Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 119, 31 March 1917 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1917

PAGE ELEVEN

VOriDERnSTOnFF TRIED TO PERSUADE

GERMANY TO REPEAL WASP DECREE

''' By Associated Press) . WASHINGTON, March 31. Count Ton Bernstorf f, it was stated . by -department officials, knew of the impending ruthless submarine decree two weeks before it was issued and made every effort with his government to have it repealed. ?, Officials here are much aroused by German's continued attempts to convict the United States of desiring war and th?y intend to show 'that every possible opportunity was given Germany to avoid it. America's action, they pointed out, foreshadowed in the Sussex note, de-; livered eight and one-half months before the German decree merely followed out the policy then outlined. ' Germany on the other hand, abrogated her promises on seven hours notice to thk

government and then in face of drastic action by this country allowed' three days to pass without any attempts to meet the United States. . Leaves for United States. ' That German's decree was discussed two weeks ahead of its issue adds new Interest to the Austrian situation for it was just at that time that Count Tarnowskl left Austria for this country' to become the new Austrian ambassador. " Whether Vienna was convinced that the United States would not sever relations, whether Austria was a silent

and unsympathetic party to Germany's action, or whether the new ambassador was Intrusted with special arguments to present the Teutonic viewpoint are not known. Zimmerman's 'statement that the United States had tried to set the entire world against Germany after the break might be construed by this government it was stated, as a recognition that Germany considered a state of war bad existed from the date of the severance of relations and President Wilson's appeal to neutrals to take

similar :-; action. Whether Germany

took that point of view or not was

stated not to be known. ,

Harm

Continues

Memories of

Days As A pprentice on Palladium

BALDWIN PREPARES HOLY WEEK SERVICE

Rev. R. D. Baldwin, rector of St Paul's Episcopal church, has arranged a series of special services during Holy Week.' ' ( These services will be held in the parish house each afternoon at 4:30 and the events of Holy Week will be discussed. Mr. Baldwin will present a harmony of the Gospel records of the evente. Monday will be observed as the Day of Authority; Tuetday as the Day of Conflict;, : Wednesday as the, Day of Retirement; Thursday as the Last Day

with , the Disciples; Friday as Good Friday, the Day of Suffering, and Saturday the Day in the Tomb. Richmond -Knight Templars will attend the Easter morning service at 10:30 in a body.

SENATOR STONE PLANS TO VOTE AGAINST WAR

(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. March 31. Senator

Stone, chairman of the foreign rela

tions committee, broke his silence to

day on the international situation and said that war appears probable; that he will vote against a war declaration, but will give President Wilson his unlimited support if .war is decided upon. Senator Stone said he did not know

the President's program, but would co-operate in enabling congress promptly to express is convictions.

"I have not changed my position nor convictions since the armed neutrality

lesolution was before the senate," said Senator Stone. "I will vote against a war resolution, but if war is decided

upon I'd like to see anyone go farther

in backing up the President in its un limited prosecution."

SAMUEL REPLOGLE DIES AT INGLEWOOD

GUNARO LINES TO PLACE ORDER FOR 114 LINERS

.-(By Ao-iatcd Press) -PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 31.Desplts a scarcity of labor, both skill

ed and unsKiiieq. and the large re-i

qulrrmenta cf the United States gov. erment. , Ameiion shipbuilders yes

erday assured agents of the Cunard Steamship Ccmppny they could meet

the company's specifications for 114

passenger ptenmers at an approximate

cost of $1 2.1,000,000. The announcement that the Cunard company had decided to place the orders In this country was made at a meeting of representatives of leading ship-building concerns, summoned here to discuss the probability of their being, able to handle the big contract.

HAGERSTOWN, Ind., March 31

William Replogle, a farmer living near

here, was notified of the death of his father, Samuel Replogle, who passed away at his home at Inglewood, California, Wednesday at 5:30 p. m..... Mr. Replogle formerly lived here on the farm now occupied by his son and was quite well known He was born here and lived here all his life until he left for California about fifteen years ago He was 80 years old the 29th of December and had been failing due to senility, for more than a year and at the last became paralyzed He is survived by his wife and daughter Miss Minnie Replogle in California and his son here. Mrs. John D. Hoover of this place Is his sister and John Replogle of Chicago Corner is his brother.

