Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 215, 21 June 1919 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, ..... SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 191.

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WORMS

IN WAYNE ARE UNDER CONTROL

Outbreak in Three Places Met by Farmers, all Fields Ditched.

Richmond Has Had One Paul Dunbar, Will Young Negro Poet he Another?

Army worms which appeared on half a dozen farms neatk. Hagerstown Friday were thought to be under control Saturday morning. All fields in which the pests appeared were promptly trenched, 75 fanners from the whole neighborhood, helping, and the wormB were surrounded by Friday evening. " A policy of watchful waiting was pursued Saturday, and inspections were made of fields as yet untouched, to detect the first presence of the worm. A 'forty acre field of corn on the farm of J. E. Dennis waS the most seriously aftected, and the worms also were numerous in a swamp pasture belonging to a neighbor. Farmers in this neighborhood who reported the presence of the pest on their farms were John and Frank Harder, Warren Dennis, J. E. Dennis, Clajkson Dennis and Omer Jones. Worms appeared on the farm of

Waddie Mason, near Cambridge, Friday afternoon, but not in great num-i bers. Neighbors gathered here and

jTyromptly trenched the affected fields Sind lh Rltiiation was thouetat to be

under complete control. The farms near the Wayne-Henry line west and north of Dublin, which reported worms Thursday and Friday, had the situation there also well in hand, it was said Saturday. Specimens of the worm were brought to Richmond Saturday. It is a soft, slim cutworm, about one and one-half inches long, striped longitudinally in gray and black. The army worm is simply an ordinary cutworm which appears in so great numbers as to become a plague, it is said. FAYETTE PREPARES COXNERSVILLE, Ind., June 21. , Fayette county has made preparations to fight the onslaught of the army worm pest. In Posey township, particularly in the vicinity of Bentonville, citizens are mobilizing to meet the march of the pest. Reports last night were that the worms are only half a mile away from the Fayette-Henry county line and probably will enter

this county today. Owners of tractors in all parts of the. county have been ordered to take their machines to the northern boundary line, near Bentonville. Deep furrows will be opened near the county line and these trenches will be shaped by spades used by men both from the city and country. The Connersville Chamber of Commerce has voted an appropriation of $500 to be used in the campaign. Com'mittees in the several townships have been appointed and everything is being arranged to mobilize the entire county within a period of two hours, j SHOULD NOT BURN CROPS NEWCASTLE. Ind.. June 21. Before leaving Newcastle. Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, warned the farmers who have become discouraged because of the heavy loss from the army worms not to bum their crops as some were threatening to do. In the belief that this would stop the pest from moving to other fields. Mr. Wallace pointed out that it might kill some of the worms, but. that most of them would march upon new fields. The worms in Henry county are now well under control, it is believed. PROMPT MEASURES IN RUSH RTJSHVILLE, Ind., June 21. The army worms in the vicinity of the Walter Norris farm near Orange have been exterminated, according to reports received today. They were also

found crossing the rdnd to another farm. A desperate effort was being

made to check their progress In this

section. The greater number have

also been killed east of the city. A timothy field on the Norris farm

'was completely smppea oi an me blades and in many instances the seed of the timothy had been eaten. Many dead worms were found clinging to the timothy plants where they had come in contact with the poison. BUG SAVIOR IN DELAWARE MTJNCIE, Ind.. June 21. A little black bug. much smaller than the wheat-head army worm that has been destroying thousands of dollars' worth of grain in Delaware county has appeared in the western part of the county and is eating up the big worms. Heavy showers yesterday destroyed trenches around infested fields. This made necessary today the constructing of new ones and gave the pests a -tUance to get out of the fields and into other ones. Churchmen Protest To Congress Against Boat

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 21. Every state tuperintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions is urged., in telegrams sent out from the board's headquarters here, to send immediately to congress, messages asking that Governor Cox of Ohio be asked to forbid "desecratica of the nation's holiday through the holding of the Wlllard-Dempsey fight July. 4."

Richmond has fostered one . Paul Lawrence Dunbar, for the great Negro poet received much of his early inspiration, help and training here; is she to foster another? V " You have seen "A bond man or a bondsman, say which would you be?" and you have heard "A Thrift Stamp is your bit, but a bond is "your part." but perhaps you dida't know that the author of these two nation-rung slogans, a poet and short story writer, and besides that, a colored man, is in Richmond, soon to become one of her

citizens.

