Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 269, 26 August 1919 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUG. 26, 1919.
STATE FARMERS WARNED AGAINST
CROP 'TLUNGING" Houston Urges Farmers to Get Back to Balanced Production of Staples. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Aug. 26. Warning against "speculative plunging" In the planting of crops and advice to farmers of Indiana to get back to "balanced, sane and efficient production of staples," was contained in a telegram received today by Prof. O. I. Christie, state food director, from Secretary of Agriculture Houston, In Washington. The message wag In reply to one sent by Prof. Christie recently asking for a farming program to be recommended In Indiana. The reply follows:
"While exact supply conditions for 1920 can not be forecast with accuracy
at this time, all Information available
here Indicates continued strong demand for cereals and live stock products. Maintenance of normal acreage of fall wheat and rye In the middle west on lands adapted to these crops
is considered sound policy. It is important to restore meadows and pastures broken up during the war emergency and to reestablish crop rotation to prevent depletion of the soil fertility and to afford a sound basis for maintaining livestock production. "Suggest to farmers the advisability
of maintaining their production of cereals, forage crops and livestock on a basis of their accumulated experience with these, avoiding speculative plunging In unbalanced production, which involves undue climatic and
price hazard. The need is for wellbalanced, sane and efficient produc
tion of staples, the demand for which is reasonably certain, judging from
existing domestic and foreign condl tions."
Wilson Appeals to Railroad Men arid Public in Answer to Demands
IW. VORE, 92 YEARS
OLD, PIONEER, DIES
Revolution in Honduras
Successfully Put Down
(By Associated Press) SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal
vador, Monday, August 25. The revo
lution in Honduras has Deen put down, according' to advices received
here from official sources in that country. The minister of government of Hon
duras has sent a circular to the heads of the different departmental government granting amenity to all revolutionists and permitting them to return to their homes.
Chicago Saloon Keepers Held on U. S. Warrants (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. Aug. 26. A policeman -a as killed, one man was fatally wr.uuded and two Seriously injured l-i a revolver fight in a saloon late last right. An argument over activity of .? '..vevament officials against alleged violators of the wartime prohibition law is said to have precipitated the fight. It was stated today that more than 35 warrants were ready to be served on saloon keepers accused of violation of the liquor law, in addition to the 26 down town bars raided yesterday by federal officers. Disregard of the July 1 law is said to extend to districts outside the business center and that the raids of federal agents will be directed to these sections.
VETERAN8 ORGANIZE
(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 25. A world war veterans' section of the American Pharmaceutical association will be organized today at the association's convention. It Is estimated that more than 10,000 pharmacists were in the service.
PLAN "DRY" CONFERENCE
(By Associated Press) WESTERVILLE. O.. Aug. 25. Ernest H. Charrlngton, secretary of the executive committee of the anti-saloon league, today announced that a conference of the officials of the national organization and the superintendents of all state leagues, will be held in Chicago, Sept. 17, and 18, to take steps for law enforcement in the United States and prohibition efforts in other countries.
RESPONSE INCOMPLETE.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, August 26. Discussion of the Austrian peace treaty was continued by the supreme council this morning. The response to be made by the allied powers was discussed at yesterday's session, but was not completed. There was no session of the council this afternoon because Premier Clemenceau had to attend the meeting of the chamber of deputies.
ADMIRAL WOOD IS GUEST
The president in his statement to
the representatives of the shopmen
Monday In his reply to their wage de
mands said:
Gentlemen: I reauest that vou lav
this critical matter before the men in
new light. The vote they have tak
en was upon the Question whether
they should insist upon the wage increase they were asking or consent to
the submission of their claims to a
new tribunal, to be constituted by new legislation. That question no longer has any life In it. Such legislation is not now in contemplation. I request that you ask the men to reconsider the whole matter in view of the fol
lowing considerations, to which I ask
their thoughtful attention as Ameri
cans, and which I hone that vou will
lay before them as I here state them.
