Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 235, 13 August 1914 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1914

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Regulating War Prices The prices for necessities of life in the United States are steadily mounting upward. This is due to a realization that next year may see no crops planted in stricken Europe and therefore, under existing conditions, there will be an unprecedented foreign demand for American food stuffs. In other words, Europe, short of food supplies herself, will shorten the food supplies of millions of American people by bidding up prices. These Americans, handicapped by stationary incomes or no incomes at all due to unemployment, in the face of much higher food prices, will be unable to buy as much as they could before war prices prevailed. The class of Americans that will be most affected adversely by this condition is composed of the wage earners, salaried workers and widqws, orphans and retired business men living on

small fixed incomes from invested savings, i

These people comprising a large majority of our population are the ones that must perforce cut down on their consumption of necessities of life. Some will even be compelled to undergo semistarvation. Many out of work due to disturbed industrial conditions as a result of this devastating war will face actual starvation. The class that will benefit by this condition is composed of the farmers and the speculators in necessities of life. This class by reason of the war stands to gain enormously. But their gains over and above a normal return will represent blood money, wrung from the necessities of their suffering and starving fellow citizens. Europe is doing for her suffering citizens what this country should do for those of our citizens who are threatened with suffering. The continental nations have established reasonable maximum prices for commodities. Anyone sell

ing above these prices or hoarding supplies is severely punished by the respective governments. There is no reason why our government should not extend the same protection to our citizens. Reasonable maximum prices could be established that would be fair to consuming and producing classes alike. Of course all foreign buying from individual Americans on this basis would have to be prohibited. What our government should aim to do is to guarantee every American as many of the necessities of life this year and next as were procurable last year. After American necessities are taken care of at the reasonable maximum prices, the surplus remaining should be taken over by our government at the maximum prices and sold by it to the various foreign nations at as much more

than the maximum prices as could be obtained. In this way the threatened shortage of government revenue due to the loss of customs duties on imports stopped by the war could more than be made up. In fact the government should be able to raise so much more revenue than it needs ordinarily that it could undertake the building of public works on a scale large enough to give work to the many people who, on account of the effect to this country's industries of the European war, will be temporarily out of employment. As a

precedent for this it is only necessary , to call attention to the fact that England is preparing to provide national work for her unemployed, since the outbreak of war has intensified that problem for her. If England, at war, can do this for her unemployed, the United States, at peace, and in a position to vastly increase its national revenues by itself being the agent for selling our surplus products abroad, can undoubtedly do as much for its unemployed. For government to so regulate prices of necessary commodities and to take over the entire surplus of such'as is not consumed at home, is not so new as some might think. Government has already established a standard price for gold. The miner bringing his gold to a government assay office receives in return for each 25.8 grains of pure gold a dollar, or at the rate of $18.60 an ounce. Similarly the farmer, if government will exercise its great power in the interests of humanity in this country, could take his wheat to a government office if he found no other market for it at, say, a standard maximum price of one dollar a bushel and receive money in return for it at that rate. In this way would the government's surplus for foreign sale be built up. In other words our government should now, under the conditions threatening our country, eliminate the at present necessary speculation by taking over that function itself. It would be under no necessity of providing any elaborate storage system to prevent the immediate adoption of this plan as it could use the private storage system already in existence in the country in the same manner as it is now used by the speculators. By the adoption of this plan widespread and

terrible suffering on the part of millions of Americans can be absolutely prevented. Peace prices for commodities would prevail in this country. Work for all would be provided by government out of the sums realized on the sale of our surplus products abroad or by additional taxes if necessary. In this manner could the consumer obtain the purchasing power necessary to create the market for the producer. If this is not done and the country goes through this international crises as it has gone through all previous ones, the speculators and farmers alone will benefit. They only will receive the vast sums that Europe is preparing to pay for our surplus products. And that surplus will be increased because all others of our people will be unable to buy as much as they have heretofore bought and as they are inherently and

