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?AGE TWO

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919.

WILSON TALKED DIRECT TO HUNS

IN 1916 PARLEY

Wireless Carried Messages to

German People in Plain

Terse English.

. NEW YORK, April 5. How Presi dent Wilson broke diplomatic prece

dent on Oct. 20, 191S, by direct parley with the Germans, was told here today

by C. M. Ripley, wireless expert.

It was exactly at noon on Oct. 20, Mr. Ripley said, when an operator in the naval wireless station at New

Brunswick startled American and al

lied governments wireless operators

with a call to the German govern tnent wireless station at Nauen.

Visions of treachery of some naval

wireless operator or equally daring German spy operators, Mr. Ripley imagines, flitted through the mind of

operators who were not on the In ejde" of President Wilson's plan. Couched In English

Almost immediately there flashed

back from the Nauen Station: "Your Bignals are fine, old man."

Then the New Brunswick operator

sent President Wilson s first message to the German people, couched In

plain, terse English, and Informing

them that no peace negotiations could

be considered until William Hohen zollern was ousted.

"From that time until the signing of

the armistice," Mr. Ripley said, "the president maintained direct wireless

communication with Germany, couch

Ing all his messages in plain English, which the allied governments could pick up by wireless, and giving the texts to the American public as soon

aa the messages had been sent.

WOMEN QUAKERS

IN CONFERENCE

An Informal bouse party is being held in the West Richmond Commun

ity House thia week end by a group of young women from Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Indiana Yearly Meet-

in w and Western Wearly Meeting for

the purpose of conference.

Twenty-two young women arrived at

the Community house last evening, and several more were expected today Sleeping quarters for between twenty and thirty were arranged yesterday

by women of the Allen Jay Memorial

church. The Ladies" Aid society of the Allen Jay church will furnish meals in the church dining room for the house party guests. A series of events are planned for tomorrow. Tb.9 Community house v.hich was formerly the Harrison residence, has nine bed rooms and is ideally situated for a house party. With the arrival of the guests last night the affair was named a success. Informal discussions on vital topics concerning the young Friends of the three Yearly Meetings and Friends' work in the world at large were taken up today. The future work of the young women promises to be more important than It ever was before the war, and for this work is considered necessary to ally the monthly meetings and the Yearly Meetings in cooperative work for the highest and best Ideals of the Friends church, it was explained this morning. Such a conference as is being held at the Community house brings together the young women upon whose shoulders this work is to "est, if not immediately, in the near future, think Miss Ruthanna Simms ind Miss Lillian Hayes, of the Young friends Board, who have sponsored :he house party. Several letters were received today rom young Friends who were unable :o attend the meeting, expressing deas to be brought forth in the various conferences held today and tomorrow. Attendance at several of the city churches is planned for tomorrow. Breakfast will be served the young women at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Allen D. Hole of Earlham. A number ot conferences will be attended throughout the day.

SOLDIER PRAISES RELIEF SOCIETIES

Private Raymond Yundt, who saw service in France, has submitted the following: Having Just arrived in the United States from France, after twenty-one months over there, I wish to state for the benefit of the people who have donated money to different relief funds, that there are no better organizations in the world than the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus. You can find them all, anywhere there is"American soldiers, from the ports of embarkation to the first line trenches. The Red Cross will do anything in the world for a soldier; comfort him without expecting anything in ret urn. You don't have to be an officer either, to get in. Socks, sweaters, gloves, cigarettes, candies and many other articles are given to the soldiers every day. The Salvation Army also, has made doughnuts and coffee and taken them to the boys at the front, the ones who need the mmost. The Knights of Columbus pass out candies, cigarettes and tobacco almost 'every day. I know; I have been there, and when the boys get back from the Rhine, they will say the same thing. Even after I landed in New York, the Red Cross took us out for sjht-seeing trips, dinner parties, theatres and many other places; all free. When we went to a theatre we had the best .seats in the house, with lots of chocdate to eat between acts. This is only a very small fraction of the wonderful work these three organizations have done, but It will serve to let the people know that anything they donated to these people waa put to the best of uses. When national guard and national army organizations have! been disbanded their battle flags will be given into the custody of the states from which the majority of the men came.

What He Did

NEW YORK. April 6. Private Ed

gar Pennington, rangy rancher from Altus, Okla-, of Company K, Three Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infantry regiment, came home today on the cruiser Frederick, wearing the distinguished service cross. What did you get that for?" he was asked. "I dunno," replied the ranchman soldier. "Didn't you do something?" "Did my duty," was the scententlous re joiner. "Anything special?" "Nope." "Didn't you capture any machine guns, rescue any wounded men or " "Oh, yes; rescued four officers."

