Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 183, 13 June 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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Select or Volunteer It may be well to refer again to the fact that there is no difference in the status of volunteers and selects in the estimation of the government. A few misguided persons, with more vehemence than common sense, have tried to create the impression in this community that every select is a slacker and every volunteer a patriot, whereas in truth both are patriots and the services of each is valued highly by the government. We believe that not every man should wait until he is called to the colors. The government maintains its navy and army recruiting stations to accommodate men of military age who have a decided preference for a particular branch of the military service, and for boys under the age of 21 and men above 31 years. Under the selective service law, men not of military age would have no chance of enlisting. Men of these three classes who volunteer their services are to be honored for their decision, but they should not be exalted above the men who wait until they are called. The very purpose of the selective service law is to "select" men according to their particular fitness for certafn branches of the service agreeable to a general scheme of the military authorities. The result of this, for instance, is that a meat cutter is not assigned to the medical corps but soon finds himself in the commissary department, and that a gunsmith is not used as a cook but placed in the ordnance branch. An infinitely long line of examples might be adduced to show how the selective service works out in practice. Parents of young men who were selected for the .service know that with few exceptions their sons were given work with due regard to their employment as civilians. Again, by gradually withdrawing these young men from civilian work and inducting them into the military service, the economic situation at home was safeguarded. Suppose that a call for volunteers had been made, and that the hundreds of young men of Richmond who are in the service now would have left this city on one day. What confusion would not have resulted? Hardly a business house or factory that would not have been crippled by the sudden withdrawal of the young men. The gradual calling of the selects has produced a minimum disturbance in industrial and business circles. In the light of the foregoing, and the very fact that the military authorities insisted on the selective system, why should the young men who await their call be termed "slackers" and looked upon as men who are dodging their full duty? Why should the person who signed himself J. G. to an article reprinted the other day try to create a feeling between selects and volunteers? Both are patriots. Each is doing his duty as he sees it. And what is of infinitely more importance, our government makes no distinction between them. In the last analysis, the whole problem as pointed out before, is one of motive and of personal responsibility. The man who tries by every means to dodge service, seeks to obtain a classification to which he is not entitled, and to beat the selective service law is a slacker. The man who volunteers to obtain a "swivel chair" job or to get into a branch that does not expose him to danger, merely because he is a coward and a weakling and not because he believes his training fits him for such service, is a slacker. But the man who waits for his call under the selective service law because he is conscientiously sincere in his attitude is a patriot. And the man who volunteers because he wants to serve his country is a patriot. The men whose motives are patriotic and honest need not fear censure or reproach either as volunteers or selects. The country honors as patriots both sincere volunteers and sincere selects.

Intervention in Russia The question of intervention in Russia to

save that country from absolute disintigration and to forestall the establishment of German autocracy, is receiving more attention every day from statesmen and journalists. It is readily conceded that if Germany is permitted to maintain her sway of influence over Russia, she will be given a position in Central Europe which will make her absolute dictator of the continent and the greatest menace the other powers ever have met. The Chicago Tribune discusses the question from this angle : The Associated Press at Washington reports that the central committee of the Russian cadets has petitioned the allies, including the United States, to intervene for the defense of Russia against Germany. At the same time the Russian ambassador at Paris gives to Mr. John Bass, correspondent of our neighbor, the Daily News, an interview explicitly urging upon America and the allies the propriety and necessity of sending an army into Russia to assist in the expulsion of the Germans and the establishment of a Russian national regime. It has, of course, been known that the moderate parties would welcome effective intervention. The difficulty has been that the Bolshevik leaders have been rabidly anti-American and anti-ally and while their power was unchallenged, intervention to save Russia from Germany, whose hand Lenine and Trotzky were playing, would probably have thrown the Russian people toward Germany. It could not be risked. Can it be risked now? The appeal for intervention does not come from the ruling parties in Russia or Ukrainia. The ambassadors at Paris and Washington are moderates. The unofficial emissaries or representatives of Russian opinion in : this country belong to anti-Bolshevik groups. Can we afford to accept their invitation to enter Russia ? It is a-delicate and critical question. It is plausible to hope that even among the mass of the followers of the fanatical Bolshevik leaders some reaction may have appeared toward the allies. The Brest-Litovsk treaty ought to have brought some light. The question is whether the anti-German reaction is strong enough to justify an experiment in intervention. One of the serious considerations is that military intervention must be largely Japanese and that is likely to arouse Russian mass fear and hostility. We may take some of the curse off by making up an international force with international contributions of troops, however necessarily small they may be. Japan might even be willing to concede the nominal command to an American officer, if that were urged as emphasizing the disinterested character of the expedition, though that would be a difficult concession. In any case, if intervention is attempted it should only be after a clear understanding and formal pledges to Russia as to its purposes and strict limitations. Under the most careful safeguards, we are inclined to believe, the experiment is worth trying. The situation could hardly be worse than it is at present, and what is still more important to consider, is that, left to itself, the situation is likely

to get worse from our point of view. Germany has done most of her grabbing now and her repu

tation should be at its worst in Russia. If she is allowed to proceed gradually to dig herself in, covering her exploitation and domination with the superficial benefits of her masterful con

trol, she will be in a virtually impregnable situa

tion for generations to come. She will be able, indeed, to dominate the world. Our hope, then, could only be turned to internal disintegration and the fall of the autocratic power. But that, in our opinion, would.be a dim and delusive hope. There is no time to overthrow the Pan-German will but now.

