Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 252, 3 September 1917 — Page 10
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 3, 1917
PEORIA WILL NOT BE STILL CITY AFTERSEPT, 8 Whiskey-Making Center of United States To Lose Greatest Industry.
PEORIA. III., Sept. S. Peoria, for more than half a century the whiskey
making center of the United States will lose it title of "The Still City-
early in September, at least for the
duration of the war. On Sept. 8 at U
p. m.. the five great distilleries located
here, the largest In the world, wllj cease grinding corn for whiskey mak
ing purposes.
The big plants, which have been making 35 percent of the whiskey in the country, are to close under the National Food Administration law and
orders from Washington to Edward D.
McCabe, internal revenue collector here, are that all tabs In the distiller
ies must be empty of "beer," as the whiskey brew is called, by the hor
named. ' . Employ 1275 Men.
The five big distilleries recently gave the following statistics of their
capacities: Atlas 10,000 bushels of corn dally, 200 tons of coal daily, 275 workmen, $1,000,000 invested.
Clarke Bros. & Co. 8,500 bushels of
corn daily, 200 tons of coal dally, 200 workmen, $850,000 Invested. Corning Distilling Co. 10,000 bush
els of corn dally, 225 tons of coal dally,
250 worken, $1,000,000 invested.
Great Western 16,000 bushels of
corn dally, 300 tons of coal dally, 300 workmen, $1,500,000 Invested. . Woolners 10,000 bushels of corn daily, 225 tons of coal daily, 250 workmen, $1,000,000 Invested.
Clarke Bros. & Co., will go out of
business and Woolner's Distilling Co.,
and the Corning Distilling Co., will close down. All three are Peoria institutions. The Great Western Distillery will continue to operate at a small fraction of its normal capacity while the Atlas distillery will continue as usual, as it is not at present producing beverage liquors. Both the Great Western and Atlans plants are part of the so-called "whiskey trust" They will continue to grind corn for spirits to be used for commercial purposes under present plans. Reports Are Denied. "The Peoria distilleries manufacture some alcohol for scientific and commercial purposes," W. E. Hull, ge eral manager for Clarke Bros. & Co.. said, "but whiskey is the main product. A distillery of large capacity cannot operate on a small scale at a profit. There havent been enough war order? from the United States or the allies to keep more than one of the distilleries busy and no new ones are In prospect. Hence the distilleries must close." One August 28, Robert D. Clarke, rice president and principal stockholdr In Clarke Bros & Co., announced the company's distillery for sale. "We are preparing to liquidate in the shortest possible time." Mr. Clarke said. "We have reduced our capita; stock and in order to liquidate in the easiest way, have formed five smaller corporations, each to take over some part of the business and each capital
ized at $200,000." Allied Orders Off.
Should the government require large
amounts of alcohol for powder manu'
f acture the distilleries will immediate
ly re-open, but the owners are not ex
pecting any, government contracts. Orders from the Allies have dropped
orr in tne last two years.
For several months the distilleries
nave been running at full capacitcy
ana using more than 50,000 bushels of corn dally, so much Interest centers In the effect the closing of the big
plants win nave on the corn market
Farmers of Central Illinois probably will feel the effect of the closing more
than others, for Peoria s market has been an outlet for them for all thei? soft corn, which distillers readily bought up and which is not very useful for purposes other than making whiskey. Distillers say the farmers will suffer a dead loss on this corn. Labor does not appear to be in any particular danger as a result of the coming shut down, although more than 1,200 men are employed in the distilleries. Older employes will be retained by the two distilleries which will continue to operate and some may be kept to look after the upkeep of plants that will be closed. Even if ninty percent of the men. employed in the whiskey making industry here lost their Jobs there will still be room for them in other big plants here.
