Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 261, 15 August 1919 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIUM

T VOL. XLIV, NO. 261-U"1im.n"dte1 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS OVER TWENTY REPUBLICANS PREPARED TO ACT ON PACT DAYLIGHT LAW REPEAL GIVEN ANOTHER VETO RY PRESIDENT Bitterness in Fight Grows and Deadly Enmities Are Made as Managers Prepare to Fight Striking Actors to Last Ditch Will be Temporary English Ambassador

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Will Stand for Quick Ratification of Treaty With Reservations, Democrat Leaders Are Told.

SPEED CONSIDERATION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 More than 20 Republican senators are ready to stand for quick ratification of the peace treaty with reservations. Democratic leaders In the senate were Informed today by leaders of the Republican group of reservation advocates. Republicans favoring reservations said a poll disclosed that more than 20 senators of their party would support reservations along the general lines laid down by the seven Republicans if the treaty could be brought promptly out of committee and ratified on that basis. Although Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, the administration leader, still disclaimed any part on the negotiations for a settlement. It was apparent that the move had reached proportions which might threaten tho plans of the committee for calling additional witnesses and prolonging consideration of the treaty. Records to be Made Senator Hitchcock had an appointment to seo President Wilson at the white house late today and was expected to lay beforo him the whole 6enate situation especially as regards prompt committee action. The administration leaders decline to say whether ho would suggest a change in the announced stand of the administration against reservations. Stenographic records will be made of the conference between President Wilson and the senate foreign relations committee at the white house Tuasday for discussion of the peace treaty. Chairman Lodge was so informed in a letter from the president, made public today. The president said he would have a stenographer present in order that the committee might have "a full and trustworthy record of what is said," and suggested that the committee also have a stenographer present. It-was understood that the official transcript would be made public. STRIKING SHOPMEN TO RETURN TO WORK (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 15. Federated railway shopmen who have been on strike two weeks, will return to work tomorrow. The decision to call the strike off was reached last ny;ht at a meeting of delegates reresenting several hundred thousand members of the crafts involved. The strike was called on August 1. by officers of the Chicago district council, which action was disapproved by the international officers. It spread to nearly every part of the country and caused serious delay in roth freight and passenger service. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Colder tonight. Saturday fair and colder in east portion. Today's Temperature. Noon 86 Yesterday. Maximum 86 Minimum 62 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy; storms and thunderphowers this afternoon and tonight. Cooler tonight. Saturday cooler ana probably fair. General Conditions The storm reported over the northwest continues to move eastward and is expected to cause thundershowers sometime during the next 24 hours followed by clearing weather. Coler and high barometric pressure is moving southeastward from Canada. Heavy storms are prevailing on the Atlantic coast and torrential rains are reported in New Jersey during the last 24 hours; 8:42 inches reported at Atlantic City during the lust 24 hours and 3.64 inches ;it rhilp.delphia.

Historic Village of Centerville Appropriate Spot

By EMMA L. FETTA When the old settlers of Wayne county gather in Centerville, Wayne county'. second seat, Saturday morning, they will be sit tins in the front yards of the boyhood homes of some of Indiana's most famous sons. Centerville is filled not only with historical buildings rind streets which have crossed tho old National road since before 1849, but it also teems with talcs of its war heroes of yesterday and its hardy settlers who were the parents cf the community. Tho forcmo3t figure who steps from the memories surrounding the town is, of course, Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's Civil War governor, who was raised in Salisbury that almost forzotten lirst Wayne county seat on the National road a short distance east of Centerville. In this town, now entirely erased from the roadside, the

NEW YORK, August 15. The actors' strike, which started several days ago in New York and Is spreading to other cities, assumes more serious proportions daily. Bitterness between the producing managers' association, the organization of the producers and show managers, and the Actors' Equity Association, formed by the strikers, is growing. Damage suits brought against the strikers individually by the producers and managers for breach of contract, will total $6,000,000, it is said. The strike has forced the producers to close many theatres and either delay or cancel rehearsals for several of the winter productions. The strikers demand pay during the long summer rehearsals and other improvements in their working conditions. George Cohan has said he will spend every dollar he owns to fight the strike. Cohan Resigns. Some idea of the bitterness which the fight has taken on is shown in the action of Cohan in resigning from the Friars, where he was abbot, and

