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Wilson Assumes Responsibility For Four More Years

FEW CITIZENS KNOW WORDS OF COUNTRY'S STIRRING SONG

Orchestra and Bands Urged to Play "Star Spangled Banner" During Patriotic Week.

"OLD GLORY" FLIES Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. Oh ! say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! BY W. R. POUNDSTONE This first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the American national anthem, is not reproduced for the benefit of Richmond school children; it 1b presumed that the teachers In our schools hare not neglected teaching their charges all three verses of this Inspiring song. The reproduction is solely for the benefit of the city's adult population. Today marks the opening of Richmond's "patriotic week." The Palladium, believes it will be worth the wblleof all its readers if they familiarize . themselves this week with the verses of Francis Scott Key's hymn. No country has a more inspiring anthem than the United States, no people are so unfamiliar with the wording of their national song than AmeriAmericans Did Not Know Song. The writer recalls a story told him several years ago by a Richmond man who had Jnst returned from Europe, a tory that so impressed him that he believes it worth repeating at this time. At an entertainment aboard the ship this traveler was on the band suddenly began playing the English national anthem, "God Save the King." Every Englishman promptly arose to his feet and sang without mistake every word of the several verses. Then the StarSpangled Banner was played. Every American arose but three-fourths of them had to hum the air. They had never learned the words of the republic's anthem. I was one of those who hummed." confessed this Richmond man. "I never felt so humiliated in my life. I know every word of the three verses now, you can wager." Omit Song from Medlies. It has been suggested by those who have charge of the observance of patriotic week in Richmond that orchestras and bands not play the StarBpangled banner as a part of a medley of other selections. It is a well taken suggestion. The . national anthem should not be cheapened. It should be held as sacred as the flag. Its rendition should always be an impressive ceremony. It is to be hoped that all this week Ihere will be a generous display of Old Glory. With the humiliating spectacle offered by the United States senate in refusing the President authority to uphold our national honor and dignity there is a great need of an inspiring patriotic demonstration on the part of a resentful people.

Post Mail Early To Avoid Rush

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March ' 5. The steamship Australplain, sailing from New York on or about March 15 will carry the first mails between the United States and the Pitcarin Island, a dot in the Pacific Ocean mid-way between Panama and New Island. Postmaster Morgan made this announcement today to enable patrons of the postal service to take advantage of an unusual opportunity. Since only one of the Pitcairn Islanders has visited the United States since the place was colonized in 1789, the postal authorities donot anticipate a heavy mail.

SNOW STORM HITS TRAFFIC SEVERE RLOW

A snowfall of several inches, one of the most severe snow storms of the winter, swept over Richmond and vicinity Sunday almost blocking . road traffic in the country districts, nearly paralyzing street car and traction service and greatly delaying the movements of railroad trains. In the wake of the storm came several minor automobile accidents, resulting principally from car wheels skidding. A large truck loaded with household goods became unmanageable on the steep road leading down the west river bank to the temporary bridge and the driver to prevent the truck plunging

into the river bottoms guided it into

the emcar-kment on the south side of the road, throwing contents of the tiuck in all directions. The one reported vietim of the Ftnrro wai ! F'.p". J. F. Propst of the North End mission who slipped on a snow revered walk on North Fifth street last evening ard fractured two bones of his left wrist.

POINTS OUT DUTIES BEFORE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

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SENATE REDUCES STATE TAX LEVY IN LAST SESSION

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, March 5 Bill previously passed by the House to reduce the state tax levy were passed in the Senate today, when called up for consideration among the other business of the last day of the session. One bill reduces the state general fund levy from seven cents to four cents on each $100 of taxable property in the state and abolishes the state debt sinking fund levy of 1.5 cents. The other bill reduces the vocational educational fund levy from 1 cent to onehalf cent The bill to legalize Sunday motion picture exhibitions passed the House Saturday was amended in the Senate so as to provide for a strict censorship of films before they may be exhigited in the state. The bill was referred to a conference committee. The Senate killed the bill which proposed that creditors could garnishee ten percent of the wages of a debtor to pay claim for necessaries of life supplied to the debtor for bis family. Lieutenant-Governor Bush announced that he could not permit "railroading" of bills or the rushing of business through the Senate although this was the last day of the session.

SENATE CAUCUS DISCUSSES RULE

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 6. A Democratic Senate caucus has been called for 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at which one of the subjects discussed will be a fight for a cloture rule to prevent a filibuster by a few senators such as killed the armed neutrality bilL

Weather Forecast

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight. Warmer except extreme south portion. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. Temperature Today.' Noon 22 Yesterday. Maximum v. 30 Minimum 16 Forecast for Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight with increasing cloudiness and warmer. General Conditions The Canadian storm moving slowly arrived here Sunday instead of Saturday night It now covers the Eastern states and is very violent. Sever cold weather has covered the West during the last 24 hours with 32 degrees below at Saskatchewan. There have been heavy frosts in California and Oregon. Weather will immediately react to rmer. . ; . a . .

