Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 98, 5 March 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1919

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Poat Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Second Class Mall Matter. - MBMBER OF THE ASSOCIATKD PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the net for' republication et all news dlcpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are alto reserved. Professor Pares Views I Says the Christian Science Monitor: Few people are better qualified than Prof. Bernard Pares, of Liverpool University, to give a helpful opinion upon the present conflicting position in the huge Russian Empire. Not only is Professor Pares a recognized authority on international affairs, but he spent more than two

years with the Russian army on the eastern

front, and thus had many opportunities ofgain

ing that intimate insight into Russian character

and affairs so necessary to any just understand

ing of the present situation. In these circum

stances the interview which the professor gave

to a representative of this paper at Vancouver, British Columbia, as he passed through that city, recently, on his way to the Far East, is parti

cularly interesting and valuable ; especially where

he emphasized the point that, as he put it, "the recovery of Russia is beginning in Siberia." Some four months ago, it was pointed out in this paper that Siberia had already at that time afforded abundant proof of a desire to return to orderly government, and of an ability to do so; that the salvation of Russia largely depended on Siberia; and that if Siberia was helped to help "herself it would not be long before help for Russia would begin to flow westward over the Urals. Professor Pares fully confirms such a view. As those familiar with conditions in Greater Russia jn the days before the war are well aware, amongst the Siberians is invariably found a measure of intelligence, freedom, energy, and resource unknown in European Russia. In Siberia the tyrannies of the old landlorn system were never known ; none of the people ever were serfs, and, as Professor Pares pointed out, the convicts themselves represented, under the political conditions of the old regime, "a good part of the best intelligence of Russia." Beyond being confined to certain regions, the freedom of these people was in no way restricted, and they often devoted themselves with energy to the needs of the communities in which they lived. Then ever since the libration of the serfs in Russia, in 1861, there

has been a steady stream of immigrants from

Russia pouring into Siberia, again from amongst

the most vigorous and enterprising of the Rus

sian people. "The people of Siberia," Professor

Pares says, "have always been more capable.

more intelligent, and more self-reliant than those

of the poverty-stricken districts of Central Russia." Siberia, however, needs help. The terribly

disturbed conditions of the last four and a half

years, especially of the last two years, have reduced the country, as far as supplies for real reconstructive work are concerned, to the verge of destitution. Reconstructive work has, however, begun, and is being pressed forward with energy. A central cooperative bureau has been formed in "Vladivostok to coordinate the commercial and other activities of the various cooperative unions which have offices in Vladivostok for the purchase of foreign supplies and the sale of Siberian products. Many of these cooperative concerns have branches all over the Russian empire, and thus provide, as these branches can be rendered once again available, natural stepping-stones for the rehabilitation of trade and industrial intercourse throughout the country. Professor Pares, in referring to such reconstructive work, emphasizes a point which needs to be emphasized, namely, that the whole movement would be greatly helped if a "lively interest were taken by North America in the matter." He is convinced that Germany stands ready at the first opportunity to prosecute, with renewed vigor, the exploitation of the country, and he carries with him a German publication which discusses the question in the most calculating way. "With the realization of the Russo-Asiatic problem," this publication declares, "Germany will see in front of her the most remarkable remunerative task which has ever been offered to the economic and capitalist part,

of the country." "In wiser and more industrious hands than those of Russia, Siberia would become a second North America." The inference is clear enough. Siberiaat the present time, needs all the help she can get to offset these efforts. She naturally turns to Canada and the United States as being her nearest neighbors, and Canada and the United States can and will, no doubt, afford the necessary help to an increasing degree, not

only with advantage to themselves and the Si

berians, but with advantage to the world as a whole.

Road Building The permanent improvement of highways in the Untied States is receiving attention from many legislatures. The Dayton News editorially reviews, as follows, some of the pending legislation : A "Encouraging progress is being made in the effort to get a national system of good roafcls.