Leon R. Harris, not yet 30 years old, married and the father Of a young daughter, is soon to bring his family to Richmond. That is merely a bare statement of facts about him; but a hlftory of a long upward pull to enviable success from life in an orphan

asylum in Cambridge, Ohio, to a posi

tion in the world of writing which the Century magazine, and many of the

most intelligent people of the country

have acknowledged is also his. Helped Make Ohio Dry

wnen ne was eleven years old, a

Cincinnati daily newspaper printed

world war. were published by him in

Portsmouth, O., in 1918. It contains among others "Our Star, Tom Primm."

"There's a certain star on a Service Flag that's nailed to a wall in the mill. And jt looks just like all the other stars you see on that flag but still I want you to look at that certain star and. get Introduced to him,

To that Jolly, blg-booned, mill-made man, his , name, , Tom Prlmm." The life of this negro writer is one of novel interest. He was born in the town of Cambridge, O., the son of a mother who died when he was still a baby, and of a father who was a roving musician, and who took not the slightest interest in his little son. "Raised" in Kentucky." "My father wandered about the country, playing and, with me forgotten and left ia an orphan asylum ack in Cambridge," said Harris, who is very reluctant to say anything the least flattering about himself. "When I was six years old the asylum placed me in the Cambridge public schools.

I was m the fourth grade there

one of his poems. At the end or the when the asylum gav6 me away to a poem were the words "Author un- family -down in Kentucky. This fam-

known". From that day Harris has ny took me presumably t'o raise, but written and studied continually. He m truth t0 work and vork r hid t0 ha3 proved what a man, and a color- an the time t

bftiots innOMo-aSUnr1hOUSe- At ni' bowever! Idid a Tot JSitiSi fh,r mn,P!f & of moon light "ading, as I didn't dare KES U fti?tw wa8te 100 much ktrosene. Then when C2?" "aIW?,i I " on the job the next

Through the pages of "The Stinger",

published "every once in awhile" in Portsmouth, Ohio, Harris put the wet and dry proposition squarely and strongly before the colored people of the state. Ohio went dry with the colored people voting strongly for prohibition. -

When Liberty Bond officials wanted

MONROE TOWNSHIP PLANNING GREAT SOLDIERS' PICNIC

ELDORADO, O., June 21. Several thousand people are expected to at'

tend the mammoth service men's re

ception to be held on July 4 in Ware's

Grove, four miles southwest of West

Manchester, O., and four miles south

east of Eldorado, and for which the

people of Monroe township are mak ing extensive pains. Service, men from all of eastern In

diana and western Ohio are invited to

this celebration which is the first and largest of the kind to be held for the returned soldiers, sailors and marines

in this part of the two states. Ail

returned service men, their families

and friends, are Invited. The commit

tee urges every one to come and bring his dinner. Refreshments will also be served at the grove it is announced.

An extensive program has been

planned including addresses by Judge

George Mannix of Greenville, O., the Hon. Marion Murphy, Greenville attorney; C. L. Gowdy, well known Cincinnati minister; the Rev. a. C. Barnhart of Eldorado, who will give the welcome address, to which Eddie Kimmel, Eldorado soldier, recently returned fro mabroad, will respond ia behalf of the service men. . ' Two baseball games during the day will be an added feature. In the morn

ing Eldorado and West Manchester will come together for nine innings, and in the afternoon the Whitewaters will meet the Lewisburg Razz Jazzcrs on the diamond. Numerous other fea

tures have been planned, the township

committee says.

Canned Foodstuffs To Be Sold On Bids By U. S. By Associated Press).-' WASHINGTON, June 21. The first public sale of canned foodstuffs will be held June SO, when sealed bids will be opened for great quantities of corn, pears, baked beans and stringless beans at the zone supply office ia Bos

ton, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newport News, Atlanta, Chicago St Louis, New Orleans, Ft. Sam Houston, El Paso, Omaha and San Francisco. Circulars describing the sale have been sent to state and municipal educational, penal and charitable institutions.

OFFICERS ARE NAMED

OXFORD, O.. June 21. The board of trustees of the Oxford Cemetery association yesterday elected the following officers for the coming year: president, Dr. John Molly neaux; vice president, William H. O'Neal; clerk, Daniel P. Beaton; treasurer, William H. Tucker; grounds committeeman, Dunham Davis.

SHIP CALLS FOR RELIEF

GERMAN MARK FALLS.

(By Associated Pressi PARIS, June 21. The German mark fell Friday on the Swiss exchange from 36 francs 40 centimes to " 33 francs 40 centimes per hundred. This is considered as significant in wellinformed financial circles In Paris.

