Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 176, 5 June 1918 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1918

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REVISE FREIGHT RATES IF LOCAL NEEDS REQUIRE Steps Are Taken Looking Toward Changes from New Schedules.

(By Associated Prsa) WASHINGTON. D. C. June 5. Steps looking to modification of the order raising freight rates 25 per cent so as to provide for retention of differentials and to remove provisions discriminating against certain business interests or localities were taken today by the railroad administration. Many changes may be made before June 25, when the higher rates are to become effective. ' They will not however, affect materially the amount of the increase. Representatives of public utilities commissions of about thirty states con. ferred with the interstate commerce commission and railroad administration officials today and arranged to present a draft of specific recommendations for modifications to eliminate apparent Injustices In Intrastate rates. They will discuss these Thursday with Director General McAdoo at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he Is resting.

Bee Culturist Has Thousands of Insects Aiding Food Conservation

o Red Cross Notes

Benjamin F. Parsons, 25 South Seventeenth 6treet. former county recorder, Is aiding in food conservation and at the same time making a eubstantial money profit. When it became known that there was to be a sugar shortage in the United States, Mr. Parsons Immediately became intersted In bee culture. He began to buy hives, taking the best bees he could find, and studying everything he could find on the care of bees. As a result. In a few months, he has 42 hives of bees, containing several thousand in each hive, and Is finding the work both Interesting and profitable. The government is behind the mcv ment to increase the Interest In bee culture, and has encouraged Mr. Parsons in greater activity in producing

noney tnai can De usea 10 iane iu place of sugar. Honey is greatly in demand, and the price is about twice as much as it was a year ago. A pound of his best honey, Mr. Parsons said, brings 30 cents or over a pound. Mr. Parsons has 25 hives at his home on Seventeenth street, and 18 on a vacant lot at Eighteenth and South A streets. All of the bees are of the kind known as the Italian bees, and are said by their owner to be The work around bees is continually more peaceful and better workers than the commoner black bee.

developing new Interest, Mr. Parsons says. The insects .are possessed of unusual intelligence, and work perpetually during their lifetime. Much of success in raising them depends on this interest, according to Mr. Parsons, and that probably is the reaeon for the Buccess which be has had in his new work. Mr. PirPnni hq h I 0 Atna -war gardening this year on an intensive scale, and bus two small aueus in which he is raising almost every kind of garden crop. He has planted as much as four different vegetables in one place, he said, and has studied the means of making as much use of his ground as possible.

DISAPPROVE CHARGING FOR CLERICAL SERVICE

The state council of defense has adopted a resolution disapproving the charging of fees for clerical services rendered the wives and dependents of soldiers.. A copy of the resolution, which has Leen received by W. W. Reller, chairman of the Wayne county council of defense, follows: "Whereas, our attention has been called to the charge that fees are being exacted for clerical services in assisting wives of soldiers to secure their rights under the Allotment and Insurance Laws enacted for the benefit; Be it Resolved, That the Indiana State Council of Defense disapprove of any one, especially members of war councils charging fees for clerical services in securing delinquent allot

ments or insurance to the wives, widows or children of soldiers, or accepting compensation in such cases, unless the claims are denied or disputed by the Government and the taking of proof or institution of suit be thereby rendered necessary, in which event a limited compensation is allowed by law." . STATE COUNCIL. OF DEFENSE.

Examination of Babies to Be Closed Thursday . . . , The examination or cnuaren in connection with "baby week" will be closed Thursday. Five of he schools, Vaile, Whitewater, Sevastopol, Baxter, and Joseph Moore, completed the examination of the children registered there Tuesday afternoon, and others were expected to have their number completed by Wednesday afternoon. The schools have been the headquarters for the examinations during

the present time, but after Thursday, arrangements will be made to open headquarters at the Day Nursery where registration and examination may be made. Mrs. Edgar Hiatt, who has been in charge of the examination of the children, said Wednesday that the results of the work had been very satisfactory, and that the majority of the women who had registered their chit dren, had brought them to be examin d.

Consider Fixing of Prices on Lumber WASHINGTON, June 5. Fixing of prices on lumber for the commercial consumer as well as for the government is under consideration by the war industries board. Thi3 would follow out the government's policy of giving the private consumers the same price as that obtained by the government.

HOW TO PRESERVE LINEN

(By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM. June 5. "How to Preserve Your Linen" is the title of a lecture now being delivered throughout Germany by speakers from the Imperial Clothing office. The object is to teach people how to use the various substitutes for soap and the chemical washing-powders, without unnecessary wear and tear of their garments.

"WILD MEN" ARE DESERTERS

(By Associated Press.) LONDON. June 5. Three "wild men" on a desolate section of the Yorkshire coast were arrested recently and proved to be deserters from the army. The men had fairly comfortably quarters in a cave upon a cliff. When their Robinson Crusoelike existence was brought to an end, the first question asked. was: "Has the war ended yet?"

Owing to the new regulations in regard to buying raw materials for the Red Cross and the necessity for suspending work temporarily in the hospital garment department, some misunderstanding has arisen as to the present activity of the Red Cross-workshops in the county. The new plan of purchasing supplies is that the government has added the amount of material needed by the lied Cross to its own orders and the entire amount of raw material will be purchased at once at a price to be fixed by the government and will be resold to the Chapters without profit. This arrangement went Into effect June 1, hut the material purchased In this way probably will not actually reach the Chapter workshops until July 1. In order to make this arrangement it was necessary for the Red Cross to guarantee that its various Chapters throughout the country would refrain from buying raw material In the open market, and It Is therefore necessary for the next six or eight weeks for the Red Cross to operate Its workshops with the stock of material on hand on the first of June. As this stock of material in the workshops throughout the country is inadequate to supply all of the needs of the Red Cross, It Is necessary to manufacture during this period only those things which are of the most, immediate need and Chapters will be given quotas from the division office covering these various articles. Each Chapter has been instructed to send .in to the Division headquarters an inventory of all material it has on hand on June 1. nnd has been instructed to cut none of this material until It receives instructions from headquarters as to what !s the most advantageous use to make of the material now in hand.

