Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 114, 26 March 1919 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, MAR. 26, 1919.

E. G. HILL KNOWN TO FEW WHO LAUD HIS NEWEST ROSE

Inter-breeding Five Years Ago Responsible for His Remarkable Rose Premier. If one Trere to use the term "wizard" in referring to K. G. Hill, of this city, Teteran grower of roses, he would reply very promptly that he had no right to such distinguishing title. In fact he has been so modest in exploiting himself in his many years as an originator and grower of flowering plants that few of the millions who have marveled at his productions know little or nothing of him. But rose growers, those in this country and in every part of Europe, who pretend to keep pace with the developments in the world of flowers, know a great deal about Mr. Hill, his methods and his wonderful success as a producer of new varieties of roses. The "bringing out" of a new seedling rose is not the work of a few days or a few months, but a matter of years. The "crossing" of two distinctive varieties of roses that is the Introduction of the pollen from the bloom of one variety to the bloom of another ia the fundamental principle employed, and then comes the period of watchful waiting. Five years ago. In the greenhouses of Mr. Hill in Richmond, approximately 2,700 rose plants were treated to this interbreeding process. A myriad of rose blooms issued forth roses of every conceivable shade and hue and of every size and form. Four Deemed Worth While But In all this profusion of bloom there were Just four roses which Mr. Hill deemed worth while. One of these ia the new production of 1919, Rose Premier, which has commanded the attention of every grower in this country and abroad. At its birth five years ago Rose Premier had the earmarks of a wonderful, as well as beautiful rose. But the single plant that then existed could not foretell the future that was in store. The growth of new plants by the grafting , process, and the growing of the new rose under every condition, adverse as well as favorable, in order to "try it out", was a matter of years. And Rose Premier came out of the ordeal the wonderful, magnificent and hardy seedling that was hoped for it by its producer. Its origin is a cross 'between Ophelia and Russell, two roses of great renown. It possesses the stiff, thornless stem and quick, free growth of Ophelia, with ample foliage approaching the American Beauty in arrangement. The flowers are of the Russell type and hold a clear, pure shade of rose pink throughout the year, lighter in summer, deepcolored in cooler weather. Like Ophelia, Rose Premier is delightfully fragrant. Called Distinct Addition. Last year when visiting rose growers to Mr. Hill's greenhouses were permitted for the first time to see Rose Premier in bloom, it made an immediate impression and has been declared by all growers to be an absolutely distinct addition to American varieties. In 1918 Mr. Hill's beautiful Columbia, also a pink rose of great beauty, received high honors everywhere shown, and. while it la too early to give Information, there still ia another new seedling rose that will have its "coming out" next year from the greenhouses of Mr. Hill. To Mr. Hill's knowledge of the science cf rose growing, as well as to his wonderful patience and his love of his profession, which makes him as enthusiastic a worker with flowers at the ago of seventy-two as many men half his age, is attributed his success. He has found time during his busy life to make many journeys to rose gardens in all parts of Europe and a year or two before the world war was Invited by the city of Paris to act as one of the judges at the flower show held In the municipal gardens. Decorated by the French. It was on thi3 occasion that he received a gold medal from the municipal government of Paris for his Rhea Reid, one of his famous rose productions, and it was also at this time that the French government bestowed a decoration for his work in floriculture. But Mr. Hill bore these great honors with such modesty that had not press dispatches told the story friends at home might never have known of it. No other man in thi3 country or in Europe ha3 done so much toward the production of new and distinctive va-

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Fountain City, Ind. Misses Madge Guthrie of Richmond And Lettle Hatfield spent the weekend with the latter's parents, Mr. and

