Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 264, 17 September 1917 — Page 1

BICBLMO PAIXABIUM VOL. XLH.,NO. 264 gffffid "A.! Palladium and Sun-Telegram RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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QUAKERS IN DRAFT AGES TO RE TOLD CHURCH PLAN

Woodward to Address Meeting Called for Next Satur day as Part of Meeting Program. Yearly ALL URGED TO ATTEND Quakers, within conscription ages, from parts of three states, will meet with Walter C. Woodward, general secretary of the American Friends, at the East Main Street Friends church Saturday afternoon, it was announced Monday All men, who are members of the Friends church and are within con scription ages, living in Eastern Indiana, Southern Michigan and part of Western Ohio, which is within the Jurisdiction of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, are requested to come to Richmond for the meeting. Announcement of the meeting was made before members of the Ministry and Oversight committee of the Ind iana Yearly Meeting of Friends at East Main Street Friends church Monday morning, and delegates requested to notify the men in their church of the meeting. Called To Explain Plan. The meeting has been called, it is understood, for the purpose of notifying the men who are liable for military service under the selective service law, of Just what steps the Friends churches are taking to have Friends assigned to war relief work, not connected in any way with active military service. Members of the church emphasized the fact that the meeting ia not called for the purpose of forming an organization to resist the draft law. The meeting is called for the sole purpose, they said, of informing the men selected for army service of what steps the church is taking to have them assigned to strictly non-combatant duties. No advice will be given them as to whether they should serve in the army, but the teaching of Quakers for the last 200 years always has opposed war. Some time ago S. Edgar Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, official organ of the Friends Church in America, made the announcement that 'it was his belief that many Quakers would go to prison sooner than participate in the army as belligerents. 2,500 Within Ages. Walter C. Woodward, general secretary of the Friends in America, esti mated that there are approximately 2,500 Friends within conscription ages, within the Jurisdiction of the In diana Yearly Meeting. The following statement, regarding the meeting, was made: "Many young Friends, who have been called are uncertain as to what disposition the government expects to make of conscientious objectors ex empted by the Selective-Service act So many rumors have accumulated as to rulings made by the government that much perplexity exists among the young men as to their actual statua and as to what course they should pur sue. "A conference of such men in In diana Yearly Meeting has been called Continued On Page Seven. Do Your p-'- Join the Bit Now Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday. Slight change in temperatare. Temperature Today. Noon ........... 70 Yesterday. Maximum 76 Minimum -. ... 54 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Tuesday. General Conditions Clearing weath er due to a high pressure over the east is causing fair weather east of the Mississippi river. A tropical storm is moving north into the Gulf of Mexico. Severe storms at Hatteras, North Carolina. Rain 6.3 inches in 24 hours. Temperature much warmer in the West.

German Papers Call

AMSTERDAM. Sept 17. The three cablegrams sent by Count Luxburg, German minister to Argentina, to the German foreign office through the Swedish legation have finally been permitted to be published in the German press. The Koelnische Zeitung says that it is easy to understand that the publication of these dispatches in Argentina has made an unpleasant impreshion, and that President Wilson has so far probably been successful with his manoeuver, but adds that they can only be rightly judged if it i3 not forgotten that they were secret messages in code and if the igure dispatches of entente diplomacy could be read, still more drastic expressions would be encountered. Regarding the phrase in one of Count Luxburgs dispatches about dating steamships without leaving a,

Ideal Fall Weather Coming, Says Moore

Richmond Is due to experience ideal fall weather during the next few days according to the prediction of Weather Forecaster Moore. It will neither be too cool and neither too hot but Just moderate, according to the forecast. The temperature may get near the 70 mark, however. Jack Frost, however, la moving this way, and it is expected that a heavy frost will sweep the country the latter part of this week or the first of next BERLIN REGRETS ARGENTINE CASE LONDON, Sept 17.-Germany has sent a note to Sweden, according to the correspondent at Stockholm of the Central news agency, highly regretting the disagreeable issues on account of Sweden transmitting telegrams to Germany. Germany Bays Bhe is obliged to the Sweden government for transmitting the messages but regrets that her representative in Argentina should have sent the telegrams in the phraseology they did. The newspaper of Stockholm, which printed the announcement that Germany had sent the note to Sweden, says the German government has instructed all its representatives in foreign countries to refuse to accede to any attempt which may be made to force them to reveal to the Swedish government the content of code messages which they submit to it NO WASPS, SAYS NAVY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON. Sept 17. The navy department after as complete an investigation as ia possible, is satisled there ia no foundation for reports of a hostile submarine off the New England coast