TOWNSHIP ORDERS NEW SCHOOL PLANS

WHITEWATER, Ind., March 31. The advisory board of Franklin township has ordered plans prepared for a new township high school to be erected at Whitewater. No action has been taken on the petition for the establishment of a consolidated grade school in the northern part of the township.

ELLIS LEARNER SPEAKS

1 Secretary Ellis M. Learner of the Y. M. C. A. will speak at the First Methodist Episcopal Sunday school tomorrow morning on "Missions."

ENGINEER MUELLER STAYS BY COUNTY

Bridge Engineer Mueller reported today that he agrees with the county commissioners in their beliefs that advertisements for bids for contracts for the Main and South G street bridges should be ordered Monday. Wayne county people do not favor any more delays in the construction of the bridges. It is feared that bids may be affected slightly by the war situation but there is no definite way of telling when the conditions will be better.

Capital to Show

Loyalty to Flag

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS. March 31. A series of patriotic parades and demonstrations here today will culminate in a mass meeting at which the international crisis will be discussed. Johu Grier Hibben, president of Princeton university, and John Maynard Harlan of Chicago, will be the principal speak

ers tonight.

Wayne County Bar Draws Resolutions

Expressing Regret Over Sh iveleys Death

Wayne county lawyer paid honor to the late Attorney Charles Shiveley In a special meeting in the circuit court room today. Older members cf the bar all spoke In highest terms of Mr. Shiveley and bailed his death as a great loss to society in general. Henry U. Johnston, John L. Rupe, William Metzger. Henry Starr, A. C. Linderrruth', Perry Freeman, Wilfred Jessiip,-Abel L. Study and William Kelloy spoke. They all urged closer co-operation between members of the local bar. ' Resolutions adopted follow: Tho sudden death of the. Honorable Charles E. Shiveley at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, March 29, 1917, at his residence, No. 46 South Fourteenth street, has greatly shocked the court and bar of Wayne County

.Mr. Shiveley has long been an ac

tive and highly respected member of

the vayne County bar; having been admitted to practice law in the year 1S76, and was In active practice up to the time of his death. He was an able

and conscientious lawyer; zealous In the cause of his cliont; and very successful his practice and business affairs., As an associate at the bar. he war highly respectful of the court arrt courUous to his fellow members and unusually social and genial at all limes. Mr. ShJvftJoy hp.d a-lofty-sonse of tne dignity of the law as a profession mi was canpnaiiQ la maintaining the itanAarf oi the bar as observance of i

legal ethics. As a citizen he was not radical, but was always on the side of law and order and believed In the

just enforcement of the law. . Aside from his profession'. Mr.

Shlvelely was a public spirited citizen and has occupied various responsible and distinguished positions. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County from 1&S0 to 1884; State Senator

irom 1894. to 1838; supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the world from 1894 to 1896; and has occupied other places of more or less

importance. At tne time or his death he was a director of the First National Bank of this city.

Mr. Shiveley was born In Preble

county, onio, on July 8, 1853.

Resolved, That in the death of

Charles E. ShiveJev. the bench nnd

bar of Wayne County. Indiana, feel

teat tney have sustained a serious loss and that his presence in the court room and office will be long and keenly missed. Resolved, Further, That the sincere regrets and sympathy of the bench and bar be extended to the members of his family; that this preamble and resolutions be spread upon the records of the Wayne Circuit Court, and that a copy thereof be forwarded by the Clerk of the Court to his Immediate family. A. C. LINDEMUTH. PERRY J. FREEMAN. WALTER G. BUTLER. ' Committee on Resolutions, i

GEORGE W. HARPER Early in 1855 a one-third interest in the : Palladium was sold to Dr. I. S. Drake of Xenia, Ohio. The doctor was a printer by trade before he became an M. D., and had also at one . time been connected with a newspaper. Previous , to coming to Richmond he had been at the head of a private bank, which had failed. He came into the work department of the Palladium,, and almost from his first entrance succeeded in winning the contempt and ill will of all the employes,

and also that of "Daddy Ben" as Mr. Davis was kindly spoken of by the employes.' . I being a member of the household of Mr. Davis, who with his family had always been very kind to me, there was a mutual dislike between Dr. Drake and myself, which developed in occasionally in a demonstration of ill feeling that served to further that between Dr. Drake and Mr. Davis. But the partnership existed for the better part of two years when the doctor retired and purchased the Courier at Newcastle. Reaches Western States. About the time of the advent of the