Mrs. C. N. Hatfield. .Albert Kern and lamily were Sunday guests of Samuel Kern and family of near Webster. : . . Will Thornton and family visited with relatives at Richmond, Sunday. . .Miss Echo Roland of Richmond, was the guest of friends at this place the latter part of last week.... Miss Olive Harrison spent the week-end with J. O. Daugherty and family of near Cambridge City Bert Hodgin and family of near Richmond visited Sunday with relatives at this place Local teachers attended Teachers' Institute at Richmond, Saturday Orla Showalter and family of Richmond were guests Sunday with Jacob Showalter and family. . .Ernest Kiece and family visited Sunday with Isaac Pitts and family. .. .Ward Williams, formerly of this place, has been seriously ill the last few days with influenza, which ha sdeveloped into double pneumonia. Mrs. Martin Davis is ill with the influenza. .. .Miss Inez Swain substituted as teacher in the local schools the first part of the week for Miss Helen Carter, who was ill at her home in Shelby ville Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth of east of town, who just arrived home from Florida, called on friends and relatives of this place Saturday Ernest Davis and family of Richmond visited with relatives at this place Saturday Mrs. Olive Kelly of Richmond, visited with relatives of this place Saturday Miss Nellie Overman of Eaton spent the week-end with relatives of this place. Herschell Little visited Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boren. He is on a ten-day furlough, after which he will return to service in the navy. He expects to make a trip to France on his return. .. .Mrs. J. M. Clark has been ill the past week with influenza.

EATON SOLDIER HONORED EATON, O., March 26 Promotion from major to lieutenant colonel has come to R. L. Mundhenk, of Preble county, according to advices received by friends. When attached to the headquarters staff to General Farnsworth, Mundhenk was commanding officer of the 112th Field Signal Battallion, and he was decorated with the French Croix de Guerre at Balleau, France. He also received an army citation and gold star for gallantry in action.

rietie3 of roses as has Mr. Hill and every rose grower acknowledges that such is his distinction. His profession has occupied much of his time, hut he has never held himself aloof from the obligations of the citizen. Always he has been conspicuous in the civic affairs of Richmond and has been identified with every movement looking toward the betterment of his home city.

CRISIS NOW

Continued From Page One.l there should be German dissatisfaction in the future. Finally, the quarrel between the Jugo-Slavs and the Italians continues, and still another of those people who should be our allies in the east against Bolshevism is disintegrating under attacks which the Paris conference permits to continue. In sum, this is the situation: We had on the eastern frontiers of Russia and in the south of Europe almost 100,000,000 people who were the best possible barrier against Bolshevism, who needed only our material support and assurance of our recognition of their ultimate demands for the future, not merely to check Bolshvism east of the Niemen and the Dneister, but to throw it back on Moscow. Substantially we have thrown away the practical value of this aid. Substantially we have permitted these people to disintegrate and become themselves material for Bolshevism at home. Instead of erecting a barrier against this flame coming out of Russia, we actually assisted in transforming these margin states into in flammable material. Poland Will Be Helpless. We can no longer safely count on the Poles, the Czecho-Slovaks, the Roumanians an dthe Ukrainians as an

adequate or even powerful obstacle

to Bolshevik advance, and we have to consider the possibility that Bolshev

ism will in the next few weeks sweep into all of them and conceivably over

whelm all of them. We know that

new menace of Bolshevism, tenfold more seriouB that the German offensive of last year. It is a mistake to hold President Wilson responsible primarily for the delays and failures of the Paris conference. Had Europe possessed a clear and well-defined policy when Mr. Wilson reached France, he would have been compelled to fashion his policy in conformity with that. But when America came to Europe for the peace conference, .it found Europe with no policy, no unity of command, no comprehensive plan for settling the world war. Mr. Lloyd George was engaged in an election, France was utterly exhausted with the terrible strain of the struggle, and only beginning the enormous task of opening her railroads and her highways through the devastated provinces and bringing food and fuel to millions of people suddenly freed from the German yoke. As for Italy, she was engaged in solving to her own satisfaction the problem of the Adriatic, which alone concerned or interested her. Like the Military Policy. I do not think there ever was a parallel in history more complete than the parallel between the strategy of the Paris conference, as it has un

rolled here in the last four months, and allied strategy as it unrolled in the world for nearly four years, which only terminated when German artillery was within range of Amiens and the breach between the British and French armies seemed about to become permanent. In case of war we had a dozen different strategies dependent on the ideas of a dozen different nations. We made war in Europe, Asia and Africa. We sent troops needed in Flanders to Gallipoli, and we kept them at Gallipoli until the doom of Serbia had been sealed. We invited Roumania to her own ruin without any capacity for aiding her or any accurate knowledge of her conditions. We threw awayq armies, wasted our resources, and continued to regard the German as beaten up to that hour when he emerged victorious from what was, up to that moment, the "greatest struggle of human history, when, after four years, the fate of Paris was again in jeopardy and the arrival of Germany at the channel ports was once more a possibility. We have been doing the same thing in Paris. There has been the same blindness, the same Inability to see the whole field from a single point of view, and we have about reached the same result. Today we are not

