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RICHMOND, IN P., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1917.

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If the patriotic demonstration which is to be held in Richmond is proportionately the size of the meeting held at the city hall last night to arrange for the event, then this celebration is going to be the biggest event of its kind ever held in Eastern Indiana. About a week ago Mayor Robbins invited the various civic, patriotic, fraternal, labor and social organizations to co-operate in an effort to arrange for a patriotic demonstration in this city,

and to be represented at a meeting wnicn was new last niguu How well these organizations responded to the mayor's appeal is indicated by the fact that when the roll was read by the secretary, B. A. Bescher, representatives of forty-five of them responded. A crowd of over two hundred enthusiastic men and women completely filled the. council chamber. Lawrence A. Handley was elected chairman of the organization. Chairman Handley Calls Out Uniformed Bodies. No time was lost in reaching a decision that Richmond was to have a patriotic celebration. Various committees were appointed to look after details of the event and all delegates were instructed to see to it that their respective organizations were rpnrpsented in the Darade by large delegations.

rhnirmfln Handlev made an especial plea that all uniformed

bodies turn out in full strength for the celebration. The parade will be under the direction of Cap fain Tonl rVmaf fttAr

The date for holding the demonstration had not been definitely decided today by the members

of the executive board, R. G. Leeds, Captain uomstocK, iticnara oeagwicK, rranK layiur, vv. xv a WoTirfW nnrl B. A. Bescher.

It will be held some eVening within the ensuing week, the exact date depending for the most

Dart on the convenience of the speaker wno will De secured to oenver tne principal aaaress at me

coliseum mass meeting, wnicn win lumw ? Favor Landis for Address on Monday Evening. Governor Goodrich has wired that it will be impossible for him to be here and an effort to secure former senator A. J. Beveridge also failed.; The executive board hopes to secure the services of Fred Landis one of the most eloquent speakers in the state. If it is convenient for Mr. Landis, in the event he accepts the invitation, most of the executive board members favor holding the celebrat!$ jroShouthfseekthe' farmers of the county will be busy organizing their crop extension societies and the farmers would Drefer to hold the demonstration next Monday evening so that they could arrange to participate m it The meetin last night was featured by impromptu addresses by several men, speeches which aroused the crowd to a high degree of patriotic feeling. One of the most interesting of these addresses was delivered by President Kelly til Earlham college. ' President Lauds Patience of Pres. Wilaon. "1 am deeply impressed with the sober, thoughtful way this representative crowd views the situation now confronting our country. This is characteristic of the American spirit and temper." said Dr. Kelly. He then lauded President Wilson for patience in preventing the nation from being rushed headlong Into the world war. ; '0u- peopio are for peace. They know what war is. They approached this crisis soberly and reluctantly, continued rr Kelly "If President Wilson has erred it has been on the side of prudence and caution. "i sneak with no bitterness against the German people. They are among our best citizens, and what is true here of tlv-m is true elsewhere in this country. But we recognize a degree of tyranny in the German government not in r-umcny with the American spirit. The day of the king has passed now, however, and the day of world-wide democrncv has arrived. We love the German people for tneir many virtues, but there will be many bitter things said of therr " There Is no bitterness in my heart against them howeter. Had Hopd Crisis Might Be verted. ? "i w hnnnri tiita orisin would not come, but it is here and we must stand behind the President. It is not for

me to issue a call to anna.- You;wQuld not expect that from me, for I. am representing here the Ministerial Aaaciallona