MOVE TO EXTEND POWER OF FOOD ACT IS BLOCKED Amendments May Come up Tuesday Reed Discusses H. C. L. in Senate. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Action on amendments to the food control act suggested by Attorney General Palmer as a means of reducing the high cost of living was blocked in the senate agricultur committee today. Chairman Gronna hopes the committee will act finally Tuesday. BASED ON NATURAL LAWS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 High cost of living is the result of operation of fundamental and immutable laws and lower living costs will come, to a large degree only from operation of these natural laws, Senator Reed, Democrat of Missouri, declared in an address in the Senate today. Many of the remedies being proposed to reduce living costs, Senator Reed asserted, are futile because they are artificial and designed to disturb cooperation of natural economic tendencies. Increase in production the Missouri Senator declared, would be the greatest factor toward reducing prices. 'There are two great principles in economics and finance which cannot be disregarded and which no amount of legislation can effectively control" said Mr. Reed. "First, whenever the demand for any great necessity materially exceeds the supply, an increase in price follows. The latter condition may be temporarily effected by combinations artificially withholding the supply and controlling the market. But no combination of men and no decrees of government have even been able to transmute a deficiency into rlenty or to remove the natural longings for a necessary article which cannot be obtained. Obvious War Result. "Second: A radical increase in the number of dollars in circulation results in a decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar. "Any devices, plan or scheme therefore which will have a tendency to (Continued on Page Thirteen.) great man-to-be was reared by his two maiden aunts, the Misses Whitacre. Although Morton's young boyhood days were spent in Salisbury, he moved with his aunts to Centerville later on, and in a frame building standing well to the street on Maincross street opposite the Methodist church, the young man studied law in preparation for his career. Next door to this Maincross street house on the corner stood a small frame house, and here lived a little boy, with his widowed mother. This boy is W. H. DeMoss, a retired horseshoer and historical figure in Centerville. He says he remembers well seeing young Morton run in and out of his home, sometimes with law books under his arm, and again, eating an apple, or sprinting after a bit of information of which he was in need.

from the Lambs. A committee from the Friars called on Cohan and asked him to reconsider, but he said: "You are too late. I am in the fight to a finish, and whatever the results, I will leave with my manhood. I am not going to associate as a club member with actors who cut me on the street, and Insult my family. I am an actor and have always been a friend of the actors. I am through with the Lambs and the Friars, and that is final." EVIDENCE GIVEN ON PROFITEERS TO STATE HEADS Gath Freeman in Indianapolis Today, Turns Over Facts for Action. Evidence of at least one Instance, a clear case of profiteering, will be turned over to the state and federal authorities at Indianapolis Friday by Prosecutor Gath P. Freeman, who is in Indianapolis, and will confer with officials on the best methods of procedure against alleged profiteering in Wayne county. According to a statement made by Addison Robey, a grocer of Abington, Ind., to the prosecutor attorney, the C. D. Kenny Co., local wholesale grocers, sold Kenny 100 pounds of sugar recently at 12 cents per pound, or one cent a pound above the government fair price. A discount of 19 cents was allowed on the 100 pounds, however, according to Robey's statement. Newcastle Obtains Evidence. According to information received from Newcastle, a quantity of sugar was recently purchased by a Newcastle grocer from a Richmond wholesale house at 12 cents per pound. According to the Newcastle merchant, the wholesaler later got "cold feet" and sent a bill for 10 cents a pound, covering the sugar. The retailer had already sold his sugar at 14 cents a pound, a margin of two cents on the pound. OHIO HAS WARRANTS FOR 40 PROFITEERS (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 15 Governor Cox announced today that forty warrants would be issued by the state for the arrest of food profiteers. The governor also announced he would ask the federal government to confiscate approximately 2,000,000 pounds of meat and poultry held In cold storage plants. "Oliver Morton was always on the job; always doing something which he was determined would be a success," says DeMoss. For thirty years De Moss was a blacksmith and horseshoer on Maincross street, and now he lives in a pretty house next door to the Methodist church, but has always remembered with pleasure his "littleboy acquaintanceship with Governor Morton." Jacob Julian Built House. In 1848, Jacob Julian, one of the promoters of Irvington addition, in Indianapolis, built a great square brick house at the west terminus of Centerville, in the center of a spacious lawn. In 1859 he sold this house to Oliver P. Morton, who with his wife set the pace of gracious hospitality in the county seat. Two years of days filled with clever and intelligent law work, anfr numerous niehts made in

