Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 304, 6 October 1919 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, OCT. 6, 1919.

PAGE NINE

PRODUCE MORE, APPEAL OF U.S. DEFENSE BODY

Nation Falling Down . o n Teamwork and Self-Sacrifice, National Body Finds.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 The United

States Council of National Defense,

composed of the secretaries of war,

navy, interior, agriculture, commerce

and labor, has made a careful investigation of the high cost of living prob

lem and finds: That the nation's productive powers

have not been fully utilized since the

armistice.

That too few goods, notably the ne

cessities of life, have been produced and that even some of these fcoodl

have been withheld from the market, , and therefore from the people. That the high cost of living Is due in part to unavoidable war waste and Increase of money and credit. That there has been and Is considerable profiteering, intentional and , unintentional. The council believes that the remedies for the situation are: . To produce more goods and to produce them In proportion to the needs of the people. To stamp out profiteering and stop unnecessary hoarding. To enforce vigorously present laws and to enact promptly such further laws as are necessary to prevent and punish profiteering and needless hoarding. To enforce vigorously present laws and to enact promptly such further laws as are necessary to prevent and punish profiteering and needless

boarding. To bring about better co-operation and method in distributing and marketing goods. To keep both producer and consumer fully Informed as to what goods are needed and as to what supplies are

ticipate the country's demands. "Goods and not money are the

means of life," says the council in a statement to the public. "Better standards of living are impossible

can not consume what has not been produced. Must Share With Allies "At the war's end our allies had desperate need of the essentials of life. We have had to share our resources with them, but this drain will gradually lessen. In so far as our shortage of goods is due to this cause we can well afford to be patient. "It is just a3 essential that we have

patience with the economic situation here at home. The process of production requires time. If production is rapidly increased vastly improved conditions will prevail in America when the results of present and future labor begin to appear. "Teamwork is imperative. It is just as essential between retailer, wholesaler and producer as it is between employer and employe. One group of producers can not wait on another group. The manufacturer, the farmer, the distributor must each immediately assume his part of the burden and enter upon his task. The nation can not afford curtailment of goods vital to the people. "The entire nation producer, distributer and consumer alike should return to the unity that won the war. Group interest and undue personal gain must give way to the good of the whole nation If the situation is to be squarely met. "Our common duty now, fully as much as in the war, is to work and to save. In the words of the president in his address to the country on Aug25, 1919, only 'by increasing production and by rigid economy and saving on the part of the people can we hope for large decreases in the burdensome cost of living which now weight us down.' "Work, save, co-opeate, produce."

WHEN MOBS SPREAD DEATH ""AND "RUIN IN OMAHA

WOMAN SUICIDE IS MRS, FRANKWOLKE

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INDIANS ONCE HAD LEAGUE OF NATIONS

(New York Evening Sun) Discussion of the league of nations recalls an Indian experiment with a league that endured for more than 300 years, most of 'which were devo

ted to , fighting nations outside the league. About the middle' of the fifteenth century, , according to well founded

Indian tradition, group of wise men and chiefs of the five- nations which later composed the league of the Iriquoise, metat ' a council fire on the northern chore. of -Onondaga lake In the vicinity of what Is now the city of Syracuse.,' and after burying the hatchet and passing around the peace pipe made an agrsemen that foreever did away with war among the five nations.' ' " ' "" . . Among the- Indians at, the New York state reservations It is still the customs to conduct "powwows yearly or so, on, which ocasions the few decendants of the Iroquois Indulge ill fantastic " rites ' remindful of the days when the' league held Bway. League Makes Conquests ' . Although Indian tradition generally .points to- a remote age as the time when the league of the Ho-de-ho-ftau-neej Orthe People of the Long House, as the league, was called, originated, bistoryshows that it bad existed about a century and a half at the era of Dutch discovery. At that time the total, population of the five " uatlons was only 25,000, with the formation of the league, the Irl-

quos, rose rapidly in power and in

fluence, and by waging constant war

on other Indian tribes gained pos session of virtually the entire terri

tory from the Atlantic to the Miss-

lsslpi and from northern Canada to Tennessee.

The League of the People of the

Red Cross workers standing before their offices in new county courthouse destroyed by fire; youth, on horse back said to be relative of girl assaulted, and Mayor Edward P. Smith.

