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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1916

STATES BLOUJB PREPARATION TO DEFEfJDjJATIOfJ Nttional Security League Arouses Attention to Need of Better Defenses on Land and Sea.

NEW YORK. Aug. 23. A comphehenelve review of its nationwide csm?slgn for more adequate preparedness or national defense was issued today by the National Security League from its 'national headquarters in this city. The tremendous interest awakened throughout the country through the activities of the League is reflected in the favorable attitude now being . shown by members of congress, irreMMlM nt nAl1Ht1 affillAfiAna tAW&rd national defense legislation. The work of the National Security League is based upon the realization that Congress is the pivot upon .which more adequate national defense final ly rests. The recommendations to Congress of the General Staff of the Army and the General Board of the Navy have not received In the past the consideration which they deserve nor has the money necessary to carry out the varlnis. projects been appro-prlated-Ask F6r Change. Within the last few weeks the National Security League has brought its effort to change these conditions to the attention of members of Congress r.'id has requested an expression of opinion both as to the effectiveness of th methods employed and also to the views held by the Senators and Rep- ' resentatlves on the question of more adequate preparedness. ' Replies already received Indicate that the work of the league is not only thoroughly appreciated but is regarded as a patriotic and necessary endeavor. They also indicate that when the President brings the subject of more adequate national defense to the attention of congress, which it is officially announced he has determined upon, he will find that an awakened public sentiment fcr aicre adequate national preparrcjeets ie alrsady an impression upen Cong rests. As would ncturally bo the caee, the senators and representatives in the New England States are thoroughly alive ot the situation. In Maine Rep resentative Asher C. Hinds of Port land, says that he has always had pronounced ideas on national defense as bis votes in the last Congress will show. VILLA AND ODREGON WILL FIGHT DECISIVE BATTLE AT TOBREON WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. While the administration and the LatinAmerican envoys await complete reoonses to their Invitations to the Mexican factional leaders to get together, the main armies of Villa and Obregon- are preparing to fight it out near Torreon. villa is sending every available man Bouth. He has been warned by representatives here that the solidity of the Carranxa camp has impressed the confer ees and that unless something is done to upset the Carranza claims that his forces hold the greater part of MexIco, recognition of the Constitutional tsts is a possibility. As a result of this, Villa expected to tttempt to regain some of his recently lost prestige as a commander. If Obregon can crush Villa then the efforts of the administration to restore peace In Mexico would be materially aim pllfled. COTTON CONTRABAND GIVES WILSON CAUSE FOR MUCH CONCERN WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. A serious iroblem now confronts the Wilson adulniatration because of the decrees of Great Britain and France declaring cotton a contraband of war. Secretary Lansing has not yet been advised Officially of this action, but the announcement cabled from London and Paris caused no surprise in adminiai.,Ia. n Th onvnm An Kan understood for some time that the staple was to be made a contraband, and It has prepared to protest immediately upon receipt of official notice. It is not believed that this protest will be effective, but it will be made because this government believes that it is jus tified. RAIN FALLS FIVE DAYS : Although . only one day last week was clear, rain fell only on four days, the total rainfall being 2.92 inches. The report of temperatures filed by the co-operative weather observer fol low. Max. . 81 . 83 73 , 69 . T3 Min. 62 53 57 52 -4 M 61 Sunday Monday . . . Tuesday . . Wednesday Thursday . . Friday .-.. Saturday . . 68 65 E ORDERS READY WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. CTfty-five thousand machinists in a score of cities throughout the United States hava been authorized to strike If not given the eight-hour day. Applications for double that number are under consideration by the national executive committee of the Association of Machinists Because of the possibility that the demand will be granted, it. has bvfcn decided to keep secret until the fctrlkea are actallyon, the cities and Identity of the plants affected.