Cohan also authorized a formal statement earlier in the day through the manager's publicity bureau. It reads: "Every dollar I have in the world and I have a few is on the table in this fight against the actors who are being misled by the Actor's Equity association. Before I will ever do business with the Actors' Equity association, I will lose every dollar I have, even if I have to run an elevator to make a living. I would be with the actors if they were right; but they

are being misled. Glimpses of the actors' strike in New York and some prominent characters taking part in the fight. Two striking actresses "pealing off" the coat of an actor attempting to enter a theatre. George M. Cohan and Ethel Barrymore, who are on different sides of the fence, and Marie Dressier, president of the chorus girls' organization, with crowd of striking actors. SPECIAL SESSION CALLED FOR BY COUNTY'S WOMEN Resolutions Demanding That Governor Speed Ratification Distributed Broadcast. Resolutions of protest against the postponement of a call for a special sesion of the state assembly to consider the ratification of the federal amendemnt for women's suffrage were distributed among women's organizations of the county Friday for signature. The resolutions were those presented over the district by Mrs. Francis Clark, district chairman of the women's Franchise league, and were dis-. tributed in the county by Mrs. Stewart, president of the Dublin Women's Franchise league, and Mrs. Routh, of Cambridge City, county chairman of the organization during the last year. Friends to Protest Mrs. Harlow Lindley signed the protest for the Richmond Franchise league, of which she is president, and the officers of the Friends' Missionary society also will send a resolution of protest to the governor. Copies of the resolution are sent individually by each organization of women. The resolution follows: Whereas we are profoundly gratefu to the governor for his kindness and constructive attitude for enfranchisement of women; Whereas we greatly appreciate the danger of political entanglements in an extra session of the state assembly: Yet whereas the legislature of Wayne county obligate themselves to do everything in their power to limit the session to a week or less and to confine the business of the session to the federal amendment as its major object; Whereas there is no question as to the ultimate ratification of the amendment by the Indiana legislature, which ratification is undoubtedly a necessity, to secure the requisite three-fourths majority of the senate, an early ratification is lndespensible as an influ(Contlnued on Page Fourteen) teresting with famous "hops" placed Oliver Morton and his wife among the most honored citizens of the town. "Many a time as a girl I went dancing through their spacious rooms and walked on around the lawn in the moonlight," says Mrs. Anna Lashley, who lives two doors east of the Morton house, and was one of the young belles, who today has some of the most interesting tales of the former county seat to relate. When Morton was elected governor of Indiana, in 1861. he sold his Centerville home to Judge W. A. Peele, whose descendants still own it. Miss Martha Peele occupied the house for a number of years and at her death it was rented first to one family and then tq another, until it has now become the home -of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ahl, although still in the possession of Robert Noble, of Phila

FEDERAL HELP FOR RAILROADS HELDJSSENTIAL Relief Denied Many Roads by Commission Declares Forney Johnston. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. If Congress proposes to build a foundation for American prosperity it must extend a steadying hand to the railroads, Forney Johnston of advisory counsel for the national association of Owners of Railroad securities, told the House inter-state commerce commission today. "If congress does not take courageous and constructive action now," said Mr. Johnston, appearing in behalf of the Warfleld six percent, return plan, "the progress of a generation toward a well regulated system of privately owned and operated railway transportation will be destroyed and the 66th congress will have forced government ownership under conditions and with results which the future alone can assay." Mr. Johnston contended the security owners association had presented the only process that would avoid "this fatal and irrevocable step." Pointing out that in 1916 ninty-one railroads, operating more than 80,000 miles had paid no dividends whatever, he declared American railroads had been kept in a breadline before the door of the inter-state commerce commission since 1910 and that relief by the commission had been denied or grudgingly and sparingly dealt out