Omaha has been under martial law since race riots broke out in that city Sept. 23. The riots followed the assaulting of Agnes Loeback by a negro. A mob stormed the courthouse to Ret the

negro. When Mayor Smith attempted to halt them they placed a rope around his neck and were "stringing him up" when police rescued him. Then the mob set fire to the courthouse to drive out

the sheriffs force and prisoner from the jail on the upper floor. The courthouse, a new structure, was totally destroyed. The negro was murdered by the mob. Several persons were killed and injured.

MIDINETTES OF PARIS COME BACK TO OLD HAUNTS

(M. K. Wisehart, in Leslie's Weekly) Before the war therewas centered in ' Paris the great industry called "confections of Paris". This Indus try supplied the whole civilized world with styles and models in women's wearing apparel-and it was even said that the barbarians of some savage country got their notions in dress from Paris. The industry was centered at first about a few great houses of international reputation, and graduallyspread to hundreds of others, some large and some small, and the trade lured foreign buyes to come to Paris for better styles, cheaper goods and cheaper prices. The handmaiden of this Industry was the midinette. The reputation for French goods has been based on handwork in contrast with machine work; and it was the labor of the midinette, bought at a very cheap price, that enabled the trade to develope. The midinette is a girl from fourteen to twenty-four possibly Parisian by birth, or perhaps one of the thousands from the provinces who comn to Paris to seek their livelihood in this occupation. The midinettes have been apostrophized by French writers, poets and novelists, and made known even to Americans by the students of the Latin quarters in ante-bellum days. During the four thousand of them were imployed in munition factories and the thousands who remained in Paris were oppressed, as was all

Tarls, by the gloom and besetting

sadness of the strife. The "return of the midinette" refers not only to the fact that those who were in the munition factories

are now back in their old trades, but to the reappearance of the esprit anl gladness and chlcness of the midinette. She is again taking her place in the pleasant life of Paris.' But she is a new midinette, a more independent being, a unionized midinette The typical bright little midinette before the war earned adout $18 a month on which by close saving she could live even apart from her family. In the streets in the olden days almost any time of the year one was sure to see great numbers of mirinettes. They were always chic for they were possesed of a skill that could make what looked like a robe out of a carpet and a hat out of a piece of ribbon. Their occupationwas seasonal, and when they had nothing else to do they would "promenade ". Now promenading is the great pastime of Parisians. It means so much to the French that some writers say that whenever there is danger of revolution In Paris the government simply declares a jour de fete, which Is equivelent to proclaiming a day for promenading. Then the Parisians walk off their ebulliant spirits, and the government Is saved! On any such days the pastry shops would be filled with midinettes end the boulevards would be thronged with what Miss Jane Addams callx the "spirit of the joy in the streets."

The gayety of the midinettes is of the same temperament that made the phrase e'est la guerra". When the war came the "confections" industry was greatly hampered. The chief men in the business were mobilized. Fifteen or 20 per cent of the midinettes found themselves In the munition factories; others re turned to their homes in the provinces to care for the farm and the family in the place of their fathers and brothers. Paris was concerned with something besides fashions, and the midinettes who remained turned to other occupations.

Long house was In high feather until the days of the American Revolution, when it allied itself with the Brilsh cause. The Iroquois were compelled to side with the British because of entangling alliances entered into by the league councils, and they waged a terrible border warfare against the American colonies. With the defeat of the British armies the league afterseveral centuries of existence, received its death blow; Da-ga-no-we-da the Founder Indian tradition has it that a wise man of the Onondagas by the name

of Da-ga-no-we-da was the founder of the league and its first law giver.

The alliance of the five nations

was directly brought about by their

sad plight after they had been driven from their ancient homes near Montreal by the Adirondacks, and had been compelled to seek refuge in the territory that now composes New York. y So came along the Onondaga nation with a bright idea. The nations sent their wise men to attend a council fire on the northern shore of Onondaga lake. The Onondaga emissary, Da-ga-no-de-da, delivered a powerful oration, in which he pointed ou thow a league could resist the pressure of the enemy nations. For days the wise men and chiefs deliberated, and flowery oratory, mingled with the sweet breezes of the forest. It was a crucial time, and the populace of the villages awaited with silent anxiety the outcome. There was general rejoicing when the formation of the League of Ho-de-no-sau-nee was finally announced. By

