Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 295, 23 October 1917 — Page 1

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FRENCH DASH FORWARD ON FRONT THREE MILES WIDE

Petain Launches Forces on Loan, Southern Stronghold of Foe's Line in Region of Aisne. BRITISH HOLD GAINS (By Associated Press) What may prove to be an operation of first rate importance was initiated by General Petain early today in the Aisne region northeast of Soissons. Along a front approximately three miles in extent the French infantry daBhed forward attacking the salient iu the German line which curves about Its southwestern key stone, the fortress of Laon. Fort De La Malmalson, the German stronghold which baffled the French in last spring's attack barring their way to the westerly end of the Che-mln-des Dames is apparently one of the Immediate objectives of tlie offensive. For days the big French guns have been hammering this fort heavily, both the Paris and Berlin reports indicating that some major movement was In preparation. Good progress was reported early Ir- the day by General Petain,- the French forcing their way forward along the whole front of the attack. Would Help on Laon Drive The taking of Fort De La Malmaieon would materially aid in the pushing of an attack on Laon, in an attempt to turn the German line in this region, although it has been considered probable that the main blow in such an attack would be struck further to the east where the back door road to Laon offers superior tactical advantages. Virtually all the ground gained in yesterday's offensive in Flanders has been retained by the Entente forces. At only one point in the southern part of Houtholst wood were the Germans able to regain any ground in counter attacks, and here It was only a single British post that was pushed back a short distance. The ground won was consolidated along the remainder of the front. .. . . On the eastern front the attempted German operations on the Esthonian main land north of the Gulf of Riga epparently have not progressed as favorably as the naval prelude and the fighting for possession of the outlying islands. Petrograd today reports that an effort by the Germans to effect a second landing on the coast about eight miles north of Werder, where they Srst put troops ashore, was frustrated by the Russians. Burglars Pass Up Cash, But Loot Three Stores of Eatables ECONOMY, Ind., Oct. 23. Leaving the money in cash drawers untouched, burglars looted three Economy stores sometime after midnight Tuesday morning, carrying off a quantity of foodstuffs. Forcing the door of a restaurant owned by Lee Lamb, the robbers gained entrance and stole a quantity of ham, butter and flour Proceeding to Beckman's grocery, they took cheese, crackers, cigarettes, ham and chocolctes. At the Greenstreet hardware 6tore. a window was "jimmied" and it is believed that some rubber goods vras stolen. In none of the stores was the cash drawer molested or any money taken. Mrs. J. P. Weaver, who lives next to one of the stores, heard the robbers, tut was too frightened to summon any help. Sheriff Carr came Tuesday morning and investigated the robbery. BuyWEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight except snow flurries in northeast portion. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Today's Temperature. Noon . .....36 Yesterday. Maximum 50 Minimum 32 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and cold tonight. Wednesday increasing cloudiness and rising temperature followed by snow or rain. General Conditions The storm of the past twelve hours is moving down the St. Lawrence valley and snow and rain have been general north of the Ohio river. The cold wave is central at Winnepeg, Canada, and is moving southeast. Its center will miss Richmond and will pass along the Canadian border but cold weather will prevail as far south as the thirtieth paralle. Reaction to somewhat warmer weather will take place after tonight Tor a brief period. Temperature probably wi'.l be between 15 and 20 degrees above zero tonight.