and I am also a representative 01 a secj wnica huh Mnu ur ireetc, wtm-n uom ycouc aa sicm "The first act of Governor Goodrich was not a call to anna, but a call for the mobilization of our farmers. Let It be sold to his honor that he has expressed the profoundest patriotism. Tomorrow I will address our students. I Khali tell them that so far as Earlham and the Society of Fj lends are concerned there must be freedom of conscience. "And upon that great principle the people of this country will now be divided into three great classes, one class who wl'l serve the republic in the army and the navy, one class who will refuse to bear arms and to co-operate in Ihe prosecution or the war, and another class, like the ministers, the farmers, the Quakers, like myself, if you please, who will wish to be regarded as thorough patriots, ready to serve the nation behind its fighting lines in support of ?ur fighting ea 1)ag been Iorce(j mto thig war anj is entering it in a most unselfish manner, for the perpetuity of auman rights, in the defense of manhood and womanhood. I ant ready and anxious to do my part" Committees Appointed To Conduct Celebration. The committees appointed last night to have charge of the demonstration follow: Program It G Leeds. E. M. Haas, Mrs. McDivitt, Lee B. Nusbaum and F. G. Plckell. Tarade Paul Comstock, Anton Stolle, C. R. Richardson, Omer G. Whelan, Frank Davenport Hall and Decorations Richard Sedgwick, Harry Hodgin, Roland Nusbaum, Mrs. Giles and Otto Krone. Finance Frank Taylor, Charles W. Jordan, H. J. Hanes, Albert Morel and Robert Welchman. Publicity W. R. Poundstone, Lynn Shaw, Prof. Wissler, Rev. Frank Roell and Miss Florence King.

WILSON

SEEKS TO BREAK

OPPOSITION TO DRAFT PLAN

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10. Efforts to break down opposition to the draft feature of the proposed army bill werd continued today by President Wilson. He arranged to see Representative Anthony of Kansas, a Republican mem ber of the house military committee and an opponent of consciption, and to explain how strongly he believes the United States should not apply the volunteer system in raising a big army lor use asainst Germany. Ha in On a similar appeal yesterday to Chair man Dent of the military com

mittee who does not favor consciption. Talk of Compromise Plan. There was considerable talk today of a compromise to be presented by opponents of compulsory service, and although, the administration recognized this possibility, no hint was given that it will recede from its insistence on conscription. Chairman Dent declared it would be at least a week before a bill of any sort is reported from his committee. In the senate an amendment to the army appropriation bill, not pnssed at the last session, authorizing the Presi

dent to call volunteers in lots of 500,000

each, is pending, but probably will be disposed of on a point of order. It was offered by Senator Kirby of Arkansas, yesterday when debate on the dr.ift plan was injected Into discussion of the army appropriation bill.

Sentiments expressed by speakers at patriotic meeting held last night in ihe council chamber follow: DR. ROBERT L. KELLY President of Earlham College. "We recognize a degree of tyranny in the German government not in harmony with the American spirit. The day of the king Las passed. The day of world-wide

democracy has arrived. . .". ... I had hoped this crisis would be averted, but it is here and we must stand behind the President." LUCIUS HARRISON President of Typographical Union. "There was some opposition in the Trades council to . its being represented at this meeting, but the Trades Council is represented. It should be clearly understood Continued On Page Five. POSTMASTERS TURN IN NAVY RECRUITS INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 10. The following postmasters have sent in navy recruits during thepast week: Shelbyville. North - Vernon, Tipton,

Columbia City, Freedom, Robinson. The upper age limit for navy recruits has been increased to 35 years. This makes young men from 16 to 35 years of age eligible for the navy. Up to April 9, Indiana has enlisted 105 of her quota of 800 men. This leaves 695 men yet "to be enlisted before April 20. Nurses are being enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve.

Islands Support Country's Stand

(By Associated Press) MANILA, April 10 The secretaries of the municipal board and the subsecretaries in the government departments, all Filipinos, have pledged their loyalty and their support of the government during the war.

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(By Associated Press) BULLETIN RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, AprH 10. The official report regarding the sinking of the Brazilian steamship Parna. which the government has been awaiting before taking definite action toward Germany, is believed to have been received today from the legation in Paris. It is expected the government this afternoon will sever relations with Germany. LONDON, April 10. Diplomatic relations between Brazil and Germany have broken off according to the Evening News. Switzerland will take charge of Brazilian interests at Berlin.

BULLETIN CHESTER, Pa April 10. At least 100 person, mostly girls were killed and 200 or more injured by an explosion today in the great munitions plant at Eddystone, Pa., near here, owned by the Russian government. Nothing is known as to the cause of the explosion, though there is a suspicion that it was not due to accident. At one undertaking place there were eighty bodies, seventy-nine being those of girls. . Officials of the Eddystone ammunition corporation this afternoon said the damage to the plant was not serious.

