Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 139.

MEMORIAL DM Will Be Observed Sunday By the Decatur Court of Ben Hur For DECEASED MEMBERS Thirty On Memorial Roll— Hon. C. L. Walters to Give Address The Ben Hur will have its annual memorial services next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the hall, when Hon. ( . L. Walters will deliver the memorial address. There are thirty deceased members, and for these the services will be held. A committee will go to the cemetery to decorate the graves following the service. The lodge was organized here some fifteen years age. The following are the deceased members: Hurt A. Stevens. Lynn Simpson, Ada Peters, Perry Springer, Nathan Wyatt, Loretta Rutler. Burt Mann, Orpha Glancy, Clayton Dailey, Joseph H. Daniels, Otis Tindall, Dossie Engle, Ella Porter, Curtis A. Barkley. W. H. Ault, Anna Cowan, Florence Daniel, John P. Spuller, Willis Spuller, Eli Presdorf, Martha Hamrick. Frank Yaney, Norman Case, Charles Ault, Harvey Harruff, Dr. W. W. P. McMillen, Mary A. McCrory, J. N. Parrish, Sarah A. Peters, Lacy J. Gregory.

TEXT OF SECOND NOTE FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GERMANY [

Washington, D. C., June 10 —The text of the American rejoinder to the German government's reply to the note following the sinking of the Lusitania. follows: “The Secretary of Slate ad interim to the American Ambassador at Berlin: "Department of State. Washington, Juno 9. “American Ambassador, Berlin: “You are invited to deliver textually the following note to the minister of foreign affairs: “In compliance with your Excellency's request I did not fail to transmit to my government immediately upon their receipt of your note of May 28 in reply to my note of May 15, and your supplementary note of June 1, setting forth the conclusions so far as reached by the imperial German government concerning the attacks on the American steamers Cushing and Gulf Light. I am now instructed by my government to communicate the following reply: "The government of the United fVates notes with gratification the full recognition by the imperial German government, in discussing the cases of the Cushing and the Gulf Light, of the principle of the freedom of all parts of the open sea to neutral ships and the frank willingness cf the imperial government to acknowledge and meet its liability where the fact of attack upon neutral ships ‘which have not been guilty of any hostile act’ by German air craft or vessels of war is satisfactorily estab llslied: and the government of the United States will in due course lay before the imperial German government, as it requests, full information concerning the attack of the steamer Cushing. ‘ With regard to the sinking of the steamer Kalaba, by which an American citizen lost his life, the government of the United States is surprised to find the imperial German government contending that an effort on the part of a merchantman to escape capture and secure assistance alters

the obligation of the officer seeking to make the capture in respect of the safety of the lives of those on board the merchantman, although the vessel has ceased her attempt to esca) e when torpedoed. These are not new circumstances. They have been in the minds of statesmen and of international jurists throughout ‘ he development of naval warfare, and the government of the United States does not understand that they have ever been held to alter the principles of humanity upon which it has u» lßted . ••Nothing but actual forcible resistance or continued efforts to escape by flight when ordered to stop for the purpose of visit on the part of the merchantman has ever been held to forfeit the lives of her passengers or crew. The government of the United

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CHILDREN’S DAY. Children’s day services will be held at North Salem Evangelical church, three miles east of the city, Sunday / evening, June 13. A good program for the evening. Recitations, songs and music. Come and spend the evening with the children. Yon will say the time has been will spent with the children. SUPT. > SPECIAL CAR SUNDAY. There will be a special car leave Decatur Sunday, June 13, at 1 p. m. over the interurban to St. John’s, where a picnic will be held. Everybody invited to go. A big time expected. o HE GOTTHE VOTES But Other Man Got Office— Many Vote for Former Adams County Man. ATTORNEY BROTHERS But He Was Not the Candidate—Club Members Mistake Also. The Chicago American this week contained the name of Elmer Brothers among the list of the judges elected in Chicago. It was supposed gencr(Continued on Page- 2.)

