Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 96, 3 March 1919 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNTELEGRAM ; MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1919.

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SHERMAN MAKES ATTACK ON PLAN FOR WORLD BODY

Wilson' Is Criticized for Assumption of Authority in Proposing Alliance. ' 'Br Associated P.-m) WASHINGTON. March 3. The constitution of the league of nations as presented at the peace conference was pictured to tho Benate body today by Senator Sherman of Illinois, Republican, as a "Pandora's box full of evils," which would empty upon the American people the aggregated calamities of the world." . Senator Sherman sharply criticized President Wilson, asking who authorized him "to rear above the republic an autocratic power?" He added that the authority was not to be found in the constitution of the United States, nor was it implied from undefined war powers, and gave It as his opinion that the president had been' acting either as a "usurper or a dictator." "Shall we not ask with the drama tist," the senator said: "Now in the name of all the gods at once, upon what does Caesar feed that he has grown so great?" Like Neutrality Service. "He adroitly maneuvers himself ink-to the spotlight as the fountain of peace perpetual and the guardian of mankind," Senator Sherman continued. "As he kept us out of war in 1916, so he will keep us out of Impending war conjured up. to serve the issuer of 1920, and to keep us at peace for ever if we but accept him again. With him as the drum major of ctvili- . zation, eternal peace, belting the earth and brooding like a gentle spirit o'er a still and credulous world proclaims the millenium is here." - "Like his neutrality device was the prelude to unprepared war, his peace league engages not in war, hut in all wars that scourge the earth. It is simple but deadly. Apparently an open covenant of peace it is a masked charter of unceasing war; the voice of Mars, but the hand of Woodrow." Of the proposed constitution, Senator Sherman, said it would set up an oligarchy of the worst possible sort, adding: "If we cut the cables of constitutional government here, we are caught in the irresistible tides that will sweep us into the maelstrom of the old world's bloody currents. The feuds and spoliations of a thousand years will become our dally, chart of action. AU we can know is that a few men in Botno hidden chamber known as the executive council, wield over us powers of life and death. Senate Paces Duty. "The creation of a nameless thing to sit in star chamber judgment and decree 'implisit obedience to its mandates cannot be borne by free men. By an ukase it will embargo our com merce, close our exchanges, destroy credits, lavo our merchandise rottlne on piers, put the Panama canal, B.XTdcr congress to declare war, levy toxes, appropriate money, raise and mpport armies and navies, and dispatch cur men to any quarter of the plobe to fight and die because an alien executive council has willed it. "Sincere men may have deceived themselves in their great hope. for a pfrfect world, but no delusion, however 'sincere, will excuse this senate from its duty to interpose its power against this universal Utopia promis- . f d by the president. . It is the fabled apple of a great hope which will turn to ashes on a trusting people's lips. The senate never faced a greater task nor a nobler duty. It will not ratify an emotion nor translate an Impossible idealism into a weapon of national suicide." Dreams Against Wisdom. - Senator Sherman asserted that (igainst the wisdom and experience of the American forefathers as summed up in Washington's farewell address, there was now rising up "the dreamer and the bookman, the Socialist, the more haberdasher in phrases which intoxicate and mislead." The senator urged that the warning of the founders of the American (,'overnment to let Europe settle her own quarrels be regarded now, adding that when the United States went to war against a common danger, it did not bind itself "in perpetual alliance to draw the sword whenever and so long as the majority of European governments voted it upon us." JUSTIN COMPANY MEN GO BACK TO WORK Carpenters working for the Austin construction company in the new east yards of the Pennsylvania, who have been oa strike fof the last two months, returned to work Monday morning. About twenty men hired to work in their place were discharged last week. With their return, the construction, which has been held up by the strike, is expected to go forward fast, and the company hopes to complete the J500.000 Job sometime next June. Twenty-fivo carpenters make up the force that went to work Monday morning, out of a total of about eighty working before the strike. It will be three or four weeks before the full force can be set to work, Austin officials said Monday. There was no grievance between the local Austin people and the carpenters' ' union, the strike being a sympathetic action taken because of a strike of union carpenters in New York. Automobile Thief Is Arrested in Pittsburgh Word was received Monday by Sheriff Carr that Frank Moore, wanted in Richmond on a charge of stealing a Ford car belonging to Ed Doran, has been arrested in Pittsburg. More and a man named Roy Brown are alleged to have stolen the Doran Mf onrl n Ford belonsrine to Arthur

