Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 71, 1 February 1919 — Page 12

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PAGE FOURTEEN THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 1919.

U, S. EXPRESSMEN START CAMPAIGN FORJFFICIENCY Better Service Committee Appointed From Richmond Express Company Employes The nation-wide campaign Inaugurated by the American Railway Express company to bring about better methods of packing and marking express shipments, began today with the flret of a series of meetings of express employes to be held In this city during the month of the drive. At convenient periods throughout the day, . Agent H. B. Lee called together groups of his co-workers and urged them to put their full force behind the comprehensive campaign now under way and to work with : shippers in accomplishing decisive results in bettering the express service. Vehicle men, depot platform and claim bureau and office employes were each addressed by trie agent or his "Four Minute Men," who made stirring appeals for their active co-operation and keen interest in the drive. The speakers told the express workers, that they. Individually and collectively, could give valuable aid in the campaign by bringing their work up to the highest standards. There is room for improvement everywhere, they stated. Owing to conditions brought about the war, they admitted the express service had not been as good as the company had expected to make it. But with these obstacles removed and every expressman doing his part, the way has been cleared for a very marked change for the better. " In urging the men to seek the cooperation of shippers in the drive, the agent brought to the attention of the drivers the necessity of giving them all the aid possible In bringing their packing and marking methods up to the required standard.- It was acknowledged that the manner of packing and marking varies with the commodities, but the question of whether a shipment is in condition for handling to destination safely must be left to the good judgment of the driver, who have been thoroughly Instructed on the rules and regulations. To Watch Packing Problem. After the "Four Minute" speeches. Agent H. B. Lee announced the appointment of a Better Service Campaign committee, made up of the following: Main Office J. C. Rife, Chas. Taylor, C. T. Brunton, Mabel Geler, Irene Reed, Ruth Haler. Wagon Men Leslie Cox, Frank Thomas. Karl Holliday, Chester Harness. Horace Vaughn, Horace Burns, W. II. Williams. Day Depot H. C. Knopf, C. B. Stonecipher, T. T. Trobaugh, O. C. Nelson, C. E. Coppock, Wm. F. Hilling. Night Depot J. G. McConkey, J. A. Arnold, John Burns, J. C. Franks, O. R. Elliott, C. Holtcamp, J. H. Neill. He requested the men selected to keep watch on the conditions of business as it passed through the terminals and to call personally on shippers whose consignments needed attention. One of the most serious problems that the express company has to face Is that of "No Mark" express matter, the agent stated. These are shipments which, because of their Inadequate packing or marking, lose all trace of identification, either of the shipper or the consignee, and must be sent to "No Mark Bureaus" where effort is

( made to put them back on the right track. The use of tags was discouraged, except where absolutely necessary, and then two should be added. The present campaign is regarded as one of the most significant and important steps taken by a transportation agency for the betterment of its service. The local meetings here were held simultaneously with similar gath erings or express employes in every city and town in the country. A second meeting of the series will be held next week and other topics of pertinent interest to the campolgn will be taken up. Chester, Ind. Revival meetings conducted by Rev. L. F. Ulmer started at the M. E. church here last Monday night. Come. ' . . . .William Martin and family entertained Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Duke, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. James Webster and daughter, Florence and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cutter at dinner Sunday. .Missese Bonnie and Blanche Carman and Carrie Boerner were Sunday guests of Miss Marjorie Pickett.. ..Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hinshaw with th former's mother, Mrs. Hinshaw, of Winchester spent Sunday with Luther Hinshaw and family. .. .Friends from Lynn, Ind., spent Sunday with Don Berry.... Mrs. Michael Klndall spent Friday with Ollie Boerner and family ... .The Ladiese Aid society will meet Wednesday afternoon in the hall to quilt.... Newt Brooks and family of near Greensfork spent Sunday afternoon with Luther Hinshaw and family.... Will Carman and family have moved to their new home in Chester Elbert Kemp and family were guests of John Kemp and family at Lynn, Sunday. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Charles visited Everett Hunt and family Sunday Mrs. Emma Burg's house in Chester, caught fire Sunday morning about 8 o'clock. A hole was burned in the roof near the chimney, but help arrived and the blaze was soon extinguished without serious damage. Neighbors discovered the blare at the same time Mrs. Burg saw it, soon after it started. It is thought that the fire was caused from the chimney...... Miss Leah Kendall spent Tuesday afternoon with Miss Maggie Boerner. ...Several from here attended the entertainment given at MIddleboro church last Saturday evening. .Maurice Hinshaw and Herman Shaffer spent Sunday afternoon in Richmond.... Misses Ruth Ulmer and Roxie Shaffer spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Ethel Wilson. .. .Miss Lena Hiatt of Spring Grove attended church here Sunday morning.... Rev. L. F. Ulmer returned Friday from Chicago where he had been attending the centenary convention ...... Everett Hunt and Caleb Duke were appointed by , Rev. Ulmer as four minute men for the centenary movement at this place ....Ralph Buroker la visiting friends In Grant county, Ind.. this week.

