Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 221, 29 July 1918 — Page 6

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THi; RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND S UN-TELEGRAM

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Extend the Draft Ages If you will look at the map to see how much French and Belgian territory is in German possession and how far Berlin is from the western front, you'll quickly realize that America's whole manhood will be needed to drive the Hun hordes behind their own frontier and bring them to terms. Our government has adopted the selective service system as the medium to raise its armies and so far the method has been a success. The problem of obtaining more men for overseas duties presents the duty of extending the draft ages from 19 to 45. The nation will need an army of 6,000,000 men. One of the most important problems before rCongress later this year will be a modification of the present law. The ages of 19 to 45 are reasonable. The best soldiers, military men say, come .from the ages between 19 and 25, but that does 3iot minimize in the least the patent duty of the nation to enroll men up to 45. Men of more manure years can be utilized to advantage in a system that is so gigantic as the proposed army.

The dispatch of soldiers to Europe must not

be interrupted. Our cantonments must be emptied of men as soon as they are ready for i overseas work, and their places must be taken by men taken from the remaining civilian population. The country is awake to the fact that the Hun can be defeated only by pressure of men. : Bluff and idle talk will not bring him to his jknees. The only efficacious method is the presjence of troops. These must come from America, land the draft ages must be extended to supply the quotas. i American and German Finances The Treasury Department has submitted the following: Pessimistic Americans who view with alarm our increasing national obligations may derive a great deal of comfort from a comparison of the financial, condition of the United States contrasted with that of Germany. The total resources of the United States are estimated at about $250,000,000,000; our annual earnings are estimated at about $50,000,000,000. Our national debt, including the third liberty loan, may be put around $12,000,000,000. Before the war our government was spending about $1,000,000,000 a year. When the war ended, interest charges, less the interest collected from our loans to our allies, government insurance expenses, and other necessary expenditures growing out of the war may conservatively be estimarps at' something like $1,000,000,000. We are

confronted, therefore, when peace comes, with raising only a couple of billions a year revenue, a slight task for a nation of such tremendous -wealth, capacity and resources. The resources of Germany before the war yrcxe estimated to be $80,000,000,000. The annual expenditures then of the Imperial Government were about $800,000,000. Her debt now is $30,000,000,000, and her resources and man power have been severely impaired. After the war she is confronted with additional expenditures growing out of the war totalling some $4,000,000,000.

The interest of her war debt, even if the debt grows no larger, will be about $1,500,000,000. Although she is niggardly in her pensions to private soldiers and their families, $1,000,000,000 a year would hardly suffice to pay even small pensions to her injured and the families of her soldiers who have been killed. Her war debt must be paid some time and a sinking fund of 5 per cent would add $1,500,000,000 to her annual taxation. Here is a total increase of $4,000,000,000 all due to the war.

Of course both the United States and Germany may greatly increase their debts, but the

increases will not change the relative situations.

The German government has drained the German people of their gold, even their jewels and

heirlooms, and yet the Imperial Bank of Germany now has but little over $500,000,000 of gold in its

vaults. The United States has made no special effort to obtain gold, has made no call upon the people for the precious metal, and yet today has in ite treasury vaults practically $2,500,000,000 of gold coin and bullion. Detecting Class 1 Evaders General Foch seemingly has information of conditions in the German army that prompts him to ask for more American troops. This is reflected in the activity in the office of Provost

Marshal General Crowder. An order which indicated that the August drafts would be less than those of July has been changed to read that calls of drafted men to the training camps "will be as large as the July calls." Local boaxds have been instructed to refuse leases to the navy, marine corps, or the emergency fleet to all registrants tf the 1917 or 1918 class who have been or will be classified in class 1. Draft executives also have been instructed to

"hold under a very special scrutiny" the report of any local board that fails to place at least 50 per cent of the 1918 registrants in class 1. All of this means that the provost marshal general intends to answer the calls of General Foch. It also means that deferred classifications will be thoroughly combed over for men who

have filed affidavits that do not square absolute

ly with the truth. Many young men the country over have sworn that they are supporting dependents. A close investigation has shown that many of them per

jured themselves. The local boards are beginning

to probe into the facts set out in the affidavits, and as result hardly a day passes that men in deferred classifications are not put in class 1 and sent to the camps. It may take a local board some time to ascertain the truth, but seldom can a young man who has stooped to a lie or to a misrepresentation evade the issue.

