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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY; MAY 2, 1918

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mall Matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and nl, the local news published heieln. All rlrhts of republication ot spsUl dlspatcuoa herein are atao reserved.

Cowardly Attack on Strayer , An irresponsible person has been mean

enough to circulate a report alleging that Prose

cutor Strayer is. guilty of making disloyal remarks. The evident purpose of this deluded person is to discredit the prosecutor and roll up votes against him at the forthcoming primary. Ordinarily, voters pay little attention to the accusations which one candidate brings against another, but in this case, the charge is so wicked, the malice so apparent and the purpose so obvious, that it calls for round condemnation. No decent man would make a charge of this kind against his opponent. Only a reprobate of the lowest order would be guilty of such dirty tactics. Strayer is one of the most loyal men in the community. He has given public proof of his loyalty at patriotic meetings in nearly every township of this county, and has been asked to deliver addresses before almost every fraternal order in this city. The man who has made these charges is too cowardly to report Strayer to the federal authorities.' Why? Because he knows the accusation

is a lie. No patriotic motive prompts mm in accusing Strayer falsely. He is trying to win votes in this sneaking and underhanded manner. No sane man will heed the accusations of this man. Every town has a mean man. Richmond is cursed with having one of the meanest and most contemptible specimens of the mean man in the United States. A man that has no decency and self-respect, no love for truth and morals, no idea of shame and remorse. A man who is so steeped in wickedness and crookedness, so absorbed in the working of evil, that he will stoop to the lowest degree of infamy to blacken the character of. good men and the reputation of honest citizens. It is a disgrace to the community that this man is permitted to slander Strayer

and others and still escape the just punishment fnr h npfarious acts. This is the man who is

trying to defeat Strayer. Some may wonder why this man has not been sued for damages. The answer is that, with diabolical cunning and criminal genius, he has disposed of his property in such a manner that a plaintiff could not collect a judgment given him by a court. This man has been involved in eighty-seven civil and criminal litigations in the courts of Wayne county, and yet, with brazen impudence and bold effrontery, asks to be nominated for prosecuting attorney. Can the impertinence of this man be exceeded anywhere ? Strayer has been an efficient prosecutor. He has done his work well. He is entitled to re-nomination by the Republican party. There is no reason to doubt that Strayer will be nominated, but the voters of Wayne county ought to vote so solidly for Strayer that his opponent will come to a realization of the fact that'he is the most despised and hated man in this county. Every honorable man of the Republican party will vote for Strayer and pay no attention to the cowardly attacks of a renegade whose very name has become a designation of reproach and shame in this county.

Mobilizing Our Man Power Three bills introduced in Congress last Tuesday demand that the United States increase its army to 3,000,000 or 5,000,000 men. The bills call for immediate action. Seemingly some of our leaders are waking up to the fact that we are not participating in a Bolsheviki tea party but are up against Von Hindenburg. At last our policy of deliberateness is to be thrown into the waste basket and we are going to inaugurate

speed and haste. We cannot blink the fact that we have been too slow in our military preparations. Our associates in arms have been generous in overlooking our faults. Tart of the British press, however, has openly expressed its disappointment at the delay marking our support of the brave British and French armies that stand between us and the defeat of republican principles of government. Lloyd George also intimated recently that greater speed in America would be a welcome relief to the Allies. Recent manifestations of a new spirit in Congress ought to go a far way in remedying the situation. We have dawdled and talked for a

year, and Germany in the meantime, while ostensibly ridiculing the potency of our military assistance to the Allies, has bent every effort to smash the western line before we become, a deciding factor. Not the channel ports but the defeat of the Allies before we come to their assistance is the real interpretation of Germany's gigantic smashes on the western front. To attain that end Hindenburg and Ludendorff are willing to sacrifice soldiers by the thousands, for it will give them a strategic advantage of immeasurable significance. German newspapers reflect that design ot the German general staff. The Zeitung of Constance says: "We must hurry to obtain a solid victory by arms before the full American forces arrive." German newspapers are informing their readers concerning the danger of America's intervention and Vienna newspapers are taking the same course. - The only foil to the German strategy is unparalleled haste in the training of millions of men in the, United States and the production of guns and airplanes. And that can be brought about only by legislative enactment. Congress must act. Germany fears America. She knows she must win now or defeat is certain. The Chicago Post sizes up Germany's feverish haste as follows : Trainload after trainload of wounded is crossing Belgium from the scene of Germany's desperate struggle, and the unending stream of the maimed and dying, is disturbing the minds of those who witness it.

