in Wash ington, where she was leading woman o the stock company for several sea sons. She was heralded as the idol of the San Francisco National Democratic convention which she attended in the interest of the candidacy of John W. Davis. Her political record in her state is good and. she ha S ! I his feelings. The prostrate figure j moved uneasily. j "Dan," he protested, "don't swear so. You 11 make us both ridiculous!" Rippling Rhymes Ey Walt Mason The president declares all labor is free, but after having a little plumb ing done the average citizen will be inclined to take issue wth him. Chicago man says he owes his wife $500 and can't pay it. He should de clare a marrytorium. more party. than once for the Democratic Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today Crowds were proving a nuisance to the fire department when the new truck was taken out to a fire. The tiremen stated that they had no trou ble with people standing in the street in front of the machine as they did once, but that they were followed by a swarm of automobiles and motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians every time the truck was taken on a run. Fire Chief Miller declared that the danger to the people was great when they followed the truck. ARCTIC REGIONS There's always some far famed ex plorer preparing for an arctic trip, where climate is a ring-tailed roarer, and forty kinds of blizzards zip. Oh, dauntless are these men who leave us. and I applaud them as they go, al though I have conviction grievous stumped that all they'll ever find is snow. I hand a wreath to every hero who hooks his dachshunds to a sled and travels to the land of zero, to make a map in green and red. I think of tired explorers reeling exhausted, on their icy way, and I can't help the foolish feeling that they'd do better baling hay. The north is full of frozen corses which serve no purpose good or wise, while hay will feed our help ful horses, and stuff the tick on which man lies. I think if scientists impas sioned would leave the wild wastes un explored, and haul elm wood, in stove lengths fashioned, they'd do more for their bed and board. We need strong men to harvest squashes, and it is sad to see them go to where an ice cold ocean washes a coastline heaped with useless snow. We need good men to fix our lizzies, for which we'd pay a seemly price; and yet the daft explor er busies himself with dreams of end less ice. De Wolfe Hopper's fifth now wants a divorce. If De Wolfe can deduct his alimony from his income tax the gov ernment must owe him mqney. Flashlight pistol has been invented to discourage burglars, but burglars in this town are singularly hopeful. News of the Counties Lessons in Correct English DON'T SAY: The problem PERPLEXED him. The two roads PUZZLED him. Slipping on the walk, he was PER PLEXED. The story HURT his reputation. The injury misht HURT his sight. SAY: The problem PUZZLED him. The two roads PERPLEXED him. Slipping on the walk, he was EM BARRASSED. The story INJURED his reputation. The injury miglft HARM his sight. Green has always been considered the emblem of fickleness. It is the duty of the bank commis Eioner to make at least two called re j ports each year of each private bank ia Indiana, . '. THEY ARE MILD BUT EFFETIVE A person with inactive or slowed up digestive organs suffers doubly from hot weather. Biliousness, headaches, blurred vision, bad breath, coated ton gue are almost certain to be present with a mass of heat-producing undi gested food in the stomach. Foley Cathartic Tablets keep the digestive or gans active and the system fit and fine, purged of poisons. W. D. Kennedy, Al bany. N. Y ., says: "Foley Cathartic Tablets are mild but effective." Xot habit forming. A.. O. I,uken Drug Co., 626-62S Main L Advertisement. M usinss for the Evening The only bill from this country that most nations in Europe are anxious to see is the bill-of-fare. WM the higher tariff on material canse higher skirts? Xow that Ziefeld and Marilynn have declared a separate peace and Billie is happy and Marilynn has got NEW WESTVILLE, Ohio. The members ot the Needlecraft club of the New Westville Friends church held their annual picnic at th-i home of Mr. and Mrs. Horris Cox Sunday, Aug. 6. Games were played during the afternoon. Later in the evening re freshments were served. