Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 38, 26 December 1917 — Page 1

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Prisoners of an Illusion By. Herman Hagedorn, of the Vigilantes In -the January McGlure's

THE German-Americans are the prisoners of an illusion, tied hand and foot by sentimentalities. The majority of them are not really pro-German. Even the greater part of them who growl at America and noisily applaud every misrepresentation of our Government and our aims, do not really want Germany to defeat the United States. Possibly thy do not know exactly what they do want, unless it be a divine dispensation or a negotiated peace which will presumably wipe out the past three years and let us with a sigh of relief start life again where we left off when the unpleasantness began. They want to see America neither beaten nor victorious. They are doomed by their whole bringing-up to an unhappy, grumbling neutrality. The German-Americans are prisoners. Sentiments are their fetters. Only a negligible number would ever want to take up arms for Germany. The majority are fully conscious that they belong to America, that their future and the future of their children lie here. But sentiments tie their hands behind their backs ; and they are not even valid sentiments. The Germany to which their hearts now turn in sympathy is not the Germany we know hard, materialistic and brutally bent on achieving, preserving and exercising power but a tender land of green valleys and sleepy towns, of castle ruins and cozy taverns in their shad-

WORLD PLOT TO OVERTURN SOCIAL ORDER IS UNEARTHED Union of American I. W. W., Russian .Bolsheviki, and Irish Agitators Made to Spread Disorder. U. S. TO ACT SWIFTLY WASHINGTON", Dec. 26. American Industrial Workers of the World, Russian Bolsheviki, Irish agitators and revolutionists in various countries at war with Germany are seeking to lay the foundation of a world-wide plot to overturn existing social order, it is indicated by evidence uncovered by Government agents. Officials here admitted this today, in connection with the discovery of rifles, revolvers and ammunition in the Russian freighter Shilka, which has Just arrived at a Pacific port. Government agents suspect that the cun3 and ammunition were intended Continued On Page Five. THE WE ATI For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau- Probably snow and not quite so cold tonight and Thursday. Today's Temperature. Noon 25 Yesterday. Maximum 32 Minimum 17 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy today and probably snow Thursday. General Conditions Severe cold weather extending from Alaska to South Dakota. Thirty-five degrees below on Canadian border and sixty degrees below at Tanana and Eagle, Alaska being the coldest bo far this season. A disturbance now going over the west causing snow in the plain states and will probably carry some of it here within 24 to 36 hours. Will probably not be so cold although the wind from the east will increase. Red Tape, (By Arthur Sears Henning. in the Chicago Tribune.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. With the conviction growing in congress that tho government must take immediate action to provide for arming and equipping adequately forces that may total 4,000,000 men eventually, it became known that Secretary of War Baker is to bo closely questioned by the senate Investigating committee on the proposal to establish a great bureau of supplies analogous to the British ministry of munitions. The revelations of inefficiency in the ordnance bureau and the quartermaster general's office have created great uneasiness in congress and the senators who have cross-examined Gen. Crozier and Gen. Sharpe are not satisfied that arms and equipment will be produced in sufficient quantities

American Saint Nick in France Comes to Children Through Air

(By Associate Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Tuesday, Dec. 25. The American expeditionary force in France celebrated Xmas in a howling snowstorm, which rolled in from the mountains in the early hours, continued all day and showed no sign of abating tonight. Despite the difficulties due to the storm few features of any program were cancelled for most of the festivities were held indoors. Even the celebration at the quarters ef the-Americast air squadron 'was carried out although a blinding snow swirled Into the hangar where a tree had been erected for the children of a nearby village. There, Santa Claus swooped down from clouds dripping white and with a pack on his back stepped from an airplane. His gogfles, cap, red suit and sack were dusted heavily with snowflakes, much to the delight of about one hundred small children who huddled within the shelter of the hangar. Sight Strange To 'Em. It is doubtful that children anywhere had ever seen such a sight before. When the youngsters had gathered at the hangar, Santa Claus. who was an American corporal, got into a big machine at a nearby hangar. He flew off and fifteen minutes later COONGIL MAY PRODE FEES City council, which will meet in special session Wednesday night, may oppose tne appropriation of additional money for the use of the health department in meeting bills incurred by the recent near-epidemic of smallpox in Richmond. The session has been called by Mayor Robbins for the purpose of making an additional appropriation for the health authorities. The appropriation bill must be passed in the one session and it is necessary to get the unanimous vote of council. One councilman said Wednesday that he would oppose the appropriation unless an investigation of the bills of Dr. W. G. Huffman and Dr. E. H. Mendanhall, city physician, who handled most of the smallpox cases, was made or had been made. Dr. Huffman's and and Dr. Mendanhall's bills alone, for about twenty-three days work, amount to approximately $1,200, and it is expected that more bills will be presented. Disgrace by any makeshift expedient, such as the creation of a war council in the war department which includes in its membership the bureau chiefs under fire. Baker Is Evasive. Secretary of War Baker was asked to state his position on the question of a reorganization of the army supply agencies along the line of a ministry of munitions. He replied that he had taken no position on the matter for publication. He declined to discuss the revelations of retarded war preparations elicited by the senate investigating committee, saying that he wished to reserve what he has to say on these matters until he appears before the senate committee, possibly this week. Although there is a holiday lull in the various investigations into war ac