OUWTAINCITY A picnic was given in Willow

Grove park last Tuesday evening in

honor ot Mrs. Ethel Davis and her little daughter ot Lebanon, Ind., who are visiting her parents; Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Townsend. Those enjoying the picnic were George N. Hartley and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Woodard, Mr. and Mrs. L P. Hunt, John Townsend and wife and L. H. Townsend.... Forrest McGUliard and family entertained Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arnett, Mrs. Eliza McGUliard and C. B. McGUliard at supper Thursday evening. .. .Rev. R. R. Henderson, pastor ot the M. E. Church, will preach on the subject: "Should We Give Cigarettes to the Soldiers?" at the Sunday evening service. Special music will be rendered Liberty Guards were taken U the depot Wednesday night by the commanding officers, where headquarters were established. Squads were placed along the track, around the elevator and at the stock yards on guard duty. The purpose of this Is to prepare the men to do any guarding that might be required. Owing to the fact that farmers exceedingly busy, only a third of the company was able to attend Frank Keever moved his household goods to 135 South Hackjey street, Muncie, Ind., Tuesday where he will make bis future home. . . . Mr. and Mrs. I. 9. Hunt spent Tuesday in Richmond Ed Bonner and family made a trip to their home in Camden, O., last week, bringing back some ot their household goods. They will keep house for Joseph Brown. . . .

Miss Lois Reynolds left Tuesday morning for Columbus, O., where she will visit with friends. She will also visit in Morrow county, before returning home S. M. Boren of Buffalo, N. Y., was In this place a few days this week Ralph Williams of Dayton, O., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams.. ..Mrs. E. W. Thomas of Keystone, Ind., is visiting with relatives in Fountain City.... Mr. and Mrs. Ed Charles visited in Indianapolis for the weekend Faroiers in this community are busy threshing wheat and cutting oats Miss Mary Miller went to Rldgeville Tuesday to visit with her sister, whose husband will go into the army next Saturday Mrs. M. C. MikeseU and daughter, Rosa Livingood of Union City, were the guests over Sunday with Rev. Owen Livengood and family. .. .Omar Driskell has again returned home after being called for army service, by the Terre Haute board.... Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Boren entertained the following guests at dinner last Wednesday: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Keever, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Thomas and son, Russell, Mrs. Etta Stanton and Mrs. Melissa Pierce of Richmond Dr. C. E. McCready ot Lynn, dentist, has purchased the Dr. Wyson office in Fountain City and will be at the hotel building every Tuesday beginning Aug. 6. Office hours will be from 8 a. m. to 11:30 and from 1 to 5 p. m.

The Stuff That Was in Him

From the Hattiesburg, Miss., American.

S one of the leaders of the republic, Theodore

Roosevelt has ever striven against the artificial tendencies of our careless life before the war.

which undermined so many homes and threatened the very foundations of the nation. He has ever preached the noblest ideals of the hearthstone, and, more than this, has exemplified them at his own fireside. Young Quentin Roosevelt was the scion of a house where old fashioned ideals of duty and loyalty were inculcated by the parents, and nobly he fulfilled their hopes. The opportunity was vouchsafed to him just before he bade adieu to the world to show himself a valiant warrior; and, without a murmur, as might the humblest in the land, father and mother lay on the altar of their country their youngest born and rejoice solemnly, "that before his fate befell him he had a chance to show the stuff that was In him." while as a further example of steadfastness, the father never desists from his public duties. Quentin Roosevelt's supreme sacrifice is an unanswerable argument to the wiles of the enemy propagandist, the slur of the seeker after self-glory, and the querulous plaint of the pacifist. It emphasizes with the most impressive lesson of all that this Is not a war of classes, but a struggle for the safety of the common people and the progress of all mankind.