This is the price for what? Thus far nothing but a wilderness of blighted fields and ruined villages. Thus far no objective has been realized that can bgin to justify the investment of German blood, nor even to excuse or palliate the extravagance with which von Hindenburg has spent the lives at his commond.

And yet the expenditure goes on. Division

after division is hurled in, and withdrawn, brok

en, decimated, fit only for some quiet sector where it can recuperate. Germany is fighting with the frenzy of fear. Fear is often a good spur to action, but when it becomes master of man's thought and effort it is a terrible master and one that inevitably drives to destruction.

Germany fears America. She has whistled loudly to keep up her courage. She has lied to her people about our preparations and our achievements. She has belittled us and vowed that we cannot place a formidable army in France. The Germans have

been told that our transports are sunk and that thousands, tens of thousands of our troops are drowned. But the high command knows better, and the high command is afraid. Germany is striking with a blind fury. There is a mad impatience about her manner of fighting that does not indicate clear and deliberate thought. One idea controls her: "We must win now or never.'

The government has called for volunteers to man the new tanks that are soon to be sent to the western front "tank men" they are called. Well, Indiana ought to be Jible to supply quite a few now that the state has gone dry. Looks like somebody spilled the beans over in Austria when the Hungarian emperor wrote that letter telling French authorities how peace could be arranged. No doubt a body guard of the Kaiser's fivorite regiment is now busily engaged in keeping pen, ink and paper away from Emperor Charles. If some of these guys hereabouts who conduct departments on newspapers somewhat similar to this one I might say similar in more ways than one should ever lose their shears, It would be good night I don't mind a guy copping the stuff verbatim but he should at least say "Thanks." There is one fellow in this town who brags so much that he rather gets a man's goat. He was trying to tell me the other day that his weekly salary extended into three figures. That's nothing remarkable. Mebbe he gets J9.50 per.

American charity organizations have been asking what is most needed in Russia. It seems to me that razors would come in pretty handy. "All I ask is a show," said a baldheaded Richmond man the other day, according to Lawrence Handley. "If I just had a show I'd get to the front." Lawrence remarks that he believes that's just where the old boy belongs whether it be a burlesque show or otherwise down in the baldheaded row. I might remark that this draft business is beginning to develop into a regular gale. Prosecuting Attorney Frank Strayer says that the report about the Rich-

The Navy

From the New York Herald

N these hours, when delays and disappointments in

preparedness are giving plalfe to promises of. success, it may be permitted to venture a sentence or

two in commendation of a service that so far has never failed us. With such smoothness and efficiency, and so silently, do naval affairs seem to move that it is only at some rare moment of unusual stress that any clew is disclosed to the tireless labor and unceasing watchfulness demanded and surely exercised. All that the country may grasp are certain results after the facts, and then only by Indirection as these filter through reported achievements, most of which are possessed of the elements of happy surprise. The curtain lifts and falls; vessels of all classes come and go, from battle ships breasting any seas to frail patrol cratt that arrive outward safe and sound, despite all fear and wavering expectation. Convoyed transports in-

ship their contingents, steal out into the hush of the night, and after a period so brief as to seem impossible are up and away for their home ports. As yet no American convoyed transport, has been responsible for the loss of a single soldier. It is, indeed, of record that within a month one of these troop ships what a pity she must be nameless! slipped by Sandy Hook Light, disappeared into the unknown and within a fair fortnight

lifted the Highlands of Navesink and sought, unconscious of particular achievement, a quiet anchorage in tho Hudson. And all this and very much more are the supreme results of a permanent service and of a great naval school facile princeps where the unquenched torch of tradition and effort has without parade or ceremony been passed down with certainty to the youngsters now become the elders. Make no mistake: naval efficiency in this war

as in all our sea wars, is the work of its trained officers, with the valuable though at times belated collaboration of administrative officials. And next to these offfcers and administrators comes Congress; for it must be a surly or an ignorant curmudgeon that fails to recognize the splendid co-operation of the House and the Senate and the eagerness of both to grant and sustain all that could be expected of them.

