Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 259, 11 September 1917 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1917. PAGE FOUR

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Eulldlng. North Ninth and. Sailor Street. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Second Class Mail Matter.

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the .local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.

Community Singing Efforts made here last spring to introduce community singing met with instant success in the residential centers where the venture was tried in a rather circumscribed environment. Columbus (Ind.) has taken hold of the idea and will this year give it a trial on a larger scale than employed here. Small community singing gatherings have been held there in the past, but not until this year have the music loving people

tried to popularize the movement to such an ex-j

tent tnat ine wnoie cuiniiiunit singing. , . . This city proposes to hold a weekly "sing in a school building. If the attendance crowds this assembly hall, the singing will be held in the city hall. The promoters of the movement are emphasizing strongly that these meetings are not restricted solely to persons of a musical education, but are intended primarily for the masses. Not the highly trained voice of one soprano, for instance, is the desirable acquisition to a mass chorus. No, the hundreds of voices of old and young men and women, singing the old songs and tunes of childhood, are the elements that are desired for this kind of artistic expression.

A Columbus newspaper, setting forth the principles guiding the work there, remarks with emphasis: , The basic idea of the new work to be done in Colnmbus is to bring all the people closer together and also to Pivi pvervhndv an oDDortunity to sing. Those who take

part in the community "sings" do not have to be musicians. It makes no difference whether they read music or not. Most of them will remember "Silver Threads Among the Gold," "Sweet Genevieve" and similar songs. This is the class of songs that will be featured the old home songs and, of course, the old familiar patriotic hymns. It i3 believed that bringing people together to sing will bring them together in spirit. Out of these community gatherings there may be evolved something that will resemble the old fashioned New England town meeting."

Richmond, it is understood, will soon resume the community singing project on much broader lines than used last spring. The whole city ought to get behind the movement. It will inject a form of community spirit into our lives that will show itself in our disinterested efforts to promote causes that are purely altruistic.

The Children of the Crucible Colonel Roosevelt issued the ringing declaration of loyalty printed below from his home in Oyster Bay for publication today. The Colonel had previously sent it to a number of prominent citizens of foreign birth or descent and received a great many signatures. These are still coming in and the Colonel hopes to have the name of every good American of foreign extraction behind this movement. We Americans are the children of the crucible. It has been our boast that out of the crucible, the melting pot of life in this free land, all the men and women of all the nations who come hither emerge as Americans and as nothing else; Americans who proudly challenge as a right, not as a favor, that they "belong" just exactly as much as any other Americans and that they stand on a full and complete equality with them; Americans therefore, who must, even more strongly, insist that they have renounced completely and without reserve, all allegiance to the lands from which they or their forefathers came, and that it is a binding duty on every citizen of this country in every important crisis, to act solidly with all his fellow Americans, having regard only to the honor and interest of America and treating every other nation purely on its conduct in that crisis, without reference to his ancestral predilections or antipathies. If he does not so act, he is false to the teachings and the lives of Washington and Lincoln, he is not entitled to any part or lot in our country, and he should be sent out of it. If he does not act purely as an American, he shows that in his case the crucible has failed to do its work. The crucible must melt all who are cast in it; it must turn them out in the one American mold; and this must be the mould shaped a hundred and forty years ago by the men who under Washington founded this as a free nation, separate from all others. Even at that time, true Americans were of many dif

ferent race strains; Paul Revere and Charles Carroll. Marion and Herkimer, Sullivan, Schuyler and Muhlenberg, stood on an equality of service and achieved respect with Lighthorse Harry Lee and Israel Putnam. But the majority of the leaders and of their followers were of English blood. They did not. because of this, hesitate to resist and antagonize Great Britain when Great Britain wronged this nation; they stood for liberty and for the

eternal rule of right and justice and they stooa as ucans and as nothing else. All Americans of other race origin must act towards

the countries from which their ancestors severally sprang as Washington and his associates in their day acted. Oth

erwise thev are traitors to America.