ethically still entitled to buy as long as our country is at peace. The sums realized from the sale of this surplus abroad and the much higher prices at home will not get into circulation as readily from private hands under war conditions. That portion

of this surplus above living expenses remaining to the farming and the speculating classes will represent new capital. And capital is notoriously timid of investment during war times. For the really best interests of all concerned and in the name of God and humanity, wage earners, salaried workers, widows, orphans and retired business men living on small fixed incomes, as well as farmers and speculators, our government should now step in and establish during this war crisis standard prices for all necessities of life ; guaranteeing that these prices shall be maximum by providing to take over all

surplus itself for foreign sale. Shutting foreign demand out of our market except through government, Europe can have what is left after our people are fed. There is nothing inhuman in this proposition as far as it bears on Europe. Europe, not the United States, has started this world war. Therefore Europe should get through it in the best

manner it can without being permitted to make-

the people of the United States share in its suffering. R. G. LEEDS.

War's Great Issue

Editor's Note This begin the first of a series of four articles giving a resume of Prof. Roland -G. Usher's remarkable and prophetic book "Pan-Germanism." Mr. Usher ie professor of history in Washington University of St. Louis and has devoted many years to expert study of European poll, tics. His work was written In 1912 and proved so exact subsequent developments have verified hia arguments almost to the letter. The author of thia resume does not speak for himself but endeavors merely to. condense for our readers the substance in this great book which gives the clearest and most authoritative interpretation of the European situation yet made. Needless to say. The Palladium is itself non-com-mital on the problems raised by "Pan-Germanism." In these four articles its sole aim is to make available to its readers the illuminating expositions of the book. BY OBSERVER.

To the economic student, the great

issue in the present European war is

Shall the German economic system or the English economic system prove

superior and gain control of European business? But to the Btudent of politics, the greatest issue in the war is: Shall democracy or autocracy hold the balance of power in the eastern hemisphere? Popular government was a nightmare to Prince Bismarck. It worried him so much that at times it well nigh w-ecked his iron physique and he was always ready to move heaven and earth to stave off the day when people would rule themselves. True, he did assist in overthrowing the monarchy in France and did all he could to encourage the spread of democracy in Napoleon's country. But this in itself was only a Machievellian subterfuge and was designed to cripple republican France by alienating her from autocratic Europe. When the present Kaiser mounted the throne in Germany, his first act was to send a proclamation of greeting to the army. A similar proclamation was sent to the navy on the same day. In his characteristically bold manner, he declared that the eyes of his warlike ancestors were looking down upon him from the other world and that he felt It his duty to see that Germany rose to the supreme heights of martial strength and power. Three days later he sent his proclamation to the people, thus subtly conveying to them that in his estimation the

real bulwark of the nation lay not in the population itself but in the aristocracy with the army and navy as its right and left. And he Immediately set out to be not the "Citizen Emperor" of his predecessor but another Frederick the Great. This subtle hint of his antipathy to popular rule broadened into an unmistakable fact by his hearty endorsement of Bismarck's schemes of monarchical Socialism. The people had been crying for a larger share in the prosperity of the country. "Let us give them a larger share," said Bismarck, "and then they will keep still and give us no trouble." This Bismarckian idea of giving the people just enough to keep them quiet has been the guiding principle of the Kaiser's policy ever since. And the

great extent to which the German masses share in the nation's prosperity is not an indication of the democratic spirit of the German rulers but just the opposite. Kai3er William's antipathy to popu

lar rule was again made plain In 1898 In bis attitude toward Leo the XIII's famous encyclical. In this now historical document, the Catholic-spirited Pope spoke in a very friendly manner of democracy and of popular institutions. Against this the Kaiser

stormed and raged. He even sent personal threats to the Pppe, declaring he would go to any extremes to offset this accursed movement toward self-government. The Kaiser is firmly convinced, he rules by divine right, that he was sent as a vicar of God to build up the ideal modern civilization, that no other man on earth can do the work that he is doing and that democratic government is not only inefficient but a moral iniquity. In the light of this, it should be easy to understand the great political significance of Germany's possible victory. What will happen if she wins? France will be reduced to a third power. Belgium and Holland will lose their nationality. British India will become a German province. The great far spread British Empire will be dismembered and the scattered remains of it brought under the control of autocratic Germany or equally

autocratic Austria. Meanwhile, Asia will be absolutist. At the present moment, China is any

thing but republican and if Germany wins, Russia will see to lt that she

becomes less republican than ever.

