Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 74, 6 February 1918 — Page 1

BIG FAELAB VOL. XLIII., NO. 74Palladium and Sun-Telegram Consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 6, 1918 SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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RAIDS AND ARTILLERY DUELS ARE INCREASING

Lively Aerial and Artillery Fighting on the American Sector, Northwest of Toul Germans Are Repulsed. PEACE MEETING IS OFF Raiding operations and artillery duels are increasing on the western front as the time for the beginning of the spring 'operations approaches. Two years ago, alter a successful attack at Scuchez, tne Germans began their drive on Verdun with heavy artillery fire on February 21, while last year the British captured Orandcourt, on the Sorame front, on February 7, and the Germans two weeks later retired from the Ancre. the first tep in the retreat to the Hindenburg line. AM official statements, report great artillery activity. The big guns have been busy around Ypres and before Cambral, on the British front, on the right bank of the Meuse, on the French front and the American sector. The British have made a successful raid northeast of Ypres and French raiders brought tack prisoners in the Argonne. Gentian attempts near Cambral and near Corbeny, in Champagne were repulsed by the British and French respectively. There has teen lively aerial artillery fighting on the American sector, northwest of Toul. The skies there have cleared and the Germans are reported to be. bombarding villages which they had left untouched for many months. Entente Airmen Active. Entente airmen have been active. British fliers on Monday dropped three tons of bombs and accounted for eight enemy airplanes with the loss of one maculae. On the Italian front Italian and British aviators have brought down 13 enemy machines, while the Germans again have bombed Fadua. In Russia, the situation apparently appears les3 favorable to the Bolshevik!. A decree by the Bolshevik! government separating state and church and confiscating church, property has aroused the opposition of archbishop Tikhon, the patriarch of All-Russia, who has called upon his followers to defend the church. The clash between the government and the church Is said to ho approaching an acute stage. New military opposition to the Bolsheviki, has arisen in the Tartars and Poles. EnsiRn Krylenko, commander-in-chief of the Bolshevik! armies, is reported to have been arrested by Polish troops, who captured Mobilev. Tartar force3 are moving on Sebastapol, the nazal base on the Black Sea, after having captured Yalta, in thet Crimea. In Kiev the Ukrainians are reported to hi.ve gained the upperband. After conferences with the German emperor, the German and Austrian foreign ministers are reported to be returning to Brest-Litovsk. German newspapers indicate that if peace is reached with the Ukraine, little attention will be paid to the Bolshevik!. The conferences in Berlin continued throughout an entire day, the crown prince, the Bulgarian premier and the Turkish grand vizier also taking part. A crown council meeting was held. Peace Negotiations Are Off. LONDON, Feb. 6. The negotiations at Brest-Litovsk have been brboken off, the correspondent at Petrograd of the Exchange Telegraph Co., says he is informed. Reports from Brest-Litovsk in the last few days indicated that a deadlook had besn reached on the question of Ukraine. After the Ukrainian delegates had almost completed on agreement vith the Germans and Aus(Continued on Page Ten.) THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Thursday except probably snow flurries in north portion. Slightly coldcr. Today's Temperature. Noon 42 Yesterday. Maximum 30 Minimum 14 below View That The following Is printed in "The Outlook" under the caption, "The Confession of a Quaker." The writer. Prof. George A. Barton, Ph. D.. LL. D. is a member of the New England meeting of Friends, according to Walter Woodward of Richmond, who is secretary of tbe American Friend.Editor: By GEORGE A. BARTON In these perilous days, when intrigue, which seeks to debauch by treachery everything that brutal arm.1 irs. Zeppelina, and piratical submarines cannot reach, is seeking to use the I. W. W., pacifists, and 'even Quakers, for tbe attainment of certain end., it appears to be the duty of every loyal man who can say anything to hearten those who are struggling for the preservation of our liberties and civilization, and to preserve

ENERGETIC RICHMOND SUFFRAGIST URGING CAUSE AT WASHINGTON

Mrs. James W. Morrison WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Among the women of nation-wide prominence who