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Victims Examples of German treachery and brutality, even after the signing of Che armistice, are spurring the reparation comittee of the DENIES REPORT OF CONDITIONS OF BREST CAMP Navy Chaplain Says Brest Has Proved Healthful in Spite of Mud and Rain. WASHINGTON, March 3 Denial of many reports of bad conditions at the army debarkation camp at Brest, France, coupled with a graphic description of the terrible days there, when, despite the ravages of the influenza, American troops were being rushed to France to help hurl back the German army, is contained in a letter from Chaplain W. B. Ayers, of the navy, who served eight months at Brest. Chaplain Ayers, who has Just returned from France, says Brest has proved a healthful camp in spite of the mud and almost continuous rains experienced during the winter months and that there has been no initial epidemic there. Approximately 2,000 soldiers died there from influenza, but the chaplain says that "in practically all of these cases these men were brought ashore with the disease from transports." Finds Recrimination Rife." "Upon my return to America from France," the chaplain's letter says, "I find the newspapers filled with re crimination and widespread criticism j concerning conditions at Brest. " I happen to have a personal interest in Brest and some . knowledge concerning the condition of both Jhe army and the navy at that base. - "When the army moved into France it did so as a huga new organization, breaking virgin soil. We were as much prepared to go into France as the French were prepared to receive us. At this time France was calling for our soldiers. We realized the need of haste in getting the men across. "Some folks seem to think that it is terrible because our boys are living in tents on the hills around Pontenazen, yet those of us who have had their well being in mind have thanked God that the boys had the tents instead of wooden barracks. Influenza is a crowd disease. We saved the lives of thousands of boys by getting them into the tents. "Of course there is mud in Pontenazen. There is practically no frost in Brest, no blizzards. The winter is a time of rain. It will rain a dozen times in a day. Would-be Wallingiord Fails to Pall Trick An amateur Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford tried to acquire a little easy change at the Sam Fred shoe store on Main street, Saturday night, and nearly succeeded. Ordering a pair of shoes, a customer paid for them and left, saying he would send for the shoes in a few minutes. Another man left the store about the same time. In a few minutes a small boy came in and said he had been tnirl hv thA rnstnmpr tn or, honk QnH i tell Fred that he didn't want the shoes ! end to give the boy the money. Fred held up the transaction for a few min utes to investigate. While he was investigating, the original customer came in. He said he had not sent for the money. The boy was questioned and said a stranger had hired him to come get the money, and led the shoe man to the place, but the stranger had gone. He was presumably the man who had witnessed the original transaction and left. VAN LOAN'S FATHER DIES LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 3. Richard E. Van Loan, overcome by the news of the death of his son, Charles! Hi. van L,oan, aiea nere.

