Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 118, 28 March 1919 — Page 1

B P AIX AJD SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS Vf)T. 3CTJV NO 118 Palladium and Sun-Telram VUU AUV..1XU. consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1919

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THEORIES OF PEACE HEADS AFFECTED BY 'REDMMACE Bolsheviki Advance in Eastern Europe Adds to List of Conference A n x i e t i es New Danger to Allies.

URGE UNIFIED COMMAND By FRANK H. SIMONDS. (Copyright. 1919. by i-h, McClure Newspaper Syndlrate PARI3, March 28. Announcement of the outbreak of a Bolshevist revolution in Hungary has produced some thing approaching panic in the Paris peace conference. The fact has sur prised those who have been warned repeatedly for the last four months of facts as contrasted with theories of the eastern European situation. Nor does the Hngarian incident complete the list of anxieties. Paris knows that the Bolshevists have conquered Hungary. It knows also that the Roumanian situation is becoming critical, and it has almost general testimony from those returning from Poland that Poland is completely undermined by Bolshevism. While Diplomats Argue Last week, the peace conference occupied a large part of its time in endeavoring to decide how wide it should make the neck of Poland, what the width should be of the corridor connecting the Poles with the sea. It found the decision beyond its capacity and the matter is still adjourned. But while the peace conference is struggling to make decisions which might, restore order and open the way to life in the east of Europe, such organization as exist3 there is crumbling to nothing, and Bolshevism is advancing while the allied diplomats debate. It would be difficult to exaggerate the gravity of the situation in Europe today as a result of four months without decision following the victory of last November. Then Germany was at our feet, prepared to accept our sentence, incapable of resisting it. Today it is the testimony of many who know Germany that Germany will sign no treaty of peace such as we may some time formulate; that she will invite us to occupy her territory, believing that our armies of occupation , will ,Lbe...crrupted-ty Bolshevism, while her property will be protected from domestic disorder. Two Enemies in Europe We have two enemies now in Europe where we had one enemy four months ago. Germanism, which was crushed, is reviving Bolshevism, which was a mere distant threat conlined in the main to the Muscovite district of the old Ramonoff empire, has now crossed the Carpathians and reached the shores of the Danube. It has separated Poland from Roumania, It has broken into central Europe. It remains to be seen whether the belief of many well-informed people that Germanism is prompting Bolshevism still, as in the past, is accurate or not, but more and more it begins to be the belief in Europe that German patriots and German soldiers are encouraging the attack of Bolshevism on the entente in the hope that Germany may regain her position in the world when Bolshevism has completed the exhaustion of the western powers. Today Bolshevism has reached Budapest. It is approaching Odessa, if is has not already occupied that town. It is about to sweep Poland, and the Paris conference has hesitated for months over sending two Polish divisions from France to their own country to aid in the defense of the Polish state. Between the Black sea and the Baltic, over all that mighty stretch of territory the allies have not four full divisions. The road to Vienna is open to the Bolshevists at Budapest, and the occupation of Vienna cuts the only raidroad by which the allied world can communicate with Bohemia. If Bolshevism reaches Bohemia, we shall have nothing left between the new Italian frontier and the forces of Lenine and Trotsky save Poland, which wo have condemned to death, and Czecho slovakia already practically isolated. The Trouble in Paris. Whence flows the evil which is becoming more and more apparent at Paris? Prom inability to reach a decision and endless debate over the reparation of the continent of Europe I seem from the fact that Europe, under the impulsion of President Wilson, has first adopted a set of abstract principles and then tried to arrange living facts in accordance with dead moralities. The British delegation has adopted with enthusiasm Mr. Wilson's doctrine of self-determination of peoples, and from Ireland to India by way of Egypt, by way of Malta, by way pt Cyprus, there is beginning to be heard the clamor of the subject peoples of the British empire for application of their specific cases of the principles of self-determination adopted by the British in Paris. We have decided on the right principle of the Toles to have an outlet on the sea, and we are trying to find some reason why waht is right in the Baltic with respect to the Poles ia irrevocably wrong in the Adriatic with respect ta the Serbs. We have today in Europe war between the Poles and the Ukrainians, between the Poles and the Germans; we have war about to break out between the Roumanians and the Hungarians, if the Roumanians do not pass over to Bolshevism. We have something approaching mobilization alike of the Italians and the Jugoslavs In Dalmatia and on the Carniola front we have war between Serbia (Continued on Page Ten)