Officers at Camp Taylor Deny That Quakers Are Mistreated

Charges of alleged brutalities toward Quakers at Camp Zachary Taylor, mentioned In a report 4 submitted to the Five Years Meeting of Friends last week, while that body was In session in Richmond, are flatly denied by officers of the camp, these denials being supported by statements of newspaper correspondents on duty at the camp. In the report read to the meeting by Vincent D. Nicholson the allegation was made that one Quaker conscript had been attacked by two non-commissioned officers. According to a statement sent out from Camp Taylor a denial in to to of charges eubmitted to the Five Years Meeting Is entered by the division staff officers at the camp. Correspondents Find Naught. Newspaper men, who are permitted to go to all parts of the camp at all times, day and night, and talk freely with anyone, have found no evidence of harsh treatmdnt of Quakers or others who represent themselves to be conscientious objectors. Several scores of men have been found in the various organizations who have refused to drill on the ground that their religion forbade them to fight. All of these men have been assigned either to work at the school for cooks and .bakers or else to do "police" work about their own bar racks. This is cleaning ud and tending the fires and is no more of a menial task than the wealthiest drafted man in camp has to perform when his turn comes. Indiana has sent a number of these conscientious objectors to camp. If one Quaker in an Indiana regiment was struck by a sergeant it was an isolated case, and in no way representative of the policy generally observed here, it is declared. No complaint has been made to division headquarters that Quakers or men of any' other religious sect were being treated harshly. No Action Taken. It is a matter of general comment that there was no discussion on the part of the delegates to the Five Years Meeting of the report read -by Vincent D. Nicholson, no was any action taken on the report by the meeting in regard to young Friends who Says 'Twas One Unit of British Soldiers Instead of Nation Kemp Brown, of London, says he was incorrectly quoted in Monday's Palladium. The Palladium said he told the Five Years Meeting of Friends that 90 percent of the British people were for "peace at any price." Instead, Brown says he told the Five Years Meeting that 90 percent of one company of soldiers was for "peace at any price." Brown says he told this on the authority of a friend of his who heard it somewhere. Brown was forced to tell the meeting Monday night that he had been incorrectly quoted. L. Hollingsworth Wood, of New York, asked him to make a public statement. "We have enought opprobrium to bear on account of our pacifist attitude with respect to our own country without having blame for such statements with regard to our ally laid at our door," Wood told The Palladium Tuesday morning when he asked for a correction of the Brown statement.

Do You Want this to Happen to the United States ?

Huns Wring Millions From Poor Belgians

EXPLOIT RESOURCES AND DEPORT LABORERS

WASHINGTON, October 20. Germany has so far wrung about $1,600,000,000 in money from stricken Belgium, exclusive of what she ha3 gained by occupation of the country and systematic exploitation of its resources and people. Information reaching here today .through official channels, make this estimate, and adds that the Germn deportations of Belgians to work in Germany continue without abatement and that the looting of Belgian industry continues.

The Government is asking you to loan it money with which to defend us against the atrocious plans of Germany. For this money the Government will pay you 4 per cent each year, and then turn your money back to you. It's the best investment in the world today. If you can't fight Buy a Government Bond.

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was me senamg or a telegram to Secretary of War Baker urging that Quaker conscripts be placed under the jurisdiction of the Service committee of Friends for reconstruction work in France and for "other self sacrificing work." So far as known the secretary of war has taken no action on this request. PASTOR HITS QUAKER VIEWS Rev. Dr. J. J. Rae, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, answered the "position of Rev. Levi Penning ton, of Newburg, Ore., and L. Hollingsworth Wood, of New York, two Quak ers, in a strong address before the members of the Rotary club at the noon luncheon of that organization Tuesday noon. The Quakers declared that the so ciety of Friends "opposed war" be cause they "believed in humanity," they "believed in God" and that both God and man had better resources for settling national difficulties than by war, and that the resources of God were not exhausted. In answer to this statement Dr. Rae declared: "I am glad that I represent a position that needs no defense." None Has Monopoly "None of us believe in war," he declared, "and no organization has a monopoly in that belief, or in the belief of humanity, or in the belief in God. "As it is folly to reason with a mad dog, so it is folly to reason with a mad nation. Defense is the only reasonable thing. "War is a last resort, but If men would do right, it is the only resort. "War Is hell, but there are occasions when war with honor is vastly better than peace with dishonor. "Our duty at present is to stand loyally behind the nation and to support and defend its position to the securing of a greater humanity and the principals of the Kingdom of God." FOE LOSES HALF OF "ZEP" FLEET WASHINGTON, Oct 23. Grtnany probably lost one-naif of -jir total effective fleet of super zeppelins as a result of the raid of Oct 20 over England, according to official cablegrams received here. All France is exultant over what the dispatches declare to be the greatest defeat administered to an air fleet since the beginning of the war. The gratification is more intense because it is now known that the German raid was an attempt to carry out a fearful threat of vengeance made four days before. IMPORTANT MEETING OF BUSINESS MEN'S UNIT Members of the Business Men's unit, of the Indiana home guards will hold a meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Commercial club rooms. Severa important matters are to be taken up at this meeting in addition to the regular drill, according to Captain Malsby and a full attendance is urged.

