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HOW MANIA TEUTONICA INFECTED WHOLE NATION By ROLLIN LYNDE HIATT

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(Reprinted from Chicago Tribune.) One evening years ago a German savant named Hecker breathed a sigh of relief, filled his long pipe, refilled his stein, and laid aside his newly completed manuscript called "The Mental Epidemics of the Middle Ages." Still, he was not entirely happy. No author is, at that stage, for, like James VVhitcomb Riley, one cannot but ask mournfully, "Who'll read it and who'll understand it?" Little did Hecker imagine that while writing "The Mental Epidemics of the Middle Ages" he was interpreting the Germany of today, or that his book would be recommended to German readers by the American psychologist, Prof. Joseph Jastrow. That has happened. In "Mania Teutonica," a contribution to the Outlook, Prof. Jastrow gives Keeker's fame in a new lease of life and points out in scholarly fashion that German's "delusion of grandeur," her "meglomania of an exalted superiority," her "boastful vaunt of self," her "confident disdain of others," and her "effervescent sense of power and empire" curiously resemble phenomena to be observed in any hospital for the insane. One may add that mania Teutonica resembles as curiously the symptoms of our troublesome com

HUNDREDS ARE TURNED AWAY FROM LECTURE AT COLISEUM Lieutenant Perigord Tells Vast Audience Length of War Depends on Loyalty of Folks at Home. t BRANDS HUN INTRIGUE ..' The number of American soldiers woo "stay" in France depends upon the loyalty and support of those at .-horn declared Lieutenant Paul Perittet5rd4reftslns an audience of 3,000 in the Coliseum Sunday night. All standing room in the bie hall was taken and many were turned away. "But I tell the mothers of Richmond what I told the mother of the first American soldier killed in battle in Trance: The mothers of Franca will always keep the gTaves of Americans green. "A mother's love is at its height when she sacrifices upon the altar of patriotism. There are too many mothers, saying. 'I'm glad I have no boys to end into the trenches.' There are too many like this. Crime to Say This. "It's a crime to say that. For aren't all the boys YOUR boys? 'The first duty of the American people is to become united. For it is true that only 'in union there is strength. But I can't begin to make myself believe that the people of this nation are disloyal. I cant believe that after a man has shared the benefits of this glorious and beautiful country that he can be for the kaiser. "For aren't we fighting what the Germans in this country ran away from. "Buying Liberty bonds doesn't mean that you are a patriot. Buying Liberty bonds Is a good investment. "And I don't like to say anything about those people who refuse to observe meatless and wheatless days. I'm not supposed to use profanity." Speaks Forcefully. Lieutenant Perigord, student, author, priest and soldier, in a forceful manner spoke of thp conditions in France and the "boys his boys, our boys, in the trenches. Modestly he told of how he bad won the cross of honor, not because of his bravery but because of the bravery of his boys, who refused to allow him to surrender although It meant certain death for probably all. Two in his regiment, himself and another were not killed. But he was para, lyzed for two months, as the result of a "shell coming a little too close." He told how he left Columbia university, where he was a student, at the outbreak if the war in August 1914. sailed on the first ship to France and cast his destinies with the armies of his native land. Before leaving Columbia university a professor there gave him a small fContlnued On Page Two. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Cloudy and not so cold tonight and Tuesday. Probably local snows. Today Temperature Noon 16 Yesterday Maximum 13 Minimum 23 below For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not so cold. Occasional snows. General Condition Severe cold weather continues east of the Rocky Mountains, 22 below Sunday morning, and 20 below, Monday morning. Some moderation will occur as the barometric pressure is fallinw slowly but the weather promises to continue cold all week. The weather will be severe at times, with occasional snows.

