Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 18, 3 December 1917 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DEC. 3, 1917.

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BANKER TELLS WHERE LOYAL POSITION IS

Otto H. Kahn, of German Descent, Sends Statement to a Richmond Man. One of the most loyal Americans of German descent Is Otto Kahn, the great Xetv York banker of Kahn, Loeb & Company. In a recent statement, issued by himself and sent to William C. Ferguson, of Richmond, be outlines what be believes should be the position of all Americans of foreign descent. The opy of a letter to Ferguson In which he gives him permission to have the booklet reprinted follows: William C. Ferguson. Esq., Richmond, Indiana. Dear Sir I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 26th Inst, and thank you for your kind expressions concerning my little booklet, "Prussianized Germany," I am honored by your Intention to give publicity In your city to that pamphlet and gladly consent to your doing eo. I should be only too happy if it were Riven to ray poor words to aid, In however a modest degree, toward stimulating loyalty and notional cohesion and toward furthering a true understanding of the righteousness and nobility of our cause and the hatefulness of that of our enemy. Faithfully yours, OTTO H. KAHN. Mr. Kahn's statement, "Prussianized Germany." follows: PRUSSIANIZED GERMANY By OTTO H. KAHN From an address before the Harrisburg, Pa., Chamber of Commerce, September 26. 1917 J I speak as one who has seen the spirit of the Prussian governing class at work from close by, having at Its disposal and using to the full practically every agency for moulding the public mind. I have watched It proceed with relentless persistency and profound cunning to instill into the nation the demoniacal obesslon of power-worship and world-dominion, to modify and pervert the mentality indeed the very fibre and moral substance of the German people, a people which until misled, corrupted and systematically poisoned by the Prussian ruling caste, was and deserved to be an honored, valued and welcome member of the family of nations. I have hated and lonthed that spirit ever since it came within my ken many years ago: hated It all the more at I saw it ruthless'y pulling down a thing which was dear to me the old Germany to which I was linked by tlos of blood,. by fond memories and cherished sentiments. The difference in the degree of guilt as between the German people and their Prussian or Prussian rulers and leaders for the monstrous crime of hi3 war and the atrocious barbarism liKwecn the man who, acting under ihe influence of a poisoned drug, runs amuck in mad frenzy and the unspeakable malefactor who cdministerrc that drug, well knowing and fully intending the ghastly consequences nhich were bound to follow. The world fervently longs for peace. IJiit there can be no peace answering to the true meaulng of the word no peace permitting the nations of the earth, great and small, to walk unarmed and unafraid until the teaching and the leadership of the apostles of an outlaw creed shall have become discredited and hateful in the sight of the German people; until that people shall have awakened to a consciousness of the unfathomable guilt of those whom they have followed into calamity and shame: until a mood of penitence and of a decent respect for the opinions of mankind shall have supplanted the sway of what President Wilson hag so trenchantly termed "truculence and treachery." God strengthen the conscience and the understanding, the will and the power of the German people so that they may find the only road which will give to the world an early peace and in time lead Germany back into iho family of nations from which It is now an outcast. From each successive visit to Germany for twenty-five years I came ii way more appalled by the sinister transmutation Prussianism had wrought amongst the people and by ihe portentous menace I recognized In it for the entire world. It had given to Germany unparallelnl prosperity, beneficent and advanced social legislation, and not a few other things of value-Mt It had taken in payment the soul of the race. It had made a "devil's bargain." And when this war broke out in Europe I knew that the issue had been joined between the powers of brutal might and insenate ambition on the one side and the forces of humanity and liberty on the other; between darkness and light. Many there were at that time and Hinonndt them men for whose character I had high respect and whose mofives were beyond any possible suspi- ' .'on who saw their own and Amer"'s duty in strict neutrality, mental- ! and actually, but personally I beared from the beginning of the war. "'nether' we liked all the elements of i'ic Allies combination or not and I crtainly did not like the Russia of 'lie Czars that the cause of the Allies v.'hs America's cause. I believed that thla was no ordinary 'ar between peoples for a question of atlonal interest, or even national lienor, but a conflict between fundamental principles and Ideas; and so tolleving I was bound to fel that the ratural lines of race, blood and kinship could not be the determining lines for one's attitude and alignment, but that each man, regardless of his origin, had to decide according to his liidgment and conscience on which (tide was the right and on which was he wrong and take his 6tand accordingly, whatever the wrench and anguish of the decision. And thus I took my stand three years ago. But whatever one's views and feelings, whatever the country of one's birth or kin. only one course was left for all those claiming the privilege of American citizenship when after infinite forbearance the President decid-,