Price Reduction Regarded As Bait

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Mar. 5. The Mothers' Anti-High Price League and allied organizations of women who are trying to reduce food prices continues their boycotts notwithstanding the fact that their purposes have been in part accomplished. Several staple articles of food cost less than they did two weeks ago when violent agitation against high prices began. "The women are not deceived," said a statement issued by the league, "by temporary reductions in prices under a system that permits manipulation of prices from hour to hour."

HOLD SECOND TRIAL IN TANZER CASE

(By Associate Press) NEW YORK, March 5. A host of vitnesses gathered in the federal court today for the second trial of Rae Tanzer, charged with perjury in swearing that James W. Osborne, the Nw York lawyer, was her companion at a hotel in Plainfield, N. J. On the first trial the jury disagreed. The United States district attorney will try to prove that the man who accompanied Miss Tanzer at the Plainfield hotel was really Charles H. Wax, posing as "Oliver Osborne."

WEAR SMALL SILK FLAGS

Small silk flags for coat pocket handkerchiefs is a special patriotic week fad which was introduced into Richmond yesterday ty several young meD

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(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 5. The National League for Women's Service today began classes in wireless telegraphy, motor driving and canteen cooking. Several hundred women In the city have registered for training action to a plan approved by the Council of National Defense. The league is now organized In 26 states. It's purpose is to train women for service in war time and to keep the government informed as to the trained women on its registers ready for any given duty. As soon as the weather will permit volunteers will be instructed in agriculture. Owners of a number of large estates have offered ground for this purpose. Classes will be former also to learn how to care for the families of soldiers sent to the front

SNOW EXPECTED TO REDUCE VOTE IN CITY PRIMARY

Sunday's heavy snow fall was viewed with dismay by the Republican and Democratic candidates for nominations for city offices. Anticipating a light vote even with most favorable weather conditions these candidates were today wondering how many more voters would be kept away froni the polls tomorrow by the snow. Perhaps there never has been a political campaign in the city's history so devoid of interest as the one which came to a close today. Many people ascribe this condition to the fact that Richmond citizens, as a whole, no longer look with favor on the plan of selecting city officials on a partitan basis. Perhaps the Iivliest contest in the primary is for the Republican nomination for clerk, the contestants being Baltz A. Bescher, Harvey Brown, W. P. O'Neal, U. L. Parshall and William Stevens.

Tammany Men Meet Gerard

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 5. Two separate delegations of Tammany men will meet Ambassador Gerard when he reaches Havana on his way home from Berlin. They will start from Washington tonight after the inauguration ceremonies. Mr. Gerard has been discussed as a possible candidate for mayor of New York this year and for the governorship next year. It is understood here that those who met him at Havana will try to ascertain his opinion on these questions.

Belgian Orphans Adopted by City

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 5 After listening to an address by Theodare Roosevelt the citizens of Oyster Bay at a mass meeting last night decided to "adopt" a Belgian village of 2,400 children. The plan will call for a contribution of $2,400 a month. Col. Roosevelt, it was announced today, will serve as honorary chairman of the General Committee of the Rocky Mountain club of New York which has started a campaign to raise $1,000,000 a month to aid the children of TJelgium.

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IN 5 STATES

(By Associated Press) ATLANTA, Ga., March 5. The south today faced floods which threatened to be almost as disastrous as those of last summer when hundreds of persons were made homeless and millions of dollars' worth of property was destroyed. Fifteen rivers in five states Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Caro-

! Hna and Virginia were overflowing

their banks as the result of many days of heavy rain but, with ample varning3 in all districts, it was not believed there would be a heavy loss of life as was the case last year when these states and South Carolina were stricken. The upper Tennessee at Knoxville and Chattanooga overflowed last night and several hundred persons in those cities and nearby towns were driven from their homes. Relief measures were quickly taken and the homeless cared for with a minimum of suffer-

GERMANS MAKE VIOLENT DRIVE

(By Associated Press) PARIS, March 5 A violent attack was made yesterday by the Germans on the Verdun front Today's official announcement says repeated German attacks failed under the French fire, although north of Caurieres wood the attackers obtained a foothold in advanced positions. The Germans losses were heavy.

Ten-Inch Snow Falls in East

(By Associated Press) PITTSBURG, Pa., March 5. Ten inches of snow covered the ground here today as a result of a severe snow storm which raged all day yesterday and last night The snowfall is the, heaviest of the season.

FREIGHT TANGLE HURTS BRICK YARD

WILLIAM GARTSIDE GALLED BY DEATH

SOCIALISTS DISPUTE OVER NEW PACT

(Ey Associated Press) PARIS, March 5. The National Council of Socialist Party, after a debate, has passed a resolution condemning the important minority section of the party which favors the resumption of relations with the socialists of other countries, including Germany.

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 5. The situation said to , confront brick manufacturers of the middle west because of shortage of transportation facilities that is keeping their yards of products badly needed by contractors was discussed at the opening session here today of the thirty-first annual convention of Allied Brick Manufacturing Industries throughout the country. These industries are said to number 12,000.

MAKE BIG DEDUCTION

William N. Gartside, age 61 years, owner of the Diamond Clamp and Flask Works, died at his home, 231 North Seventeenth street, this morning. He had been in failing health for

i over two years.

