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FLABBY ' BUSINESS MEN DEFENDING THEIR NATION
Not so long ago William Jennings ! Bryan, well-known pacifist, in decry- ! ing the necessity of the nation making adequate preparations for defence, rej marked that in event of war, "a million men would spring to the defense i of the country over night." Just what it means for an untrained civilian, fat and flabby from indoor work, to "spring to arms over night" was illustrated to over one hundred members of the Twelve-Six club at its weekly luncheon today, the illustration being given by Lieutenant Coppock, Second United States cavalry, who is in charge of the Indiana recruiting service. "How far do you suppose, any one of you, I mean, could march tomorrow as an infantryman, with a sixty-pound kit packed on your back?" casually remarked Lieutenant Coppock. Auditors Draw Picture. Each of bis auditors instantly viewed a mental snapshot of himself trying to participate in a forced march along rough roads, under a broiling sun, with sixty pounds of luggage stowed away on his back and not one of them got much enjoyment out of gazing upon said mental picture. Lieut. Coppock didn't get to tell the one hundred Richmond business men all he wanted to about the helpless condition the nation is now in and the imperative necessity of preparing against war. The war department will not permit army officers to discuss this question, perhaps fearing that if army officers were permitted to speak their minds frankly to the American people congress and the national administration would be kept busy for some time trying to explain why pork measures instead of defense bills Jiad been written upon the statute books while the nation was confronted wth a crisis. Describes Summer Camp. Liuet. Coppock told of the civilian training camp which is to be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, this coming summer and he urged Richmond men to attend this camp. He pointed out that if every American citizen of military age would prepare himself to defend his country then the country would itself be prepared. He assured his auditors that those who attended the camp would return to their homes "in the pink of condition," with knowledge how to use an army rifle and hike twenty miles a day with a sixty pound kit strapped on. "If you attend the Ft. Harrison SAY RALSTON ASKED MURPHY TO LEAVE POST INDIANAPOLIS, April 11. Charges that Charles J. Murphy, who resigned as a member of the Indiana public service commission yesterday, and who was succeeded by Anthony Deahl, a Goshen attorney, had insisted that the Merchants Heat and Light Company, of Indianapolis, oust James W. Fesler, its attorney, and employ the law firm of Ryan & Ruckelshaus who were the attorneys .for Joseph E. Bell in the election conspiracy trial recently, in which the mayor was acquitted were the direct cause of a demand on Murphy that he resign, according to information available today. Governor Ralston made the demand on Murphy, according to the information but the Governor refused to discuss this phase of the situation. Murphy gave his public reason for resigning as a new venture in business that he intended making in the summer. At his home today he said the reasons he gave publicly included the entire situation, as it revolved about him. Governor Ralston, in the face of anonymous charges against Mr. Fesler, today declared that Mr. Fesler had conducted himself with the utmost rectitude throughout three weeks or more of a delicate situation of which the Murphy resignation fromthe commission was a climax. FRATERNITY CONVENES. INDIANAPOLIS, April 11. The middle west conclave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity will be held here Friday and Saturday.