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Sunday Quietest Day in Year;

Only One Church Holds Services

Sunday was the quietest day Rich mond has seen since she assumed the dignity of a city. It was the first "churchless Sunday" in history and all but one of the 20odd houses of worship in the city were closed. The only exception was St Mary's Roman Catholic church, which held mass in an unheated and unlighted church building. Every store in the city was closed excepting drug stores and a few others that had been designated for the sale of newspapers. Out-of-town Sunday papers from Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cleveland and Chicago, enjoyed record sales. "No Place To Go." There was "no place to go" literally. The movies, refuge for hundreds on other Sundays, were dark. The only amusement permitted was coasting at Glen Miller park and this attracted UNDERHILL AGAIN DODGES JAIL TERM Alfred Underbill, of water main fame, charged with selling unwholesome meat, again evaded a jail sentence by pleading guilty in the circuit court Monday morning. He threw himself upon the mercy of the court and received a fine of $100 and costs, making his costs in; both the city court where he was ' given thirty days and J75, and costs in circuit court amount to about $100. SENTENCE POSTPONED Sentence on Mack Harsh, 28 years old, was not given Monday but Judge Fox announced he would prepare a legal opinion Tuesday,

patriot, Mr. Thaw. A "Sir Galahad" was he; a "chosen people" are the Germans. "Blaggards" pursued him; Germany endures "a cruel war forced upon us by England." And what are "military necessity" and policies "above right and wrong" but appeals to an "unwritten law"? Virtually an entire nation has gone mad. To remain so? Having read Hecker on "The Mental Epidemics of the Middle Ages," Dr. Jastrow thinks not. Says he, "The helpful lesson which the story of the sporadic abberrations teaches is this : That while people lose sanity rapidly and collectively with the acceleration of a spreading contagion, the loss is temporary; and that while they recover individually and slowly through the stability of immune groups, they do recover." In other words, there are sane Germans even now. Through them will come the healing of the nation. Still more encouraging, the very leaders who deliberately drove Germany insane were, as a rule, quite exceptionally sane. It is true that in medical circles abroad you meet fellows who believe Wilhelm , II. a paranoiac and tell you that the crippled left arm is the result not of an injury to the arm but of an injury to the brain. What of it? While Wilhelm II.

MADAME KERENSKY - -" - ' I uuuu I UUVULO at c overthrown by the Bolsheviki. She was j scores during the afternoon and evenine. The Perigord lecture, which attracted a capacity house to the Coliseum, stood alone as the only public meeting of the day. Several of the churches held services in homes of their members. Among them were: Second English Lutheran, Central Christian, First Baptist, Third Methodist and St. Paul's Lutheran. PRESIDENT WILL FIGHT COUNCIL WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. President Wilson has served notice on Democratic leaders in the senate that he will use all his influence and power to beat the bill to create a war council. "The president will fight to the finish," was the word brought to the capital loaay. Despite the president's announced determination to oppose the bill with auu nis resources. It was introduced in the senate today as planned, by L'nairman Chamberlain of the military committee and with the approval of practically oil the democrats of the committee who showed no disposition to recede. Membersof congress saw in the sit uation the makings of a historical contest between the executive and congress. President Wilson told the leaders with whom he consulted today that he considered the creation of a war council would take the personal direction of America's part in the conflict out of his hands, and likened it to the attempt to curtail the authority of President Lincoln. 1

