Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 346, 24 December 1921 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 1921.

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIET REPUBLIC - FINDS VILLAGE SAD

(By Associated Preis) L-riXXJOVKA. Tartar Republic, Dec. ; 24. The fourth anniversary of the esl tablishment of the soviet republic- in Russia found this peasant village of J 00 In no mood for celebrating. Food- ; less and cheerless, the starving populatlon could have no heart for any ; eort of Jubilation, even if it knew what j the political raanue vers at Moscow -mean.. . Like most Russian peasants, the unhappy flocks of Ludosovka have neither the learning nor the will to study politics. Bread, wood and warm clothing are their three desires. They haven't enough of any of these. Winter, has laid its first heavy coating of snow on the flat prairies, and the peasants have started, grim-faced,

on their endurance test to see how many can survive the six months of cold and privation. . Many of the younger children have been deemed 60 completely underfed by the doctors in the employ of the American relief administration that they will be given one good hot meal a day. -, Typical Village Ludogovka is a typical peasant village of the poorer class. It Is 60 miles from Kazan and many miles from the Volga and railway communication. Unpainted Jog houses are scattered along a main street. The houses generally have two rooms. Some have' three. Frequently the animal sheds are built against the houses for warmth. Many of the stables are at the back end of long vegetable gardens, which yielded few potatoes and cabbages tins year because, of the drought The stables are chiefly deserted. There 13 no froage, no grain for teh animals, which have survived up to this time on the dry stubble which will son be under several feet of snow. Russia doesn't have blizzards such as are known in America. In late October or early November the snows begin and continue gently nearly every day until the earth is covered to a depth of three or four feet. This winter will not bring Its customary round of winter sports and recreations. There are no horses to draw the troikas and jingrle the bells which ordinarily enliven Russian highways through the short days and long nights of frsot. Typical Home The home of Ivan Ivanovich Petroff Is typical of the most poverty-stricken houses visited by the correspondent. Petroff is a farmer, as practically all the villagers are. He has the use of f-everal dissiatines of land, more than he was able to cultivate because of lack of animals? and seed. He had once been a sturdy giant, over six feet tall. But his ragged-trousers show his legs have shrunken to mere bones and his scraggly beard can not conceal the emaciation and sallowness of his face. His wife is lying ill above . a large masonry stove. A gangling, holloweyed boy of 16 stands listlessly and

gapes at the strangers. A little girli

or who is getting the American meals, and two others, slightly older, who were not designated for the foreign food, stand near their mother. The furnishings of the room ;are almost nil. It has the smell of poverty and neglect. In good seasons Russian peasant houses are seldom clean. They are never ventilated. But the smell of cabbage, soup and tea make themselves offensive In normal years. Points to Bread When asked what the family had to pat Petroff pointed to two loaves of sreen bread which lay on the stove and said there had been nothing else tor his family in ten days. He threw rptr. an adjoining room and pointed to

a'pile of the improvised "flour" out of

which the bread was made. It was

nothing but ground up grass, leaves, r-a. 1 nA -3 ' 1- . ... '

similar character. jThe visitors offered him money. He took it unwillingly and asked: "But what shall I do with it? There is nothing to buy in this village and I can't go in search . of food. Neither can-my family." . One of the American relief workers thereupon offered to buy some flour in a -village many miles away. Throughout the remote villages of the Tartar republic and the Samara government American workers have found the same lack of food.

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RARIFIED AIR FAILS TO AFFECT NATIVES

LONDON, Dec. 24 Many of the natives of Peru, it is stated, are much less affected by the rarified air at high altitudes than are ordinary men of other races who are accustomed to hard labor. It is declared that at an altitude of 16,000 feet they can carry loads of 150 pounds up a steep incline where the ordinary person would find it all he could do to drag his own boots up. The Royal Society is going to try to find out what is the secret that enables them to perform such feats of physical strength under conditions that would render the task an impossible one for the average man. Three scientists .have just gone to Peru to investigate the phenomenon. They were Professor Meakins, J. I. Barcroft and J. H. Doggart, the two latter of Cambridge university. Five other scientists from Canada and New York will join them in Peru.

Mr.. Barcroft told an interviewer that the purpose of the expedition 1b to test the strain to which the heart and lungs are subjected by carrying heavy loads

at such great height, and to endeavor to discover how the natives can stand it.

Argentine Congress Fails . to Act on Livestock Bill (By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 24. The Ar

gentine congress has ended its regular sessions without taking any action on the bill introduced to fix a minimum price for live stock. The measure was accompanied by charges that the British and American meat packing companies operating in Argentina were making excessive profits and had caused the slump in live stock prices. The bill failed in committee following a report on the meat trade situation made at the committee's request by the Argentine Rural society, a national agricultural organization. The report opposed the bill.

RETIRED REAR ADMIRAL DIES. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 24. Rear Admiral John Kennedy Barton, 69 years old, U. S. N., retired, ex-en gineer in chief of the United States navy, is dead.

MORSE DECIDES TO YIELD BOOKS FOR INSPECTION WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. Charles W. Morse, who is under $50,000 bail to await action of the fedoral grand jury on a charge of conspiracy growing out of his transactions with the shipping board, has withdrawn his objections filed in the district supreme court, to inspection by the grand jury of books of his company. Irvin Morse, son of the shipbuilder, told Chief Justice McCoy that his father was willing to submit any and all evidence which the government desired. The farmers of the Holy Land still use wooden sticks for plows.

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school; "Good Night," Ezra Kaujer; closing service. Monday: German service, 9 a. m. Children's service, rendered by the children of Wernle orphans' home, 7 p. m. Special offerings at all Christmas services for Wernle home.

