Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 145, 1 May 1917 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND GUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Sts. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

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Think About This

Show that we can fight as well as furnish dollars. Theodore Roosevelt.

Small Potatoes Mayor Thompson of Chicago is one of the small potatoes in the United States. His slurs about the distinguished foreign guests who are visiting in the United States prove him to be a poltroon and numskull. The mayor of the metropolis of the Middle West has a perfect right to his personal opinions, hut as mayor of Chicago it behooves him to maintain the traditional dignity of his office.

Some of his invidious comments and part of

his anti-war talk are receiving the scrutiny of the agents of the department of justice. . Thompson may be of the same stripe as is Hueller who was arrested here for statements

which were construed to give aid and comfort to

the enemy and which sent him to the Marion county jail.

President Wilson has the right under the con

stitution to waive the habeas corpus principle. Hueller and his friends, if once arrested for alleged seditious remarks, will have small opportunity to obtain their freedom from arrest on a legal technicality. Uncle Sam is taking no chance. Mayor Thompson may find himself under arrest or deposed from office before this paper is to press. The country as a whole will not weep over his fate.

The Difference Representative Comstock in his speech in Congress supporting the volunteer system made use of the following argument: "Archaic is of Greek origin and means old. I admit the charge. The immortal three hundred who defended the famous pass; Horatius, who held the bridge; Curtius, who threw himself Into the breach to save his country; the young American who fired the shot heard 'round the world'; the heroes of Concord and Lexington; the men who fought with Warren at Bunker Hill; the victors at Kings Mountain; those who gave "The Hornets Nest' its name; Francis Marion, the 'swamp fox'; the illy fed. illy clothed, and poorly paid men who constituted -an army an army in name only and foUowed the Father of His Country through vicissitudes of ' the Revolution until privileged to see the banner of the proud mother country lowered to her victorious and rebellious sons; and the brave men who died in defense of the Alamo were volunteers . It has been truly said that all our wars, practically, have been fought and won by volunteers. All that is past Hit should not be forgotten.

Every voter in the Sixth District reveres the names of America's heroes, but honor and respect for brave men does not imply that different conditions do not demand different solutions. The heroes of the Revolution, of the Alamo and of the Civil War did not fight with artillery that sent death and destruction from positions many miles distant; neither did Zeppelins, aeroplanes, submarines, tanks, armored trucks, poisonous gas and other death-dealing instruments in use today figure in the military calculations of the past. The whole method of warfare has changed, just as the whole method of transportation today is vastly different from that of the Napoleonic period. There can be no comparison between what the heroes of the past did with what the heroes of the present must do. The highest tribute and praise must be paid to the Boys in Blue who volunteered in the Sixties. No one dare detract from that glory and from the heroism of their course. But the sad fact remains that many a shirker who was too cowardly to enlist in the Sixties stayed at home to lay the foundation of his wealth while his patriotic neighbor who braved . southern bullets today just has about enough to clothe and feed himself and his wife. Conscription today will force every man into the ranks, giving every man a fair show and a fair opportunity.

REV. HINCKLK REMAINS WITH FRIENDS' CHURCH

The Palladium takes pleasure in correcting an entirely erroneous statement published in the society column

of Saturday's issue. The report was given that the Rev. Milo Hinckle, pastor of the East Main Street Friends' church, would preach his farewell sermon Sunday morning. The Rev. Mr. Hinckle delivered a special sermon.

He is still pastor of the church and will remain in the capacity.

Exmoor, the scene of Blackmore's romance, "Lorna Doone," is to be preserved as a British national trust.

V. L. YOHLER IS DEAD

CAMBRIDGE CITY. Ind.. May 1. V. L. Yohler, aged 37 years, died at his home north of town. Sunday evening, after an illness of several weeks, of a complication of diseases. He leaves a widow, two daughters, aged 8 and 5 years respectively, a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Yohler;

two brothers, Michael, near Brookville and George near New Lisbon; and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Heuder and Mrs. Susie Conklin of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Anna Burnyerd of Metamora. The funeral will occur from St Elisabeth's church, Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Rev. M. J. Gorman officiating. The burial will be at Riverside. ' -f . x

Germany Cant Flood Markets

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While the people can raise potatoes and other food, and in this way add to the food stocks on hand, there is no possible method of Increasing the supply of clothing and materials now in German. This is the reason the government is so careful in regulating the clothing cards. They are so cautious

now that when any one desires to buy new towels, for instance, one has to bring the old wornout towels to the city magistrate and give them up before permission is granted to buy new ones. .The same applies to stockings, shirts, clothing and other pieces of wearing appareL

cient clothing establishments are being operated to supply absolute neces-, sities. In Cologne, where the largest corset factory in the world is located, underwear for soldiers is being made. The big silk velvet mills in Cologne, which in peace times supplied a great portion of the American velvet, are now manufacturing paper and twine. Because of the scarcity of flax, twine of all kinds is being made from old paper. The factories of Germany are starving more than the people are. For over a year, because there has been no raw material, many of the big factories of Germany have been closed, or they have been given ammunitionmaking machinery and ordered to make supplies for the government. The fear which so many people have in the United States that Germany has been busy manufacturing millions of dollars' worth of articles for export immediately after the war is entirely unfounded.- Investigators for the American government who have studied the situation thoroughly declare there are only two things which Germany will be able to export when peace comes. One is a stock of women's high price silk stockings and women's leather gloves. The other is a limited supply of medicines and dye stuffs. The belief that Germany has store houses filled with unlimited supplies ready to be dumped upon the world market is not based on facts. Before the war Germany manufactured a great many toys. The first Christmas of the war there were thousands of new toys displayed. The second year of the war the new supplies had dropped at least half in number, and last Christmas there was not a new toy displayed any place In Germany. ' There were not even toys made especially for that Christmas. Every toy shop offered for Bale only the toys which had been manufactured a year before. Last fall one of the big retail stores of Philadelphia sent a buyer to Germany to purchase a million dollars worth of linen for delivery after the war. This firm had heard that Germany had practically unlimited supplies which she was ready to sell when peace was made. It desired to get in

"on the ground floor" and contract for German linen before other buyers arrived. This merchant was much surprised to find that be could not purchase as much as $100,000 worth of linen already made, but he found firms writing to take a million-dollar order to manufacture the' linen when peace came. He was given to understand that it would be some months after the arrival of peace before the linen could be delivered. The German government, however, is already making extensive preparations for the control of all exports and imports after the war. Before I left Berlin the plan which business men and financiers were discussing was about as follows: , The government planned to confiscate all German ships. The owners were to be paid 10 per cent on their capital invested. The government was to send commissions to neutral countries, especially to the United States and South America, to purchase raw material. German merchants were to be forbidden from making any purchases outside of Germany. These government commissions were to buy cotton and wool at a fixed price for the government. The government-controlled ships were to carry these materials to Germany, where a government import department was to take them over and sell at a profit to manufacturers. " Then the manufacturers were to be prohibited from selling goods to any one except the government. The government was to pay from 8 to 10 per cent, to the firms for manufacturing the articles, and then the government was to do all exporting. Even German citizens were to be prohibited from purchasing anything outside of Germany. If a German wants an automobile, or a safety razor, or a shirt when peace comes, he will have to wait until German manufacturers make them. By this system of controlling all imports and exports the government plans to pay off the enormous war debt which has been accumulating since August, 1914. While the food conditions in Germany are terrible when compared with conditions in,other countries, the general economic condition is even worse.

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