ow, of singing and fiddle playing and dancing in the woods and coffee-parties and hilarious excursions and summer walking-trips along the Rhine and through the Black Forest, and in it and through it all, the "Trompeter von Sakkingen" school of sentimental romance. It is to this picture-book Germany that their minds return. Instead of contrasting German actuality with American actuality, they contrast this dreamGermany with workaday America; and against so, rosy a dream even Milwaukee seems roughly alien and unkind. The German-Americans are fettered with illusions. "Germany gave us so much," they say, "how can we turn against her?" When they say that, they forget that, once upon a time, they or their fathers somewhere in Germany weighed thoughtfully the benefits of German life and the probable benefits of American life, weighed the pleasantness, the charm, the consciousness of "being home" among friends, against the greater freedom, the greater opportunities that the old home and seek the distant shore. What America offered seemed then of greater value than what Germany offered. They came to America, and they were evidently not disappointed, for they remained. They and their children recognized that what America gave was to them of greater value than what Germany could give them. "Germany gave us so much, how

there was a whirr of engines over the childrens heads and an airplane dropped to the snow covered field before them. The children had been told that Santa had abandoned his old sleigh for an airplane, but they did not believe it until they saw him come down from the skies. In all the units entertaining children, each small guest received the present he most desired. There were at least a score of large community trees and many smaller ones in the zone where the presents were distributed.-.'-"' r- I -r Efforts were made to carry out the program of football games, but some of these had been cancelled when the snow became too heavy. While Xmas dinner did not ' approach that ' of Thanksgiving because of lack of turkey and trimmings, the army managed to enjoy itself cheerfully. it Knitting Nerves 99 Latest War Horror NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Now its "knitting nerves" caused by concentration of mind and hand on the needles. Thousands of women in New York are afflicted according to Dr. Louis R. Welzmiller. physical director of the West Side Y. M. C. A. who adds that his only patients showing symptoms of the new war time complaint have been women. Dr. Welzmiller says that there is liable to be an epidemic of "knitting nerves" unless knitters learn to knit properly. He offers the followfng advice as a remedy: Don't hunch over your knitting; sit npright and when your minds tells you you have knitted enough, quit. There are 365 days in a year and you can't finish a sweater in a day no matter how much you love a soldier or a sailor. Dr. C. P. Chrlstensen, president of the Psychological Research Societies concurred in the predictions of Dr. Welzmiller. He attributed the nerve scourge to the failure of women folks to comprehend the "vibrations of nerve laws." He continued: "The women are overworking themselves. Knitting has become a craze. Nerves cannot stand this strain." FREIGHT RATES CUT WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. The Interstate Commerce Commission today ordered reductions, ranging from two to four per cent, in class and commodity rates from eastern territory to Michigan points including Grand Rapids, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Marshall, Lansing, Cadillac and Petos-key.

Since Spanish War, Must Go, Declares Senator New

tivities undertaken by congress, members who remain in Washington ready to renew their work Wednesday morning insist that all legislation necessary to spur preparations for fighting Germany to the maximum must be submitted and enacted with the least possible delay. Must Be Adequate. In so far as the army is concerned, members of the military affairs committee are insistent that the ordnance and quartermaster's bureaus, notwithstanding the shortages in supplies for an army of a million and a half men, must be supplemented by an organization which can prepare and prepare adequately for an army of four millions of men. They also are determined that legislation must be passed at once to destroy the monstrous red tape methods of handling important