LEADING STATESMEN OF ALLIES

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Left to right, above: Premier Clemenceau, Premier Orlando and Premier Lloyd George. Below: Premier Venizeloa, Baron de Broqueville, Col. E. M. House, Baron Chinda and Premier Costa. Prominent statesmen of many nations now at war with Germany are LARGE SILK FLAG GIVEN TO CHURCH A large silk flag was presented to Second Presbyterian church Sunday morning in morning worship by J. H. Baker, an elder, through the pastor. Rev. Elmer E. Davis. The flag which is adequately mounted, will stand on the pulpit rostrum during the period of the war. The presentation was made the occasion of an address on "The Flag" by the pastor. Graduation exercises for - twelve children from the primary department were conducted in the Sunday school. ed that our honor aud safety demanded that we take up arms against the Imperial German Government, and by action of Congress the cause and the fight against that Government were declared our cause and our fight. The duty of loyai allegiance and faithful service to his country, even unto death, rests, cf course, upon every American. But, if it be possible to speak of a comparative degree concerning what is the highest as it is the most elementary attribute of citizenship, that duty may almost be said to rest with an even more solemn and compelling obligation upon Americans of foreign origin than upon native Americans. For we Americans of foreign antecedents are here not by the accidental right of birth, but by our own free choice for better or for worse. We are your fellow citizens because you accepted our oath of allegiance as given in good faith, and because you have opened to us in generous trust the portals of American opportunity and freedom, and have admitted us to membership m the family of Americans, giving us equal rights In the great inheritance which has been created by the blood and the toil of your ancestors, asking nothing from in return but decent citizenship and adherence to those ideals and principles which are symbolized by the glorious flag of America. Woe to the foreign-born American who betrays the splendid trust which you have reposed in him! Wot to him who considers his American citizenship merely as a convenient garment to be worn in fair weather but to be exchanged for another one In time of storm and stress! Woe to the German-American, socalled, who, in this sacred war for a cause as high as any for which ever people took up arms, does not feel a solemn urge, does not show an eager determination to be in the very forefront of the struggle: does not prove a patriotic jealousy, in thought, in action and in speech to rival and to outdo his native-born fellow citizen in devotion and in willing sacrifice for the country of his choice and adoption and sworn allegiance, and of their common affection and prido. As Washington led Americans of British blood to fight against Great Britain, as Lincoln called upon Americans of the North to fight their very brothers of the South, so Americans of German descent are now summon ed to join in our country's righteous struggle against a people of their own blood, which, under the evil spell of a dreadful obesslon, and, Heaven knows, through no fault of ours, has made itself the enemy of this peaceloving Nation, as it is the enemy of peace and right and treedom throughout the world. To gain America's independence, to defeat oppression and tyranny, was indeed to gain a great cause. To preserve the Union, to eradicate slavery, was perhaps & greater still. To defend the very foundations of liberty and humanity, the very groundwork of fair reallng between nations, the very basis of peaceable living together among the peoples of the earth against the fierce and brutal onslaught of ruthless, lawless, faithless might; to spend the lives and the fortunes of this generation so that our descendants may be freed from the dreadful calamity of war and the fear of war, so that the energies and billions of treasure now devoted to plans and