States, however, does not understand that tlie imperial German government is seeking in this ease to relieve itself of liability, but only intends to set forth the circumstances which led the commander of the submarine to allow himself to be hurried into the course which he took. Declares Germany Misinformed. “Your Excellency’s note, in discussing the loss of American lives resulting from the sinking of the steamship Lusitania, adverts at some length to certain information which the imperial German government has received with regard to the character and outfit of that vessel, and your Excellency expresses the fear that this information may not have been brought to the attention of the government of the United States. It is stated in the note that the Lusitania was undoubtedly equipped witli masked guns, supplied with trained gunners and special ammunition, transporting troops from Canada, carrying a cargo not permitted under the laws of the United States to a vessel also carrying passengers, and serving, in virtual ef- ' feet, as an auxiliary to the naval !' forces of Great Britain. 'I “Fortunately these coni cerning which the government of the 1I United States is, in a position to give • the imperial German government official information. Os the facts alleg- ’ ed in your Excellency's note, if true, s the government of the United States ’ l would have been bound to take offi- ' J cial cognizance in performing its rec1 ognized duty as a neutral power and ? ! in enforcing Its national laws. It '' was its duty to see to it that the ■' Lusitania was not armed for offeni' sive action, that she was not serving r as a transport, that she did not carry a cargo prohibited by the statutes of 8 the United States, and that, if in fa :t

she was a naval vessel of Great Britain, she should not receive clearance as a merchantman; and it performed that duty and enforced its statutes with scrupulous vigilence through its regularly constituted officials. “It is able, therefore, to assure the imperial German government that it has been misinformed. If the imperial German government shoi|l deem itself to be in possession of convincing evidence that the officials of the government of the United States did not perform these duties with thoroughness, the government of the Untted States sincerely hopes that it will submit that evidence for consideration. ‘ Whatever may be the contentions of the imperial German government regarding the carriage of contraband of war on board the Lusitania or regarding the explosion of that material by the torpedo, it need only be said 1 that in view of this government these | contentions are irrevalcnt to the quesi tion of the legality of the methods I used by the German naval authorities Ilin sinking the vessel.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, June 11, 1915.

,INCREASE SALARY —’ y , Methodist Congregation Gives Pastor Increase in His Saltry i J AND APPROVES WORK Past Year Has Been a Most Prosperous One for the Congregation. • With one of the most prosperous years in its history just closed, the congregation of the Decatur Methodist church has increased the salary of its pastor, the Rev. D. T. Stephenson. The report was made by the estimating committee of the church, to the quarterly conference, which was held, here the first of the week. The report recommended the increase of the salary’ and the approval of work of the i>astor. This was unanimously adopted by the members of the quarterly conference. Rev. Stephenson is now in his third year as pastor here, and he and his wife have been great factors in the growth of the church. The past year has been one of the best in the history of the church, not only spiritually, but financially. Many extra expenses have been met during the year, but the final report of the year shows that there is a good balance in the treasury.

Details Thrown in Background. “But the sinking of passenger ships involves principles of humanity which throw into the background any special circumstances of detail that may be thought to affect the cases, principles which lift it, as the imperial German government will no doubt be quick to recognize and acknowledge, out of the class of ordinary subjects of diplomatic discussion or of international controversy. Whatever be the other facts regarding the Lusitania, the principle fact is that a great steamer, primarily and chiefly a conveyance for passengers, and carrying more than a thousand souls who had no part or lot in the conduct of the war. was torpedoed and sunk without so much as a challenge or a warning, and that men, women and children were sent to their death in circumstances unparalleled in modern warfare. “The fact that more than 100 American citizens were among those who perished made it the duty of the government of the United States to speak of these things and once more, with solemn emphasis, to call the attention of the imperial German government to the great responsibility which the government of the United States conceives that it has incurred in this tragic occurrence, and to the indisputable principle upon which that responsibility rests. I “The government of the United States is contending for something much greater than mere rights 'f property or privileges of commerce. It is contending for nothing less high and sacred than the rights of humanity, which every government honors itself in respecting and which no government is justified in resigning on behalf of those under its care and authority. Only its actual resistance to capture or refusal to stop when ordered to do so for the purpose of visit could have afforded the commander of the submarine any justification for i so much as putting the lives of those on board the ship in jeopardy. ' “This principle the government of the United States understands the exl plicit instructions issued on August ■ 3 1914, by the imperial German ad- : miralty to its commanders at sea to - have been recognized and embodied t as do the naval codes of all other nn- • tions, and upon it every trawler and 1 seaman had a right to depend. It is - upon this principle of humanity, as well as upon the law founded upon ’ this principle, that the United States t must stand. 1 Tenders Good Offices. “The government of the United 1 States is happy to observe that your 3 Excellency's note closes with the intie mation that the imperial German gov • eminent is willing, now as before, to s accept, the good offices of the United s States in an attempt to come to an understanding with the government