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mm Glimpse of famous Krupp factory at Essen, Germany, and one of giant siege mortars turned out there. The Riant Krupp plant at Essen, Germany, one of the factors on which the ex-kaiser counted in his dreams for world conquest, is now devoting its energies to turning out, gun parts for - the United States. The factory is making parts for seventy-two incomplete German cannon rejected by the American authorities when the guns were turned over as part of the war material demanded under the armistice terms. Eighty other cannon have been shipped by the Germans to the .American army headquarters to replace other guns EFFICIENCY ADDED TO FIRE CONTROL BY M'CONAHA BILL State Senator Walter McConaha, who last week introduced a bill In the Indiana senate providing that fire men in Indiana cities should be dls missed only for cause, thinks that such an act would greatly help the efficiency of fire departments of the state. "Efficiency above everything else is what you want in your fire depart ment," said the senator Saturday morning. "If you have a fire in your house you don't want a green fireman fight ing it, who has to be torn wnere tne fire plug is, or how to use the hose cart. "Of course a fireman should be dis missed for cause, either inefficiency or misconduct, but my bill provides for that. Outside of that a fireman should have the assurance that his job will last and he won't be made the victim of the next political change. "I think it would add to the effi ciency of other city departments to pass the" same law regarding them, but don't intend introducing any more bills to that effect myself." Senator McConaha said that the firemen's bill had met with no opposition so far and he hoped it would pass. "Tha umrlr of thfl uDDer house has been mostly routine so far, but with 171 bills already introaucea ana om- . onmlnr nvcr from the house bv basketsful, we are going to be pretty busy soon, ne saia. Four Hundred Dollars Raised for Relief Four hundred dollars has been raised for the Near East fund since Friday through the united efforts of the Near East solicitation organization and a committee organized by Mrs. A. W. Roach and other Richmond war mothers. The .schools have agreed to push the drive next week, and yesterday English classes II, III of High school under Mrs. Ruth Hemmersbaugh Newlin secured $8.42. City Chairman Leslie Hart announced today that the campaign will be continued until the desired fund is raised. Americans Aid in Work for Women of France (By Associated Press) PARIS, Feb. 1. The women of France, aided by the pracitcal advice and guidance of their American sisters have undertaken a big program to promote the wlfare of French working women. During the past two days a conference on the subject has been held under the auspices of the Y. W. C. ; A. It was attended by v French women who are leaders of such organizations, such as Madame .Jules Siegfried, Madam Pichon, Baroness Wattville and Madame Landry, and a score of American women. A number of plans were adopted to administer to the needs of French womanhood arising out of -. the war. They include model homes for employed women in Paris and in big French industrial centers, and women's hotels at the chief French ports where they may await for vessels to sail. Famous Whistler Portrait Sold to New York Firm (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 1. Whistler's famous painting "Lady . Meux" has been purchased from the family of Lady Meux for $200,000 by a New York art firm, it was announced here today. The portrait was painted shortly after Whistler returned to London from Venice in 1880. and it is connidered one of the most important of the xuu lengtn portraits by the artist.

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rejected. These eighty guns and the seventy-two for which parts Building Site Presented by Paris to Americans By Associated Press) PARIS, Feb. 1. A building site, valued at $100,000, the gift of the city of Paris, was formally accepted for the American University Union today by Henry B. Thompson, Princeton, the treasurer of the union. The ceremony took place in the InAllied club. M. Chassaigne-Goyon, vice president of the Paris municipal council, represented the city of Paris, and James Hazen Hyde presided. The American University Union contemplates the erection of a building for which plans already have been drawn. The funds for the building will be secured in the United States. The structure will be used as a home for American students in Paris as -well as to provide French students with information regarding - American universities. Mrs. Howard's Funeral Set for Next Monday Funeral services for Mrs. I. R. Howard wijl be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, 321 North Tenth street. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. No Mid-Year Graduation at Parochial Schools No mid-year graduation takes place in the parochial schools of the city this month. Transferals are made at St John's, St. Andrew's and St. Mary's schools in June this year. 1 Work is reported as progressing nicely in all three schools. Hagerstown, Ind. The Woman's History Club met Monday afternoon at the. home. of Mrs. j jonn iiaruey. me responses to roll call were "Poetical Quotations." The leader was Mrs. Charles Teetor. ';' The lesson was , on "Agriculture." from chapter ten of "Industrial History of tne American People" over one hundred years ago. After the business session Mrs. Hines read two chapters from Kitty Canary." ; The club then adjourned to meet with Mrs. Anthony Hower Feb. 3 A. E. Smith spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Indianapo lis. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Houston Ferris returned Saturday, from a week's visit with friends at Connersville Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brown, Frank Hausley and Peter Ramer spent Saturday at Richmond. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Worl have moved to a farm near Petersburg. Mr. Worl was mustered out of service. Mrs. Worl spent the time during her husband's absence at the home of her parents.... The local Rebecca lodge elected officers for the ensuing year as follows:. Mrs., Laura Hines, Noble Grand; Mrs. Etta Porter, Vice Grand; Mrs. Louis Walker, financial secretary, Mrs. Eva Polard, secretary; Mrs. Victory Sells, Warden; Mrs. Katherine Hoover, Conductor; ' Mrs. Delia ; Fox, chaplain; Mrs. Carrie . Petty, Past Grand. They were installed at a re cent meeting. Ttfrs. Victoria Sells was the. installing off icer. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Addington of : Dayton, O.. are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kirby. ..Miss Elizabeth Thomas came on Wednesday from -Dayton, O., and is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Beij. Thomas. . .Mrs. Ida Lawson was the guest a few days of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wissler.

