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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
FOOD HEAD CLOSES BAKERY

WINCHESTER Ind, Aug. Is
County Food Administrator Clark act
ing under orders from the federal food
authorities has ordered the Stump
bakery at Union City closed for ten
days, after they. have sold out their
stock Of bakery goods. This was
brought about by violations of the
bakery food rules promulgated by the
federal government. The Union City
Bottling works suffered fine of 5000
and the confiscation of eighteen bar
rels Of sugar which they had stored in
barn
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

clined their proffered help. The
thing seemed impossible.
The offer had far different
aspect, a few weeks ago. when the
War Council faced the situation OF
a bumper wheat crop and man
power entirely Inadequate to handle
1t.
The fate Of the crop hung in the
balance.
Then thousands Of women-the
same women whose January offer
Of aid had been scorned with their
army of children and girls sprang'
up from ali over the state. and the
wheat crop was saved. II this
volunteer army mad not. unb.dden,
come to the rescue. I5eaf part OF
this tremendous crop would have
been lost
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
Kansas Women Figure in
Bloodless, Bulletless Bat
tie to Save the Wheat
Crop While Male Harvest
; ers Are Fighting in France.


One OF the most romantic battles
of the Great War was not fought on
the other side OF the Atlantic: men
had only q part in it: not a shot was
fired: the people for whom the
battle was fought were half a world
away!
Yet this battle was won without
the loss OF single life. and with In
calculable profit to humanity.
Its detectives were the millions OF
bushels Of wheat from the fruitful
acres which are the broad bosom of
Kansas: the lighters who harvested
the grain were women. girls. chill
dren aud men. Tho enemies were
the elements, fire. air and water:
the nations for whom the battle
was waged were starving Belgium.
France. England AL of friendly.
Europe In fact our own
Americans over there
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
WORLD SERIES

Cooperating with the con-
servation policy of the gov
eminent and conforming with
war time conditions, the Pal
ladium will not give returns
from the world series on it's
big electric score board. The
government has adopted a
strenuous policy of conserving
man power and Of keeping
men engaged in essential in
duStries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
Winchester Railroader
Dies Following Injury

WINCHESTER, Ind, Aug. 2S.-Fred
Goodhue, 25 years old, is dead at his
home here, death resulting from an
injury received while coupling cars at
Quincy, o. He was rushed to hos
pital at Bellefontaine. but died in a
short time. He had been braking on
the Big Four only a few weeks. The
body was brought here for burial. The
widow and two children survive.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
Former Newspaper Man
Is Killed III France
(By Associated Press)

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Tuesday. Aug. 27.-Second
Lieut. Franklin Fox of Philadelphia, at
tached to headquarters staff, was kill
ed Friday afternoon when an airplane
in which he was riding caught fire.
The pilot, an experienced aviator,
jumped and was killed.
Lieut.. Fox was a newspaper man I'M
til the United States entered the war.
He was employed on the Boston Her
aid and the Philadelphia Public Ledg-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

Floyd Gibbons, an American war
correspondent, arrived back in the
United States a few days ago igno-
rant of the fact that he had been
awarded the croix de guerre. This
honor was conferred upon him for
going to the aid of Major John Barry
when Gibbons wen, over the top with
the major and American troops at
Belleau wood.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
Belgian Soldiers Killed When
Huns Bomb Red Cross Hospital

work. A large sum of money was
made available for the Red Cross at
once for the relief OF the injured and
their families.
The employees were refugees driven
from Belgian towns by the German
advance. A little bunch back girl.
who was supporting her widowed
mother, lost both legs. At the hos
pital, she said to her mother: 1T
doesn't matter SO much. l can still sit
and sew, l will be a dress-maker and
we will get along"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
Flying Officers Return
to Act as Instructors
rBy Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Aug 2S.-Experi-
enced flying officers are being return
ed from overseas service, a war de-
partment announcement says. to act
as special instructors in the advanced
sections Of American flying schols.
At the same time, elemental instruc-
ton at the fields has been put under
new system, by which cadets are
assigned to a single instructor, and
kept under his tutelage until they
complete the first course. This is
said to be safer and more effective
method than the former practice OF
giving the student fixed amount of
flying with instructors. after which
he is required to make a solo flight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

