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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02
UNLIMITED
AUTHORITY
SOUGHT BY
SEC. BAKER
Would Be Ill Advised to Re-
strict the Number of Men
in Army, Secretary of War
Says.
RESTS WITH CONGRESS
(By Associated Press.)


WASHINGTON. May 2.-Secretary
Baker at hearing today before the
house military affairs committee con-
fidential session says that Congress
should grant unlimited power for the
creation of an army of whatever size
necessary for the prosecution of the
war.
He told the committee that it would
be ill-advised to restrict the number Of
men to be utilized and that the size
of the army should be increased in
the discretion of the government as
transportation and equipment facil-
tiles warrant.
Accompanied by Provost Marshal
General Crowder and General March,
acting chief Of staff, the secretary pre-
sented the administrations plans for
a greatly increased army.
The army appropriation bill has
been held by the committee for
months awaiting the return of Secre-
tary Baker from France that appropri-
ations might be made to accord with
whatever recommendations he wanted
to make. Existing recommendations
contemplate an army Of 100000 and
whether this should be raised to three
or four millions rests with the admin
istration.
Plans for increasing the army, de-
termined upon by President Wilson
and his advisors and based upon the
will to win the war If it takes all
Americas man power to do 1t, were
presented to congress by Secretary
Baker.
There were indications that the pro-
gram Of the war secretary calls for
the removal Of all restrictions on the
number of troops to be raised and
asks authority to mobilize as many
men as the government can equip,
train and send to the battle front in
France.
There was evidence that the war
department believes that the existing
force OF approximately 100000 men
now under arms can be doubled dur
ing the present year. This means that
clothing, equipment and transporta-
tion are In sight for 100000 men. 1t
was indicated also that should ad
ditional facilities become availa BILE
that President Wilson desires to be
able to call out more men without the
delay caused by seeking new author
ity.
Secretary Baker indicated he would
submit proposed measure, probably
as an amendment to the draft law, to
grant the unlimited authority asked.
Secretary Baker was questioned by
the committee regarding his views to
increasing the draft age. He said he
was studying the subject and had
made no decision.
The house military committee will
Immediately resume consideration of
the annual army appropriation bill
and Secretary Bakers idea is that 1t
shall provide only for the number i'm
mediately foreseen.
Indications are that 1t will carry
provisions for equipment. transporta-
tion, pay and other expenses of ap-
proximately three million men as part,
not Of a specific program, but as
furtherance OF blanket authority
plan involving use Of all or part OF
the funds appropriated and supple
mental appropriations later on as their
need may become apparent.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02
APPROVES
anti !. W. W. BILL
(By Associated PreSS.)

WASHINGTON. May 2.-Legisla-
ton aimed at the Industrial Workers
of the World and similar organiza-
tions advocating force and violance
and industrial changes was approved
today by the senate judiciary COM
mittee. The measure comprising fea-
lures of antiI. w. w. bills introduced
by Senator King of Utah and Walsh
of Montana was ordered favorably re-
ported.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02
Two Flyers Are Killed
In "Straight Nose" Diue
(By Associated Press)

FIT. WORTH, Tex, May 2.-FalIing
$50 feet in a straight nose dive this
Lieut.. James S. Ennis, Jr, of
New York city and Cadet Paul Her
riott of Okland, Cal, were killed The
accident happened at Hicks just an
hour before General Greble and staff
of Camp Bowie arrived to witness
some "stunt" flying.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02

For Wayne County by w. e. Moore
Fair tonight and Friday, with mod
crate temperature.
General Conditions - Weather is
now generally fair throughout TIE
United States and temperatures are
rising east of the Rocky mountains,
excepting over the far north and on
the Atlantic coast. Frost was general
this morning over Wayne county and
ice formed three-eighths of an inch in
thickness.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02

Lieutenant John +. Scott of Rich
mond, who has served with the Amer
ican Expeditionary forces for the last
six months, will be in Richmond in
about month, according to message
received from him by his mother.
At present Lieutenant Scott is in
Alexandria, La, where he is acting as
an instructor in training camp, for
which purpose he was transferred from
France to this country. In his mes
sage to his mother he said that he
could probably secure furlough in
a month and would be home at that
time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02
THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States
Weather Burcau-Fair tonight and
Friday. Little change in temperature
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-02
LOSSES
AGAIN HEAVY
IN ATTACKS
ON ALLIES
Germans Display Increased
Activity on Somme Front,
Apparently in Preparation
for Renewal of Drive.
BOYS ARE CALLED ON
(By Associated Press)