This applies especially today to all Americans of Ger

man blood who directly or indirectly in any manner sup

nort Germany as against the United States and the Allies

of the United States; it applies no less specifically to all

American citizens of Irish blood who are led into follow

ing the same course not by their love of Germany, but by their hatred of England. One motive is as inexcusable as the other; and in each case the action is treasonable

to the United States.

The professional pacifists have, during the last three

vears. Droved themselves the evil enemies of their coun

tj-.y. They now aavocaie an lutuuuusnc doing they have shown themselves to be the spiritual heirs of the Tories who in the name of peace opposed Washington, and of the Copperheads who in the name of

peace opposed Lincoln. We regard these men and women as traitors to the great cause of justice and humanity. This war is a war for the vital interests of America. When we fight for America abroad we save our children from fighting for America at home beside their own ruined hearthstones. We believe that the large majority of Americans are proudly ready to fight to the last for the overthrow of the brutal German militarism which threatens America no less than every other civilized nation. We believe that it would be an act of baseness and infamy, an act of unworthy cowardice and a betrayal of this country and of mankind to accept any peace except the peace of overwhelming victory, a peace based on the complete overthrow of the Prussianized Germany of the Hohenzollerns. We hold that the true test of loyal Americanism today is effective service against Germany. WTe should exert as speedily as possible every particle of our vast lazy strength to win the triumph over Germany. Therefore we should demand that the government act at once with iinroifntinir severity against the traitors here at home,

whether their treasonable activity take the form of editing and publishing newspapers, of uttering speeches, or of intrigue and conspiracy. We must have but one flag. We must also have but one language. That must be the language of the Declaration of Independence, of Washington's Farewell Address, of Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech and Second Inaugural. WTe cannot tolerate any attempt to oppose or supplant the language and culture that has come down to us from the builders of this Republic with the language and culture of any European country. The greatness of this nation depends on the swift assimilation of the aliens she welcomes to her shores. Any force which attempts to retard that assimilative process is a force hostile to the highest interests of our country. It is a force, which, if allowed to develop, will, for the benefit of this group or that, undermine our national institutions and pervert our national ideals. Whatever may have been our judgment in normal times we are convinced that today our most dangerous foe is the foreign language press and every similar agency such as the German-American Alliance, which holds the alien to his former associations and through them to his former allegiance. We call upon all loyal and unadulterated Americans to man the trenches against this enemy within our gates. wo hPiifve that thev can most effectively do this

through some organization. The Vigilantes, . a non-partisan, militant, anti-pacifist group of writers, artists and other patriotic Children of the Crucible, who, from their headquarters in New York, have for months been' conducting a vigorous pro-America campaign in the newspapers of the country, offer exactly such an organization. We ask that good Americans address themselves at once to The Vigilantes. We ask, moreover that, whether through this organization, or independently, they uphold the hands of the government at every point efficiently

and resolutely against our foreign and domestic foes, and that they constantly spur the government to speedier and more effective action. Furthermore, we ask that where governmental action cannot be taken, they arouse an effective and indignant public opinion against the enemies of our country, whether these enemies masquerade as pacifists, or proclaim themselves the enemies of our Allies, or act through organizations such as the I. W. W. and the Socialist party machine, or appear nakedly as the champions of Germany. Above all, we ask that they teach our people to spurn any peace save the peace of overwhelming victory, in the war to which we have set our hands. Of us who sign some are Protestants, some are Catholics, some are Jews. Most of us were born in this country of parents born in various countries of the old world in Germany, France, England, Ireland, Italy, the Slavonic and the Scandinavian lands; some of us were born abroad; some of us are of Revolutionary stock. All of us are Americans, and nothing but Americans. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Some of the signers are: Oscar S. Straus, Former Secretary of Commerce and Labor; John Quinn, a prominent New York lawyer; Henry L. Slobodin, until recently Chairman of the New York branch of the Socialist Party; George von Lengercke Meyer, ex-Secretary of the Navy; Michael I. Pupin, Einar Barfod, William Loeb, Jr., Anthony Fiala, Guy T. Viskniskki, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Gutzon Borglum, Karl H. Behr, Prof. Leo Wiener, John J. Leary, Jr., Hon. Julius Kahn, Member of Congress from California; Harry Olson, Dr. Isaac Adler, Nathaniel A. Elsberg, ex-State Senator of New York; Prof. Lionel S. Marks, A. Toxen Worm, Jesse Isidor Straus, Prof. Cornelius Rubner, Antonio Stella, T. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Roger M. Straus, James M. Beck, Edwin Carty Ranck, Frederick Hellman, Porter Emerson Browne, A. W. Erickson, Hermann Hagedorn, Charles J. Rosebault.