Hsu Shih-Chang formerly was
vice prime minister Of China. He
has been selected by the army party
as candidate for the presidency. He
is understood to be acceptable to
the southern provinces. 1t is expect
ed that there will be an interesting
fight this year both for the presi-
dency and vice presidency. Hsu
Shin Chang was prominent during
the latter days of the monarch and
was one of the leaders during the ne
gotiations preliminary to the settle
ment between China, Japan and Rus
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

You may be talking about the rela-
ton of protoplasm to the nebular
hypothesis, but a woman will find
something In the conversation to re-
mind her to tell about that time she
was in the hospital.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

Mr.. Voter, II you do not register you
can not vote
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
The Presidents Masterpiece
[Col. Harvey's War Weekly

LCol. Harvey's War Weekly1
Altogether one of the most i'm
pressive utterances that ever fell
from the lips or pen of an American
statesman; document which we be-
lieve future generations will rank as
among the most finished and mo-
mentous in our history. And yet,
strangely enough, it has attracted
really less attention both here and
abroad than have several other of
President Wilson's addresses, which,
to our thinking, were far less salts
factory just as they were far less
firm and less unqualified in tone and
suggestion. Why this remarkable
ADDRESS should have been 1gceived
so almost stolidly would be hard to
tathom. Perhaps the uproar of the
day itself. combined with the dash
ing little victory of our men at the
front, may have blanketed it. But
1T is only a temporary obscuration.
AS long as generations to come read
the history of our share in the great
world war, just so long will that
1918 Fourth of July address of Presi-
dent Wilson at Washington's tomb
be read and admired as a docu-
mentary monument in our history.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
Barefoot Days in Germany
[Onaha Bee1


German emperor once crawled
on hands and knees across the Alps
in winter to do penance to the pope
for his offenses. His sins had been
much on the same order as those of
which the present Kaiser is guilty.
However, William the Last makes
his amends vicariously, and passes
on to his devoted people the inesti-
mable privilege of enduring priva-
ton that their war lord may pros
per, or at least continue to carry out
his plans for making the world un-
comfortable. That the blessed super
men who make up the population of
that sublimely efficient empire of
sweetness and light, kultur and
other unmentionable things, over
which the ultimate HohenZollern
now holds his sway. may enjoy to
the utmost all their manifold ad-
vantages as his subjects, he now eX-
tends to them the great boon of 60
ing barefoot, that they may save
paper to make foot covering against
another winter. Leather in Germany
has long been sacred to the soldier,
and one great, but unpoasted, result
of recent experience in France is
found in the fact that the German
Army has not so, many feet to clothe
as it contained in March. This is
most practical economy, doubtless
much appreciated by Herr Won Lu-
dendorff, quartermaster general of
the empire. although not publicly re-
ferred to by him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
EXPERIENCE VS.. THEORY