JOHNSON SAYS SOLDIERS FAIL TO GET JUSTICE

Country is Afflicted With Mental Farsightedness, Claims California Senator. WASHINGTON, - April 5. Urging

that Americans realize the problems

confronting the country. Senator Hi

ram W. Johnson, of California, in a statement issued last , night, declared "We have been afflicted with mental

farsightedness" since the signing of the armistice and are unable to see and care "for tlje ills and problems ot

our own.

"Our demobilized soldiers ask for

Justice and work and get neither," declared his statement. "Ordinary busi

ness lags and because of the govern

ment's Inactivity or indifference cannot resume its normal conditions; unemployment increases daily and foreign agitators play upon distress and discontent.

Under World Hypnotism "We are under the spell of a world

hypnotism, unconscious of what 13 transpiring. Our commuting govern

ment hovers around European capi

tals, basking in the sunlight of foreign adulation. President and secretary of state are in paris, the secre

tary of the navy in Italy, the secre

tary of war on his way to Europe, heads of various administrative de

partments are scattered east and west and north and south in Europe there Is 'nobody home' in America.

"It has become a reproach in many

quarters to think in terms of America for America first. It is time to call

a halt. Let us make it respectable to

be American again."

WILL BALLOT IN

OPEN TO SELECT SCHOOL BOOKS

INDIANAPOLIS, April 5.--After a

lively discussion, during which feeling ran high, the members of the Indiana

state board of education, meeting in the state superintendent's office at the

state-house Friday, voted to have an

open ballot for the adoption of text

books for the grade schols of Indiana

during the next five years, and to have an open meeting for the discussion of the merits of the books submitted

by bidders. The board fixed April 17

as the date for letting the contracts.

This means that on the morning of

April 17, at 10 o'clock, when ihe books

will be discussed by the board, the

public, including the interested book men, will be permitted to hear the discussion, and when the board mem

bers cast their votes for the adoption

of each of the books, their votes will be made in public.

Thirty-Three Bidders. Thirty-three book firms eubmitted

bids for providing readers, arithmetics, domestic science books and writing books. Nearly fifty agents of these companies crowded into the room to

see the bids opened. As the books

to be bought by Indiana school chil

dren during the next five years under

the contracts to be let may amount altogether in cost to nearly $1,500,000,

the deliberations of the board have

assumed great importance. There never has been a time during recent years that school book Interests have

exerted greater pressure of all kinds

in relation to the school book letting than they have exerted this year.

A discussion started when Charles

O. Williams of Richmond, superintendent of the Wayne county schools, mov

ed that when the state board of education meets as a state textbook board

to let contracts for books to be adopted for use In the schools, all baliots

should be taken by roll call and shall

be recorded. W. W. Parsons, president of the Indiana State Normal

school, supported Mr. Williams in the

motion.

"I am in favor of letting the sun

light in," said President Parsons. "Let

the public see what we are doing.

WIDOW IS GIVEN MEDAL

BALTIMORE, Md., April 5. The

congressional medal of honor today was presented to Mrs. Hythron Johnston Costin, young widow of Private Henry Gilbert Costin, by Major General Beaumont Bonaparte-Buck, in the

Blue Room ot the Belvedre hotel.

HERES ANOTHER RECORD

PARIS, April 5. Lieutenant Bousse-

trot, a French aviator, yesterday ex

celled his feat of Tuesday, when he

reached an altitude of more than 20,-

000 feet in a large French biplane. Yesterday he ascended to between 20,000 and 25,000 feet with 13 passengers. The biplane crossed over Paris during the flight.

EIGHT MEN MADE RABBIS

(By Associated Press) CINCINNATI, O., April 6. Gradua

tion exercises of Hebrew Union col

lege, at which eight men are to re

ceive degrees of rabbi, was to be the principal feature of the thirtieth convention of the Central conference of American Rabbis here today.

NEWS FROM EARLHAM COLLEGE

Miss Ruth Clark, of Georgetown. 111., la Bpending the week end' at the college visiting her sister, Miaa Zola Clark. She is on her way to the office of the Friends' Service Committee in Philadelphia, under whose auspices she will sail for that work in France April 14. Later she will go to Russia. She will be aceomnanipd hv Mian fier.

trade Simms of Richmond, who will

oe engaged m the same work. Dr. and Mrs. A lion n fini won.

guests of Miss Martha Doan, who ha3 Just returned from a convention of the National College Alumnae association in St. Louis, for dinner last evening. Following dinner nn informal

tion was held for them by the students in the girls' rmrior of Karlham

Hall.

