Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 125, 6 April 1921 — Page 1

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GOVERNMENT IS FOSTERING EXPORTTRADE - Conference of Bankers and Cotton Men Called by Meyer and Hoover Plan New Departures. MAY RELIEVESITUATION

PV MARK Sl'IO-IVAN WASHINGTON, April 6 The conference of bankers and businessmen from the cotton states, held here on the Initiative of Eugene Meyer, chairman of the war finance corporation, was the first public step in a group of actions which, as a whole, constitute a clear policy on the part of the administration toward business. The policy is a striking, departure it goes to the extent of bringing about for the purpose of foreign trade a high degree of co-operation among business Interests. The co-operation is to be uJ not merely the auspices of the government, but actually under the leadership of government officials. The principal proposal at Mr. Meyer's conference with the southern bankers stated very roughly and brieflyi was that they should assess themselves a small sum, of the basis of the number of bales raised in each state.

on the unsold cotton which they are now carrying under considerable embarrassment that they should use the money so raised to form a cotton export association, that this export association should work with a foreign trade banjc recently formed in New Orleans, and that by means of the two institutions there should ship that part of the cotton which is causing the Greatest embarrasssment to the banks to warehouses in London. Hamburg. Marseille, Genoa, and other ports in Europe. Eliminates Difficulties. Once the cotton is actually in Europe,; many difficulties of marketing enherent in the present state of exchange will rbe eliminated and the cotton will be to that extent, more m: readily marketed. Mr. Meyer a chairman of the war -Ai'i finance- corporation, stands ready to -facilitate this process with a certain ' imount of government help, the money that the government advances being contingent- upon the advance of a much larger sum by the banks concerned. To .be read in conenction with thi3 action, as reflecting the new "governs ment attitude, is the, step taken by '.nt Secretary ot Commerce Hooves in reviving to a degree that voluntary cooperation of industry which was practiced by the war industries board dur1ns the war. Mr. Hoover has summoned to. Washington several of the dollar a year men who served in the war industries board, to give either all or a part of their time to a revival of the system. Allocate Markets. The theory is that each line of

shall be asked to agree to make certain standardized models for specific foreign markets. That they shall, to; some extent, allocate these foreign ! markets among themselves. One group taking South America, another proup China, an so on. And that they ihall achieve economy by agreeing to eliminate the waste of competition among themselves in the field of foreign trade. These are two potential steps in a policy which involves an attitude toward business such as has never been practiced by the American gov ernment, except during the war. It Is an intimacy between business and government which our people. have always been disposed rather to frown upon than to approve. Other governments, however, have long followed the practice. Germany followed it with her cartels, and Great Britain follows it in the close intimacy oetween the British Board of Trade and the British foreign office Britain In Advance. Since the war Great Britain has gone much further with this policy, and France and other countries have taken it up for themselves. The fact that other countries follow this practice makes it more or less inevitable for America to adopt it. The effectiveness of the rivalry of a country which practices this compactness and economy forces it on us. Tf the country buying American products does its buying through what amounts to a common purchasing agent, it is pretty necessary for America to adopt the device of a common selling agency. The policy is a step in the evolution of the relation between government and business, which foreshadows immensely vital results not only to America and to other countries, but actually to the whole theory of organized society. May Be Issue. In America the policy will cause, for a time, some incongrous results. It will seem strange to have the reg..t lAnat4nAfliQ Af "111 T PAVPm I ment like the federal trade commission and the courts, opposing combinations for eliminating competition at borne and compelling dissolution of the combinations at the same time the department of commerce will be inviting and fostering combination for the elimination of the wastes of competition in the export field. '? Undoubtedly, the policy of Hoover ' and Meyer will meet approval from business men. If we are to have foreign trade at all. it must be done. Probably for the present, the public generally will approve the policy, although it is easily possible that in time it may become a controverted is sue in some fguture political campaign.

