Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 229, 7 August 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 1918.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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MEMBEIt OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news dispatches credited to It o not otherwise credited In tale paper and also the local wi published herein. All rlfhts of republication of ape elai dispatches herein are alsu reserved.

Hot Weather Signs in Berlin The Most High is finding the temperature pretty hot on the battlefield and at home. August days are not prophetic of big harvests in the fields and of victories on the front for Germany. While the kaiser is trying to explain the reversal of his triumphant journey to Paris, the German populace is crying for bread. The Berlin Vorwaerts says: "The real trouble is in the working class districts of cities like Berlin, and people are complaining bitterly of the defective distribution of food, which every year causes great misery in the last two months before the new harvest. The shortage of potatoes is severely felt, especially as the prices of vegetables are exorbitant." Letters found on dead Hun soldiers tell in emphatic language of the disheartening conditions in the interior. Workers are complaining of high prices, scarcity of foodstuffs, war weariness and a desire for peace. Hindenburg's explanation of the defeat in the Soissons-Marne sector will not satisfy the demand of the German people for a decisive victory. They will take with a big grain of salt his statement that "strategic plans" failed and the Germans are still "masters of the situation." Ludendorf's alibi, "the enemy evaded us on July 15, and we thereupon, as early as the evening of the 16th, broke off operations," will not offset the effect of the allied victory. Count Reventlow, writing in the Tages Zeitimg of Berlin, tries to bolster up Teuton morale by denouncing "tearful defeatism." He says: "The beginning of the fifth year of the war is marked in a large part of the German press by reflections which are overflowing with resignation, melancholy and whining.

"The tearful defeatism which runs through the German public life these days has a perniciously laming effect, and, more so, because with some people the underlying view may be perceived, or is expressly stated by them, that if one Avould end the war it would, after all, be an easy thing to do, as one need only join Grey and Wilson in the League of Nations." - And when the Most High himself tries to assuage German grief and inspire them by asserting, "American armies and numerical superiority do not frighten us. It is the spirit which brings decision," he becomes positively ridiculous. The crack Prussian guard units that opposed the Americans at Seringes and on the banks of Vesle may not have been frightened at the prospect of beating off the Yankees, but after the battles were over, so few of them remained that they must have recognized the folly of the kaiser's argument. If the kaiser still believes that "it is the spirit which brings success," he certainly is convinced that there is a certain element in the American spirit which is fatal to crack Hun regiments. Von Hindenburg believes the German soldiers will become just as easily accustomed to the Americans as they did to the black colonials of the French. It is a high compliment paid to the Americans by the general of wooden statue fame when he admits that the Yankee soldiers had a few tricks up their sleeves which upset his soldiers. We doubt if the Germans will ever become accustomed to our style of fighting, because the Americans are too nervous to remain passive and inactive when the foe is near. They went over for action, and they'll keep Fritz busy until the way is clear to Berlin. Dog Days "Dog days are here," says the Newark News. "We don't know whether these are dog days, according to the almanac, that is, or not. "Several years have passed since we had in the house one of those little books with a disemboweled gentleman on the front cover, so there is no means of finding out. "A hot and muggy, day is not a dog day, technically, unless the dog star, Sirus, the original Skye terrier presumably, is in evidence, or apposition, or something. Life is serious enough without delving into astronomy for useless information. "Dog star or no dog star, dog days are days when one does nothing more worth while all after- . noon than write doggerel and goes home wearier than he has been in a dog's age, to sleep like a dog and get up in the morning dog tired. "Dogged around by the necessity to labor one would, did happy opportunity beckon, start off on a dog trot for the nearest beach or sylvan lake, there to camp out in a dog tent until Autumn's crisp days, occasionally swimming around dog fashion in the clear and cooling waters, offering fervent praise in dog Latin.' "In the city dog days are just one dog-gone thing after another."

War Hints War Helps War Duties (Compiled and condensed for the Indiana State Council of Defense by George Ade.) It is not too late to plant turnips. Last year a great many Indiana hogs that were over-fed with soft corn went into market

too fat and heavy for the export demand. Our;

friends in Europe are not accustomed to so much fat in their pork. Foreign buying agencies now request a return to customary weights. We are saving sugar because the ships which might be used to bring sugar from faraway ports are needed for other purposes, because some of the nearby countries producing sugar have a small yield this year, because our own crop is smaller than we expected and because the pesky submarines have sunk ships containing sugar. You are now getting two pounds of sugar a month. The Englishman gets two pounds; the Frenchman and Italian each get one pound, if they are lucky.

Helping Hand of Allies in Russia Will Save the Country From Ruin

Are you troubled with little pro-German insects in your flour- substitutes, meals and breakfast foods ? You can prevent their operations by putting your cereals into an oven and heating them at a temperature of 185 degrees for . 45 minutes.

Save the junk and get money for the Red Cross or some other good war activity. Some communities are establishing headquarters to which the rags and paper and old iron may be delivered. Nearly everything has a salvage, value these days except old tin cans. However, they can be used to hold the angle-worms that catch the fish that save the meat that goes to Europe to feed the bunch that's going to get the Kaiser.