CHURCH ATTENDANCE GROWS THROUGH WAR, REPORTS TO YEARLY MEETING WILL SHOW

Delegates to the ninety-seventh Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends church, Tuesday morning started arriving in Richmond Monday morning and it is expected that all will have have arrived by Tuesday morning. The Yearly Meeting takes in all of eastern Indiana, part of southern Michigan, and western Ohio and part of the state of Washington. While approximately seventy delegates are expected to transact business at the meeting, hundreds of visitors from throughout the district are expected to attend the sessions. History Teaching Up A discussion of the preparedness of literature for the younger members of the church, teaching them the history of Quakerism from its origin, took place at the meeting on Ministry and Oversight held at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning. After a lengthy discussion the matter was referred to a committee of which George Levering, pastor at Selma, O , was named chairman. Other members are Charles Woodman, .of Richmond; Alexnder C. Purdy, head of the biblical department of Earlham college; John Kittrell, of West Milton, O., Ida Parker, of Richmond; Frank Cornell of Winchester; Robert PretSEVEN KILLED IN RAIL CRASH AURORA, 111., Sept. 17 Seven Iowa stockmen were killed last night in a rear-end collision on the Burlington railroad near Earlville, 111., forty-five miles west of Aurora. Ten or more were injured. The men who were killed and most of those injured were in two sleeping cars and a way car attached to the rear of the stock train. The merchandise train plowed through these three cars. trace, the paper lamely argues that the expression does not mean sinking a ship with all hands, but so sinking her that military mishaps might be avoided, as for example, concealing the fact from other ships that she was sunk by a submarine and not by a mine. Government Not Responsible "It is self-evident," says the Koelnische Zitung, "that the German government cannot be held responsible for the opinions of any one of its ministers. If, on the other hand, the entente press attempts on the strength of the contents of these dispatches, to accuse German politics of duplicity, or the German navy of atrocities, such conclusions must impress the unbiased mind as wilful exaggeration. "We are also confident that the Argentine government will not particle,

UNCLE SAM MAY MAKE JAPS FIGHT

Poundstone Sees in Mission's Visit Chance to Force 'Em Into Service. By RAMSEY POUNDSTONE WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 What is the significance of the visit of the Imperial Japanese Mission to Washington? This is a question astute observers at the national capital are asking these days while the press confines its discussion of the Japanese question to accounts of banquets and receptions tendered to the distinguished subjects of the Mikado. The suggestion that the Japanese mission is here for the purposes of securing a war loan from the United States is dismissed with a smile, for Japan has grown wealthy from war profits. Taken In Same Spirit. The explanation of the members of the mission that they have come to Washington as bearers of a message of good will from Japan to the United States ia accepted in the same spirit it is given. But there is a deeper purpose behind the pilgrimage of Viscount Ishii and his associates, official Washington insists, and if the officials of the department of state play their trumpladen hands shrewdly, it is predicted, the world will soon see Japan playing a more active part in the world war on the side of the Entente. There is every reason to believe that the recent American embargo against the exportation of steel had much to do in inaugurating the present negotiations between Secretary Lansing and Viscount IshiL Steel is a commodity that Japan needs badly, to fulfill war contracts and for increasing her rapidly growing mercantile marine. Without American steel Japan's ambitious industrial program cannot be carried out So, it ia pointed out Secretary LanContlnued on Page Eight low of Seattle, Wash., and Cassie Cummins. That the ministry of the Society of Friends needs an awakening on just Continued On Page Two. KELLY RESIGNS FROM CLERKSHIP Robert L. Kelly, former president of Earlham college, who has held the position of presiding clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting for the last five years, on his own request has not been renominated by the committee of clerks, according to one of the members of the committee Monday. Dr. Kelly is removing himself from the position because his work with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, carries him out if the jurisdiction of the Yearly Meeting. Dr. Kelly is due to arrive Monday night from Chicago to preside at the opening of the meeting Tuesday. Although nothing was officially announced it was learned Monday that no Richmond man had been nominated by the committee on clerks, for the office of presiding clerk. They would not say who was nominated. The office of presiding clerk is the highest honor the meeting confers on one of the members. FINANCE MINISTER QUITS BUDAPEST, Sept. 17 (Via Amsterdam) Dr. Gratz, minister of finance in the Hungarian cabinet formed by Premier Wekerle last month, has retired from the ministry. Dr. Wekerle has temporarily taken over the portfolio of finance.