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE VIA OTTAWA, May 2.-The
German field depots are being heavily
drawn upon to replace recent casual
ties. The 18th reserve division has
just received company of $50 boys
of the 1919 to 1920 class who had
only eight weeks training and were
not to be put into the fighting unless
absolutely necessary. These facts
that they are now in the battle line
suggests anticipation that they may
have to be used.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27

other books spring into recollection, other chron-
icles of lasting hates and deadly feuds. We shall
speak of two by artists of degree to make CON-
parison worthy. One is Joseph Conrad s story The
Duel and the other is novel of last spring, Foe
Farrell, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. The Duel
makes itself credible by pointing out the preposter
GUS incredulity of the tale it has to tell F0e-Far-
rel is distinguished from Foes by being, under
meath the surface of exciting adventure, an acute
psychological study of the hate process. Foes is
not psychological at all it is simply romance In
the heroic style with metaphysical twist. The
metaphysical twist is impaired by Miss Johnston,
who is bent upon working out Great Thought of
her own through the medium Of her two principal
characters; terrible pity. For she has vitiated
splendid story. Her art has not been able to con-
ceal her purpose and her purpose is not only open
to serious objection for being thus too markedly on
view but it is open to serious objection because of
the idea it carries.
Why Christians Will Protest.
Now there is only one class of people who will
find Miss Johnston s idea Objectionable Every one
will enjoy her book without qualification except
Christians For the Great Thought upon which
and through which she brings her two foes to recon-
Citation is this: Christ, Buddha all the supreme
deities are one There is really one God no matter
in what guise you worship him.
This is not a new conception 1t is not an I'M
popular conception 1t is as a matter of fact
conception rather widely held of recent years, and
it has been enthusiastically preached. But it is
conception that Christians cannot entertain and
remain Christians; and so the reiterative promi-
nence which Miss Johnston chooses to give to it
will offend every Christian soul. We may even dis
sent from her use Of it on historical grounds 1t is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27

The matter would be easier if Miss Johnston
put her Great Thought over clearly; but she is as
cloudy and incoherent and vague the dear
Swami who fascinated Mr.. Don Marquis's Her
mione So far as the historical anachronism goes
her eagerness to preach her idea is shown by the
simple reflection that she could have effected her
reconciliation of the two foes without Juggling In
metaphysics at all For Christianity not only for
bids vengeance but it forbids mortal to endeavor
to punish under the pretext of doing justice as
Divine instrument. And there is such thing as
Christian reconciliation apart from Christian
resignation. Glenfernie would have felt the COM
pulson to be reeoncled even though he felt no
obligation to be resigned.
To Revert to the Story.
We have no wish to do more than warn readers
what they must expect. Such warnings are not
always clearly conveyed by the covers of book.
The other day we received book of tales of India
for children. They turned out to be stories of the
rencanations of Buddha, and the author saw fit to
suggest likenesses between Buddha and Christ On:
of the mouths of babes, &c., and into their ear,
propaganda. Miss Johnston may think all deities
one deity does she include Gottf
To revert to the story: no apology is needed for
not detailing its incidents here. 1t is fine and
stirring narrative eouched in the highly poetic
prose Miss Johnston writes so easily. Besides the
Scottish lowlands and highlands, including a
glimpse of Edinburgh, the action takes us to Paris,
into Spain and in the midst Of carnival scenes in
Rome; there is even an interlude in Egypt and the
desert, and scene is set on Lake Como. The au-
thor talent as storyteller is fully exhibited and
the book will entertain and largely satisfy many
thousands Of readers.
FOES. By MARY JOHNSTON. Harper q Brothers. $50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27
Mary Johnston and Her Foe
The Metaphysical Gift Which Should Go Into Poetry
Invades and Decidedly Vitates Her Latest Romance

