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PAGE SIX THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1925 When a Feller Needs a Friend THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday by Palladium Printing Company. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana as Second Class Mail Matter. WHERHS HE I IF I i II HI HE'LL KUOW UTTirRliJC-. Jt rV Nice CLfAM noose'! ff MEMBER OPi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein.

All rirhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Help Others Help Themselves Many a resident of eastern Indiana has resented the fine he has been compelled to pay in the courts of squires along the highways that lead from this state through Ohio. There always has been a lurking suspicion that the squire was not interested so much in enforcing the traffic law as he was in mulcting the victim whom a constable brought before them. Objections of Indiana motorists that they were driving their cars within the speed limits of Qhio, met with a prompt denial from1 the arresting officers, and the unfortunate victim had to pay the fine which the squire assessed. The resentment against the unjust treatment was too deep seated to be forgotten in a few months, and Ohio and its business men have lost thousands of dollars in the good will and cordiality.

If Chio wants to redeem herself in the estimation of many Hoosiers who have been the victims of unscrupulous justices in petty courts, she has a fine opportunity now. When squires and other justices maintain their courts merely for the personal profit thsy can make out of them, and the people look upon them as grafters and boodlers, it is high time for a drastfc clean-up which, will send the guilty ones to the penitentiary, and put the enforcement of the law on a high basis of fair play. Many of the squires' courts in Ohio have been notorious for the laxness of their methods. The conviction of a'number of justices of these courts in the federal court at Cincinnati for violations of the liquor law, as well as the general suspicion against a number of squires administering justice in connection with "speed puts the entire system under a cloud of mistrust. Corruption in Squires' Courts Ohio is at the threshold of a clean-up of the so-called squires courts, following revelations by the state board of accounts, in which graft, corruption, and malfeasance in office, were alleged to be present in a degree that is described as shameful.

The report which the bureau made a few days ago shows that justice has been a cloak under which many squires have used their office to fleece the public and to practice graft on a wholesale basis. The guilty squires, it is alleged, have used the automobile law and the prohibition enforcement clauses of the statutes as the media by which they have acquired thousands of dollars. Fines that should have been turned over to the state treasury have remained in the pockets of the corrupt justices, many of whom, in connivancee with constables and other appointive officers, have made false entries in their official records so that they could keep the money which they had pilfered from persons fined in their courts. Historic Hotel Closed Ebbitt House in Washington, Rich in Historic Lore, to Be Replaced by Movie Theatre. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By WILLIAM BRADY, M.

D. Noted Physician and Author New York Day By Day Bj O. 0. MclNTYRE NEW YORK, May 18 New York race track crowds represent every strata of society from the impecunious tout to the hefty lorgnetted dowager. The opening of the season is becoming as much a social event as the opening of the Metropolitan.

A sort of spring fashion dance. It begins with a luncheon at the clubhouse where crowds spill out over the verandas and onto the lawns. Fifth Avenue dressmakers take advantage of the gathering to have their mannikins pirouette before the lunchers in the latest The types you see are the types in those class compendiums of fashion found on "drawing room tables elfin creatures in gay summer styles, moon-figured mamas, knobby young men in tweeds and carelessly slung binoculars, beefy men in wide checks and shaved to a sirloin red. There are also men with barkeeper curls and phony diamonds. Chorus fluffs and young clerks who wear Nile-green handkerchiefs and pink collars.

After lunch they sweep to the clubhouse to promenade the men Binok- ing their pipes and the women their cigarettes. The sport of kings never loses its magic excitement. The blare of the band. Track try-outs. Feverish betting and that sombre note the field ambulance.

At the sound of the bugle the crowd grows taut. And there is a hush before the parade to the post. The most hysterical and -delirious crowd In the world is the crowd at the race track. Cool glacial women forget their reserve and screech for their favorite-Men can lose fortunes by a nose without batting an eye but women of the race tracks rarely do. I saw one who had lost a huge wager by a close finish.

