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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Pope TO ANSWER
RULERS NOTES

ROME, Aug. 31.-In Vatican circles
Pope Benedict is said to have signified
his intention of issuing reply after
receiving the responses of all the bel
ligerents to his peace proposals, point
ing out questions In regard to which
all nations at war may be in agree
ment and the others concerning which
it will be necessary to hold discuss.
ions. In this way it is hoped grad.
ually to make peace a matter of prac-
tical politics.
It is stated at the Vatican that Pope
Benedict on receiving President Will
sons reply to his peace proposals did
not attempt to conceal his bitter disap-
pointment, and that he regards the
Presidents answer as leaving little
room for further peace efforts at pres
ent. 1t has been no secret here that
the Pope hoped for more favorable
response from the United States than
from any where else.
Before President Wilson's reply was
read it was said at the Vatican that
the responses from the various govern
ments were expected to be more fav-
orable than the tone of press CON-
ment. At the same time the Pope was
reported to have signified his inten-
ton Of issuing reply after receiving
the answers of all the belligerents
pointing out questions in regard to
which all the nations at war might be
in agreement and others concerning
which it would be necessary to hold
discussions.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

June Robinson will take the part OF
Joan of Arc, and lead the procession.
Band concerts will be given at the
three principal entrances to the city
Monday morning, as welcome to the
persons coming In for the celebration
from the county. The Richmond City
band will play from 9 till IL: 80 O'Clock
at the Pennsylvania station; the Con-
nersville band in the court house yard
and the Maxwell band Of Newcastle
at Twenty-Sevond and Main streets.
The parade. which will be divided
into five sections, will move propmtly
at 1880 O'Clock. Chief Of Police Nc
Nally has ordered that no automobiles
be parked along the parade route.
Line Of March.
Beginning at Fourth street the pa
rade will move to Fifteenth, then
north to A street, west to Tenth street
north to E street, west to Seventh
street, south to A street and east to
Ninth and North A streets where a
short program will be held.
At Seventh and A streets the floats
and decorated automobiles will con-
tinue south to Main street. All march
ers will turn east on A street and pro-
ceed to Ninth and A streets Ranks
will open, order, forming back to curb,
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committee from which town the gen
eral will come here. to have him make
a short speech here before he leaves
for Washington.
General Leclercq is one Of the big
Gest military men in Belgium and every
person in the city and county should
hear what he has to say regarding the
greatest Of all wars.
Indications are that approximately
$4,000 persons from the city and county
will march in the huge street process
ion which will travel over the main
streets OF the city beginning promptly
at 1: 80 O'Clock. Many floats and deco
rated automobiles will also be entered
in the procession.
MarshaIs Are Named.
Omar G. Whelan. grand marshal. ap-
pointed deputy marshals Friday to as
sist him. They are Horace Iredell.
John Taylor. Frank Taylor, Anton
Stole, Henry Farwig, Fred Carr. Wal
ter Murray. Grant Hunt, W. w. Zim-
norman and Frank Jones' All will ride
horseback
Many women will also ride horse
back In the procession. Miss Edna and
Elizabeth Starr, Miss Laverne Jones,
Miss Maxine Murray, Miss Carr, Miss
Dollins are several of them. Miss
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
TAX RATE Will
Be SAME, SAYS
AUDITOR BOWMAN
Indications Are No Change
Will Be Made In Total This
Year.