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'camp this summer you will have a much more profitable vacation than if you went to Wisconsin on a hunting trip, which would cost you a hundred dollars or so," he said. He declared that untrained men were worse than useless for military service because they do not have the hardihood to withstand the privations and exhausting demands of a campaign In the field. Lieut. Coppock avoided a discussion of the dangers which confont the nation today as a result of the international situation, but he called attention to the fact that in Japan here are powerful men who dream of a day when the Mikado will rule the Pacific. He said that in Japan the militay training of the boys now begins when they reach the age of seven years. Lieut. Cdppock's interesting address was greatly appreciated by the Twelve Six club members. DEEDS FILED DECREASE FOR LAST QUARTER Business in Richmond during the last three months, as reflected in the report of the county recorder, is not as active as during the corresponding period of 1915. The recorder's office shows a decrease of twenty In the number of deeds recorded, and a slight increase in the number of mortgages. The total amount of fees collected during January, February and March, 1916, amounted to $906.20, while in 1915 the fees amounted to $943.20. County Recorder Parsons said that he knew of no reasqn for the decrease in business except a general slump in real estate trasactions. The January record showed a large decrease. Business picked up in March, however, and a gain was shown over last year for that month in the number of transactions recorded. During the last thee months 368 deeds were recorded, compared with 38S during the same period last year; 244 mortgages in 1916, compared with 239 in 1915; sixteen mechanics' Hens for 1916, and eighteen for 1915; seventy-nine chattel mortgages, compared with 100 in 1916; seventy-three releases compared with eighty-seven last year. The report shows further that there were two transcripts; twenty-two assignments; four articles of incorporation, 292 marginal releases, eighteen marginal assignments; thirty-five miscellaneous papers, totaling fees of $906.20. IN THIRTY MINUTES COUPLE GETS WORK Monday at noon a man and a woman stepped from an interurban car. They asked the policeman where they could get something to eat. They ate their lunch and asked to be directed to an employment bureau. Within a half hour after they had alighted from the car both of them had found work. "There's no use of, any body starving in Richmond," said John Stockline of near New Albany to John Melpolder, secretary of the social service bureau, this morning. "My wife and I had no trouble In getting work here, and we intend to stay. 1 used to be a farmer, but if it is this easy to find work in the city, I am going to stay here." PRINT EXTRA COPIES. To advertise the Labor Forward Movement, 500 extra copies of the Richmond Labor Herald will be distributed to the employees of the various factories this week. A collection was taken at the mass meeting last night to pay for them. TAKE ROUTINE COURSE Only routine business was disposed of at the regular monthly meeting of the council of Trinity Lutheran church last night.
WRITE BOGUS NOTES FOR PICKELL'S EYES Deep plots are brewing among high school students. Since Principal Pickell announced a few day ago that all love letter found In the building would be read In chapel, the boys have been getting their heads together in an effort to compose plausible sounding notes to which, they could sign various students' names and then have the laugh on them at the next chapel meeting. Scarcely a night passes without the project receiving tome stimulus in the reading and lounging room of the Y. M. C. A. WINTERS STILL ALIVE The death of Scott Winters, second sergeant of police, is expected at any time. Yesterday, his condition was so ' critical that it was not believed he i would live through the night. Today he is even weaker, and it is hardly probable he will live another twpntv. four hours. He is in a comatose candition practically all the time. SCHOOLS OBSERVE ARBOR DAY HERE Arbor day will be celebrated in the Richmond city schools on April 21, in compliance with the request of Chas. A. Greathousc, state superintendent of public instruction, Prof. J. T. Giles made known today. Each school will arrange of program of its own. Trees and shrubbery will be planted and efforts made to beautify the school grounds. Both outdoor and indoor programs will be held. Prof. Giles received a number of books from Superintendent Greathouse, entitled. "Indiana Arbor and Bird Day." Within the book is a proclamation from Governor Ralston, setting aside the day as arbor and bird day, and urging the public schools to observe the day, and the people of the state to plant trees and shrubbery on that day. The books have been distributed among the various schools. A letter from Mr. Greathouse to the young people, teachers and school officials of Indiana follows the governor's proclamation. Then come suggestive programs for rural and city schools and a list of suggestive topics for arbor day exercises. PERU FIRM RUSHES DETAILS OF MOVING John Parkhurst, general manager of the United Refrigerator companies, of Peru, which will move their factory to Richmond within the next few weeks, was in the city lookine after details in connection with the deal for the purchase of local property. The company will have all details completed as soon as the final naners are signed with the Commercial club, holder of the option with the M. Rumely company. SCHOONER IS STOPPED MANILA, April 11. Word was received here today that the American inter-island schooner Henry F., was hel up ten miles west of Zamboanga by a British cruiser and two German steamship officers taken off. One was a resident of Manila, and the other a former officer of an interned German ship. NO ACTION TAKEN. Nothing definite has been decided about the successor of Rev. Elmer G. Howard as pastor of the First English Lutheran church. GIVE DEGREE WORK. Local Sons of Veterans will go to Centerville next Saturday evening to assist in the degree work at the encampment there. Several candidates will be received at that time. Bacteria gives butter its flayor.
