Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 18, 21 January 1922 — Page 1

RICHMOND PALLADIUM

VOL. XCII., No. 18 Palladium, Kst. 1S31. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 21, 1922. . SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

FARM BLOC'S POWER SORE TO INCREASE Survey Reveals that it is Largest Single Interest in American Politics Base Rests on Government. LEADERSHIPlS SANE

Late Picture of Supreme Head of Catholic Church Lenine May Attend Conference at Genoa

CLEAR WAY TO PUBLISH CHBtA PACTS Despite Questions Raised Further Discussion Expected to Bring Formal Adoption of U. S. Proposal. AGREED "INlRINCIPLE"

CARDINAL IN LONDON SAYS POPE IS DEAD Archbishop of , Westminster " Announces Receipt of Official Notice From Rome that Pontiff is Dead. FIRST TOJE TOLD

B.T MARK SIXI.HAN WASHINGTON. Jn.u. 12 You can look at the farmers bloc from any roint you chose, you can examine its personnel and its mechanism minutely and critically, you can approach it with the skepticism born of recollection of similar movements in the past, you can talk with the individuals and the interests who deplore it and who argue that it should be climated ;but the eid of any such survey of the farm bloc is that it is without any doubt the largest single interest in American politics, that it is likely to continue to have the balance of power tor a considerable period, and that it is more likely to grow than to diminish. The older political leaders in both parties who deplore the farm bloc and who predict its early pasing, are misled by one of the most frequent causes of self deceit, namely, by the length cf their own memories, it is true experiences, but it is also true that unless there is careful examination of the analogy between the past and the present, experience can readily throw you off the track. Some of the older political leaders have memories that go as far back as the Patrons of Husbandry; the Farmers' Alliance; the Agricultural Wheel, which started in Prairie county, Arkansas and spread to power in eight Southwestern states; the Ancient order of Gleaners, and half a dozen similar organizations. Sketicals Opinion remembering how all of these arose had their power, and declined, the skeptical older politicians say that, in due course, the farm bloc will be as one with these. It is undeniably true that the organized farmer iu American politics is nothing new. Polticians and others with any considerable political experience remember Newt Gresham's farmers' Union started in Rains county, Texas, of which contemporary historian, whose narrative was qualified by personal enthusiasm, said, "An Alladin army of a million men with a deadly concentration of purpose that would brook no denial, came into almost instant existence.- v It was of another organization, the Farmers' Alliance, in the election of JSflO, that a. historian of the time said: "after these elections, 40 members of the new congress were pledged to support the demands of the farmers alliance, and its leaders were said to have selected beforehand the place which they wished this group to occupy on either side of the center aisle in the House of Representatives where tbey expected to hold the balance of power, and to take the place Of the 'center' in the French asenibly." Quotes 1892 Accounts If that quotation from a historian of 1890 reads much like a present day newspaper account of the farm bloc, still more does a quotation from an accouut written in 1892. of "Sockless" Jerry Simpson's populists. The author of this account, by the way. was Hamlin Garland. His words of 1892 sound a little like something Senator Tom lleflin of Alabama might use .today, about the present bloc. "The alliance wedge." said Mr. Garland, "is a sort of breakwater between the two old parlies. Great forces are moving. The house of representative.! is a smoldering volcano. The Republicans are apprehensive, almost de:-per-ate. PlaCe holders are beginning to tremble; but in the midst of it all, the men who are advocating right and justice instead of policy sit ready for the discussion and eager for the struggle." Comfort in Argument Now it is quite true that in the history of other farm movements now pa 'it and forgotten, there is comfort for those who either wish or argue that the present farm bloc is merely a passing phase of American politics. And if anyone wants to argue that the present farm bloc is going to last, longer and go farther than the Farmers' Alliance, or 1 ho Patrons of Husbandry, it is necessary to find fundamental poiiits of difference, which favor the farm bloc. Beforp pointing on these differences I should explain that I have been using the term "farm bloc" in a loose sense. "Farm bloc" is the term applied to the 20 or 30 senators and the 70 or 80 members of congress who are really the political expression within congress of a different and much larger thing. The organized force behind the farm bloc is the American Farm Bureau Federation. The farm bloc in congress is really the political agent of the American Far Bureau Federation. The relation between the two is indisputable and intimate. It was the American Farm Bureau federation that first supplied stimulus and leadership to the farm bloc in congress. The early meetings of the farm bloc troup were held not in the capitol or the halls of congress, but in the Washington headquarters of the American Farm Bureau federation. I quote from a recently issued history of the farm bureau federation, written by one of its officials. Orville Warton Kile: Pledge Senators "As a result of a series of helpful conferences at farm bureau legislative headquarters, several senators, including Kenkin. of Iowa. Republican; Smith of North Carolina, Democrat, and Capper, of Kansas, Republican, took the lead and got together a band of 22 senators from the south and west pledged to stand for agricultural legislation, regardless of party lines." In a political sense, therefore, the American Farm Bureau federation and the farm bloc are one. And in eon(Continued on Page Five)