There will be no change in the city
and county tax rate for next year ac-
cording to present indications, County
Auditor Bowman said Friday.
The tax rate probably will remain at
$3.50 ON every 500, according re the
estimates received from the various de-
partments, he said.
The county rate Of 51.9 cents on
every 500 probably will remain the
same for next year and the city tax
rate also will be the same. The
school rate for this year is 95 cents
on every $100 and it is not believed
that a change will be made.
County Rate Raised.
The county rate will be raised five
cents, however, due to bridge improve
ments but the state rate has been low
cred five cents.
No big improvements are contemp-
lated for next year. Several new bridg-
es will be built in the county how
ever.
From 1905 the county and city tax
rate climbed from $3.50 to 1892 in
1915. In 1916 the rate has been dropp-
ing and it is believed it will be the
same next year as it is for this.
The county council will take two
days to go over the county budget next
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

Every force in Richmond and
Wayne county will be marshalled next
Monday to pay a remarkable-yet de
served-tibute to "our soldier boys"
many Of whom soon will see service on
that great firing line across the sea-
1t is the patriotic duty Of every per-
son in the city and county to partici-
pate in the celebration which begins
mex Monday morning with band con-
certs over the city. All persons in the
county should show their loyalty to the
young men who will fight for them,
fight for the glory Of the state and
nation.
Belgian to Come.
General Leclercq, member of the
Belgian mission to the United States.
probably will arrive in the city about
o'clock Monday evening. Arrange
ments were being made Friday by the
committee in charge of arrangements
for the celebration, with the Anderson
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Price of Bread Expected to
Go Down Through Wheat Order

WASHINGTON, Aug 31.-A reduct
lon In the price of bread is in sight
today as the result of the fixing OF
$2.2o as the price per bushel of the
1917 wheat crop.
The licensing system for flour and
bread dealers soon will be put into
effect, and, although not extending to
the small dealer, the food administra.
tion is expected to find way to hold
down bread prices.
Members of the price fixing commit.
tee are agreed that a price of 1920
Will permit of a fourteen ounce loaf
OF bread for five cents, allowing a fair
profit to both the flour manufacturer
and the baker.
Announced Last Night.
The wheat price was announced by
President Wilson last night after the
committee, headed by Dr. Harry A.
Garfield, completed its three day delib-
erations. Representatives of the pro-
ducers began by voting for $3.50 and
labor representatives for $1.s4. The 81
price set by congress for the 1918
crop was taken into consideration by
the committee in fixing fair valua.
tion for this years harvest
On the basis Of 1920 at Chicago, the
food administration worked out differ
entails for the various grades and
classes for the several grain terminals
During the last ten years the high
est average price paid to producers for
wheat was the June first price, 1917,
practically $2.49 per bushels. Up to
the present time the price has ranged
between minimum Of rs cents paid
in December. 1912. to the above max
imum.
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The price has been mounting stead.
lily, but never has such a high lever
been reached and maintained as since
the outbreak of the war. The farm
price went as high as $123 a busheI
in June, 1909, receding till it again
took an upward curve in 1916, reach
ing practically s1.3O bushel in Febru-
ary, but declining to 81 and a fraction
cents in December Of that year
The average price has not gone be-
low that mark since Dec. 1915 Wheat
opened at s102 and fraction in 1915,
falling to SO cents In July and closing
the year with new high price of 81 so
and a fraction.
The average yearly price Of mum
Der / northern spring wheat in the
Chicago market during the ten years
--19OS-1917-was S1.26 per bushel,
ranging between 81 cents in 1918 and
$237 in 1917. During the same period,
the average yearly price paid to pro-
ducers was $1.07 per bushel, ranging
between 70 cents in 1913 and $500 in
1917.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
BIG Guns BEGIN
ROARING AS SIGN
OF new DRIVES
Pause Marks Present Activi-
ties In Three Campaigns on
Western Line.
(By Associated Press)

