Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 218, 25 July 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AKD SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918.

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More Peace Suggestions Germany's latest peace overture made to the Spanish government, according to the Socialist paper Vorwaerts of Berlin, contains six suggestions, all of them being simon pure camouflage and bunk, intended solely to foster unrest among the soldiers and civilians of the allied countries. They will be spurned with the same contempt that was accorded to former peace pretenses of the Berlin gang. The only kind of peace that is acceptable to the Allies will be obtained by force of arms on the battlefield, even if it takes ten years to win that consummation. The latest vaporings assert that Germany wants no annexations and indemnities in the west; that the peace treaties with Russia and Roumania must not be questioned ; that the fate of Belgium may be settled at a peace conference

and that Germany is to enjoy the freedom of the j

seas, and England to dismantle Gibraltar and the Suez canal. We believe the people of the United States are sufficiently informed about Germany's honesty and integrity to know that a nation which plunged the world into war and later tried to deny it, that said the treaty with Belgium was a scrap of paper, and permitted its ambassador to this country to order the dynamiting of our industries, cannot be trusted. All the peace proposals of Germany are tissues of lies. They have only one avowed purpose, namely, to try to make the people of the allied countries believe that Germany really wants peace. Germany is trying might and main to crystalize public opinion in France, England and the United States to talk peace and wish for peace. The Most High knows that he cannot delude the great statesmen and generals of the Allies, and so he is trying to undermine their influence by getting the people to believe that Germany is ready to declare peace any day her enemies say they will quit. That's the real motive back of the peace talk which emanates from Berlin with startling regularity. The Kaiser is not sincerely seeking peace. He is looking for a premature peace that will enable him to hold the territory he has stolen, keep the booty he has pilfered, and escape punishment for the crime against Belgium and her people. A premature peace, brought about because the allied civilians demand it, will be playing into his hand. His Most High knows the jig is up. American bayonets, bombs and bullets, hurled among his troops by American boys, have made him realize that the fateful hour is drawing near. If, however, he can escape the final consequences of his insane desire to rule Europe by an artful peace compromise, he will win the war. There is just one answer to his latest peace suggestions. And that's more bayonets, bombs and bullets. The Yankee boys thundered their reply to "camouflage peace compromises" by , driving the picked veterans of the Crown Prince across the Marne. Non-combatants must be in- ; spired with the spirit of the fighters. Let them turn deaf ears to the siren songs of Berlin until the Franco-Americans and British have broken the Hun power forever and dictated the terms under which the subjects of the Most High are to !live. In the meantime, the Most High may continue sending out peace doves. They will return to the Berlin coop with scrolls on which are written, "War to the Finish."

Annexing the Suburbs A number of suburbs of Richmond are basking in the advantages and protection of the city without paying their proportionate share for these privileges. Located at the very edge of the corporation line, they enjoy the benefits of water, light and fire protection, but fail to assume the obligations which the citizen of Richmond does. Or, to use a common but pointed saying, they are spongeing on the big municipality and its people. Efforts to bring these suburbs into Richmond have failed in the past. We believe the time is at hand when they should be annexed and

made an integral part of the city. It is unfair that the taxpayers of Richmond spend their money for police protection and other municipal advantages, and that persons residing in suburbs Obtain almost a full participation in these benefits but sidestep and evade the assessments borne by their neighbors. The inequality and injustice cannot be denied. The only reason, in some instances, why these small corporations have declined to ally themselves organically with Richmond is because they do not want to pay the tax rate. They want light and water but do not want to help defray the cost of the other advantages. And yet, should a fire break out in their homes, the Richmond fire department would not hesitate one minute in rushing to the premises to extinguish it. Should robbers and marauders threaten the security of their homes, the Richmond police department would not hold its men at headquarters on the ground that the suburb does not belong to Richmond. The property of these men is enhanced in value by the protection which the city throws around it. Why should they oppose paying for it? Another factpr deserves consideration. The next United States census is not so far off that preparations should not be made to give Richmond full credit for its population. If thSse little centers of population were annexed, the population of Richmond would be increased considerably, a factor that will be of no small benefit to the community.

On the Trail of the Grafters The United States is having its experience with graft, bribery and conspiracy in army contracts. Great Britain had to clean house early in the war when scandals in letting munition contracts was discovered in high places. Germany unearthed a gigantic fraud in motor contracts. France had to execute plotters who were trying to sell out the nation to the enemy. So it is not surprising that our country should find dishonest men who are resorting to boodle and graft. The recent disclosures showing conspiracies involving war orders for raincoats illustrate the weakness of human character in resisting dishonest methods to make money. The men that are involved manufacturers, army officers and contingent fee agents are a disgrace to the nation. The detection of the conspiracy in letting contracts to the highest bidder instead of the lowest proves that our government will not tolerate abuses and is persistently and insistently uncovering efforts to betray the public trust and dissipate the public money. The American people can rest assured that petty and wholesale graft may flourish for a short time, but that justice quickly singles out and exposes the offenders. A competitor who loses a contract on a low bid loses no time in letling the department of justice know the details, quickly opening a way for investigations that bring results.

