Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 309, 9 November 1918 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1918.

MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF

UX GIVE TO YOUR SONS ,1 ..- 1 A.i ;? i ' ti ' VI a 'A ii

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It was at a little hospital in France. One of ,tho workers Young Men's 'Christian Association. Knights ot Columbuswhat does it matter, they are ; all the same was one day passing by hnncht rt ft Scotch boy

with whom be had been talking before . that same afternoon: He entered the

' tent expecting 10 una me. oojr.mttin.cvA ... - . VAmA T11T

tnat nigni ior uaiisivi .. uvuiw when he approached be saw that something had happened, something had intervened between all hopes and plans. The wounded lad's eyea were bright with fever and he beckoned to the man of mercy. "Come here, mummy," be said; "put your arm under my fcoH .kh t think I will sleep tonight."

- "And then," Eays the worker, "I saw .'thflt h had become a child again

'Hear me eay my prayers now, mum-1 my,' he said, and beginning 'Our Father which art in Heaven.' he felt his way throusth it like a blind man in a narrow alley, till he got tangled in forgetfulness and stumbled for a moment into silence. Then, looking up at me, he said. 'Kiss me. mummy,' and 1 kissed him and tucked him in as his mother used to do when he was a boy at borne, and by way of Bleep that night he iound a dawn beyond our daybreak." Your son, perhaps, is there that boy you love bo well. He may be wounded. God forbid! Eut if be Is, an arm will prtltow his head tonight nd fatherly hands will be on his and kindly lips will speak those words that you would speak if you were by his side. It wiU be the hands and . Hps of one of that band of consecrated men, one of those big-hearted brothers who welcomed your boy that homesick day he came to camp, who sailed ' with him on the transport, who went, perhaps, through the hell-fire of shot and bursting shell to save him when he was wounded, who brought food and comfort and friendliness and "home" to him on the very fire-step of the front-line trench. Ttioco hi hrnfhprs are calling to

you from France for help. Nay, 'they

are calling to you from every cantonment, from every camp, here and fihmnrl whpre our soldier lads are

cot Viror1 tncrflthpr. "Fathers and

Mothers of America!" they say. "your boys are in our hand. We want to

send them bucK to yon c;ean, strung, brave, victorious. God willing, these nhall not be v.ttsted months or years. We are working and praying so that even while he fights your son will grow in stature body, mind and soul. Money is neededa veritable tide of gold to make this posisblr. Fathers and Mothers of America, give to your own sons!" , Shall we add our poor word to the passionate appeal ot $170,000,000 that ia beln? mado by these seven societies, these great brotherhood. that stand behind our armies the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the National Catholic War Council,

the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, the American Library Association, the War Camp Community Service? No, there is no need for us to tell you why you should give. Your own baert is crying out to you now to give. Give money? Why, you would give your right band, you would give your ' beating heart itself, If it would bring your boy .comfort and happiness in his life or peace In his death. - Little enough , do we know what these lads of ours are enduring without complaint; little enough do' we know how they die without bitterness, thinking never of self, but of suffering chums and loved ones at home, humble In their self-sacrifice. Little can we hope to imagine what "X" or "K. nr r. min and huts mean to them,

we who are safe and warm and with

friends.

"Sometimes," says a "Y" worker, 1 sit all day beside a man, feeling my heart just break listening to him as

he speaks words of love ana messages nt iioAriPfit tenderness in his dying

fever to those far off across the seaa

whom he thinks to be right up near his Btretcher-bed. And then a man who has been blinded wants me to hold one of his hands; another poor lad sobs out his life, his head in my arms, crying for his mother as you and I cried for ours when we were lonely; and I guide the hands of anothera big boy, torn and shattered by a shell, as he writes goodby to his sweetheart and tells her God will bring them together again." What do we know of such things as these we in America? What do we know of the horror of the rain-soaked trench at night, with the shells flying overhead like bat3 out of hell? What do we know of the gnawing cramp of hunger or the hideous wrench of agonizing wounds? Our eyes have not seen the human wreckage of the batle-ficld, our ears have not heard its awful cries. Our lips have not yet touched the cup. Our meatless days, our wheatless meals, our good ladies kniting would we dare look on one poor crumpled form in Flanders field and call these things "giving"? Not If we are men. If our fields had been ninworl bv murderous - guns, if our