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Thomas F. Robertson. Thomas F. Robertson, Washington patent attorney, has been named commissioner of patents by President Harding, to succeed Robert F. Whitehead. In making the appointment, President Harding expressed the hope that the patent office could be "lifted from the morgue class." HUGHES FRENCH NOTE BEARS ON MANDATES APPROVED BY LEAGUE (By Associated Press) PARIS, April 6. A note of considerable length from Charles E. Hughes, secretary of state, has been received by the French foreign office through the American embassy here. The document which bears the date of April 4. affirms the rights of the United States in all settlements arising from the world war. Identical communications were sent I to the British and Italian govern ments, it is understood with notice that the text will be issued at the State Department at Washington after all the interested governments have received it. "Pertinax" political editor of the Echo De Paris, who appears to have had access to the note declares he considers means that America declines to recognize any decision of the allies in the treaty of Versailles, or taken by the supreme council of the League .vf Nations. He asserts that this is a grave attitude on the part of the United States. Contents Withheld. The note will not be given out here until it has been made public in Washington. It was learned in official circles today that the communication bears principally upon the action of the council of the League of Nations last December in approving the mandates passed upon at that meeting, including the Japanese mandate over the north Pacific islands, taking in the island of Yap, but that it also outlines the policy of the new administration regarding questions arising from the war, and declared the approval of the United States to be necessary for a final settlement. A disposition to recognize the Justice of the American claim was indicated in official quarters, although with the reservation that it was scarcely possible to give the United States the right of veto in the settlement of questions which necessarily were discussed in the absence of representatives of the American government. The reply will probably express the intense satisfaction of the allies if the United States is disposed to resume collaboration with them in the settlement of war questions. WASHINGTON, April 6 New notes on the subject of mandates have been sent by the American government to the governments of Japan, Great Britain, France and Italy. The notes are understood to be very similar, but the occasion for preparing them is said to be the receipt of Japan's reply to the original American note protest ing against Japanese mandate over the former German islands in the Pacific north of the equator. State department officials refused to discuss the documents, but it was learned that they were broad enough in terms to cover all American rights growing out of the World war. The notes form a part of the series begun by Secretary Colby and in which the United insisted upon Its full rights as one of the allied and associated powers and also the right to pas3 finally upon all mandates before their adoption.

Harding Handshake Pleasing to Curious, Admiring Public

PAIXADll'M SEWS BUREAU WASHINGTON, April 6 President Harding, according to veteran attaches of the White House, is the greatest handshaker ever to have held his exalted office, and the memories of some of them go back forty years. It is stated that since hi3 occupancy of the executive mansion, President Harding has shaken hands with not less than 50,000 people, but he has been compelled to curtail his "open house" policy. It was announced a few days ago that the president would receive the public only three days a week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The first three weeks he was in office he shook hands with about 2,000 people daily, except Sundays. The army of people who. stormed the White House the first three weeks of

LLOYD-GEORGE INVITES MEN TO CONCLAVE a Premier Intervenes at Eleventh Hour in Great Industrial Crisis Which Grips Great Britain.

MEDIATION ACCEPTED (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 6. The great industrial crisis with which Great Britain was faced this morning as the result of the bitter wage war between ! the mine owners and the miners with ; strikes by the railway men and thej transport workers, in addition to the j miners' strike threatening the public, has found at least temporary relief, i At the eleventh hour Premier Lloyd I George intervened with an invitation to both sides of the mining disputes to meet representatives of the government and re-open negotiations. After serious deliberation the contending forces decided to accept the mediation offer. Join Strike Decision to support the British miners in their strike was reached by the Transport Workers' federation at a meeting held here this morning. At the conclusion of the conference. Robert Williams, general secretary of the transport workers, said: "On recommendation from the executive committee the conference has decided to give all assistance in our power to whatever extent necessary to help the miners and at once to enter into negotiations with the railway men and the miners for the purpose of taking joint action throughout the remainder of the contest." The executive committee went from the conference to the headquarters of the federation to put this decision into effect. Meet this Afternoon The National Union of Railwaymen held a conference this morning and adjourned at noon until later in the day. when it will hold a joint meeting with the miners. It Is probable that following this meeting there will be a full conference of the "triple alliance". After the meeting, J. H. Thomas, general secretary of the railwaymen's organization, said: "We are still considering the whole situation." The British national transport workers federation includes most of the big waterside workers' unions, together with unions catering - for seamen, carters, cab men and some general labor unions or a part of their membership. . In 1919. the federation had a membership of 313,000 workers. With unions which have affiliated with the federation, the total number of persons affected by today's decision is approximately 500,000. Germany Offers Coal. Announcement was made yesterday by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, that Germany was offering steam coal from the Ruhr district at 54 shillings per ton o i f, Liverpool. Large English coal orders also have placed in Canada. Food centers will be created in Hyde Park, Regents park and Battersea park, in addition to those in Kensington Gardens, it has been an nounced here. The government has stopped all leaves of absence from the array. ' Discussing the situation confronted by the mining industry. Finlay Gibson, secretary of the South Wales coal owners association, declared the amount expended on wages during February, was greater than the total proceeds of the industry. Notwithstanding the reduction of the out bonus wage from three shillings to six pence per day to one shilling and six pence, the showing in February watt even worse than in January. The aggregate loss, he points out was 2,062,580 compared with 1.409,666 in January, the output In February being 2,669,900 tons compared with 5,166,000 tons. This amounts to a loss of seventeen shillings and one penny per ton against a loss of 12 shillings and seven pence in January Boy, Victim of Prank, Expected to Recover (By Associated Press ANDERSON, Ind.. April 6 Ferrel Ridgeway, 9, whose clothing was ignited by playmates Tuesday, Is expected to recover, according to physicians who examined him today. The prank was played at Florida, near here, one lad throwing a hatful of j gasoline on the Ridgeway boy and an-! other applying a match. Ridgeway j would have been more seriously , burned had his clothing not been j soaked from falling into a pond a few i minutes before. His legs, hands and a part of his face were blistered. its occupancy by Mr. Harding was even greater than the human flood which poured through the White House gates when Col. Roosevelt was president. Little- known to the people before his election, the crowds which have been calling upon Mr. Harding are composed mostly of men and women curious to see the man who ran up the greatest plurality in the history of American politics. Enjoys Contacts. President Harding greatly enjoys personal contact with his constituency, but he was compelled to limit the time for public receptions, having discovered that he couldn't do any work if he received visitors every day. On the three days of the week that he holds (Contjtoyed on Page Ten)