For Recall and

pate and we are equally convinced that the advice of Count Luxburg and hi s unconventional characterization of the ministers of the country to which he was accredited, will meet with the decided disapproval of our government. "In our opinion, however, this disapproval must not merely express itself in words. We demand, under all circumstances, that the minister who forwards such dispatches be recalled as quickly as possible. We should not put the Argentine government before such an alternative but should ourselves undertake his recall. Aside from the international aspect of this incident, there is no occasion to revive memories of our numerous diplomatic heroics in the course of this war by permitting this episode much, longer to engage publlo opinion. Count

Janitor 41 Years, And Never Tardy is Record of Dinghy A. W. Dingley, Janitor at the high school is beginning on the forty-second year of service as janitor. He began at the old business college on Eleventh street then later went to Starr school. Ha has been in the high school building for about 27 years. 'Tve never been absent or tardy during my forty-one years," Dingley said.

25,000 OUT IN FRISCO STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 17. Approximately 25,000 iron workers and metal trade mechanics engaged in war emergency construction in San Francisco and Bay cities went on a strike at 8 o'clock today following rejection of a demand of 60 per cent increase In wages. The walk out in more than 100 plants was carried out without a hitch, It was reported. Eleventh hour efforts to avert the strike by employers and representatives of the United States shipping board failed. Proposals to arbitrate on a basis of 10 per cent, increase offered had been rejected by the conference committee of the iron trade council, composed of 25 unions on whose authority the strike was declared. The walk out affects more than $150,000,000,000 dollars in government ship building and engine construction contracts and automatically ties up other construction works. OLD CHIEFS OF RUSSIAN ARMY TO BE REMOVED Russia Can Again Present United Front to German Foe. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. General Alexieff's appointment to- supreme command of the Russian armies will be followed, by4 a general reorganization in which old generals will give place to new ones. First definite news of the reorganization was received at the Russian embassy today in dispatches from Petrograd. Confidence of the troops is being restored by the removal of the former generals, the dispatches said, and the situation is rapidly clearing. The Korniloff uprising seems to have been - quelled without bloodshed and Russian officials here say that the government now is stronger than ever. The original trouble might have been avoided, Russians here feel, if the emissaries from Korniloff had been able to explain the situation clearly to the government and it is believed that a mistake was made in selecting the men to act as go-betweens between Korniloff and the government Spirit Is Excellent. The cossack movement is not con sidered serious any longer, although it is not over with. Strong discipline has been established in the army by Gen eral Alexieff and the spirit of the troops is said to be excellent. The advices to the Russian embassy here say that if the rebels had know of the true conditions in Petrograd they would have made any move in the nature of an armed rebellion. The government is in good shape now, officials said, to quell anything in the nature of counter revolution and can present a united front to the German foe. The military situation is said to be progressing satisfactorily and the armies are fulfilling their task of keeping as many Germans as possible on the Russian front. This is indicated by the report that the Germans now have more troops than ever before on the Russian lines. During the last five day the Russian troops have regained seven miles. FRESHMEN COP HONORS OXFORD, O., Sept. 17 By dragging the sophomores through the muddy waters of Four Mile creek Saturday, Miami university freshmen won the annual class scrap by 30 points. The events of the day passed off without bloodshed or serious injury. Luxburg should be permitted to disappear without leaving any trace behind." Perfidy Blame Shifted. The Lokal Anzeiger says: "It does not require diplomatic expertness to exploit this theft of dispatches for political purposes, for they really only concern the confidential advice to his superiors on the part of a man who apparently is endowed with much temperament. The perfidy consists in the entente effort to falsify the facts in the case for the purpose of reading into Count Luxburg's dispatch the style and opinions of the German government." The Tageblatt says: "The draft of these messages can hardly be calculated to promote German interests in Argentina. In spite of the continuous