all very well for Glenfernie's tu-.
tor to say to himself of the
laird: "Comprehensiveness. :.
He always tended to that. - But
it is another thing to make US
believe that a Scots laird living in
the middle of the eighteenth century,
the descendant of a line of rigidly
Calvinistic and kirkgoing folk, would
ever get to~the metaphysical state
where the recorder could truthfully
say:
"There swan upon him another
great perspective. He saw Christ in
light, Buddha in light. The glorifed
the unified. Union"
We do not think that Scots laird
of those days ever found in the East
"good growing ground. We think
that Mary Johnston, travelling and
musing, or cloaked and walking about
the Virginia hills and musing, was
intrigued by a bit of metaphysical
speculation and could not resist the
temptation to Irvine it fervently into
a story. What strange things Mary
Johnston really believes we can merely
surmise from various disjointed
CALCULATIONS in this novel. IAN Is my
self" is one. A belief in reincarna-
ton may be another Neither is
Christian; and perhaps she offends US
less by an enunciation of them, how
ever bald and irrelevant, than by in
sisting upon their enumeration by per-
sons who were decidedly Christian be-
fore all else.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27
M AIRY JOHNSTON has genius,
lVl as we all know. She has writ


ten several novels of AZ centimeter
calibre, whatever the biggest guns
are now. The Long Roll and Cease
Firing are huge canvases in which
you admire endessly the depth, per
spective, eoloring, detail and compost
ton. Prisoners Of Hope and To Han.
and To Hold are ronances that stand
chemical tests-the chemistry Of time
and altered mental attitudes dissOlves
them not. LcWis Rand, The Fortunes
of Garin, The Wanderers and that
poetic drama of the French Revolu- I
ton The Goddess Of Reason have II
been various revelations of her mag I
NATIVE and dramatic gifts; and there | III
is not one of her books that most liv- HI
ing American authors would not be III
proud to have written. HI
Genius never stands still. Mis- III
Johnston could no more 60 on writ Nj
ing the same kind of story, of no mat w
ter how excellent kind, than she
could stop writing. Her new book,
Foes, is in no respect similar to her
other work unless it be i'm certain
mere stylistic tricks, such as the habit
her characters have of repeating
phrase they want to emphasize or
which they utter under strong emo
ton. But such things have no impor-
tance and may, indeed, be rather wei
come as making us feel that we are
back again among Mary Johnston's
peoplc-and very good company too.
Foes is a story laid chiefly in Scotland Of
years ago and longer. The historical backgr
is the rebellion which was to bring back the
from over the water and which was crushed at
loden. This is the background merely; the
ground is here the whole story and it is filled
dominated by two men, Ian Bullock, fighter
the losing cause, and Alexander Jardne, lai
Glenfernie, of good Wing and Protestant lin
Two men, VIC say; but the book starts with tn
as boys and for some chapters Miss Johnston
votes herself to painting memorable frien'
that was to be changed to lasting hate.
and Jonathan, Damon and Pythias receive
able mention, but the award for boyish dev
goes to Alexander, "Old Steadfast" as the
named him, and Ian.
A Story of 81 Will Repay"
What is the worst injury man can do t
friend! What should be the course of the in,
friendf What is hatei What is vengeance?
vengeance be pursued and justice donei
what is the worst punishment that can be inf
upon one who has betrayed friendship
questions and a cluster of others are struck
the readers mind by Miss Johnston's Foes,
pounded until the sparks fly brightly on the
of his imagination.
SO far as plot is concerned the first half o
story may be said to have none; the reader
foresee the course of events as clearly as if
were imaged in the weirdsome Kelpie's Pool
is the tragic centre of the story. But once hs
brought her two men into the attitude of m
enemies the novelist displays her real origin
and ingenuity to the delight of all who shall
the book Her instinct for the dramatic is mat
by her inventiveness and the encounters bet
Glenfernie and Capt. Rullock rise on a
tanned crescendo for page after page. Inevi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
JUSTICE MCCOY GIVES
ADVICE TO NEW CITIZENS
Sixty-Two From Camp Meigs Told
. Of the Supreme Sacrifice"
They Face.