Arrest of Hungary's ex-President by Reds Surprise to Observers of European Affairs

Count Michael Karolyi Count Michael Karolyi, former president of Hungary, has been arrested by the reds and is likely to be one of their first victims. His arrest by the soviet surprises European observers in view of the generally accepted report that he had voluntarily surrendered the government 'o the reds in revenge for the allies' failure to give material aid to Hungary.

School Official 'Phones For Gardening Supervisor E. F. Murphy, assistant regional director of school gardening, has declined definitely to accept the proposition made h n by the Richmond School Board to take up his eld position as supervisor of school gardening in the Richmond schools. Mr. Murphy asked the government for a release from the work, he is now doing, but was unable to obtain it. He then thought it mignt be possible to fill both positions. This he cannot do, he said today., J. H. Bentley, superintendent of schools, said Friday that he had telephoned to Purdue University asking that a supervisor of school gardening be sent to Richmond to fill the position here until September 1, at which time Mr. Murphy may take up his old work. NEW TAXES GO IN EFFECT ON NEXT TUESDAY Amusement, Transportation, Insurance and Stamp Taxes Will be Imposed. I (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 23. New amusement taxes which go into effect next Tuesday will fall heavily on theatre ticket brokers, and will raise ca baret admissions. In addition to the ordinary tax of one cent on each ten cents charged lor theatre tickets, news stands, hotels and other brokerage agencies c'ealing in theatre tickets are required under the new revenue law to pay five per cent of the excess charged by that agency above the usual box office price, providing this excess is fifty cents or less, and fifty per cent if the excess is more than fifty cents above the box office charge. TX excess is figured on the box office charge plua ordinary tax, and the brokers pay the tax. The effect of this tax is expected to be to limit brokers extra charge ia many cases to fifty cents. Purchasers of tickets from brokers will be required to pay the usual tax of one cent cn each ten cents charged by the broker. Tax on Excess Charge If tickets are sold at theatres "in excess of the regular or established price," they are to be taxed fifty per cent on the excess. Internal revenue bureau regulations to be issued soon will define what shall constitute "the regular or established price." A tax of IV2 cent on each ten cents or fraction charged as admission co cabarrts i3 levied this year, instead of one cent, as provided in last year's law, and 20 per cent of the bill for lood and drinks is to be considered for admission, if no specific admission charge is made. Club dues and initiation fees exceed ing $10 a year are taxable at ten per cent. Transportation, insurance and stamp j taxes also go into effect next Tue3-j day. The new act lays a tax of three i per cent on freight charges, approximately 5 per cent on express charge?, I 8 per cent on passenger and pullman i fares, and 8 per cent on oil pipe line j charges. For telephone or telegram j messages on which charges are be-j tween 15 and 50 cents, the tax will; be five cents, and if the charge is more than 50 -cents, the tax will bej ten cents. Ten per cent Is assessed 1 cn leased wire tolls. J