None of the three big campaigns
now in progress on western fronts
seems to have got in full swing.
General Cadorna, whose great drive
for Trieste is perhaps the most spec
tacular of the current OPERATIONS, is
displaying an activity more pronounc
ed than either General Petain or Cen
eral Haig in their respective fields at
Verdun and In the Arras-Flanders
areas
Even the Italian commander, how.
ever, apparently is in the midst of one
of the pauses characteristic of vir-
tually all the great drives against
strongly fortified positions in this war
German Raid RepuIsed
On the front below Lens, General
Haig reports the repulse of a German
raid on the British line fve miles
southeast OF the city.
No mention Is made of the activities
on the side, but London war Office init
nations are that the artillery battle
is being carried on in virtually con-
tinuous form in preparation for the
next forward thrust with every indi-
cation that the wearing down process
Ii AdS1u6 ITO uuS cuCCL Ou LILO OcI-
mans. General Petain's report indi-
Gates the possibilities of speedy re-
newal of the infantry battle at Yer
dun.
The artillery on both sides of the
Meuse is actively bombarding the Ger
man lines.
Foe Is Repulsed
The Germans have shown some ac-
tivity in Alsace, making an attack
near Hartmannsweiler-Kops which the
French repulsed completely.
Although the British armies on the
Franco-Belgian front were engaged in
much notable heavy fighting during
August, including the great attack on
the Anglo-French forces in Flanders,
the casualties were notably less than
during July.
The British figures for August given
by London today totaled 59,S11 as
compared with 1882 for July, a fall
ing off of more than 10000. The cas-.
ualties indeed have been a descending
scale during the entire period since
the active campaigning season opened,
the high mark being set in the May
figures which total 1928.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
By BASIL WALTERS

Indiana University Ambulance Trair
ing Camp. Allentown, Pa, Aug 90
Hail, hail, the gangs all here;
We're going to get the kaiser,
We're going to get the kaiser;
Hail, hail, the gangs all here;
We're going to get the kaiser now.
Foregoing are the words which
Pershing's men are singing to the tune
OF the favortte Spanish-American Wal
song. =
Wayne county's men who have been
accepted under the Universal Military
Training law will be singing it soon
And Richmond is going to help
them "get the kaiser" by giving them
a patriotic send-off and by standing
behind them while they are in the
field.
Is National Service.
The proposed celebration is a patri-
otto service to the nation.
It will help the men who serve to
strive for greater achievements and
results.
This is not theory. The statement
is based on actual experience of men
in the service.
No man is in this thing for selfish
reasons.
He delights in knowing that the
folks at home appreciate his sacri-
hces and nothing proves this to him
like a great send-off.
What kind of send-off did you
fellows get?" is a common question
among troops which have been in the
service for months.
The soldier is always emotional.
Soldier Is Religious.
And he is religious. Men who never
read the Bible before getting into
the service, now read at least chap
ter day. The soldier who does not
carry a Bible Is unusual.
Religious meetings conducted by
Y. M. C. A. are always we'll attended.
The post office is the most popular
place in camp.
And men who would never venture
at singing before now tell in their
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
INDIANA COAL
men TO PROTEST

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. S1.-A mum
Der Of coal operators with mines along
the St Louis and Vincennes division
of the Pennsylvania railroad met with
the Indiana public service commission
here today to consider the interpreta
ton placed by the railroad on orders
regarding coal shipments to the north.
west
The operators and commission un-
derstood that Robert s. Lovett, direct.
or of preferential shipments, had given
an order which the railroad had In
terpreted to mean preference must be
given to all coal shipments to lake
points.
The operators and business interests
of the state are protesting its effect
in Indiana and today the public serv-
ice commission sent a telegram to Mr..
Lovett asking If the railroads had In
terpreted the order correctly. If so,
the Indiana men desire to protest they
said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
PAC|FISTS MAY
HOLD MEETING
BEFORE CAPITOL
Leaders of Peoples Council
To Seek Place in Wash.
ingtOn.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31.-Leaders
of the Peoples Council of America an
nounced here today that they would
start for Washington tonight to put
the question of heir righ of holding a
national peace convention up to the
federal authorities.
In case a hall cannot be obtained
there, it was suggested that the meet
ing might be held on the Plaza In front
of the capital.
The Council served notice through
it's executive secretary, Louis P. Loeb
ner, that its peace conference program
would be carried out despite difficult
les encountered in obtaining meet
ing place Mr.. Lochner intimated that
the meeting might be held in Milwau-
kee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Husband Would't Go
to Church is Plea
in Divorce Petition