tain City In the Willow Grove cemetery.... Mr. and Mrs. Lum Harrison and daughter, Olive and John Harrison, motored to Chlllecothe, O., Sunday morning to visit Lawrence Harrison, who la in training at Camp Sherman Mlsa Blanche Hampton ot Richmond Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Showalter. .Miss Gladys Study waa the guest of relatives at Richmond last week. . . .Bonom Keene was visitTng Tracy Clark and family ot Richmond the first of the week Mrs. J. C. Dougbtery of Cambridge City and daughter, Maxlne, was the guest of Lum Harrison and family over Sunday Mrs. VanNuya, the mother of Mrs. R. B. Boren, la aerlously ill. . . .Mrs. Delia Reece ot Atlanta, Ga.. Is the guest bt Richard Wooters and family. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Lum Foreman and family entertained Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Foreman of near Union City, Miss Fay Kern, Miss Agnes Reynolds and M. and Mrs. Ben Foreman and family of Richmond.'.. Mss Jessie Foreman is visiting relatives at Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Charles Surface of Lynn were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brtttian Sunday ....Miss Gladys and Goldie Gifford spent Sunday with Miss Lois Reynolds.... Mr. and Mrs. Alva Elleman and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chenoweth were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Wooters Miss Ruby Williams, who has been attending business college at Richmond for the past

several weeks is now home on a vacation Omar Driskell left Tuesday for the army Into which he had been drafted... .The New Garden Willing Worker's class held a picnic Sunday at

Funck's Lake near Winchester Miss Edith -Mary and Horace Woodard of Chicago are visiting Miss Mary Woodard and Mrs. Sarah B. Woodard . . .Mr. and Mrs. Purvance Hunt spent Sunday with Miss Mary Woodard.... Mrs. Hiatt and daughter, Ruth, returned from Richmond Thursday where Mrs. Hiatt had a alight operation performed. .Mrs. Caroline Charles and daughter, Elma, were the week-end guests ot Edwin Charles and family of Chester.

G. 0. P. MEETING AT LIBERTY WEDNESDAY

Republican chairmen and editors of the Sixth district will hold an organisation meeting at Liberty, Wednesday, July 21. according to an announcement of Walter Bossert, district chairman. State Chairman E. M. Wasmuth and Representative Elliott will be present.

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A new sailor on his first shore liberty had Just written a letter and was hunting a mail box at the station when the conductor shouted "AH aboard." Seeing an ensign across the room he ran up to him and shoving the letter Into his hand, ea'ui, "Mail this for me, porter; here's a dime for the trouble." A recruit was asked, "Who Is your nearest living kin?" "My aunt," came the answer. Then the questions were answered correctly until It came to, "In case of death or accideut who shall be notified?" "My mother," he replied. "But," said the officer, "I thought your aunt was your nearest living kin?" "She is," replied the recruit. "She lives two miles from me and my mother lives five."

MEMORIAL TO BAER.

OXFORD, O., July 29 A beautiful brass memorial tablet has arrived in this village from Merietta, and will be placed in Miami University library. Thetablet Is in memory of Carlos W. Baer, Oxford, former Miami football star and captain, who was a member of the Merietta unit of the American Ambulance service in France. Upon lis return from this service, Baer enlisted In the U. S. Engineers' corps. He died last April in Columbus barracks of pneumonia, following an operation for appendicitis.

Moment And we are' still waiting anxiously

to seo what is going to happen to George V. A buckwheat cake is a buckwheat cake, no matter who eat3 it. A brotherhood supreme Across the seas has swept, And, in this maddest year, The sanest Fourth has kept A colored regiment was marching by the other day and somebody yelled "Hello, George!" Ninety per cent of the men turned to face the speaker and showed their teeth and grinned. General Pershing kisses the pretty young misses who present him with bouquets. The number of boquets presented has increased rapidly. Where are those horrors of war they used to speak about

the close of the late course and put across the project by a safe margin.

The national emblem of Germany Is the poison ivy. The national flower, sometimes called the Kaiser Flower, is known In this country as skunk cabbage. Fifty cents for a haircut will be the new order in a few weeks, it is said. Well, we can put It in curl papers and braids if we have to, and then again we can get Jobs as professional piano players or proprietors of Wild West shows. Always a solution.

EATON CHAUTAUQUA CLOSES EATON, O., July 29. Eaton's sixth annual Chautauqua closed Saturday night, and Chairman W. E. Reel, of the local committee, announce that a Chautauqua will be held again next season. He states that pledges tor 850 season tuckets for next year were secured. The total pledges represent one hundred tickets in excess of the required number; Chairman Reel states. For a time the outlook for a course next year was not very encouraging, but the committee made a eplendid drive near

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