ITALIAN SOCIETY

FORMED ON SUNDAY Organization for Better American Citizenship Proposed 4 1 to" Join HereT Forty-one naturalized Italians of this city, who are charter members of the Sons of Italy in America, will organize the nine hundred and thirty-third association in the United States at Red Men's hall at 9 o'clock next Sunday morning. The organization will be followed by a public meeting in the Red Men's Hall at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which Carlo Ginocchio, the Italian consul at Cincinnati; Frank Mancini of New York City, supreme recording secretary of the Sons of Italy in America, and City Prosecutor H. E. Raitono, of Indianapolis, will speak in Italian, and Frank Strayer, attorney of this city, will give an address in English. The public Is invited to attend the afternoon meeting. The local chapter will be known as the Italian Colony of Wayne County. A large delegation of Italians from Hamilton, Ohio, where an organization is to be formed have wired that they will arrive in Richmond Sunday to attend the afternoon meeting. The Richmond order of the "Sons of Italy in America" will be the first formed in Indiana, and among the first in the middle west. It is understood here that arrangements are being made in Cleveland, Ohio, to organize an order there. For Better Citizenship. The order to be formed" here is one which takes advantage of all possible means to bring about better American citizenship among the Italians. Louis Salzarulo, one of the best-known Italians in Richmond, said today that no man who had served a jail sentence of thirty days would be accepted into the order unless it were absolutely proved to the officials of the organization that his imprisonment had been unjust. "We want our men to feei the greatest citizenship responsibilities," Mr. Salzarulo said, "And this can only be gained through organization such as we are proposing. This order of 'Sons of Italy in America' has worked wonders among the Italian people of many of the eastern states. That there are now 932 orders in the country is proof of the popularity of the organization. What is the best and the most right is what we want for our people in this city. We want them to be good, moral, intelligent citizens," he said. MRS. EDWARDS MADE DIRECTOR (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, March 2S. Mrs. Richard E. Edwards of Peru, Ind., was chosen a director of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. To Agents and Subscribers . NOTICE. Saturday's automobile edition of The Palladium will be either 28 or 32 pages. Agents may expect more than the usual number of bundles because of the large size of the edition. Subscribers are urged to wait for the carrier boys as the unusually heavy edition may delay them a few minutes in their delivery service.

WILL BE

PEACE TREATY TO BE SIGNED BY APRIL 20, LAST REPORT

Action to Protect France and Fix Future Boundaries of Germany Completed by Conference.' KILL MILITARY CLAUSE (By Associated Press') PARIS, March 28. Hopes were expressed last night in peace conference circles that the preliminary peace treaty might be signed by April 20. It was reported last night that the amendment o the league of nations covenant urged by Leon Bourgeois, providing for a permanent "military and naval staff for the league has been rejected by the league of nations commission. The membership of the states in the executive council of the league of nations, Reuters, Limited, says, it understands will be increased from two to three, the third member probably being a labor representative. Report Important Action. Today's Paris newspapers in discussing yesterday's session of the council of four declared that extremely important problems directly connected with Germany's future boundaries were discussed by the council in an excellent spirit of understanding. Petit Parisien says it understands important results were achieved. According to the Matin, the territorial questions involved and the problems of protecting France adequately have been satisfactorily solved, although by means not foreseen in discussions of the problems outside the conference. As to the financial problems the solution reported to have been adopted provides for the payment by Germany of yearly installments on the indemnity of which France would receive a portion sufficient to lighten the burden of her budget. Ministers in Council. A council of the foreign ministers and foreign secretaries of Great Britain, United States, France and Italy has been created to work simultaneously with the premiers and President Wilsonrbttf "on different branches of the great technical questions involved in the peace settlement. This action has been taken in the interest of speed. Japan is not given representation in the new council because its delegation does not include its foreign minister. It Is believed that the council of foreign ministers will consider the Italian and probably the Russian question as well as the feasibility of arranging a peace treaty to include all belligerent nations. The American amendment concerning the Monroe Doctrine and the Japanese racial amendment were not in the covenant of the league of nations t3 it was sent to the drafting committee yesterday. It was said they might be introduced later at a plenary session but late advices stated that unexpected obstacles to the Monroe Doctrine amendment had arisen. Yesterday Premier Hughes of Australia declared his country would not support the Japanese clause. DENIES "GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT" BETWEEN AMERICA AND JAPAN (By Associated Press) TOKIO, Mar. 28 In the house of peers today a member presented an interpellation regarding the hrms and the period of enforcement of the "gentlemen's agreement" concluded in 1907, between Japan and the United States and asked whether the said agreement is intended to be kept in force forever. He stated that he had heard that the regulation of emigration was enforced more strictly by the Japanese authorities than by the Americans. He wanted to know the reason why Japanese are being subjected to such regulations while the Mexicans and Philipinos are freely admitted to America. M. Shidehara, vice-minister of foreign affairs, replied that the so-called "gentlemen's agreement" did not ex-1 isi. inere was a voluntary aeciaration made by Japan for regulating the influx of Japanese to America. It means that no Japanese may emigrate but those who are already in America are free to call their families from Japan. The imperial government is bound to live up to its declaration, he said. Many a time anti-Japanese laws are understood to have been brought before American legislatures but owing to and in appreciation of Japan's efforts all such anti-Jananese mea sures have failed to pass. The said j declaration will be kept in force for some time yet; it may be abolished when the Japanese immigrants convince the American authorities that their presence is no cause of danger to American institutions. Rights of Women Are Recognized in Draft Of League Covenant (By Associated Press) PARIS, March 28. W'oman suffrage is recognized in the covenant of the league of nations, through the adoption' Wednesday of an amendment providing that the offices of the league shall be open to women as well as to men.