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- f of German brutality during their last peace conference in their work of listing: the claims against Germany. The photo shows Belgian peasants wounded by a hand gre Court Records The Virginia-Carolina - Chemical company was given a judgment for $159 against Henry E. Bonn in circuit court Monday mOrhing. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The spring rush to record real estate transfers continued Saturday; when real estate' transfers to the amount-of $170,150 were received in the county recorder'3 office. A total of 48 instruments -wad, entered, 22 of whichy.Vere warranty deeds. Alfaretta Mink to Lenora Turner, lot Zi, J. Smith's addition to Richmond, $3,000. Dickinson Trust company to John H. Nolte and Blanche H. Nolte, part N. E. and S. E. section 25, township LIS, range 12, $1. Oliver u. iiuni to vviniam j. vvrigni N. W. section 3, township 17, range 14, $28,000. Louis M. Assum to Mane Thomas, lots 6 and 14. S. Middleton and Witt's additions to Richmond, $1. Marie Thomas to Rex Buckley, lot 6, Middleton's addition to Riclnond, $4,000. William A. Clements. to Clarence I. and Zelpha A. Wright, part fraction section 1, township 17, range 14, $2,250. Louis M. Assum to Ernest C. Orr, lot 252, Haynes' addition to Richmond, $1.00. Amanda M. Hunt to Leota P. Brown, part N. E. section 12, township 15, range 1, $2,000. William N. Hollinger to Lillie M. Bunger, N. W. and S. W. section 12, township 15, range 1, $1. Vorie Manship to Albert D. Johnson, part S. E. section 26, township 18, range 13, $14,000. - Walter Commons to Lavene M. Har lan, S. W. section 18 ahd N. W. section 19, township 16, range 14, $1. Arthur M. Poole to Forest E. Slick, part southeast section 28, township 14, range 1; $1. Walter W. Peden to John and Isaac Powell, part northwest section 10, township 15, range 1; $1. James M. Shank to David E. Weller, part section 33, township 15, range 1; $1. J Rudolph Miller to. James M. Shank, part northeast section 16 township 13, range 1; and northwest section 15, etc., $10,000. Amos H. Hollinger to Belle E. Southard, part northeast and northwest section 2, township 15, range 1; $1. ! Walter S. Brooks to William H. Urton, part southeast section 11, and southwest section 2, township 14, rang 1; $1. Erastus M. Stetter to Howard and Anna Reynolds, part - north one-half northeast section 16, township 14, range 1; $1. Ljilie M. Shackle to Roland Swallow, part southeast sectin 29 township 16, range 13; $1. James F. McCord to William F. Martin and Hazel V. Martin, lots 5, 6, 7 and 8, block 1, et al, Cambridge, and northwest section 26. township 16, range 12; $20,400. r Mary Buner to James E. Webster, north one-half northeast section 9, township 14, range 1; $10,100. Misunderstanding Costs Man Heavy Sentence A slight misunderstanding in city court Monday morning cost Harry i Thomas, who pleaded guilty to viola tlnS the liqUor law, many dollars or ma"y Uils Ja" Thomas was in court on two charges receiving liquor from a common carrier and having it in his possession with intent to sell. He had agreed to plead guilty to the first count, but thoughtlessly pleaded guilty to both when brought up in court. One hundred dollars and , thirty da s in jail was the assessment. Fifty and costs is the usual fine for receiving liquor. E. M. Campbell, who pleaded guilty on that charge, was fined $50 and costs. REALTORS MEET The Real Estate Board met Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Commercial Club. --t

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nade thrown among them by tht Germans hiring the final retreat ' through Belgium. - An Americtn ambulance came to the rescue. C. AND 0. BRIDGE REPORT PRESENTED Reports on the C. and .O. bridge at South P street, which has been discussed as a part of the South Ninth, street improvement to be made this spring, was presented to the county commissioners Monday morning. The bridge as Tecommended would be built by the county and the railload combined. . Will Reller,vwho presented the matter to Henry Starr, gen eral counsel for the railroad, reported that he was assured the matter would be taken up by the federal divisional superintendent for this division. The board felt that the county should go ahead with the roadway without waiting on the railroad, as it might be some, time before the. bridge could be built . under such" an agreement. - . J - , . A contract, to repair the lighting system at 'the county poor farm was given to the Richmond Electric company for $800. The Stanley Plumbing and Electric company submitted the only other bid, for $SS0. Claims were jjlowed during, the morning... OVER SIX THOUSAND AT CHURCH SUNDAY Six thousand seven hundred, and ninety-two was the total attendance at 18 Richmond - churches, Sunday, the first day of the . church attendance campaign, being carried on by. the Church Federation. The report was made by Rev. A. E. Mitchell, chairman of the publicity committee of - the Federation of Churches. According to Mr. Mitchell the census covered attendance' at Sunday school, morning and evening service. Every Sunday from now on the church attendance will be taken at every church and the increase shownThis is the first time that the ' Richmond churches have ever attempted to work together in . movement of this kind. All the churches in Richmond have been asked by the Ministerial Asso ciation to co-operate in making this movement a success. The Catholic and Lutheran churches, though not represented at the Church Federation, have been asked to aid in pushing the church attendance . campaign -, which had been set to run from March 31 to April 20. The colored churches have also been invited to lend their support to the movement. The Rev. F. W". Rohlfing addressed the church Federation Monday morning at the Y. M. C. A. He spoke on the "Psychology of Peaching." i4rmv Recruiting Office To Be Reopened Here Voluntary enlistment in the United States army is again open, according to Sergeant M. S. Wright, former army recruiter who returned to Richmond last night. - - - Wright has seen service in the aviation branch of the army. ' He said that the old army recruiting office at 539 Main street would be opened Tuesday. Sergeant Wright will again be in charge of army recruiting office here. He said that 75,000 more men were wanted in the United States army. Men can enlist for one year or three years at $30 a month. "I am glad to say. that the people have done their share in enlisting during the great war and I am sure that they will do their part in volunteer .enlistments in peace time," ho" said. With the' large number of men being mustered out of the array at this time there is a large number of, splendid opportunities for promising -young men in the United States service. PANAMA GOING ' DRY PANAMA.. March .3. The high income license law which went into effect Saturday reduced the number of saloons in Panama from 680 to 100. If you don't serve over there you can. serve orer here by paying your income tax. 1 .