A MERICA is Tightening her belt
n for the war. Some are doing it
voluntarily and with patriotic
impulse; others are doing it under
compulsion. The Food Administra-
ton asks us to eat fish two days a
week and to limit our consumption
of beef to a pound and "a quarter a
week.
We are advised to eat more pork
and pork products-which is all very
well except that pork is not especial
ly well regarded as a midsummer
diet and there are large numbers of
our people who do not eat pork at all
for religious reasons.
The Fuel Administration also
comes forward with an announce
ment that the supply of coal to GER
tain industries is to be materially
reduced, the makers of passenger au-
tomobiles being the first to feel the
curtailment. There is reason for the
Food Administrations course. There
is none for DIR. Garfield's.
We have plenty of coal in this
country. All we need is production.
But the false system of price-fixing
into which the government plunged
a year ago has borne its fruits and
the output of coal has not kept pace
with the increasing demands of the
country, because the coal miner is
not willing to do business at a loss
We seem to be able to learn moth
ing from the experience of our Allies.
None of them is curtailing or ham
pering business along any line; they
are encouraging everything to run at
peak. We, on the contrary, are seek
ing to misplace the emphasis of our
efforts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
Poeitc4 ;~
Pe~~o4eSo~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Politicians and public officeholders
who attempt, or who are likely to
attempt, to favor their friends by
handing out contract "plums" short
~ before their terms of office ex-
plre were given jolt in the Penn
sylVania Supreme Court yesterday
when Justice Simpson decided that
the courts cannot blind it's eyes to
such favoritism, and that public pol
icy requires honesty and fair dealing
where there is suspicion of office
holders yielding to such temptation.
While the ruling reverses the judg-
ment of Common Pleas of Luzerne
county, the decision will act as a
precedent in this city and through
out the state.
The decision was the result of a
suit brought by NJ. G. Moore agains:
the county of Luzerne, to recover a
six per cent. commission on a con-
tract amounting to $129,226.31. On
December IL, 1911, Moore entered
into a written contract with the
County Commissioners, under which
he agreed to furnish plans, ETC., for
the construction of a county road.
This agreement was revoked by a
later board of commissioners that
came into office month later, or
January, 1912, on the ground that
it was not made according to law,
and that the plans drawn by Moore
and others would result in a serious
prejudice to the county.
An affidavit of defense to the suit
was then filed by the commissioners
which averred, in part, that Moore
had attempted to tie its hands in
the agreement by conspiring with
the old board to prevent the COM
missioners from selecting an en-
gineer in whom they had confidence.
Justice Simpson, in holding that
| the affidavit was sufficient in law,
said:
THE court cannot blind it's eyes
to the fact that in public and pri-
vate life alone an official or agent
whose term of office is about to ex-
| pire might be tempted to favor his
friends and retainers at the expense
of his principal. Because thereof
public policy requires the courts in
furtherance of public and private
| honesty and fair dealing shall apply
such procedural rules as will pre-
vent or limit summary recovery upon
agreements that possibly may result
from yielding to such temptation"
Colonel Roosevelts text, "a Re-
| publican Congress" strikes a re-
! sponsive chord in Pennsylvania. The
| state Republican committee is go
ing to wage q most vigorous Con-
gressional campaign in all but two
or three of the hopelessly Demo-
cratic districts. The Republican
leaders have hopes of winning out
in all but couple of districts which
are conceded to the opposition.
Upstate newspapers continue to
comment on the possibility of Mich
ael ]. Ryan, public service commits
sioner, becoming a candidate for
Supreme Court judge.
Senator Sprouts Fourth of July
speech made such hit that news
papers over the state continue to re-
print paragraphs from it.
The public declines to become
excited over the resignation of the
latest Democratic state chairman. or
who is to be his successor. How
ever, it is expected that a big row
will occur when the actual naming
takes place at the hands of the Nc
Cormick faction, and against the
wishes of Bonniwell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
England Nearly SeF-Supporting