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are being made will complete the delivery to the U. S. forces.

LOBBYING AGAINST FEDERAL BUREAUS (By Associated Press) j WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Charges that representatives of " "private fee charging employment agencies" are attempting to lobby in congress for the abolishment of the United States employment service were made today by officials of the service. It was said that during the past ten days all members of congress have received circulars from the private agencies and that many manufacturers had been asked to assist in the campaign. "We are fully aware that such attacks have been made," said John B. Densmore, director general of the federal employment service. "They "are particularly dangerous at this time because of the rapid demobilization of troops and the existing , unemployment in many big cities." Mr. Densmore said that in conjunction with the council of national defense and other organizations, the federal service had established 1,850 bureaus for returning soldiers In addition to the 750 offices that the employment service itself organized and operates and that already, more than 100,000 returning soldiers have been placed in employment and that an average of 100,000 persons were being placed in various industries every Week. "Even now," he said, "we are moving more than four thousand men a week from one state to another in order to balance the labor surplus in one state against the labor shortage in another this after local demands are filled." BABY Will Cherish His Photograph in future years Arrange - for - sitting Today PHOTOS 722 MAIN ST RICHMOND. IND

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ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENTS UP NEXTJUESDAY Second Party Conference Monday to Line up Members on Goodrich Measures.

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1. Practically up to date on legislation pending before it, the state senate again is taking another week-end vacation today. All the measures ready for action yesterday afternoon were cleared off the slate. . Attention was turned toward the second of a series of Republican conferences, which will be held probably next Monday afternoon to discuss and attempt to influence some antiadministration members to favor bills and proposed constitutional - amendments advocated by Governor Goodrich. Two such amendments come before the senate at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and it is understood that the purpose of the Monday conference is to obtain assurance of favorable action on these by all Republicans. The amendments provide that the clerk of the supreme court and the state superintendent of public instruction be appointed instead of elected. Following passage of the woman suffrage amendment yesterday by the senate, representatives of women's organizations are throwing their efforts to procure passage of the presidential suffrage bill and the defeat of the bUl legalizing Sunday motion pictures. Progress Satisfactory. For the fourth consecutive Saturday since the opening of the Indiana general assembly, the lower house was not in session today. The majority of the members, following adjournment yesterday afternoon went to their homes outstate to remain until Monday when the house is reconvened at 2 o'clock. Speaker Eschbach expressed his satisfaction with the progress that has been made thus far. Each afternoon, the house has been able to adjourn early with the desk of the speaker clear of business for consideration. This has given the committees opportunity to consider carefully bills referred to them. Relatively few measures have ben recommended for indefinite postponement in committee, although there are many still in committee which were referred early in the session. It is not unlikely that a large per cent, of these will die there. The house thus far has passed on to the senate thirty-five measures and has received 245 bills.

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IN GENERAL AND MY PATRONS IN PARTICULAR The sale I announced for the last ten days of January was the first I have " held in many years and up until Friday evening, I was fully decided to close it last night. During the last few days, I have had so many inquiries and requests by telephone and letter, from out-of-town patrons, who could not get in on account of road conditions in certain neighborhoods, and for several other reasons that rather than disappoint these people, I decided to hold the sale open for one more week. The sale, will be continued throughout the coming week and will positively be closed on Saturday, February 8th. ; This is a very unusual sale and includes every garment in the house, including light weights as well as heavy winter clothing. My stock was so large that in spite of the heavy valume of business during the past ten days, there is still an excellent choice of materials in all sizes left to choose from. A straight reduction of 20 is made on every article. The original price tickets are on all garments. You simply select what you want and deduct 20.

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(Br Associated PreM) NEW YORK, Feb. 1 A pan-African conference, to be held in Paris, February 12, 13, 14, In which representatives from North and South America, West Indies- and Africa will be represented, has been sanctioned by Premier Clemenceau of France, according to a cablegram made public here today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The message was from Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, the asso

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