Sons of the Mighty! From the Cincinnati Enquirer. WEARING the uniform cf their country's army are the three sons of three Presidents Cleveland, Roosevelt and Taft. The last to enter was the only son of the idol of the Democratic party, the man whose motto was, "A public office is a public trust." What held him back until now was his age. Freed from scholastic trammels, Richard Folsom Cleveland is today a private in the marines, the "leathernecks," who gave the Teutons a taste of American fighting at ChateauThierry. Charles P. Taft II. entered as a private in the infantry, is a Sergeant Major on the fields of Flanders. The three sons of Roosevelt are on the fighting line there as well. What an inspiration there is in thi3 sight! Sons of Presidents and sons of day laborers stepping together in the same file, drinking from the same canteen and sharing the same lowly tent bed. Vehicle for sorrow, misery, suffering and death, war is yet a great leveler, a mighty teacher of true brotherhood.

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SOUR KROUT. A food expert desires us to publish the fact that there is no harm In eating sour krout as long as it is spelled that way and not "saeur kraut." The change in spelling has eliminated the last trace of German horribleness from this delicious dainty. The expert tells us that sour krout is easily digestible, the cellular tissues being greatly softened by fermentation. It is a wonderful food. The Germans, according to this expert, cannot eat sour krout because the cabbage crop there has failed. Therefore, "if Americans do not eat it, who will?' Ask us an easy one. We don't know who will, but we know one won won't. "Where we live there is a delivery of mail at 8 o'clock in the evening, and the postmaster, bless him! is thinking of eliminating this delivery for the period of the war in the interest of economy. Everybody in our block has voted to have this delivery eliminated. The 8 o'clock mail has not been exactly a thing of beauty and a joy forever. One of the neighbors has averaged up his 8 o'clock mail for the past year and says the averags is a follows. One gas bill. One tailor shop postcard. One appeal from society for Rescuing Rugs from the Turks. One copy of "Goldfish Breeders' Gazette." One note upsetting week-end preparations, t One advertisement from a shoe house. Three appeals for old raincoats for Saharan relief. It is wrong to keep letter carriers out in the night air delivering this stuff.

CHESTER, IND.

Everett Hunt and family entertained the following friends and relatives ta Sunday dinner: Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boerman and daughter Carrie, Mr. and Mrs. Jamse Webster and daughter Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Duke and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Parish and daughters, Naomi and Anna of Fountain City, and Prof, and Mrs. Sipple and son Horace of Richmond Misses Lucile and Marjorie Huffman spent wtih Miss Blanche Brown.. .Herman Shaffer was the Sunday guest of Ralph, and Loren Buroker.. .Luther Hinshaw and family visited friends near Greensfork Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kendall, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huff

man, William Ryan and family and !

Frank Pickett visited Wilson Kendall and family Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. William Martin and daughter Virginic visited Howard Allison and

family near Centerville Sunday after- i

noon Relatives from Winchester, Ind., visited Luther Hinshaw and family Sunday evening Relatives from Richmond visited Louis Tice and fam

ily last Thursday Morrison Pyle and Emmett Hensley sold their farms last week.. .Mrs. Bertha Carman spent Monday and Tuesday with her parents Mr. and Mrs.William Hiatt, at Centerville.. . ..The "Excelsior" and "Wide Awakes" will give an ice cream social at the hall next Saturday. The public is cordially invited to attend.. .Children's Day exercises will be held at the M. E. church at Chester on Sunday night, June 23 Rev. L. P. Ulmer filled his regular appointment here last Sunday evening The Woman's Foreign missionary society met at the parsonage last Thursday afternoon. The July meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Frank Pickett and a patriotic program is being arranged for that time.. .Misses Ruthanna and Gertrude Simms caled on Mrs. Solomon Huffman Sunday evening.. .Miss Ethel Wilson was given a surprise at her home in Chester last Saturday afternoon in celebration of her birthday anniversary. Several guests from Richmond were present Mrs. William Morrow entertained the Reid Hospital Aid society at her country home near here all day last Thursday. Dinner was served on the lawn . The time was spent with sewing for the hospital... Thomas Borden and family spent Saturday afternoon with Andrew Maken and family near Lynn, Ind.. .Wilson Kendall remains about the same Mr.and Mrs. Ot Love and baby and Miss Martha Morrow were Sunday guests of Elbert Kemp and family... Clyde Crampton is home from Camp for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Crampton and family.

The United States had no ambassador in Germany when war was declared, relations having been broken off two months before, and Ambassador James W. Gerard havingreceived his passports.

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HAGERSTOWN, Ind., June 13. Attorney Will Reller, of Richmond, delivered an address here Tuesday night at the opening of the high school park. The$e was a musical program and the Garden club served cake, strawberries and ice cream. There was a large crowd in attendance.

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