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With mud Several laches deep, a girl was noticed walking through the Chautauqua grounds yesterday wear ing extremely low shoes and pink silk stockings bespattered with mud, carrying a pair of overshoes in a basket. There are sneak thieves operating in Glen Miller park, according to several campers, who have suffered losses while their tents were unoccupied, it is declared. Saturday a lady's pocketbook was rifled and at another tent several articles of small value were missing. Edward Thompson, of 1724 Main street, claims the distinction of being PROGRAM ' Tonight. 8:00 Senator Harding. 7:00 Fisher-Shipp Company. " . Tuesday, August 24. v Morning 10:00 Institute. 11:00 Institute. v -Afternoon 1:30 Hon. S. D. Fess. 2:301. C. Hall. 3:30 Schumann Quintet, full concert. ; Evening , 7:00 Schumann Quintet. 8:00 Hon. S. D. Fess. KITCHENERS ARMIES EXPECTED TO LEAVE SOON FOR FIGHTING All Nooks of Island FUled With Men in Uniforrn Awaiting to Be Sent Across Channel. BY HERBERT TEMPLE. LONDON, Aug. 23. Surely the time must be drawing near, when "Kitchener's armies" must be sent across the channel in real earnest, if for no other reasons than because England Is apparently too full of soldiers. Traveling through the county you see them everywhere: every village holds a few hundred; they are drilling In every field and in the cities thousands of factories have been busy day and night for many weeks turning out munitions and equipment. The people themselves are gradually beginning to realize What this war means and what was the real object of the kaiser when he started the war. English People Slow. It seems strange that it should have taken even the most intelligent part of the English people so long to realise that what Germany wanted was to rule the world, and that for this reason England must be crushed, and one can not help thinking that things would have been different had the late King edward been alive today. To him everything would have been clear, and it is really in the first place due to his clearsightedness that the plans of Germany have failed. To rule the world Germany must first control the seas, and the first step in this direction was taken when Germany acquired Heligoland, without the German possession of which the contraction of the Kiel canal would never have been begun. The next step was to be the seizure of antwerp, which must be transformed into Germany's chief naval base. One mistress of that port, with Belgian a vassal kingdom, and with Turkey under the German thumb, time would have been-ripe for the attack on the British Empire. The English people never suspected Germany of evil intentions, and the masses of the people do not realize the danger yet, but the fault is undoubtedly not wholly their own. They have never been told. Today, the government, non-partisan for the first time, is endeavoring to make up for lost time. HELP FIGHTERS WIN PARIS, Aug. 23. "L'Oenvre du Flirt" (freely translated, the encouragement of flirtation) is the name a Paris weekly publication has given to a new scheme which is said to be a great success. The editor learned that while many of the French soldiers in the trenches have wives and children and sisters to write to them, there there was a great number ot unattached young men without even a sweetheart. It is hard for the latter to see their comrades receive precious letters ev ery day and perhaps listen even to extracts. So be conceived the idea of making a list of young women who would be willing to indulge in a mild flirtation by means of letters with the poilus at the front. The response has been enthusiastic and many . strange romances will probably be born from this novel plan. MONEY RETURNED A check for $6,979.47 was received by County Treasurer Cbamness from the secretary of state as Wayne county's 6hare of the automobile license money. This amount is for the first half year tax. FILES ON MORTGAGE Albert W. Gregg filed suit today in circuit court against Ellen Jones,. Xieota Shoemaker and H. W. Zuttermelster. The complaint is on a note and asks for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real estate. The plaintiff demands $200. IMPROVE BUILDING. Improvements are being made at the high school building. Walls are being torn out to make room f Or a lunch room on the first floor of the building at the southeast corner.

the first person to exhibit a phonograph in the middle west. He display ed the machine at the G. A. R. encampment at Glen Miller park in 1885. There is a wall of horror going up from the campers In anticipation of some warm weather, because, for some reason or other the Ice man has been refused admission to the grounds. . Business at the eating house on the grounds is improving and the fact that a restaurant has been provided was a blessing to many of the campers who had more or less trouble in making "campfires" work during the rainy season.

