Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 146, 1 May 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1918

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM . Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium BulWIng, North Ninth and Sailor Street. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, aa Second Claaa Mall Matter.

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Respe(

;ct for the State Militia

A few shallow brained individuals in thi3

city, with little patriotism and less sense for the proprieties, have been trying to ridicule members of the Richmond company of the state militia. These men believe it a sign of greatness to insult

members of Company K with ridicule, calling

them "raw recruits," "tin soldiers" and "rookies." The ridicule in itself does no harm, for the Richmond militiamen are too big to heed the slurs. The motive, however, that prompts this abuse is inimical to the loyal spirit and pa

triotism of the community, and for that reason must be condemned. Reformative measures are

available to cure the street corner scoffers. If some of these spineless critics of the

guardsmen had one-thousandth part of the pa

triotism of the men whom they are ridiculing, they would be members of Company K and not street corner loafers and yelping slackers. The very fact that members of Company K are drilling for the protection of the homes of Rich mond, including those of their critics, puts them on a level infinitely above the men who are trying to say funny things about them. A survey of the personnel of the company shows that it is made up of business and professional ,men, and sturdy workers in the shops, many of them sacrificing willingly of their time and money to do their bit to help win the war. It h galling to them to hear the cheap criticism and belittling abuse of gutter snipes and wearers of the white feather. The government values highly the service of the militia units and for this reason protects them from ridicule and abuse. Some of the men who have taken flings at the Richmond militia company might profit by studying Section 46 of the Military Laws of Indiana, which sets out: Whoever shall unlawfully molest, insult or abuse any officer or enlisted men of the militia, while in the performance of his military duty, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or both, and it shall be lawful for any officer of the militia on duty therewith, to arrest or cause the arrest of any persons so offending, and detain such person in custody until his arrest can be procured by civil authority. A person, who either by himself or with another, willfully deprives a member of the militia of his employment, or prevents his being employed by himself - j i

or another, or obstructs or annoys saia memoer

of said militia or his employer, in respect of his trade, business or employment, because said member of said militia is such member, or persuades any person from enlistment in the said militia by threat of injury to him in case he shall so enlist, in respect of his employment, trade or business, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred ($500) dollars. No association or corporation, constituted or organized for the purpose of promoting the success of the trade, employment, or business of the members thereof shall by any constitution, rule, by-law, resolution, vote, or regulation, discriminate j gainst any member of the militia of the State of Indiana, because of such membership in respect of the eligibility of such member of the said militia to membership in such association or corporation, or in respect to his rights to retain

said last mentioned membership, it being the;

purpose of this section to protect a member of the said militia from disadvantage in his means of livelihood and liberty therein, but not to give

him any preference or , advantage on account of j civilization

his membership of said militia. A person who aids in enforcing any such provisions against a member of the said militia with the intent to discriminate against him because of such membership, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.)

southwest of Ypres were the most frightful in the history of the offensive. Germans were mowed down like grass. Whole regiments were wiped out. British and French stood against at the carnage which they were inflicting. One shudders at the cold-blooded mental and moral disposition of the German general staff. They look upon soldiers like so much inanimate material that can be shuffled about on the battle front like blocks and sent to death without compunction. If a general believes 10,000 men must be sacrificed to win a position, he forthwith sets out to execute his plan with the calculating indifference of a man hiring five men to mow a field of timothy. ,

The frightful contrast between the men who are led to carnage and the men who issue the commands is vividly depicted by the Kansas City Star in these words : Over there on the Hindenburg line there are graygreen masses of helmeted automatons "human material" they are designated In terminology of the war lords who are dally sent forth with gas and flame and grenades and belching guns and knives of steel to make offering kf their bodies for cannon fodder and to hack, hew, mangle and exterminate other masses of men, distinguished from them by uniforms of a different color and helmets of a different make. jBehind ihem are other more gaily uniformed men who drive them to their gruesome tasks with sharp cries of command and hissings of scorn and contempt if they falter or fail. And further in the rear of the line, beyond the reach of shot or shell, beyond even the echoes of the drumfire, in luxurious apartments, with servants and couriers, wines and warm baths, airplanes and motor cars ready at their beck and call, sit other more gorgeously uniformed men, with huge bodies and square heads, bending over maps, writing, dictating, bandying courtesies and exchanging military pleasantries of speech. And in the security and magnificience of his palaces the supreme war lord holds council with the high princes of Junkerdoni, at whose behest the floodgates of hate and blood were opened upon a peaceful world.

And as to the why of it all? Ask the supreme war lord and the princes In council and they will prate magniloquently of God, kultur, the fatherland and world pow

er. Ask the square-headed generals and they will tell you of salients and sectors, masterly maneuvers, victory and German peace. Ask the little captains who drive the men into the cannon mouths and they will prate of duty, discipline, heroism and iron crosses. But seldom does there come a voice from those millions in gray-green. Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. And yet they have each of them thinking minds beneath their spiked helmets and they must be thinking strange and luminous thoughts, as they march into the valley of death, linked cogs in the kaiser's "categorical imperative" machine. How long can the German people endure this slaughter? Their morale must soon be undermined by the casualty lists. The general staff cannot indefinitely keep on slaughtering men by the thousands. Public opinion in Germany ultimately will demand cessation of the butchery. We do not understand fully the strategy of the Allies, but if General Foch is employing tactics that have only one purpose, namely, to kill off as many Germans as possible without risking a decisive engagement, while the allied reserve is kept intact and fresh for a final counter stroke, he certainly is attaining his purpose.