ROOSEVELT IS CALLED DISLOYAL

BY SENATOR Stone Calls Former President "Most Potent Agent the Kaiser Has in America" PENROSE ALSO NAMED WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Characterizing former President Roosevelt as "the most potent agent the kaiser has in America and "the most seditious man of consequence la America" Sen ator Stone,, addressing the- senate to day, charged that Republican leaders are engaged in a studied effort to make politics out of the war. Their object is to "take the government over into their own hands," by partisan criticism of the conduct of the war, he declared. Senator Stone's address, carefully prepared, the first of political signific ance made in congress since the Unit ed States entered the war, and regarded as the forerunner of bitter partisan strife, excoriated partisanship in the war. Besides Col. Roosevelt, the Missiouri senator named Chairman Willcox of the Republican national committee, and Senator Penrose, amonog Republican leaders as his "witnesses" to the political plot he al leged. , Investigations by congress at war operations, Senator Stone also declared, have almost entirely been launched by Republicans and adroitly exploited for partisan purposes. He Works for Money. Citing statements of the Republican leaders regarding the political plans and editorials of Colonel Roosevelt, which, he said are "villianous creeds" published for money, Senator Stone declared: "On my responsibility as a senator I charge that since our entrance into the war Roosevelt, by his attacks on the government, has been a menace and obstruction to the successful prosecution of the war. "The only possible effect of these widely published utterances of this man," said Senator Stone, "has been, as they were designed to be, to discredit the present government and bring it into public disfavor and weaken its hold on popular confidence. That seems to be the Rooseveltian standard of patriotism." Similar utterances made by less powerful citizens, Senator Stone asserted, would subject them to prosecution for disloyalty. "Of all men," the Missouri Senator continued, "Roosevelt is most responsible for what he denounces. He does his work cunningly. In the front of his propaganda he throws a deceptive political camouflage. I charge that Theodore Roosevelt whether willingly or out of sheer madness I do not know is the most potent agent the kaiser has in American I can not escape the belief that this excep tional colonel, who has played so many games of questionable politics, is now playing another game of his particu lar brand for a very great stake." The Republican plans he cited, Sen ator Stone said, have been "adroitly directed. Investigations Significant. "Many, if not all Republican senators," he asserted, "are acting in man ifest concert, with dominant Republican leaders throughout the country, to make politics out of the war." As proof of Republican partisan plans, Senator Stone declared that there is no need "to try to fool each other or to fool the country," and declared that congressional investigations of the war proposed by the Republicans were significant - Calling attention to the election next fall to of the entire House membership and many senators, Mr. Stone said two years later the presidential election will follow. "Here Is a chance." he proceeded, "for the dominating Republicans of the country aome of them, perhaps more than any one of them, seeking (Continued On Page Nine.

might have postponed the war, and while he was technically responsible for precipitating it, whole classes of militarists, junkers, intellectuals, and adepts -in Weltpolitik had ardently desired it for twenty-one years. Sane themselves, they became a cause of insanity, in others. Nothing anywhere in the whole history of government affords a parallel. Coldly, patiently, while clothed and in their right minds, these farseeing individuals inoculated Hans and Fritz and Otto with mania Teutonica. It was not supremely difficult. In his astonishing new book, "Intimate Russia," Mr. A. Raymond gives us, so to speak, little movies of real life, with "closeups" of drunken fathers who beat their daughters, and of children who abhor their parents, and, most shocking, of the Frauenklinik at Koenigsberg, where "the brutality of hospital physicians towards poor patients and dangerous experiments often performed are frequently the subject of widespread gossip and excitement," There is nothing in common between all this and the gentleness of German-Americans we have known and liked. There is nothing in common between all this and German character as we thought we knew it

HERB ARE CLOSING RULES TODAY

Richmond Monday observed Its first "workless" holiday. Nine more "workless Mondays" will be observed, under the order of the national fuel administrator. A list of the businesses which will remain open each Monday and those required to close each Monday follows: BUSINESS REMAINING OPEN EACH MONDAY Food handling agencies, ice plants, retail and wholesale grocers, restaurants, hotels (except bars), retail and wholesale bakeries. Fuel handling agencies Gasoline filling stations, coal yards and offices. Amusements Theaters (close Tuesday), billiard halls and pool rooms (close Tuesday), bowling alleys (close Tuesday). Public BuildingsCity building, police station, fire stations, library, courthouse. Miscellaneous Earlham college, schools, laundries, repair shops, drug stores (for the sale of drugs and medical supplies only), trust companies, banks, florists (to take care of funeral orders only), garages, churches, optical shops, physicians and dentists, plumbing shops (for repair only), all dances (close Tuesday), Reid Hospital and Richmond sanitarium. Transportation Public utility offices, telephone and telegraph offices, street car lines and offices, railroad lines and offices. Factories The following factories will operate on Mondays as they have been granted special permission from the national fuel administrator. The factories are doing government work. The Starr Piano Factory (only on aircraft work). The National Automatic Tool Company (only on government work). The Simplex Tool Company (only on government work). BUSINESSES TO CLOSE EACH MONDAY All factories, not exempted by government Life insurance offices, fire insurance offices, department stores, five and ten cent stores, saloons, all offices (except those specified to remain open), breweries, brewery offices, barber shops, cigar stores, dry-cleaning establishments, shoe shining parlors, tailors, printing plants (unless exempt by special permit on account ot special publishing.) 'All wholesale and retail stores. (Any stores, business bouses and business buildings except those in the above list of tho6e to remain open) Running of more than Sunday schedule of street cars.