its terms fifty sachemships were cre

ated and each sachem was given an

appropriate name. The honor was

hereditary. The sachems were dis

tributed unequally among the five na

tions, but without giving any of them

a preponderance of power. The sa

chems, united, formed the council of

the league, the ruling body, in which

Judicial authority. ; : , League Makes Conquests. Usually in the autumn of each year, the sachems of the league assembled in council at Onondaga, which was virtually the eeat of government, and there legislated. . . . ? The general council, in which were it appears from accounts, exercised, the widest powers, although originally it had been intended to raise sachems' to fill vacancies. .As the intercourse of the Iroquois with foreign nations assumed Increasing importance, all matters concerned with - the league became the business of the council. It

declared war, made peace, entered

into traties and alliances, sent and re

ceived embassies and regulated the affairs of subject nations. - It received new members Into the league and ex-

tnded the protection of the league

over feeble nations.

The gnral council, in which- were

united the several sachems, assumed the supreme powers of the league, and each sachem represented the in

terests of the community. When i away from the council fires they were the rulers of their respective nations. But when the sachems were convened in council all the internal affairs fell under their immidlate cognizance. FfQhtlnfl to End Wars. - Following the formation of the league, the Iroquois turned their attention to the Adirondack armed forces near Montreal and began- to try to exterminate the enemy. They waged a series of wars which resulted in the absolute supremacy of the Iroquois over. the other Indian nations. The Iroquois were Involved In almost uninterrupted warfare for threejuarters of a century. The armlea overran the territory now embracing' Nrwi York, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and portions oC Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee,

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, ana the

resided the executive, legislative and i New England states.

Mexican Opals Appear Again on Markets (Philadelphia Ledger) TVInvlnan nnola orn lilrolv GrtfiTI trt

appear plentifully on the market j

again in as much as mining for them has been resumed in the districts whence jewelers obtained supplies before the war. j From the source we have been ac-1 customed to get most of our "fire" opals, which are very beautiful and brilliant, with flaming hues. Thisj variety, however, Is least highly esteemed than the so-called "noble" opal , which is whitish, translucent! and shot through with gleams of all colors of the rainbow. Remarkably fine opals, many of them "noble" ,are obtained from the neighborhood of Moscow, in Idaho, where they occur in beds of volcanic ashes. Apparently their material was deposited by water, while the ashes were hot, and masses of cold cinder when broken open reveal the gem stones. Opals are in certain respects altogether peculiar among gem stones and more interesting on that account. Wheather other gems, such as the ruby the emerald and the saphire, owe their colors to mineral elementts

by which the crystals are stained, the brilliant tints of the opal anr due to its structure, ever so many miunts cracks reflecting light at different angles from their edges. An amethyst is quartz crystal stained with magnese. Opal is quartz crystal of another variety, containing from 5 to 13 per cent of water. Both are formed by the deposition of silica from watter, and ti was this way that three molluscan shells transformed into opal, recently given to strange metamorphosis. The shells were in a rock; their limy materials dissolved out and was replaced, particle by particle, with water-borne silisa.

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The woman who committed suicide by taking poison late Saturday in Ratliff's woods north of toVn was identified Sunday by relatives as Mrs. Henrietta Wolke, 27 years old, divorced wife of Frank Wolke, living south of Centerville. Although the woman was still alive when found by two small boys, she died in the evening at Reid Memorial hospital, without recovering consciousness. Her identity was a mystery until

Sunday morning, when John Haley,.

her brother-in-law, and his wife, called at Earlham college, where she was employed as a domestic, and found her missing. Members of the college staff recalled that she had received a letter which seemed to affect her greatly, Saturday, and suggested that she might be the suicide. Body Is Identified. Haley and his wife then called at the undertaking establishment and identified Mrs. Wolke. The letter which was the cause of her agitation has not been found, although a complete search has been made. Mrs. Wolke was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Levi Bennett, who live southwest of Centerville. She leaves one brother, Perry Bennett; one sister, Mrs. Ida Haley; and two small daughters. Mrs. Wolke was divorced by her husband, Frank Wolke, last spring in a suit during which sensational allegations were made and William Darnell, of Centerville, was named. The twin children of the pair were awarded, to Wolke, and one of the most heartrending scenes ever witnessed in the courthouse occurred when the babies were taken from their mother. Later, Wolke filed a $10,000 suit against Darnell for alienation of offections, which Is now pending. The funeral will occur Wednesday at one o'clock, at the home, and burial will be in Centerville.

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