TORACCO FUND IS ENDORSED DY CLERGYMAN

Rev. Joseph J. Rae Contributes to Buy "Makins' for Sammy" Nears $50. "Although I do not smoke, I believe that if there is any percent of the men In France who do get some comfort from a smoke, then I am ready to do my part." Dr. J. J. Rae, pastor of First Presbyterlan church. Quarters started flowing more freely Saturday and the Palladium's Tobacco Fund approached the $50 mark from the totals gathered Monday morning. Everyone in Richmond is endorsing the enterprise and are contributing liberally to the fund. The keynote of the entire fund was struck by the statement made by Dr. J. J. Rae, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, which is given above. It is not for the men and women on this side of the water to say what those boys in France should or should not have. When an appeal comes to the people "back home" we should be ready to step out and give, anything that is asked, for the men in France are not only giving their time, their worldly goods, but are standing ready to make the supreme sacrifice. Other Stores Have Lists. More business houses have agreed to care for the contribution lists and a complete list of the stores and other places where contributions may be left are listed elsewhere. The fund is just getting started, do your share. The contributions and the total amount of the fund follows: Previously acknowledged $15.75 From residents of Boston, Ind... 8.00 Mrs. Mary Cline 25 Mrs. D. M. Welling 50 Mark Thompson 1.00 Margaret Cllngenbeel .25 Benjamin F. Mattis 1.00 Dr. J. J. Rae 1.00 Hazel Sarles 25 Mrs. K. W. Monarch 1.00 John A. Reed 50 W. A. Osmer .25 F. R. Borton 25 Mrs. Clarence M. Hunt 1.00 C. D. Hemming . . Harry Wood Margaret Carroll Helen Linehan . . F. M. Metzger ... Ed. N Wilson 4.. L. C. F. Ball .... R. E. Jones Roy C. Fry Blanche M. Issen .25 .50 .25 .25 .50 .50 .25 .50 .50 Webb Pyle 25 E. J. Dykeman . . . S. J. Brown V. D. Rider A. H. Cullys John Shurley C. H. Finney R. M. McLaughlin Roy J. Parshall . . W. H. Davenport . R. E. Hoover J. H. Hart .50 .25 .50 .50 .25 .50 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 C. D. Weatherly Carl Kaufman 1.00 W. E. Eldridge Lon E. Jones O. Johnston Ray K. Sperling Isabelle Lennard Frank Lennard Joseph R. Cook W. Z. Carr G. R. Coggshall , Gordon Shinkle , W. E. Turner , W. L. Misener Ted Keisker , R. C. Brehm R. J. Haas Harold J. Malone , Harry Malone , Edith Uhl Harry T. Burns , Lawrence Dodd R. W. Schneider Jessie Mook , Alberta Newcomer Elizabeth Thomas Forrest Davis Will W. Reller Dr. George Ferling Luther M. Feeger .10 .50 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .50 .50 .50 .25 .25 .50 .25 .50 .25 .50 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .50 25 .50 .50 Total to date $49.50 SELLS SEED AT SAME PRICE BOSTON, Ind., Sept. 17. H. L. Meyer, who threshed out 480 bushels of wheat from 15 acres, or 32 bushels to the acre, is selling the same seed to his neighbors, and at the same price as at the elevator, namely $2. 100 ACRES IN CORN BOSTON, Ind., Sept. 17. Harry Gobel, south of here, has no less than 100 acres in full earned corn, straight and tall, and of line quality. He will begin sowing for wheat shortly. Punishment American and entente baiting, attempts to induce Argentina, to whom we are bound by valuable commercial relations, to assume a hostile attitude toward Germany happily failed in their purpose. This, it is to be hoped, will continue to be the case. Nevertheless, in the face of the present difficult conditions every steps undertaken calls for extreme caution, secure tact and calm deliberation. "Count Luxburg hight have known this much when writing down his dispatches. He should not have forgotten the lesson of the intercepted Mexican dispatch. His unconventional mode of expression was least of all suited to diplomatic documents or dispatches. It is to be hoped that the incident will in a measure resolve Itself into a personal affair of Luxburg and