Mr. Gartside was well-known in business, church and lodge circles of the city. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian church and of the Richmond Commandary Knights Templar. He leaves a widow, one son, Forrest Gartside, of this city, and two brothers. He was a brother-in-law of D. H. Kuth. Funeral services will be held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and will . be in charge of the Richmond Commandary Knights Templar. Burial will be in the Earlham cemetery. Friends may call any time.

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK March 5. A court decision made public today involves more than $5,000,000 in deducted wages of twenty thousand public school teachers of this city. The board of education made a rule under which deduction for a day's absence used against a teacher's wages at the rate of one twenty-fifth of a month's waue.

REDUCES SMALL TRACTS

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 5 President Wilson has issued a proclamation eliminating from the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado a number of small tracts totalling 3,133 acres of which approximately one-half of government lana. '

CAN BE NO TURNING BACK FROM LARGER RESPONSIBILITY SAYS WILSON IN INAUGURAL

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 5. President Wilson took the oath of office in public at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon and delivered his inauguaral address before a great crowd which packed the plaza at the east front of the capitol. Vice president Marshall had been inaugurated in the Senate chamber a few minutes before. With a new consecration to the nation's service the president touching on the international crisis, declared there now could be no turning back from the tragical events of the last thirty months which have brought upon Americans a new responsibility as citizens of the world.

America Stands For Peace. The president declared anew that America mast stand for peace, stability of free peoples, national equality in matters of right, that the seas must be free to all and that the family of nations shall not support any governments not derived from the consent of the governed. Sounding a solemn warning to the nation against any faction or intrigue to break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of the American people the president called for an America "united in feeling,' in purpose and In its vision of duty, of opportunity and of' service. j Raw Wind Whip Decoration. Inauguration day began under leaden clouds that threatened to spfH ram ( or snow at any moment. A cold raw ' wind whipped the rain-soaked decorations of the capital and swept the' water-logged grandstands which hav stood under the drenching downpours , for nearly a week. Honrs before the time for the ceremonies at the Capital the city was astir making the final preparations for the show. Pennsylvania avenue was covered with a thick coating of fine sand to dry the route of the procession. Troops assigned to the President's guard or to the procession were moving through the city to their places; platoons of boy scouts assigned to assist in preserving order were marching to their posts. Spectators Crowd Avenue. Thousands of spectators who had no places on the reviewing stands were beginning to pack the Avenue behind the lines of stout steel cables strung from the White House to the Capitol to keep the avenue absolutely clear of everything. President Wilson was up at 8 o'clock and took breakfast before 9 with members of his family and his house Continued on Page Two WILSOH LEGAL AIDES HIS POWERS

UNCOVER PLOT BY A GERMAN TO KILL WILSON WITH BOMBS

(By Associated Press) HOBOKEN, N. J, March 5 An alleged plot against the life of President Wilson has been uncovered here according to detectives who today arrested Fritz Kolb, a German reservist from Mexico. In a hotel where Kolb had engaged room were found two bombs which the detectives said were to have been sent tonight to the president. Kolb was arrested in a hotel opposite the piers where German steamships are tied up. He is alleged by the police to have confessed that he conspired in a "plot to blow up President WBson." In the man's room were found a number of bombs and some explosives. Kolb told detectives, they said, that he participated in the explosions on the Black Tom Island in New York harbor and Kingslandy N. J., which caused the death of several and did

many millions dollars worth of

damage.

COMES HERE FROM MEXICO NEW YORK, March 15 Fritz Kolb arrested in Hoboken today was German reservist who came to the United States from Mexico after the European war began according to information given out at police headquarters here. New York detectives had been following him for some time, it was stated, after it was discovered he was handling explosives.,

FIFTEEN SHIPS SUNK BY WASPS

(By Associated Press) BERLIN, March 5. Two German submarines that recently returned to their base sank fifteen steamers and seven sailing vessels aggregating 64,500 tons gross, the admiralty announced.

fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 5 President Wilson has referred to his legal advisors his doubts of his power to arm American ships In the absence of direct authority from Congress.

SETTLE REVOLUTION

By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 5 Prospect of a speedy settlement of the Cuban revolution has been brought about it was announced here today.

WILSON ASKS COUNTRY'S SUPPORT IN SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

(By Associated 'Press) WASHINGTON, March 5. President Wilson's inaugural address today in part was as follows: t My Fellow-Citizens The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action. Althonghwe have centered counsel and action with such nnusual concentration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves upon our attention, matters lying outside our own life as a nation and over which we had no control, but which despite our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more Irresistibly into their own current and influence. Effects of War on United States. As seme of the injuries done us have

become Intolerable, we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not erady to demand for all mankind fair dealing, justice, the freedom to live and be at ease against organized wrong. It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware, more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. We stand firm In armed neutrality since It seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what It is we Insist upon and can not forego. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not try our own purpose or desire, to a mora active assertion, of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself. But nothing will altar our though or our purpose.' .They are too clear to be obscured. They are - too deeply : rooted in the principles of our national Continued On Page' Seven. j

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