REPORT CAUSES GRAVE CONCERN Alleged the German Embassy Has Kept Tab on President Through White House Spy. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Alleg.tlons that German diplomatic and secret service officials have been able to learn the "actual feelings" of President Wilson and the chiefs of the state department through an agent who had entree to the white house, caused grave concern in administration circles today. . While officials refused to. comment for publication, it was admitted that secret service agents and officers .of the department of justice have been trying to determine whether these reports have the slightest foundation in fact. It is pointed out that President Wilson has granted appointments only to his most trusted advisers since the German situation became acute, except where certain persons have been received to tender invitations and the like. The latter have , had no opportunity for general conversation. Therefore if the allegations be true, the "leak" must have been from an unusually confidential administration source. World Makes Charge. The charge as made ' public in the New York World today was that an agent of Germany, designated as "M. J,", obtained from the president and secretary of state their real views on the controversies with Germany and with Great Britain and communicated them in the form Of "conversations" to agents of Germany. At the white house and state department it was stated that nothing would be said "at this time" regarding the allegations. It was learned, however, that department of justice agents already have tried to ascertain whether there actually , is a "M- P." and that his , connection is with the German agents in this country. The investlga tion so far, it was said, failed to reveal that the president's confidence has been abused. - j CLOSE FOR DINNER LONDON, Aug. 23. Owing to the depletion of their staffs' by the war shop keepers in many towns of Great Britian are considering closing their shops during the dinner hour. SEEKS TO END LIFE MUNCIE. Ind.. Aug. 23. While waiting to he taken to jail after being sentenced to the woman s state prison as an habitual inebriate, Mrs. Nan Geiger attempted to hang herself With a handkerchief. She was placed under guard to prevent her making another attempt on her life. $60,000 LOSS IN FIRE KOKOMO. Ind., Aug. 23. Fire ear ly today destroyed the large plant of the Kokomo Canning company, result ing in a total loss of $60,000. The en tire pea pack put up this year was also destroyed. A report that William NOlan was missing, later proved to be erroneous. The plant maae a business of packing peas, corn and Other vegetables. Insurance covers only half of the loss, it is said. SEEKS AEROPLANES NEW YORK, Aug. 23. As a result of the inability of the navy department to fulfill the promise, made. several months ago, to "loan" aeroplanes to the naval militia of the twenty-three states that have such organizations, which would delay the Organization of aviation corps until either congress or the state legislatures provide for same, the Aero Club of America has received many requests for assistance from heads of the naval militia. The club, as a preliminary to making special efforts to meet this need, has written to the governors of every state, who are holding a conference at Boston, asking that the matter of or ganizing aviation corps in the National guard and Naval Militia be given consideration at the governors' conference. FACTS ON ARABIC STAND CONFIRMED LONDON, Aug. 23. W. H. Page, United States ambassador, is pressing his investigation Into the sinking of the Arabic by a German submarine, but bo far he has secured no information to refute the assertions of officers and passengers that ttte attach Fwas delivered without warning. PORK LENGTHENS LIFE. COLUMBUS, Aug." 23. "Eat. pork" three times a day is the receipt used by Samuel Reynolds for prolonctac his stay on Mother Earth. Reynolds, sevonce in his me.