Federal Net Gets Seven in Waukegan CHICAGO, Sept 17. John Unger, a contractor, of Waukegan, 111., and six others were taken before the federal bureau of investigation today, haviug been arrested after attending a meeting of Industrial Workers of the World at Waukegan last night The federal agents who were notified that an anti-war meeting was to be held, were on hand to listen to the utterances. At the close of the meeting seven persons were taken into custody.

CHINA'S LOAD IS EASED BY WAR PEKING, August 9. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) China's entry Into the European war on the side of the allies will relieve the Chinese government of interest payments upon obligations owed to the German government and German corporations aggregating nearly $235,000,000. The greatest Eingle obligation China owes to German is the Boxer Indemnity money, amounting to about $106,585,000 gold. The next items in importance are two loans of $40,000,000 gold each known as the first and the second Anglo-German loans and negotiated through the German-Asiatic Bank. Germany's portion of the reorganization loan participated in by the five power group, is $25,000,000 gold. Railway loans made by the German-Asiatic Bank aggregate over $4,000,000 gold. In addition there are miscellaneous short term loans made by various German firms, which are estimated at a total of $4,000,000 gold. German mining properties whose value is estimated at $1,500,000 gold will probably be taken over by the Crinese government and sold, the Chinese government holding the money until the conclusion of peace. The German-Asiatic Bank with branches at Peking, Tientsin, Tsinanfu, Tsingtau, Hankow and Canton, is the largest German concern doing business in China, and has a capital of about $7,0000,000 gold. It is charged that this bank has financed much of the German intrigue throughout the Orient German capital also is employed quite extensively in the cement industry in China, and controls paper mills, breweries, cotton mills and other factories in various ports. These companies for the most part are not very large. Arnold Karberg and Company, one of the most important German concerns in the Far East, has a loan on the Shanghai Dock of about $5,000,000 gold. Newspaper Publicity Is to Be Continued By Muncie Church MUNCIE, Ind., Sept 17. As an experiment and at the suggestion of the pastor, St. John's Universalist church last year adopted the policy of advertising its Sunday services in newspapers. Every week a display advertisement appeared on the amusement pages of the newspapers, mingled with the theatre advertising. Dr. Mason, the minister, insisting that it be placed there.

Citizens Ask Lower Gas Rate; Claim Valuation is Too High

Petition for tne reduction of the gas rates of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power Company, and a revaluation of the company's properties has been filed by fifteen Richmond citizens, through City Attorney Bond, before the state public service commission. The petition alleges that the valuation of the company's property is $100,000 in excess of what it really is. With a just valuation of the property the citizens claim that the net rate should be as follows: First 5,000 feet 55 cents; next 5,000 feet at 45 cents and all over 10,000 feet 30 cents. Rate Now Is Higher. The present rate is: First 1,000 feet 70 cents; next 1,000 feet, 60 cents; next 1,000 feet, 55 cents, next 1,000 feet 50 cents, and the next 1,000 feet, 40 cents; next 5,000 feet 25 cents and all over 10,000 feet, 30 cents. The petition sets forth that the company can not sell gas at 30 cents per 1,000 feet and realize a profit. Therefore, it alleges, the small consumer is made to pay for what the company loses in selling ga3 at 30 cents to the large consumer. It also asks that a maximum charge of 50 cents and a minimum charge of of Count not create a disturbance In GermanArgentine relations." matic corps. Energetic, forceful and "The grave disappointments which our foreign displomacy has occasioned us in the course of this war are measurably surpassed by this newest sensation," says Vorwaerts. "No word of rebuke or condemnation Is strong enough for the man who in a responsible position forwards such irresponsible dispatches to his government "Setting aside the moral aspect of the case for the moment It is sufficient to say that he violated the very primary dictates of prudence and caution, for after the theft of the Mexican dispatch Count Luxburg might have known that his messages also were likely to be Intercepted, which now proves to be the case. "Much has been told to us of the