BIRTH OF SON. Mrs. W. R. Smith left this afternoon for Indianapolis, having received a telegram that a fine boy baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lachnit. Mrs. Lachnit was formerly Miss Katharine Smith. The older child in the Lachnit family is a girl. —o RICE FUNERAL IS HELD. The funeral services for Benjamine E. Rice were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Methodist church, Rev. Stephenson officiating, and the Modern Woodmen having their ritualistic service. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. o THE COURT NEWS Will of Mark Burdge Gives Life Esttae to the Wife —Then to Heirs. IS PROBATED TODAY Damage Case Against Indiana Lighting Company Still on Trial. The trial of the $5,000 damage case of Sylvester Zeis, administrator of the I Martin Steele estate, vs. The Indiana' Lighting company, is still on in the 1 (Continued on Page 2.)

of Great Britain, by which the character and conditions of the war upon the sea may be changed. The government of the United States would consider it a privilege thus to serve its friends and the world. It stands ready at any time to convey to either government any intimation or suggestion the other may be willing to have it convey and cordially invites the imperial German government to make use of its services in this way at its convenience. The whole world is concerned in anything that may bring about even a partial accommodation of interests or, in any way mitigate the terrors of the present distressing conflict. “In the meantime, whatever arrangement may happly be made between the parties to the war, and whatever may, in tire opinion of the imperial German government, have been the provocation of the circumstantial justification for the past acts of its commanders at sea, the government of the United States confidently looks to see the justice and humanity of the government of Germany vindicated in all cases where Americans have been wronged <.r their rights as neutrals invaded. “The government of the United States, therefore, very earnestly and very solemnly renews the representations of its note transmitted to the imperial German government -on the 15th day of May, and relies in these representations upon the principles of humanity, the universally recognized understandings of international law, and the ancient friendship of the German nation, “The government of the United 1 States cannot admit that the procla- ■ mation of a war zone from which neutral ships have been warned to keep ■ away may be made to operate as in 1 any degree an abbreviation of the ■ rights either of American shipmas- - ters or of American citizens bound on ' lawful errands as passengers on mer- ' chant ships of belligerent nationality. ! It does not understand the imperial German government to question those t rights. It understands it also to ac- ' cept as established beyond question t the principle that the lives of nou- ' combatants can not lawfully or right--5 fully be put in jeopardy by the cap--1 ture or destruction of an unresisting ' merchantman, and to recognize the 1 obligation to take sufficient precan--5 tion to ascertain whether a suspected 3 merchantman is in fact of belligerent i nationality or is in fact carrying con--3 traband of war under a neutral flag. The government of the United States, therefore, deems it reasonable to ex--1 pect that the imperial German governr ment will adopt the measures necesi- sary to put these principles into practice in respect of the safeguarding of o American lives and American ships, d and asks for assurances that this will n be done. ROBERT LANSING, t “Secretary of State Ad Interim.”