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While many Russian women of the higher order are fighting in the army to save democracy, women of the uneducated classes are making themselves more and more of a problem for the Kerensky government. These women do not really know what they want, but German spies have not found it hard to arouse among them a spirit of great unrest.

ALL-FRIENDS CONFERENCE IS DISCUSSED IN CLOSSN

Five Years Meeting of Friends came to a close Monday evening after having been in session for a week. Several of the boards of the meeting were in session Tuesday for the purpose of transacting necessary business. The governing body, of, the American Friends' church will hold its next6Bion in Richmondda 192. . At- ItsClCTgeWonlm adopted a budget of $10,000 a year for the ensuing five years, to be used tor the operation of the meeting boards. Last evening a total of $S,915 for the 1918 appropriation of $10,000 was subscribed. W. Blair N'eatby of London. England, at the evening session discussed the All-Friends Conference, which is to be held in London at the close of the war. Friends in China, he said, were first to announce that they would be represented at this conference. Says Friends Must Help. He declared the Society of Friends must play an important role in the readjustment of religious and social conditions when peace again comes to the world. He asserted that only the Christian church could restore international amity and brotherhood, pointing to the failure of the recent Socialist peace conference at Stockholm. S.-E. Nicholson, chairman of the legislation and prohibition board, urged a continuation of efforts to prevent the use of the church name and the name of "Quaker" for commercial purposes, which was agreed to by a unan Despotism" is Old Story to Foulke Declaring that he had heard too much of "despotism," and the like un der Lincoln during the Civil war to be j moved by any appeal of "that kind, William Dudley Foulke, Richmond author and publicist, refused an offer to contribute to a St. Louis publics tion which he believed to be of a seditious nature. The offer was reported by Mr. Foulke to Postmaster General Burleson in which he stated to the postmaster general that The forthcoming publication would probably be seditious. . HOARDING HIT BY MUNCiE GEO A resolution was adopted Monday night at the meeting of the Retail Grocers in the Commercial club rooms' to co-operate with Food Administrator Hoover. Grocers agreed to do all in their power to lower the present high prices of food stuff. Speculation in food will be discontinued after November 1, according to A. Bogue of Rushville, who addressed the grocers. An address was also made by Fred Fromuth of Muncie, who owns a chain of retail groceries. He said grocers :re doing business ou a smaller margin than ever before. "It is unpatriotic to carry big stocks. I the basements of the country were turned inside out, there would be more than enough for all. If you buy large quantities of food stuff the rich customer will benefit for the poor man cannot economize and the plan will be defeated," continued Mr. Froh' muth. . There were ten grocers present. There are more than 100 retail grocers in Richmond.

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Egged on by German Spies, Problem For Russian Government

women agitators parading in Petro imous vote. A motion made by Mr. Nicholson, favoring nation-wide prohibition by constitutional amendment also was adopted. W. Blair Neatby, in his address, referring to an address delivered to the meeting Monday morning, by another English fraternal delegate, Kemp Brown, which was considerably criti cised TtUohmond people, took issnei by Brown, that free speech is being denied English people and their other liberties are being curtailed. Neatby said that many liberties were being denied Englishmen now, but asserted that greater freedom of speech was enjoyed in Great Britain than in other belligerent European nations, and even in the United States. SNOWFALL Big white, silvery flakes of snow, the hardest of the season, fell Tuesday morning, and then Old Sol deemed it wise to appear upon the scene, and he did. It was the hardest show of the season. The temperature hovered about the thirty degree mark Tuesday morning. According to Weather Forecaster Moore the red liquid will register between the fifteen and twenty mark Tuesday night. "Ah 'tis a nipping and eager air, 'tis bitter cold the winds cuts like a knife," remarked one William Shake speare some years ago. That's the v ay it felt in Richmond Tuesday morn'"IT According to the weather man rain and snow will again make its appearance on the stage within the next twenty-four hours.