P

Von Jagow Explains

From the Chicago Tribune

RINCE LICHNOWSKY'S stinging indictment of

Potsdam statesmanship has brought out a defense from Von Jagow. We wish Germany joy of the

explanation. The gist of Von Jagow's remarkable if unintended confession is that the Wilhelmstrasse could not afford to accept Grey's proposal for a conference because it might result in a diplomatic defeat for Germany and a consequent loss of her prestige. This verifies that passage of Dr. Muhlon's powerful corroboration of Lichnowsky in which the kaiser is reported to have declared that in this case no one should call him indecisive! And what was the object of the Wilhelmstrasse? Von Jagow states plainly: "All our energies were directed to the localization of the war." We do not doubt it. This in plain English means that Germany was willing to chance a European holocaust to back the Austrian plan of reducing Serbia to a subject state. Take Lichnowsky and Muhlon, round out their statement by the confession of Von Jagow, and the entente governments could ask no better proof of the criminal insolence and cynicism with which Potsdam has put all Europe to the swoid and lit a conflagration imperiling

Human Material as the Junkers Use It Associated Press dispatches yesterday said the losses inflicted on the Germans who attacked

The pacifism and conciliation of Grey, conceded by Von Jagow, expressing the traditional attitude of the ruling party in England, could have been counted on to safeguard any reasonable rights or susceptibilities of Germany and Austria. But the kaiser was nursing his prestige today, save what her sword can succeed finally in preserving. It is the duty of humane civilization to defend itself from that sword and break it. On the shoulders of America today rests the chief burden of that duty. Let. Germany realize that the issue is clear throughout America today, and since it is clear America will not turn back or sheathe her sword until victory overPotsdam is won.

PINNER 5TORIEi "How long has that clerk worked for you?" asked the caller. "About four hours," replied the boss. "I thought he had been here longer than that," said the caller. "He has." said he boss. "He has been here for four months." "No more ahall I hear his footsteps on younder walk Just as the clock strikes eaght." "Gracious Jeannette!" "And the old parlor light will never burn low for him again. I do: and furthermore, he will never sit on this sofa three nights a week and call me pet names, a3 he

has been doing for two years." "I am astonished." "And tonight I am going to burn all the old love letters in my chest of drawers."

Are you going to dis-

"B-but why? card him?"

"Discard him! Why, am going to marry him!

you goose, I

GERMAN BOOKS BURNED.

SIOUX CITY, la.. Way 1. Unknown persons broke into the Conservatory of Music at Morningdale College here last night, took nearly 100 German songbooks that were being used by members of the German Methodist Episcopal church, which held its meetings there, carried them to the athletic field and burned them.

Defense Council Will Occupy Churchell's Rooms Permanent headquarters will be established by the Wayne County Council of Defense in the Second National bank building. The council will occupy the three rooms to be vacated by Dr. E. R. Churchell who resigned the chairmanship to enter the army. This suite is located on the third floor of the building. The county fuel director and food administration will occupy the same rooms.

An expenditure of $250,000 has been decided upon by the Tampa Dock Co., Tampa. Fla.. to construct marine ways

for vessels up to 5000 tons and install j considerable machinery. j

By HAL POD People sometimes think newspapers are able to supply any kind of information that may be desired, and as a result they frequently call us up and ask some of the most useless questions the mind of man could possibly conceive. Some day I expect a man will be calling up and wanting to know what kind of scales they use when they weigh a ship's anchor. The other day a woman called up here and wanted to know where she could rent a merry-go-round. I didn't know just exactly where she could rent a merry-go-round, but I told her that Bill Pond had a' flivver and mebbe he could let her have that a ftw days. Bill says that it is about as near to a merry-go-round as anything he ever saw. However, the lady said she did not want a flivver because you had to wind the blame things up every time you wanted to go any place.

The Kaiser has demanded $2,000,000,000 from Roumania as an indemnity: We haven't got enough ciphers in the plant to say what he would demand from America if he should ever win this war.

"The supreme test of true love is a week's growth of whiskers," remarks Fred Myers in the Indiana Times. It would seem to me, Fred, that a two week's growth would be supremer. The New York street car conductor who knocked down twenty-two out of twenty-thrpe fares he collected, as brought out in his trial on a charge of embezzlement, was entirely too ambitious. He ought to have at least gone fifty-fifty with the company.

A neighboring paper, Democratic no doubt, recently remarked that Mr. George Creel was an important cog in the government machine. What's the matter here? Somebody must have forgotten to put an 1 in there some place. Hadn't that ought to read "clog?"

a German dish, but still has never bought a Liberty bond?