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- . Another SHIP UNKNOWN BODY Mrs. James Nevils, 204 East Sixth street, Alexandria, Ind., thinks may-be the may who killed himself by jumping off a train in the Pennsylvania yards, this city, recently, is a relative of hers. She has written to Chief of Police Goodwin to send her a description of the man. The body has been sent to the state anatomical board, as required by law, and will be kept at Indianapolis for about a month. If not claimed at the end of that time it will be used by medical students for experimental purposes. NAMES MRS. NUSBAUM Mrs. Lee B. Nusbaum was appointed a member -of the executive board of the social service bureau this morning by the Rev. Conrad Huber, president of the board. Mrs. Nusbaum will serve in the place made vacant by resignation of Mrs. Mary T. R. Foulke several weeks ago. 1 REPORT TELLS OF RIOT DEL RIO. Tex., April 11. Sheriff John W. Almond today made public an official report of the riot on Saturday night in which a negro soldier of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry was killed by W. L. Barler, a ranger. This showed that the slain soldier was shot four times. The official report holds the troops responsible for the riot, and declares that only the four shots which kelled Private Wade w;ere fired by the men attempting to quell the disorder. START STATE MOVE FOR PUBLIC PARKS INDIANAPOLIS, April 11. The campaign for collecting funds for the state park movement was well under way today. The joint committee from the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade are hopeful of collecting $25,000 in this city this week as a starter in the campaign. Other cities will fall in line later. The canvassers are doing their work in teams of two men each. They are supplied with literature and pictures of sites proposed to buy. The state park committee, formed by the Indiana Historical association, is hopeful of effecting similar organizations in eath county of the state. FRUIT IS UNHARMED. EVANS VTLLE, Ind., April 11. Last week's cold weather didn't hurt the fruit, say the farmers, because of the cloudiness and snow.
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Dance PROPERTY HOLDERS SIGN FOR LIGHTS Petitions asking for the installation of ornamental lights on Main street from Fourth to Twelfth-on Eighth from South A to North A and the first square of North Seventh street, will be be signed by the requisite number of property owners this 'afternoon, according to E. M. Haas. At noon today, the petitions were signed by property owners representing all but 63 feet of the necessary amount to reach the minimum three-fourths, as required by law. The petitions will be presented to the next meeting of the board of works. Property owners representing 5592 feet of property "have signed the petitions. ' The cost of the installation will be paid by the property owners and the city will furnish the light. CHURCH FEDERATION TO MEET SUNDAY Final plans for the Richmond Federation of Churches will be formulated Sunday afternoon at a meeting in the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. The meeting is called for 2:30 o'clock and the public is invited to attend. Outstanding committees will report and a tentative constitution will be present-, ed. If the constitution is accepted, an organization will probably be perfected at this " meeting. Morton C. Pearson, secretary of the Indianapolis Federation of churches, will tell of the workings of such an organization there. GLEE TO MAKE TALK Robert E. Clee will deliver a "Scientific Temperance Lecture," at the First M. E. church Sunday at 2:30 o'clock. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon league. The public is invited. HARMAN IS DETAINED Because the Rev. H. C. Harman was unavoidably detained in Richmond this morning, the Ministerial association was not represented at the meeting held in Indianapolis for the purpose of founding a State Federation of Churches. At the meeting of the Ministerial association yesterday, the Rev. Mr. Harman was elected to represent that body at the meeting today. After it was too late to find a substitute, he found that he could not attend. . -