GET CLOTHES AT ONCE, IS SENATE'S TIP

Secretary Baker Ordered to Disregard Red Tape and Buy Supplies. by reports of shortages of winter clothing in national army camps, the senate military affairs committee today, in resuming its investigation into amy conditions, adopted a resolution requesting the secretary of war immediately to ascertain conditions by wire, supply deficient troops and suspend departmental routine, if necessary, by direct purchases from sources near the camps. The investigation was resumed after a short Christmas recess with Quartermaster General Sharpe again on the stand to give testimony regarding clothing and other supplies, cantonment contracts and the transportation and rationing of troops. General Sharpe's examination was interrupted Saturday to hear Colonel Isaac Lewis, inventor of the Lewis machine gun, announced as the last witness, called in the committee's inquiry into ordnance situation. Makes Letter Public Indication that the ordnance phase of the investigation may be re-opened, however, was given last night when Major General Crozier, chief of ordnance, made public a letter he had written Federal Judge Hand of New York, who presided at the trial there in June, 1916, of Hans Tauscher, farmer Krupp agent, accused of conspiracy in the plot to blow up the Welland canal. In the letter, which was written months before the United States went to war with Germany, General Crozier informed Judge Hand that he had known Tauscher for ten years or more and "always had been impressed with the integrity and reliability of his personal character." General Crozier's letter stated he would be willing to testify to that effect In person, at Tauscher's trial but that he was unable to leave his post In Washington. The action of General Crozier in giving out the letter, which he did without comment, came after it had been reported that the senate committee might summon Herbert Smyth, of New York, counsel for Tauscher to testify as to any connection General Crozier might have had with Tauscher's defense. business which they declare has been "the curse" of the war department since the Spanish-American war. "If congress must step in to cut this red tape with a legislative knife, it must do so at once," said Senator New of Indiana, one of the members of the military affairs committee. "I can say without any restriction whatever that one of the immediate results of the committee's investigation will be to put an end to this outrageous method of handling important business in the war department. Demands Business System. "There will be legislation to put business system into that department that will expedite these important preparations for war. "When chiefs of bureaus testify before a committee of congress that important telegrams, upon which de

can we turn against her?" They turned against her years ago for reasons that then seemed just.. They wanted the benefits which life in America promised. They secured them and enjoyed them. Now like a child that has paid a nickel for a toy, they are crying because the salesman won't let them have the toy and the nickel also. The German-Americans are prisoners of an illusion. "Germany gave us so much," they say. True, Germany did give them much. Germany gave them charming customs, such as birthday and Christmas celebrations; Germany gave them a love for poetry, for music ; she gave them a keen sense of duty, of integrity in business, of family loyalty. But the qualities of character which she gave are not exclusively German qualities. There are cannibals in the interior of South America who would rather die than break a promise. The other gifts, moreover, especially the gif of a beautiful language and a beautiful literature what have they done with those ? "Germany gave us so much.? When they say that, they speak of the language, the poetry. And here again, they are deceiving themselves, they are sentimentalizing. For how have they actually cherished the German language in the generations during which they were allowed to cultivate it without opposition? Did they cling to it because they loved it for its own sake and

More Than 12,000 Members of Red Cross in Wayne County

Incomplete reports received at Red Cross Headquarters late Wednesday afternoon show Wayne county will exceed its quota by more than 2,000. Dr. L. F. Ross, president of the Red Cross association, said Wednesday the On this, our first Christmas in the world war. it is peculiarly fitting that twelve thousand of our citizens should have become members of the Red Cross which is the concrete, embodiment, of .thCbrisfc"mii spirit. ;. " -. .... ,f - . The 'wonderful success of the membership campaign gives ample proof of the practical patriotism of our community. The women of Wayne County are to be congratulated for their universal response to this opportunity for performing a patriotic service of the highest order and for the cheerful sacrifice of their time and energy at this busy season. To all who have helped, whether by taking a membership or by taking an active part in the campaign, should come the satisfaction of having contributed something worth while toward lessening the horrors of the world's greatest tragedy. RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. total is now more than 12,000 and memberships will be received until late Wednesday night. The headquarters will be open until 6 o'clock Thursday and captains and lieutenants are asked to bring or send in complete reports. On Honor Roll. Richmond chapter is one of several Study Questions is Tip of Attorneys to Men in Draft Ages Richmond attorneys, who are helping draftables with their questionnaires, say they will be swamped with work unless the men prepare answers to their questions before going to the attorneys' offices. Most of the draftables appear at the lawyers' offices with no preparation, whatever, and the time of the lawyer is consumed in trying to ascertain the simplest facts required by the questionnaire. " Unless the men co-operate some of them may be unable to get legal advice before their time limit expires. pend necessary steps in our preparations for a war In which this government is already engaged are held up in the war department for days in a labyrinth of cumbersome, entangling red tape, it would be criminal for congress to delay annihilating that method. "That will be done and done at once. Why it has been permitted to exist since the glaring disclosures of its terrible results during the SpanishAmerican war, I am at a loss to understand. Here we find ourselves today in the midst of a world on fire, dallying along with a system of transacting busines that should have been destroyed twenty years ago. , Wants Supply Bureau. "Another thing that congress must do and do at once, is to equip this government with a war supply bureau

the sake of the Fatherland? A few among the educated have actually clung to it and held it high for sentimental reasons. The majority, however, used it because at first it was easier to speak German than to learn English. After a while they found that it was easier to use here and there an English word or American localism heard a hundred times a day, than to bother to find its exact German equivalent. Then, soon, they were talking the bastard lingo in which the classic example, "Die cow is eeber die fence gechumpt und hat die kebbedges gedamaged," only slightly exaggerates the awful corruption of both tongues. Surely, people who allow themselves or their children to talk a hodge-podge of that sort cannot be said to be cherishing the spiritual heritage of their Fatherland. They have not cherished it. They are merely trying to fool themselves into believing that they have cherished it or still cherish it. The object of the various associations of German-Americans ostensibly was to keep fresh the memory of the German language and culture. What they actually did keep fresh were certain German customs, and a somewhat maudlin home-sickness for a dream-Germany. They encouraged the pretense that German-Americans were exiles, and on festive occasions the German-Ameri-Continued On Page Nine.

