Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 65, 25 January 1919 — Page 1

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U.S.-EfJGLAtJD COOPERATION IS ASSURED FOR FUTURE Simonds Sees Closer Friend-

BRITISH PLAN FOR LEAGUE IS DISCUSSED BY PREMIER Winchester Grocer Is Killed by Traction (By Associated Press) ; WINCHESTER. Ind.. Jan. 25. Grant Gilmore, 40 years old, was instantly killed at the Franklin crossing five miles west of here last evening by a Union traction car. Gilmore, it is said, was on the track in his automobile and from all appearances did not try to get off. 'He recently came here from Muncie and engaged in the grocery business, purchasing the stock of L. E. Moody. The wife and two children survive. TAKE ACTION AGAINST USE of mum French Woman to Keep Up War Work Russian Leaders to Discuss Solution of Chaos With Peace Conference Delegates

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( Helped Clear Problems. LEVEL OF SYMPATHY BY FRANK H. SIMONDS (Copyright, 1919. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ONDON, Jan. 25. Arriving in "London nearly two weeks after the president's visit, with every circumstance of that visit unknown, since all reports were lacking to the ocean traveller, one has something of the per spective of the traditional visitor from Mars. The value of this perspective is plain. One does not measure the result in terms of temporary applause and of momentary enthusiasm, which have come and gone. What is left is the solid result and It Is a great and unmistakable result. In a visit measured by relatively few hours, President Wilson achieved two things. He captured the imagination and he strengthened the expectations and the aspirations of millions of people whose thoughts as to the future were necessarily vague and ill defined and he avoided precisely those dangers which loomed large in the minds of the thoughtful, who welcomed him with equal enthusiasm, but were acutely conscious of unmistakable temptations and perils and thus mingled their fears with their cheers for the president. This thing must be said first out of mere justice. Great as was his personal triumph the greatest thing about it was not personal, but national. I have talked with scores of Englishmen and Americans and it is the common testimony of all that President Wilson's visit was a permanent contribution to Anglo-American understanding in the present, and friendship in the future. Experiment for London. My American readers will perhaps remember that I was one of those who doubted the wisdom of the president's Journey, who saw the dangers and did not perceive compensating benefits; but I do not think that any American

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"could be in London" today, a fortnight after the event, and not feel that the English phase alone had Justified the experiment, proving the president right and the doubters and critics totally wrong. What the President did, measured by the result, was this: His. visit

was an experiment for England, for London. The official world did every

thing within its large capacity to make the visit a success. All that statesmen, diplomats and soldiers, all that military and ' civic authorities could io, was done. But when the President came, the mass of the people took the thing out of the official world and made the welcome its own. What was naturally official and formal at the outset became popular and spontaneous after the first moment and- to this welcome, the greatest in the history of London, the President made adequate response. The opportunity was tremendous and he unquestionably rose to it. t Apprehension Removed. What he said, what he did, I do not know, even now, since I was on the ocean at the time; but the effect of what he said and what he did is to be encountered everywhere. Nor Is it less clear what he did not da Many Americans and some Englishmen feared that on the subject of the League of Nations and on the issue of the Freedom of the Seas he might speak and act dogmatically; that, instead of prompting understanding, he might excite disagreement by raising an issue. K. But he did nothing of the sort. On tho contrary he left behind him the impression of reasonableness which dispelled long-standing apprehension. He impressed official and imperial Britain not as being dogmatic, but as being open-minded, moderate, in search of a basis of agreement; not insistent upon any unalterable formula or immutable doctrine for the Lea?ue of Nations. But even this achievement and It was no small achievement was less considerable than the success of the president with the masses of the people. To them he embodied an expectation. He was a visible and tangible advance agent of a just and peaceful settlement of the greatest of all world tragedies. His words, his views, vague as they were necessarily, became definite and specific in the circumstances. He found the great public expectant on the subject of the league of nations, as the Americana public has

never been, ana Derore he left the last doubt as to the possibility that a league of nations would in some form emerge from Versailles was abolished. x Gave Form to Friendship. In America, when I left, men and women were discussing whether or not there would be a league of nations. In London, when I arrived, the discussion was as to the form which s the inevitable league would take. The fact that there would be a league was everywhere conceded. Yet If one were to be wholly exact, even the question of the league of nations is minor. What the president's visit seems to have accomplished was tifir give a body and form to Anglo-