thinking of the arrival of the German , in Paris as we were a year ago, Dut we have to consider a new Bolshevist offensive, which may pass the istuia which might even conceivably anve at the Rhine, obliterating in ita advance all those national conceptions in the minds of the smaller people which were and should be the best guaranty .we have against enw storm which has many points In common with the storm which destroyed Roman civilization and for centuries turned Europe back to barbarism. A New and Great Threat. I do not think It is possible to exaggerate the extent of pessimism, of apprehension, today in Paris, not amongst members of the peace conference, whose minds are fixed on drawing lines between Poles and Germans and Serbs and Roumanians which would allocate fairly a certain number of villages whose names are unkonwn to the world, but amongst these people who know the east of Europe, who have seen the new storm arising, and who realize that we shall not impossibly find ourselves before the end of the next four months has come in a situation as perilous as that we faced at the moment when German troops overran Kemmel mountain and reached the last line of defense on the road to Calais.

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there is coming a Bolshevik attack. We know that a great offensive is being prepared by Bolshevists which may at any moment break on Poland exactly as Ludendorff's srieantic offen-

sive broke on the British a year ago.

ve know, too, that there is not in Poland, thanks to our own folly, any adequate power to resistance. We have sacriSced our first line of defense. We have not only sacrinced it, but we have risked the possibility of seein our natural allies forced into the ranks of the enemy. In this time, what of Germany? The notion that Germany could go. over to Bolshevism was held by the whole world to be preposterous at the moment when Germany abandoned the war. On two seperate occasions since then the elements of order in Germany have succeeded temporarily in restraining the elements of disorder which borrowed the colors and ideas of Bolshevism, but for four months we have been unable to make even a preliminary treaty of peace with Germany. We have continually held before the German people the extent of punishment which we intended to inflict on them. We have openly discussed, week after woralr t Vi o i n 1 1 i- m n i t" v -nra inttinHprl ir

take from them, the provinces we in- J tended to deprive them of, the ships

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cated in the German mind the idea that we proposed to destroy the future of Germany; and, in the meantime, we have done nothing. Germany Awaits Punishment. What has been the result? Had we

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substantially the terms which we mean to impose on her in April or May or June, the German people would have known the worst, have been compelled to accept, and would already be on the way to adjust themselves to new conditions. The inherent sense of order and discinline in

j the German people would have react

ed, as it has on two occasions already, against disorder, against Bolshevism. Instead, there has been no chance for the Germans themselves, because Germany has been kept for four months in the position of a criminal awaiting

what may be a death sentence. In i

fulfil a. oil lix tnjn 11 is iiiLuu,citauic that any man would undertake to begin plans for a new life. The result is that we have transformed Germany by our course into new material of exactly the sort that Bolshevism feeds on, precisely as we

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the eastern fringes of the elements of hope and confidence. We have performed a similar service to those elemtns of order in Germany on whom we must depend if we are to have indemnity, on whom we must depend if Germany is to be saved from Bolshevism. And Germany must be saved from Bolshevism, not primarily on her own account, but because if Bolshevism, sweeping over Russia and Poland, enters Germany, passes through it and arrives at the Rhine, we shall have a situation which will tax the resources of the western powers to their utmost. We shall have to ask the war weary people of France, of Italy and of Britain to make a new war, more terrible than all preceding war, because the Paris conference has been unable to act in time to prevent the storm from arriving at the frontiers of western Europe. Lack of Common Policy. This is the situation four months after our military victory. One year ago Germany surprised the allied world by an offensive of a character which had not been foreseen, and very nearly won the war. This was in March. In November the Germans again surprised the allies by a surrender so totally unexpected that the allies had no common policy, had not prepared a policy to put in operation at the moment when Germany surrendered. All our difficulties, and they have been enormous, have flowed from the fact that we had no policy when the Germans surrendered. It took Foch from April until July to organize a policy to meet German attack, and such a policy could not have been organized had there been no untiy of command. There has been no unity of command in the Paris conference, and as a consequence there has been no policy as yet adopted to meet the;

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