Moment

Sir James Barrie of Thrums used to wear a silk hat when he went to call on editors and try to sell his earlier stories. He bought the hat for that very purpose. That was many years ago, but, be

ing a thrifty Scot, he still has the nat. Since the food control went into effect

in London, Sir James keeps his auow ance for potatoes in the hat.

One form of entertainment will al

ways be free to the public ana no admission will ever be charged. Airplane flying. Beats" all how much more of a patriot A man is after he has bought a Liberty bond. Not on account of the money Invested, But because of the psychological effect. When a man buys a Liberty bond It becomes his own personal war, and he Begins strafing the Huns as soon As he walks away from the bond booth. And he wants to fight And the more he wants to fight, The more bonds he buys. How trivial our old pleasures look now! There isn't a Liberty bond fan in America Who cares whether his automobile Is running or not. We have never been at the battlefront. We have never heard the rattle of machine guns. But we know exactly how it sounds During the very fiercest fighting. The gentleman who occupies the desk Next to ours wears celluloid cuffs While running his typewriter.

mond man hoarding up flour is being sifted by the local police. . Just because a man elects to be a bachelor is no sign he is a woman hater by any manner of means. Lots of married men are women haters who might not have been had they remained single. A lot of us used to think that Bluebeard and Nero were bloodthirsty cutthroats, but alongside of Kaiser Bill they were pacifists. It used to be that our American girls wanted to marry dukes and earls, or anything just so It had a title. Nowadays, however, it's lieutenants and captains. An oak is not felled at one stroke, according to brother H. M. L. in the Kokomo Tribune. Which is really more truth than poetry. The Huns have been hacking away at the said oak for almost four years but she still Beems to be a mighty sturdy oak. "Fools make feasts and wise men eat them," says an old proverb. Yes, the Bolshevik made one and along came the Kaiser and ate it.

Ho hum! The Kaiser seems to be about three weeks overdue getting into Paris.

Rheumatics -0.K.

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Thursday, May 2 Wayne Council, No. 10, It. & S. M. Stated assembly. Saturday, May 4 Loyal Chapter, No. 49. O. E. S. Stated meeting, floral work.

DINNER 5 TORI E S As the motor car dashed through a little village the driver puhed up with a frantic Jerk. A man standing right In front of his machine was waving his arms violently and shouting: "Stop! Hi!. Stop!" "What's the trouble?" snapped the motorist "Is it a police trap? Because, if it is, I wasn't driving more than twenty miles an hour " "That's all right, sir," said the policeman. Only my wife has been

Invited to a wedding tomorrow, and attention!" he commanded. "Fix

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i waniea to ask if you could spare her a few drops o' gasoline to clean her gloves with." The sergeant had a squad of recruits on the rifle range. He tried them on the 500-yard range, but none of them could hit the target. Then he tried them on the 300-yard, the 200-yard and the 100-yard ranges

in mm, out wun no better success. When they had all missed on the shortest range he looked around ia despair. Then he straightened up. "Squad,

bayonets! Charge!

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TdD Utile PDpIl of Wayne County, Indiana

My Number on Republican Ballot 34 WILLIAM MATHEWS Candidate for re-election for County Assessor Subject to Republican Primary May 7, 1918

I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Prosecuting Attorney, which I now hold. I feel that I have served the people of Wayne County to the best of my ability and I am not unmindful of the fact that as prosecuting attorney that I have made some enemies, for the reason that I have handled twelve hundred and fifty ( 1 250) cases since January 1st, 1917. It is the duty of the Prosecutor to file affidavits when he feels that the law has been violated, and some reliable person signs the affidavit and to present the case to the Court or Jury for their decision, as to whether or not the person charged is guilty or not guilty. The duties of my office at this time demands that I take care of the same, and for that reason I do not have the time to go out and make the usual campaign. I have confidence in the integrity of the people and know the kind of a man that you desire in this office. Therefore, I kindly solicit your support and will do my duty as I have tried to do heretofore and I have full confidence in your judgment. Prosecuting Attorney for the 1 7th Judicial Circuit of Indiana