IN A RUNAWAY I L Miss Maggie Peoples Suffered Broken Leg When Team Ran Away at AYR, NORTH DAKOTA Series of Misfortunes Follow Family in Western Home. Relatives here have received news of more misfortune in the Peoples family, which went to Ayr. N. D„ from hero several years ago. Some weeks ago, Sam Peoples caught his hand in a grinder and mangled it so that the thumb was amputated to save the hand. He lias been unable to do anything since. This week the family figured in a runaway. Their team, hitched to the buggy in which they were riding, ran and the vehicle was broken and the occupants thrown out. Miss Maggie Peoples suffered a broken leg in the accident. The farm han.l was also crippled, disabling him from duty on the farm. Miss Maggie Peoples underwent an operation some time ago, as did her sister. Miss Sue Peoples, who is also there. About that time, the death of their sister, Eva I Peoples, occurred at Fort Wayne folI lowing an operation. Misfortune ' seems to be pursuing them very heav- ' ily. CHILDRENS DAY Program is Announced for Next Sunday at the Calvary Church. SONG AND STORY Will Tell the World What Children’s Day Stands For. i Children’s day services will be held > at the Calvary church, five miles east of the city, on next Saturday evening, June 12. The program which will be given is as follows: Song—“ Savior, Like a Shepherd." . Response—“ What Does Children’s 1 . Day Stand For?” Song—“ Bright Summer Days." Prayer. Welcome Address —Doris Shifferly. Declamation —Weimer Harman. Declamation—Emma Mitch. Declamation —Arden Shilling. Song—“We Come With Songs Today.” Dialogue, “Helpers All”—Sixteen i i Children. Declamation —Rollin Gaunt. Declamation—Royal Miller. Declamation—Dallas Lichtenberger. Declamation —Aldine Walters. Declamation —Dallas Krick. Song—“ Rejoice, Ye Righteous." Dialogue, “True Builders”—Ten Children. Declamation —Alice Krick. Declamation —Margaret Walters. Declamation —Lee Miller. Song—“ Joy, is the Message.” Dialogue, “Daisy Ways"—Royal Miller. Declamation —Royce Walters. Declamation —Dale Koos. Declamation—Arthur Barrone. Song—Open the Door. Dialogue, “Red, White and Blue"— Three Boys. Declamation —Mary Shell. Declamation—Mamie Krick. Declamation —Lee Miller. Song—“ The Children's Day.” Dialogue —“A Scripture Garden.” Declamation —Faye Jackson. Declamation —Roland Miller. Declamation —Glen Jackson. Duet —“June is Here." Declamation—Lawrence Walters. Remarks by the Pastor. Offering. Song—“ln Jehovah's Care.” Everybody cordially invited to attend these services. , Preaching services at Calvary next l Sunday morning, June 13, immediately after Sunday school by the pastor, Rev. E. E. Roberts.

f BURK IS REBUILDING. Machinery for the Burk & Co (levator at Cruigville arrived yestei day and will be Installed immediately. • The building, which was started about three weeks ago, will probably be erected within a month from now. The elevator is being built on the same site, occupied by the one which burned recently. Equipped wilh all modern conveniences, up-to-date ma- . chinery and bin with a capacity of 15,000 bushels of grain, the elevator will be one of the best in that vicinity. It will be in charge of Gideon Garber, who will assume the management of it as soon as it is completed. The owners are Burk & Co., of Decatur. — Bluffton News. o *— A OASIS Dry Public Square Fountain Basin Filled With Dirt for Flowers. WASTE IS RECLAIMED By Custodian and the Erstwhile Fountain Will Bloom Like a Garden. It is a law of the nature world, and has become that of the artificial world, that when one talent proves barren, or is cut off, that body becomes fruitful in another way, or the other talents are more strongly developed. That is what has happened to the large fountain on the public square. The little boy’s boot ran water and the mouths of the guardian posts spit living streams of water, as long as the city furnished the free supply. The law has changed that, however, and no longer does the fountain play and run and squirt water because there is no free water forthcoming. There fore, the place had become a public loafing seat and the basin a public cuspidor for the aforesaid loafeis. With an eye to the beautiful and the full development of dorman re sources, James Stults, court house custodian, made a study of the situation and arrived at a logical solution thereof. Today fine, rich dirt is being hauled and the empty fountain basin ! s being filled with this. Plants will be set out and the erstwhile dry, arid waste will bloom like the oasis or the reclaimed desert of Arizona. SINGS ATRECITAL Elmo Smith Took Part in Miss Spencer’s Recital at Fort Wayne. MANY IN ATTENDANCE Musical Event Held at the Studio—Mr. Smith Has a Beautiful Voice. Miss Kay Spencer, the song and music teacher of Fort Wayne, gave a recital last evening at the music studio at which event a dozen or more of her advanced pupils participated. Mr. Elmo Smith of this city, who has been taking weekly vocal lessons from Miss Spencer for the past year, had the honor of singing two songs. His selections were greatly appreciated ana applauded from all parts ot the house. Miss Kathryn Egly of Berne also participated in the recital. Mr. Smith possesses a beautiful and powerful voice and is making rapid progress as one of Miss Spencer' students. His singing is alway welcomed. — o POLICE COURT. Marshal Melchi received a call at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the Henry Moyer home on North Tenth street, to - arrest William Burr, who was in a badly intoxicated condition and had t mado a bed out of the Moyer porch - swing. Burr was so drunk that it was , necessary to call the city “Lily’ to remove him to jail.