citios had been looted, razed, and ruined, if our men had been crucified and shot, if our mothers, wives and daughters had been dragged like the women of Lille by gray-clad demon3 to slavery, then we would be able to speak n liirsnmfre of sacrifice we do not yet

i know or even dimly understand. Then

would we have learned sometning or the courage of Christ when he refused the stupefying drink upon the cross, and faced suffering yes, welcomed and greeted it, as a very end and aim of life. It is a splendid thing to give billions to war that war may cease. It is thrice blessed to give to these magnificent and merciful organizations that have been s, formed not to take life, but to save it, not to give wounds.

but to bind them no, not to spread disaster and blasting death, but to dispense good cheer and kindliness and knowledge and comfort and brotherly love among our own boys. It Is a privilege to give to this great cause when for the first time in history Jew, Protestant and Catholic are sinking bitter differences of centuries, when prejudices are sweepingVout like ash in furnace-winds, and creeds are commingling in the final gold of truth. This cause Is, indeed. His cause, and each dollar we give is given into the very treasury of Heaven. . We regard the work of these humane fraternities of such supreme importance, we feel that their appeal is so urgent, that, although, like others, we have given, and given generously, we hope, to every worthy . war-time cause, we have determined to contribute our check for ten thousand dollars on the very first day of the drive. If for a moment, far from the peril and sudden death of the trenches, we are tempted to shrink from new sacrifices, we have but to look around

about us to remember our duty, ior already In our streets the crutch tells its simple story and carries its mute appeal to the heart; already our consciences' are challenged by the eloquence of the empty sleeve; already we are faced by the ? outward evi

dences of the empty sleeve; already we are faced by the outward evidences of these our boys who have laid not merely money, but life and body themselves upon the altar. Fathers and Mothers of America! Your sons need warm hearts to father them and ministering hands to sustain them; they need every comfort, every care, everv protection that money can

buy and love provide. Were peace declared tomorrow they would need them even more, if possible, during the trying months when they are waiting to return to you. It is your own flesh and blood that is caling you. As you cherish American manhood, and in the name of God who gives victory to the right, answer the call. Literary Digest. ROSELLI GLAD TO RETURN TO CITY Lieut Bruno Roselli of the Italian army, who will speak here at a mass meeting in the Coliseum Sunday afternoon, will probably arrive in the city Sunday morning, coming from Connersville, Ind., where he speaks tonight. Lieut. Roselli will speak at Earlham college Sunday evening, and will be the guest of the United War Workers Sunday night. The Italian soldier is quoted as being greatly delighted to return to Richmond, as he was impressed with the courteous treatment he received at the time of his first vi3it during the Chautauqua. John Russell in charge of the decorations of the Coliseum, began his work

Saturday afternoon. Bunting, flags, posters and United War Fund literature will be used.

WAR CONTRACTS TO BE CARRIED OUT BY AMERICA

War Industries Board Plans to Keep Industry Normal When Peace Comes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. Chairman

Baruch, of the War Industries board, authorized the statement last night that the coming of peace will not result in the immediate cancellation of war supply contracts, but that contracts will be cancelled gradually, as reouirpments are reduced, making it possible to lift curtailments and restrictions upon ordinary industrial activities. "For some time to come," said Mr. Baruch, "assuming the armistice will be signed, for a period to be determined by the government's war-making agencies, government contracts must continue on a large scale." This circumstance applies to a considerable share of present contracts. Supplies fro Normal Demands. "As the demands for raw materials