First Christian Church to Have Morning Program The First Christian church announces the following special service for Sunday morning, beginning with the Bible school at 9:15 o'clock and closing with the sermon at 11 o'clock. Morning Service, 10:15. Hymn "Joy to the World," congregation. Quartette "O Holy Night" (Adams) Ralph Little, George. Fogl, Mrs. L. E. Sharpe and Miss Hazel Vanmeter. Lord's Table. Offertory "The Infant Jesus," (Av

on), Ralph Little and Miss Helen Ad-!

dleman. i Solo Selected, Ralph Little. ! Quartette "Christmas Belb"!

(Grey). Sermon "A Christmas Message."

NORFOLK ONCE GALLED "ISLAND OF DESPAIR"

Norfolk Island, in the South Pacific, was, 100 years ago, a prison for the very worst type of British offenders against, the laws, and it became known as the "Island of Despair." Isolated there, many thousands of miles

from their old haunts, as punishment! for their crimes, men were driven toj madness or to some deed that ended

their lives. j A settlement called Kingston was formed in 1788, and this 13 the capital of the island today. It was carefully laid out with streets, culverts, bridges and a pier, and all these are in excellent preservation, showing the thorough quality of the work done by the convicts. The actual prisons are rapidly falling into ruin, all that remains being huge walls, three feet thick, of cells in which prisoners were confined. The

prison square, containing churches,'

kitchens and buildings for various

traaes carnea on Dy tne convicts, was enclosed by a high stone wall, still intact in most places, but crumbling on the ocean side. Norfolk Island was abandoned as a penal settlement in 1855. The island is a British possession, under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Australia. Fine buildings are located along the roads, built a century ago by the convicts, and still in good repair.

EX-CHAIRMAN WHITE BURNED. MARIETTA, Ohio, Dec. 24. Ex-Representative George White, ex-chairman

of the Democratic national committee. 1 was painfully burned in an explosion I of gas at an oil well in Noble county ! yesterday. His injuries are not ssr-j ious. !

PLACE FOR B. HEFFERNAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Bernard Heffernan, formerly of Washington, Ind., has been appointed an assistant in the office of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia. He is a graduate of Georgetown university, this city.

Merry Xmas Singer Sewing Machine Company H. M, Endsley, Manager 7 South Seventh Phone 1009

Buddhist Festival Breaks Up In Serious Disorders (By Associated Press) ' RANGOON, Dec. 24. In the course of a Buddist festival on the slopes of the Shwe-Dagon pagoda, 200 monks were admitted to a theatrical performance fre of charge, whereupon another 150 demanded the same privi

lege on the ground that monks never paid. On being refused, because, so Ihey were told, there was no room for them, the monks tore down the fencing and turned out the audience. Th-? police were summoned and temporary quiot. was restored, but the diFsniisfied monks and their sympathizers rapidlv increased to 3,000. The arrival of 40 Gurkhas to keep order was the signal for a fresh outbreak and for three hours there were continuous free fights on the slopes of the pagoda. Eventually the rioters were dispersed, after one Burman had been killed and 11 injured.. Two of the Gurkhas also were injured.

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Three Sunday Services Announced by St John's St. John's Luthern church will hold three services Sunday, beginning at 5 o'clock Christmas morning. Another service will be held Monday. The programs follow: Early service. GermanEnglish, 5:00 a. m. Sunday school omitted. German service, 10 a. m. Children's service, 7 p. m. Program: Song, "O Litle Town of Bethlehem,"

school. Opening service in charge of pastor. Greeting, Donald Schuerman;

recitation, Paul Nicklas, Paul Kanke; primary song; recitation, Earl Maier; song, "King of Kings," parish school; recitation, Ruth Wiesehahn ; recitation, Lorraine Stegman; song, "Silent Night," Florence Niewoehner, Helen Eck, Roland Fulle, Paul Nicklas: recitation, Roland Fulle, Mildred Fulle; "All Praise to Thee," Dorothy Thomas, Martha Pilgrm. Margaret Von Pen; solo. Marie Kauper: recitation, Mary E. Kauper. Ruth Kauper, Margaret Hickman, Katherine Schuerman; primary song, "In Bethlehem;" "The Reason Why," William Oelklaus; "The Anthem Eternal," Dorothy Fellman; duet and chorus, Roland Fulle, Paul Nicklas, school: "Greeting to the Angels," Robert Helmich, Lafayette Farwig, Ralph Gildenhar, Elmer Kanke, Willard Hirschfield; recitation, Florence Niewoehuer; anthem, choir; "Shepherds Drll," Dorothy Bode. Robert Tubesing, Herbert Hackman, Ralph Crowe, Russell Hirschfield. Robert Niewoehuer, Robert Duning. Carl

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chorus, Roland Fulle, Harold Nibker, !l school; "The Wise Men," Rollin Mey-Jf f er; trio and chorus; "Gifts for Jesus," II I Rita Hirschfield, Marjorie Duning, ! 1 1

Leucher Nordsick; solo and chorus, Anna Nicklas and school; recitation, i Harold Wibker; song, school: musical il monologue, "The Inn," Elizabeth Far-! 1 wig; "What Stands for Christmas," i

Ruth E. Frauman, Carl Crowe, Ruth .

E. Kunz, Wilma Tubesing, Fred Kauper, Henretta Nordsck, Paul Hirschfield, Ralph Kauper, Helen Erk; song,

With warmest Christmas Greetings and sincere good wishes for a bright and happy New Year

O. E. Dickinson

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May every Christmas Joy be yours today

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