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EOPE SEES CHAMPION IN WILSON, SAYS U. S. WRITER Claims Attack Made on League of Nations Has Served to Strengthen President's Prestige Abroad. BOLSHEVISM IS FEARED By FRANK H. SIMONDS (Copyright. 1919. by he McClure Newspaper Syndicate) PARIS, March 24. Reports from America are of such fragmentary and conflicting character that it is hardly possible to form the smallest accurate notion of what is happening at home. Yet all these reports Indicate clearly enough the total misapprehension of conditions as they exist in Paris and the adoption by the Republican opposition In the United States of precise ly the tactics which have already enabled Mr. Wilson to resume complete mastery of the progress of events Jn France. When the president set sail for America little more than a month ago, lie had on the whole suffered a material diminution in prestige and popularity in France and England. This was due to the fact that it was universally recognized that in pursuit of Ms own objective, the League of Nations, he had materially postponed at least the preliminary peace arrangement with Germany, and a corresponding reduction of tension in Europe. Yet a month later, when Mr. Wilson returned to Europe he was able brusquely to upset all arrangements that liad been made in his absence to hasten the preliminary settlement; he was able to do this without encountering open opposition from the French or British governments, whose political existence was placed In Jeopardy by postponement. Need U. S. Security Why? For a simple reason. AU Allied Europe recognizes the essential, fact that the war i3 not yet over, that it will not be over until its consequences have been liquidated in a safe peace, a well buttressed European situation. All Allied Europe equally clearly recognizes that only with America's continuing aid can a safe peace be obtained and preserved. Accordingly America's aid bejng priceless, no price is too great to pay. The, one essential thing is that America should stay to finish the Job. If she doesn't we may have anarchy and Bolshevism from Kamchatka to Land's End. Now. opposition to Mr. Wilson in America has seized upon precisely the line of procedure which drives all European governments into absolute compliance with Mr. Wilson's demand. As it reaches Europe, the Republican policy is summed up in the demand that America shall retire from Europe as promptly as possible to resume her ancient policy of isolation. Means Ruin for Europe This spells approximate ruin for Europe exhausted by its terrible years of struggle. It removes the element of hope which is enabling millions of people to go back to the desert which was once home and begin life over again. In contrast to this Republican policy. Mr. Wilson announces his policy, which is that America, through the medium of the League of Nations, phall continue its great task of helping Europe, helping the world, to get on its feet, to make good peace, to begin work with some promise that there will be no new war. As I have said, when Mr. Wilson left Europe, he was weaker than at any moment since he arrived in France. But no sooner had the character of the opposition to his policies been appreciated here than there was a sudden tremendous change in feeling. Mr. Wilson's Boston speech conquered Allied Europe, because it convinced it that Mr. Wilson and his party were fighting Europe's cause in America, that only in the domestic victory of Mr. Wilson was the salvation of Europe to be realized. Accordingly, when Mr. Wilson reached Paris again, his position had been fortified, not weakened, by domestic political dlssentions. He was welcomed as the great American who was fighting for Europe in America; (Continued on Page Twelve) Board of Works Opens Bids for New Alley The board of works opened bids this morning for an alley between South Twenty-first and Twenty-second and A and B streets. So far only one bid has been received, that of Daniel Burkhart. at a price of twentyfive cents per square foot. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight. Tuesday rain. Moderate temperature. Today's Temperature Noon 63 Yesterday Maximum 52 Minimum 27 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight. Showers Tuesday and probably Tuesday night. General Conditions The great cool wave is moving slowly eastward and generally fair weather prevails over eastern and central states. A storm reported over the southwest, now covers the Mississippi valley with rain and will probably reach here before Tuesday night, with moderate temperature.

Fighting Men of Thirty-seventh Division, Composed Principally of Soldiers From Ohio, Demonstrate Their Joy on Landing in U. S.

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Detachment of Thirty-seventh division on board transport Harrisburg greeting crowd on arrival in New York

The boys of the Thirty-seventh division, made up mostly of Ohio troops, are enjoying the home-comers these days. The first detachment arrived in New York recently on board the transport Harrisburg. The picture tells whether or not these lads were glad to get back in the U. S. A.