TWO AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION PASSED DY UPPER HOUSE TODAY

- (By Associated Presn) INDIANAPOLIS, March 3. Because all amendments to be proposed to the tax reform bill were not ready when the state senate convened this morning, consideration of the bill was postponed until 2 o'clock Tuesday afternnoo. Two resolutions proposing amendments to the state constitution were passed soon after the session opened. One would abolish courts of justices of the peace, and the other would base the legislative apportionment on the vote for secretary of state. Efforts to recommit the "blue sky" bill to committee oft judiciary B failed Two concurrent resolutions favoring aiscnarged soldiers were - adopted in the senate. One would urge congress to enact a law: granting au discharged soldiers and sailors 6 months pay and the other would ask Indiana senators and representatives to pay deficit in the present salary of discharged "service men" as compared with the salaries which they left to enter the military or naval service. Oppose Insurance Department By vote of 18 to 21 the senate refused to..' concur in house amendment to ,the Alldredge administration bill creating an insurance department. Lieutenant-Governor Bush appointed Senators Nejdl and Elsnor to confer with a like committee of the house to agree on the amendments. Some senators expressed the belief that the two members of the senate conference committee will make an effort to withhold the bill until it is too late for final action, because it was an administration measure. , . - In a committee report," the entire house bill defining Bolshevism was stricken out after the enacting clause, because members of the committee considered it too Aveak. They inserted a new bill to strengthen the meas ure and provide for its enforcement. - Action was deferred on the tax reform measure when Senator Negley announced that the sub-committee appointed by majority members at a conference yesterday to draft amendments, had not completed its work. It is the intention to place the bill in practically the same form as it was before the house changed. j Debating the proposed constitutional 1 amendment for legislative apportionment, Senator Eracken declared it was his , belief that all constitutional amendments presented at this session were for the purpose of delaying a voteon woman suffrage which was ready for ratification by this general assembly and approval by the people. , Two Bills Passed . Two bills were also passed by the senate. One was the Munton measure specifying the procedure for petitioning for drains and the transaction of drainage commissioners. The other was by Kline, providing for the erection of danger signals 100 to 150 feet from unprotected grade crossings outside incorporated cities. - In keeping with decisions reached by leaders to spend today considering house measures on passage, the lower house- of the - legislature passed five measures this morning and spent the remainder of the time in considering routine business. ' This afternoon the house was scheduled to be organized as the committee of the whole to consider. the specific appropriation bill, carrying a total. of $3,500,000, which is expected to be. trimmed in several respects. . ' , A movement on foot, which may result in; the specific appropriation measure being laid over until tomorrow for consideration concerned a proposal to abandon the state normal school at