Continued Cold All

Is Predicted by Weather Man

Continued cold with occassional snows is the "cheerful" prospect all week, Weather Forecaster Moore announced Monday. Early Monday morning the little red mercury wound its way down to twenty-one degrees below zero at the Richmond Dumping station. While the weather will moderate at times during the week the weather will be severely cold at times, also, the weather man said. When it moderates it will probably snow. Fuel Situation Better. The fuel situation is rapidly improving and will soon be back to normal according to the fuel administrator. More coal has arrived and preference will be given domestic consumers, under orders issued by the state fuel administrator. "Under Dr. Garfield's order of January 17, all persons selling coal must, Police Have No Record Of Alleged Shooting EATON. Ohio, Jan. 21. Thomas Brown, 19 years old, who gave himself up here Saturday to Marshal Willard Armstrong, saying he had shot Clarence Donovan. 20, the Monday night before in Wilmington, Del., during a quarrel over a dice game, was released Sunday afternoon from the city jail, after receipt of a telegram from the chief of police in Wilmington, who stated that the alleged shooting bad not been called to the attention of the police there. Brown is said to have boarded a southbound train late Sunday afternoon, having piled cn the "blind baggage." After giving himself up Brown told the police that he did not know if he had killed Donovan, or wounded him, but that the shooting bothered his mind so much that he could not help telling the affair. Evansville Breweries Win First Round of Suit EVANSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 21. Evansville breweries won the first round of the Adamson prohibition law test case here today when Judge F. N. Hostetter sustained the demurrers of the Cook and Evansville breweries to the pleas in abatment filed by city and county officials. The plaintiff companies are seeking to have the dry legislation declared unconstitutional. ALLIE8 ARE EXPECTANT WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The allies are maintaining an expectant attitude on the western front, Secretary Baker stated today in his weekly war review, while recent events in Russia have greatly Increased stragetic freedom for the central empire, , ,

in Germany. Yet the incidents so vividly related took place before August, 1914. As Mr. Raymond so vividly suggests, "a study of these people will throw some light on the mystery of Germany's extraordinary conduct in the present war," for a "ruthless mechanical system of civilization has formed a hard and highly polished shell upon a core of receptive, but still rather crude, mediaeval barbarism." It was this "core of mediaeval barbarism" that the Pan-German-is ts set out to inoculate with mania Teutonica. Huge has been their success. Huge, likewise, the success of Pan-Germanist imperialism. As sane as it is icily criminal, it mapped out a definite program and has carried it into almost complete execution. Said Count Karolyi in the Hungarian chamber of deputies, "Germany is fightirig for "Berlin-Bagdad." Said President Wilson, "From Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net is spread." Back in 1915 the Frankfurter Zeltung remarked, quite logically, that the object of the war had been obtained, meaning the creation- of Pan-Germany a olitf empire spanning central Europe and western Asia, putting 30,000,000 troops at Berlin's disposal, and promts Continued On Page Ten.