GERMANY MUST RETAIN DANZIG, DECLARES EBERT Country Will Refuse to Accept Treaty That Gives Port to Poland. (By Associated Frsss) COPENHAGEN, March 24. Germany cannot and will not sign a peace which involves the annexation of Danzig by Poland, President Ebert declared in a speech Sunday, a dispatch from Berlin Bays. ABANDONS RADICALS BERLIN, Friday, March 21. Eduard Bernstein, the veteran Independent Socialist leader, has definitely abandoned that party and has returned to the Majority Socialists. In "a parting greeting to the Independent Socialists," he administers a sharp castigation to that party and discloses the further details of its close alliance with the Russian Bolshevikl. "In the spring of 1918," Herr Bernstein writes, "a social gathering was held in the rooms of the Bolshevik Russian embassy, members of this embassy and of the Independent Socialist party being present. I was invited, although I never concealed my opposition to the Bolshevik policy. Matters discussed at the meeting includes the question as to the reason why the Independent Socialists did not proceed in a revolutionary manner as the Bolshevikl demanded, and at the debate which followed, Georg Ledebour explained that the party was unfortunately constituted in a different manner than the Bolshevikl." Herr Bernstein's defection from the Independent Socialists although nominally due to the party's recent decision forbidding members to maintain relationships with any other parties is one of many indications that a large number of intellectuals among the Independent Socialists have been moved to resign from that party because of attacks made upon it by Gustav Noske, the German minister of war and other national leaders and by disclosures of intimate relationships between at least a portion of the party and the German Bolshevikl. Bavarians Disarm. ZURICH, Switzerland, March 24. The Bavarian minister of foreign affairs has informed the German government that Bavaria will disarm her soldiers and henceforth will not furnish troops from the empire. New York Sees Triumphal Parade of Twenty-seventh (By Associated PresM NEW YORK, March 24. Fifth avenue today was getting its final touches of color preparatory to tomorrow's triumphal parade of the twenty-seventh division. Police preparations provide for handling 1,000,000 spectators along the line of march from Washington Square to 110th street. Offers of dinner for the enlisted men tomorrow night, it was announced today, total 50.000 for the 25,000 soldiers. Forty hotels and restaurant s are to do the catering and the menus will be uniformToday there were preliminary parades of various regiments in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx. FEAR STRIKE RENEWAL. (By Associated Press) MADRID, March 24. Advices from Barcelona state that the recent solution to the strikes there appears to be merely of a provisional nature and that the present calm in that city may prove transitory.

Nine German Ships Sail For Delivery to Allies 3y Assoclatfid Press) BERLIN, March 24. The German mercantile ships in the harbor at Bremen were still in port Sunday, but nine food ships left Hamburg during the day in compliance with the shipping agreement with the entente. Among the steamers which sailed were the Auguste Victoria and the Graf Waldersee.

urges soldiers to get Back in civilian work Col. Roosevelt Tells Men Not to Let "Hero Business Get Stale." (By Associated Press NEW YORK, March 24. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in an address here today at an entertainment for soldiers and sailors, urged service men on obtaining their discharge not to let "the hero business get stale," before seeking a Job. Colonel Roosevelt declared he felt certain that all the men who had served overseas had returned determined to put into life a manliness and honor, and with the armies now being discharged it was their chance to apply these attributes to their everyday affairs. He also urged the men to take an interest in politics, , regardless of the party they favored. . The address was the second made by the oldest son of the late Colonel Roosevelt within a week. .. A- speech which he delivered at a meeting of the Republican county committee here on last Thursday so impressed Republican leaders in this city that they are reported to be considering nominating him next fall as the party's candidate for president of the board of alderr men. WESTERN TROOPS REACH HARBOR (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 24. More than 2,400 troops of the fortieth division, comprising former national guard units of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado Arizona and New Mexico, arrived here today on . the steamship Matsonia from Bordeaux. The arrivals comprised 53 officers and 1,518 men of the 160th Infantry, field and staff, machine gun battalion, headquarters, company, medical detachment and companies A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, K, L and M for twelve camps throughout the country; and four detachments of the 159th infantry, totaling 12 officers and 823 men for Camps Upton, Grant, Lewis and Sherman. Also on the Mastonla which brought home in all 3,328 troops, were 7 officers and 416 men comprising six detachments of the 26th engineers, for Camps Kearney, Pike, Devens, Grant, Lewis and Meade; and a number of casuals. Six officers and 171 men returned sick or wounded. The steamship Antigone also from Bordeaux, brought home 2,814 troops, of whom 102 officers and 2,323 men were sick or wounded. The others were casuals, including casual company number 52, Iowa, and a company of marines. CANADIANS RETURN. HALIFAX, N. S., March 24. The Olympic with about 5,000 returning Canadian war veterans, and the Crestic, with 1,800, entered the harbor today. The vessel had been delayed by thick weather.