because certain roads in each region were thought to be affluent. "Yet before the committees of congress and In every case brought be fore the commission to advance rates, the witness said, "a vast mileage of American railways has been choked off with the assertion that average statistics show average prosperity. It has been actuated to deny general relief because certain roads were prosperous and the commission was un willing to add to their prosperity even to save the large number of roads which were receiving admittedly inadequate revenue." It was to meet this situation he told the committee that the Warfield plan would direct the commission to fix rates so that the roads could earn a minimum guaranteed return of six per cent upon capital invested, with division of all surplus over that figure among employes, the public and the earning road. Urge Warfield Tlan "The fundamental proposal of the Warfield plan;t Mr; Johnston -tJfecOared, "is that this continual basis of warfare between the shipper and the railroads, the constant depressing factor against relief before the commission when relief is necessary must be removed by regulation of excess earnings which will relieve shipping organizations of their apprehension and the commission of the odium which would be vis ited upon it if affluent railroads were given higher rates to protect American transportation from bankruptcy." In contending that congress must give constructive relief or else see the railroads plunged into bankruptcy or government ownership, Mr. Johnston said the Warfield plan offered the "one solution upon which all conflicting elements in the situation could unite." "We feel absolutely . assured," he said, ''that in presenting the association plan we stand upon safe ground consistent with the constitution and with American traditions. While it ! is progressive in its acceptance of the idea of complete regulation we are certain It preserves the Incentive to good service, high efficiency, and consideration for passengers and shippers which no governmental organism or class organization would accord." REDS AGAIN TAKE BOTH FROM GIANTS NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Cincinnati beat New York here this afternoon 4 to 3. Barnes was taken out in the eighth. The score: R. H. E. Cincinnati 100 300 0004 11 2 New York 100 000 2003 6 1 Batteries Eller and Wingo; Barnes, Dubuc and Gonzales, Snyder. NEW YORK SHUT OUT NEW YORK. Aug. 15. Cincinnati took the second game here this afternoon, making four runs on four hitsFisher pitched great ball for the Reds, holding the Giants scoreless, although six hits were made off him. The score: R. H. E. Cincinnati .0 00003001. 4 4 2 New York .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 6 1 Fisher and Rarlden; Snyder. Benton and

For Old Settler's Meeting Saturday

delphia, a grandson of Judge Peele. In the rooms of the Ahl home hang pictures of Jeremy Mansur and his wife, the grandparents of Mrs. Ahl. who was Miss Florence Myrick. House Is Unchanged. Today the Morton house stands almost as it did when the war governor was living in its broad rooms. It is white brick and massively beautiful. The great square living room to the right of the white hall is the Ahl's living room, but back of this the former library has been made a down-stairs bedroom. Back of the ball is the dining room and back of it the kitchen in which the once famous invisible bath tub is located. The hall is one of the most interesting parts of the house combining with Its simple elegance, a spirit of home. Broad, low, splendidly guagd steps are flanked on the right by a.

Viscount Grey Viscount Grey, former British secretary of state for foreign affairs, has consented to become Great Britain's ambassador to the U. S. temporarily until a permanent one is named next spring. He was selected partly because of his ability to deal with questions arising out of the peace settlement. MOULDERS WALK OUT; WANT MORE PAY, 8-HOUR DAY 200 Men, From Every Shop in Town, Ask $6 a Day for Shorter Hours. Approximately 200 moulders, employed In all foundries of Richmond, walked out Friday morning, following the presentation of demands to the employers for shorter working hours and an adjustment cf wages. The men were called out on strike shortly after they started work. In some of the foundries, there have been only a few men to leave their work, and in these it is not expected that any serious shortage of labor will result. The Reliance foundry, employing approximately 75 men, had only four men walk out when the strike was called, and only a few men left their work at the Swayne-Robinson company. Officials of the American Seeding Machine company said that all of their men were at work this noon. According to an official of the Richmond Malleable Castings company, where approximately 35 men left their work, the men presented a request to the officials for immediate signature. and declared their Intention of strik lng at once. They were pursuaded to remain until noon, however. Men employed at the Wayne Works foundry, left their work Friday morning, according to an employe of the factory, and although the exact number of men who walked out could not be learned, it was said that the entire force left. Receive $6.50 a Day. The demands made by the union, according to an official of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company, included an eigh hour working day, time and half for overtime work, and a minimum wage of $6 a day. At present the men are receiving $C50 a day, but are working 10 hours and are not given overtime. Officials of the moulders' union refused to make any statement of their case Friday afternoon, but said that they would make public their side of the controversy tomorrow. The strikers are making their headquarters at the Druids' hall. Although a slight delay will be caused by the strike in some plants, according to officials of various foundries, a week or ten days is necessary before any of the other departments will have to stop their work. DENY AID TO KOLCHAK (By Associated Press) TOKIO, Aug. 15. The Japanese government has informed Admiral Kolchak, that It is unable to accede to his request to assist him in the war against the Bolshevik. spirally upheld railing of wood still in splendid condition. An easy curve carries the ascending visitor and leaves him ia a square upper hall. The second floor follows the lower in position of rooms, but is not used to any great extent by the present occupants. To the west of the Morton house and outside the corporation line stands the homestead of William Morton, a half brother of Oliver Morton. This and other houses of this district were all built in what was known as the Abrams addition, Israel Abrams having been the original settler of the land. Next door to the Morton house stands a red brick house which, too, has a tale to tell. Jesse P. Sidall was one of its first occupants, and then it was that a board bearing the names, "Morton and Sidall, Attorneys-