JUDGE HOLDS SUFFRAGE ACT TO RE VOID; MAY REGISTER

Marlon County Jurist Rules That Women of Indiana Can't Vote Under Recently Passed Law, REGISTRY MAY 60 ON INDIANAPOLIS. Sept 17. What is known as the "woman's partial suffrage" act, passed by the last general assembly of the state of Indiana, was held to be null and void by Judge John J. Rockford of Marion county superior court this morning. The court held the act unconstitutional but refrained for the present from Issuing a temporary restraining order prohibiting women from registering, because he declared action by a higher court reversing his decision, might work a hardship if he prevented women registering now. At the court's suggestion, the attorneys went into a conference on the question of a restraining order against women registering. FEDERAL EMPLOYES MEET TO ORGANIZE A UNION WASHINGTON. Sept 17. Organ!-: zation of a national federal employes union was begun here today by delegates representing federal workers In every section of the country. It is expected that the organization when completed will comprise fifteen thousand members. Speakers listed for' today's sessions Included Samuel M. Gompers, Miss Jeannette Rankin, member of congress from Montana, and prominent labor leaders. Oldest Editor in Illinois Learned Trade on Palladium George N. Harper, 80 years old today, who was born near Richmond, holds the record as the oldest editor in the state of Illinois in continuous service with the same paper. He i3 editor of the Robinson Argus and has been for the last fifty-four years. Mr. Harper was born near Richmond, September 17, 1837. He served his apprenticeship in the printing business with the Richmond Palladium in lS53-'56. He went to Illinois in December of that year and began the publication of the Gazette, Robinson's, first papf r, the year following. He was editor of the Palestine Banner in 1859 and the Pana Enterprise in 1860. He returned to his Indiana home in 1862 and after a short service in the 106th Indiana infantry returned to Robinson and began the publication of the Argus. 35 cents be made, instead of 70 and 33 cents as now exists. The findings of the state commission in 1915 placed the valuation of the company's property at $450,000, the artificial gas plant included. Not Over $350,000. The petition just filed claims that the true valuation does not exceed $350,000 and that all property not actually used in the production of naturaL gas be excluded from the valuation. The present rates, according to Attorney Bond, for the first 5,000 feet of natural gas amount to an average of 55 cents per 1,000 feet and that Is the rate the citizens seek for the first 1,000 feet consumed. Not much gas is furnished for industrial purposes. The fifteen petitioners are Willard B. Dye, Clarence E. Mayhew, Henry E. Bode, John W. Rethmeyer, Harry CDoan, Edward R. Beatty, Theodore F. Aker, Frank S. Campbell, Leverett D. Haseltine, William A. Reece, Walter B. Kenney, Albert E. Smith, Herbert H. Schuerman, August Paust and John M. Emery. The city has no connection in the filing of the petition Attorney Bond having been employed by the- citizens to prepare the case. Luxburg need of careful sifting of our dlploshrewd men have been excluded from Germany's foreign representation on suspicion that they did not possess the needed social manners, sufficient tact and polish to represent Germany at foreign courts. And now behold one of those society men. "The German government Is duty bound to make prompt and unequivocal declaration that such methods as those employed by Luxburg are wholly foreign to its purpose and that It does not for a moment contemplate permitting again, to foe or neutral, inhuman, warfare in the course of which ships should be permitted to disappear without leaving a trace behind. Unfortunately the most important thing has been neglected and that was the. prompt recall of a minister who dared to make such a suggestion,'