Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 65, 25 January 1919 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 1919.
RELIEF MEASURE PASSES SENATE BY 53-18 VOTE Appropriation Bill Goes Through After Week's DebateEnactment Soon.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. After a week of spirited debate the senate last light by a vote of 53 to 18. passed the administration bill appropriating 1100,000,000 for food relief In Europe and the near East. The fund was requested by President Wilson as a means of checking the westward spread of Bolshevism. The measure now goes to conference for adjustment of minor senate amendments, but leaders believe final enactment will be accomplished next week. Watson Opposed Passage. Senator Martin of Virginia, the Democratic leader, and Overman of North Carolina and Warren of Ohio were appointed senate conferees. The most important senate amendment changed the house section against feeding enemy peoples so that nationalities friendly to the United States and the allies may be aided. All amendments designed to limit the power of President Wilson or Food Administrator Hoover in distribution of the fund were rejected recently by the senate and no final effort was maae loaay lor meir aa anion. i On the final roll call fifteen Republicans and three Democrats voted against the bill's passage, while thirty-four Democrats and nineteen Republicans Joined in its support Senator Watson voted against the bill, and Senator New voted for Its passage. SERVICE AWARDS FOR FOUR-MINUTE SPEAKERS .GIVEN The seventeen Four-Minute Men of Richmond are to be issued certificates of service from the Department, of Public Information at Washington, under which they worked as speakers during the war. The theatres of tho city will also receive service certificates from the department of public information for their co-operation with the speakers. The following Four-Minute Men will receive the service certificates next week: Rev. R L. Soman. J. T. Giles, Dr. I F. Ross. J. H. Bontley, C. W. Ullman, W. W. Reller. R. C. Shively, N. C. Heironimus, S. S. Riggs, W. D. Foulke, Lester Carlander, Rev. J. S. Hill, Rev. E. E. Davis, Dr. C. S. Bond, Rev. F. A. Dressell and Rev J. J. Rae. The Washington, Murray, Lyric, Palace, Murrette and Trcatorium theaters will receive certificates. The organization disbanded Decern' to speak In behalf of the Near East campaign in the theaters of the city tonight and next Monday and Tuesday.! GERMANS FIGHT , BOLSHEVIK FORCE (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Friday, Jan. 24 After being three weeks on a train fighting their way through bands of Bolsheviki in Russia, several German soldiers arrived here yesterday from the Ukraine. Four hundred Germans of the Bavarian heavy cavalry left Kharkov on December 26, after manning a special train and with one pounders, machine guns and rifles. A non commissioned , officer of the German first corps, ' with headquarters at Kharkov, who arrived here estimated that eighty thousand German soldiers remain in the Ukraine. Between Kharkov and Kiev the German train had frequent encounters with bands of Bolsheviki, numbering from two hundred to two thousand. In one of these encounters the Germans suffered sixty casualties. The officer said tho train was frequently stopped by Bolsheviki and It was necessary for the Germans to fight their way day after day. Sometimes they bribed the Bolsheviki to allow them to pass, but in most cases they fought their way through, using machine guns from the train windows. The itinerary of the Germans include Poltava and Krementchug, the train j making several detours because of destroyed bridges. The Bolsheviki had officers but they maintained little order and the Bolsheviki fought aa disorganized units. A large proportion of them appeared to be former Russian prisoners. Many wore Russian uniforms while some had uniforms stolen from German soldiers. The non-commissioned officer declared that food was plentiful in the Ukraine but expensive. In his opinion the entire Ukraine will be overrun by the Bolsheviki within a month or two. America's Job as Allied Banker Lighter This Month (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. America's Job as banker for the allies has been lighter this month than at any time since the nation entered the war. Only $170,000,000 has been paid out as allied loans since January 1, the treasury reported today, although payments on this account for a long time ran around $400,000,000 a month. The reduction is caused principally by the curtailment of shipments of food for payment of which the American credits" had been largely used. - Until congress enacts the pending bill, advocated by the treasury, to authorize loans to the allies for other than strictly war purposes, officials do not look for much change in the present low rate of demands on the American government. Total credits extended by the treasury now amount to $8,688,773,000, but only $7,854,816,000 has been actually paid out under these credits. Greece Liberia and the Ciecho-Slovak national council have never presented claims for payments. Russia sun Has iiiir 000,000 to her credit on the treasury