$71 SUBSCRIBED, ONLY $4 NEEDED IN MORTON FUND Pioneer Resident of Richmond Gives First-hand Information Regarding Governor. ''First-hand --information regarding Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's famous, war governor, was given today fcy Henry C. Wright, 603 Southwest A street, who went through Earlham college with Governor Morton's son. Mr. Wrights recollections of Mr. Morton ia particular interesting at this time in view of the campaign being waged through The Palladium for $75, to be used in enlarging a picture of Governor Morton to be placed in the base of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument at Indianapolis, as a part of the pictorial representation of Indiana's war record. The Morton fund lacks only $4 of the desired quota. Oliver Morton Scott, of Watseka, III., who contributed $1 Monday, Is a nephew of Oliver Morton, and Mrs. Carver J. Mendenhall of Richmond, who also gave a dollar, is a niece of the war. governor. Previously totaled . .. $60 Joseph C. Pple, Boston 1 G A.m R.. 5 Agnes G. Ford , 1 John Y. Poundstone 1 Mrs. D. W. Comstock 1 Mrs. Carver J. Mendenhall 1 Oliver Morton Scott 1 Total T $71 Mr. Wright, who has been a resident of Richmond for "many years, graduated from Earlham college in 18.65. It was while attending Earlham with the younger Mr. Morton that he came to know, the father.-

J When Mr. Wright went to Europe, Morton, who was then a senator, gave him a letter through which he got a letter of introduction from Charles Sumner in his own handwriting. Through this missive he also met John Bright, famous orator in the House of Commons in England at that time. He was one of the persons who saw an Indian burled in Earlham cemetery. A small group of Indians were returning to their home in the west in 1862 from Washington, D. C, where they had been on business for their tribe. While they were camping Just outside of town, one of their number became ill. lie was cared for by them but he did not recover. The Indians were given a permit to bury mm in Earlham cemetery. He was I the second person buried in Earlham j cemetery. Elijah Coffin was the first, j Mr. Wright, in relating the story j or tne burial, said that the entire ceremony was caried on in the Indian language and that ; the large crowd which congregated was unable to un-; derstand. The Indian was buried1 Just west of the Coffin grave and is now marked by a cedar tree. National Council. of Boy Scouts in Session (By Associated Press) NE WYORK, March 24. The annual meeting of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America commenced here today. About 370 delegates from cities throughout the United States are in attendance and the speakers will discuss the part the 455,000 boy scouts and their leaders will take in the nation's reconstruction plans. Colin H. Livingstone of Washington, president of the national council, delivered the opening address and reports were made by Daniel Carter Beard, scout commissioner; George D. Pratt, treasurer; John Sherman Hoyt, chairman of the finance committee, and James E. West, chief, of scout executive.