Begin to get things in shape for the next Liberty loan campaign. As the man at the circus says, ."Have your money in your hand."

The buzz of Indiana threshing machines can be heard in Berlin.

The army needs nurses. It needs graduate nurses for immediate service. Volunteers must step into their places and begin training. There are 35 recognized schools of nursing in Indiana. Write to Woman's Section, Indiana State Council of Defense, Indianapolis, and learn how you may serve your country as a nurse.

The Hoosier emissaries who are in Washington begging for cars with which to move the crops now ready for market, send word that they are going to relieve the situation somewhat but prob

ably they will not get all the cars they want.

Failures to receive cars should be reported to Mr,

C. E. Spens, Food Administration, Washington,

D. C, by wire prepaid, giving railroad and station, number of cars needed and destination. Mr. Spens is going to be a busy person from now on.

Three Historic Weeks From the Chicago Tribune. TSv "T EARLY three weeks have passed since the begin

I Ll ning of Gen. Foch's counter offensive in which our troops proved their fighting quality. It is not

necessary, in order to be proud of this record, to ignore the fact that 70 per cent of the allied forces engaged

were seasoned French troops and that we made up with

the British and Italians the remaining 30 per cent The

part taken by our men was proportionate and is admitted

to have been brilliant. They have accepted heavy Iossei

without flinching, going forward with a dash unsurpassed

by any troops in the war, carrying difficult objectives in

the teeth of grilling fire, holding positions with great steadiness, showing quick wit and the fiercest fighting spirit. "The American soldier," said Gen. Foch months ago, "is the equal of any fighting man on earth." He

has proved it The results to which our troops have contributed

already are known to be substantial. But military authorities are wisely warning against exaggerated ideas of the extent of the German defeat The calming voice of the men who know is and will continue to be very much needed. The American public is pronB to extreme op

timism and has given no study to military values. It is

therefore more susceptible to the influence of the dema

gogues who already are springing up like mushrooms after a rain and who will play unscrupulously upon our honest

pride and our patriotic enthusiasm. American common

tense should turn at this time to the guidance of military

opinion. There will be plenty of glory before the war

ceases and we need not now deceive ourselves with false

values. The truth is what we should look for whether it

is palatable at the moment or not. If we do so we shall not suffer disappointments; we shall not be impatient and

unjust; we shall keep the best war morale, which is found

ed, not on unthinking emotion fanned Into flame by loud mouthed self-seekers pursuing their own ends safe at home with whole skins, but oa clear heads and hearts

strong to meet any fate and overcome it.

We have a right to glory in the magnificent spirit of

our men at the front. But we owe it to them to under

stand what they are doing, not to go Into hysterics over it. Soldiers are already writing home to say, "Don't exaggerate what we are doing." To o.ur brave men nothing could be more distasteful than to expose them to the dis

regard of their veteran comrades by blowing about them

in the fashion said to be American. The splendid fight ing they have just done needs no oratory to advertise it

We can glory in it intelligently, and that means that we shall let no flag waving demagogue fill us with poison

gas for his own profit.

Indeed, today along with our joy over victory we must have a sobering sense of what it has cost. The first cas

ualty lists are coming in, and the shadow of sacrifice has

already fallen upon many a home. What the men and women of Europe have suffered in the valley of bereavement is closing down upon us. The Tribune, with so

many of its own men at the front or bound thither, offers

us prorounaest sympatny to those who sorrow. May

comfort come to them in the thought of how they died. Dulce et decorum pro patria mori.

(NEW YORK TIMES) Nobody in Russia, we imagine, 6ave the Bolshevik! and other "persons or factions acting in the German interest for the ruin of that great country, will resent the landing of the small, the very small, armed force which Japan and the United States will jointly send to Vladivostok. There an be no menace to the territorial integrity of Russia in a military expedition of such moderate numbers, all told less than an American division. The purpose of the expedition is distinctly set forth by the State Department: "The only present object for which American troops will be employed will be to guard military stores which may subsequently be needed by the Russian forces and to render such aid as may be acceptable to the Russians in the organization of their own self-defense." The large stores of military supplies at Vladivostok will be safeguarded by the American and Japanese troops and they will assist in protecting the rear of the westward-moving Czechoslovaks. The Japanese and the United States governments are In entire agreement; in separate statements, which, however, announce an identical policy, assurance Is given to the Russians that there will be no impairment of their territorial integrity now or hereafter, that the only object is to render aid "as shall be acceptable to the Russian people themselves in their

endeavor to regain control of their own affairs, their own territory, and their own destiny." v The sending of these troops marks the beginning of a new period In the relation cf the Allies to revolutionized Russia- It marks, too, the end of the long-continued and persistent efforts in this country to bring about a recognition of the Soviet government by the United States. In part that attempt may have been the outcome of pure ignorance of what has been going on in Russia, of the nature of the Soviet government, of the character of Lenine and Trotzky, and of the certain consequences of abandoning the Russian people to the Germans and to their no less dangerous enemies in Moscow. It is evident that the feeling, so long prevailing at Washington, that the sending of an allied force Into Siberia would be dangerous, since it might offend the Russians and move them to demand the aid of Germany to expel the invaders has given place to a better understanding of the present temper of the Russian people. Evidence, abundant and convincing, that the Russians would welcome allied deliverance from their perils has long been accessible to all in this country who would pay heed to it; but