CHESTER, Pa., April 10. A terrific explosion at the great plant of the Eddystone Ammunitions corporation at Eddystown, Pa., a mile from this city is reported to have killed from 125 to 250 persons and injured at least 300 more. A railroad official asserts that nearly 300 were killed but this estimate cannot be confirmed. The explosion occurredsoon after 10 o'clock in the pellet room of the building where about 100 girls were employed putting the finishing touches on shells. In a building adjoining approximately 30,000 shells were stored. A second explosion demolished this building and scattered the shells in every direction. Immediately calls were sent for outside aid and physContinued On Page Nine.

COUNTY ORGANIZES BY TOWNSHIPS TO HELP INCREASE PRODUCTION OF FOOD IN INDIANA

v. Wayne township farmers are reminded that the township crop exrtenaion meetlng-wilLbe Jield in. th circuit court room, this city; Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Every farmer in the township is urged to be present for the business to be considered is vital and pressing.

Throughout the week branch organizations of the Wayne county organization for the increasing of crops and live stock will be formed in each of the fifteen townships. All arrangements have been made for holding of these township meetings and an urgent appeal is made to every farmer in the county to attend his

township meeting so he may become informed as to. how he can co-operate in the great farm mobittzaUea rao'tmenta movexnent jfhioh ranks in importance with the mobilisation of the nation's fighting forces. A permanent organization will be affected in each township bo that the cooperative agriculture project will be lasting. Every teacher in the schools of the county is requested to instruct her pupils to notify their parents that their presence at the township meetings is earnestly desired. . . . Practical questions on intensive farming will be discussed by competent speakers at each of these meetings and, in addition, patriotic speeches will be delivered. The program

and dates for. these several meetings follows: , - Wednesday Night, April 11. Webster township Webster school house; " Alphens Baldwin, organizer. Speakers, Rev. J. J. Rae and Ivan T. Beck, Wayne township agriculture agent ' Perry township Economy school house, Frank Jordan, organizer. Speakers, Wilfred Jessup, Benjamin Doddridge. . Boston township "-Boston school house, George Hart, organizer. Speaker, Frank Strayer and one not announced. Thursday Night, April 12. Washington - - township M i It o n Continued On Page Nine. .

Weather Forecast

For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday. Unsettled. Warmer. -

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V Forecast for Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Wednesday, probably followed by rain. A warm wave probably will arrive Wednesday and remain until Thursday. General Conditions Heavy and killing frosts were general last night through Indiana and Ohio and as far south as Louisiana. It was much warmer in the west due to low barometric pressure over the plain states. A storm is central along the east slope of the Rocky Mountains and is expected to bring rain within 48 hours.

Armour Suggests Meatless Days (By Associated Pressl CHICAGO, April 10-J. Ogden.Armour's suggestion of meatless days and government control of foodstuffs was said to have influenced a sensational break in prices of the board cf trade at the opening today. Wheat dnclined five cents.

CAN GERMAN NATION BE STARVED?

TUBERCULOSIS GERMS INJECTED IN BELGIANS BY GERMANS BEFORE RETREAT AT ST. QUENTIN

On April 2 Lincoln Eyre reported that French army surgeons believed the Germans, before evacuating the territory west of St. Quentin, had deliberately Inoculated. the French inhabitants men, women and children with the germs of tuberculosis. The story was vouched for by a French surgeon, but it seemed so incredible that the New York World directed Mr. Eyre to obtain, If possible, the services of an American pathologist of unimpeachable standing to make a thorough and. impartial investigation, into the charges. Mr. Eyre's report on this investigation is given herewith'. BY LINCOLN EYRE ' Copyright: 1917: By Press Pub- Co., (New York World).! PARIS, April 8. Although, in his opinion, there is absolutely no way of obtaining indubitable proof Dr. Theodore C. Beebe, a distinguished Boston pathologist, inclines toward the belief that evidence points to a deliberate attempt on the part of the Germans to spread the white plague throughout Franco. - Dr. Boebe, who is in charge of tho laboratory of the American ambulance tospltn! at Neuilly, . made a trip to ?hantilly. where many refugees from