This Week NOTICE 'he ploclamation lifting the ban which has been imposed on the business of Richmond, for the last few days, does not mean that the city has plenty of coal. We have enough for the present emergency but no one can tell what the next few weeks has in store for us. Therefore I ask the public to observe carefully every means of conserving every shovelfull of fueL Do not heat unnecessary space, nor keep your rooms above 68 degrees. Do not order from the dealers and expect immediate delivery unless you are within 24 hours of the last of your supply. Do not expect the dealers to place your order unless you answer their questions about your supply. Fred S. Bates, Fuel Administrator. in filling their contracts or orders on hand, give preference to the necessary current requirements of. among others, domestic consumers, hospitals, charities, charitable institutions and public utilities" reads the orders received by Fuel Administrator Bates. WAR WEDDINGS TO BE PROBED Approximately fifty possible draftees will probably be effected by the appealing of all marriages since May 18, 1917, to the army board by Appeal Agent William Dudley Foulke. The law passed by congress to govern these cases was not passed to suspend marriages, but to be sure that all marriages were not made to re lease the draftables from their civio obligations. Agricultural and industrial question naires were sent Friday by the Richmond army board the district board. SCHOOLS WILL OPEN THURSDAY Richmond's public schools will reopen Thursday morning Superintendent Giles announced Monday. The fuel situation has Improved to such an extent that the schools may again convene. The night school will be post poned indeftaitely bewrtr.

LOCAL FUEL REGULATIONS ARE REVOKED BY OFFICIALS Food Business Resumed as Usual Monday, but Other Business Is Affected Wednesday. EXPLANATION IS MADE

PROCLAMATION Notice ts hereby given that all local regulations as to the use cf electric current and as to the hours of opening and closing business houses, factories, churches, clubs, lodges, saloons, cigar stores etc., are annulled, the same to be effective beginning Wednesday morning; January 23. 1918. As to all establishments making and dispensing food, whether at wholesale or retail, said regulations are annulled, effective on and after Mont day morning, January 21. 1918. By the terms of this order all food business may be carried on as prior to the first order issued last Wednesday, beginning Monday morning, January 21, 1918, and as to all other basiness beginning Wednesday morning, January 23, 1918. This order is subject to all federal and state orders now in force or hereafter made. It is enjoined on all users o. electricity and fuel that the coal situation is still acute, and all persona should continue to conserve fuel and electric light and powr as far as possible, consistent with the proper conduct of business, and with comfort to persons in their places of residence. FRED S. BATES. Fuel Administrator. W. W. ZIMMERMAN. Mayor, City of Richmond. W. N. JOHNSON. President JOHN E. PELTZ. T. C. TAYLOR. Board of Public Works. Regulations issued by Fuel Administrator Bates and Mayor Zimmerman, closing all business houses, factories, churches, clubs, lodges, saloons, cigar stores, etc., will be lifted Wednesday morning. All "food business" went back to normal Monday morning, under the terms of the orders issued Sunday by the fuel administrator, the mayor and the board of public works. The following explanation of the proclamation was issued: "The proclamation was issued after a meeting of the County Fued Administrator with the Mayor and Board of Works Sunday afternoon, and was actuated by word received that coal promised the Municipal Light Plant is now on its way. May Heed Rules Later. "Further freight congestion might mean that further regulations may be necessary in the future, but every effort will be made by the Fuel Administrator and the city officials to secure an adequate supply of coal at the light plant, and it is hoped that conditions may be kept at normal." "The fuel administrator and the city officials have interpreted the word "food" as used in the above proclamation as not Including con feet lonaries. and as to confectionard stores the ban is not lifted until Wednesday morning along with all other forms of business. "The effect of the above proclamation is that all food business goes back to normal conditions beginning Monday morning, and as to all bu&K . ness, normal conditions will he resumed Wednesday morning. Fuel Administrator Bates requests that al ltown boards throughout the county take euch action a Is appropriate in their several towns in order ' that business may resume there as under normal conditions.