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Premier Nicholal Lenine, upper left, and I. A. V. Lunacharsky, minister of education, upper right. Center, - Leonid G. Krassin, minister of foreign trade. Lower left, Leon Trotzky, minister of war and navy. Lower right, G. Tchitcherin, minister of foreign affairs.

PROJECT TO HOUSE DISABLED WAR VETERANS IN DIG CAMPS DEFEATED BY HOUSE MEASURE

. rUJ.ADIIM KAYS lUIlEAlF WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The annual appropriations bill for the various independent bureaus of the federal government which has just been submitted to the house bv Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, chairTAKE WADMAN'S CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT; ARGUMENTS HEARD Judge Raymond S. Springer, of Conrersville, after hearing arguments on the motion to amend the accusation against Carl Wadman, sheriff, Saturday morning, took the case under advisement. He will render a decision on the case within a week. Attorneys for the defense in the case of the state against Carl Wadman took up the greater part of the morning with arguments for the separation of the accusation against the sheriff into two paragraphs. A briel reply by Prosecutor Beckett, on be half of the state, closed the morning session. In their argument for the defense, Attorneys Robbins ami Reller took the position that the accusation is bad for duplicity. They claim that the accusation was founded upon crime as one of the grounds for impeachment. They said that the accusation also charged the sheriff with carelessness and negligence, and for this reason, it was bad for duplicity. Cite Authorities Authorities in both civil and criminal pleading were cited by the defense for the support of their motion. "Voluntary conduct cannot bo reconciled with careless or negligent conduct," said the defense in their argument. "The two are antagonistic and repugnant. To do a thing voluntarily is to do it wilfully, deliberately and purposefully, while to do it carelessly or negligently is to do It through inattention, thoughtlessly and heedlessly." The argument on the case was heard in the south court room. The regular -court' room was crowded early Saturday morning, when court opened, but this crowd followed attorneys in the Wadman case when they went to the other room, leaving the main room almost deserted. JAPANESE DELEGATE SAYS WORLD PEACE ASSURED BY PACTS HONOLULU. T. H.. Jan. 21 The peace of the world will be assured In the future by the promulgation of the naval armaments limitation and fnr eastern agreements, Prince Tokugawa said in a farewell statement issued just before his departure for Tokio, today. The statement was issued "to the American people through the Associated Press." "I feel," Prince Tokugawa said, "that I cannot leave this outpost cf the United States without saying a few words of gratitude on account of my recent visit to that country which wan most en joyable, . though 1 must admit that ray responsibilities were so large and my duties so much heavier than I could bear that I could not enjoy your country as much as I should otherwise have done. "President Harding, Secretary Hughes and all of their countrymen have been so exceedingly kind to me and the other Japanese delegates that I it is" impossible, to express our grati- ! tude in words. The conference, I I thing has been as highly successful as we could expect, especially as regards the1 naval limitation phase and the quadruple treaty, which will brins peace for all time to the whole world. I am sure there need be no fear of wars hereafter."