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Watts and family,- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smelser, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Rhoades, Mr. and Mrs. William Rhoades and son Levi, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wehrley, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cail and family, Mr. and Mrs. John McWhinnay and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McCarty and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Stegall and family, Mr. and Mrs. Verling Shef fer and daughter Martha, Mrs. Cora McWhinney and daughter Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jordan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smelker and family. Earl Brandenburg and daughter Anna Earl, Mr. and Mrs. William Arnold and family, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Larsh and family, Mr. and Mrs. William McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. Everett PryfogTe and children Ruth and William, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Raper and family Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Cail and son. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. John Cox and sons Raymond and Elmer, Mrs. Phoebe Dalby of Richmond, Mrs. Chel sie Pollock and sons, Mrs. Alice Ewing and little son Clifford Eugene, and Mr. Paul Cail. By FREDERICK J. HASKIN' WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 8. One legacy which the American navy blue Jackets have inherited from the war is the well-stocked ship's library. Be fore the war the various battleships carried collections of greasy, dog eared, and ancient tomes which went by the name of ship's libraries. But the work of the American Li brary association in the navy during the war, aided by the American pub lic's donations of cash and. books, gave a new indication of what' these floating libraries might be. Today no matter how drasticallv congress may economize in appropri ations of money to buy guns and arm or plate, it is giving with fair liberal ity for the maintenance of the librar ies, as the appropriation of $130,000 for books this year bears witness. Excepting the patients in th?. mill tary and naval hospitals, who manage to read about one library book a week apiece, there was never a more appre ciative group of readers than these enlisted men in the United States navy. Whether the ships are in port or out cutting the blue water, the chances are that when Jack is off duty he is curled up in some quiet corner of the ehip reading a book. The experience of the past four years shows that the average sailor draws from the ship library an l reads IS books a year a book and a half a month. According to the records, the average city dweller in the United States patronizes his public library to the extent of less than four books a year. Like everything else In the navy, the supply of books to the ships and the shore stations is completely and thoroughly organized. The bureau of navigation has. charge of maintaining the libraries. There is a chief librar ian In Washington, and he is assisted by a more or less informal board ot officers who serve voluntarily as read ers of new books. Guided by their judgment, the chiel librarian keeps adding titles to the stock lists, once a year issuing a new catalogue from which the, ehips' librarians order their books. Stocks of all books so catalogued are kept on band in a depot in New York from which the ships are supplied. A bat tleship is allowed 1,100 volumes In its library, a cruiser of the tecond class may have 725, smaller ships 575, a destroyer 150. and unclassified ves sels according to the number of men on board. Equally important with the purchase of new books is the weeding out oi the old and the unread; for, after all, the test of the book in the present-day ship's library is whether the men read it. The chief librarian and his assist ants are men of excellent literary taste, but they do not attempt to foist, upon the sailors their o-.n judgment of what is good. Privately, they may recoil from Har old Bell Wright an Ethel M. Dell, but they do not write their novels down upon any index expurgitorious. In the list of nearly 1,500 novels listed in the current navy catalogue, there are five titles credited to HaroM Bell Wright and four to Ethel M. Dell. Gene Stratton Porter also has five. Sailors Do Not Read Sex Stories Once a year each ship's, librarian is permitted to "survey" one-third or the books in his charge and replace ! fhpm irith nan if ttAc.r.n.r -1. ; I r L mna ki. ,v. these volumes 1 ""J ucou aa cur uuit-a l uuca are called, are weeded out. Therefore th general catalogue accurately re flects the reading taste of th-3 men aboard our ships of war. 