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qua was the largest of any season; sine William Jennings Bryan delivered an address here some years ago. accord ing to officials who declared that the gate receipts overbalanced the loss resulting from the rain of Friday and Saturday, and were looking for a big week, beginning today. The total gate recsists showed an attendance of 4,200 people Sunday af ternoon, and last night's attendance was greater, though the- enact number is. not. known. 'Z Last Thursday showed a greater attendance than on : the corresponding day one year ago, but on Friday and Saturday the gate receipts fell below those of the previous year for the corresponding days. The Friday and Saturday of the first week ot last season were "big days. Congressman Fesa delivers a lecture tonight, and the O. Edward Clark Concert company will render a program of music. These attractions and because of the excellent weather are expected to bring out a large crowd, which will swell the gate receipts to an amount . in excess of that for the same period last year. . If the weather continues favorable the officials are confident they will complete the week- with- receipts showing a satisfactory balance. . Yesterday end today. persons who have not had an opportunity to attend the Chautauqua were buying season tickets to get the advantage of the closing week's attraction. ONE FRENCH FAMILY GIVES TEN SONS TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY PARIS, Aug. 23. One French family has given ten sons to the army, three of whom, have already fallen On the field of honor. The first -to fall was the eldest, Lieutenant Joseph de L . He met his death following a mention in dispatches for conspicuous bravery. Then fell one of the twins, Albert and Antonie, who had been fighting in the same regi ment side by side. The survivor writes: "My poor, poor mother. "Yesterday, at four ih the afternoon, I saw my poor twin-brother fall at my side with a bullet in his head. He had done his duty but too well. He was always exposing himself. He died in my arms. We avenged him. No German could reach us. One hundred lay where they fell before our rifles." Later it is proud news that reaches the mother of heroes. Her daughter-in-law writes: "I have juBt learned that Louis has received the Cross of the Legion of Honour. General Jotrre himseir decorated him, and gave the accolade." A month, and: death again knocked at the door. Louis, the newly-decorated hero, has fallen at Notre-Datne-de-Lorette. Yet the spirit of the family Is not broken. "These cruel losses," writes another son, Guy de L., volunteer soldier, "must only serve to. strengthen our courage and our firm resolve to avenge them. SEND MORE MARINES WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Three hundred and fifty more marines will be sent to Haiti the last of this week, it was definitely learned today. The cruiser Tennessee reached Norfolk today. It will go to Annapolis and take aboard the marines who comprise three companies of the artillery sertvee. It will then go to Philadelphia to get equipment and leave for Haiti at one. Admiral Caperton reported tdoay that he had formally taken over the customs house at St. Marc. Marines now have charge of the customs houses at all principal Haltlen ports. PAY CAR ARRIVES The Pennsylvania railroad pay car stopped here for a few . hours this morning in order to meet some of the trains and to pay off the crews running through here between Columbus and Indianapolis. DAMN NOT PROFANITY. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 23. "Damn" is. not profanity, according to a decision made by City Court Judge West, in dismissing a charge of profanity in the presence of women brought by Charles Brosler against Timothy Dean. SHOW ORPHANS COURTESY. MA1IOX, Ind.. Aug. 23.-Fifty-flve orphsT children sent from Marion county to the Grant -county orphans' homeiwere met at the tracliOn station y automobiles and taken on a sight-seeing trip" about the city. AFTER FT. WAYNE BOOZERS. FT. WAYNE, ted., Aug: 23.wBecause the city council defeated a proposed ordinance to prohibit screens and other view-obstructing devices' in saloons, President Price of the Men's Christian league, has threatened to vote the town "dry." S "We can do it," declared Price, "the real men of Ft Wayne mean busi ness. The proposed ordinance was admittedly aimed at what is termed the "clove eating" booze fighters, who might hesitate to "hoist a highball" ih full view of the street. FOUND DEAD IN BUGGY. MOOREVILLE, Ihd . ' Aug. 23. When Josh Gooding borrowed a horse and buggy for a short trip into the country and ' failed to return it a search resulted in finding the horse tie dto a tree on a lonely road and Gooding dead in the - baggy. The horse was exhausted and vicious from starvation. ' Heart failure is supposed to have caused Gooding's death.