Why not a poetless spring and possibly a La Folletteless senate? Herbert Quick said recently the war might last twenty-five years yet. What's the matter here, Herb? We aren't married to the Germans. "Overheard on Line 12" is the rather frank headline over a column of country correspondence In a Preble county paper. There are a great many women in this world for whose good judgment I have the greatest respect. All those I ever asked to marry me and they didn't do it.

I clip from a newspaper published at Peru, Ind., the following lost ad: "Lost Four rings, two solitaire diamonds, a diamond cluster and a pearl, somewhere on North Miami Pikje." Good night! What kind of a place is this here Peru, anyhow, that they doll up like that when they go strolling on the pike?

We might, revise that old saying about the only kind of a good Indian being a dead Indian, and let it include buns, too.

"We are very anxious to get to France," writes a Richmond boy from

Camp Taylor. "We're commencing to

think they are going to keep us in training here for the rest of our natural

born days. The other day three of our boys were transferred to another com

pany that will soon be going across the

water. We felt a lot like hanging out a service flag with three stars in it

but we didn't do it."

met with very . serious accident a few days since, when she tripped on a rug and fell, breaking the right hip.. . . Edgar E. ,Ault of Chicago spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ault.. ..Mrs. Sherman Werking of Milton spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. John Obmit Mrs. Carl Boyd and son,-Horace, of Chicago, are visiting relatives here The Helen Hunt club met Monday at the home of Mrs. Viola K. Roth. The club voted $50 for the purchase of a liberty bond. Mrs. R. A. Hicks was chosen

as a ueiegaie to me uisiiuui tion of federated clubs, to be held in Greenfield, Miss Rose Greisenger, al

ternate. Three interesting papers were read, Miss Eva Tom telling of "The Liberators of South America," Mrs. Charles Kniese describing Crusoe's Iste and Miss Hannah Overbeck in a paper read by her sister, Miss Mary, discussed the subject, "Chile Minerals and Mining Under the Sea, and the Nitrate Desert." The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Charles Kniese.... Ruf us Bortsfield, son of Henry Bortsfield, is in training at Camp Taylor. He was formerly in the employ of the P. C. C. & St. L. . ."The Princess of Shallott," a musical setting of Tennyson's, poems "Elaine," will be given for tne benefit of the Red Cross, Thursday evening in the Christian church, under the direction of Miss Harriet Overbeck. The Misses Gertrude Routh, Harriet and Elizabeth Overbeck, Mrs. May Boden, Mrs. J. E. Wright and Mrs. E. O. Paul will sing the number for the three-part chorus, Miss Overbeck, the soprano solos, with Mrs. Charles Kniese, accompanist. A fourminute speaker will be on the program Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Peters and Mrs. John Peters have returned to Terre Haute after a few days spent with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fraunberg and daughter. .... .Abram Hoover, a wellknown farmer, residing northeast of this place, died Monday night, after

j an illness from indigestion. Mr.

Hoover was 64 years of age. The wife and one son survive him. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the German Baptist church west of Hagerstown. Interment in the German Baptist cemetery.

HOOSIER OFFICER CITED.

.SOUTH EEND, Ind., May 1. Lieut: F. O. Hnean of thta oitv. who. follow- ;

ing training in the first ofHcers' campj at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was sent for a decoration because of bravery in carrying two wounded men to places of protection.

What do you think of the guy that refuses to eat sauerkraut because it is

u My idea of a real treat would be to

put one foot on the Kaiser's breast and pull with all my mite to get my sword

out of his hide.

A New York paper sums up the work

done by the state legislature at its last session, in a headline which reads,

"Only 160 Laws Enacted." Wonder

where they get that "Only" stuff?

Moment A LITLE SLICE O' LIFE Next door to us lives a beautiful Young maiden whose fiance has Gone away to the sanguinary wars. Of late she has been very nervous, ' Like all the rest of us, concerning The great German drive in France. The situation has been painful. But, in spite of her nervousness, The young lady has been hopeful. She has kept saying to us: "Never mind, the tide will turn soon. We'll teach those roughnecks a lesson That they will not soon forget." Today she burst in upon us, radiant. She almost screamed: "It's all right. We are safe at last. The Germans Will advance no further. Look!" She showed us a cablegram which said: "Arrived safe. Jack." So it's all over now and we are saved. Gosh! It must be fine to feel The way that girl feels about Jack.

A prominent manufacturer of men's clothing says suits will cost $75 each next year. But the young man can always get a fine new suit for nothing by joining the army. Personally, being too fat to fight, we feel that going about wrapped in a horse blanket will be a pleasant thing if it will help drive back the enemy.

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No. 26 on the Republican Ballot at trie Primary May 7 TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS: I am a candidate for Auditor of WaynV County at the Primary, May 7. I want your support and votes. In return I shall serve you faithfully and efficiently as your Auditor, a promise my fifteen years' business experience will enable me to fulfilL

Sincerely, WILLIAM HOWARD BROOKS