the evacuated district Noyon. St. Both Drs. Callleux and Caqullle

Quentin, Chauney, Noy and Lassigny agreed with Dr. Beebe that it would be are now being cared for, to investl- impossible to know positively if the eate the reports that German army German doctors Injected germ cultures

doctors are suspected or having mocu-( or tuberculosis witnout oemg present

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culosis germs. . t Points to German Guilt. . Capt Dr. Cailleux, in charge of Baron de Rothchild's hospital at Chantilly, and MaJ. Dr. Caquille, In charge of the Hospital de Conde at Chantilly, had reported that the balance of the testimony points to direct attempts by the German doctors to do this, under the pretense that they were injecting vaccine as a preventive against smallpox. - .... They had told the people smallpox was ravaging all France and in this way persuaded them to submit to inoculation. ; "' "It is a highly significant' fact that only those people who have been vaccinated have developed tuberculosis," Dr. Beebe said, "whereas unvacclnated children are suffering from pneumonia and other diseases, and unvacclnated older people, while extremely ill, show no signs of tuberculosis. This state of affairs must naturally point grave suspicion toward the German practices." .

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been either vaccine or tuberculin, from what we know of the Germane, especially soldiers in the field, we do not look for any humane acts from them, like vaccinating people to safeguard their health," Dr. Beebe said. "If these vaccinations took place when the Germans first Invaded France one might think it was to-' keep the people healthy: the soldiers would not catch any diseases. . "But all these refugees agree that in no cases were vaccinations made prior to a month or six weeks before the evacuation in other words, when it became apparent to the Germans that they must retreat." . Phthisis Among Aged - Dr. ' Cailleux and Dr. Caquille, who conduct Dr. Beebe through the hospitals, asserted that both had been amazed to find bona fide cases of tuberculosis appearing in men and woContinued On Page Twelve.

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(Copyright, 1917, The Tribune Association. Registered in accordance with the copyright act, Canada, 1917. The Tribune Association.) The iood depots are by far the most successful undertaking of the government. In Cologne and Berlin alone close to 500,000 poor are being fed daily by municipal kitchens. Last October I went through the Cologne food department with the director. The city has rented a number of large vacant factory buildings and made them Into kitchens. Municipal buyers go through the country to buy meat and vegetables. This is shipped to Cologne, and in these kitchens it is prepared by women workers, under the direction of volunteers. A .stew is cooked each day and sold for 42 pfennigs (about eight cents) a quart. The people must give up their potato, fat and meat .cards to obtain It In Berlin and all ocher large cities the same system is used. In one kitchen in Berlin, at the main market hall, 80,000 quarts a day are prepared. In Cologne this food is distributed through the city streets by municipal wagons, and the people get it almost boiling hot. ready to eat. Were it not for these food depots there would be many thousands of people who would starve because they could nqt buy and cook such nourishing food for the' price the city asks These food kitchens have been in use now almost a year, and while the poor are obtaining food here, they are becoming very tired of the supply, because they must eat stews every day. They can have nothing fried or roasted. . Feeding the Middle Class. In addition to these kitchens the government has. opened throughout Germany "mittlestand kueche," a restaurant for the middle classes. Here government employes, with small wages,, the poor who do not keep house and others with little means can obtain a meal for 10 cents, consisting of a stew and a dessert. But it is very difficult for people to live on this food. Most every one w.ho Is compelled by circumstances to eat here is losing weight and feels under-nourished all the time, r ,''" A few months ago, after one of my secretaries had been called to the army, I employed another. He had been earning only $7 a week and had to support his wife. On this money they ate at the middle class cafes. In Bix months he had lost twenty pounds. Because the food is so scarce and because It lacks real nourishment people eat all the time. It used to be said before the war that the Germans were

WHAT YOU CANNOT EAT OR DRINK Foodstuffs which are completely exhausted in Germany:

l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Rice. Coffee. Tea. Cocoa. Chocolate. Olive oil. Cream. v Fruit flavorings. Canned soups or soup cubes. Syrups. . Dried vegetables, beans, peas, etc.