Phoenix Literary Society held an open meeting last evening in Phoenix Hall. An Interesting program was given by the Freshmen to a large audience which included a number of outside visitors. C. S. Mionor, of Indianapolis, visited the college Y. M. C, A. yesterday. Mr. Mionor Is the secretary of the Indiana Student Y. M. C. A. association and Is director of the college Y. M. C. A-'a of the state. The college chapel will b turned over Into a moving picture theatre tonight when the "Vagabond of France," a play produced by Henri Krauss, will be presented to the students and the surrounding vicinity. Yesterday morning the chapel exercises were turned over to the Sen

iors when they appeared for the first time in their caps and gowns. After a short devotion led by Dr. Hole. Miss Laura Gaston, instructor of piano music at the -college, assisted by Mrs. Hugh Fosa of Richmond, gave four interpretations of fairy stories and Mother Gooie rhymes on the piano. The members of the graduating class are Dorcas Hiss, Esther Hodson, Althea Brown, Harold Richard Brown, Mabel Blnford, Zola Clark, Mildred Cutter, Cecil Dennis, Russel Titsworth, Norenne Roberts, Vera Newsom, Wynema Blnford, Frank Hill, Paul Smith, Clara Sellars, Robert Petry, Lewis Taylor, Alcia Craig, Hazel Dixon, Ruby Maderas, Ruth Brown, Everet Hunt, . Susie Meek, Leberta Patrick, Loma Scott, C. H. Smith, Katherlne Quigg, Hobart Hosklns. Lyle Power, Elizabeth Marvel, Leslie Meeks, Marna Johnson and Jerold Hoerner. Following the Senior program seven members of this year's basketball team were awarded "E's" by Professor

E. P. Trueblood. The men receiving the letters were Captain Leslie H. Meeks, Fonzo Lawler, Orval Hall, Raymond Johnson, captain-elect, Cyril Pitts, Eugene Ralford, Herbert Carey.

WATCH LAMB ADVANCEI

CHICAGO, Apr. 5. The government Is In the market for 3,730,000 pounds of lamb, It was learned today at the stock yards, the first time since the government began making large wartime purchases that It has sought any very considerable quantity of lamb or mutton. At the present time lamb is selling at- virtually the same prices that beef and pork are bringing.

21 FIRES IN MARCH Twenty-one fire alarms with a total loss of $900, about the average number for March, were reported by Fire Chief Miller in his monthly return, Saturday.

Investigation cf Buenos ) , . Aires Harbor Strike Urged A (By Associate Freeil BUENOS AIRES. Friday, April 4An investigation of the port confiict, which remains unsettled despite efforts by President Irigoyen to end the trouble, was urged today by the radical elements in congress. Owners of coast-wise vessels remain firm in their refusal to work their ships under the presidential decree issued last week', which they declare to te confiscatory. Trans-Atlantic stea rs are entering and departing from me harbor largely without tugs, less than a dozen of these craft being In operation at the present. The stevedores are working under government supervision, the controversy being carried on by the organization of the employes of tugs end the owners, government intervention being refused by them. '

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Starting Monday morning at 8 o'clock and lasting until Saturday night, April 1 2 our entire line of floor coverings including

Rugs

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tair Garoet

will be offered at prices far below the mill prices of today. If you are needing any new floor coverings for this spring it

will pay you to let your regular house work go and attend this wonderful sale.

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9x12 Brussels Cxl2 Matting ..... 9x12 Congoleum . .

27-in. Matting Bugs

27-in. Wilton Rugs 27-in Axm. Rugs 18-in. Axm. Rugs 36-in. Axm. Rugs Rag Rugs

$18.50 $4.65 $11.25

17c

$7.25 $3.65 $1.98 $6.95 ..59c

Lot No. 1 9x12 Axminster Rugs, worth $47.50, $5Q.00, $52.50. Sale price

$34.75

Lot No. 2 9x12 Tapestry, worth $27.50, $30.00, $35.00. Sale price $26.75

Lot No. 3 9x12 Body Brussels $55.00, $57.50, $65.00. Sale price

$43.60

Lot No. 4 9x12 Wilton Rugs, worth $75.00, $85. and $100.00. Sale price

$68.00

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We Will Deliver When You Want it

Housecleaning time is about here and our sacrifice at this time is your gain.

All above prices are on 9x12 Smaller sizes in proportion.

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