While waiting for the arrival of

these instructions it will be necessary for the Wayne County Chapter to suspend work on hospital garments in its workshops although it has over 10,000 yards of material of various kinds on hand. The hospital garme.it work will be resumed of course, as soon as the quota of garments is received. Surgical dressing department has been on the above basis so far as the purchase of material is concerned, since the first of May, and it is being supplied each month with sufficient material to make its monthly quota in army dressings for the surgeon general's office. This quota and the material have arrived for June and as the finished dressings must be shipped by June 21, it is earnestly desired that the usual number of surgical dressing workers continue in attendance at the workshop. The change in the surgical dressing department means simply that the army quota will be producted each month as early in the month as possible and the department will be closed until the next quota is received. In order to prevent the injudicious use of raw material nothing will be manufactured by the Red Cross at present except on regular orders from the division office. Owing to the heat the rooms will be closed until further notice at 5:30 p. m. except on Saturdays, when the workshop will be closed at noon and the office will be closed at 4:3ft. The Red Cross women of Earlham Heights who have been making hospital garments for the Red Cross society, are requested to take all of the garments they have made to Mrs. D. R. Mitchell by Friday morning. The garments are to all be turned in at headquarters by Mrs. Mitchell at once.

Von Hindenburg and Kaiser Visit Newly Captured Territory ffty Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM. June 5 Field Marshal Von Hindenburg accompanied the German emperor on his tour Saturday of the newly gained territory between the Chemin Des Dames and the river Vesle. according to the description written by Karl Deaner, correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger and published in the Cologne Gazette. The two military chiefs first visited the headquarters of General Von Boehm, commander in chief of the army fighting on the Marne and received reports on the situation. Then the party visited Pinin and the Laffaux-Conde region, thence going farther south to a recently captured hill where they could see the fighting west of Solssons. After going to Fere-En-Pardenols to view the captured territory as far as the Curcq, the emperor returned to headquarters by way of Fismes.

PROGRAM FOR STATE S. S. CONVENTION

E. M. Hasemeier of this city, president of the State Sunday school association, has announced the program association to be held in South Bend June 11, 12 and 13. Meetings will be held in the high school building, the First M. E. church, the First Presbyterian church, the

First Christian church. A number of

prominent speakers are to address the

meetings, including Dr. C. W. Brewbaker, John L. Alexander, Dr. E. A. VanNuys, the Rev. E. Leroy Dakin and George N. Burnie. The opening session will be held

Tuesday morning when the formal

In the afternoon divisional meetings will be held, and at night several lectures are to be given. For Wednesday are announced conferences for the officers of the association, with general sessions in the afternoon and evening. Divisional rallies will be held Wednesday night. A patriotic meeting with appropriate addresses will close the session of the convention Thursday night. E. M. Hasemeier will be in charge of the meetings.

DRUIDS ELECT TWO RICHMOND MEN TO STATE OFFICES

Charles E. Panken of Indianapolis was elected noble grand arch for Indiana by the United Ancient Order of Druids in state session here Tuesday and Wednesday. Two Richmond men were also elected to state offices. They were Albert Hodapp, deputy grand arch, and William Hodapp, grand guardian. Other officers elected and installed Wednesday morning were: Charles G. N. Geides of Indianapolis, grand secretary. E. B. Jamison of Lafayette, grand treasurer. J. C. Bogart, of Indianapolis, grand marshal. Henry Brinkmann of Indianapolis, grand herald. Bert May of Indianapolis, grand trustee. Charles G. N. Geides of Indianapolis, and Charles H. Shaffer of Anderson, supreme representatives to the national convention at Dayton, O. Alden W. Eckert, of Indianapolis, supreme alternate. Albert Beasley of Linton, Ind., supreme representative. Indianapolis was selected as the scene of the state convention in 1919 which will convene the first Tuesday in June. A resolution was adopted Wednesday morning to buy $200 worth of war savings stamps out of the treasury funds on hand. Tuesday afternoon a resolution was adopted backing up the United States government in the carrying on of the war, and the Druids expressed themselves and their order as willing to hlp the cause at any and all times, and in any manner possible. The officers were installed Wednesday by Supreme Grand Arch Albert Beasley of Linton, Ind. The convention adjourned at noon Wednesday.

FAVORABLE VERDICT FOR CAMP EXPECTED

Captain Joy, representing the committee of the war department which has to do with the placing of training camps in the United States, met with members of the Commercial club Wednesday to learn of the advantages which Richmond has to offer for the establishment of an auto mechanics training school here. Richmond has been already visited by a civilian inspector, and Captain Joy is to have the final work a3 the establishing of the camp. He did not complete his inspection of the city until Wednesday afternoon, but stated that he probably would make a favorable report. The question of a lodging place for the soldiers was the most difficult one presented, but it was thought would be favorably solved before the day was over. During his inspection Wednesday morning Captain Joy visited the Davis and Pilot motor companies, the American Seeding Machine company, and the proposed drill ground on the west side, and stated that he was pleased with these facilities. Members of the Commercial club entertained Captain Joy at luncheon at the Arlington hotel Wednesday, and discussed the proposed camp. The Commercial club will be responsible

for the contract for the camp if it is brought to Richmond.

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