A tiny rivulet of red trickled down her chin. She had bitten through her lip. Melody Lane is in the doldrums. The lowest peak of financial returns for the song writer has set in. More than a dozen top-notchers have turned to other pursuits writing vaudeville and musical revue skits.

Men who a McKinley suite brought only a total of $400. It was in the Ebbitt House that Abraham Lincoln is said to have held many conferences with Generals fresh from the front during the Civil War. And It was here that many of his cabinet members found time to enjoy a mint julep for which the place was ever famous down to the day when Washington was declared officially dry. This house was wont to attract such celebrities as General William Tecum-seh Sherman, Admirals Farragut, Porter, and Scott, and many, others. General George Armstrong Custer, the famous Indian fighter, stopped at the Ebbitt for a few days before entraining for the West when he made his last stand against the Sioux at Little Big Horn.

The following tale is told of General Grant: He was dining in the Crystal Room, which had been in stalled soon after Caleb Willard tooki over this property, when he was informed that certain government officials questioned his order that the released Confederate soldiers should be allowed the use of their horses for farm 'work. He turned upon his informant and exclaimed: "They-do. do they? Well, you just tell those Virginians not to worry. Say that if my order is not respected to let me know and I'll join the Confederacy and take the horses from the government." The Crystal Room was world famous in its heyday, and many of the present generation have grandmothers whose eyes take on a new gleam when they are reminded of the balls they attended thsre during their girlhood. When the supper dance craze first began to seize the American public this room was for a time one of the most popular places In Washington, but it gradually gave way, to the newer jazz palaces.

Its memories and Associations had little appeal to the younger generation. When William McKinley was inaugurated a3 President of the United States he drove from the Ebbitt to the Capitol. During his term as Solicitor General, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Ebbitt his headquarters. An almost indefinite list of famous and well-known persons, both In political and social life, who have made this hostelry their home for, varying lengths of time might be given. Daughters and Their Ancestors It was a popular place for delegates to the many conventions held in Washington.

During the annual meet ing" of the Daughters of the American Revolution, tho place was always ed with bustling hurrying women in their finest feathers and bearing upon their bosoms the badges of membership, officership, and above all, their official emblems with the suspended ancestor bars. Each bar represents an ancestor who fought Jn the Revolutionary War and some of these Daughters had so many ancestors in the memorable struggle, for freedom that these bars form veritable ladders. No doubt many of them will feel not a little homesick for their old camping ground when they come to attend tho congress next spring. The Ebbitt was a pioneer in the cabaret in Washington. When this form of entertainment in the hotels and cafes had worked its way south from New York, the Ebbitt was one of the first to hire a staff of performers.

Then began an era of unprecedented popularity Nightly the grill was crowded with enthusiastic pleasure-seekers. It was necessary either to go before the theater crowd, or reserve tables. People were turned away. Finally a room across the corridor was opened and called the Gold Room. This was used to take care of the overflow, but of course most patrons were reluctant to go there.

An additional attraction at this time was an East Indian chef who prepared special dishes, chiefly composed of chicken, curry and cocoanut It was considered very swank to order one of these. After preparing these special foods the chef himself served them. Being served by a distinguished looking East Indian in a pink turban in itself was a thrill to what in these days would be called the flappers. But, as Is always the case, age must finally give way to youth, and this venerable tavern is no exception. The newer, more up-to-date hotels have gradually usurped its place in the regard of the fashionable who seek diversion and entertainment It is rather sad to see this once popular rendezvous of the great and near-great dismantled, and the fixtures and furnishings sold under the gavel of an auctioneer.

Perhaps the most pathetic thing is the small amount of interest taken in the sale. the crowd. But he has never been a tramp or trained with also rans, or eaten In a roadside camp from old tomato cans; he i3 a man of higher stamp, who rides in green sedans. But I have walked the railway ties and ridden on the rods, and bedded down with frowsy guys where mattresses were sods; I've lived with hoboes and I'm wise to public welfare wads. And so I do not answer "No," when Richard comes along, and gives me, in the evening glow, the same old dance and song; I hand him seven cents or so, although my course be wrong.