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Night scene on board the U. S. S. "Oklahoma"

Probably the most picturesque . feature of the spring maneuvers of the Atlantic squadron cf the U. S. navy at Guanti namo is the gun firing and target practice at night. The powerful searchlights on the ships and the bright flashes of the gun. firing are the only lights visible. .

SPEED IS FEATURE OF DAWES' WORK ON SPECIAL COMMISSION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. April 6. Three definite recommendations to President Harding had been agreed upon today by the special commission investigating the care and treatment of disabled service men. They were: A centralized governmental authority to have entire charge of all fed eral agencies having to do' with soldier relief work: t'TfJ '".,". A de-centralized" 'administration of service, carrying federal aid as near as possible to the homes of the soldiers throughout the country. A request for additional appropriations for hospitals, including, a permanent building program. Charles G. ' Dawes, . of Chicago, chairman of the commission, said he would be greatly disappointed if the public investigation was not concluded today. "We will begin work on; the report tonight in executive session," said he. Col. F. W. Galbraith. Jr.," national commander of the American Legion, expressed pleasure at the progress and conclusions which the committee had reached. He said the three most important decisions conformed to the American Legion relief program and would be of immeasurable value in correcting evils resulting from present divided governmental authority. AMERICAN CONSUL HAS NARROW ESCAPE (By Associated Press CORK, April 6. Mason Mitchell. United States consul at Queenstown. narrowly escaped being shot a few days ago while motoring from Queens town to Cork, it, was today. .' a," 'i learned here Mr. Mitchell was riding with Benjamin Harrigan, an official of the Ford works. Both men are slightly deaf, , and when the automobile passed a group of soldiers in the street they failed to hear the challenge to halt. The officer in charge ordered the men to take aim and was about to give the word to fire on the car when Manager Pelly of the Hibernian bank of Cork, who witnessed the incident, rushed in front of the raised rifles, shouting,' "For God's sake, don't shoot. That's the American consul." . The officer immediately ordered his men to lower their rifles. Why Richmond is the Best Place in Which to Live Raek dar Palladium rearte t III Interview peranna at raadnaa is flad oat hr thrr like e lira ere. Food prices high in Richmond? . That's what many persons have been heard to declare, but it is not a fact in the opinion . of one person living in a nearby town. ' ; " This man owns an automobile and often comes . to 'Richmond to buy foodstuffs as . well asother merchandise- --"i x.:--To be sure It costs me to run -V my car to Richmond and backrsaid he, "bat when I buy number of articles I save enough to pay back this transportation cost and , in addition, have the , pleasure of the trip. " : , . Each time ihe man comes to Richmond and returns home,, he. travels approximately 12 miles, ' He lives in a small community," , but finds local prices sufficient inducement for shopping excarcions. ; . :.