Nicholal Lenine, head of the Rus

sian soviet government and world communist leader, has stated that he will attend the coming Genoa economic conference, arranged by the allied nations of Europe, provided he is allowed to bring with him a complete secret service system to guard him. Lenine has just completed forming a new cabinet. Three new portfolios were added and several shifts made in the positions held by members of the former cabinet. But most of the men in the new official family are men who have been Lenine's closest aides since the communists came into power in Russia and started their campaign for world power. man of the sub-committee of the appropriations committee which prepared it. specifically provides that no more so-called "national universities" for disabled veterans of the late war shall be established and that the one now being conducted at the old armv cantonment at Chillicothe, O., shall not be enlarged to accommodate more than 1,000 disabled veteran students. In the event the house retains this provision In the bill, which it is ex pected to do, it will defeat the petj project of Col. C. R. Forbes, director of the United States Veterans' bureau.' mciaeiuaiiy, 101. f orces' advocacy of establishing three or four additional institutions similar to the one now being conducted at Chillicothe has caused considerable contention among higher officials of the Veterans bureau. Prof. Arthur Dean, had of the vocational training branch of the Veterans' bureau, was so much opposed to (he plan of establishing universities' tor disabled veterans that he recently several his connection with the bu(Continued on Page Twelve.) DEMANDS OF MINERS FOR WAGE INCREASES GO TO INDIANAPOLIS SHAMOKUn. Pa.. Jan. 21. Demanos adopted by the Tri-district wage convention of the anthracite miners, which adjourned late last night, will be presented for ratification to the International convention of the United" Mine Workers, at Indianapolis next month. The principal demands provide for a 20 per cent increase in the contract wage scale and an advance of $1 a day for all men employed by the day. Nineteen demands were presented, some of a technical character. AM were adopted without serious opposition. The convention instructed the scale committee to perfect arrangements providing a suspension of mining on April 1 in the event that no satisfactory agreement has been reached by March 31, when the present wage scale expires. This action was unexpected by some of the leaders, it was said, and did not provoke dissenting votes anion? the delegates. It has been the custom of the anthracite miners excel1, in one or two instances to remain at work pending the favorable progress of wage negotiations. The demands of the anthracite men will be presented to the operators after the Indianapolis convention. President John L. Lev is, of the International organization today ex-1 pressed gratification at th action of the anthracite men. SAY ANOTHER COLD WAVE IS DUE HERE (By Associate! Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 21. Central Indiana will be visited by another cold wave tomorrow afternoon, according to the local weather bureau. The thermometer may drop to 10 degrees above. The weather, it is predicted, will be generally fair. A cold wave is due to hit Richmond Sunday or Monday night, according to Weatherman Moore, and people are advised to make preparations. Temperatures will reach the zero mark, it is predicted. It is possible that the cold wave will reach here late Saturday night, Mr. Moore said. OPPOSE U. S. VALUATION PLAN TOLEDO, O., Jan. 21. Members of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce vote opposition to the proposed American valuation scheme, now being considered in connection with the Fordney tans bill. )

BULLETIN WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 The American proposal to make public internaal commitments relating to China, was adopted in a much amended form today by the Far Eastern committee of the arms conference. Among numerous changes made was one eliminating the proposal objected to by Japan for publicity of engagements in China made by private individuals,- but to which foreign governments themselves are not parties. As adopted, however, the resolution does provide that agreements between the Chinese government, itself and private individuals abroad must be consummated openly and their details made public.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Despite questions raised as to the practicability of some of its provisions, further discussion today by the arms conference far eastern committee of the American proposal for publication of all treaties and understandings relating to China was expected in American quarters to clear the way for its formal adoption. Agreed to "in principle," final action on the proposal as presented in a resolution yesterday by Secretary Hughes was postponed at the suggestion of Japan after an extended debate on the provision to include in the published list of commitments the various commercial agreements entered into between Chinese authorities and private individuals abroad. List Difficult The Japanese suggested that it might be difficult for the foreign governments to secure a complete list of such understandings since they were not themselves parties to them and indicated that they desired to communicate further with Tokio before finally accepting this provision. The resolution as presented by Secretary Hughes provided that all the powers file with the secretary general of the conference at their earliest convenience all existing commitments regarding China to which they are parties or of-which they. mu-e knowledge and also thereafter any new agreements within sixty days after consummation. Amendment Proposed. An amendment was proposed by Secretary Hughes during the debate by which the Chinese government on its part would undertake to give prompt notification of all existing and future agreements of which it had knowledge. Acceptance of the sub-committee plan for another international gathering in the new future probable to convene in Washington to discuss the question of revision of rules of warfare appeared to be assured today bv the favorable sentiment manifest among the various delegations. Though on the agenda of the present conference the sub-committee was said to have concluded that there was neither time nor sufficient material for its adequate consideration. BUNDY TO COMMAND PHILIPPINE TROOPS; WILL SAIL MARCH 1 (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Major General Omar Bundy has been relieved from his present duties as commanding general of the seventh corps area. Fort Crook, Neb., and assigned to command the Philippine division, it. was announced today by the war department. He will sail for the Philippines March 1. No successor for him has been announced. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Cold wave late tonight or Sunday; light snow followed by fair. The storm center crossing the southern states is being followed by a cold wave from southern Canada, which indicates temperatures near zero by Sunday night if not before. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair weather tonight and Sunday, except probably snow flurries in extreme north portion; colder Sunday and in northwest portion tonight; cold wave Sunday. ' Temperatures For Yesterday Maximum 28 Minimum 14 Today Noon 30 Weather Conditions The general snow which now covers Indiana and adjacent states was caused by the storm which was central over the southwest Friday and moved rapidly eastward. A storm over the Great Lakes has moved to the St. Lawrence valley and a cold, wave over southern Canada is moving southward. It is moderating somewhat over the far southwest but freezing temperatures occurred yesterday at Los Angeles, Calif., 4 above at San Diego. Heavy rains fell last night in the southern states and snow as far south as cen-. tral Texas. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,623