THE GUIDE POST By Henry and Tertius Van Dyke Making Yourself, a Nuisance "Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee and hate thee." Proverbs 25-17. This is not a plea for unneighbor- liness. It is a warning against making yourself a nuisance. To concern yourself too much with your neighbor is not a sign: of inter est in mm, dux an inaication ox thinking too much of yourself. There is a great difference between making a friendly visit and hanging around all the time.

Sometimes your neighbor is busy with, affairs which do not concern you. If you love him, you will leave him alone. There is a privacy which the best of friends do not violate. That is one reason why they are friends. Peeping and prying is always a despicable activity even when it is practiced under the guise of friendship or neighborliness.

It usually is a fault- common to those who are not very busy themselves and who like to lean on the activity of others. Especially must we beware of making this error in trying to win men to religion. To be persevering in following after a soul walking in darkness is a virtue. To pursue a man in such fashion that he comes to hate the light is a disastrous error. There is an attitude which is neither showing yourself Indifferent nor constituting yourself a nuisance.

It is founded on a deep regard for your neighbor's happiness and 8 supreme unconcern about getting your own way. (Copyright, 1925, by The Republic Syndicate) Is Housecleaning a Bugbear to You? The efficient housekeeper learns to make her head save her heels. House-cleaning need no longer be drudgery. If house work is planned carefully, if the kind of furnishings that are easy to keep clean are chosen and handled in the right way, and if provision is made for keeping all the dirt possible out of the house, there will be no need for the upheavals that result in discomfort to the entire household. How to make housecleaning simpler and easier is discussed in a booklet which this bureau has for free distribution.

Any reader can secure a copy of this government publication by filling out and mailing the coupon below, enclosing two cents in stamps for return postage. I Frederic J. Haskin. Director. The Richmond Palladium Information Bureau.

Washington, D. C. I enclose herewith two cents in stamps for return postage on a free copy of the Houseclean- Jng Booklet. Name Street City State prevalent Old-fashioned washstands are in rooms even where there is a modern bath attached. Apparently the furnishings have not been changed since the place was purchased by Caleb Willard during the Civil War period when many improvements were added.

The McKinley Suite The suite which was used by William McKinley during the whole of his congressional career has been kept intact, and the furnishings -of this were among the first to go under the auctioneer's gavel. It seemed strange that so small a crowd should have been drawn to a sale so filled with historic memories. The canopied brass bed in which McKinley is said have slept during his residence in the Ebbitt was sold to the proprietor an inn in Roanoke, for $150. He was said to be about the only person who attended the sale from a Standpoint of historic interest. In addition to the bed he.

purchased a Windsor chair used by the former President, two faded draperies and an octagon mahogany table. This collector said he was going place these things in his inn where he already has antiques which he values at hundreds of thousands dollars. The'entire furnishings of the QUESTIONS Q. I3 there a way In which navy beans can be treated to make them more digestible and prevent the formation of gas on the stomach? M. V.

G. A. A pinch of soda added to the water in which navy beans are cooked tends to prevent the formation of gas the stomach during the process of digestion. Q. Are the "Bad Lands" of South Dakota considered- a desert region? C.

L. A. They can not strictly speaking be classed as a desert region. The 'term is somewhat misleading, as the land is fertile except where it is bo steep that vegetation is washed off. In level portions, buffalo grass grows and supports great herds of cattle.

Good water is usually found in shallow wflls and considerable farming is carried on. Q. What does the Persian "Mir-za" mean? B. C. A.

It is the equivalent to Q. Who was "Captain C. D. A. He was a character in Dickens' "Dombey and Son." He was a retired merchant with a hook in place of a right hand.