War Jobs'll Get 'Em. Companies which manufacture farm machinery and tractors are advertising for men and a concern which has government contracts for caterpillar engines. Is planning extensions which will absorb every man forced out of a position by the closing of the distilleries. Government gangers and store-keepers probably will surfer most keenly. More than a hundred of them are employed at the distilleries and many of these have been in the work twenty years or more. A few are to go into other branches of government work, mut most of tbem expect to seek other jobs or else remato idle while the distilleries are closedT The local coal situation may be relieved by closing of the big plants which consume on an average of 1.000 tons of coal a day, most of which is supplied by local mines. Uncle Sam Will Lose. In money Uncle Sam probably will be the biggest loser, for he will be out some $30,000,000 a year in internal revenue taxes. Some idea of what the
distilleries have been paying and the amount of whiskey they have been making may be obtained from the following revenue figures for the past five years, ending June 30, 1917: Year Gallons Tax 1912- 13 30,350,840 $33,396,923.06 1913- 14 29,816,250 32,797,881.16 1914- 15 21,451,800 23,596,989.88 1915- 16 25,405,300 27,945,833.59 1916- 17 30,729,630 33,802,597.29 The whiskey production during the past year has been abnormally large. For the month of July, 1917, not shown in the figures already given, the collections were $4,930,125.57, representing tax paid by the Peoria distilleries n 4 .45.550 gallons of spirits. Sentem-
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Italians Take High Peak
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A general view of Monte Santo, the lofty peak which dominates the Gorizia Zone, the capture of which by the Italians has resulted in the driving out of all of the Austrian troops In that section and the investment of Monte Michele (shown in the foreground to the right) and Montes Gabrtele and Daniele, considered the keys to Tristo It is because of the capture of Monte Santo (indicated In the photograph by arrow) that the Austrian . civil population has been ordered to evacuate Trieste. The Austrian forces defending Montes Michele, Gabriele and Daniele were first cut off by barage fire through the capture of Monte Santo, and afterward completely surrounded by the forces of General Cadorna. It Is only a matter of hour when they will be compelled to surrender.
200 MEN USED IN GRADING OF NEW EAST YARDS Work Proceeding Nicely On Huge Fills Grain Cars Will Be Furnished.
Considerable headway has been made on the fills in the east section of the new Pennsylvania yards. These fills, from fifty to seventy-five feet deep, keep two gravel trains going. Two steam shovels are being used on the gravel ledges. Ballasting is proceeding on the new tracks and switches laid by the regular force of the Pennsy construction department. Some 200 men are employed on the grading. A track is being laid from
the car shops to the site of the removal to facilitate transport of material. Tons of lumber, ties, rails, and miscellaneous equipment are piled along the lines from the car shops.
Elevator men along the lines of the Pennsy in Wayne county resumed
business Saturday on the $2.20 government price for wheat. In most sec
tions more than one half of the wheat has to be moved and advices are to
the effect that elevator men will take the most of it.
Very few fanners will ship direct to
the wholesale markets. The demand for oats has been great the past week, and shipments have been above the
normal. The Pennsylvania is prepar
ing to furnish cars to all the elevator
sidings in this and adjoining counties.
One of the bulletins issued to enginemen and trainmen Saturday specially relates to the handling of government freight. For instance the number of
cars of freight to be used for government purposes have to be reported by freight conductours on entering the Cincinnati yards. E. J. Smyser, passenger engineer on theRichmond division, accompanied by his wife, left Saturday for Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, where E. J., Jr., of the Infantry has been in training. Word had been received that orders were expected in a few days, and that his rgjment might leave for parts unknown. PENNSY SIFTINGS W. D. Runnels, day operator on the first fioor of the passenger station, has returned from a vacation, and he is at the old trick again.
There is a vacancy for a flagman on
the working train in the yards with
Conductor Weaver.
Adolph Ebse, day caller of the
Pennsy, will leave Wednesday for a two weeks vacation at his old home
at Walnut Level. He is called "light
ning" by the crews.
Fireman Russell Kiosey. who has
been on a vacation tha past two weeks.
reported for duty, Monday.
All livestock and perishable goods, by a general order, were takn care
of on this division, Labor Day.
B. H. Heckman, freight brakeman,
was wearing a broad smile at Metz
ger's office today. He was picnicking
Saturday.
H. E. Noe, chief operator of the Pennsy station, is spending a vacation
at his old home in Finley, O.