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From the Saturday Evening Post.

HE firemen are in the engine house playing check

ers, comparing baseball scores, and gassing about politics. A man appears in the doorway and ad

dresses them as follows: "You are dupes. The government you work for is owned body and soul by capitalists who use it only to exploit you. There is no need of a fire company anyway. People would put out fires voluntarily if left to themselves. If you had any manhood and self-respect you'd quit this job." The firemen laugh, josh the speaker, and go on playing checkers. But next day they are fighting a bad fire, choked with smoke, showered with sparks, drenched with water, carrying the hose into what may be a death trap. The orator reappears on the scene with a megaphone. The firemen do not laugh then. They demand angrily of the police captain: "Why don't you shut that fellow up?" If the policeman does not they resent it. They feel that the administration which calls upon them to sweat and choke and permits them to be insulted while they are about it insults them itself. In time, with repetitions of that experience, they are not so zealous In attacking fires as they used to be. No amount of seditious talk in the United States would stir up any really dangerous resistance to the government. Whatever resistance might develop the government could easily put down. Our government does not actually need sedition laws to protect itself from its enemies. It 'actually needs them to justify itself to its friends. It is the policeman at the fire. We go on the supposition that millions of normal American citizens react to common conditions substantially as we do. The government calls upon us all to meet the war. If it permitted people to stand 'round and insult the effort on the silly and ignorant theory that anybody must be permitted to say anything he pleases on any occasion we should have a poor opinion of it. So unquestionably would a vast number of other citizens who want to be loyal, and inevitably their zeal would suffer a check.

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Met Trlxle Frlganza on the street yesterday. Trixie is knitting something for her soldier boy, but she doesn't know yet whether it is going to be a muffler or a waehrag. It la something for his neck, she says. A friend of ours joined the army and said he wanted to do something big. So they set him to painting dirigible hangards. He paints one every eix weeks. If the husband has the stomach of an ostrich and the wife has its feathers, they are both happy. Von Hindenburg is In the hospital with nervous prostration. We don't blame blm.

When we used to feel punk, we said we felt like thirty cents. Now we say we feel like fifty cents. Everything has gone up on account of the war. Two hick wooden shoe dancers got through with their act In a New York vaudeville house and never got a hand. They were disgusted, perspiring and unhappy. They stood In the wings

and watched the next act. Wilton Lackaye was the actor, working easily and coolly, and gettlng big results from the audience. In fact, the audience was wild over him. One of the wooden shoe dancers watched Lackaye for a moment and then said to the other: "So that's what they want, eh? Well, we'll give 'em that next season."

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Official Program For 1918 Chautauqua is Announced

The following Is the official program for the 1918 session of the Richmond Chautauqua as announced by the program committee of the association. Sunday, August 18. 9:30 a. ra. Sunday school; superintendent, Harry B. Reeves, president City Sunday School association. 10:30 a. m. Sermon. 2:00 p. m. Prelude, The John B. Miller company. 3:00 p. m. Address, Bishop Francis J. McConnel, D. D., L.LD. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, The John B. Miller company. 8:15 p. m. Dramatic reading. Miss Jeanette Kllng, "Regeneration." Monday, August 19. 9:30 a. m. J. H. Bentley. 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. m. Concert, The John B. Miller company. 3 : 00 p. m. Reading, Miss Jeannette Kllng, "A Bit o' Love." 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Catherine Logan, whistler. 8:15 p. m. Concert, The John B. Miller company. Tuesday, August 20. 9:30 a. m. J. H. Bentley. 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. m. Zedeler Symphony Sextette. 3:00 p. m. Lecture, Tom Hendricks, humorist. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Zedeler Sextette. 8:15 p. m. Lecture, Lorado Taft, America's greatest sculptor. Wednesday, August 21. 9:30 a. m. J. H. Bentley. 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. m. Prelude, Zedeler Sextette. 3:00 p. xn.- Lecture, George R. Stuart. 7:30 p. m. Entertainment prelude, Thelma Thomas and Emma Riley. 8:15 p. m. Grand concert, the Zedeler Symphony Sextette. The U. S. government, department of public information, will furnish a speaker who probably will be with us on this day. Watch newspapers and platform announcements for definite time or his appearance and subject of address. Thursday, August 22. 9:30 a. m. J. H. Bentley. 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. m. Concert, Hawaiian Singers and Players. 3:00 p. m. Suffrage address. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Hawalians. 8:15 p. m. Lecture, Irvin Cobb, just returned from the battle fields of Europe.