The legislature of Minnesota has adopted a resolution to submit a constitutional amendment to the voters authorizing the state to issue bonds up to $100,000,000 for paved highway construction. Missouri also is preparing to build good roads. A concurrent resolution in the legislature of that state proposes to submit to the voters an amendment to the constitution authorizing the issuance of state bonds not to exceed $60,000,000 for the purpose of building a system of 'memorial highways'. In addition to increasing the property tax levy to help retire this bond issue, it is proposed to consider automobiles as a separate class of property and to tax and license them with a special view to raising revenue for road purposes. "Efforts are being made to have legislation enacted in Wisconsin that will permit extension!

of the state debt limit, which is now fixed at a maximum of $100,000, so that money can be raised to carry on highway improvements involving a bond issue of $50,000,000. "In Illinois and Pennsylvania the voters have already approved proposed bond issues that are to provide for comprehensive and permanent road improvements, and there is a general tendency throughout the country to make highway

building one of the principal activities of the very

near future."

Torn Argonne Forest Region Tells Mutely of Battle that Won Glory for Americans

Correspondent Who Visited Hilly Wilderness Describes Great Obstacles Our Men Overcame in Driving Germans Back to Sedan.

By VICTOR McNAUGHT

1ARIS. March 5 (Special Correspondence) This business of going to war after the war Is over may lack something In thrills, but the

aonuy 10 use Dotn eyes, ana ask questions, and employ a bit of Imagination, helps to a Tivid realization of what war may be. What Is a big batUe like? A Red Cross doctor, who helped take care of our wounded close behind the lines in the Arennne-

Meuse offensive, gave me this description: 1 "Imagine yourself under an elevated railroad track, with ex-!

trV?f ?i5S-?T-f?.ad- constantly. Imagine subway explosions all ran 'UD 0 the top and out of the roof.

mZ JJil J:Jz..Zl -?Anepiar? mi "a a and watched the battle of Verdun,

gun nests. The town was knocked to pieces by our artillery; heavy naval guns fired fifteen-inch shells into it. Where Crown Prince Stayed. We saw, at the very crown of the hill, a cemetery that had been badly used. The Germans had tocsed aside bones, dug down through the stone mausoleums, and made veritable wells which they lined with brick, and used as shelters. One of these was pointed out to us as the refuge of. the crown

prince. Safe at the bottom of the well

he peeped through a perUcope that

i C-ii (Irani I nlaam J?nnr

Are Grossly Exaggerated WASHINGTON, March Capt. Bassett, executive officer at the Great Lakes naval station reported to Secretary Daniels today that the printed reports regarding the arrest at that station were "sensational and grossly exaggerated.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

THE LESSER EVIL

The New Republic.

If we go over to public ownership American railway

labor will be in politics. No doubt, but if we remain under private ownership American railway capital will continue to be in politics as it always has been.

RED CHEEKS AGAINST RED NOSES Houston Post. We do not believe In the new dance in which "face touches face" will be altogether successful unless a sys

tem of incommunicable complexions can be devised byi

the cosmeticians.

THE PEOPLE LISTENED, THOUGH Chicago News. To have President Wilson explain the League of Nations in Senator Lodge's home bailiwick is enough to make the sacred codfish gasp and swallow the enchanted bean.

HEY, RUBE, THEY'RE COMING Springfield RepublicanRepresentatives of nine circuses are meeting in Chicago to plan next season's campaign. Any remaining doubt that peace Is here may be dismissed.

THE TIME HE HURRIES Kansas City Star. When a 17-year-old boy's father tells him it's time he was picking out a trade he doesn't see any reason to hurry. But when his girl tells him the same thing he begins deciding between statesmanship and professional baseball 'right away.

GLAD ALPHA, SAD OMEGA Anaconda Standard. Still reading his Bible daily, the ex-Kaiser, It is said, continues to prefer the Old Testament to the New. He certainly enjoyed the Genesis of the war better than its Revelations.

"The individual feels very umall In the midst of all this majestic uproar, but at the same time he is tremendously thrilled and excited. He is driven by an irresistible urge to do something. He wants to help; to add his mite of strength to the cause of his comrades. He wishes to rush ahead, right into the thickest part of the action. Like a Great Game. "At the moment he feels that he is a player in the most absorbing game in the world, a game of fierce and titanic dimensions. He does not fear death; he does not even think of the possibility of being hit. He knows what his chances are, but for the time he disregards his own danger. "When a man is wounded, he walks back to the dressing station if he can. If he Is too badly hurt, he lies still until night, or crawls into a shell hole. Not many cry oue because of their wounds. When nightfall comes, the stretcher bearers go out. Then cries for help may be heard from the men lying about in the grain fields or in shell holes."