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LLION DOLLAR BLAZE RAZES 5 REFORMATORY BUILDINGS

JEFFERSON VILLE, Ind., Feb. 6. Five of the thirteen buildings In the group comprising the Indiana State Reformatory were destroyed by fire here early today, entailing an estimated loss of $1,000,000. Twelve hundred and eighty five prisoners, in cell houses and dormitories were marshalled in orderly array and assembled in the quadrangle, a walled enclosure where "retreat" is pounded each evening after the millitaiy fashion. At the word of command they quietly marched to the institutional school building, 200 yards away from the fire, where they were placed under guard. None tried to escape. The blaz? was discovered shortly after midnight In the trade school building in the department largely devoted to the manufacture of fibre chairs and is believed to have been due to crossed electric wires. Within a few minutes, the fire was beyond the control of the department at the reformatory and Jefferson ville - and Louisville, responding to calls for aid, sent apparatus. Water Pressure Low. Low water pressure handicapped the efforts of the firemen and before the blaze w?s brought under control, four hours later, the trade school build lng, one dormitory, a cell house, a foundry warehouse and the administration building had been destroyed. Cell house C, badly damaged, was saved with i;he laundry, power house, No. 2 trade school building, foundry, hospital, institution school building and the storehouse. With the destruction of the dining room, kitchen and food supplies, the prison authorities today faced the problem of feeding the prisoners. On the authority of a member of the board of trustees, packing firms, bakeries and other like institutions in Louis ville were communicated with before the fire had been gotten under con trol and supplies were ordered. Lends Field Kitchen. Col. W. H. Hart, U. S. A., solved the problem of preparing the food by of fering to lend army field kitchens from the supply at the quartermaster's depot here. Other arrangements included plans vo erect a temporary dor ABSCESS IS REMOVED FROM COL. ROOSEVELT NEW YORK, Feb. 6 Theodore Roosevelt's condition was favorable today. The former president, whose operation for an abscess a few days ago. was made public only last night after his removal from his Oyster Bay home, rested comfortably here during the past twenty-four hours and It was predicted this morning that he would be out within a few days. Meanwhile he has cancelled speaking engagements in Boston, Des Moines, Milwaukee and Detroit. The abscess developed from a fever which he contracted during the Spanish-American war and becoming malignant on his Brazilian journey a few years ago, has since troubled him at various times. It was said today that the operation would effect a permanent cure. Life is so in the world some sort of ethics higher than those of the jungle, to speak out. It is this sense of duty to the nation and to humanity that calls forth the following confession of faith. The writer is a birthright Friend, and has been also a Friend by conviction. For years he has been a minister in the Society. He has until recently, with the leaders of his denomination, held the view that all war is unchristian. In the manner of many intelligent Christians, he held this tenet without ever having thought the matter through in a completely searching. way. He lived through the Spanish-American war, but there was nothing in that war which compelled a re-examination of the basis of his belief. A large part of the impetus of that war arose from the unchristian desire for vengeance for the deaths

are in Washington at present in the interests of the Susan B. Anthony bill is Mrs. James W. Morrison of Chicago, president of the Chicago Equal Suffrage association and former recording secretary of the National Suffrage association. Mrs. Morrison is the daughter of William Dudley Foulke of Indiana, distinguished in middle-western political activities, and Mrs. Morrison's keen interest in politics Is a natural Inheritance. She has had an active career in the political field for more than the past ten years. When the women of Richmond Indiana fought successfully for municipal reform, Mrs. Morrison was their leader. The experience was valuable to her in forming shortly after a strong woman's organization before the first election in which women voted. Mrs. Morrison is now a member of the executive council of the women's committee of the council of national defense and a great part of her time is required for this work. She has also given valuable service to the Liberty loan and food conservation campaigns. Though the mother of five children, four of whom are enlisted in , some branch of war work, she finds time to be one of the most energetic suffragists of the west.