Is lessened by the reduction of war requirements, and the cancellation of war contracts, if and when such cancellations be made, the raw materials so made available will be released

and allotted by the War Industrial board for use in supplying civilian and export demands, which through curtailment, have been held in check during the war. . "In addition to the ordinary commercial requirements there, will be a heavy flow of materials, thus released, to supply the demand for the great reconstruction work required by the European countries. "At the same time there is to be a gradual lifting of the restrictions and curtailments that have been imposed upon industry by the exigency of the war, so a3 to allow as promptly a possible free flow of all supplies into peace channels. "The War Industries board will continue to exercise its functions until the peace treaty is signed, to the end that the readjustment of the maters on which it has been acting may be made in as orderly a manner as possible. Change Is Studied. ' "A committee, named by the president, has been and now is at work to devise the best mechanism of bringing about the adjustments from a war to a peace basis. The report of the committee may take the form of suggested legislation. "The whole effect of the readjust

ment plans will be to the end of bringing about the necessary changes with as little dislocation as -; possible, and the full opportunity for all to benefit, as in the past, by individual ingenuity, vision and fair dealing.

Swiss to Break Off Relations with Russia BERNE, Nov. 9. The Swiss federal council has decided to break off all relations with the Russian Soviet mission. The members of the Russian delegation have been asked by the government to leave Switzerland because of their participation in revolutionary propaganda.

no women are permitted in the front j Fntrr Ar KZllA In

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the gentle, cautious way he places his patients in bed, the infinite pains he takes, to cause them as little suffering as possible when applying or removing dressings, and how kindly and reassuringly he speaks to them. The ambulance drivers and stretcher bearers spare no pains to see that the sick wounded in transit from the front over broken French roads suffer no hardship or discomfort. ;

WINCHESTER CELEBRATED

MILITARY DOCTORS GIVE CAREFUL SERVICE TO MEN

Ev Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Nov 9. War has not calloused or dulled the sensibilities of the American army surgeon. Nothing stands out finer or nobler than the American army surgeon. Nothing stands out finer or nobler than the tender care and earnest solicitude with which American military doctors handle their soldier patients. In a three-day trip through the St. Mihiel .sector the correspondent of The Associated Press had many opportunities of observing the work of the American, medical men. He visited a number cf field dressing stations and also several hosritals i-ist back of th

battle-line, through which hundreds of wounded Americans were passing. Disabled American soldiers, from the time their wounds are dressed at the advance casualty station to the time they arrive at. the last base hospital receive the most sympathetic and tender, care at the hands of the army doctors. They get better care and more attentive treatment than an average person would in peace times. To render the soldier free from pain, to make him comfortable, to cheer the spirit, the American military doctor wil exhaust every recourse, will sacrifice sleep and focd and all personal thought of himself. Thousands of instances occur every day where army physicians, so absorbed and so sympathetically interested in their patients, will keep night after night an anxious and unbroken vigil over the progress of their condition, and will rest only when ordered to do so by a superior officer. Besides the use of anesthetics the Yankee doctor, caring for his fighting comrade only as he would care for a brother, resorts to a hundred other means of relieving the wounded man's distress. In the actual battle zone he has to act as physician and nurse, for

WINCHESTER, Nov. 9 Upon the receipt of the news Thursday afternoon that an armistice had been agreed upon between Germany and the allies the people of this city became wild with joy and business came to a stand still. Parades were formed and both the Martial and brass bands were assembled and all the horn3 that had been purchased by dealers for Hallowe'en were requisitioned by the boys and girls, the towrf clock was struck during the afternoon continuously.

Charles Willis, digging potatoes at Nantasket, Mass., found one that had

grown inside a heavy sea-clam shell.