taking part in the great interallied war conference at Paris. Among the leading figures at the conference are instruments of destruction may e given henceforth to fruitful work of peace and progress and to the betterment of the conditions of the people that is the highest cause for which any people ever unsheathed Its sword. He who shirks the full measure of hi3 duty and allegiance in that noblest of causes, be he German-American, Irish-American, or any other hyphenated American, be he I. W. W. or Socialist or whatever appellation, does not deserve to stand amongst Ameri cans or, indeed, amongst free men any where. He who, secretly or overtly, tries to thwart the declared will and aim of the Nation in this holy war in a traitor and a traitor's fate should-fce hiiA ' Forum (All articles far this column must not exceed 300 words. Contributors must sign their names, although the name will be withheld by the management at the request of the writer. Articles having no name attached will be thrown into the waste basket.) Cambridge City, Ind. November 30, 1917. Editor Palladium: May I say something anent the news item from here in yesterday's paper under heading, "Cambridge City Folks Opposed to New Sewers." I hope they are not opposed, and believe they are not although an erroneous impression has been put abroad concerning them and remonstrances are being circulated under a misapprehension of the facts. As to the conditions that demand the construction of sewers, I want the people of this town, and of Wayne county to know the facts, o that If by any chance the sewer proposition is defeated, they may put the responsibility where it belongs, and properly classify the opposition to it. The proposed sewers are all west of the river. Running from west to east from Boundary street, near the west side of the town, to the river, and not more than one hundred and twenty feet north of Main street at any point, is a branch or small creek which bears locally a very significant name which we do not speak In the presence of our lady friends. In this creek, usually on the sides of the stream, seldom, in the water, is deposited the sewage from most of the abutting property, and from considerable distant territory whence it comes in private drains constructed by property owners to carry their refuse out of their way and dump it on the property and within a few feet of the dwellings of their fellow citizens. This creek drys up, ceases to run, becomes stagnant in hot weather. It Is simply an open sewer through the heart of the town and you can infer the discomfort from the odors and fhe menace to health. This is within fifty to sixty feet of the houses of numerous persons whose owners have suffered this condition as long as they will. And the shameful fact is that this community claims to be civilized, and this condition exists, and we have health board in this town, and In the county and 6tate. And some of us have learned to like it so well that we are signing remonstrances against its removal. And a significant fact is that some of the remonstrants are persons who live outside of the zone of smells and are emptying their sewage into the branch, in violation of law. Again, running north and south through our loved town is the old canal. This is filling up with mud, trash decaying vegetation and offal. Water runs in this part of the time only. Private sewers from business houses, flats, saloons restaurants, private residence, empty into this, on top of the mud, near the business center of the town within the immediate vicinity of the Vinton House, the K. of P. temple, and other business houses. The odor from this during the summer and fall just passed was simply fierce, that condition extending for a half a block each way. The wives of two

TAKE PART

Col. E. M. House, representing the United States; Premier Lloyd George of England, Premier Clemenceau of France, Premier Orlando of Italy, Premier Costa of Portugal, Foreign Minister de Broqueville of Belgium, Baron Chlnda of Japan, and Elutherios Venizelos. Greek - premier and minister of war. business men who live on this canal have been sick, seriously sick, for almost a year, it is charged to thia condition. The proposed trunk sewer will remedy this condition fully, remove the entire evil, and will furnish an outlet for the sanitary drainage of substantially all of the town west of the river. No other trunk sewer will be needed in that territory till the population becomes ten thousand probably fifty years hence. The engineers estimate on this sewer is less than $14,000, including a disposal tank. If twenty percent of the most is charged to the abutting property, and the balance distributed over the drainage district, it will cost the owner of an ordinary building lot fifty by one hundred twenty feet, ten dollars eightytwo cents, with ten years to pay for it in, if he" does not feel "able to pay cash. The other part of the cost $2,800 will be assessed to the abutting property along a frontage of 8,400 feet, costing less than thirty cents per running foot. Personally I think a larger percent of the cost should be assessed to the abutters. The tax rate will not be affected, the bill will be paid by the property benefited. I do not think there is anybody here who is so cheap he will not be willing to pay his little part of this necessary improvement when he understands it. The proposed local sewers are provided for in an other resolution, they are short locals for exclusive benefit of abutting property owners who will pay for them. The general public is not financially interested. If the abutting property owners don't want them they can say so, it is impudence for the other taxpayers to say anything at all. If by any chance the town should be benefited so that any part of the cost shall be adjudged to it by the town board, which is unlikely, the tax rate will not be affected at all, and we will build our school house when it is needed just the same. The town trustees of this town have not increased its tax rate for municipal purposes for many years. They have made its many improvements without doing so. The increase has been for state purposes, by the school corporation, for a township library which the people petitioned for, and to pay for a concrete township road, which tax the town does not levy. If you will send a reporter over with "nose for news" and other things, to make an investigation, I think he can get material for a mighty good writeup for the town, to be used only if the sewers are defeated, and I am sure that after he has made his survey, he will adopt the exclamation that Mark Twain put in the mouth of one of his characters: "Great guns! I never saw the like, I never heard the like, I never smelled the like." Yours truly, A. R. FEEMSTER. Get Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That is the joyful cry of thousands eince Dr. Edward3 produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician fas 17 years end calomel's old-time enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablet3 while treating patients for chronic coaeiipation and torpid livers. Dr. Ed ward a' Olive Tablets do not contain calomel, but a healing, soothing vegetable laxative. No griping is the 'keynote,, of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets. They cause the bowels and liver to act normally. They never force them to unnatural action. If you have a "dark brown mouth" now and fhfn hail hreafVi a.i j feelingsick headache torpid liver and are constipated, you'll find quick, sure and only pleasant results from one or two little Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets at bedtime. Thousands take one or two every night Just to keep right. Try thera. 10c and 25c per box. ' All druggists.