mitory to hcuse the prisoners and a temporary dining room. Previously, it was believed it would be impossible to care for the large number of men and thet railroad equipment would have to be assembled and the prisoners taken to other state institutions. Officials of the reformatory are congratulating themselves on the fact that the psychological and bertillon dedepartments were saved. They con tain records relating to scores of persons who ha-'e been incarcerated in the reformatory and to many now out on parole. "Cainofleurs" Form New Club in Richmond A new club, called the "Camouflage Club" has been formed in Richmond. The motives of the club have not been stated. The club was organized Tues day evening at a meeting held at the home of Miss Loretta Zeyen. Plans were made for a Valentine party to be given next Tuesday evening. The "camofleurs" are Miss Loretta Zeyen, Miss Mary Knauber, Miss Rosella Vosmelr, Miss Lena Vosmeir, Miss Mary Pfeiffer, Miss Margaret Miller, Miss Eva Aubin, Miss Pauline Wessel. CAPTURE CHIEF MILITARY DEPOT STOCKHOLM. Feb. 6 General Mannerheim's forces have defeated the Red Guards and Russians at Uleaborg and captured the citv which Is the chief military depot of northuu Finland. The battle lasted two ays and several hundred were killed dur ing the fighting. OBTAINS ORDER FOR DOCUMENTS CHICAGO, Feb. 6. Francis J. Heny. counsel for the federal trade commission, appeared before federal Tudge Carpentj- today and obainvi ar- order to take possession of certain papers in the offices of Henry Veeder, attorney tor Swift and company, wanted in connection with the government investigation of the packing industry. HOPES TO RELIEVE CONGESTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Further steps looking to a diversion of railroad traffic from the most congested eastern gateways were taken today by Director General McAdoo by appointment of a traffic investigation committee. Sacred Man caused by the explosion of the Maine. "Remember the Maine!" 6eemed to him a particularly unchristian battlecry. The present war has, however, caused a re-examination. Evidence accumulates that the war was started by what Dr. van Dyke has happily called the "Potsdam gang" for motives of international robbery and murder. With unexampled patience and Christian forbearance, President Wilson for nearly three years sought by moral suasion to deter this "gang" from its fell purpose, without avail. They counted on his patience as an instrument for the accomplishment of their ends and went steadily forward enslaving small nations, giving their women over to rape and slaughter, making war on non-combatants, wantonly murdering with Zeppelin and

TEUTON PRESS SAYS VICTORY SUREJN WEST Greatest Battle of War Imminent Derides Strength of United States Troops. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 19. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Advertisement of what Germany is planning to do on the western front before American military power can be put into the conflict continues to be a conspicuous feature of the German newspapers. "The next six months will be the deciding period," says the Frankfurter Zeitung. "During that eminently important period the central powers will with absolute certainty have the strategic superiority, for the hopes of the entente -for American help cannot possibly be fulfilled within that time. The central powers will concentrate their whole strength on the west front for a decisive blow. French soil, those fertile, flourishing fields which have already suffered so cruelly and have drunk such riverf;of blood, will be the scene of a final struggle which will far surpass the fiercest struggles of the past year. Cannot Increase Support. "If we do not share the light-hearted-ness with which the problem of American military help is often set aside, we also consider it certain that the United States cannot in the next few months increase the very great moral and economic support which they have given the allies." The Deutsche Tageazeitung, in an article declaring that all eyes are now focussed on the west, declares that the Continued On Page Ten.

Blanks for Registering Aliens Outside of City Received by Postmaster Registration blanks for German aliens who are residents of Wayne county outside of Richmond, were received Wednesday by Postmaster Beck. Any alien who does not live in Richmond must get blanks from the postmaster. The registration will not begin until blanks are received for the aliens In Richmond. The blanks Have not arrived at the City building where aliens living in Richmond must register. As soon as they arrive a date will be set for the registration in Richmond and the county. Chief of Police Gormon said Wednesday, that nothing definite has been learned as to, when- it will be" possible to hold the registration. SERB PRIESTS ARE REMOVED WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Instances of atrocities practices by Austro-Bul-garian forces for tbe purpose of denationalizing southern Serbia and Macedonia are related in an appeal sent by Serbian students in Switzerland and nipcle public today by the Serbian legation. The appeal 6tates that entire families er deported into Bulgaria and that very priest, school-master and doctor ha been removed. Only one Verentjary school and one secondary e.hoAl are allowed to operate. Serbians who refuse to enter the ranks of he Bulgarian army are being shot -ebels. "Trouble Bureau" for Men at Camp Sherman WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. A "trouble bureau," described in an announcement of the committee on public information today, as "a place where the man may carry their worries and talk them over with sympathetic welfare workers," has been established for tbe soldiers at Camp Sherman, O. The trouble bureau, says the committee, also "quiets the fears of anxious womenfolk who write for information of neglectful sons and husbands and not Infrequently settles domestic difficulties." Major General Glenn, commanding the cantonment, was Instrumental in the bureau's establishment and Its operation is entrusted to his civilian aide. H, Y. Barnes, formerly assistant director of the Toledo Art Museum. Another active worker in Camp Sherman welfare is Major William G. Everson, formerly Baptist pastor of Norwood, O., who turned down a chap Iain's commission for active line servise and is known to the soldiers as the "fighting parson."