SOVIET FORMED BY HUNGARIANS ON RUSS PLAN

Prepare Bill to Socialize Industries Czech Army Sent Against Hungary. (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, March 24. At the first meeting of the new Hungarian government in Budapest Sunday, a dispatch from Berlin says, a soldier's and workmen's council for entire Hungary was appointed according to plans entered into with the agents of Lenine. The council Immediately started preparation of a bill for the socialization of all industrial activities. The Austrian central workmen's council has decided not to Join the Hungarian movement in introducing a Soviet government in Austria, a dispatch from Vienna says. The council, it is declared, pointed out that such course was impossible for Austria because it is dependent on the entente powers for food. A Czecho-Slovak army has been sent against Hungary, according to an official report received in Vienna and forwarded here. Situation Long Hopeless. Recent events at Budapest were not the result of the entente note outlin ing the new boundary between Hungary and Rumania, according to the Berlin Vossische Zeltung, wfclch says that the situation there was hopeless before the note was delivered. Communists were unemployed and have been ignored by the Socialist ministers, according to the newspapers. Mass demonstration began last Wed nesday when demands were made that every unemployed person receive a sum of 500 crowns for relief besides payment of house rent and a reduction of food prices by one-half. The newspaper declares that the revo lution was Impending when the entente note arrived and Count Michael Karolyi, the premier seized the opportunity in his farewell proclamation to represent himself as a friend of the proletariat. Greetings to Lenine. Reports of wireless exchanges between Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier of Russia, and the foreign representative of the new Hungarian communistic government are received in advices from Budapest. Lenine was told that the Hungarian proletariat had seized power and had introduced a proletariat dictatorship. Greetings were sent to Lenine as "leader of the International proletariat" In greeting the Russian proletariat, the new Hungarian government expressed solidarity with the revolutionary movement. In his reply,. Lenine stated that he had submitted the Hungarian greeting to the Bolshevist congress at Moscow, which had received it with great enthusiasm. He added: "In order to communicate between Moscow and Budapest and report on the military situation, it is necessary to maintain permanent wireless communication between the two cities." He concluded by extending "communist greetings and a handshake." Karolyi Figurehead LONDON, March 24. The revolution in Hungary caused great excitement in Vienna, but did not surprise those who were aware of the true condition of affairs, says the Vienna correspondent of the Telegraph. He says (he communists of Hungary have long been the real masters of the country and have been only awaiting an opportunity to get rid of Count Karolyi, who is considered to have been never more than a figurehead. The correspondent declares there are no elements in Hungary capable of making a stand against the extremists and that even in Cswcho-Slova-kla there are strong Bolshevik influences. He points out that experts agree there is very grave danger of Bohemia following the example of Hungary. The situation is attributed by the correspondent to the failure of the peace conference at Paris to recognize the seriousness of the situation and occupy Budapest with entente troops. He says the only way to save the situation is to send American or British forces there, but adds: "Where a battalion would have sufficed formerly, a brigade would be necessary now." Concern in Washington WASHINGTON, March 24. Grave concern was evident today in official and diplomatic quarters here over the news of the seizure of government in Hungary by Bolshevikl regime which has inaugurated its advent by declaring state of war with the entente powers and seeking an alliance with the Russian Bolsheviki. No one in authority would attempt to forecast the result or to discuss what measures might be adopted by the associated powers, chiefly because virtually all information received here has been in press dispatches and the ; state department so far is without official advices on the subject. With President Wilson and Secretary Lansing in Paris, the attitude of the American government toward any measures that may be proposed will be determined and announced there. Y.M.C. A, BUDGET DRIVE WILL START TODAY The Y. M. C. A. budget campaign for $8,500 will start Tuesday and continue for three days. A meeting of the leaders was held Monday afternoon when the territory was divided among the four divisions and will be announced at the meeting of the executive committee and solicitors at tho supper at the Y. M. C. A. at 6:50 o'clock Monday night. Final plans will be made by the four divisions which will solicit money for the Y. M. C. A. work in Richmond. Already $50 has been received from three different voluntary sources, E. M. Haas, campaign director, announced Monday.

Airplane Postal Service

Is Established in bgypt (By Associated Press) CAIRO, March 24. There were renewed attacks on communications here Sunday, together with some demonstrations throughout the city. Airplane postal service has been established between Alexander and Suez and this city. WILLIAM SAMPLE, VETERAN PENNSY EMPLOYE, DIES Traveling General Auditor Stricken 111 and Succumbs Shortly Afterward. William Atlee Sample, 64 years old. died at his home, 32 South Twentyfirst street at 9 o'clock Sunday even ing, of acute stomach trouble. Mr. Sample apparently had been In good health. He was stricken suddenly about 4 oclock Sunday morning. He was born in Allegany, Penna., January 2, 1855. He spent his boyhood there and at the age of seventeen entered the general office of the Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburgh. He has been in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad company since that time. Mr. Sample came to Richmond in 1889 as traveling general auditor. . He was a member of the First Methodist church and Richmond Lodge of Masons. He had been prominent in Richmond ever since coming here, and had many friends. Mrs. Emma Sample, the widow, and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Nelson, of Pittsburgh, survive him. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the residence. Place and time of burial will be announced later. SITUATION IS LIKE RETURN FROM ELBA, SAYS FRENCH PRESS (By Associated Press) PARIS, March 24. "The situation is as serious as that which arose when the congress of Vienna learned of Napoleon's return from Elba. Today as a hundred years ago, negotiations have provoked and have been surprised by destiny," writes Saint Brice In The Journal. 'The problem before the council of ten today is not the fate of the German cables or the .Teschen commission, but the imperative necessity of having Poland and Rumania rebuild the water tight compartment which has collapsed," he continues. "Otherwise Germany, declaring herself alone in a position to save western civilization, will lay down her own peace terms instead of those the allies propose to dictate to her or will threaten to take the lead in the Bolshevik movement." This extract from an editorial accurately reflects the views of the foreign editors of French newspapers. Some may express reserve as to how far the movement is or is not inspired by Germany, but they generally agree in placing the principal blame for the events on the procrastination of the peace conference, and in insisting upon immediate steps to fight Bolshevism. ARCHITECT TO DECIDE NEW SCHOOLS COST The sites to be chosen for the two new Junior high schools to be built, and the cost, will depend largely upon the advice of the architect chosen, Superintendent of Schools J. H. Bentley said Monday. The school board has options on several pieces of ground. Architects are being considered. As soon as the architect 13 selected which will probably be within the ext two weeks, he will aid In the selection of the ground. Mr. Bentley said that there was so much money to be expended on the ground and erection of buildings that too much cannot be spent on either one. Winchester Has Case Of "Sleeping Sickness ft WINCHESTER. Ind., March 24. Mrs. Thomas E. Earle of Union City, Is the first, sufferer from sleeping sickness to be heard of in this vicinit;'. Mrs. Earle will sleep for hours at a time and when in this lethargic condition, it is impossible to arouse her, yet at times the drowsiness wears off and she revives. INDIANA DENTISTS TO MEET IN LIBERTY The meeting of the Eastern Indiana Component Society which should have been held in October, but was postponed because of tho influenza epidemic, will meet the third week in April in Liberty. All dentists in Wayne. Rush, Union and Fayette counties will bo expected to attend. Allots Fund for War Risk Insurance Bureau Work (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 24 Financial stringency of the war risk insurance bureau was relieved today by a message from President Wilson to Secretary Glass saying the president had made an allotment from his emergency war fund to pay expenses of the bureau until congress appropriates at the next session. The amount alloted was not specified.