Native American party in the Eastern States, that In 1854 became the Know Nothing party which reached out into the Western States, in Philadelphia on some patriotic day there was a parade of school boys carrying a banner proclaiming "America for Americans," an opposition to Catholics ip office or in the management of the schools. This gave offense and led to an attempt to capture the banner. The fight resulted in George Schifler,. a youth of fifteen years, being killed. A bitter resentment resulted among the boys and older heads, which was carried into the politics of the city. A further result was the formation by the school fellows of young Schifler into an organization which was fostered by the Native American organization, and a ritual for Initiation ceremonies, signs and pass words, starting out with the idea of a "Great High School of Freedom," with an intent of educating the youth to stand for the same ideas in general as the Native American organization, but in all things for the highest character of citizenship, and the perpetuity of the Union, was christened "Junior Sons of America." Camps of Order Known. The Camps of the order were all known as "Washington Camp," with

numbers In each State beginning with

No. 1, and so on up, No. 1 in each State being the charter granting body

after receiving its charter, which was granted by No. 1 in Philadelphia. T eaming of this organization some of the boys of Richmond conceived the Idea of getting a Camp there, and I

was delegated to make investigations.

I did so and learned that there was

already Camp No. 1, located at Evansvllle. Oran Perry, Granville H. Hull, John Flnley, Marshal Holloway, John Caho, Addison Nordyke, myself, and a half dozen others whose names I have forgotten, petitioned for a charter, which was granted, ' and an organiza

tion effected. W. D. Shooley, a Dag-i uerreotype artist of the city, who had

been prominent in the Know Nothing

organization, secured for us the use of the hall which had been in use by!

the K. N. s, and when that party "gave up the ghost" in Richmond, as it did

some months later, we fell heir to

their furniture and fixtures. Among

these we found in the drawer of a table a good sized silver cross, the usages of which we remained in ignorance. Followed by Oran Perry. 1 was chosen the first president, and was followed by Oran Perry. The membership increased rapidly, and soon there were numbered in Its ranks about all the better class of boys (excepting those of "died in the wool" Democratic antecedents,) between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. ' When treason reared its hydra head" and the war of the rebellion came on nearly the entire list of these boys were in the Union ranks. Prominent among these was Col. Oran Perry of the 69th Indiana Infantry who was once or twice wounded, and Major John Finley of the same regiment, who received his death wound at Vicksburg when he was shot through the body. In a recent letter from Col. Perry he says: "Of that gang of boys, those Junior

Sons, of America,' if there are any alive today .but you and me, I .don't know where to find them, barring Granny Hull, of Lafayette." The past sixty years has witnessed many advances from the old supersti

tions and fanaticism which, to a greater or less extent still featured the day. Progressiveism of a liberal character has taken its place, fully as much In religious affairs up to the present time as the advancement then was from -the policy of the puritans when they first landed on Plymouth Rock to escape the persecutions in the mother country. The religious debates that were quite frequent three score years ago may have accomplished good, but their day has passed by. Eliminate Methodist Discipline. The old Methodist discipline has eliminated its inhibition of wearing jewelry and frills, and milady would scarce go into the church house today dressed in accord with the rules laid down in the book for the church government. Dancing and card playing, which at that time would not only have "called the offender onto the carpet," but an immediate expulsion unless a confession of the sin and a promise to do better in the future, which would have met a suspension subject to "six months probation." The two organizations of the Society of Friends, or Quakers (the Orthodox and Hicksite) each had large congregations in Richmond, and were very strict as to the use of music in public or the private home. John Haines was a leading member of one of the societies. He had a very beautiful home about a mile southeast of the

city, where he conceived the idea of erecting an Academy or Boarding School for young ladies. It was not an institution restricted to his religious denomination, and several young ladies of the city were conveyed to and from the school mornings and evenings by Mr. Haines. Some of these young ladies desiring to have lessons in music, Mr. Hainea rented a room in the Academy to a teacher who placed a piano therein, giving lessons to such as desired to patronize her. Called Before Meeting. For this Mr. Haines was "called before the monthly meeting," where he made a statement of the facts, but when he was ordered to have the Instrument removed from his school and declined to do so he was excommuni