'Bearing in mind that the nearly 1,500 titles in the fiction list cf the 1922 catalogue represent what the men like to read and not what their su- stance, whom even some professional critics find difficulty in reading, main tains a place among the "live" books with three novels, including his mas terpiece, "The Egoist." Conrad is a much read favorite. Nine of his novels appear on the navy shelves. Thomas Hardy has one "Far from the Madding Crowd" but neither or the other two great moderns, Henry James and George Moore, is represent ed. Arnold Bennet is there with four novels, and Kipling with nearly every thing he has ever written. Almost ev ery ship in the navy has to buy a new l set of Jack London's novels each ye.v, so great is the wear and tear upon The great novelists of , the past Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Hugo, Balzac, and George Eliot among them are well represented. But Jack does not always read merely for amusement. His library also contains a large number of ncn fiction works. . Curiously enough, a class of books in large demand are books on etiquette. The boy, who en- perior officers think they ought to j lists in the navy is often leaving home read, some interesting sidelights on for the first time. He finds he must the characters of the enlisted men write letters, and simultaneously he may be noted. In the first place, there discovers that he cannot write gooJ is almost an entire absence of the so- ones. He applies to the ship's librar-cal-ed sex stories in the libraries. It ian for help and receives a model lot is not that sncl stories have been cen- ter-writing book to help him over the sored out. The chief libraria.i has rough spots. Then when the ships are tried them and the men do not read in port, the boys are entertained them, that is all. i ashore; and some of them fear that Love stories are easily the most!their deportment will not be correct, numerous class of fiction work inSo the-v ta5ie tbe etiquette books-i'rom publishers' lists; but love stories, witlij th library and study the social 198 titles, come second as a class in''ges- . , the affections of the blue iackets l The -5vhole aim of thp bureau of The boys on the rolling ship-,, with I ?avlgation ,s ? make the libraries as blue water to the horizon and the 1 interesting .and at the same time a? splashing of the waves sounding in! "seful. as P0SS!b1?- Naturally enough ! mere is a larre. iiats oi dooks aeaung When the fleet is vovaa- and approaching strange lands books are most in demand. neglected there are their pare lma ti mo nKn,,t tul ' - v iv it.au QLWUI. U1C .. -.1. . , ctr.r c;t . 4U , wiiu iiavfi. diicui mcu ui me plains wiiu 31 r-iocoo 4r, .u roetry is not rtivirto. rX- " " ,l"ll'"uf some 60 volumes of it in the standard ? oT,6-,1, n' frJLstor- list, Robert W. Service leading bv a xes lead with 2U titles B. M. Bower comfortabIe manrin. is the gobs favorite author; he leads j xhere are scores of books on prar with 2d western novels listed in thetlcal subjects-mechanical engineer catalogue. Zane Grey runs him aing electricity, radio, gas engine?, close second. J business, even farming. Each ship A second surprise comes when one librarian is instructed to use the bul- noiices tne large numrer ot juvenile letin dooks Vr u Trl c in onnraicia t V a a Many -books in the library which he think? Viiiiiiiiiiiutuiiiiiiii:iniiiiMtiiiti!iitiMniniiiiintntiuii:iHiiiiiiiiuiiiiuuiiiiHiiim Office Desks, Safes and Chairs , BARTEL & ROHE 921 Main St. intiuimHrnituiinnuuiiMnHitiiiiuiiiiiitiiHiuiiiiitmiiiitiuinniUfHiitiiiitimim We Give 3 per Cent Interest and Personal Interest First National Bank Southwest Corner Ninth and Main upplied to the libraries. or me ennstea men are mere boys not; -would interest them. The men are al yet done with, thrilling over such; lowed direct access fo the books anl stories as "Riflemen of the Ohio," or the libiarian is not asked by author "The Great Sioux Trail." As a class, t jties: "How manv volumes are in vonr juvenile books rank fourth in number ; library but rather "How manv -olun:s of titles, being exceeded only by west-! are issued to the men each dav." erns, love stories, and adventure stor- ies. J. A. Altsheler has 20 titles list- ! i ed in the catalogue all stories for boys. Ralph Henry Barbour, another, known writer for boys has 10. j Juvenile books are closely presed ; for honors by detective stories. Short; stories come next in popularity, fol- lowed by humorous stories. In eighth j place comes standard and classical! fiction. ; Some Solid Reading Also Is Done. Yet, although the preponderance of taste is for light fiction, a considerable percentage of the men aboard Uncle Sam's warships demand the best in fiction. George Meredith, for ln- The teeth of the harlequin snake are arranged like those of a cat.- Sink or Swim Survive or Perish "We are Still in the Swim' SHINGLES Red Cedar. It pays to use the best get our prices. ASBESTO SEAL A never-leak cement; makes old roofs like new. Investigate. GOOD LUMBER at reasonable prices. COAL That burns well and gives satifcation. - Give us a trial. Prompt Delivery. Right prices. BELL IN BEALLVIEW Ph. 2476 LUMBER, POSTS ROOFING BUILDING MATERIALS of All Kinds Right Prices Prompt Delivery MATHER BROS. 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