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GERMAN REPLY ; IS DELIVERED <1 y Foreign Secretary Van Jail gow Receives Note from Ambassador Gerard. ii t FRIENDS OF BRYAN f Can See no Reason for His Resignation—Concessions ! Are Expected. Washington, D. C., June 11—(SpecI ial to Daily Democrat)- Although Robert Lansing, acting secretary of state, sat at President Wilson’s right hand at today's session of the cabinet, no business of state was transacted. Until the German reply to the Wilson note delivered in Berlin today is received, no additional problems will be pressed for solution. The protest to the allies against their block- ■ ade of American commerce is not yet completed. Acting Secretary Lansing admitted that it probably would not be ready for some time. The members were well pleased with the uniformly favorable press comments on the Berlin note. Although not a sini gle member would talk for publication each expressed the view that the note would be acceptable to Germany and that such concessions would be mado within a reasonable time. Most newspapers and many of former Secretary Bryan’s friends were wondering wny he could not have signed the present note, in view of the fact that lie was sponger for the two previous ones, which were couched in even more language. No explanation came from him. I Berlin, June 11—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Ambassador Gerard delivered the second American note in the Lusitania matter to Foreign Secretary Jagow at 1:05 p. m. today. Indianapolis, Ind., June 11—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Vice President Marshall gave out a statement today on Wilson’s note in which he said he would be “greatly surprised if there shall be found any large number of men in America who do not fully approve its tone and contents.” London, June 11 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The press bureau issued a statement ti|s afternoon declaring that the British light cruiser, reported to have been sunk by an Austrian submarine was not seriously damaged and reached port safely. Washington, June 11, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Acting secretary of state Lansing today told correspondents that they might quote hhn as authority for the statement that not a word or letter in the last note to Germany was changed after Secretary Bryan whose resignation had been accepted but who was not yet out of office, read it finally. Although today’s note may have been sufficient cause for the break, it is not sufficient cause for a break between the Uunlted States and Germany. That was the view of those who speak for Germany. On the principles laid down by Wilson, peace between the two nations can be preserved. Berlin, June 11,—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Slight errors in trans- ' mission from Washington have delaved the delivery of, the new American i note. Though the coded text reached the embassy late yesterday, the German foreign office was without official ’ information of the note’s contents. It • is possible that Ambassador Gerard ■ may be forced to cable to Washington t for verification of certain phrases that f are in doubt. In that event, the note I. will not be in the hands of Foreign 3 Secretary von Jagow until tonight 1 or Saturday morning. 1 Petrograd. June 11, -(Special io Daily Democrat)—ln a fierce battle east of Stryj. the Russians yesterday drove Gen. Linsingen's army back upon the Dniester at Zuravno, captur2 ing 188 officers and 6.500 men. A y statement issued this afternoon reo ported the capture of more than 10,a 000 Austro-Germans in the fighting d west and south of Lemburg and a h complete check of the enemy’s o'fs ensive toward Galacia. While one j- Russian army on the railway to Prze(Continued on Page 2)