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Lincoln Head on Penny Thrown Back at Haughty Angle Now; Cent Has Come Into Its Own

By RAMSEY POUNDSTONE In the old days, the days when a dime's worth of pork chops provided enough meat for a medium sized family, when a jitney bought a real loaf of bread, and when bacon eaters were considered "common" people, the well known copper penny circulated about the country mutely apologizing for having been minted. Even the head of Lincoln on this coin seemed to droop in shame back iu the old days. It was during that period of ancient history, some five or six years ago, that the penny only had two friends, the small boy and the small girl, and the big majority of the extensive family of pennies spent most of their time impriscned in toy banks. Consign it to Bank The average man in those days, v.-hen a "billion-dollar congress" was considered an accursed thing, would contemptuously pull forth a penny found lurking in his loose change pocket, leer at it as if to say, "Why, you little rascal, you've got a lot a crust wishin' yourself off on me," then drop it clinking in utter shame, into" Little Willie's bank, which was ntver opened except at Christmas time. But, what we started to sa,y, have

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Christmas Mail to Sailors Must Leave Before November 25 Christmas packages for saUors in European wr.ters must positively be in the mail not later than November 25. B. B. Gold farb, in charge of the Richmond navjr recruiting station, has received instructions from the navy department to emphasize these Instructions to persons who are contemplating sending Christmas packages to relative or friends wnoTF' serving in foreign waters. The packages must be addressed in care of the postmaster of New York City and must be marked "Christmas irail." : Women Bake 1,000 Cookies For Soldiers Fond memories of mother In the kitchen on cookie bakin day will come back in a substantial manner to the Richmond boys now on duty at the army camp at Hattiesburg, Miss., Ecme day the latter part of this week. Having in mind the masculine fondness for that culinary dainty, the cookie, the women employed at the Knollenberg store decided to arrange a cookie treat for the Richmond soldiers at Hattiesburg. Each of them promised to bake a certain number of cookies, and today the young women brought their part of the "trat" to the store for ship ment. Tuesday afternoon one thousand cookies were enronte to Hattiesburg. TO INSPECT SMITHFIELD Members of the county board of commissioners will meet Wednesday and go to Smithfield to inspect the property recently acquired by the coun ty for a tuberculosis hospital. you noticed lately the almost haughty angle of the head of Father Lincoln on the penny, once, but no more, the outcast of coins? No longer is the penny imprisoned in the kid's back the year "round. In fact. Little Willie has to keep a sharp watch now on his prized collection of one-cent pieces if they are to remain safe from big brother or even dad. Penny Doina Its Bit into its own again. Once a spurned

coin it i3, today, one of real value. The penny is "doing its bit." That Is the reason the head of Father Lincoln is held so highly. The penny is paying a big part of the many new war taxes, and It has also establi?hed its value in the commercial world. For insantce, the package of tobacco father uses, once purchasable with a nickle, is not procurable these days unless there is a penny handy to go over the counter with the nickle. To fully realize the present day value of the penny just consider the number of mercantile articles, once purchasable for a nickle, a dime or a "two-bit" piece, which now sell for six cents, or eleven cents or twentyseven cent3. Long live the Penny!