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. Compulsory vocational training for scnooi cnimren in the United States through government aid was ex plained by Congressman S. D. Fess to three hundred School teachers at tending the Institute, which opened this morning for -a week's session at Chautauqua. Representative Fess is a member of the commission of nine members apppined by President Wit son, The commission in December when congress convenes in its Sixtyfourth session will have recommendstlons embodied in a law allowing for national aid to vocational training. wnich Is expected to be passed. 'Congressman Fess said the problem of the high cost of living will be solved when there Is a return to the farms of many people now living in the cities. He said that number of consumers - was Increasing while the productive number was diminishing The population of the cities is now 52 per cent, of the total population of the country. Fifty years ago It was about thirty per cent. TWO BILLION POUNDS OF BELGIAN RELIEF SENf FROM AMERICA NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Some Idea of the. volume of food purchases and shipments made by the Commission for relief in Belgium during the sum mer months, may be gained from fig ures presented by the current report of the Commission. Including the grain and foodstuffs sent from United States ports alone, the shipments have reached a total of 458,318 tons, w 1,026,403,840 pounds. These figures, it should be remembered, do not Include the cargoes sent from Canadian and other . foreign- ports, which would bring the aggregate up to, If it does not exceed 2,000,000,000 pounds, and the approximate total cost is nearly $80,000,600. From the United States ports, thus far. seventy-seven shiploads of food and clothing have been sent to Belgium by the commission. During the winter and"sprlhg the requirements of Belgium to feed its population of ?.- 000,000 on a per capita ration of ten ounces a day, which 1b about onethird of a soldier's ration necessitated the sending of a shipload of food every forty-eight hours. MILITARY MEN PEPARE FOR POSSIBLE WAR WASHINGTON. Aug, 23. All private munitions in this country would be mobilised by the army and navy, should events force the United States Into armed intervention in Mexico or into the European war. Tentative plans along this line already have been completed in both the army and navy. While the plants themselves would continue to run as at present, expert ordnance and ex plosive manufacturing officers would be detailed from the army and navy staffs to speed up these plants and to see 'that the materials they produce were standardized for the needs of the American forces. One of the first acts congress would be asked, to pass, It is understood, would be a defense bill under which the Uhlted States government could get possession of all needed -munition factories, regardless of who held contracts for their output. Such action would be necessary, officials say, if this government was not to go through the experience that has handicapped both England and Russia. While officials are not talking war, and every. One is hopeful that there will be a peaceful outcome of the crisis precipitated by the Arabic sinking, both the army and navy are quietly taking stock. SUES DOG OWNER. ELKHART, Aug. 23. For an attack upon her poodle by another dog, which in the scramble bit her baby In a gocart, Mrs. E8telle Jarrett has filed an affidavit charging Harry Drake with permitting a dog to run at large unmuzzled.

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uvra mi Through hearings conducted by the commission and data collected by it. as per cent, ot the school children who enter the country's schools do not attend high school and less than S per cent, of those who enter school ultimately take up coileged study, the speaker declared. Congressman Fess emphasised the need of permitting the 93 per cent, of school children to obtain the advan tage of the exhdrbitaht amount of money now spent on high schools and colleges. . : ' The law. If passed, will not only permit the pupils to derive a course of vocational training to equip them for some one single occupation, but afford the pupils who quit school to take the same course of study dividing their, time between the workshop in which they are employed and the vocational training schooL National aid to vocational training under this bill, will be given according to the population and conditions in each state. CLOUDBURST STRIKES CITY IN HEW YORK ELLENSVILLE, N. Y., Aug. 23. It was estimated today that about $10,000 damage was done by the cloudburst that visited this city yesterday. Two houses were - torn from their foundations. - About 1,000 feet of the track of the New York Ontario and Western railroad was put out of commission. TURKS HOLD ITALIANS ROME, Aug. 23. Press dispatches from Athens and Salonika stated that Italian subjects in Turkey are now being arrested by the hundreds and cast into filthy jails. The Italian legation at Athens has heard a rumor that the Italian ambassador to Turkey was threatened by a mob and that sever! windows in the embassy : were smashed. WOUNDED RUSS BOY ADOPTED BY GERMAN BATTALION IN POLAND BERLIN, Aug. 23. Rudloph von Koschuetxki, war correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" writes from the eastern front. "The third battalion of the 16th Ger man infantry Regiment fought for almost three days to capture a small strongly fortified wood near Bucxyni Repeatedly the German troops were repulsed with heavy losses, but the attack finally succeeded and the Rus sians' were driven from their posi tions. After the wounded had been picked up one Of the dogs Of the ambulance detachment discovered a Russian soldier in a small cave at the foot of a hill. The Russian, a bright blue-eyed boy Of hardly more than fourteen years, had been struck by three bullets in the first hour of the battle. Old comrades told him that all wounded prisoners were invariably murdered by the German soldiers. So he crept into the cave to die there. The pretty pale-faced boy with his big, pleading blue eyes captured the hearts ot the German warriors. He was carefully carried to the nearest field hospital . where he quickly re covered. While he was In the hospital some ot his captors visited him every day to hear him tell of his adventures in broken German. He gave his name sa Alexis Radotschln and is s native of Petrograd. "When he was discharged from the hospital the battalion practically adopt ed him. He was not seat to Germany, but accompanied the battalion further into PolandIn ease of a sudden retreat the German soldiers would sooner give up theier guns and baggage wagons than their little prisoner, who has become their pet." PARTED FOR YEARS. MARION, Aug. 23. Parted for fiftyfour years, James M. Perry, his sister and Mrs. Eliza Stanton have' keen reunited.