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Two Damage Suits Ate Filed in Circuit Court Joseph E. Phillips has filed a complaint against Buehler Brothers and others for damages and demands $151. The plaintiff alleges that on a certain date he entered the Buehler meat shop to buy meat, that he paid for It, and left the shop. About thirty minutes later he discovered that he had lost his pocketbook, he claims. He returned to the shop and Identified his pocketbook. The cashier and employ-
es said they had found the pocketbook and that another person giving his name as "Phillips" had ' called and identified the pocketbook and that it had been given to him, according to the complaint. The pocketbook contained $101, a fourth liberty bond valued at $50, Phillips says. Oeorge Raber has filed a complaint against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis Railroad company for $5,000 damages. The plaintiff alleges that he was working for the company as a labor In Pershing, and was placing a tie in the tracks, when a steel splinter from a maul used by another workman flew Into his eye. He was compelled to have the eye removed, he charges. Charles Taylor has filed a complaint on account against Charles Richardson asking $52.90 for work done on the defendant's farm. STRENGTH OF U. S. FORGE WAS SECOND ONLY TO FRENCH Dy Associated Press.! WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. On the day that the armistice was signed the American army on the western front was second in strength only to that of France Itself. Figures made public today by General March today showed that on Nov. 11 the United States was represented on the western front by 1,950,110. France on Nov. 1, the last date for which official figures were available had 2,559,000. The British and the Portuguese attached to the British army totaled 1,718,000 while the Belgian and Italian forces on the western front aggregated about 200,000. These totals are all based upon what is termed the "ration strength." This includes every soldier who has to be fed, both combatant and the necessary medical and supply organizations. General March again today gave comparative demobilization totals for the United States and British armies. Up to Jan. 24, the United States had actually discahrged 67,366 officers and 858,117 men. The British on January 11 had discharged 12,759 officers and 611.950 men. The total ordered fir discharge on this country now 1,300,900. is Denies Shell-Shocked Soldiers Are Sent to Hospitals for Insane fBy Associated Press) WAOUivrTrtV Tor. OK CllTra-n that soldiers returning from overseas suffering from shell shock have been sent to St. Elizabeth's hospital for the insane at Washington. . The surgeon general said that a personal inquiry had revealed that only two patients "who could possibly be' classified as shell shock" had been sent to St. Elizabeth's hospital up to this time, and' that "these two presented symptoms of mental disorder of a character to Justify their having been sent to this hospital." General Ireland said that the general hospital at Plattsburg, N. Y., had been specially equipped and provided with a selected staff for nervous cases exclusively and that the surgeons at the ports of debarkation had been instructed to send all patients of this class to that hospital. lit addition to the provisions for the purely nervous cases. General Ireland explained the medical department always has had sufficlnt beds under the control of an especially personnel to provide treatment not to exceed four months for mentally affected soldiers. These beds, he added, have never been filled. Passengers Are Removed From Crippled Liner (By Associated Press.) HAVANA, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 24. Twenty-five passengers of the Cuban coastwise steamer Campeche, from Calbarien for this port, arived here tonight on board the schooner Bella Catalina. having been taken off the Campeche after that steamer had been adrift for several hours with a broken propeller. The crew of the Campeche succeeded in preventing their vessel from drifting onto the rocks off Cruz del Padre Cape, off the northern coast of I Cuba, by letting go the anchor vhen shallow water was reached. The steamer Gibara has been ordered to proceed to the assistance of the disabled ship. None of the passengers or crew of the Campeche was lost. Audubon Societies Plan Roosevelt Bird Fountains NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Announcement was made here today that the National association of Audubon so-! cieties and affiliated organizations will begin the work of providing for erection in Now York or Washington of a Roosevelt memorial bird fountain. Eminent American sculptore will be asked to present plans ,it was said, and a national committee of nature lovers and sportsmen would be formed to advance the project Parents Lectured for Children's Truancy Three children were released In Juvenile court Saturday morning after they and their parents were severely lectured by the Judge for truancy. GIVEN $50 FINE William H. Bonner was fined $50 and costs In city court Saturday for I violation of the liquor law. Bonner was arrested Jan. 21 at the Pennsvlvania station with two quarts of whis-
WILL THE WORLD FORGET HUN-DEVASTATED FRANCE?