22 TEARS SERVICE Mrs. A. Waldman. 460 Glenn .Av., Fresno, Cal, writes: "When - I wa roan 1 had a fever and it left me with

HALIFAX. N. S.. June 21. A wire- U coug-h every winter. Thirty-two

1a rail fnr ltarr rtevmA t years ajr I read about Foley 8 Honey less can lor assistance as received j kn1 Taracd ughi seme and it heip-d today from the united States steam- me, i USe it yet and it helps me every ship West Point, which sailed from j time.. 1 an a widow 66 years old." Baltimore June 12 for Rotterdam i There is nothing; Tetter for bronchia!., carrying food products. The jS&t'&ilVS" gram said the engines were disabled jdrentor croup and whooping- coush. and asked that American coast guard I Contains no opiates. For sal by A. G. cutters be sent., iLuken& Co. Adv.

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day I was beaten for it. I didn't mind that, however, for I always had been a book-fool and readine even with

beating was better than no reading at all. "After a time I ceased to enjoy this program and ran away. In Cincinnati I worked awhile. sliDDine back

to increase the sale of bonds. Harri41Jitep? n;ntinto ,the barn where wrote a poem under the title, "A Trib-1 JTT d ln tht day ij?e- I did this

-"c umu uurueu uown an uunen a policeman caueht me iust as T was

ute to Men Who Bought Liberty Bonds." Throughout America certain parts of this short poem were quoted and requoted, and became a large factor in the propaganda work of selling bonds. "There's steel in your eyes, in your furnaces steel; I know by your looks Just how you

feel; .... ' There's sweat on your face, and there's hair on your chest; j What chance has a Hun got to cause: you unrest The heartless, the soulless, the pitiless Hun,

Who wants all the earth, and the etars, and the sun?" And at the end of the next stanza: "And every bond bought was a thrust through his heart; A Thrift Stamp's 'your bit,' but a bond is your part,' " Beginning the final stanza: "A slacker's a traitor 'mongst men who are free. . A BOND MAN or a bondsman, say which would you be? And people who had bought bonds, bought more bonds, while a lot of people who hadn't bought any at all purchased a few. Dedicated to the Fourth Liberty Loan Parade was: "The Marchers." "Marching through the' city streets; To the brass drums rythmic beats; With a step noV quick, now slow, See the sons of freedom go." In 1910, 1911, when the Century magazine wanted some real negro dialect stories they asked Leon R. Harris to write them a series, which he did. They appeared in issues of this magazine during those two years. A present he writes continuously for magazines and nothing ever comes back, he says. He resolved long ago never to have any of his works published in book form until after he was thirty, years old, when he says, he will have much more perfected style, he hopes. However, a small booklet of his war poems . written during the

Climbing out of the window. I was pretty little, however, and I slipped in between his feet, to his own confusion. Soon afterwards I met a drummer who took me with him to Louisville, and later became able to work my way through Berea college, after which

I went to Tuskegee institute, where I studied the creamery trade. I left Tuskegee when I was seventeen years

Old and went to Iowa. There I was

married, and after teaching school in North Carolina, returned to Ohio, moving to Portsmouth." In Ports

mouth Harris was employed, as he is

now in Richmond, on steel construction work. He feels It is a pleasure and a privilege to work with men of his color, gaining a conception of their outlook on life, and enjoying their joys. The only way to understand the working man is to work with him, in his opinion,, and when you do work with him, he pointed out, you find out a lot about the good that is in him. To the steel makers with whom he has been associated, the colored poet wrote : "Filled with the vigor such jobs, demand, Strong of muscle and steady of hand. Before the flaming furnaces stand The men who make the steel.

Midst the sudden sounds of falling

bars,

Midst the clajig and bang of cranes and carjs. Where the earth beneath them jerks and jars, They work with willing zeal." Again, to the men who had to stay behind and be the "man behind the man behind the gun," Harris wrote. "I am thinkin' there's some gumption In that saying old and trite; That the man who backs the fighter Is the man who wins the fight; That the soldier with his rifle, Going off to do and dare, Has no odds against the workman, Stayin" home to do and bear. They both are patriotic, that's a cinch."

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OPTIMISTS ELECT

fBy Asoclatd Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., June 21. William Henry Harrison of Louisville, was chosen president of the International Optomist association at its first annual convention yesterday. St. Louie was selected for the next convention.

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REJECT LABOR PARTY.

(By Associated Press) ATLANTIC CITY, June 1. The American Federation of Labor Thursday rejected a suggestion that organized labor form a political party. Labor's reconstruction policy, termed a "new declaration of Independence for workmen of America," was adopted in a resolution.

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