WAR ACTION

EXPECTED TO MEET MENACE OF BOLSHEVIK Supreme Council Meets This Afternoon to Decide Means of Combating Growing Danger in East. SEE HAND OF GERMANY fBy Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, March 24. T. G. Masaryk, the president of Czecho-Slo-vakia has resigned, according to a report received here from Berlin. " (By Associated . Prep) I The question of the harrier which the peace conference intends to erect against the spread of Bolshevism into the former central powers has come sharply to the front as a result of the situation in Hungary where Bol6hevik elements have seized the power and declared that a state of war exists between Hungary and the entente powers. Premiers of the allied states were called to meet in special session in Paris at 3 o'clock this afternoon and it was reported that important military decision might be taken at the meeting of the supreme council at 4 o'clock regarding the situation in Hungary and Poland. Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pincbon had a long conference Sunday regarding Hungary and it is indicated by Paris newspapers that action looking to miJilary movements was taken. Paris newspaper writers see the situation as serious and as one calling for military action. They expressed the belief that Germany may be behind the movement for the purpose of defeating the work of the peace conference. Some commentators in London see the Hungarian situation as partly the result of the delay of the peace conference in bringing about a preliminary peace. Kautsky In Moscow. A report through Switzerland to Paris says that Karl Kautsky, an independent socialist, has been sent to Moscow by Count von BrockdorffRantzau, the German foreign minister, to inquire Into the question of closer relations between Germany and the Soviet government. - - Rioting la reported to hare oc cured at Budapest, but there is no reliable information regarding the entente troops which have been in Hunfary for several months. Two French divisions are at Budapest and Serbian and Rumanian troops are available for use in Hungary, should their services be needed. The extremist element is 6aid to be In absolute control and has been In wireless communication with Premier Lenine at Moscow. In addition it has called on the workers of adjoining countries to rise against their government. It is understood in Paris, according to one report, that three Polish divisions in France will be shipped at once to Danzig. The allied proposal to use Danzig as the port of debarkation for these troops was one of the main causes for the breaking off by the Germans of negotiations with the allied commission in Poland. Active in Vienna. German newspapers have strongly denounced the proposal to give Poland the port of Danzig and a corridor to it. The extremists are active In Vienna, but the government still is in contross. Reports from Czecho-Slo-vakla, where the Bolshevist movement is reported to be strong, are merager. Reports that the Russian Bolshevikl had lorge forces of troops in Galatia, ready to advance into Hungary, .still lack confirmation from reliable sources. The Bolshevikl, however, are within 100 miles of the eastern frontier of Galatia, but reports last week were to the effect that the antiBolsheviki Ukranians were driving the Bolshevikl back in the region of the Pripet marshes northeast of Lemberg, which the Poles were forced to give up to the Ukranians. PREDICTS CHEAPER FOOD HERE SOON (By Associated Press! WASHINGTON, March 24. Cheaper food in the near future was predicted today by Chairman Peek of the department of commerce industrial board as a result of a conference with food administration officials in New York. Ukraine Delegates Meet With Rass Bolsheviki (By Associated Prewl VIENNA, March 24. It is learned from the Ukraine that negotiations have begun between Ukraine and Russian Bolshevisk delegates for the settlement of differences. Bolshevik leader Radowsky has arrived at Ukranian headquarters, it is reported.

Home Wanted in Country For 12-Year-0ld Boy A 12-year-old boy, attractive, neat, and industrious, wants a home In the country, says Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, county probation officer, and anyone who wants him is asked to call Mrs. Candler. The boy has a stepmother, and conditions in the home are not ideal, says Mrs. Candler. 4