late ourselves on the final failure of
the German attempt to starve us
out"
Much of the increased cultivation
mas been done by women, we are
told, and Mr.. Prothero, the British
minister of agriculture, had a cheer
full picture to paint when appealing
for recruits for the Women's Land
Army" AS reported by the London
Morning Post his speech ran:
To-day the acreage under wheat,
barley and oats is the highest ever
recorded in the history of our agri-
culture. That is one of the finest
achievements of the war. In The
same period the number of allot-
ments has been increased by 100000,
which means something like 500, 900
tons of produce raised additionally,
big saving in transport, and an i'm
proVement socially and morally. This
advance has been effected in spite of
the fact that there are 100000 fewer
laborers on the land. 1t is because
OF that decrease of labor that the
appeal is being made for more wo-
men. l do not believe that any as
sembly of British farmers will hold
back men who can possibly be SPAR
ed when the alternative is our
troops being driven back by over
whelming numbers and butchered on
the beach by German guns. The
promise of the harvest is not yet
fulfilled, and there is much to be
done. Women's work on the land
is a vital necessity. 1 know the work
they are asked to do is hard, bring
ing with it discomforts, and, COM
paratively speaking, is poorly paid.
Life on the land is not luxurious, but
1t brings health with it. and the wo-
men have the conviction that they
are doing something in one of the
most important fields to make VIC
tory sure"
Dispatches from Rome and Paris
also tell of splendid food crops in
Italy and France. Italy, in fact, NAV
need no grain imports after. the har-
vest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
A GOOD SUGGESTION,

NE RS. ]. G. Sanders, whose
M leadership in the local Com
munity Singing movement n.s
been of great service, writes the
Telegraph concerning an American
ization idea that might be worked
out very successfully during the re-
mainder of the summer.
The Americanization movement
could be greatly furthered, 1 believe.
through the medium of Community
Song" writes Mrs. Sanders. Our
committee, had we the funds, would
be very glad to arrange for a series
of Sunday afternoon concerts in
Capitol Park, especially designed 10
reach the foreign-born element. at
which the band, engaged for the oc-
casion, would lead in patriotic songs.
have read with much interest re-
cent articles in the Telegraph con-
cerning the community efforts of
other cities and sincerely wish that
a way could be found to finance such
a plan here"
The Sunday afternoon sacred and
patriotic song idea is good. 1t is
entirely in accord with the customs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
SAME THING HERE

lFrom the Ohio State Journal1
Next Monday the newspapers will
cut off their exchanges, by order of
the government. This is done to
save pulp and expense of transporta
ton. We do not kick, but we don't
know what we will do without these
regular visits of our old friends. We
won't miss the metropolitan press
so much, but the absence of these
exchanges from the provinces will
be a loss that we will feel. How
Will we run a paper without them?
How Will we get any fresh ideas ex-
cept from the fields, the woods and
the rural places, where ideas grow
on bushes like blackberries? 1t will
seem like a great bereavement to
sit down to edit a paper without a
pile of exchanges on the table. We
are alarmed at the prospect. We
Will have to fall back on our Plato,
our Cervantes, and our Bergson in
order to serve our patrons with a
savory dish. And so. if our sub
scribers will observe more philoso-
ply than news in our columns after
this, they will understand it is be-
cause our exchange list is taken
from U.S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
BEER AND SHIPS

TOR the benefit of those who feal
II that there may be some truth
- in the nonsensical chatter Of
those who tell us that ship-produc-
tion will be curtailed if beer i.
denied the workers, the followins
quotations are reproduced from the
report of the Senate committee hear
ing on that subject:
We have no hesitancy in saying
that when intoXicants are used
there is decrease in the eff
cheney of workmen.-E. b. Pugh,
general superintendent Newcomb
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com
pany, Hampton, Va.
Going dry May 21 has improv-
ed the situation and the output of
our yard.-Former President Ste
vens, of the Merrill Stevens Ship
building Company, Jacksonville,
We believe the effect of the dry
law has been most beneficial. =
Shipbuildlng Company. Detroit.
More ship tonnage in given
time in Seattle than anywhere
else in world; Portland also good
record. (Both are dry)-Robert
Dollar.
Prohibition great blessing in
this ship-building community
L. t. Wexford, Newport News.
These are but few of many SINH
lar letters and kilograms. In add
ton, Richard H. Edmonds, editor OF
the Manufacturers Record, Balti
more, writing of conditions at Spar.
rows Point, wired the committee
I'm connection with statemen
made by Mr.. cambridge Colby tha
the elimination of beer would lesser
the efficiency of ship workmen. i
may interest you to know that Spar
rows Point, the great iron and stee
and shipbuilding community con
trolled by Bethlehem Steel Corpora
ton, was established more than ;
quarter of century ago as a strie
prohibition territory, its charter for
bidding the sale of alcoholic drink,
within three miles of the center of the
town. which at that time was a small
village. 1 have never heard tina
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
Mioht Weaken the Firm