Chmch Sees Success From Newspaper Advertising By Associated Fress NEW YORK, March 22. Newspaper advertising was given as one of the chief factors in the success of the Presbyterian church drive for $40,000,000 in a statement summarizing the results of the campaign, issued here tonight by the Rev. Dr. Charles Stelzle, publicity director. Dr. Stelzle urged continued use of newspaper advertisements in the membership campaign which is to follow the fund drive. "There Is no agency" he asserted, "which can be made quite so effective as the daily newspaper in enlisting the interests of those who do not go to church. "It already has an entree into the homes of the people; it is not looked upon with suspicion; it appears every day; the matter It contains is discussed by every one; and worth while advertisements paid for by the church and proclaiming religion will be read by many millions who would never, in the first instance, got to a church to hear it discussed."

COLONEL PERRY THANKS DONOi TO MORTON FOND Indianapolisan Acknowledges Receipt of $75 Raised Through Palladium. As a sequel to the completion of the Morton Fund conducted through the Palladium for $75 with which to defray the expense of . enlarging, a picture of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's war governor, the Palladium has received a letter from Colonel Oran Perry of Indianapolis, acknowledging receipt of the $75 subscribed. "I have the honor," writes Colonel Perry, "to acknowledge, with thanks, your letter of the twenty-sixth enclosing li3t of subscribers to the Morton Fund, together with your check for $75.00. "It gratifies me to note that the majority ot the donors are of the 'Old Guard,' or auxiliary thereto. I consider the subscription a very generous one, especially on the part of a few, whose money, I know, does not 'grow on trees'." It was through the Instrumentality of Colonel Perry that the Palladium instituted the campaign for the $75 fund. Colonel Perry is the possessor of a photograph of Gevernor Morton, a Wayne countian, which after being enlarged, will,. be placed in aa art jfaTTefy"iof,:'the Soldiers' and Sailors Monument in Indianapolis, as a pictorial representation of Indiana's war record. FRENCH HEAR REPORT OF HON ATROCITIES (By Associated Press) PARIS, Thursday, March 27. The senate considered -today the report of a commission which was sent to investigate conditions in portions of France which were occupied by the Germans during the war. M. Reynald, reporting for the commission, said that the Germans methodically destroyed property and that many German officers brought their wives to the occupied regions to help them carry away goods taken from French homes. In describing the systematic pillage of St. Quentin and Rheims, M. Reynald said : "The Germans did not understand the soul of France and did not realize that by their methods they but strengthened our resistance." Examples of German atrocities against the people of Northern and Eastern. France, instances of wanton destruction were cited by the speaker who introduced a resolution asking the senate to take action on the commission's report. Battle Tank Will Climb Pike's Peak to Advertise Campaign for Victory Loan (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 28. Pike's peak will be ascended by a battle tank as an advertising feature of the Victory liberty loan before the loan campaign opens. J. M. Worley, publicity director of the loan organization of the Kansas City district, asked authority from the treasury to have the tank now at Kansas City make the ascent, and today the permission was given. INCREASE SHOWN IN OSE OF TRACTORS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 28. Increased use by American farmers of tractors was shown today in reports from manufacturers estimating that approximately 315,000 of the machines will be produced this year. The estimate is more than double the number manufactured last year. Eighteen Cities Start "Own-Y oar-Home" Drive (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 28. "Own-your-own-home" campaigns have been inaugurated in eighteen cities, it was announced today by the bureau of public workers, Department of Labor. The cities are Billings, Mont., Charleston, West Va., Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Jacksonville.Fla., Johnstown, Pa., Lynchburg, Va MiddletownConn., Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Seattle, Spokane, Staunton, Va.,St. Paul and Toledo.