John H Echols, employed at the
American Seeding Machine company,
refused to go to church with his wife,
Mrs. Ella Echols, 706 South Thir-
teenth street, Mrs. Echols alleges in
a cross-complaint to her husband S
suit for divorce filed in circuit court
Friday.
The couple married April %, 1905,
and Mrs. Echols charges that her hus-
band often refused to speak to her
and once struck her. She says she
was forced to work to support her
self
She claims her husband is the own
er of a house at S11 North H street,
and she asks alimony
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Highwaymen Operate
in Center of New
York's Night Life

NEW YORK, Aug. 31-Three high.
waymen. operating in the Times dis.
trfct of Broadway, the center of New
York city's night life, shortly after
midnight held up number Of subway
laborers while crowds coming from the
after-theatre cafes passed within few
feet
The robbers, who obtained $e7. con-
fronted the laborers, who had just been
paid off and were going off duty as
they came from the tunnel where they
had been working.
One of the laborers who started to
resist was felled with blow from the
revolver Of one of the highwaymen
The hold-up men made their escape.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Soldiers Appreciate Send-Off
Giiuen by Folks Back Home;
Says Author of Smile Slogan

loudest voices to the tune Of popular
songs what they are going to do to
Bill"
No, they don't sing about how they
are going to punish the German peo-
pie. Kaiser Bill alone seems to be
theft objective. And songs are usually
recognized as being the best express
sion of peoples thoughts.
VIII Appreciate.
These facts are presented to prove
the statement that the psychology Of
the soldier is such that he will accept
with great appreciation anything that
is done for him by home town people
The memory of a celebration In his
honor reminds the soldier Of the char
acter he built up in civil life and the
necessity of keeping that character
when away from home influences.
The army is no place for a man
who fails to observe moral codes. To
serve his country, a man must be care
ful to do nothing which will lower his
vitality Otherwise he becomes a
EuTUeu I'd Ills ldllOu III luo IuOSL CTlL-
ical time recorded in history.
The drafted man who is willing to
live up to the high ideals of the army
will be welcomed into the service most
kindly and heartily by men already in
khaki But the man who through mis-
conduct brings discredit on the ser
vice will find himself out of luck"
to use the favorite soldier phrase.
Richmond is giving the drafted man
push which will start him towards
the top. He will go as far as he is
willing TO climb.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

NEW YORK, Aug. 31-Right Rev.
David H. Greer, Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of New York, is alleged to have
instructed his .organist at the Cathed,
raj of st. John the Divine to desist
from playing the 'Star-Spangled Ban.
ner" in telegram sent to the Bishop
by the 210 delegates to the annual en-.
campment Of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars of the United States while In
session at the Hotel McAlpin, New
York. Two army officers, said to be
members of the congregation of the
Cathedral of ST John the Divine, are
said to have informed the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, that Bishop Greer had
directed that THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner" should not be played in the
Cathed because it inspired enthus-
iasm for war"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Senate Committee
Sits on Hardwick's
Disloyal Proposal

WASHINGTON, Aug 31.-Unani
nous unfavorable report on Senator
Hardwick's bill to prohibit sending
drafted troops abroad without their
consent was ordered today by the sen.
ate military committee.
Favorable recommendation was Civ.
en- Senator Fletcher's bill providing
that enlistments Of Americans with
forces of nations at war against Ger
many shall not cause loss of American
citizenship.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE
THEY'RE GOING BUT THEY'RE
ON THEIR ROCKY WAY

ERIE, Pa, Aug. 31.-The special
train carrying $50 delegates from New
York and other eastern cities to the
meeting of the peoples conference
of America for Democracy and Peace,
originally scheduled to be held in a
western state, passed through Erie,
early today. The train stopped here
but few minutes and only one per-
son, a woman, was awake. She said
that she did not know where the ses-
sions of the conference would be held.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
COUNCIL VOTES
TO INSTALL LIGHT