There is not a trace of yellow in the American army, so they tell me, and I believe it. Captain Burress of the Twenty-third regular infantry regiment told me of an incident which Illustrates the thorough gameness of our men. Brave and Modest. "It was during a heavy engagement," he said, "and as usual at such times I was wearing a private's uniform. On my way up to the front line I met one of the boys in my company, who did at the moment recognize me. The lower part of his left arm hung only by a thread, and he held the wrist in his right hand, hoping that something might be done to save the arm. 'Sav. Buddv ' he cull-

Ned out to me, 'can you tell me where

the dressing station 4s?' I directed him and then he recognized me. He was full of contrition at having called his captain 'Buddy', and started to apologize. Think of the grit, the gameness of a lad hurt like that who forgot his wound in showing that he meant no disrespect!" It was ten weeks after the Argonne battle that we passed over part of the field where our men won deathless glory by their willing advance against and through obstacles that are beyond the grasp of realization unless they are seen. Having seen, I shall carry with me to my last day the feeling of admiration for our men that was engendered there. They have given us new reasons to be humbly proud of sharing American citizenship with them. x Late in September the allies began

their great movement to drive the Germans out of France. . They aimed to push back the Germans as one would close a door. The hinge was just north of Verdun, and the outer edge of the door touched the English channel. To the Americans was assigned the task of pushing on the sector nearest the hinge, and in doing this they were expected to sweep through the Argonne forest, a tangled wilderness spread over precipitous hillsides and in narrow, deep ravines. Back in New York, a news editor on one of the evening papers insisted upon playing up the Argonne battle during its progress, though at the time it did not get credit for being a very remarkable campaign. When opposed, he pounded his fist on the desk and declared, "I tell you the war 13 being won right there!" He was right This I say in full knowledge of all the wonderful achievements of our allies long before we entered the war, as well as after. The American army in the Argonne was headed for Sedan, the chief railroad center on the Germans' southern line of communication. With communications cut, the German would have been penned up in Belgium. The Americans reached Sedan on the last day of the war. The Germans knew when to quit.

Do not understand me to Bay that we won the war unaided; far from it. But do not underestimate what was accomplished in a campaign that cost us 150,000 casualties, three times the total losses of the Federals and

Confederates at Gettysburg.

Today, the Argonne battlefield is

a desolate place, prevaded by a stillness that is broken only by the occasional explosion of "duds" that are blown up by the American pioneer troops assigned to clean up the region. We drove for miles without seeing a single sign of civilian life. Villages had been reduced to futile heaps of sticks and stones. Town after town had not a remaining fragment of wall more than knee-high. We drove along a road that had been a few miles behind the German front line before the offensive began on September 26. At short intervals we saw artillery emplacements, whero Boche cannon had stood against the American advance. Beside these spots there were numbers of empty, used shell cases of brass, and larger piles of unused ammunition. We saw many gas shells, painted green to distinguish them from others. On both sides of the road we saw

all the wreckage and wastage of battle in its multifarious forms. Parts of wagons, broken-down gun carriages, gas masks, American and German trench helmets, cartridge belts, dead horses minus heads or legs, canteens, empty powder cases of wood, broken bayonets, machine gun belts, discarded rifles. And everywhere there was mud, mud, mud! You cannot escape it in France. The men lived and fought in it, and dragged their artillery through it. We visited the village of Montfaucon, poBted on a high, steep hill looking out to the southward over the valley of the Meuse. It was a strong point in the German defense system, and the hillside looking toward the American advance was full of machine

miles away. ' terrific effect of battle. Someone told me that it cost us 17,000 casualties to take Montfaucon, but this seems exaggerated. We had to ' have the hill and the town, and we took them in spite of losses.

k Downhill Fighting la Hard.

It is harder to go down hill toward an enemy thanto go up hill, strange as this may seem to the uninitiated. When our boys started down the side of precipitous bluffs they were exposed to a hellish spray of machine gun bullets from the hillside opposite, as well as a rain of high explosive shells from the Boche artillery beyond. When they started up a hill, they did so after our own artillery had blasters out the enemy, and on this hillside they were safer from enemy shells. We saw some of these hills in the thickest part of the wilderness, and marveled at the strength and endurance that carried our men past them. Everywhere there were graves, sometimes in groups of two or three or half a dozen; often one alone. Over each grave stood a wooden cross made out Of pieces of duck-board. On the cross was nailed the identification tag of the fallen one. One of these crosses marks the resting place of a young friend of mine, who quit his drawing board Jn May to go into training at Camp Sherman. He came over with a body of replacement troops, was assigned immediately to a combat division, and fell in October. There is a tragedy in the case of Morris Miller, as well as in thousands of others like his, but who will say that he did not render mankind a greater service in those few weeks than many of us will in a long lifetime?