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3 S'.' . From MISS WHITE GIVES VIEWS ON CONTEST IN FRANCHISE BODY "There are always a lot of people 'round the state to be jealous of Indianapolis," said Miss Esther Griffin White, chairman of the Sixth district today, "and that is one of the reasons for the candidacy of Mrs. Gill, of Muncie, for the presidency of the Franchise league to displace Dr. Amelia Keller. "Chiefly, however, the candidacy of Mrs. Gill is a matter of Franchise I league politics as Mrs. Gill is being backed by Mrs. Stimson of Terre Haute presum.- bly to get even with the state board of the' Franchise league in last autumn, requesting her resignation from that body as she had dragged the Franchise league into a Federation of Clubs row with which the Franchise league had nothing to do. This request was, however, later withdrawn, and Mrs. Stimson is still a member of the board. But Mrs. Stimson, who is a pretty good politician, wants to do some bossing on the state board so she's working to oust the present administration. Mrs. Gill has never been a member of the board, has not been conspicuous in Franchise league activities, save locally, and, in addition, is not located in Indianapolis, where the state president should be located and where the state headquarters must be placed in order to effectively administer the work of the league during the sessions of the legislature. Favor Mrs. Keller. "While the suffragists of this cityare not taking any particularly active part in this matter, the majority of them regard Dr. Keller's re-election, for the coming year at least, as necessary as this is the year of a national J election and the Indiana legislature meets the coming winter. Therefore, it is 'not thought advisable to change executive heads at this time, since, no matter how efficient a new prefeident might be, her inexperience would count against the effectiveness of the work of the league the coming season. "At a meeting of the county chairmen held in this city a few-weeks ago to elect a district chairman for the coming year, it was recommended that Sixth district delegates be Instructed to vote for Dr. Keller for the reasons set forth above." Representatives from this city to the fifth annual convention of the Woman's Franchise league of Indiana to be held in the Claypool April 12, 13 and 14, are: Mrs. Nelle Barnard, county chairman; Mrs. Edward Dye, vice-chairman; Mrs. J. P. Hill, vicepresident of . the local league, with Mrs. R. W. Randle. Mrs. Harry Dalbey, Mrs. Paul Ross and Miss Gertrude
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By Temple Teacher Shute, as the four delegates from the Richmond Franchise league. Miss Esther Griffin White, chairman of the Sixth district, will also attend as a delegate, appearing on the program Thursday with a report of the district, and Friday, leading a discussion on "Plans and Recommendations." BOY SCOUTS ASSIST CLEAN-UP PROGRAM Boy Scouts and the Campfire Girls will be asked to assist in the "cleanup and paint-up" movement which is being planned by a joint committee of the Commercial club and the Ladies of the Aftermath. A meeting will be held in the Commercial club rooms Tuesday afternoon by the Commercial club committee, of which Ira Woods is chairman, and representatives from both the Boy Scouts and the Campfire girls. The preliminary plans will be made at this time. The plan of co-operation between these groups is. a new idea in Richmond according to Ira Woods, chairman of the committee. Prizes will probably be awarded in connection with the cleaning campaign. The exact date has not been decided but the first week in May Is being tentatively planned. REPORT VILLA BURIED COLUMBUS, N. M.. April 11. Lieutenant Gorrell and Dargue of the aviation corps reached Columbus in their machines this morning, bringing the news that a report was current at the extreme front that Pancho Villa is dead and that his body has been buried some where near Santa Ana. The cavalry and Gener-1 Pershing's infantry columns are now chasing Pablo Lopez and scattered Villista bands. MEXICANS EXECUTED EL PASO, April 11. Charged with plotting an uprising against the Carranza government in Juarez, FlorenziQ Chazarria and Jose Beruel were executed across the river today. The men were blindfolded and plac. ed before a firing squad. DESTROYER DAMAGED. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 11. The U. S. destroyer, Monoghan in a badly damaged condition after a collision with the destroyer Roe, ig today on its way to Norfolk navy yards for repel. 8. ; .
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