to be placed on the honor roll at State headquarters. The celebration Christmas Eve, when fifteen cars filled with carolers visited all parts of the city was one of the pleasing features of the campaign. Mrs. Fred J. Bartel, chairman, said Wednesday morning after visiting all parts of the city, the carolers met at Eighth and Main . street and sang for some time. Five carloads of the singerB visited Reid Memorial HosLpiui tete?anwas--B'1eadeTan a stringed instrument. Despite the fact Indiana has passed the 600,600 mark and is coming strong the state will have to show more j speed to beat her sister state, Ohio, according to word received from A. L. Bentley, state campaign manager Mrs. Elbert W. Shirk, in charge of the Wayne county campaign, is pleased with the manner in which the workers pushed their part of the drive. CITY TO FLY SERVICE FLAG Richmond claims the honor of be ing the first city to have a community i service flag. ( According to Secretary Albus of the Commercial club the flag has been or-j dered through Adam H. Bartel and company. It will be fifteen by twenty-five feet and the field will hold between five hundred and six hundred stars. Each star will represent a man who has gone from Richmond and the name of the soldier will be sewed on the star. In case that any one of the men so represented comes in the casualty list a black border will be sewed around his star. The Daughters of the American Revolution will be asked to perform this task. The flag will be raised at Eighth and Main streets at 11 o'clock every day until the end of the war at which time patriotic citizens out of respect for the boys will stop their daily tasks to bow their heads for a few moments. At 3 o'clock the flag will be taken down. It is understood the city will have charge of the lowering and raising of the flag. Men in passing under the flag are requested to show their honor to the boys by removing their hats. In later years this flag will be a memorial to those boys of Richmond who were soldiers. capable of reaching into our enormous resources for equipment of an army of 4,000,000 men. We are learning now "of the failure in plan3 to equip an army of a million and a half men, when everybody who thinks, knows that we must be preparing for 4,000,000 men. "Before we can establish the system for procuring these supplies' we must go a little bit deeper into the root of things to find out just where the trouble is that has caused our failures in the production of fighting arms and equipment. Heaven knows we have found out much already, but there is more to be disclosed, and then xeill come quick action to remedy the mistakes and difficulties." Letter From a Father. Senator New received a letter from the father of an Indiana soldier re

MASTER SPY TOOK ORDERS FR0r.1W0r.lAN AGENTS SAY

Female Designated as "FT Directed Activities on West Coast of Franz Schulenberg, Tis Declared. LETTER REVEALS HER SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26. A woman designated only as "H" and said to be prominent in the German secret service directed the activities of Franz Schulenberg, alleged master spy, held here on a presidential w arrant, according to information divulged today by federal officials. Schulenberg is said to have been active in plans to destroy bridges and public buildings in Canada and shipping and warehouses in Pacific ports. Officials said the woman barely escaped arrest here four weeks ago. The day before Schulenberg was captured the clue to her part in Schulenberg's operation was revealed in a letter found among his effects. It instructed Schulenberg to meet her in Los Angeles. The letter was postmarked Cleveland, Ohio. Investigation showed, officials said, that the woman had been an agent of Wolf von I gel, former secretary to Franz von Papen. military attache at the German embassy at Washington, and alleged head of the German espionage system in this country. Former Reporter IS Royal Flying Man L. F. Ross, formerly a reporter on The Palladium, is a member of the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. He has been attending the flying school and now is at his home in Hamilton on a brief furlough. Ednor Rosslter, another former Richmond newspaper man, is qualifying as a flyer. He is in the American service and has been at the ground school at Columbus. He is at home on his Christmas furlough.

lating to the shortage of shoes in the army cantonments. The father said he had read the estimony of Quartermaster Sharpe to the effect that there is an adequate supply of shoes in the cantonments, and he then asks: "In God's name, if there are shoes enough, where are they, and why can't our boys get them on their feet?" The Indiana father then quoted a letter he had just received from his son, who declared that his shoes were so . worn out that his feet actually were on the ground, that "whenever I ask for shoes they tell me there are none to be had." The letter from the Indiana father further said that practically all the warm clothing his son had been able ("Continued On Page Seven. -r