"We are face to face with a itua-
tion which is more likely to affect the
nappmess and prosperity, and even the life, of our people than the war itself. We have now eot to do noth
ing less than bring our Industries and
our labor of every kind back to a normal base after the greatest upheaval
known In history, and the winter Just
aneaa or us may bring suffering in-1 finitely greater than the war brought upon us if we blunder or fail In the process. An admirable spirit of selfsacrifice, of patriotic devotion, and of community action guided and inspired us while the fighting was on. We shall need all these now, and need them in a heightened degree, if we are to accomplish the first tasks of peace. They are more difficult than the tasks of war more complex, less easily understood and require more Intelligence, patience and sobriety. We mobilized our man power for the fighting; let us now mobilize our brain power and our consciences for the reconstruction. If we fail, it will mean national disaster. The primary step Is to increase production and facilitate transportation, so as to make up for the destruction wrought by the war, the terrible scarcities it created, and so as soon as possible relieve our people of the cruel burden of high prices. The railways are at the center of this whole process. War on the Profiteer. "The government has taken ud with
all its energy the task of bringing the priflteer to book, making the stocks of necessaries 'in the country available at lowered prices, stimulating production and facilitating distribution and very favorable results are already beginning to appear. There is reason to entertain the confident hope that substantial relief will result and result In increasing measure. A general increase In the levels of wages would check and might defeat all this its very beginning. Such increases would inevitably raise, not lower, the cost of living. Manufacturers and producers of every sort would have innumerable additional pretexts for Increasing profits and all efforts to discover and defeat profiteering would be hopelessly confused.
I believe that the present efforts to reduce the costs of living will be successful, if no new elements of difficulty are thrown in the way and I confidently count upon the men engaged in the service of the railways to assist, not obstruct. It is much more in their interest to do this than to insist upon wage Increases which will undo everything the government attempts. They are good Americans, along with the rest of us, and may, I am sure, be counted on to see the point.
"It goes without saying that If our efforts to bring the cost of living down should fail, after we have had time enough to establish either success or failure, it will of course be necessary
to accept the higher costs of living as a permanent basis of adjustment, and railway wages should be readjusted along with the rest. All that I am now urging Is that we should not be guilty of the Inexcusable, inconsistency of making general Increases in wages on the assumption that the present cost of living will be permanent at the very time that we are trying with great confidence to reduce the cost of living and are able to say that it is actually beginning to fall. Should Not Be Uneasy. "I am aware that railway employes have a sense of insecurity as to the future of the railroads and have many
misgivings as to whether their inter
ests will be properly safeguarded when
the present form of Federal control has come to an end. No doubt It is in
part this sense of uncertainty that prompts them to insist that their wage interests be adjusted now rather than
under conditions which they can not
certainly foresee. But I do not think tbat'their uneasiness is well grounded.
I anticipate that legislation dealing
with the future of the railroads will
in explicit terms afford adequate pro
tection for the intersts of the em
ployes of the roads; but, quite apart from that, it Is clear that no legislation can make the railroad other than what they are, a great public interst and it is not likely that he President of the United States, whether In possession and control of the railroads or rot, will lack opportunity or persuasive force to influence the decision of questions arising between the managers of the railroads and the railway employes. The employes may rest asured that, during my term of office, whether I am in actual possession of the railroads or not, I shall not fail to exert the full influence of executive to see that justice is done them. "I believe, therefore, that they may be Justified in the confidence that
(By Associated Press) SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salvador, Monday, Aug. 25. Rear Admiral SnpTicer S. Wood, cnmmandpr
of the first division of the Pacific , hearty co-operation with the governfleet, and his staff were guests of ! ment now ln its efforts to reduce the
honor at a ball given tonight by the Salvadorean society. President Melondez gave a banquet ln honor of Admiral Wood and his staff at the executive mansion.