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Mrs. Nina l Duryea. Mrs. Nina L. Duryea organized the Duryea War Relief at DInard, France, immediately after the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914. The work is now established in quarters loaned by the Viscount de Saint-Seine. There is also a New York office where Mrs. Duryea is soliciting even the smallest and cheapest household goods for the people of devastated France. She is redoubling her efforts for she believes that her work is more essential now than ever before, for now it is to rebuild the war-stricken sections. DECLARES ALLIES CANNOT ABANDON WILSON'S TERMS Would Give Germany Excuse to Refuse to Abide by Armistice, Says Lewis. (By Associated Press) -NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, speaking today before the Lawyers' Club in support of the proposal for a league of nations, declared that the American government in the peace settlement could not abandon a single one of President Wilson's fourteen principles without laying Itself open to the charge of perfidy. Germany, Senator Lewis said, would have the right to refuse to abide by the terms of the armistice, the allies would be justified in withdrawing from the peace table and all small nations or aspiring peoples fighting with the United States on the basis of the president's proposals would be excused before the world in turning from America. "The peace was made by Germany and her people on terms of fourteen points proposed by the United States, including the proposal of league of nations for future peace," said Senator Lewis. "These were adopted by the allies as their only terms of peace and all accepted as the basis by Italy, the Balkans and Turkey. It is impossible for the United States to withdraw one of her terms or postpone one or omit or to press one without giving Germany the right then and there to refuse to abide by the terms of the armistice in any particular. She could refuse to deliver her cannon and arms as agreed. The people of Germany would be Justified in charging us with fraud on them and turn against us and support any force against our soldiers. The allies would be justified in accusing us of trickery and withdraw from the table. Opens Perfidy Charge. "Every little nation or aspiring people fighting with us on the basis of our proposals made January 8, 1918, would be excused before the world in turning from us and assailing us for perfidy to them. Then resenting it by allying themselves with any foes of the United States this on the ground that our contracts and agreements were delusions and a fraud and our treaties of peace but 'scraps of paper . We would be the perfidious traitors to solemn compacts and the one nation whose word would sing as low as was that of Prussia when her deceptions and lies brought her to destruction in the indignation of civilization, j "The very last and first of the cove-' nants we made to Germany as basis of peace, as thnt all nations qualified as civilized should league to prevent war in all future. This was the one principle on which the German people took our terms of peace and withheld further arms and armies to Germany. It was on this basis as the guaranty of future peace in Europe that Britain and France accepted the terms of the United States. On this one rock we built our house. To this house come all the nations. Can we now violate the honor of our household and prove ourselves in word of nation another imperial Prussia? It is now a question of American honor. It cannot be violated to accommodate political party; issues or to gratify raciel or national hatreds. Justice demands that we hold fast to every covenant and upon our plighted faith, for which our sons died, that the word of nations should ever be holy, for this we pledge the vow of sacred Peter . " 'On this rock we build our house and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it'."

Outline of Views as Published Today, Believed to be in Accord With Those of Other Peace Delegates.

AGREES VVITHU. S. PLAN (By Associated Press) PARIS Jan. 25.. David . Lloyd George, the British premier, at the second open session of the peace conference today, was expected to discuss the British plan for a league of nations, the outlines for which were published in the United States for the first time today, thereby fulfilling predictions that Wilson would leave to the European statesman the opening of the subject, withholding the exposition of his own (vlews for the future. Without any official outline of the president's plan for a league before the public, a comparison of what the Lloyd George has in mind with what the president may propose is in order, but may be said on the authority of those in a position to know what is in the president's mind that the British outline generally accords with the principals, toward which the American group has been working. The outstanding principle in the British outline which declares that a distinction must be realized between adjustable and non-adjustable disputes and that each state must be the primar judge to whether or not a dispute is adjustable is taken in American circles to accord with the developing opinions among delegates: PREDICTS NO GAIN FOR COUNTY IN HIGHWAY BILLS "As the Indiana highway situation stands at present the highway bill passed in 1918, which was declared unconstitutional but has since been declared constitutional may be amended; the Wright Highway bill may be passed or the Johnson bill may become a law. The last two may both become effective," said Joseph H. Mills today. "All Wayne county could get out of the Wright bill is a mile and one-half of road west of Richmond, and the upkeep of the National road through the county," Mills said. There would be no Incentive, since only 3,600 miles of road is proposed to be made, to build another road in Wayne county, and this bill only proposes that the roads connect county seats and towns of over 5,000 inhabitants. It does not say inter-connectlng, and that it what most people thought it did say. I 'think that cities like Richmond, Ft. Wayne, Evansville, i East Chicago, South Bend and Gary should have hard roads out of each city. With the j Wright bill it looks a good deal like i they will all run toward the center or til stsit The Wright bill requires that the license fee of the counties, $17,000 of which comes back to Wayne county each year, go toward the highway fund and that the inheritance tax which now comes back to us go to this fund this means about ?40,000, Mills explained. Mr. Mills thinks that it is not too late to oppose legislation which will not be favorable to Wayne county, but said it must be done soon and by a representative body of persons. "And yet as sure as anything the , people will kick when they find what these bills bring," Mills said. "Tne Wright bill may favor Marion county a little too much at the expense of the outlying counties, the Johnson bill asks the counties to work as a unit instead of the townships as has formerly been the case. A pending amendment of the former bills suggests the appointment of a state director by the four non-salaried state commissioners. This man would be invested with power like the kaiser." L P. A. MEMORIAL TO BE HELD SUNDAY The annual memorial services or Post C, T. P. A. will be held at the 'First English Lutheran church at 2:30 ' o'clock Sunday afternoon. Members of the post, their families, relatives of de parted members and friends have been invited to attend the service, held in memory of the members who departed into the great beyond in the last year. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weath'er Bureau Fair tonight and Sunday, except probably rain tonight in extreme south portion. Somewhat lower temperature Sunday and in west portion tonight. ; Today's Temperature. Noon 46 Yesterday. Maximum 40 Minimum ...29