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Section V in Knox Resolution Arises to be New Mooted Point

BY MARK Sl'M.IVAV WASHINGTON, April 6. Section V of the Knox peace resolution now emerges as the successor to Article X in the role of storm center of political controversy. That Article X and the whole League of Nations and the whole Versailles treaty are dead and out of the way, so far as the American senate is concerned, there need be no doubt. . . When M. Viviani and his French missipn.. arrived"-here to. find out the present status, of America's . relations with Europe he was still thinking In terms of the League of Nations with reservations, and even in terms -of the Versailles treaty with reservations. The net of what he has been told leaves him at the present moment merely hoping to get a little comfort from France put of a modification of Section V of the Knox peace resolution. At the same time, for contrary reasons, Section V is being opposed by many senators. That we will not enter the League of Nations and that -we will not sign the Versailles treaty, even if the treaty Negro Population Shows Increase of One-Third WASHINGTON, April 6. The negro population of Indiana increased 31 per cent, between 1910 and 1920. as compared with an increase of 7.9 per cent, in white population, the census bureau announced today. The popu lation of Indiana by color in 1920 was. White, 2.249,068; negro, 80.810; Indian. 128; Chinese, 2S3; Japanese, SI; and all others, 20. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly cloudy; thundershowera. Rain in the form of thundershowers is in nrosnect for Thursday and may j arrive late tonight because of the slow eastward movement of the Rocky Mountain storm. For Indiana, by the United State feather Bureau Showers tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. Temperatures For Yesterday. Maximum . , 78 Minimum '. . . 44 Today. Noon 76 Weather Conditions. The Rocky MntintAin ' dtnrm .nntfniif in mrwo slowly eastward, having now reached the plain states and showers and thunderstorms are in progress this morning over a considerable area and snow I tuuimues m igu in portions oi iae ; northwest. The rains aVe especially ! heavy in Oklahoma and Kansas. Barometer Readings: At 7 a. m., 30.22; noon, 30.20.

PALLADIUM INSTALLS WIRELESS TELEPHONE TO GATHER NEWS AND SERVE ITS PATRONS Wonders of the scientific genius of Installation of the wireless telebrought into- use for the gathering and t0 make the gathering of news from

dissemination . of news, brings even tthe most cynical under the old adage, i "They came to scoff but remained to wonder." - A small group of people sat in The Palladium building Tuesday night and listened to the playing of three phonograph selections from a government wireless station in Anacostia, D. C, about 12 mile from the capital. Clearly and. distincly the singing of "Carrr M Back to Old Virginny," by Alma Gluck. came, to the ears of the people in Richmond, several of whom had been waiting with the "I told you so" expression- ready to spring if the sounds bad failed. . , . J . The demonstration. Tuesday night is but the beginning. Of the various ramifications that are -to be used ia con nection with newspaper development

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the light of the powerful searchlights should be detached from the League of Nations, and that we will adopt the Knox peace resolution, M. Viviani is now convinced. Points In Doubt. The only points still in doubt are the precise language of Section V of the Knox resolution and the precise date when it will be the administration policy to try to pass the Knox resolution. The , Knox resolution will not be passed either in a form or at a date v-7 tContinued on Page Seven) GRACE CHURCH LEADS RICHMOND DISTRICT IN PER CAPITA GIVING ELWOOD. Ind.. April 6 3race Methodist church, of Richmond, had the distinction of reporting the largest amount per capita of any church In the Richmond district, at the 7Sth annual session of the North Indiana Con ference, which convened in the First M.E. Church today. The conference will continue until next Monday, Apri! 11. With a membership of 750, Grace church reported I26.OC0 paid for all purposes, or an average of $35.16 per member. The reason for this unusually large per capita giving, it was explained, is due to the reduction of the church debt this year by $9,000. Rev. A. H. Backus, pastor of Grace church, presided at the conference program this afternoon. It is expected that he will be returned to Richmond by the conference, for hi3 third year. However, a church in Fort Wayne is understood to be asking for his transfer to that city. Attacks are constantly recurring on morals and "it is no time for the church to go to sleep". Dr. Clarence True Wilson told ministers and laymen today. Dr. Wilson spoke this afternoon at the - anniversary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. Dr. Wilson speaking on "Pagan Inroads on American Democracy" 'declared the United States should guard a continentalized Sabbath. Follow European Influence "A startling thing to me," said Dr. vilson, has been to see our two 1 millIon men so across the water to crush out the type of civilization that menaced the world because of these very brutalizing and coarsening tolerated vices and. having witnessed German brutality, Belgian beer-guzil-ing and French looseness, many of our men, not so much our soldiers as (Continued on Page Thirteen) all parts of the community easier, and to branch out further in giving patrons election returns, baseball scores and other events of extra interest in the outlying districts. As far as can be ascertained, the use to be made of the wireless telephone by The Palladium is the first time it. has been used in this manner. - Similar use is being contemplated by other papers, and the functioning of the wireless in thi3 manner probably will eventually become an everyday function for all modernly equipped newspapers. The Palladium will equip an automobile with a wireless outfit and aerial which will be ready for use in case of accidents and feature events (Continued on Page Four)