there has not been wanting a small element Interested In producing the contrary . belief and successful In obtaining acceptance cf a view which utterly misrepresented the temper of the great mass of Russians. The joint force to be landed at Vladivostok is not Targe enough to produce any alarm. Whether it is sufficient to accomplish the purpose for which it is sent will be doubted In many quarters, but It Is to be noted that the Czechoslovak forces have already attained to very considerable proportions, some 70,000 soldiers according to late reports, and there is a continual increment of Russians who look upon the Czechoslovaks as their deliverers and are very willing to Join their ranks as the victories of those troops have freed them from the danger of attack by German and Austrian war prisoners who, with the encouragement of the Soveits, have been despoiling some parts of Siberia. A small allied force will guard the munition stores from which the greater army of deliverers lsxsupplied; it will co-operate with the Czechoslovaks by protecting their rear. Moreover, it can hardly be doubted that if the need of more troops should become manifest they will be supplied; possibly, the first dispatch of troops is only the

beginning. England and France are free to act independently and some reinforcements will come from them. It would obviously be a mistake to undertake any relief movement In Siberia unless it was intended to assure its success by the dispatch of whatever force may be needed. In due time it is expected that the United States will send to Siberia "a commission of merchants, agricultural experts, labor advisers. Red. Cross representatives and agents of the Y. M. C. A." to relieve the immediate necessities of the people and make them better acquainted with the unselfish and purely helpful purposes of the Allies. The State Department, In Its announcement, says that the Allies are now bending all their energies to the resolute and confident purpose "of winning on the western front and it would In the judgment of the government of the United States, be most unwise to divide or dissipate our forces " Furthermore, actual military Intervention in Russia with the purpose of reconstituting the eastern front against the forces of Germany, It is pointed out, would "more likely turn out to be merely a method of making use of Russia than to be a method of serving her." Any method that contributes to the defeat of Germany serves Russia.

'Moment

Will not somebody kindly put dear old Lord Lansdowne in his baby cab, give him an all-day sucker and wheel him around the block. Is It proper to allude to Spain as a neutral when she has openly befriended the allies by sending her famous influenza right over their heads into the German camp.? Another long range gun to shoot Influenza mikes? It was a blistering day In Gehenna. Noah was working with might and main to turn out a vast wooden fleet for the Gehenna government a new merchant marine to beat the U-boats. Many able-bodied men stood by and scoffed. Noah was the first general manager of the emergency fleet shipping board. But Noah was slow so he was removed. Amerigo Vespucci took his place. And he was removed to make way for Columbus, who was little better. Then Beelzebub tried Captain Kidd, Lief Erricsson, John Cabot and Admiral Rojestvensky, but the program still lagged. Finally, in disgust, he slammed the doors of the shipyard shut and muttered:

"No use; I can't do a thing until Charlie Schwab gets here."

DinnerStoms

"Bang!" went the rifles of the soldiers at the training maneuvers. "Oo-oo," screamed the pretty girl a nice, decorous, surprised little scream. She stepped backward Into the surprised arms of a young man. "Oh," said she, blushing. "I was frightened at the rifles. I beg your pardon." "Not at all," said the young man.

We could do the Russian people no greater service than to destroy the German military power and force a

German withdrawal from Russia. That, in fact, has becme an indispensable aim of the war. Even in Washington they seem to be continually in danger of forgetting that we may win the war In the west and yet lose It altogether in the east The war will not be won, the world will not be safe, until the military and economic grip of Germany on Russia has been broken.

"Let's go over and watch the artillery." A Philadelphia servant sought her mistress with the announcement that her mother was sick and 6he there-. fore desired permission to go boms for a few days. "Certainly," said the woman, "but do not stay longer than necessary, as we need you." A week passed and not a word from the maid. Then a note came which read: "Dear Mrs. Jones: I will be pack next week. Please keep my place for

me, as my mother is dying as last as she can." Oa Johnny's first day at school he was given a registration card on which his mother wa3 to write his

birth record. The following day he

arrived tardy and without the registration slip. "Johnny," said the teacher, "you must bring an excuse for being tardy, and don't forget the slip about when you were born." AH out of breath next day Johnny rushed in holding a note from his mother. "Teacher," ho gasped, "I brought the one about being tardy, but I forgot the excuse about beiag born."

WILLIAM BROWER DIES EATON, O., Aug. 7 Following his death Monday at the home cl his daughter, Mrs. Charles Rule, funeral services for Wiljiam H. Brower, veteran of the Civil war, were held Wednesday morning at the Christian church, conducted by Rev. George Asbworth, of Sycamore, 111. Burial was in the Monroe township cemetery. Mr. Brower was 80 years old. He served la the Civil war as corporal in Company C, 156th O. V. I. He leaves his wife and three daughters, Mrs. Rule, Mrs. Waldo Evans of this city, and Mrs. Blair of Richmond, Lad.

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