Mexican Railroaders, Inspired by German Agents, Make Kick MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3. Members of the unions of the railroad crafts, especially shopmen, protest in the local newspapers against the sending of cars and locomotives from Mexico to shops in the United States for repair. They declare such a practice id extremely dangerous for Mexico, pointing out that should the United States declare an embargo much useful rolling stock would be held in the United States. They say that to 6end the locomotives to the United States is to place Mexico hi this respect at the mercy of a powerful neighbor. Some of the published assertions seem so strongly anti-American that men in close touch with railroad affairs have had no hesitancy in declaring that the utterances are inspired by German agents.
SKULKING
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the treasures of right and Justice and liberty which are being threatened by our present enemies.
"It has not been a matter of sur- prominence that seems to be given in
JOHNSON OBJECTS TO TEACHING OF FOE'S LANGUAGE
German Should Not Be Part of Public School Curricula, He Says. Robert Underwood Johnson, editor and writer and a brother of Henry U. Johnson, strongly protests against the teaching of the German language in a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper. "No other living language besides English should be taught In the public schools," he says. Johnson attended Earlham college. "Self-preservation is the first law of nations and we must weed out of bur public school teaching all exotic growths, whether German, Scandinavian, Slav, French or Italian if we are to have the unity of thought and purpose that makes a nation great and safe," he says. J His letter follows: j As a former resident of Indiana may
I make brief comment on the undue i
BREAKFAST 13 REVIVED
lONDON, Sept 8-Sreakfast as a political and social function is being revived. ' Premier Uoyd George used a breakfast party to announce the success of the Paris conferences to a party of Frenchmen and has had numbers of breakfasts at 10 Downing street when business Is freely discussed. Lord Rhondda. also invites business men to breakfast when important plans are being arranged.
the modern ruling class of Germany. Those ideas and that philosophy of the modern ruling class of Germany. Those Ideas and that philosophy we are now engaged in fighting to a finish to determine whether "government of the people by the people and for the people" is to prevail over the theory that the people drived their rights from divinely appointed rulers. It is therefore moat Important that we should rid ourselves of the vehicle of alse notions. If our German-American fellow citizens desire to have their children taught their mother tongue let them be taught at home. No other living language besides English should be taught in the public schools. Our loyal German-Americans well know how the schools can be usednay, are being used to substitute foreign Ideas for those which are ours, both by tradition and reason. Selfpreservation is the first law of nations and we must weed out of our public school teaching all exotic growths, whether German, Scandinavian, Slav, French or Italian if we are to have the unity of thought and purpose that makes a nation great and safe. Very truly yours, ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON. 70 Fifth avenue, New York, Aug. 29.
Italians Develop Boot-Making Trade ROME, Sept. 3. Boot-making and brush manufacturing in Italy have been developed extensively since the war began. Italy purchased In America 3,000,000 pairs of boots for her soldiers during the first year of the conflict; now she has reduced this importation to only 60,000 pairs a year, not because she gets them elsewhere, but through the splendid system she has established for mending and re-making old boots. Expenses for brushes for the whole army, formerly $600 a month, has now been reduced to only $10, as soldiers in their leisure time have been remaking old brushes, using, instead of bristles, the dried roots of certain plants, fastened with the string that Gome's on the innumerable parcels sent to the front.
PORTUGAL PUTS BAN ON BISHOP OF
OPORTO
LISBON, Sept. 3. The Official Gazette has printed a decree prohibiting the Bishop of Oporto to reside for two years either in his own diocese or in the neighboring one. The banishment is decreed as a punishment for having authorized some novices to take the veil, thus transgressing the Lew of the Separation of the Church and the State.
PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY
WATCH GARBAGE! WARNS HOOVER
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 3. Feeding the wastes from the table to chickens and pig is not always economy, according to Dr. H. E. Barnard, representative of Herbert C. Hoover, national food administrator. He says: "Many a housewife thinks she is practicing real economy when the wastes from the table are used to feed a pen of chickens in the backyard. She reasons, all the food I feed my chickens comes back to me in the form of delicious eggs or fried chicken, and the better I feed them the better I will be paid. Now, as a matter of fact, this practice may not be an economy at ali. There are some wastes in the kitchen which can be turned into ppry or eggs profitably, but any scraps of food which can be used in the house have no place in the pig trough or chicken pen. Under the best conditions a hog returns only one-third of the food he eats, as human food, and when bread is fed to chickens ninetenths of the food is lost completely to the table. "In feeding animals the thrifty housewife will not let anything useful for feeding human beings get into the garbage pail but sba wfU sea to it that all vegetable parings, inedible meat trimmings, the waste of the preserving kettle and similar material is turned into pork or poultry products."