12. Nuts. 13. Candy (a very limited number of persons can buy one-quarter of a pound about once a week.) 14. Majted milk. 15. Beer made of either malt or hops. 1 16. Caviar. 17. Ice cream. 18. Macaroni.

8. 9. 10. 11.

WHAT YOU MAY EAT Food obtainable ONLY by cards : Bread, 1.900 grams per week per person. Meat, 250 grams ( pound) per week per head. Eggs, 1 per person every two. weeks. Butter, 90 grams per week per person. Milk, one quart daily only for children under ten and invalids. Potatoes, formerly nine pounds per week; lately in many parts of Germany no potatoes were available. Sugar, formerly two pounds per month, now 4 pounds, but this will not continue long. Marmalade, or jam, of a pound every month. ' Noodles, a pound per person a month. . ., Sardines, or canned fish, small box per month. Saccharine (a coal tar product substitute for sugar), about 25

small tablets a montn. 12. Oatmeal, of a pound per month for adults or 1 pound per month for children under twelve years. V WHAT YOU CAN EAT Foods which every one with money can buy: 1. Geese costing 8 to 10 marks per pound ($1.60 to $2 per pound). 2. Wild game, rabbits, ducks, deer. etc. ' " " , . 3. Smuggled meat, such as ham and bacon, for $2.50 per pound. 4. Vegetables, carrots, spinach, onions, cabbage, beets. ' 5. Apples, lemons, oranges. 6. Bottled oil made from seeds and roots for cooking purposes, cost ing $5 per pound. : 7. Vinegar. , ' 8. Fresh fish. ' " ' , 9. Fish sausage. 10. Pickles. ; -- ll! Duck, chicken and geese heads, feet and wings.4, ";'.- 12. crows. - .:-.,V;v -'..'.'V:-

the biggest eaters in Europe-that they ate seven meals a day. The blockade has not made them less eaters for they eat every few. hours all day long now but because the food lacks fats and sugars they need more food. Restaurants are doing big business because after one has eaten a "meal" at any leading Berlin hotel at 1 o'clock

in the ' afternoon one. is hungry" by 3 o'clock and ready for another "meal." Last winter the Socialists' of Munich, who saw that the rich were having plenty of food and that the "poor were existing, as best they could in food kitchens,, wrote Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg and demanded the immediate confiscation of all food in Germany, even that in private residences.

. The Socialists demand was. as are

most others, thrown into the waste basket because men like the Chancellor, President Batockl of the Food department, wealthy bankers, statesmen and army generals have country estates where they have stored food for an , indefinite period. They know that no matter how hard the blockade pinches the people it won't starve them. When the Chancellor Invites people to his palace be has real coffee, white bread, plenty of potatoes, cake and meat. Being a government official he can get what he wants from the food department .So can other officials. Therefore, they were willing to disregard the demand of the Bavarian Socialists. But the Socialists, although they don't get publicity when they start something, don't give up until they accomplish what they set out to do. First, they enlisted the Berlin Socialists, and the report went around the people that the rich were going to Copenhagen and bringing back food while the poor starved. So the government had to prohibit all food from coming into Germany by way of Denmark unless it was imported by the government. - That was the first success of the Bavarian Socialists. Now they have had another. Batockl is reported as having ennounced that all food supplies will be confiscated. The Socialists are responsible. Excepting the very wealthy and those who have stored quantities of food for the "siege," every German is undernourished. A great many people are starving. The bead physician of the Kaiserin Augusta .Victoria Hospital, in Berlin, stated that 80.000 chil-

j dren died in Berlin In 1916 from lack

of food. Tne "Lokai-Anzeigcr pruned the Item and the Foreign Office censor prohibited me from sending it to New York. . , - But starvation under the blockade Is a - slow process, and it has not yet reached the army. When I was on the Somme battlefields last November and in Roumanla In December the soldiers were not only well fed. but they had luxuries which their families at home did not have. ; Two years ago there was so much food at home the women sent food boxes to the front Today the soldiers not only send but carry quantities of food from the front to their homes.' The army has more than the people. ' ... : - ' -,':: ; ; . It is almost Impossible to say whether Germany, as a nation, can be starved into submission. Everything f Continued On Page Elghtl .4