Wilson Refuses to Approve Measure for Second Time Says U. S. Industrial Needs Determine Action.

PASSAGE IS DOUBTFUL (By Associated Pres) WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. President Wilson today vetoed the bill repealing the daylight saving law. The president said he returned th bill without his approval with "the utmost reluctance" because he realized "the very considerable and In some respecte very serious Inconveniences to which the daylight saving law subjects the farmers of the country." Declaring the pressing need of the country was production by Industry, the president said he had been obliged to "balance one set of disadvantages against another" and decide which was the more serious for the country. The president's message was sent to Speaker Gillett but when an effort was made to present It to the house. Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, made a point of no quorum and the house adjourned without the message being read. Establishes Precedent. This was the second time the president had vetoed repeals of the law by which the clocks are set forward an hour on the last Sunday in March and turned back an hour the last Sunday in October. The first Veto was several wocVa ago, the repeal being attached as a rider to the annual agricultural ap propriation Dill. White house officials and members of congress could not recall today a previous instance of a president having twice vetoed the same bill. Efforts to pass the agricultural measure over the veto failed In the house and then the separate house repeal bill, then pending was passed by the senate. Leaders in congress doubt that the two-thirds vote necessary to pass the repeal measure over the president's head can be obtained. REV. E. H. BROWN, OF MOORESVILLE, EAST MAIN PASTOR The K'ev. E. Howard Brown and his wife, Ruth E. Brown, have been called from their present pastorage at Mooresville, Ind., to assume the pastorage of the East Main Street Friends Church, announced Timothy Nicholson, Friday morning. He wiil assume his new duties about September 23. Mrs. Brown is a Doctor of Divinity and will aid her husband as assistant pastor. The Mooresville congregation expressed much regret over the prospect of losing them, but as the Rev. Brown has children about to enter Earlham College and desires to be near them, the congregation accepted the resignation of Rev. Brown in order that he might accept the call of the Richmond ohurch. The Rev. Brown was affiliated with the Friends church in Iowa for a number of yeare before coming to Indiana, where he has been stationed for a considerable period. The Rev. John Webb, the present pastor, who resigned some time ago. and who at present Is attending the Friends' Yearly Meeting at Wilmington, Ohio, has made no announcement as to his future plans. His resignation goes into effect, about Sept. 23. SERVICE ON OHIO ELECTRIC HALTED (By Associated PrasO COLUMBUS. O., Aug. 15. Service over practically every division of the Ohio Electric interurban railway operating throughout Ohio and Eastern Indiana came to a complete halt this morning when 500 trainmen went on strike demanding an increase in wages. According to an announcement at the superintendent's office here the company will not endeavor to run cars pending a settlement. jat-Law," heralding a new law firm, hung out from the second story of the building now occupied by the Old Trail's Echo and the Masonic Lodge. The Sidall homestead was later sold to Charles Elmer. East of the Sidall house stands the residence of Mrs. Anna Lashley, the widow of Albert Lashley, a native of Maryland. Mrs. Lashley. who was Miss Anna Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, was also born in Maryland, and when she was only nine years old rode overland In a covered wagon to Indiana. Her parents with other settlers started from ytysburgh. Pa., in 1849 and stopped In Centerville Jor a visit with relatives. The National road was under construction at this time and teams were very badly needed. The Jones family was encouraged to remain in Center Continued On Page Eleven.