Kodak Films developed Free Prints 3c each, thwaite's Drug Stores.
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MARION FOLKS HAVE CLOSE
ESCAPE FROM AUTO CRASH
EATON. O. Sept. 3. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Badgeley, of Marlon, Ind., narrowly escaped injury Saturday in an
auto accident which occurred on the Richmond pike, near the home of Sher
iff Court Taylor. Coming down the pike at a good rate of speed a tire on a front wheel blew out, and the driver temporarily lost control of the machine. Rather than go off the road into a ditch, Badgeley ran the car over the tracks of the Ohio. Electric railway, breaking down a front wheel and otherwise damaging the auto.
PAY SCHEDULE OUT
The Pennsylvania issued the pay schedule by bulletin at its several offices, Saturday, giving all stations where men on the several divisions may receive their pay, a convenience to all employes.
houses here filled with whiskey and collections for Internal revenue will continue large fora few months longer or at least-until the -warehouses are emptied, j
prise to me that the leaders in certain groups have sought to ignore our grievance against the men who have misled the German people. Their insistence that a nation whose rights have been grossly violated, whose citizens have been foully murdered under their own flag, whose neighbors have been invited to join in making conquest of its territory, whose patience in pressing the claims of justice and
humanity has been met with the most shameful policy of truculence and
treachery, their insistence that a nation so outraged does not know its own mind, that it has no omprchensible reason for defending itself, or for joining with all its might in maintaining a free future for itself and its ideals is of a piece with their deafness to the oft-repeated statement of our national purposes. Fail to Hear Voice "It is perhaps, that these forces of antagonism have not yet learned to know the voice of that America we love and serve? It may well be that those among us who stand ready to forward the plans of aggression bred in secret do not understand the language of democracy when it proclaims the purpose of war In terms of a peo
ple for the peoples that shall be untroubled by those to whom men are but the pawns in their struggle for power and gain. ' But true Americans,
those who toil here for home and the hope of better things, whose lifted eyes have caught the vision of a liberated world, have said that of the policy of blood and iron there shall be an end and that equal justice, which
is the heart of democracy shall rule in its stead.
"May not those who toil and those
who have made common cause of the larger hope for the masses of mankind, take renewed heart as they think of those days when America has taken its stand for the rights of humanity and the fellowship of social ond international justice? "Sincerely, your, "WOODROW WILSON." Among the speakers at the conference will be Samuel Gompers, John Hall, president of the Minnesota Federation of Labor, Charles Edward Russell, John H. Walker, president Illinois State Federation of Labor; Frank P. Walh, Governor Burnquist of Minnesota; John Spargo, John Lind, Rose Pastor Stokes, Rabbi Stephen Wise, William English Walling, Hugh Frayne, New York, Eastern representative of American Federation of Labor; Frank E. Wolfer, W. J. Ghent, Prof. Max Frederick Meyer; president of psychology of the University of Missouri ; A. M. Simons, editor of a social
ist weekly, who has resigned from
the socialist party, and Winfield R.
Gaylord, first socialist state senator elected in Wisconsin, who has resigned from the party.
the Indianapolis public schools to the
study of German. Treasures Are Prized
Nobody prizes more than I the treas
ures of literature of that language
the works of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing,
Heine and others; but I feel that It is one thing to study these as I did at
Earlham College as literature as one studies Latin and another to absorb
at an early age through the German
language the ideas and philosophy of
Don't Eat Less But Eat Better. There is no need of anyone going hungry. Americans should eat foods that supply the greatest amount of nutriment at the lowest cost. The whole wheat grain is the most perfect food given to man. Shredded Wheat Biscuit is the whole wheat grain prepared in a digestible form. Every particle of the whole wheat berry is used nothing wasted, nothing thrown away. Two or three of these biscuits with milk, sliced peaches or other fruits make a nourishing, satisfying meal at a cost of a few cents. Made in Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Wednesday
Enormous sacrifices in much wanted merchandise for the one day, Wednesday. This will NOT be an ORDINARY Dollar Day with us but one that will long be remembered. We have reduced prices irrespective of regular values and WEDNESDAY will
q be a big day here. Every department shares in the Dollar Day Sale.