cated. Today the Society would not only permit him to have music as a part of the curiculum of bis school, but I understand music is permitted in their churches as a part of the worship. . - A drastic prohibitory liquor law was passed . by - the legislature elected In 1854, convening in January, early In the session In compliance with the party platform of the Fusion party. As the law authorized the seizure of contraband spirits, and its destruction, several barrels of the stuff was so seized in Richmond soon after the law went into effect, and it was turned into the street gutters. But it was not all thus confiscated, as some of It wsb kept in hiding, and doled out in the manner which It is in "dry territory" now days, and when evidence could be obtained arrests were made. Test Case is Brought. When such arrests were made the offender immediately applied to Attorney W. A. Bickle to defend them. Soon after the law was put In operation a test case was brought before the supreme court of the state on the constitutionality of the measure. As it would be some time before a hearing could be had and an opinion handed down, Bickle brought a case before Samuel E. Perkins, one of the judges, in chambers, on a writ of habeas corpus.. Perkins gave an "extra judicial opinion" holding the law unconstitutional and issued the writ. After that when any one violated the law he was taken before Judge Perkins,, a writ was granted, and the offender turned

loose. The friends of the law kept up the arrests, determined to put the violators to all possible trouble, and thus made business lively until the court convened and handed down its opinion that the law was unconstitutional, three of the four judges concurring.

Old Glory Flies Over Islands

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 31. The final act of more than fifty years effort to bring the Danish West Indies under the American flag was completed with formal ceremonies at the state department today when Danish Minister Brun was handed a treasury warrant for $25,000,000, the purchase price, and wireless messages were sent to the American and Danish authorities at the islands to lower the Danish flag and raise the stars and stripes. At noon today the new possessions passed definitely and finally under the authority of the United States.

CALLS ON INDIANA FOR 800 SEAMEN

INDIANAPOLIS, March 31 Indiana

must furnish eight hundred men for

the navy by April 20, according to orders received today by Lieutenant

Commander E. F. Clement, in charge

of the naval recruiting stations in this

state. The orders were signed by

Rear Admiral Palmer.

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GERMANY PROBES CHARGE AGAINST JAMES GERARD

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 31 Former United States Ambassador Gerard was the subject of discussion In the Reichstag on Thursday, according to a Berlin dispatch to Reuters by way of Amsterdam. The discussion was precipitated by Herr Werner, a member of the PanGerman faction, who criticized certain incidents of the banquet given to Mr. Gerard by the American Association of Commerce and Trade of Berlin. Foreign Secretary Zimmerman, according to the Vossische Zeitung replied that Mr. Gerard had complained in regard to several Americans who had published pamphlets attacking him and who has founded a so-called league of truth. Herr Zimmerman said that Mr. Gerard wished proceedings to be taken against these gentlemen, whom the American ambassador described as his biterest enemies. Finds Opinion Differs. "As far as the pamphlets were con

cerned," the foreign secretary Is quoted

as saying "I made inquiries In the Interest of state and found allegations unfounded. For the rest they represented differences of opinion between Amricans and their ambassador and these I did not touch. I considered it my duty as long as the ambassador

LICENSE NUMBERS REPORTED FORGED

Prosecutor Strayer reported today that several Richmond automobile agents are guilty of forging automobile license numbers. Arrests will probably follow. "Dealers purchase Merchant -licenses for 125 a year," said Strayer today. "This entitles them to licenses for all cars for sale. The state must furnish all tags, however. Each set costs $1. - "Instead of getting tags from the state, 6ome local dealers have been having paper tags printed which is against the law. "Officers are also keeping close watch on 'License Applied For Signs.' "

GLEE CLUB TO APPEAR

Indiana university glee club will give a concert in Richmond In the near future. This was announced in a dispatch from Bloomington today.

was here to treat him with necessary deference." Deputy Werner desired that complaints against Mr. Gerard should be answered and Herr Zlmmermann replied: "I investigated the complaints aad they were undoubtedly incorrect, especially that relating to passports. I had to treat the ambassador in a friendly way as we were enxious that good reports should go to America, with whom we desired to maintain good relations and avoid a rupture."

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