Accident at Greenfield, ' . (By' Associated Press) -

GREENFIELD, Ind., Nov. 9. Fourv Dersona wprp frtlld imi fifth -wAtw

probably fatally injured today whenC. I. and W. train struck an automobile at a crossing near Finly, this , county. J The dead are. Harry Lindsay, 35; Frank Long, 16; Harold Lindsay. 1. , and Henry Burns, 60. Charles LIn-r -ray, driver of the car, was probably' . fatally injured. . ? The Lindsays lived In Morristown.. and operate a saw mill at Finly. and: were on their way between the two places when the accident happened. Burns lived in Finly. .-' Hoover to Help Feed Devasted Europe WASHINGTON. Nor. 9. Food ad-, ministrator Hoover will leave soon for, Europe soon to direct preparations i for feeding the people of reddemed northern France and Belgium and aid-, ing in the task cf preventing starvation in Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey.

In Sweden the public houses are closed on Saturday, which is pay day, while the savings banks are kept open until midnight.

Published Statement Trust Company i AMERICAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK NO. 168 ? ' ! CHAS. W. JORDAN. Pres. O. P. NUSBAUM. W. H. ROMEY, J. H. TEETOIt, Vlce-Pres. : R. E. SWALLOW, Secy.-Treas. Condensed statement of the condition of the American Trust and Savings' Bank at Richmond, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on November 1, 1918. RESOURCES L Loans and Discounts $151,856,651 Overdrafts i.SWirS Bonds and Stocks 29.790.00 Furniture and Fixtures 16,648.89 Advances to Estates and Trusts 895.55 Cash on Hand 44.974.54 Trust Securities 21,584.44 Total Resources $570,724.05 1 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid -in $100,000.00 Undivided Profies Net 3,970.04 Demand Deposits ....$298,043.17 Savings Deposits 61,924.85 1 Trust Deposits . 7,224.49 Certified Checks 12.00 :" Due to Banks and Trust Companies 5,065.06 372,269.57 Trust Investments 21,584.44 Bills Payable 72,900.00 Total Liabilities $570,724.05 State of Indiana, County of Wayne, ss : I, R. E. Swallow, Secy.-Treas. of the American Trust and Savings Bank, of Richmond, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. R. E. SWALLOW, Secy.-Treaa. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of November, 1918. MARTHA CONNOR, Notary Public. My commission expires June 21, 1921.

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Wc have just received a large shipment of these feed grinders. Fesd Grinding is a Necessity. Modernize your methods of feeding. Grain that is not ground before being fed is partly wasted. Our line of feed mills io so complete that it is unnecessary for an intending buyer to look elsewhere for what he wants. Come here for ycur grinder and do it today.

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Gas Engines

We now have a line of Gas Engines of every size and for all purposes on the farm A Gas Engine to pump your water, run your feed grinder or saw wood will pay for itself in a short time. Make it a point to see these Stover Engines the next time you are in town.

Make washday a pleasure Instead

hausting unhealthful labor. TWO POWER WASHERS IN ONE The Dexter Double Tub does washing, wringing and rinsing by power all at the same time. In this time and labor saving double machine the clothss get their first washing in the warm suds of tub No. 1 are then wrung right Into the hot suds of tub No. 2 for their second washing are next wrung into the rinse tub on the folding shelf then wrung Into the blueing tub and finally into the clothes basket. There is not an instant's delay from the time they enter the first tub until they are ready for the line anall the time another lot of lothes is following in the tub just behind. Il and there are no gears to ltch clothing or the children's fingers. a COME IN LET US DPK AXSTRATE THIS WASHER Ti" JJpU

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Phone 2045

Hooverize your clothes. Don't buy new clothes just because they look a little shabby. Have your suit cleaned and pressed but don't discard it unless it doesn't fit you properly or is thread-worn. Conservation means "making old things do." LET WILSON HELP YOU He can help you. His facilities are perfect. His cleaning methods can renew your old clothes and prolong their service. The expense is little. The economy is great. " When It's Done by Wilson It's Done Right"

Come in and see our selection of

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I am now prepared to take your measure for either a new SUIT OR OVERCOAT and to guarantee it as to lit and workmanship. If you intend purchasing a new Suit of Overcoat, stop in and see my samples. 1 have a large number to select from, including all the latest patterns. " .

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1018 Main St.

Dry Cleaning Tailoring:

Phone 1766

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