The German, when he found that he could not win the war. tried, by destroying French industry to make France dependant on Germany. This plan of Germany should be foiled and France should be recompensed at the peace conference for her devastated life. If we ignore the ruined cities, the wasted fields, and the forlord graves of northern France we invite the Germans to renew tb.e war. By FRANK H. SIMONDS (Copyright, 1919, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) ARIS, Jan. 25 Through the courtesy of the British government I have come to the peace conference by way of the war zone. To travel directly from America, always at peace, to Paris, now resuming much of her anti-war activity and becoming again a real capital, is to forget almost entirely the four years and a half of agony that separate Europe and the rest of the world from July, 1914, and thus to eliminate many of the vital questions remaining to be settled. It is otherwise if one Journeys by Ypres, by Vlmy ridge, by the Somme battlefields, by the regions where five years ago hundreds of thousands of people lived and labored in smiling fields and in pleasant towns, regions in which 2,000.000 dead now sleep and sleep in a desolation beyond human words to describe. It is in the dead cities and even more in the dead villages of northern France that one must seek evidence of what this German thing has meant, must seek some estimate of that vast account which remains to be settled after the German has gone. He has vanished from the trenches, from the ruins of the region he had wasted. As a consequence, from Ypres to the border of the Oise above Noyon, more than 100 miles, in longitude and from a dozen to fifty miles in latitude, there exists the most appaling desert of which the mind can conceive. A few German prisoners cleaning debris from the more important highways, a few British soldiers standing guard over material, and for the sort in a land, where 3,000,000 of French and Belgians lived five years ago, Just nothing. Villages, forests, the fruit trees and the garden shrubs, like the buildings, all gone. The Punishment How, then, are the peacemakers at Paris to set in motion the machinery itself, all to be made,- that will bring the old inhabitants back to the Ger man desert, which, like the fcreat American desert of the last century, separates two smiling regions? How are the millions of little people with their flocks and their farm implements, to be returned? H( are the Germans who did this thing to undo it? And all this was not the wreck of battles. It was nothing of tb,e sort. In January, 1917, Hindenburg had said, "We shall retreat twenty miles, wast ing the country to create a desert in front of us, thus we shall escape an allied attack, while we settle with RusBia," and with German thoroughness the thing was done. The people were marched off to Belgium to be fed by American relief missions or to die. The villages were destroyed, the roads Snined, every living thing was cm down, every inanimate thing was blown up. So the German desert was created, and so it remains now sown with millions of unexploded shells, the debris of recent battles, with helmets and hand-grenades, a region where every heap of ruins is a deadly peril, where the plow must re-open furrows among live shells. Somehow the German who created the desert deliberately, wantonly, viciously, must be made to abolish it, to excavate the shells, to supply the labor and the material to furnish the new homes with what they stole from the old before they wrecked them, to return the machinery which they carted to Germany, to supply a beginning for they took everything movable, and destroyed everythig that was immovable. Destruction in Lens. There is still another problem. You will find it at Lens if you follow in the footsteps of the Canadians over Vimy ridge to the flat lands below. Here were tne coal mines or Yance surrounded by a score of little cities, with their well ordered brick homes, cities of which Lens was only the most considerable. A hundred thousand people lived in these cities in comfort that was unmistakable, and year by year brought up from the ground about 15,000,000 tons of coal, the greater share of the French supply, and the very foundation of French industry. And of all these little cities are left only vast heaps of beams and smash-' ed bricks. Mile on mile in all directions not a house stands. Into the mines the Germans turned the floods. Such machinery as they could not remove they smashed. Each house was treated to dynamite. I hope my American friends will thing of the German desert, which occupies so much of northern France when the peace conference begins its work. If the French ask the possession of the Saar coal district, once theirs, and stolen by the Germans In 1814', to replace the ruined coal fields of Artols and Flanders, I , trust that the Americans will not see in this demand French Imperialism, but the enon or rance 10 resume tne dusi jness of life despite the German ef fort permanently to destroy French industries. And in the Paris conference there is to be talk of the responsibility not Excellent Service