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cost of living will by no means be prejudicial to their own interests, but will, on the contrary, prepare the way for more favorable and satisfactory relations in the future. "I confidently count on their cooperation in this time of national test and crisis." Addresses Public. The president's statement addressed to the public follows: "My fellow citizens: A situation has arisen in connection with the administration of the railways which is of such general significance that I think it my duty to make a public statement concerning it in order that the whole country may know what is involved. "The railroad shopmen have demanded a large increase in wages. They are now receiving 58, 63 and 85 cents per hour. This demand has been given careful and serious consideration by the board which was constituted by the railway administration to adjust questions of wages, a board consisting of an equal number of representatives of employes and of the operating managers of the railroad
companies. This board has been unable to come to an agreement, and it has therefore devolved upon the director of railroads and myself to act upon the merits of the case. "The shopmen urge that they are entitled to higher wages because of the higher wages for the present received by men doing similar work in shipyards, navy yards and arsenals, as well as ln a number of private industries, but I concur with the director general ln thinking that there is no real basis of comparison between the settled employment afforded mechanics by the railroads under living conditions as various as4 the locations and surroundings of the railway shops themselves and the fluctuating employment afforded ln Industries exceptionally and temporarily stimulated by the war and located almost without exception in industrial centers where the cost of living Is highest. Argument Is Potent. "The substantial argument which the shopmen urge is the very serious increase in the cost of living. This is a very potent argument indeed. But
the fact Is that the coBt of living has certainly reached its peak, and probably be lowered by the efforts which are now everywhere being concerted and carried out. It will certainly be lower
ed as soon as there are settled condi
tions of production and of commerce; that is, so soon as the treaty of peace
is ratified and in operation and merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and
miners all have a certain basis or cal
culation as to what their business will be and what the conditions will be under which It must be conducted.
The demands of the shopmen, therefore, and all similar demands are ln effect this: that we make Increases
in waees which are likely to be per
manent, in order to meet a temporary situation which will last no one can certainly tell how long, but in all probability only for a limited time.
Increases in wages will, moreover, cer.
talnly result in still further increasing
the costs of production, and, tnereiore,
the cost of living, and we should only have to go through the same process
again. Any substantial increase of wages in leading lines of industry at this time would utterly crush the general campaign which the government
is waging, with energy, vigor and bud-
stantial hope of success, to reduce the high cost of living. And the increases in the cost of transportation which
would necessarily result from in
creases in the wages of railway em
ployes would more certainly have that effect than any other enhanced wage
costs. Only by keeping the cost or
production on its present level, by in
creasing production and by rigid econ
omy and saving on the part of the DeoDle can we hone for large de
creases in the burdensome cost of liv
ing which now weighs us down. Face Difficult Task
"The director general of railroads
and I have felt that peculiar responsi bility rests upon us, because in de
termining this Question we are not
studying the balance sheets of corpor
ations merely; we are in effect con
sidering the burden of taxation which must rest upon the people of the country in general. We are acting, not for private corporations, but in the name of the government and the public, and must assess our responsibility accordingly. For it is neither wise nor
feasible to take care of increases ln the wages of railroad employes at this
time by Increases in freight rates. It is Impossible at this time until peace has come and normal conditions are restored, to estimate what the earning
capacity of the railroads will be when ordinary conditions return. There is no certain basis, therefore, for calcu
lating what the Increases of freight rates should be, and It is necessary, for the time being at any rate, to take care of all Increases in the wages of railway employes through appropriations from the public treasury. "In such circumstances, it seems clear to me, and I believe will seem clear to the shopmen themselves, when they have taken second thought, and to all wage earners of every kind, that
we oueht to postpone Questions of
this sort until normal conditions come
again and we have the opportunity
for certain calculations as to the rela
tion between wages and the cost of living. It is the duty of every citizen of the country to insist upon a truce in such contests until intelligent
settlements can be made and made by peaceful and effective common council. I appeal to my fellow citizens of every employment to co-operate also ln Insisting upon and maintaing such a truce, and to co-operate also in sustaining the government in what I conceive to be the only course which conscientious public servants can pursue. Demands unwisely made and passionately insisted upon at this time menace the peace and prosperity of the country as nothing else could, and thus contribute to bring about the very results which such demands are intended to remedy. One Claim is Just "There is, however, one claim made by the railway shopmen which ought
to be met. They claim that they are not enjoying the same advantages that other railway employes are enjoying because their wages are calculated upon a different basis. The wages of other railway employes are based upon the rule that they are to receive for eight hours' work the Bame pay they received for the longer work day that was the usual standard of the pre-war period. This claim is, I am told, well founded; and I concur in the conclusion of the director general that the shopmen ought to be given the additional four cents an hour which the readjustment asked for will Justify. There are certain other adjustments, also pointed out ln the report of the director general, which ought in fairness to be made, and which will be made. "Let me add also, that the position which the government must in conscience take against general increases in wage levels, while the present exceptional and temporary circumstances exist, will of course not preclude the railroad administration from giving prompt and careful consideration to any claims that may be made by other classes of employes for readjustments believed to be proper to secure impartial trsatment for all who work in the railway service. Woodrow Wilson.