City council Thursday night by
unanimous vote passed the ordinance
appropriating $500 for the erection of
a search light to light the way for
aviators flying over Richmond from
Dayton to Indianapolis.
The measure was passed under sus-
pension of the rules.
A cluster light of red and white
will be purchased by the city and
probably will be installed on the top
of the city building. 1t probably will
be lighted each night from to IL
O'Clock.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
cHicAGO4TRADE JOURNAL SEES
NO REDUCTION IN PRICE

CHICAGO. Aug. 31.-According to
Chicago bakers and trade publications
the fixing of $2.20 as the basic price
for wheat will not resusitate the old
time five cent loaf which disappeared
long ago with the sky-rocketing of
wheat prices. In fact, it was said that
the reduction would merely permit
bakers to continue in business without
a loss. as it was alleged some Of them
have been doing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
VETERAN is ELECTED

CENTERVILLE, Ind, Aug. 31.-Nel-
son Carlson, who served as a regular
in the Philippines and in the Spanish
American war, has been elected
Second lieutenant of the Home Guards
at Cambridge City.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
Poles Find Fault
With Pope's Plea

CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-The Polish
National Defense committee today
made public letter sent to the Vati-
can noting with regret that in the
Pope's peace proposal he did not in
sisit that Poland is entitled to full in
dependent political life. A copy was
sent to the President.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

The committee wants every au-
tomobile owner in the city and
county to decorate his machine and
enter it in the parade. It is a fine
way to show the army boys that
the people of Richmond and Wayne
county are depending on them to
do their bit.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
All! HERE ARE OUR
FRIENDS OF PEACE AGAIN

CLEVELAND. Aug. 81 The spec
ial train carrying about one hundred
eastern delegates to the convention OF
the Peoples Council Of America for
Democracy and Peace, somewhere in
the west" reached here early this
morning and left for the west at $3.50
a. m. The train is scheduled to reach
Chicago at $50 p. m. Brief stops will
be made at Toledo and other points
enroute.
Linley v. G. Gordon, Of New York,
southern organizer and member of
the general organization committee,
said the eastern delegates could not
say where the convention will be held.
He said a meeting of members of the
executive committee will be held in
Chicago this evening to decide the
matter after conferring by telephone
with Louis r. Lochner. executive sec
retary e~s'
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
North Carolina Judge
Declares Child Labor
Law Unconstitutional

GREENSBORO, N. Car, Aug 81
Federal Judge Boyd today declared
the Keating- Owen child labor law un-
constitutional.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
THREE BANDS
TO WELCOME
VISITORS TO
CITY MONDAY
"Our Soldier" Day to be Ush-
cred In With Concerts at
Main Avenues of Approach
To City.
PARADE PLANS GROW
MONDAY MORNING

Band concerts west of the Penn
sylvania station; Twenty-second
and Main street; and in the court
house yard.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31
CITY JUDGE
ORDINANCE
IS KILLED
BY COUNCIL
Seven Representatives Op-
pose Creation of New OF.
flee To Five Who are in Fa-
vOr of It.
ATTORNEYS APPEAR

The city council Thursday night kill
ed the ordinance creating the office Of
city Judge, seven councilmen voting
against the measure and five in favor
of IL Tha vofa WAS as fnlloUa.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

For Wayne County by w. e. Moore
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight
Ind Saturday. Possibly local showers
onisht,
General Conditions-General rising
emperature is taking place east Of
he Rockies and south Of the lakes,
Though it is somewhat cooler in the
ar northwest.
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81 3; ';:; s:s K; ':;' c;.:: ;.:
WEATHER FORECAST

For indiana by United States
Weather Bureau-Fair and warmer to-
light. Saturday partly cloudy.
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ST. PAUL, Aug. 31.-Barred from
Minnesota by proclamation Of Cover
nor J. A. A. Burnquist, on Tuesday,
Icontlnued On Page seven.l
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