Millerand Governor of Alsace-Lorraine

MILLERAND. M. Millerand has been appointed governor of Alsace-Lorraine by President Poincare of France. Millerand's headquarters will be at Strasburg. M. Jonnart declined the position recently. Millerand is a former minister of war. ARMY TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOL IS DECIDED UPON Reserve Officer Corps for Richmond Institution Receives Board's Approval. . The Reserve Officers Training Corps will be instituted in the Richmond High school, it was made known today. J. H. Bentley, superintendent of schools, said that the school board had been favorable toward this training and had instructed him to put the matter before the boys. Mr. Bentley said Friday morning, following the meeting Qt,ihA-JJiglichooLboy8,.tliat there Is no doubt that the school will put In an application for officers almost Immediately. Superintendent Bentley called the High school boys together Friday morning following chapel. After explaining the purpose and requirements of this course, every boy who was fourteen years old or who would be by next September, and who would be willing to take the course if he obtained the approval of his parents, was asked to stand. Almost every boy in the house stood up, 299 all together. This excluded the seniors. Course is Elective. Mr. Bentley said there must be a minimum of 100 boys who are at least 14 years old and who can pass the physical examination required, to Institute the Reserve Officers Training Corps. It is a two-year elective course and if elected it must be continued for two years. There is no obligation to the government attached. If chosen, the cause is a pre-requisite for graduation. Credits will be given for the training and it is probable that two credits will be given for a semester and four for a year. All uniforms and equipment are furnished by the government. The uniforms are olive drab, with a cap and russet boots. These are given to the boys and may be worn at all times if the boys so desire. One wool uniform is furnished for the school term. The j pnysicai examination required is a modification of that required for army entrance. Want Reservoir of Officers. The government is creating the R. O. T. C to teach boys the fundamentals of military training, good citizenship and make a reservoir of officers material in case it should be needed. The R. O. T. C, Senior grade is that which is in colleges. Here the uniforms and equipment are furnished and a small subsistence of $12 a month is given. Seniors in high school i this year can take the training that will be begun this spring. At the end of the Senior grade course the boy is commissioned a second lieutenant, if he so desires. After a six months commission he may become a member of the regular army, but this is not compulsory. No boy has any obligations to the government whatsoever. A summer school will also be Instituted under the direction of the war department. Boys may attend if they want to. This is not required as a part of the High school work. Boys attending the school will be furnished two cotton olive drab uniforms, their meals, and all transportation. Games, drill, reviews and signaling will be a part of the outdoor course. Many Apply for Jobs in Compiling 192Q Census (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 28. So many applications for jobs in compiling the 1920 census have been received by the census bureau that It was announced today that local numerators and enterpreters would be chosen by district supervisors and not by the headquarters here. The supervisors who will be paid $1,500 and one dollar additional for each thousand of population enumerated, will be appointed about July 1. Special agents for the census of manufactures, mines and quarries, will not be appointed until 192p. Clerical positions in Washington will be filled only through civil service certification.