Africa will be put through the same school. South America which even now is a financial colony of the European nations will be compelled to pay constant tribute to the autocracy

that will rule the world.

This whole situation has been expressed with fine cogency by an editorial writer in the New York World: "The issue is now Joined. Either German autocracy must be crushed, or European democracy will be obliterated. There is no middle course. If the

forces that the Kaiser has loosed are victorious, the map of European republicanism may as well be rolled up, and the American people prepare to make the last great stand for democracy. All of continental Europe that is not Russianized will be Prussianized. France will be reduced to the status of a third-rate power. Belglum, Holland and Denmark will fall successfully into the maw of German imperialism. Italy will become a vassal state, the sun will have set upon the British empire as well, and the

mailed fist of the conqueror will make ready to strike the final blow at democracy in the new world. America, as this prophetic utterance suggests, will be left the one great democratic country of the world. It is impossible to believe that autocracy, after gobbling up the whole of Europe, will be content to leave this great

xvortn American continent in the hands of the hated democracy. If Asia is Russianized, if Europe is Prussianized, it is inevitable that this nation would either be thrown Into the maelstrom of autocracy or have the very essence of its character and its government transsubstantlated. These issues are not visionary. They are real and momentous, and the very vastness of all that is at stake makes it impossible to believe that Germany and Austria can win. The ideas of popular sovereignty have too much permeated the peoples of Europe. The probabilities are on the contrary that this war will go far toward convincing the people of the hollowness of the claims and of the ineffiency of the methods of European autocrats.

LONGNECKER WINS IN PREBLE COUNTY EATON, a. Aug. 13. Complete returns in Preble' county show Longnecker to have been elected over Samuels and MendenhaU for nomination as recorder; Longnecker to have defeated Hapner for sheriff on. the Republican ticket; Schell to have won over Ogden for nomination as Republican candidate for clerk; and Potts to

have defeated Arnold and Schlotter-

beck for nomination as Democratic candidate for sheriff. For the various other offices no contests were made. Seventy-one Progressive ballots were cast. Less than a dozen Socialist tickets were voted.

MASONIC CALENDAR

Friday King Solomon's chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Stated Convocation.

Snapshots of New Paris

Raymond Souers, Harvey Haller and! Russell Aker left Tuesday morning to join the New Paris colony at Manitou beach. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Spencer of Bethel, Ind., spent Tuesday with Mrs. Mary Young and family. Mrs. W. H. Marshall spent Saturday and Sunday with her husband at St. Mary's, O., and Monday with Dayton relatives, returning Monday night. Miss Minuie Deem of Dayton spent tho week end with Misses Fern and Faye Marshall, and was joined here Sunday by her friends, Mss Maude Coffman, who spent the day at the Marshall home. Word received from John Hamilton, son of Mrs. Ida Hamilton, is to the effect that he has enlisted in the regular army and is now stationed in the Canal Zone, guarding the locks. He is enjoy

ing the army life and sight-seeing and says his duties are not arduous. The primary for the nomination of candidates for the county offices was held Tuesday and though there was a quiet primary, yet the voters seemed Interested in that a goodly - number came to the polls to cast their votes. Nealie Hayner Is giving his store a general house-cleaning, papering the wholo room and remodeling, giving it a different appearance and improving the looks very much. J. F. Maher of Richmond spent Tuesday here on business. The New Paris W. C. T. U. met Tuesday evening at the Christian church and several new members were added to the list. Mr. and Mrs. George Foster and daughter, Treva, spent Saturday evening in Eaton, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. King Cole of Chicago, who were there with the Sheeeley's Carnival Co. Leander Anderson of Williamsburg

spent Monday here the guest of the Iloque club. Kamor W. Jones returned Tuesday from a visit with his parents, at Covington. Air. and Mrs. Bert Byers of Castine were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. Fitzwater.