AID FARMERS IN MARKETING WALLACE AIM Secretary of Agriculture Tells Committee of Seventeen Department Must Assist in Selling of Crops. ADVISESlEVEL HEADS

By Associated Press) CHICAGO, April 6. The department of agriculture should lend the same aid to farmers In marketing their crops as it does in their production. Secretary Wallace declared today in an address here before the Farmers Grain Marketing Commuteof Seventeen. "There is just as much reason," he said, "why the department should assist the farmer in developing methods of marketing hia crops efficiently as that it should assist him in increasing bis production." Study of Improved marketing methods, as well as of conditions the farmer should understand to produce intelligently, and "adjust his production to the needs of consumption," the secthe department." The department "should turn on the light," he continued. "If there ar points along the way at which there is unnecessary waste, that should be made known. If there are men alon; the way who are taking too much toll for the service they render, that alo should be made known. A plentiful supply of food at prices which arc just to both producer and consumer i vital to our national welfare, and it is a proper function of the government to do what it can to insure it." Must Know Condition Information of world production and consumption is "especially useful and necessary," the secretary declared, to aid farmers in deciding "in what quantities given commodities should hi; produced in order that there may be an adequate supply." It is coming to be recognized,, he said, that if prices are to be satisfactory, "there must be a right ad justment of production to marketing conditions." The farmers' right to organize into associations, co-operative or otherwise, for the purpose of marketing their crops, Mr. Wallace said "canno be questioned, so long as they observe the requirements of ou. law. Arlenial of this right," hs continued, "would result in reducing the free farmers of the United States to a condition comparable with the down trodden peasants or peons of less enlightened countries, and would bring upon us all the griefs which those countries are now bearing." Profits by Experience While not discussing the committee's marketing plan in detail, the agriculture secretary said it appeared to have profited by practical experience of the past and to have avoided the weaknesses which had broken down many previous organizations. It had tried, he said, to improve the present marketing machinery and not undertake to wipe it out, adding: "In this you have been most wise." The committee,, he asserted, was "neither attempting to create a monopoly nor tc fix prices." Calling attention to the current low prices for frtni products while "practically everything the farmers buy are from 50 to 100 per cent above prewar normals." Secretary Wallace said it "is not strange that thousands of them should be willing and ready to adopt drastic measures to correct a condition which is so grossly unjust and which is causing widespread bardship and suffering." Urges Level Heads The secretary added, however, that it was "no time to be ruled by prejudices and no time for shallow-thiak-ing," declaring the more critical the situation, "the greater the need for keeping a level head." American farmers are in competition with the world and must adjust themselves to the situation, the secretary added, "as best they may. It is not a time to try quack nostrums." This nation. Secretary Wallace asserted, cannot hope to maintain its agriculture on a sound economic basis "unless our farmers give attention to the business end of farming; this is imperative if production is to be maintained and our people to be fed at reasonable costs." The ratification conference on the co-operative grain marketing plan submitted by the farmers" marketing eomniittee of seventeen assembled here j today for "the most important meet

ing of farmers that the history of our country or any other country has ever recorder," in the words of C. H. Gustarson, chairman of the committeeDetails of the plan prepared during a year of conferences to market them majority of the farm products of the country, under the most favorable price conditions were submitted to representatives of the various farm organizations behind the proposal. The plan provides purely and simply for the farmer to enter upon a program of conducting his own business of marketing," said Mr. Gustafson, "it is purI rely a co-operative plan offered - in competition with existing unsatisfactory methods of marketing. We believe that while recognizing and protecting the rights of the consuming . ;

puDiic, n insures uie lanners : an equitable and just return on his grain , crops by effecting savings, avoiding " a ! .

rpeeulation, preventing needless dnplw r . cation of effort and eventually rtabiliz- j ' ing the market for grain crops. - - j

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that would reauire all owners of mn. tor vehicles to obtain from the seft--retary of state an abstract, Utle tra ' passed by the lower house of the stat(-. legislature today, it now goes to the" governor. , v . ' . -Av-A'-'..