On The Boards

If you go to a ball game and your favorite "slugger" hits the ball for a homer" a thousand excited fans will watch the ball soar almost to the

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THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT Man cannot brag about what he has done and at the same time do anything that he can brag about.

The essence of your life is the good that comes out of it; you can make others good by "making good" yourself.

The Want Ad Way to successprofit is to read the classified advertising every day and to advertise in The Palladium for what you want and do not see advertised by somebody else.

An old-time plow, probably used by the early Spaniards around San Antonio, was upturned on the old fair ground by workmen of a construction company.

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.t ,': o fitter fio-tit is msrinsr for Possession of Monte

Gabriele (2) and Monte San Danile (3). With these won, the Italians can move up the Chiapovano valley (4) to Klagenfurt, opening the way

to the plains before Vienna. Tfte otner campaign Trieste, southeast of the Carso plateau.

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On Thp Screen i

WASHINGTON "The Guardian," the new World-Picture Brady-Made which comes to the Washington theatre on Wednesday and Thursday has three stars Montagu Love, Arthur Ashley and June Elvidge. The story deals with the love of James Rokeby, president of the Brewster National Bank, for his ward, Marie Dacre, and of her infatuation for a worthless young scamp named Fenwick Harvey. For a time it looks as though the impetuous and high-spirited young girl is going to ruin her life through a matrimonial mistake, but finally everything comes out happily through the efforts of Rokeby and the final good sense of the girl. Montagu Love is seen in the role of Rokeby. June Elvidge appears as Marie Dacre, while Arthur Ashley is handsomely villainous in the role of Fenwick Harvey. "The Guardian" is splendid entertainment fast moving and thoroughly in-

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PALLADIUM WANT ADS BRING RESULTS TRY THEM

You better get ready to attend for there will bs hundreds of customers waiting for the doors to open at 8:30 a. m. Get in line and get your share of the most phenomenal bargains ever offered in Richmond. Circumstances compel me to reduce my stock at once. I have been drafted and accepted for the army and am subject to call at any time. For a complete list of the Sale prices, get one of my large 4 page circulars which we have distributed broadcast throughout the civy, county and adjacent counties. We have tried to make every man

and woman in Richmond and the surroundings familiar opportunity and now it's up to you to respond.

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sale we will give absolutely Free 10 HIGH GRADE LADIES' WAISTS Doors open at 8:30 a. m. Get in line and get a Waist Free. No purchase necessary. Just follow the crowds.

Rain or shine, doors

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8:30 a. m. SIDNEY ROSE, Prop., The New Railroad Store

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to remind you that tomorrow is the opening day of the first big Conscription Sale ever

held.

Everything in the stock will be sold exactly as advertised and I warn you that many lots will disappear fast, so it's policy to get here early.

The store Is closed today,

and we will sell no goods till the doors open at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow morning thus giving everyone a fair and equal chance at the bargains. During this sale we will be open every evening. Read your sale bills over againthen come.

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8th and North E Sts. Richmond, Ind.