Q. How lone has cricket been played in England? S. H. IV A. There are some evidences of a similar game having played in the 14th century, but it is probably that cricket was not known until some time in the 16th century.

Q. Is the "daddy-long-legs" a fly or a spider? M. L. A. In America the name is applied to the harvest-spider, a harmless insect having legs containing more than fifty joints each.

In England, however, "daddy-long-legs" is applied to the crane fly, a true fly having legs. Q. How old is Cyrus Curtis? A. H. E.

A. Cyrus H. K. Curtis was born in 1S50. and will be 73 years old in June.

Q. How long will a "permanent" or "natural" magnet retain its magnetic properties? J. S. A. The life of a magnet can not be predicted exactly.

If properly cared for it will last for years. Q. Was there a president who would have been elected unamimous-ly but for one vote? A. W. A.

James Monroe received all but one of the electoral votes in 1820. An elector from New Hampshire voted for John Q. Adams in order that no president other than George Washington should have the honor of receiving a unanimous vote. (Any reader can sret the answer any question by writing The Palladium Information Bureau, Frederick J. Hask-In, director.

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C. May 18 This month will see tho passing of one of the landmarks-of Washington the Ebbitt Hotel, more generally referred to as the Ebbitt House. Upon its site trill rise another temple of perhaps the most popular modern entertainment the motion picture. Thi3 hotel was one of the earliest of Washington and if the walls could talk many are the tales they might tell of men and women prominent a generation or so ago. It was for years the popular stopping place for Army and Nary men.

In fact, it is said that during the late 60's it was referred to as the Army and Navy Club. During the recent Easter holidays a shipload of midshipmen maintained thi3 tradition by making it their headquarters while in Washington. In the early days the Ebbitt was known as Ebbitt's Boarding House and the portion of the building which comprised that i3 still part of the hotel. Like many of the older buildings which were enlarged from time flb time as the need arose, the Ebbitt is on many levels. The corridors are dim narrow passages where the guest must watch warily for the three steps tip and the three teps down.

The rooms are furnished in a manner that takes one back to the mid-Victorian age. Red piush and marble tops are ANSWERS TO Q. How long has Monaco belonged to the family of its present ruler? N. M. A.

It wa3 conferred upon a prince of the House of Grimaldi by Emperor Otho in the tenth century. Q. Has the Monday before Shrove Tuesday a name? C. V. A.

It ia sometimes known as Col-lop Monday for on this day the faithful ceased eating flesh meat or "col-lops." Q. Is coffee native to Brazil? F. E. N. A.

It is not native to South America. It ia supposed to have grown first in Abyssinia, although it was early found in Arabia. Brazil, how-1 ever, now turmsnes more than two-thirds of the coffee consumed in the world. As an article of diet, it was unknown to the Greeks -and Romans. It was not introduced into until the 16th century.

Who's Who In th Pay'5! Nw- MARSHAL LYAUTEY. With the entry of the French into the war in Morocco the combat assumes a character only vaguely suggested by attempts of the Spaniards to vanquish the same enemy further north. There the struggle seemed to be between two kinds of antiquities. Here it is the decisive battle, par excellence, between civilization and barbarism between a modern Caesar and a modem Yercingetorix. The greatest soldier proconsul France has ever sent forth is pitted 4.1 against the most modern barbarians, intelligent of Abd-el-Krim.