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submarine, systematically subverting almost every detail of the slowly evolved code of ethics as understood by Christian peoples. This condition compelled the writer to ask himself the searching question whether it was wrong for his country to join the vigilance committee of the Allied nations in restraining this international bandit. In seeking the answer he naturally went to the scriptures, to the scientific study of which he bad for many years been devoted. " Meant for Israelites. The corner-stone of the defense of the Quaker testimony against war has been the command, "Thou shalt not kill." This is taken by them to be a command of universal sweep a command that admits of no exceptions. It is a part of the Decalogue. But scholarly research makes it clear that

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Frances Jordan NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 6. Up at the Globe theater there's a little girl with a couple of bewitching little curls whom we Americans are going to know lots better than we do. She's a beauty, too. In fact she's the queen beauty out of some 22,000 self-admitted beauties who sent in their photographs to be entered in competition, the best to be used on posters in the war department's new publicity campaign.

Gloves Cost $10 and $12 in France, Writes Richmond Boy

Robert McGee, a Richmond boy in a letter to his sister, Mrs. L. W. Nelson, 209 South Thirteenth street, says he is delighted with France. His letter follows: "Somewhere In France," Jan. 7, 1918. "Yesterday I received a Palladium from Richmond. It was dated November 16. I do not know who sent it but I am indebted to them for I enjoyed it very much. "The. weather has been warmer for the last day or two and we had. lots of rain. Th shacks we have are rather leaky. I would rather have cold weather than rain, although it is hard to keep warm. "We have plenty of blankets and clothes but it is rather hard to keep warm when you are out for a long time. Our food is good too, and we have lots of it. I have seen companies in America that did not have as good eats as we do over here. I am going to try and get some artic overshoes and warm gloves over here. "All clothing is very high over here. A good pair of gloves cost ten or twelve dollars. A fellow in another company here gave thirty-five dollars for a pair of high top shoes. "There was an article in the Palladium about a Richmond boy named Bollmeyer, who is in a truck company. They are not very far from here. "I was in England for eight days MANY KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION LONDON, Feb. 6. A great number of persons were killed or injured in consequence of a collision between a train loaded with Red Guards and a government train sent to intercept the Red Guard train near Kemi, northern Finland, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. The trains came together at full speed, all the coaches being smashed., this Decalogue was, when given, meant for Israelites only. No Old Testament saint dreamed of applying it beyond the nation. It was, moreover, addressed only to the heads of Hebrew families. Within the nation it was applicable only to them. This is the meaning in every Instance of the "thou." "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" was not given for boys and girls, but for men to their aged v parents. Children obeyed as a matter of course, but parents weakened by age might not be honored. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" shows that it was not addressed even to grown women, for nothing in it prohibits a woman from coveting her neighbor's husband! It was .addressed to the responsible heads of families to regulate their conduct within the nation. As the heads of families were responsible for their women

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and her curls She is Miss Frances Jordan playing in the "Jack O' Lantern" company. She has the following telegram as proof of her beauty to any so blind as not to see it in her face or photo: "Congratulations. Your photograph selected as the one portraying the characteristics most likely to inspire our soldiers and sailors. Also your features enabled the artist to develop the picture lending itself most readily to our purposes. Soldiers and Sailors Campaign Council." and liked the country. I stayed in Southhampton and was in Liverpool, also. The English people treated us very nice." $17, 000 Worth of Thrift and War Saving Stamps Sold Here in January Nearly twice the number of Thrift and War Saving Stamps were sold during the month of January than in December according to the report of Finance Clerk Sprong, in charge of the department, at the Richmond postofflce. The sale in January amounted to $17,000 while in December only $9,000 worth were sold. Postmaster Beck said when Wayne county is thoroughly organized there will be no trouble in disposing of the million dollar's worth of stamps, which is Wayne's quoto. Nearly all the stamps have been sold through the efforts of mail carriers and the school pupils. 150 Men Attend First Income Tax School Richmond had a tax school Tuesday evening in the Masonic Temple with Income Tax Inspector Thomas and Deputy Inspector Boland in charge. One hundred and fifty merchants, farmers, lawyers and doctors attended. "This was the most successful meeting we have ever held," said Inspector Thomas. Persons were required to fill out blanks using assumed figures. Details of taxable income including income from salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses and pensions; incomes from business, farm or profesion; profit from sale of land, buildings and other property, real or personal, income from rents and royalties, other Income, and general deductions not included in the above classes. The collectors will be In Richmond until February 16. Guy Robie is assisting with the work.