Two brothers once ran a store in
small Western town, where they had
ouite a large trade in wool on barter.
one of the brothers became convert
ed at a revival and urged the other
to follow in his footsteps:
You ought to join, Jake" said
tho converted one. "You don't know
how helpful and comforting 1T is to
be a member of the church.
II know, Bill" admitted Jake,
tboughtfully, IAN I would like to
ioin. but / don't see how l can"
"Why not?" persisted the first
What is to prevent you?"
well, it's jes' this way, Bill" de-
clared Jake. There has got to be
somebody in the firm to weigh this
here wool" - Philadelphia Tele-
praDh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. C. Shand, who retains his
post of chief engineer under thG'
Federal management of Pennsylva-
mia, is one of the veterans of railroad
engineering in the eastern part of
the country.
The Rev. e. H. Ward, prominent
Pittsburgh Episcopal clergyman. has
retired after twenty-one years of SER
vice.
George L. Patterson, well-known
western tier man, has been elected
head of the New Castle Board of
Trade.
Judge Russell G. Stewart, of
Northampton county. has given no.
tice that persons who damage war
gardens can expect no leniency from
him when they come up for sem
tence.
The Rev. Robert A. Jamiso1,
Presbyterian clergyman at Apollo,
has just retired after a service of
forty-one years in the ministry in
Western Pennsylvania in which part
of the state he was born.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
MotiDe For Christian Life

When was boy, the main rea-
son urged for being a Christian was
a selfish reason. 1t was insurance
against loss; it was the personal
gain, the personal happiness, the flu
ture blessedness of which it put Won
in possession, that were constantly
kept before your mind. That mo-
tive has been steadily retreating in
to the background; the motive of un-
selfish service has been increasingly
emphasized. Because the Christian
life is the noblest life, because 1t is
more blessed to give than to receive.
and better to minister than to be
ministered unto; because the good
of life is not found by separating
yourself from your fellows, but by
Identifying yourself with them
therefore, let us be Christians. This
is what II means to follow Christ to-
day, as the wisest preachers explain
it; and this is the appeal which.
when we learn how to use 1t, will
have convincing power.-Washingto
Gladde(
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
PUBLIC UTILITIES

THE country is passing through
a period of increasing costs
in every direction and the fell
low who pays the freight is not in
happy frame of mind. Whether he
be manufacturer, merchant or the
head of a public utility his troubles
are never ceasing. Also, the con-
sumer is perturbed and his protests
rise upon every breeze.
Harrisburg has been fortunate for
many years in it's large supply of
river coal, a cheap product that has
made it possible for the manufac-
turer and consumer here to get
through an unusual fuel complica-
ton. By reason of this fact the public
utilities have been aided in large
measure, but the pinch is now at
hand and advancing charges to the
consumer are bulletined with great
frequency.
Consumers of steam heat in Har-
risburg have just been notified of a
proposed increase of rates and the
schedule will come before the Public
Service Commission within the
month. If the increased charges
are justified on the score of costs,
then there can be no reasonable OBJ
lection on the part of the consumer;
but should the charge be excessive
or unreasonable from any cause, it
will be the duty of the Public Ser
vice Commission to refuse the in
crease. Conditions elsewhere as to
cost do not in all cases affect the
Harrisburg situation.
There is general complaint over
arbitrary price-fixing and it is a
common remark that many in
creases are without justification. 1t
is the duty of those charged with
tho supervision of all public utilities
to see to it that the service corpora
tions and the consumer alike get a
square deal. This is no time for
profiteering in any direction.