(The next article will tell how our American Quakers are rehabilitating the devastated Argonne region and restoring it to the returning refugees.)

RED TAPE By George Matthew Adams

Red Tape may be all right. I have never found it to be right, but of course that proves nothing. But my idea is, however, that only as a man is free to think and act without restrictions and rules and regulations, is he able to forge ahead correctly. There is always a sort of unwritten law of order and of right that should ever guide the man desiring to do service. But once a man is found with a message to deliver, all restrictions should be removed, that he may go ahead and deliver that message or do his job. Admiral Dewey sailed into the Bay of Manila with but one order in his pocket, and it read something like this: "Capture or sink the Spanish fleet.' You know the story. What part of that fleet was not sunk was captured. Now, if Admiral Dewey had been advised that, in case he got the Spanish fleet in a close quarters, he was to wire headquarters for Instructions; or if he had been instructed, in case victory or defeat seemed Imminent, he was to call a council of war what would have been the result? Well, one thing: there would not have been an illustrious first of May written across the pages of history as there was because of the achievement of Admiral Dewey on that day. Rules and regulations are essential but not Red Tape. Give your employee his Job to do, but give him a chance to do it without tying him up so that his personality and Initiative suffocate. The best place for Red Tape is in the waste basket.

GOING UP. And the price of wheat is humping, The price of meat is Jumping And the ult consumer's bumping 'Gainst the ceiling every day. For the bold retailing bandit Took Hoover'a Ust and canned it We are being held up and it Seems to be the only way. With a club we'd like to drop him. With a gun we'd like to pop him. But there is no way to stop him. It's no use to make a fuss. He's the very prince of cheaters And the very king of beaters And the Belgian cabbage eaters Haven't got a thing on us. A private in the United States army has made the discovery that the names of most great men end with the letter "N." "Look," he saye, "at Napoleon, Washington. Lincoln, Jackson, Jefferson and Wilson." We know it is true. Look at the name of Dr. Munyon, Mr. Mennen, and to clinch the matter the name of the conductor of this column. The first thing the Bolshevik! do is to destroy the newspaper offices and churches. Then they are comparatively Bafe. "Hurrah for the League of Natidhs," says the Kansas City Star. In case "Hurrah is too militant, 'Huzza' may be substituted. "Returning airmen from jungle sections tell tales which cause the hair to stand," reports a scribe in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and after one shuddering glance at the next paragraph we can understand why the reporter's hair was sticking his hardboiled derby bat straight up in the air: ' Many an aviator lives to tell of such an experience. Others have been eaten alive by the beasts and reptiles of the jungles before searching parties sent out the next day could locate and rescue them. NOT KNOCKING. It never pays to wield the hammer. So I'll not knock the bedroom drammer. But every show that I have seen This year has had some lithesome queen Draped in expensive lingerie Just like the ads we always see. And still I've not the heart to slam her. Or roast her show. Because I always go Again. ....... - ... . . A man who carries a Btick of dynamite around in his pocket is safe

I and sane compared with the one who

carries a love letter. "It is just as wrong to gamble when you win as when you lose," 6ays an eminent divine. Perhaps, but not so convenient. L. D. Sellman writes in that Ima Barker is in charge of the dog-checking room of a certain dance palace. Evidently the good press agents are not all dead yet.

THE ONE WHO TAKES THE CHANCE Knoxvllle Journal. Our Idea of a hazardous job Is that of the secretary in Amerongen who opens all letters and express packages to see of the act will blow up that part of the building.

i Dinner Stories

Where was the Margaret Smith Home Founded?

SPENCER MAN NAMED

WASHINGTON. March 3. C. F. Mc Intosh of Spencer, Ind., was nominated today by President Wilson to be a

member of the federal board for voca- . i -. .

iiuiiai euueauon.