The Forum

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Palladium: In your issue of July 24. under the heading "Contributed Verse," there appeared a poem entitled, "The Service Flag." and signd by Mrs. Emma Newlin. This poem appeared in the July issue of th9 Rotarian and was written by William G. Herschell, member of the Indianapolis Rotary Club. Why not give credit to whom credit Is due? A RICHMOND ROTARIAN.

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Two British army doctors, while ballooning, lost trace of their whereabouts, and wishing to know over which part of the country they were passing, saw a rustic at some distance working in the fields, and gradually rescended. Wh i nearly overhead one of them called out: "Hi, there, Johnny, can you tell us where we are?" The rustic merely gazed up in much amazement. Thinking he had not heard, one of the officers again shouted out, louder than before: "Where are we?" "Whoy, ye be in a balloon, bean't ye?" What the officers said when they heard this is not recorded.

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Friday, August 23. 9:30 a. m. J. H. Bentley. 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. m. Prelude, The John Howard Quintette. 3:00 p. m. Address. Miss Eleanof Barker, representing the federal food administration. v 7:30 p. m. Concert, Howard Quintette. 8:15 p. m. Lecture, Burnell Ford, electrical wizard. Saturday, August 24, 10:30 a. m. Miss Mary Reynolds. 2:00 p. .m. Program by class of Miss Bessie Buhl. 3:00 p. m. Concert, The Howard Quintette. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, The Howard Quinteite. 8:30 p. m. Great patriotic movie, "Wake Up America." Sunday, August 25. 9:30 a. ta. Sunday school; superintendent, E. P. Jones, president of Wayne County Sunday School association. 10:30 a. m. Sermon-lecture, Her. J. J. Rae, D. D. 2:00 p. m. Prelude, Chicago Operatice company. 3:00 p. m. Addesa, Dr. Herbert L. Willett. 7:30 p. m. Prelude. The Nusbaums and Mrs. Charles Igleman. 8:15 p. m. Grand concert, The Chicago Operatic company. Monday, August 26. Teachers' Institute begins. 10:00 a. m. Charles C. Ellis, "What is Teaching?" 11:00 a. m. Francis H. Green, "The Mother Tongue." 2 :00 p. m. Lecture, Harry A. Adrian. 3:00 p. m. Concert Chicago Operatic company. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Chicago Operatic company. 8:15 p. m. Address, Dr. C. C. Ellis, president, Janiata College, "The Biggest Word." Tuesday, August 27. 10:00 a. m. Charles C. Ellis, "Story Telling." 11:00 a. m. Francis H. Green. 2:00 p. m. Charles C. Ellis, "Efficient Personality." 2:00 p. m. Concert, Castle Court Singers. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Castle Court Singers. 8:15 p. m. Lecture, Henry A. Adrian. Wednesday, August 23. 10.00 a. m. Francis H. Green. 11:00 a. m. Charles C. Ellis, "Laws of Learning." 2:00 p. m. Francis H. Green, "American Versifiers." 3 : 00 p. m. Castle Court Singers. 7:30 p. m. Reading, Mrs. Frank Tillson. 8:15 p. m. Concert, Castle Court Singers. Thursday, August 29. 10:00 a. m. Francis H. Green.

11:00 a. m. A representative from the federal government. i 2:00 p. m. Charles C. Ellis. "A; Master in the Kingdom of Life." f 3:00 p. m. Entertainment, The j Crawford Adams company. j 7:30 p. m. Prelude The Crawford! Adams company. j 8:15 p. m. Lecture-entertainment, j Chief Caupollcan. j Friday, August 30. j 10:00 a. ni. Francis H. Green. j ,11:00 a, m. Charles C. Ellis, "Hor-; ace Mann." j 2:00 p. m. Dramatic reading, Bert- j rand Lyons. ! 3:00 p. m. Concert Jubilee Singer3. j 7:00 p. m. Prelude, Jubilee Singers. !

8:15 p. m. 'Lecture, Dr. Francis H. Green, "Telling Fortunes." Saturday, August 31. 2:00 p. m. Athletics, in charge of Y. M. C- A. 3:00 p. m. Concert, Hruby's orchestra. 7:30 p. m. Prelude, Hruby's Orchestra. 8:15 p. m. Entertainment, Bertrand

Lyons, "Maik Twain." 8unday, Sept. 1 Closing Day. 9:30 a. m. Sunday school; superintendent, Edward Hasemeier, prisldent Indiana State Sunday School Association. 10:30 a. m. Sermon, Rer Charles W. Whitman.

2:00 p. m. Prelude, Hruby's 0 cbestra. 3:00 p. m. -Address, Hon. Fred Lan dis. 7: SO p. m. Lecture, Rev Charles W Whitman, "The Soul of America.' 8:15 p. m. Closing concert, Hru by's Orchestra.

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