! 'You shall hereafter think as Amer
leans breathe as Americans, eschew
the language Of your native land and
speak English only. You should feel,
think and act as Americans whose
ancestors have lived here for a hun
dred years. said Chief Justice
Mccoy of the District Supreme Court
in the course of a talk on the nature of
the oath of allegiance just taken before
him by sixty-two foreign-born enlisted
men from Camp Meigs.
The Chief Justice took occasion to
ago, when he addressed a similar
gathering, he had told them that he
had two sons in the service lover
there and that they might be called
on to make the supreme sacrifice. One
had done so, and he felt proud that his
boy had paid the supreme price for
the liberty of the world"
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-Ismv Islloq go OF IleJ l.upInoo 6eql
e WoIJ euooIsM ElIeeq e eYodssq gu
.peuInl9I leul ssoql IoJ puv '6oq STU
10 SEM en- So uIn4eI LeA9u G9u4 pInous
ueQ4 10 pnoId Sc 90 pInoM sue
-Isd IIsQl .leql ueu eul p9Insse OH
The. chief justice repeated a. state
ment of a western Judge in sentencing
a naturalized German preacher for
which that jurist had upbraided the
prisoner, telling him that he had not
considered the oath Of allegiance but
had continued ''to think German, to
talk German and even to preach Ger
man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
VICE ADMIRAL KEYES
HAS SPLENDID RECORD
Commander Of British at Capture
Of ostend Entered Royal
Navy in 1885. ..

Vice Admiral Sir John Roger Brown
low Reyes. who commanded the Brit
ish naval operations resulting in the
capture Of ostend, the German subma-
rine base on the Belgian coast, has
been styled the Farragut Of Zee
brugge.
He entered tho royal navy in 1885
and attained his present rank last
year. Sir Roger saw active service in
China in 1900. and occupied the po-
sition of naval attache successfully at
Rome, Vienna, Athens and Constanti-
nopie between the years 1905 and 1907
At the beginning of the present war
he was placed in charge of the sub
marine service. In 1915 he served as
chief of STAFF in the Dardanelles oper-
atoms, and later received flag rank
and the appointment of admiral at
Dover. Early in the present year he
was knighted by King George in
recognition of his brilliant service in
command of the naval raids on Zee
brugge and Ostend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
PRIME MINISTER'S LAUD,
WORK OF THE YIN. c. A.
Is an Inseparable Part Of Army
Life, Says Hughes Of
co.. Australia.

Sir Robert Laird Borden, prime min
lister Of Canada and w. H Hughes,
prime minister Of Australia. give pub
lie support to the z. M. c. A, which
with the Y. W. c. A, National Catholic
War Council. K. of c., War Camp Com
munity Service, Jewish Welfare Board,
American Library Association and Sal
walton Army are extending their work
for American and allied fighters.
"Whoever has come in contact with
the work Of the z. NJ. G. A. in camps
or behind the lines, knows full we'll
that it is a very valuable and almost
inseperable part Of army life," said
Premier Hughes. "Without it the
troops would undergo very many hard
ships and suffer great Inconvenience
which their magnificent institution is
able to remore.
Premier Borden's statement is as fol-
lows: -.
II know from careful inquiry and
from repeated testimony Of the troops
themselves how very highly the work
OF the Canadian Y. M. c. A. is valued
by the Canadian expeditfonary force
and especially by the men actually in
the trenches, to whom this splendid Or
ganization is able to bring cheer and
comfort, which could not possibly
reach them otherwise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Fools who keep their mouths shut
may pass for wise men.
Some men work overtime trying to
dodge hard work.
After a man runs into debt he either
walks out or stays in.
A distant relative is one who is rich
and doesn't recognize you.
Always aim q little higher than the
mark-if the mark is q dimple in her
chin.
Fish are said to be excellent brain
food, It's shame to waste the fish
in some cases.
tt sometimes happens that q dis
appointment in love saves tho victim
from greater disappointment in
marriage.
An. Irish philosopher says that
everything comes to the man who
gets up and hustles while he sits
down and waits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
AIR NAIL SERVICE PROGRAM.
New York Chicago Schedule to Be-
GIN Early In December.