Just about six months more than thirty years ago, on October 1, 188S, the original Margaret Smith home was started, directly across the street from

St. Andrew's church on South Fifth Morton lake to go swimming, and by

( Signs of Spring ) "The assistant city engineer," said

City Engineer Cal Davis, "has been talking all week about going out to

A PATRIOTIC SACRIFICE Detroit News. Paderewskl insists that there shall be peace in Poland even if he has to refrain from playing the piano.

An American Monument in France

From the Indianapolis Star.

w T seems to be an accepted belief and understanding

I in this country that America should build on some battlefield of France a memorial to our soldier sons who fought and fell on that soil, the same to be erected through voluntary contributions by all our people. In the latest number of his weekly, Col. George Harvey urges that nothing could be more fitting for this purpose than a replica of the Washington Monument. This, ho says, is our one great distinctive national creation, our most notable work of art, and i3 unique. As he puts it further: It typifies in Its splendid simplicity the rugged and enduring spirit of America. It stands specifically as a testimonial to the grandeur of character of the Father of the Republic, who put aside the proffered crown. It is a constant reminder of the undying gratitude of America to France and of the freshly stirred appreciation by France of the service now rendered in return by America. Its

the blood of the sons of the sister republic mingled in the death struggle for freedom and civilization would strengthen the ever-living ties that bind securely the two great liberty loving peoples and would be for all time an inspiration to both. The idea is a good one. The absolute simplicity and plainness of that great shaft make it distinctive, and its solidity and strength are indeed typical, as Col. Harvey happily suggests, of the steadfast spirit of America apart from all cross currents and surface flurries. It would represent this country under all the circumstances and conditions as nothing else could. Col. Harvey has obtained from army engineers an estimate showing that the total cost of the proposed" monument, built of marble corresponding in quality and color to that used in the original, would not exceed $3,000,000. This is a large sum, but would it, for such e cause, seem so to more than 100,000,000 people? It is

likely that they would respond to a call for this particular memorial far more readily than for any other. It Is

t?plica rising high from the historic battle ground where an idea sure to haje a popular appeal.

"What is that?" asked the condemned murderer, pointing to the death warrant in the warden's hand. "That! That's a noosepaper." "The trouble with Germany," said Professor H. Emory of Yale on his return from Germany, the Detroit Free Press reports, "is that one gang is pulling one way and another gang Is

pulling the other. Germany reminds

me of the Blue Lightning express. "The Blue Lightning express reached its destination one evening eight hours late, and the engineer, rubbing his hands, said to the new brakeman: " 'How's this for rallroadin', my boy?' " 'Great,' said the new brakeman. 'We're a little late though, ain't we?' " 'It's that darn Horseshoe , Hill,' said the engineer. 'In all my life I never had such trouble to get the train up that darn hill as I had today. " Yes,' said the new brakeman, 'and she'd have slipped back, too, if I hadn't had the brakes on tight."

James Hooper, the war correspondent who broke all records by going "over the top" with the doughboys at Cantigny, has a hatred of fakfng. At a fish dinner at Prunier's in Paris a faking correspondent denied that he had written any fakes. "Well, George," said Mr. Hooper, "maybe you're like old Si Peacham. " 'I'm eighty-nine years of age,' said old Si in the general store, 'and I don't remember ever, to have told a lie. " "The general storekeeper gave a short, rasping laugh. " 'Well, Si," he said, 'nobody expect3 you to have much of a memory at your aee.' "

street. The first matron was Miss Lida M. Brunton, and the second Mrs. Sarah Surface. In 1890, the home having outgrown Its original building, the present property at Seventeenth and Main was bought and altered to accommodate the aged women. In 1901, the home was incorporated. Numerous gifts have been made to the home since Margaret Smith's first

gift, with which U was started. All the members are hatfpy and well cared for.

that sign I know spring is on the way.

Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Lawyers were arguing whether Richmond has a police board or not. An act of the legislature just passed repealed the law under which the board was appointed and Mayor Schillinger took no action to appoint a board under the new law. The Young Men's Business club decided to take the census of Richmond. A grippe epidemic was predicted by the doctors. Many cases were reported. Work was started today on excavations for St Mary's church. Herman Schnoing died at his home

on South Fifth street today.

It was announced today that many members of the G. A. R. from Richmond will attend the state encamp

ment at Crawfordsvllle and back up Major M. M. Lacey for state commander, i

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