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SITUATION IN AUSTRIA MADE DANGEROUS BY LABOR ACTION General Rail Strike Ties up Food Shipments to Vienna Lenine Offers to Finance Hungarian Army. YANKS KILL "RED" PLOT

BULLETIN (By Associated Press) LONDON, March 28. Action by American troops looking after Russian prisoners in Germany is believed to have nipped in the bud an important Bolshevik plot, according to an Exchange telegraph dispatch . from Berlin dated Thursday. The Spartacans in Spandau the message 6tates, had planned a big uprising for Thursday, intending to arm several thousand Russians from the Ruhleven camp. The Americans, however, rushed the Russians on board trains Wednesday night and scattered them under the Americans throughout Germany. LENINE URGES WAR LONDON, March 28. Premier Lenine has sent a wireless message to the Hungarian government urging it to send an army against Vienna, according to a Budapest dispatch received in Berlin and forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph company. Lenine promised to advance one hundred "million kronen to finance the project. RAIL STRIKE CALLED VTfJNNA, March 28. A railroad strike has been called and threatens to spread to all the roads in this country. The strike was called partly for higher wages and partly because of sympathy with the Hungarian revolution. It is feared it may lead to the establishment ot a soviet republis in German-Austria. The trouble began last night when men employed by the Southern railroad walked out. All traffic over this road is at a complete, standstill, even allied food trains from Triest being Etopped, Vienna is threatened with famine. The situation is considered extremely grave. Count Michael Karolyi, former Hungarian premier, is enjoying complete liberty in Budapest, as are other members of the government who were compelled to resign when the soviet uprising took place, according to a Hungarian wireless dispatch. Deputies at Vienna Emissaries of the Hungarian revolutionary governing council handed their credentials to the president of , the German-Austrian national assembly at Vienna yesterday, accord lng to a Budapest dispatch received here. Hopes for the continuance of amicable relations between Hungary and German-Austria were mutually pressed. It is said. The Hungarian delegates also visited the chancellor and the ministers of war and finance at Vienna. The dispatch states that the revolutionary government has ordered entente flags hoisted on the hotel where the entente missions have been stopping and that posters will soon be issued warning the people to respect all foreigners in Budapest. Recruits Answer Call. The official invitation for recruits to enter the red army in Hungary has met with an encouraging response, according to a Budapest dispatch received here. The army will be composed, first of those who apply from the ranks or organized labor, and second of proletarian soldiers already under arms. The soldiers will elect their officers from section commander to company commander but the higher officers will beappolnted by the commissary of war. A political commissary may be attached to each body of troops. A reserve army is also being formed among workmen and will be trained by officers, who, however, will not ba given the power to command the forces nor the right to carry arms. CAILLAUX ACCOMPLICE FREED (By Associated Press) PARIS, Thursday, Mar. 27 Paul Comby, a lawyer who for the past year has been under arrest charged with complicity in the Calllaux and Bolo Pasha cases, has been allowed to leave the prison temporarily because his health was found to be breaking down under close confinement. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday. Rising temperature. Today's Temperature Noon S3 Yesterday Maximum 42 Minimum 29 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cool tonight. Below freezing. Saturday fair and warmer. General Conditions The cold wave extends from Lake Winnepeg to Gulf of Mexico and was the cause of a general hard freeze throughout the states this morning. Freezing temperatures are reported as far south as Tennessee and Arkansas, zero on Canadian border. The crest of the cold spell will pass eastward during the next twelve hours. A reaction to milder weather may be expected by Saturday, due to low barometric pressure over the Rocky mountains. . -