Postmaster General Burleson has An
,neunesd that the aerial mail service
between New York and Chicago will
be started between December and
15.ySThe cold weather schedule con-
templates the machines leaving Chi
cago and New York at 6 o'clock each
morning. the trip to take ten hours.
Each plane will have a carrying ca
pacity of 10000 letters.
The route is-to be laid out in three
legs. the first from New York to Belle
fonte, Pa, a distance of 215 miles,
with an emergency station and ma
chine at Leighton. Pa; the second
from Bellefonte to Cleveland. Els
miles, with an emergency station at
Clarion, Pa, and the third leg from
Cleveland to Chicago. 32S miles. with
aa intermediate mailing station at
fyan, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
JESS WILLARD TO HELP.
Champion Will Box to Aid United
War Work Fund,

NEW YORK, October 25.-Jess Will
lard, heavyweight champion of the
world, accepted an invitation to ap-
pear in an exhibition bout for the
benefit Of the United War Work cam
paign in telegram received. here
last night by the sports committee.
The message. dated Wichita Falls, Tex,
read:
will gladly box for war work
campaign."s
It was announced that the, sports
ponent and the. date and place Of the
match, which probably will be staged
at one Of the larg Army environments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
Marines Want Games.

The headquarters staff Of the United
States Marine Corps has organized a
foot ball team and is anxious to meet
other teams in this vicinity having
grounds on which to play. It is es-
pecially desired that game be ar
ranged for November q. Any team
Communicates with A. C. Marquardt,
room 406, United States Marine Corps,
New York avenue and 18th street
northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25

NEW YORK. October ,25.-An estate
OF approximately 100000 was left by
the late Richard c. (cad) Doggett, the
turf operator, who died October 10,
according to the application Of his
wife, Mary, for letters of. administra-
ton filed yesterday in the >surrogate's
court in Brooklyn. Doggett had per-
'sonal property valued at about $780,
600 and realty worth approximately
$450.000, it was stated. The heirs are
his widow and their four children,
Esther A. Doggett, Mrs. Grace c..
Cadigan, Richard c. Doggett, jr., and
Donald NJ Doggett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
Other Newspaper Comment.

LONDON, October 25.-Referring to
the German chancellor's speech, the
Daily Mail says that it is futile If
addressed to the allies, and recalls
who proclaims from the condemned
cell that he is being. cruelty used.
prince Maximilian's vaporings,"
says the Mail, will not defect the
allies, who will hold no argument
with the present rulers Of Germany.
the German army's honor the better,
in view of the fearful record that the
army has made for atrocities in the
field and its brutal treatment of Brit
ish prisoners"
The Daily. Chronicle says: Maxi
mi1ian's speech does not carry us any
further. He talks of peace of JUS
tice. Does Justice include repara-
ton for Germany's crimes? We are
glad that Mr.. Balfour made his out
spoken procurement on the ques-
ton of German colonies. The en-
pres feeling is quite solid on that
point. Germany's conduct has made
it impossible for US to acquiesce in
the return to the submarine pirates
of potential U-boat bases. The actual
disposition of the colonies is matter
for the peace conference"
The Morning Post says: Justice
on German lips is blasphemy. Ger
many did not ask for a peace OF JUS
tice when she deemed victory within
her grasp. She demanded from her
enemies not only their submission,
but their goods. In Russia she i'm
posed a peace of slavery and sought
to impose such a peace on the whole
world.
Let the Germans think of the
lands they have ravished, the towns
they have looted, the ships they have
sunk. the people they have murdered,
robbed and enslaved and then dare
speak of justice. They shall have a
peace of justice, but justice means
punishment, and it is first necessary
to. arrest the criminal.
GAS to their Demonstration it
does not interest us. The only way
to make Germany a safe neighbor is
to reduce her power"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
CHARLES F.. oIDT DIES.

EASToN. Pa, October 25.-charies
F. Oldt.smanager,o of the 1900 Lafayette
College foot bah team and graduate
manager Of athletics from the time of
his graduation until 1915. died here
yesterday. a victim Of the influenza.
He was forty years old.
Mr.. Oldt for the last several years
was manager Of a theater here, and
was organizing a chain Of moving
picture theaters in this vicinity when
he was taken ILL He served as q
common councilman Of Easton from
1908 to 1913.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-25
SPREADS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Influenza Epidemic Increasing in
Argentina and Brazil.

BUENOS AIRES. Thursday, October
24.-Because Of the influenza epidemic
there, !the Brazilian government has
requested that Argentina postpone
sending a special embassy to Rio ia
metro to attend the Inauguration Of the
new president, November Is. The cpl
demic is steadily increasing at Buenos
Aires and is reported to be spreading
in the provinces.
A strict quarantine against Spanish
Influenza and cholera has been estab-
lished by the Brazilian government.