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Terre Haute, ' and transferring the faculty and equipment to the normal at Winona, Winona Lake. The proposal was in embryo form until up to noon, but members agitating that this be done, said that they are informed many persons object to sending (heir children tcj the normal school at Terre Haute. 1 . . -Modify House Rules.' The committee on rules met this noon and modified -house rules where by their consideration can be expedited. The house adopted a rule this morning which makes enrolling of the bill unnecessary if it is passed by the house without amendment from

the printed form. Another rule ' scheduled to be changed by house action this after noon would prevent any member holding in the house any bill which has passed, by a motion to reconsider the action. Night sessions of the senate were thought by many members to be near today with consideration of the tax bill and appropriations at hand and only six days remaining in which to dispose of these. , Road Bill Given Committee The commission highway bill passed Saturday by the senate was referred to Chairman Buller of the house' committee on roads, with instructions to consider the senate amendment' and report to Hhe house whether they should be concurred in by that body. Senate bill not 126 -and the primary election bill amendment passed by the senate are scheduled to be reported out of committee this afternoon. .The former would give public utilities which have not already surrendered their franchises , under which they operate, the chance to do so and come under commission regulation. The latter-would change the date of holding primary elections from May to March. Diyided reports on each bill are in prospect, members said. . Bills passed today to provide for reimbursement of members of the Indiana National Guard, who purchased their own uniforms, in the sum of $13.31 by the federal government, the Vesey measure to bring all bakeries in the state under the regulation of the state food and drug commission and prescribing regulations for con ducting such businesses, including that which would prevent persons ill of transmissable or contagious diseases from employment in baking shops and the Rowbottom measure requiring all insurance companies , including Farmers' Mutual companies and fraternal societies engaged in insurance work, to pay certain fees to the state annually. , Friends Workers Expected " From Mexico Thursday Mrs. Mary A. J. Ballard and Ross A. Hadley of this city, who have been spending several weeks in Mexico, vhere they were sent as a Friends Commission- to study conditions " in that country relative to the work of American missionary interests are expected to arrive in the city Thursday morning. SIX SAILORS ARRESTED CHICAGO, March, 3. Six sailors are in custody as the result of charges of grafting. . The seventh, Samuel Moscowitz, committed suicide.. The men are charged with assisting in getting discharges fromthe Great Lakes naval training station, of sailors, for a cash consideration. . Spring Displays of TEEPLE and WESSEL SHOES

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George Curjungkczx h "I J Dead in Rhode Idszd George Cunningham, formerly roller polo player on the Richmond polo team died last week at hie . home, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. - Cunningham was welL known In Richmond and was one of the' best players of bis day.- He played both first and second rush. Lasfyear he was here visiting Shorty Jessup and other old polo, friends. -:He played" on several eastern polo teams.

Dr. W. L Misener Is Promoted to Captain . ' ? Dr. W. L. Misener, who is now located at La Rocbelle, France, bas been promoted to . the rank of captain, according to a cablegram received here this morning by Mrs. Misener. Captain Misener has been in France since last July and is in a hospital at La Rochelle. He enlisted in the medical corps last April. His last letter said he had no idea as to when be would be 6ent home. BRIEFS Laborers Wanted to work in Green House. Apply L G. hoi Co. MUNITIONS . DEPOT COLLAPSES. COPENHAGEN, March 3. Several persons were killed and many injured in the collause of a part of a munitions depot near Cologne, a dispatch from Berlin declares. The depot bad been used for the storing of forty-two centimetre shells. Thirteen dead and twelve injured have been taken from the -wreckage up to the present time. Window washer wanted. 115 North 10th. New Location, 23 So. 9th. 15 oz. Seedless Sun Maid Raisins at 15 15 oz. Seeded Sun Maid Raisins at ...::.r l5 Dried Peas, per lb. -15 2 lbs for --..aSi Evaporated Peaches, fancy lb. 24 Prunes, lb. ................ -18 2 lbs. for ...........35 Apricots, per lb. . . .r. 25 Potatoes ....$1.65 bun 45c per pk. Onions, 3 lbs for ........ .-.10 Butternut Crackers, per lb., -19 Soda Crackers, lb. .... .1 . 20 We sell Richmond Baking Co. and Krugs Bread also. Fresh Milk Every Day. H. C. Bowers, Mgr Phone 1702

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