Dollar Day Wednesday Only 10c Can of Tobacco Free with every one of our fine line of Pipes Priced at $1.00 or more Jones Smoke House
704 MAIN
Turkish Towels Regular 30c value, 22x45 inches, heavy weight, Dollar Day 4 for.. Uvl Ladles' Purses Genuine Leather; regular AA $1-25 an $1.50 Purses, Dollar Day V A"U
Men's $1.00 Shirts Special lot on sale; Dollar Day only 2 for Boys' Tapeless Blouses 59c and 65c values; Dollar Day only.... 2 for Bungalow Aprons Regular 65c and 79c values; Dollar Day only ..2 for
Ladies' Silk Gloves Niagara Maid; excellent quality; special for Dollar Day....
$1.00
$1.00 $1.00 $1.00
Men's Silk Hose Special Hose 35c value, for Dollar Day - 1 A A only 4 prs for
Ladles' 50c Silk Host White only; Dollar Day only 3 pairs for
$1.00
Ladies' 59c and 65c Silk Hose In colors, no more on the market even at (31 A A 75c; Dollar Day only. ...2 prs forTlH
Ladies' Union Suit Odd Lot of Suits, 50c values; Dollar Day 35c each or 3 for Boys' 50c Union Suits Special Dollar Day 3 for Men's 50c Porosknit Shirts and Drawers Dollar Day special at 3 for Serpentine Crepe Regular 15c and 20c quality; Dollar Day, 11c yd or 10 yds Gingham Regular 18c and 20c quality; Dollar Day special 7 yds Double-Fold Percale Dark and light jcolors, 15c values 10 yds 72-Inch Table Damask Dollar day special 2 yds for Fancy Ribbon Regular 50c value; 35o yard .....3 yds for
$1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00
New Fall Hats Special introductory sale held in conjunction with Dollar Day. Any trimmed or tailored Hat in the store
can be bought Wednes day only, at a reduction of
This reduction which constitutes a saving of from 10 to 33 is in force Wednesday, Dollar Day only. 'TisYour Opportunity to Buy a New Fall Hat at a Reduction at the Very Beginning of the Season.
Ladles' Corset Covers Regular 50c values AA Dollar Day special 35c or..., 3 for J-UU
Other $1.00 Day Items Crowded Into Little Space Lot of Middies; worth $1.00 and $1.23; on sale Wednesday .-v 0JL Ladies' and Misses' Sweaters; all-wool, (JQ AfT belted models, for yOuD Lot of Wash Dresses, final clearance of (JQ Q(T Dresses worth to $10.00 ttJUO Silk Gloves Niagara Maid quality; Dollar Day special wl Ladies' 75c Combination Suits, Corset Cov- JTA, er and Drawer Combination, on sale Wed..OUO Fancy Heatherbloom Petticoats; regular CTA
75c values for tJJs
Lot of Corset Covers; 35c and 50c values; special for.........
.29c
NOTICE
Richmond, Ind., Sept. 1st. We wish to Inform the public that Jas. Baker, Painter contractor is not employing Union Men as represented. Painters' Union 319
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J. PATTON, Sec'y.
35c Voile On sale Wednesday 6 yds. for
$1.00
Ladies' Wash Skirts Lot Including many of the p reshrunk Skirts; worth to $2.95,; J- fi Dollar Day.... PXUU
$1.00
Ladles' Wash Waists Many new models on sale Wednesday Dollar Day
Lot of Ladies' Dresses Gingham and-fin Lawns; worth to $2.50; Dollar Day fr Sale at iO-L"U
$1.00 Day Corset Sale Special lot of Corsets including Kabo, W. B., Costard and La Revo, that sold regularly at $2.50, $3.50, $4.50 and $5.00, on sale Wednes- d- ff day, Dollar Day, only VXvlU
Special Reduction on Every CORSET in reg ular stock. New Fall models Included.
Brassieres Spesial lot of 50c, laoe and em- Of broidery trimmed brassieres. .M.........eJC
Lee B. Nusbaum Go.