BOLSHEVIK ARE MAKING GAINS AT ARCHANGEL

Allied Commander Will be Able to Handle Situation, States General March. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Retirement of the allied forces holding advance positions in the Archangel sector before attacks by superior forces of Bolsheviki, is reported in an official dispatch dated Jan. 23, the substance of which was made public today by General March. The points attacked by the enemy lay generally about 190 miles from Archangel. General March said the interallied commander there had adequate proof to reinforce the advance element and to handle the situation. The message reported the American losses in one of the actions at Ust Pedenga as ten enlisted men killed, 17 wounded and 11 missing. A later dispatch said subsequent attacks were repulsed when delivered on the positions taken up by the American forces. Americans Are Attacked An inter allied force engaged at Shenkurst consisted of a British detachment, two companies of Americans and two companies of Russians. These were attacked on three sides and compelled to evacuate their positions as were also the allied patrols holding Ust Pedenga. The American troops falling back took a position midway between this point and the Shenkurst. In nne nf the attacks re ported 1,000 enemy troops were in action against the small allied forces. General March pointed again that the whole military situation at Archangel was under the control of the interallied high command in France. He intimated that should reinfnroments be deemed necessary any action to supply mem wouia have to come from the high command and other recommendations from the British commander; in chief of the forces in SiBOLSHEVIK TAKE UFA VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 25. Ufa has fallen to the Bolshevists, the reverse to the Russian and Czech-Slovak forces there being said to be chiefly due to the failure.-of arms to arrive from Vladivostok. The troops which defended the city have fallen back to Zlatoust, 140 miles to the northeast, where they are making a courageous stand in the Gorges of the Ural country. Thousands of rifles have arrived at the front and have been rushed to Cheliabinsk, which is not believed to be in danger for the present at least. Military experts here realize that the weak points on the Ural front are between Ufa and Cheliabinsk and further south, at Orenburg, where General Dutoff's Cossacks are reported to be worn out by constant pressure from superior forces of Bolshevists. Negotiations for the dispatch of allied contingents to Orenburg are now going on, but have not as yet been brought to a successful conclusion. The cap ture of Orenburg would give the Bolshevists control of the railroad running into a rich section of Turkestan and would increase their ability to resist allied and Russian forces. - Driven Back from Perm. Unconfirmed reports were received in London on Jan. 23, that Orenburg had been taken by the Bolshevists. Further north Bolshevist forces driven back from Perm .when General Gaida's Siberian and Czecho-Slovak troops took that city have been re-organized and are reported to be. fighting desperately along the Kama river. The Bolshevists are reported to be attempting an advance to the southeast of Perm, in the direction of Ekaterinburg. In spite of the fact that the Russian troops and their comrades are without sufficient clothing and l AC 3 i 1 , , . .. uave sunerea great narasnips, it is believed here that, with General Jules Janin, commander of the Czecho-Slovak army, in charge of military affairs, and with General Knox of the British army looking after the equipment of the forces, the situation in this section is favorable. GENERAL STRIKE DISCUSSED HERE Labor unions in Richmond will vote at their regular meetings next week on a proposal to call a general strike in Richmond for better r"Jg conditions. A few organizations in Richmond have contracts with their employers and must obtain the consent of their international organization in order to go out on a sympathetic strike. - The following unions are not affected: Barbers, printers, building trades, house painters, carpenters belonging to the building trades, tinners, electricians and musicians. The following will vote on the proposal at meetings to be held next week; Woodworkers, molders, machinists, laborers, bodymakers. blacksmiths, inside sheet, metal workers, freight handlers, stage hands and metal polishers. The War Labor Board At Washington is still working on Richmond cases which were presented in Richmond before representatives of the board. No word has been received of anv nrogres9 made.