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ESOS OF mil FHOvc VS3ATMTY , ALOuG CATTLE FC0I1T Old Men Make Better Ffeht. era end Show Mere Resourcefulness Thsii Do YcungMen. BY LA RACONTEUSE. PARIS. Aug, 23. It is several months since General Joffrs said that he knew no reserve troops any more because the , territorials had become ss hardened as the younger, troops. Very often these married soldiers and fathers of families who served their military term 'fifteen to twpty years ago, are even better soldiers than the new conscripts. Anybody who knows anything of the lower classes In France, does not have to he told bow resourceful these peasants and worklngmen sre when in a difficult position. Life has been their teacher, time and again they have found themselves In face ot difficulties which seemed insurmountable, but they have always found a way out, and so they do now as soldiers. Show Resourcefulness. - ' In one night they will dig a subterranean passage through which they emerge unexpectedly and surprise the enemy, or they fix a small alarm bell in a trench and whenever they ring it the Germans open a furious fire, wasting toss of ammunition without doing the least harm. Sometimes they construct sham batteries, conceal them clumsily snd when the German aviators discover them more wsste of ammunition results. The middle-aged soldiers whom life has taught the sense of realities, possess in the highest degree the Gallic race's elasticity, faculty ot. improvisation, courage, resistance and common sense. . At present young and old troops fight alongside each other la nearly all the trenches along the entire front, this long front through France, which

is like a rasoz, slowly but surely mov-1 ing eastward, rating everything in front of It -men, . houses, trees, for ests ana villages. i $50,000 BONDS SOLD TO ELDORADO BANK ELDORADO. Aug. 23. The school bond issue of $50,000 Issued by the Board of Education of Monroe township, Preble county. Ohio, has been purchased by the Farmer's Banking company, which paid a premium of $1.00 for the entire issue. The Township Board of Education met at the Central school house and opened the bids, of which there were only two, one from the local bank and one from a Toledo company. Last week the school board bought ten acres of ground directly across the road from the Central school from A. J. Cloyd, "paying $2,600 for it. This land will be the site of the new school building that will be erected. The land will be surveyed next week snd plans submitted by an architect Preliminary work will be started this fall and the building will be ready for occupancy when the 1916 school session begins. PIN CAUSES MYSTERY. GREENSBURG. Ind.. Aug. 23.--A fraternity pin. believed to have belonged to the late Barton W. Wilson, found on the battlefield at Spanish Fort, Ala., and now in. the possession of W. L. Hall, of Lincoln, Neb., has mystified Barton's relatives. Barton was 111 at the time of the Civil -war and it is believed that he gave the pin to the man he hired to serve in his place. CAPTURE FUNNY OWL. CONNERSVILLE. InL. Aug. 23. The first monkey-faced owl seen in this vicinity for many years, was captured southeast of town, by Oscar Henry. The feathers sre red. yellow and gray, and the face very similar to that .of a monkey. The average daily field ration of the United States army is made up as fol lows: Bacon, 12 ounces (or fresh meat, 20 ounces): bread. 18 ounces: beans, 24 ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; prunes or preserves. 1.28 ounces; cof fee, 1.12- ounces; . sugar. 3.2 ounces; evaporated milk. 5 . ounces; vinegar. .16 of a gill; salt, 64 ounce; pepper (black). .04 of an ounce; lard, .61 of an ounce; butter, .5 of an ounce. Q n 1 y