William D. Vore, 92 years old, died
at his home, 732 North Tenth street at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, from old age and Infirmity. He was born in
Wayne county ln 1827, and has resid
ed here all of his life. He held a birthright ln the Friends' church at Hollansburg. Vore was a member of one of the pioneer families. He is surviv
ed by one daughter, Mrs. Roberts, and two sons, W. E. Vore, 732 North Tenth street, Richmond, and S. T. Vore of Lynn. Funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
People, Dogs, Horses, Birds;
Everybody Drinks From 9th and Main Fountain Who knows the most popular drink
ing place ln Richmond? Are the drug store soda fountains the most popu
lar, or the fountains in the cigar
stores, or are the saloons the most
popular oases?
By actual count, more people stop
to drink from the fountain at Ninth
and Main streets, than any other
place in the city. Business men, lab
oring men, rich men, poor men, beg
gar men and profiteers, all stop to
take a drink. At one time Tuesday
morning there were 7 men, 3 women
and 4 children, all awaiting their turn
to drink from this fountain.
Horses also use the fountain, and
dogs stand up on their hind legs and
drink their fill. The pigeons which
make their homes in the buildings
near the fountain, use it for their
needs, and the English sparrow de
lights ln It.
Negro Children Entertain Town to Win Donations
A band composed of a dozen small
negroes, who ranged ln years from
five to fifteen, and most of whose fathers gave their life In the great war for democracy, played several pieces on some of the city's busiest street corners, during the noon hour, Tues
day, in an effort to raise monev to
build an institution that htey might be
taught tne fundamentals of a wholesome life.
The children are touring the country
In an effort to raise (5,000. If they raise this amount they will be the recipitents of $20,000 for their school, from a wealthy Dayton, O., resident, according to their spokesman.
PRICES PAID FARMERS
FOR CHICKENS DROP
Tuesday morning, the price paid far
mers for frying chickens dropped
from 33c a pound to 28c a pound. Old chickens dropped from 25 to 23c a pound.
1 FLOHRE GETS ONE DAY IN JAIL FOR LARCENY
Charles Flohre was fined $30 and costs and sentenced to one day in jail on a charge of larceny, by Mayor Zimmerman In police court Tuesday.
AUTO FIRE EXTINGUISHED.
The city fire department received a call Monday evening to the Doran bridge, to put out a fire In an automobile.
Serb Battalion Fought
From 1914 to Present MEDVEJIA GORA, Russian Lapland, July 5. (Mail Corespondence of The Associated Press.) A Serbian battalion which has been fighting under one flag, or another since August, 1914, still Is fighting, up here in Karelian, Russia. The role of these Serbs on the North Russian front has been similar to that of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia and reads like an unfinished Iliad. They are big, strapping, well disciplined soldiers, five years and several thousand miles from home, and, just now, when
they go in action against the Bolsheviki, along with their Russian, British, French or until recently, American Allies, they display the same dash and battle enthusiasm that characterized the Serbs in the early days of the war. One way or another, these Serbians reached Odessa, where they were formed into a battalion for service
against the Central Powers. They want to get somewhere to fight Austria go they started for Archangel, hoping eventually to Join the Allies in France. The Serbs seized a locomotive and sufficient box cars to carry the battalion and after four months journey arrived at Murmansk. The Allies landing at Murmansk in the spring of 1918 found the Serbian battalion there, ready to fight against the Bolsheviki, and for the first few months of the campaign, the Serbs formed the backbone of the force op
posing the Reds, which speedily wrested several hundred miles of the Murmansk railway from the Communists. Throughout the subsequent fighting on this front Serbs have distinguished themselves, and now they are awaiting the day when they can return to the new greater Serbia which includes Bosnia and other territories where
they lived when impressed into the Austrian army.