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and children, the Decalogue may nevertheless be said to have regulated Ideals of life within Israel. It was, however, never understood to forbid a community from removing an individual who threatened the integrity of its life, for the law provided that these should be put to death by stoning a process in which a whole community shared. What the Decalogue was understood to forbid was killing to gratify private grudges. Just as it did not prevent capital punishment within the nation, so no holy man of the Old Testament period thought that it applied to war. War was by them cheerfully waged in the name of the God Mho had, as they believed, given them this Decalogue. This command Jesus quoted in Mat them v. 21, not to say that its application is of universal scope, but that hatred is sin! The taking of life with

BAKER NOW WITHDHAWS STATEMENT ON TROOPS

Statement that 500,000 Troops Would Be in France Early in Year Was His General Opinion. NOT BASED ON FACTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. When Secretary Baker came up for cross examination today before the senate military committee, on his statement that there would be 500.000 American troops in France early this year, and a million more before winter, a hitch developed as to whether it would be proper to have the secretary answer such questions in public. While the senators were discussing whether to continue in public session or go into private meeting, Secretary Baker exclaimed that perhaps he had been unfortunate in making his original statement to the committee by giving his general opinion rather than -the exact facts and details, prepared by experts having the subject in charge. He proposed that he bo permitted to prepare such statements, present them to the committee and return for cross examination later. Upon Senator Week's suggestion, the committee dropped shipping questions until the secretary could get information from his department to properly answer the questions. This will be furnished to the committee la executive session. Examination Proceeds. Senator Kliby wanted to adjourn, until tomorrow when an executive session would be held, bat other senators objected and the examination went on. Senator Weeks then asked Secretary Baker If he knew how many pairs of shoes were required per man in the French and English armies. Mr. Baker did iot, but said he would obtain, the information. The senator said ha wanted to snow In order to "determine if we are buying more shoes than, are necessary." Senator Weeks said he had reeeiv ed a letter io which it was charged that many men in the army are of German sympathy and that many "officers and men in conversation expressed pro-German sentiment.' Will Make Inquiry. Secretary Baker said he had received no information of 6uch conditions but would make an Inquiry. "I don't doubt, but that something of that sort exsts," safd the Massachusetts senator, "and I think we ought to make an example of someone." The question then arose as to the propriety of questioning Secretary Baker in r'JbHc on such affairs. "The secretary himself asked in a letter to the chairman," Senator New of Indiana, republican, interrupted, "that the meeting be held in a large room wh?ro all senators and representatives who desired, could attend.'" Senator Reed said he was somewhat inclu?d to the view that it would: be better to put "all cur cards on thei table." Secretary Baker came up for cross examination before the senate military committee on his picture of the state of preparedness of the army, which congressional critics have attacked as "grossly exaggerated." But the political point of the whole controversy the question of whether the army is going to get ships tq transport a million men to France this year was left untouched, partly because Secretary Baker did not have the detailed figures to show the committee on what base he made hia assertion and partly because the committee got into a squabble over whether it would be proper to have the secContinued On Page Ten. Sec. Daniels Uses Base of German Submarine Shell for Paperweight WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The basa. of one of the 4.1 inch shells used by the German submarine which hit the American 6teamer J. L. Luckenbach. Oct. 19, 1917, has been presented ta Secretary Daniels and is now in use as a paperweight on his desk. Tha fragment weighs several pounds. Noj less than 236 of these missiles were thrown into the steamer which had. been rendered nearly halploss by ant early explosion In her boiler room. The arrival of an American destroyer ended the one-sided fight. out hater Incident to the restraining of a murderer from his criminal act or of a robber nation from subverting the institutions and ethics of the civilized world Jesus does not here condemn. Would Cripple Every Effort. Later (Matthew v. 38) Jesus quotes the law of blood revenge and after the quotation says: "But I say unto you. Resist not him that Is evil: but whosoever smite th thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also words that have been the citadel of non-residents from the . Quakers to Tolstoy. Did he mean the words to be taken literally? -To do so would cripple every effort for social and Industrial reform, would abolish every police force in the world, and of course make war impossible for his disciples. He clearly did not mean them to be taken literally, for when he was himContinued On Pag TwoJ 1