Marshall Lyautey is TO years old. Except for a brief period when he went to Paris to take the war portfolio in the Briand cabinet in December, 1916, and then caused that cabinet to fall a few months later, when he left, a prophet of "de not without subsequent honor, he has practically given a long life to the colonial service of France. Tongkicg, Algeria, and Madagascar were the fields of his study and experience in Madagascar with that old strategist, Gallieni, who, as military governor of Paris, in September, 1914, offered decisive diversion to the German Vcn Kluck. Save for the Interregnum already mentioned he has been resident general of the French zone of Morocco piece April 28, 1912, just seven months before his country and Spain settled the area of their respective territories. Spanish hiph commissioners have come, becu defeated and have gone, et Lyautey has stayed on, rnakins icure the occupation by France.

to of to in WALK AND SAVE YOUR LIFE Really big business men and women take time to play, cost what It may. The little fellow can't see it that way, The best doctors give a lot of time to study; being great, readers of the current medical literature, attendants at medical society meetings and visi tors in clinics and postgraduate in stitutions. The little fellow is too busy to squander any time on these things. Now, then, how is your blood pressure? Well, anyway, listen to this striking observation made by Dr. Henry K.

Mohler in a study of hypertension and hyperglycemia in a series of forty-six cases: "Forty-five of the forty-six patients, when they came under our observation, ranged from 1 per cent to 60 per cent over weight." The forty-six patients had not only high blood pressure but also too much sugar In the blood. All had some sugar in the urine, but in only 16 was the condition considered fully developed diabetes. Twelve had albumin and hyaline casts in the urine, and four showed albumin with hyaline and granular casts. These casts pretty certainly indicate nephritis, Bright's disease. The high, blood pressure in these 46 patients was not due to too much sugar In the blood aid is not a constant finding in diabetes.

Just what did it mean, then? Drl Mohler doesn't speak with too much conviction about that, but he conveys a good hint when he says: "These patients were informed by us of the dangers of obesity and overeating, with the attendant results After Dinner Stories A minister who guarded his morning study hour very carefully told the new maid that under no circumstances were callers to be admitted. "Except, of course," he added, "in case of life and death." Half an hour later the maid knocked at his door. "A gentleman to see you, sir." Why, I thought I told you" "Yes, I told him." she replied, "but he says it is a question of life and death." So he went downstairs and found an insurance agent A commercial traveler, visiting a large insurance office, boasted to the manager that he could pick out all married men among the Accordingly, he stationed himself at the door, as they returned from dinner, and mentioned all those he believed to be married. In almost every case he was right. "Plow do you do it?" asked the manager.

"The married men wipe their feet on the mat; the single ones don't." My Favorite Stories By IRV1N S. COBS Looking Back on Old Pleasures Ferdinand Gottschalk, the actor, is an Englishman by birth. He tells a story based on truth which to me seems typically English. It runs like this: "In the old days, passengers on the top of a London omnibus rode back to back in two rows the length of the vehicle on what was called 'the One day when my father was about to alight from the knifeboard with other passengers, as the bus drew up at the curb at Oxford Circus, the slant from the middle of the road down to the gutter was so steep that it tilted the bus far out of the perpendicular equilibrium still further and the bus captized slowly, projecting all the fares onto a cocoanut fiber doormat at the entrance of Peter Robinsoul, the draper's shop. No oneVas hurt "Years after, an apparent stranger greeted my father and.

finding him unresponsive, said: 'I don't think you remember me, said my father. 'I'm afraid I don't. Have we met before?" The stranger replied: Oh. quite so. I once had the pleasure of fall ing from the top of an omnibus with (Copyright 1925, by the Syndicate, Inc.) McNaugrht of hypertension and glycosuria, and advised to consult with their physicians, that their diets might be regulated." (Hypertension is another term for high blood pressure, and glycosuria means sugar glucose in the urine.) Ten of the 46 bad risks had no symptoms.

They would count themselves, well. That is because folks don't know what health means, and don't see the wisdom of running to a doctor until they get bo sick they can't run at all. I'll wager my job against some honest work that the 10 bad risks that had no symptoms could not run a mile any time. A lot of people who are equally bad risks and have no present symptoms, ought to know that a healthy adult not over 50 years of tge, should be able to run a mile ad but don't know whether they could do it, because it is such an undignified thing to try. Imagine a refined lady of considerable heft, or a high tension gent, running along the street to try this out why the cop at the first corner would probably arrest the nut as a suspicious character.