JERUSALEM REALLY SURRENDERED BY YANK CAMERA MAN?
NEW WTILMINGTO N, Pa Aug. 26. The city of Jerusalem was really surrendered to the British by a Yankee photographer, acting for the Arab mayor, according to an account of the affair told by Captain Wendell Cleland, e former resident of New Wilmington, who recently returned from Egypt where Ee had served as a Red Cross worker. After weeks of bombardment. Captain Cleland, said, the Turks had decided to surrender. The mayor hitched a sorry looking team of donkeys to a carriage, raised the white flag and started out of the city gates to find the British. On the way he encountered the American photographer and asked him to ride'with him. Followed by many of the city's peo
ple, the procession continued until two British soldiers halted them, where
upon the American informed the "Tom
mies" that he had the honor or sur
rendering the keys of the city to the
British government and asked the sen
try to lead the way to the British gen
eral s camp.
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into the city and posted a notice that it was under protection of the-Bri-
tish government. Two days' later -
General Allenby rode triumphantly in-r
to Jerusalem and the news of the surrender was given to the world. f
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EXPENDITURES AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1919 This report is approximated as suggested by State Board of Accounts. The Trustee of Jackson Township, Wayne County, proposes lor the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at the Trustee's office on the 8th day of September, 1919, com
mencing at 2 o clock, p. m., the fol
lowing estimates and amounts for
Bald year: 1. Township expenditures, J2.296.00, and Township tax, 3 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local Tuition expenditures, $5,500.00, and tax, 9 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special School Tax expenditures, $5,100.00, and tax, 8 cents on the hundred dollars.
4. Road Tax expenditures, $4,350.00 and tax, 8 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional Road Tax expenditures, $ and tax, . . cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Library expenditures, $2,000.00, and tax, 2 cents on the hundred dollars. 7. Poor expenditures for preceding year, made by Auditor, and tax . . cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures, $19,295.00, and total tax, 30 cents on the hundred dollars. The taxables of the above named township are as follows: Total Valuation of Lands and Improvements, of Personal Property, of Rail Roads, Express Companies, Palace Car Companies, Telegraph Lines, Telephone
Lines, etc., etc. (Estimated from Last Year's Tax Duplicate $4,189,002 Amount of Credit on account of Mortgage Exemption 50,000
RAYLE CALLED TO FUNERAL. W. S. Rayle, the "Y" general secretary to returned service men, has been called to the funeral of his aunt at Spiceland, Ind., who died Monday.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENT Department of Public Works, office of the Board, Richmond, Ind., August 25, 1919. To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Richmond, Indiana, that on the 25th day of August, 1919, they approved an assessment roll showing the prima facie assessments for the following described public improvement, as authorized by the Improvement Resolution named: Improvement Resolution No. 567, 1919. For the improvement of the alley between North 20th and 21st Btreet: By constructing a cement roadway the full width thereof in said alley from the first alley north of Main street to North "C" Street. Persons interested in or affected by said described public Improvement are hereby notified that the Board of Public Works of said city has fixed Thursday, Sept. 18, 1919, 9 o'clock a. m., as a date upon which remonstrances will be received, or heard, against the amount assessed against each piece of property described in said roll and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited in the amounts named on said roll, or ln a greater or less sum than that named on said roll. Said assessment roll showing said prima facie assessments, with the names of owners and descriptions of property subject to be assessed, is on file and may be seen at the office of the Board of Public Works of said city. HARRY W. GILBERT, THOMAS C. TAYLOR, JOHN E. PELTZ, Board of Public Works. " aug 26
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