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Pope Benedict XV

Tope Benedict XV, the 259th successor of St: Peter as supreme head of the Roman Catholic church, began his pontificate on Sept. 6, 1914. Upon many occasions during the war he endeavored to bring the belligerent nations to a peace agfeement and thus to maintain the title which had been affectionately bestowed upon him by a high dignitary of his communion as "a messenger God sent to bring peace." The war between Italy and Austria, in both of which peoples of the Catholic religion predominate, was particularly a great sorrow to the Pope. Those near to him said he deprecated the German violation of Belgium. When the Lusitania was sunk he telegraphed to the then Emperor William his abhorrence of a deed which had shocked the world. One of the incidents of his pontifical career was the visit which President Wilson paid to him on Jan. 4, 1919, when' the president' Went to Rome prior to the opening of the peace conference at Parks. Social and treaty questions were discussed, it is said, during the private audience , at the conclusion of which Pope Benedict presented to his guest, a handsome mosaic reproducing Guido Reni's famous picture of Saint Peter, valued at $40,000. Veeps Over Election. One of the smallest men physically ever elected to the chair of St. Peter, the former Cardinal della Chiesa never expected to bo thus honord bv the Sacred College and is said to have wept when apprised of his election. He would have preferred, he said, to remain a pimple priest or. at most.l caruinai ana arcftbishop of Bologna. One week after his cornation, when the Fisherman's Ring was placed upon ALL NATIONS OF EUROPE TO END WARS, RUMORS (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21. Premier Lloyd George, addressing the National Lib eral conference today, declared that all the nations of Eurone "without f. tinction, have been invited to the Genoa economic conference, because we want. 10 put an end to constant wars and rumors of wars." Discussing the Washington conference he said: "The peace of the world largely depends upon good understanding between the United Statts and ourselves. The conference hrs done more than anything els to restore that understanding." The premier in referring to international conferences -in general, sail that if there had been a conference in July, 1914, there would have been no war in August, 1914. "No international conference ever settled Europe's problems," he said, "but they have advanced the cause of peace on earth. I have profound conviction and faith in the ultimate reason of mankind." Mr. Lloyd George was greeted with a storm of cheers when he appeared

his finger,, he issued an Encyclical to the episcopacy of the world in which rulers were exhorted to put aside dissensions and to "enter-into a council of peace with all speed." The. appeal fell on stony ground, however, and later., on Dec. 12, 1914, the Vatican au

thorities announced the Pope's plan! for a Christmas trace was failing "be-! cause of the opposition of a certain! power. Reports were that Russia and Turkey had refused to acquiesce. Along a thousand miles of battlefront, the following Christmas Day. thousands of cannon thundered an answer to Benedict's appeal to "lay down your arms." Again on Jan. 18, 1915, Pope Benedict took up the task of bringing peace to a war-torn world, decreesing that on Feb. 7. priests and laity of the Catholic church throughout the world should unite in services and prayers for the restoration of universal amity and good will.' The next occasion Benedict exercised his humane prerogative was on July 28, 1915, the first anniversary of the war, when he is-J sued an appeal to all rulers, declaring that "blessed be he who first extends the olive branch and tenders his hand to the enemy in offering his reason-j able conditions of peace." Fails, to Respond. In May, 1916, Monsignor Bonzano, papal delegate to Washington, delivered to President Wilson a message from the Pope in which he intimated that America might volunteer to conciliate the European belligerents. The note came at a time when the United States and Germany were in the midst of a diplomatic crisis and Mr. Wilson, in his reply, did not respond to the pontiff's suggestions for bringing (Continued on Page Twelve) ARE INVITED TO GENOA OF WARS, LLOYD GEORGE on the platform in central hall where the conference was held. All the coalition ministers and Liberal members of parliament were present. Replying to an eulogistic introduction by the chairman of the meeting, Lord Levernuime, tne premier, immediately began a discussion of the advantage accruing to the empire from the Irish settlement.. , , . "It is the first time for a century." he said, "that we have had an Irish government .established, with, the wholehearted sanction of the people of Great Britain," ' Mr. Lloyd George said that the Irish settlement had enhanced the prestige of Great Britain throughout the world and had deprived her enemies of "the force of that taunt that we were always willing to- give exalted advice to other nations, which we never followed ourselves." World trade, he said, was in a worse plight-than any one present had ever before witnessed. He continued: "International conference is the basis of (Continued on Page Twelve) -