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Prince George Lvoff, above at left, and General Semenoff, below at left, leaders in the republic recently set up in Siberia with headquarters at Omsk; Nicholas Tchaikowsky, above at right, president of the government set up at Archangel, where American forces are aiding in fight against Bolsheviki troops; Max Korky, below at right, as chairman of soviet government at Petrograd, is one of the Bolsheviki leaders. As a result of the decision of the peace conference to use the sixth point in President Wilson's fourteen peace terms as a basis for attempting to settle the Russian situation leaders of the Russian factions and peace delegates will meet at Prince's Islands in a few days to discuss settlement of the trouble that is eating the heart out of that nation. The Bolsheviki forces, the Siberian republic, the Archangel government, the independent Polish faction, the Lithuanians and all the other peoples concerned in the future of the Russian territories will be allowe.d to send two delegates to the meeting.

UTILITIES BILL IS PRESENTED BY LOCAL ENGINEER Mueller Drafts Measure to Place Muncipal Utilities Under Non-partisan Boards. Plans for placing municipally owned public utilities in Indiana cities under the control of non-partisan boards and providing civil service rules for such plants was presented to the Indiana Engineering society at Indianapolis yesterday by John W. Mueller, bridge engineer of this city, and a bill to carry out the plan will be drawn and presented to the general assembly. The plan will be taken up by the legislative committee of the State Chamber of Commerce next Thursday. The plan for the non-partisan control of municipally-owned public utilities was referred to the resolutions commitee of the society and a bill incorporating the plan will be drawn after a report is made, by the committee. The bill will . provide for the appointment by the mayor of a city of one director for any publicly owned utility, after a petition, signed by 25 per cent, of the city's freeholders, requesting such action, has been presented. Details of the Plan. Following -the appointment of this one director, the state public utilities commission would name a second director and the two should select a third. The directors would draw nominal salaries and would employ a manager who would be responsible for the operation or tne plant, me airectors would decide questions of finance and policy. Mr. Mueller said the legislative committee is satisfied with the state highway commission bill. The county unit highway bill was also approved. Passage of this bill by the general assembly, it is said here, will take these jobs out of politics and put them on a merit system. Russ Revolutionists to Call Internationale - . - - (By Associated Press) ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 25. According to reports received here from Moscow, the "international comunist congress," there has decided to convoke the first congress of "a new revolutionary Internationale." The communist congress, it is stated, has drafted a manifesto seting forth a prgram based on the programs of the German Spartacan party and the Russian communist and Bolshevik parties. Bolshevik Fail in Effort ..... to Bombard Revel (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 25.-Bolshevist attempts to bombard Revel, capital of Esthonla. from the sea, have resulted in complete failure, . according to reports received here. Every vessel in the fleet is said to have been sunk.