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alone for the acts of war after contest Itself came, but foor the causing of the war. If only one could translate Into words that had a meaning the fact of the dead and deserted battlefields, that shell-torn region one looks down on from Kemmel ' and from Sharpenburg, the region that was once the Ypres salient. At least half a million men died there. 8ome One Must .Pay. I have dwelt on the circumstances at this time because it seems to me that Americans must - understand " in some measure the mood and temper of France- today. 1 It is the ruin that no formula of word or sentiment can abolish. The men who planned and guided this thing are in the main alive and unpunished. At least 1,000,000 French women and children are still practically homeless. Years must pass before that open wound that stretches from Belgium to Switzerland can be healed, if at all, and it will remain an open wound forever in the side of France unless the Germans have to carry the burden. And yet, save for the French in Paris and out of it, one feels a certain tendency to forget this German desert. The German is singing a new tune now. His humility is as complete as his arrogance was a year ago. The French woman told me how her German master made her work in the fields close up to the firing line, growing potatoes, and then gave her two a day to live on, yet the German now imperiously demands that we feed him
while his victims remain without all that which they must have if they are to begin life again. Not a Hymn of Hate. It is not a hymn of hate that I am trying to sing. There is no longer room for emotion. The war is over. The futility of the German methods carries a final Judgment, but either tho German must pay or the French and Belgian people stagger under the burden of this terrible destruction, while the German escaping the burden, recuperates for a new adventure. He expects to escape. A year ago he was starving millions, today he openly demands that the world feed him, his propaganda i3 everywhere at work, in Paris and out of it, and such a small part of the non-military part of the world as thinks of the German desert knows It as it exists, that one fears that the world will forget. I find myself constantly thinking of the ruined cities, of the wasted fields, and the forlorn graves of the north. Shall we forget them all in Paris, and if we -do shall we not Invite the German to come again, however, lofty a structure we raise in the name of the league of nations? Court Records Hear Divorce Evidence. Testimony in the divorce trial of Kate Mae Marine against Oliver N. Marine, charging cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide was heard in circuit court Saturday morning. Land Transfers. William H. Taylor to Norval C. Heironimus, lots7-8, home seekers' addition, Richmond. $1 Isaac E. Smith to Albert P. Thomas, lots 41-42, M. and C, block E, kichmond, $1. Frank E. Aiken to George Hawkins, lot N , 4, N. Hawkins addition, Richmond. $1. Pierson M. Bane to Moses O. Strickler part southeast, section 9, township 17, range 13; southwest section 10, township 17, range 13. $11,000. Louis N. Weber to John E. Haisley, lot 40, W. F. M., block 2, Richmond. $3,200. - Bessie Beck to James F. Harris, part southeast, section 11, township 16, range 13. $1. Lewis A. Ingalls to Frank Stanley, lot 36, Fairview Heights, Richmond. $1. Commissioners Approve Bridge Specifications Specifications for two bridges, truck, lumber, and tarvia were approved by the county commissions Satur day. The bridges will be built by the road department. They will be advertised and con tracts will be let in three or four weeks. C. J. Atkinson, trustee of Perry township, was allowed $17 for poor accounts. Specifications for improvements at the light plant at the county poor farm were approved. The farm is lighted until 12 o'clock at night by light from Centerville. . After that time it has none. Repairs will be made so that from 12 o'clock on the farm can be lighted from its own plant The commissioners went to the ! county tuberculosis hospital to inves-i tigate the grounds for a new barn and other improvements.
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Poll Tax Delinquents to Be Listed Next
A list of men who owe delinquent poll taxes Is being made by the county treasurer and will be turned over to the prosecuting attorney for action. The poll tax per year is $4. Many men have not - paid this for several years. ' -" Action will be taken against them. They will not only be required to pay the tax but also all costs of the action. New Book by W.D. Foulke Is Just Off the Press (By Associated Press) i NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Immediate completion of the National Episcopal Cathedral at Washington as a "thank offering" for victory, was urged by Rev. Dr. William T. Manning, rector of Trinity church at the annual meeting of the National Cathedral association here yesterday. The total amount of subscriptions received since the erection of the cathedral 1 was undertaken In 1907 was announced as $2,508,000. Seconding the appeal, the right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of Washington, asserted that the edifice could be completed in five years "because the call of -the hour is for the kind of work the cathedral can do." British Naval Program Withheld Until Close of Peace Congress (By Associated Press) LONDON, Friday. Jan. 24 Nothine ' is likely to be definitely settled as to Great Britain's naval program until I after the close of the peace congress, it is learned by Reuters. In the ' meantime, orders have been given to suspend work on the construction of war vessels, including light cruisers, still in the yards. The Syrian-Armenian Relief Campaign runs from Jan. 25-31.
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