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DRAFTABLES ARE STILL RUSHING TO RECRUITERS Sergeant Wright Is Busy Answering Questions of the Would-Be Soldiers.

The rush of enlistments to the army recruiting office is still continuing and by tbe last of the week the office will not be able to handle those who have been putting off enlisting in the army. Sergeant Wright has been kept busy answering questions concerning the draft askari hv fifiv men Monday ! morning seeking information concern ing their chances of getting Into the army. Clarence Lane of Richmond, and Howard Meeks of Cecterville, enlisted Monday, said Sergeant Wright. Eight more men leave Tuesday for Indianapolis to take a more rigid examination and be sworn in i! they are passed. They are Wilson Taggart, Edwin Gregg, Cecil Stevens, Roy C. Hendricks, Russel Neff, William R. Bertram, Elvln Folger and William Sonia. Recruiter Goldfarb was in Connersvilled Monday. Want to Give All Chance. Word was received .Monday at the army recruiting office from the Adjutant General that between now and December 15, it is desired to afford men who have registered under the conscription law as wide an opportunity as possible to enlist in the Army. Attention is called to .the fact that this puts every man who has registered under the selective conscription law on an equal footing. According to word received by Sergeant Wright of the Richmond Recruiting office, any person who has registered, even though he has been called by the local board to report for physical examination, may enlist until December 15, upon presentation. to the recruiting officer of a certificate from the local board that he will not be needed to fill any deferred percentage of the quota of the board. This ruling modifies all previous instructions. ART SCHEDULE FOR NIGHT SCHOOL OUT Principal Carman has announced the following schedule to be given In connection with the Arts and Travels course at the night school when the new term begins after the Christmas holidays. Members of the committee assisting Principal Carman were Mrs. M. F. Johnston, Miss Emilie Maue, Rev. J. J. Rae, William Dudley Foulke, Miss Mary E. Williams and Prof. John D. Rea. The schedule is as follows: Wednesday, Jan. 9 William Dudley Foulke, illustrated talk on Paris. High school auditorium. Wednesday, Jan. 16 E. G. Hill, talk on floriculture. ' " " " Wednesday, Jan. 23 Miss Emilie Maue, Greek and Roman architecture. Illustrated. Exhibit Of high school mechanical devices by B. W. Kelly, assisted by high school boys. Parents of high school students Invited. Wednesday, Jan. SO Kenneth V. Carman, "Some Famous Sculptors and Their Work." Wednesday, Feb. 6 Opening of Indiana Artists Exhibit. Mrs. M. F. Johnston, lecture. Wednesday. Feb. .13 Illustrated lecture on Canada, by Dr. J. J. Rae. Indiana exhibit open to public. Wednesday, Feb. 20 Indiana Art Exhibit. Vote by members of Richmond Art association for Mary T. R. Foulke prize. Public invited. Prof. John D. Rea of Earlham college will be asked to talk on "Development of Art in Indiana Sources and Interpretations," Wednesday evening, Feb. 27. STEAM ENGINE AND PUMPS INSTALLED AT HIGH SCHOOL The steam engine and pumps donated to the High school by the Municipal Light company were installed Monday in the forge shop. Boys of the High school who are taking machine shop work will tear down and rebuild the old machines for practical work. C. O. Mays, in charge of the department, will be assisted by Mr. Ward. Healthy Skin Depends on Kidneys The skin and the intestines, which work together with the kidneys to throw out the poisons of the body, do a part of the work, but a clean body and a healthy one depends on the kidneys. If the kidneys are clogged with toxic poisons you suner trom stinness in the knees tn the morning on arising, your joints seem "rusty," you may have rheumatic pains, pain in the back, stiff neck, headaches, sometimes swollen feet, or neuralgic pains all due to the unc acid or toxic poisons in the blood. This is the time to go to the nearest drug store and simply obtain a 50c. package of Anuric (double strength), the discovery of Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y. Then drink a cup of hot water before meals, wjth an Anuric Tablet, and notice the gratifying results. You will find that Anunc dissolves urio acid almost as water does sugar. OPERATION AVOIDED. Lafayette, Ind. "Three years ago I was taken to tne nospit&l all arrangements made for an operation, but when the doctors were uncertain as to whether iA it was to be for p pendicitis or woman's trnuhle I iristd nton being taken home until thev were of u one opinion as to my ailment. Then a friend told me what wonderful remedies Dr. Pierce's were, selling right from the drug shelves, ana thought they might give me relief. I bought a bottle each of 'Favorite Prescription' and 'Golden Medical Discovery' and a box of 'Lotion Tablets.' These relieved me of a catarrhal condition, all abdominal pain, etc. But I took the medicines for almost a year to make sure of a complete recover'. Today I am in absolutely good health," -Mas. U. S. Cbitsee, 414 Union St.