Extra; First Robin Has Been Seen

Robbins has seen a robin! Charles F. Robbins, living south of Centerville, says he saw a "real" robin last week at his home, Shady Bend, and that the bird chirped in a "very decided tone." The robin is another attribute of January 1919, and a sure evidence of spring. DARING SCHEMES USED BY BRITISH TO ESCAPE HUNS (By Associated Press) LONDON, Friday Jan. 24. The establishment of "escape committees" among the British prisoners in German camps and the ingenious schemes devised by captives to get away, are described in an article in the Evening News, by an officer who has just returned after twenty-two months of captivity. "If you wanted to escape," says the officer, "you had to state your case before the committee, giving the full details of your scheme. If your plan interferred with the chances of another officer, the committee would "sit on it." "For instance, suppose I told the committee that a certain hour each day a certain sentry was in the habit of neglecting his duty in some way and that I meant to slip by him. The committee had the power to say: 'That is a way out for six others; you must all make the attempt in three days' time,' and their word was law. In this way obviously Impossible schemes were brought to light and vetoed, both in the interest of the officer contemplating flight and his comrades remaining in prison. . "One officer told the committee he had constructed an improvised parachute out of a big umbrella and he wanted to jump with it off the roof of the prison, which was close to a highway and float down into the road. But the committee said 'No'. "One of the big escape inventions brought before the committee was a chute made of a long dinner table with a slippery polished top. This was let down from a window of the prison and on it officers were able to slide down and drop into the road outside." Military Authorities Seize Irish College (By Associated Prss WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. General March announced today that punishments of war time severity for military offenders in the United States have been stopped by the war department. From now on military offenses at home will be punished in accordance with an order issued by the president before the war which sent out the maximum sentences which be approved for military offenses in time of peace. , The new" order is not applied to troops In France. Siberia or Italy, and does not mean commutation of sentences already imposed at home.

IN SCHOOLS Repeal of Lowe Bill to Be Considered by Senate Next Week Registration LawChange. - DRY LAW SUGGESTION

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 25 Less drastic change of the Indiana prohibition law than proposed by the Wright amendment, phobably will be recommended by the public morals committee of the house next week. Members of the committee said that it is unlikely there will be any recommendation to remove the one-halt of one per cent provision in the present law, anticipating the principle recommendation to make penalties for violation much stiffer than now provided. Of the new measures in prospect for. next week a few which would change the registration law are of the widest interest. There is much sentiment among the members from rural districts to make one registration peranent until a voter changes his place of residence from one precinct to another. No well developed sentiment for changing the present primary law is evident thus far. Fewer than a dozen representatives and less than ten senators were at their seats in the state capitol today. No meetings of committees were scheduled for the day and practically all members living out-state toow ad vantage of the opportunity to be at their homes. Campaign in Schools Leaders of both the house and senate today in reviewing the work so far accomplished by the legislature, expressed their satisfaction and believe next week will be an equally important one from the standnoint of progress made. House leaders . were pleased especially over ending up the week's work by passing the Johnson measure to provide woman's suffrage for presidential electors and of the Lowe bill to repeal the law of 1869 whereby upon petition of twenly-Xiva. natrons of schools, instruction In all subjects could be conducted in the German language. The former was not favored by only three members of , the house while the latter was nasaed hv unanimous vote." Both bills now go to the senate where passage is declared to be assured. Senate leaders likelv will ur h Lowe measure be pushed in order to get it out of the way and enable the state school authorities to inanmirato a campaign to enforce the law. Then it would be possible, it was pointed out, that if additional ' legislation is needed it may be provided later in the session. , There are manv schools in th at at a in which Instruction is conducted by the use of German or some other foreign language exclusively. New Waterway Bill. "Our fieht will be three-fourths u-nn when the law is enacted which rionioa the right to use some foreign language to the exclusion of English in instruction work in Indiana," said Dr. Horace Ellis, state superintendent of instruction. "If any of the schools refuse to obey the law and begin using the English language, we shall take legal action to force them to do so. We will take the same position against them that we would in proceeding against a school where thievery was taught, we can show that there has been nothiner more hurtful In nur school life than the insidious propaganda of foreign nations as made possible by using some other language than English in the school room." ine nouse committee on rivers and waters exoects to nronosp plther a new bill or many changes in the ad ministration conservation measure now before it. There are objections to fixing the salaries of department heads at more than $4,000 a year, while the provisions for acquiring lands and for removing sand and gravel from northern Indiana lakes does not meet with entire approval. The house committee on Judiciary A will hold a public hearing at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening in the chamber on the taxation bill. The meeting will be given principally to discussion of provisions of the measure as they would affect banks, trust companies and corporations. Holding cf a public hearing on the proposed state highway law next Thursday evening is being considered. Opposition to the former measure is largely lecause of the exemption on intangibles' feature and to the latter because it is proposed to increase automobile taxes and convert the receipts entirely to the use of the highway commission has caused legislators some concern. Both bills are administration measures. F. AND N. LETS OUT HALF OF ITS FORCE Seventy-five men were let out at the F and N Lawn Mower company Friday evening. Lack of orders due to re-adjustment conditions in trade ..clMta m van onn U.lf IL. men employed at the factory were IBen Hill, secretary and treasurer of the company, said there is a very small market at present and it was impossible for the company to find employment for its men. He said it is not known when the factory will take on more men.