Dignity is a deadly evil wnlch tends to grow on one, once you did, gtve it a start. High blood pressure or hypertension is often but not always an early feature of cardiovascular degeneration' (hardening of the arteries, chronic nephritis, slow failure of the heart, apoplexy.) Let that sink in, fat folks, and then listen to another of Dr. Monler's observations: "Obesity frequently favors the development of sclerotic (that means degenerative) changes in the body, which are capable of producing an increase in the blood pressure and a diminished ability of the body cells, to utilize carbohydrate. Degenerative changes that take place in the body, when affecting the structures involved in carbohydrate metabolism (that means the utilization of starches and sugars), of necessity must impair their efficiency and result in hyperglycemia (too much sugar in the blood) and glycosuria (glucose in the urine)." But don't be downhearted, fat folks. I've got a nice spring tonic for you.

one which will purify your blood and everything. If you're a big one, this tonic will do you a lot of good. If you're a little fellow, you can't afford it. The remedy is oxygen. The average dose is two miles.

To be taken on the hoof. For ordinary cases, three times a day. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Grandma Rolls I nave been turning somersaults for several years and find them the best remedy for constipation that I have ever tried. Thank you for the idea. I have passed it on to others, including a 6 months old grandchild who had to be dosed every night But when his parents give him his regular somersaults his bowels move quite naturally.

(P. F. Answer Grandma rolling her own is no new thing, but the baby's experience is unique. I do not advise the general adoption of somersaults by babies so young, but when a baby is a year old he might begin old age is preventlble if taken in time. Lonesome Joe I am 38 years old and would like to marry and have at least three children.

My intended wife doesn't like children and says she would never have any. Yet I believe we love each other. What would you say, doctor? (Lonesome Joe). Answer Don't Tied to a wife with such views yoji would be much more lonesome than you are now, Joe. There are plenty of girls of a more promising disposition on the market why pick a lemon? Meniere's Disease Please state the cause, symptoms and cure of Meniere's disease.

(W. T. Answer Deafness due to some disease or injury of the auditory nerve in the internal ear, associated with head noises and severe seizures of vertigo, is called Meniere's disease. There is no specific cause known, aside from the lesion of the auditory nerve in the labyrjnth (internal structure of the ear). (Copyright, Xational Newspaper Service.) years ago made more than $30,000 a year are not making 1100 a week.

Tin Pan Alley puts the blame chiefly on. the raiiSo and sees no chance for a return of the velvety days of yore. A former cashier in a bootlegging cafe declares half the profits of the place were made by indirect addition. This is not amenable to law. If the patron discovers the stenciled humbuggery he ia merely offered an apology but it is declared that not ten percent of cafe patrons add up their checks.

The New Yorker seems to think it makes him appear a cheap sport to attempt to find out if he has been humbugged. The very thing that unscrupulous cafes do not want you to do they warn you to do. In red letters they tell of the perfection of. their checking system and ask that you scan the items closely. This warning it is said inspires a certain confidence that prevents-this carefulness.

(Copyright 1923, by the Syndicate, Inc.) McXaught RIPPLING RHYMES By WALT MASON Unwise Charity To Richard Roe I gave ten cents when he came to my door with plaintive sighs and loud laments; his heart and feet were sore; I always hand to busted, gents some seven cents or more. And always there is some one near to chide me for the gift; some statistician dour and drear will to my portal drift, and. from a satchel old and queer some printed forms he'll lift He has the figures nhicb. WU1 show such handouts never pay; the coin bestowed on Richard Roe is money thrown away; let him to Welfare Experts go. and for assistance pray.

The charity that's organized will deal with every case; 'twill do its work as advertised, and feed the hobo's face; the statistician is surprised to note my methods base. The statistician, full of facts discourses long and loud; he reads me documents and tracts which leave my spirit bowed; he roasts me for my thoughtless acts, which pauperize.