BULLETIN fBy Associated Press) . LONDON, Jan. 21 Cardinal Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, stated this evening he had been officially notified from Rome that Pope Benedict was dead. - - Cardinal Bourne's announcement of the death of the pope is apparently

In conformity with the custom by which the cardinals comprising the Sacred college are first infonned of the death of a pope before the information is made known to the central public. The illness of Pope Benedict thus announced by the cardinal to have come to its fatal culmination lasted only a few days. The first signs of this maladv appeared slightly more than a week ago, but only early this week was his condition considered sufficiently serious for the public to be informed of It. On Thursday of last week while his Holiness was celebrating mass in the Matilda mass in the presence of the College of the Propaganda he complained of feeling chills, and was seized with a spell of coughing. Despite the urging of his attending cardinals however, the pontiff finished the ceremony and afterward walked back to the Vatican visibly fatigued. Stubbornly fighting off the malady, tho pope revised to take to his bed and kept on attending to his duties uutil Wednesday of this week, when physicians insisted that he must no longer go about. BULLETIN (Ey Associated Press) PARIS, 21. A Berlin dispatch to the Havas Agency quoted the Wolff bureau as saying Pope Benedict died at 2:35 this afternoon, Rome time. EULLETIN (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21. A Berlin dispatch to Reuters this afternoon says word has been received there that Pope Benedict is dead. BULLETIN (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rome says that the consultation held by the physicians this forenoon owing to tho fact that the pope appeared to be sleeping caused a report to be circulated momentarily that the pope was dead, but this was officially denied. BULLETIN (By Associated Press) ROME, Jan. 21. At 5:18 o'clock this afternoon Cardinal Gaspari, papal secretary' of state said: "The catastrophe is imminent," indicating the pope's end was near. t BULLETIN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The death of Pope Benedict was declared by Senator Schenzer, head of the Italian deli gation to the armament conference to be a "great loss not only for the Holy See and for the Catholic church, but for the entire world." BULLETIN (By Associated Press)" ROME, Jan. 21. (Reuters) Fope Benedict died late today. (By Associated Press) i !- ROME, Jan. 21. A bulletin issued at. 6:30 o'clock this afternoon says: "The state of the Holy Father became worse during the day. Respiration is more and more painful and difficult and ' the heart cont inuously weaker. To a bulletin was signed by Drs. Marchiafva. BattJstini and Bignani. Dr. Battistini, one of the pope's physicians, said at 1 o'clock that the end was approaching for Pope Benedict, being only a question of hours. In his slight delirium during the noon hour the Pontiff resisted the efforts of the physicians to listen to his heart action and expressed a desire to rise and perform his usual duties. Pope Benedict became appreciably weaker about midday today and -tha hopes that had arisen after his period of slumber in the morning disappeared. His general condition had become worse and he seemed to be slowly expiring. Situation Hopeless Prince Chicigi-Albani entered the pope's apartment at 12:30. Professor Battistini examined the pope again at 12:30 p. m. and on leaving the room declared the situation the gravest, the Pontiff's condition, he said, being hopeless. , The only hope remaining, said Monsignor Pizzardo, under secretary of state, -in the presence of a company of prelates and diplomatists, lay, in the prayers "that we and all the faith ful throughout the world offer for recovery of the Holy Father. As to human science," he added, "it has exhausted its resources." About 11 o'clock Pope Benedict, upon seeing Monsignor Nasalli Rocca, the new archbishop of Bologna, where the Pope was formerly archbishop, entered" into conversations with him. Fails Rapidly At S:15 o'clock this morning Pope Benedict was rapidly failing. At 7 o'clock it had been announced at the Vatican that the Pope was diin and telegrams were sent to the Papal Nuncios to that effect At 8:30 o'clock the Pontiffs physicians issued a bulletin saying: "The condition of the Holy Father became worse during the night, which was (Continued on -g Twelve.),