RICHMOND TO OBSERVE LOAN DAY IN BIG CIVIC DRIVE

Orations and Closed Doors to Be Absent But Effective Work Will Be Done. LIST OF CANVASSERS The Day Tomorrow; Wednesday, October 24; Liberty Loan Day. The Time From 1 to 5 p, m. The Place Richmond in Its entirety. Tomorrow will be Liberty Loan Day, made so by the proclamation of the President of the United States but Richmond's observance will not be la the nature of the cessation of business and the listening to orations on the need of the nation. Instead of these perfunctory sort of manifestations, Richmond intends to get down to real business and make a strenuous effort to booest the city's part of the county quota to seven figures. With the sounding of factory whi ties and church bells at 1 o'clock tomorrow, the canvass of the city will begin, and the following is a list of business men who, under the direction of W. C. Seeker, city chairman, will go forth and seek out citizens who may desire to aid their government by making an application for Liberty Bonds: List of Solicitors. John M. Lontz, James A. Carr, George Seidel, Joseph H. Mills. W. F. Bockhoff, S. E. Swayne, Pettis A. Reld, Clarence Kramer, Thomas Tarkleson, Harry Doan, E. K. Shera, Robert Wil son, Lee Dykeman, S. E. Curtis, George Rone, Fred Lemon, Elmer E. Eggemeyer, W. H. Romey. Henry Goldfinger. George H. Knollenberg. W. W. Reller, v 111 RIndt, Lee Nusbaum. Sam Fred, Ed Feltman, James Hornaday, Oscar Dickinson, George Brehm, Mich ael Qulgley, Walter McConaha, L. S. Bowman, Ed J. Weidner. Fred Bartel, Will Starr, Rutherford Jones. Frank Chambers, A.E . Holmes, Nimrod H. Johnson, E. H. Harris, D. S. Coe, Frank Taylor, Wilbur HlbbenL D. N. Elmer, C. W. Jordan, J. C. Price, Will Bailey, Clarence Kleinknecht, Frank Braffett, Charles Thomason, P. Bates, Frank Albus, WSU Bond, Mayor Bobbins. E. M. Campfield, Alonso M. Gardner, C. A. Harrison, Paul Price, Howard A. Dill, Willard Carr, Charles Beck, Ira C. Woods. A luncheon will be served at the Commercial Club rooms at promptly 12 o'clock tomorrow. There will be a few 6hort talks by business men relative to the work in hand, and then the hustling will begin. The commitee In charge believes there will be a very generous response. City Total $720,000 The subscriptions in the city of Richmond up to last night had reached $720,000, while the county outside still stood at approximately $200,000. The million dollar mark should be reached today and It is expected that by tomorrow night Richmond's total alone will have reach a million dollars. Possibly the total for Richmond will go much higher for it is known that there will be several large subscriptions in addition to the hundreds of smaller ones. The committee In charge of tomorrow's drive desires It to be understood that only a very small proportion of the citizens can be visited. It Is pointed out that such persons who are not visited, because of the lack of time, 6hould not hesitate In looking the committee up. Telephone to any bank In Richmond or to Commerclpj rooms, phone 2000, and say that you want to make application. A special messenger will be sent at once with the necessary blank. It does not matter whether you desire to subscribe for a $50 bond or one of the denomination of $50,000, tta committee will answer your summons. POSTOFFICE TO CLOSE The postofflce will be closed Wednesday at 12 o'clock in accordance with the proclamation of the president for Liberty Loan day. LIBERTY LOAN STILL LAGGING WASHINGTON, Oct 23. The Liberty Loan was still lagging today, on the face of scattering unofficial estimates to the treasury department. Officials were hoping that the three billion dollar minimum would be reached by tomorrow night when the heavy anticipated volume cf Liberty Day sales would be at hand. Officials announced that there was little Information at hand to lead them to believe that the five billion dollar maximum would be reached, although they thought the sum might possibly be taken by an eleventh hour avalanche of subscriptions. EGOND NATIONAL BOYS 8500,000 The board of directors of the Second National bank announced today that it had subscribed for $500,000 worth of Liberty Loan bonds. This is one of the largest subscriptions for bonds that has been made here.