Roses, 50c and $1.00 per dozen. Asters 35c and 50c per dozen. Lemon's Flower Shop.

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CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 13. Some twelve or fifteen years ago burglars entered the drug store of D. H. Hudelson at Dunreith and blew open the money safe, taking all that was in one compartment and breaking the lock off the other. Since then the wrecked safe has laid by the roadside until last week, when Mr. Hudelson employed Will Glidwell to cut it open. The locked compartment was found to contain over $15, part in gold and part in silver, some coins being of such date as to command a premium. It is quite probable that some of the rubbish in it was paper money fallen into decay.

CHURCHES TO HOLD OUTDOORJERVICES Centerville Denominations Plan Union Worship in Maplewood Park. CENTERVILLE, Ind., Aug. 13. The Christian, Methodist and Friends' churches will hold a union church and young people's meeting in Maplewood park next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. A special program is being arranged consisting of selections by a quartet from the different churches, also recitations by Ethel and Esther Anderson, Herbert and Edith McMahan, Martha Cheesman and Mary Dunkle. The subjects "Social Life for Christ" and "Confessing Christ Away from Home," will be discussed by Mrs. Clara Gould, Mrs. Ada Darnell and Pierre Helms. Rev. rrobst and Rev. Mitchell will each give a short sermon. The M. E. church is preparing to build a parsonage on the south side of the church building. Construction will

commence as soon as the arrangements can be completed. Prof. D. A. Haworth of Clayton, Ind., is spending a few days with friends in

Centerville and vicinity. He will leave in two weeks for South Dakota, where he will superintend a school this year. The King's Daughters Class of the C. C. Sunday school will give an ice fcream festival in the Keplar room Saturday evening August 22. Mrs. Lessie Pike Medearis is connned to her room with typhoid fever. Sunshine class of the Centerville C. S. S. taught by Miss Bessie Townsend was delightfully entertained by Anna Block Wednesday afternoon. There was a short business session after which games were played. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Paxson. Those present were Bessie Townsend,

Ksther Tout, Clarris Welfer, Lillian j

vvarner, urace townsend, Marion Shroy, Lena Cappellar. Gertrude Lemon, Anna Black, Mrs. Edna Chamness. Mr. WTill Kendrick and wife of Indianapolis were guests of their aunt, Mrs. E. H. Haworth, yesterday afternoon.

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The average death rate throughout , the is sixty-seven a mniute, and the

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Mrs. G. M. Rieser of Richmond, is visiting her many old friends here. Miss Ida Blrfkley spent last week with friends in New Castle.

Mrs. Mary Davenport of Indianapolis, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Kinsinger. Mrs. Amanda Brattain attended the funeral of her sister-in-law at Arcanum, Ohio, last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Riegel and Miss Hazel Gipe attended the Riegel reunion at Greenville, Ohio, Wednesday, where they had a pleasant time. Mrs. Transberg, wife of Bv. Tranberg, left Monday for the bxufte of her parents in Painesville, Ohio. They are preparing to sail for India October 1. Mrs. Maggie Holycross of Columbus, Ohio, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Binkley and family. Monday Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd entertained in her honor.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eliason, Mrs. Catherine Reiser and son Curtis, and Mrs. Frank McKee made up a party who attended the Chesterfield campmeeting several days last week.

Wireless messages have be received in Germany from the Cape of Good Hope, six thousand miles distant, clearly and distinctly.

MONEY Loaned on household goods, pianos, teams, fixtures, etc. without removal at the Legal Rate. We loan from $5 to $100. See us before borrowing. If unable to call, write or phone and our agent will call at your home. The State Investment & Loan Company PHONE 2560 Room 40 Colonial Bldg., Richmond, Ind.

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