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Continued From Page One. areas immediately provided themselves with rifles atnd Joined the hard pressed British, or turned their hands to other important work. Biggest Fighting Yet. The experiences of these men and of those who were caught behind the German advance probably surpasses anything which the expeditionary force on the American front yet has encountered in the way of actual fighting. . One of the trains run by an American crew was west of Villers Guislain, which was the first place through which the Germans charged on the southern flank of the offensive. Shells suddenly began to fall about the engineers and almost immediately they eaw a horde of grey coats charging toward them. The driver of the engine saw there was no time to linger and ran for a near by shell hole. His four helpers sought similar shelter and they reached cover before they were seen by the Germans, although one of the crew was wounded slightly by a shell splinter. The rive Americans lay in the shell hole for hours with the Germans all about anl only escaped after the British had counter-attacked and driven the enemy back. BYNG WITHSTANDS THREE-DAY EFFORTS TO BREAK THROUGH (By Associated Press) Violent German efforts to wipe out the salient - before Cambral have brought little tactical success as General Byng has withstood successfully for three days all attempts to break through. About Gonnelieu the Germans have gained slight terrain at heavy cost and the British have evacuated Masnieres, south of Cambral. The Germans have suffered very heavy losses in dead and wounded and the British have taken many hundreds of prisoners. In the important sector west of Cambral, embracing Bourlon wood the dominating position In this region, the Germans have made no impression on the British defenses, nor have General Byngs men given ground between Bourlon wood and Moeuvres, the northern side of the salient. Ten heavy attacks against, the region of Masnieres were driven off by the British with costly losses for the attackers, but a sharp salient involving the village made its abandonment necessary. Dead Piled High. Southwest of Masnieres toward Gonnelieu the Germans still hold La Vacquerie, where it is said the dead in twelve hours have numbered more in any similar period since the beginning of the war. The British have reached Gonnelieu and fighting was in progress Sunday in ' and around the village. In this region the Germans used four or five divisions Friday and attacked in massed formation Saturday and Sunday. At least six or seven divisions were used by the attackers in their fruitless efforts to break the northern leg of the salient. Northeast of Ypres in Flanders, the British have captured fortified buildings and German strong points on the main ridge north of Passchendaele. On the remainder of the western front the i artillery . continues , active. The German crown prince has not repeated his attacks in the Verdun region. On most of the Italian front the infantry remains virtually inactive, while the artillery is engaged in violent bombardments, especially along the Piave river. Italians Still Hold. On the Asiago plateau the Italians have withstood a local Austro-German attack against Monte Meletta, while near Monte Pertica, along the Brenta,

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the Italians made a slight advance. Austro-German infantry movements in the inundated district near the month of the Plave have been under Italian artillery fire. While the Bolsbevlki representatives planned to enter the German lines Sunday and begin negotiations with the Germans nothing has yet been reported of their mission. The Bolshevlkl leader Trotsky has warned the allied diplomats in Petrograd that his government will not permit them to interfere in the Internal affairs of Russia, especial as to giving advice to Gen. Dukhonln. The demobilization of the Russian army by the Bolshevlkl is reported to have begun. The Russian provisional government has reappeared and Issued a manifesto asserting It is the only legal authority. It urges the people to disobey the decrees of the Bolshevlkl.

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