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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07

are the Kaffir Singing Boys, OBJ
tanned for the Methodist Centenary
Celebration at Columbus, o., June
20 to July 10, as part of the ex-
positions African exhibit of what
the Methodist missionaries have
done for the far off peoples of the
world.
These boys represent five Afri-
can tribes speaking different Ian
guages and demonstrating the pos
sibilities bound up in the young
life of that continent. They sing
in three languages, present war
scenes, wedding scenes, demon
strate the power of the witch doc
tors, sing their marching songs in
their native way and also sing in
pure English. They were trained
by J. H. Balmer, a noted English
traveller, explorer and authority on
South Africa, a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society. He brought
them to the United States.
African huts forming a kraal
have been constructed in the Afri-
can building at the Centenary Gel
ebration, as the appropriate setting
for the groups Of native Christians
and exhibits brought from that
great continent. The African range
from the black man Of the Congo
to the white natives of Northern
Africa, and the scenic effects range
from jungle huts to replicas of the
edifices left by the an
cient Romans.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
"A Balls History
Finley School.

Warner school is surrounded on
all sides by business streets. The
boys have lost many balls. On one
side of the building there is an in
terurban station. One day the boys
were playing ball, and one of the
boys knocked the ball on the tarck
The interurban ran over it and we
never could play with that ball
again. Not many days after that
we got new ball. One day the
ball went into the street and 1t
rolled into the sewer. The janitor
tried to get it out, but he couldn't.
The boys want bigger play ground
so we can play ball. The boys
wonder IL the city would put a
screen on the sewer.
."... Raymond Fraze.
GA, Warner School vs."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM

The Junior Palladium chldrens section OF the enmo
Palladium founded issued each Saturday
Aboy girls invited to be reporters and ond
Stories local
published Articles snouiu
written plainly side Of the with the author h
and age signed glad to meo the cno en- e
bring The Palladium office or 70
Editor little newspaper
and we hope boy and girl will use it thoroughly
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
The Two Travellers

Two travellers were once crossing
the desert. Suddenly, away off in
the distance, they saw huge mon
ster. What can it be?" they cried
in terror. For against the sunset
sky, the strange shape seemed i'm
mense. The travellers hid behind
some bushes, for fear the monster
would see them. BY and by the
shape drew nearer and nearer. And
how relieved the poor travellers
were! For 1t was only a gentle,
harmless camel!
Distance often makes a danger
seem greater. But when you come
nearer, you are not afraid.
Dorethea Catherine Bode.
Sd Grade, st. Johns School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
KAFFlR BOYS

Summer furs are no novelty to
these smiling young persons from
Kafiirland, who are shown featur-
ing the expensive leopard-skin and
other valuable fur costumes. Long
before wearing furs in the hottest
weather became vogue, these deni-
zens of the Dark Continent, and
their progenitors were shielding
themselves from the suns fierce
rays with pelts which would cost
hundreds of dollars in any first
class furrier's place. The smilers
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
Scout Captain Here

Girls of the Richmond Girl Scout
Troop will entertain Mrs. f. e
Wirebaugh, Monday afternoon at
the home of their captain, Mrs
Alva Jones, 81 North Tenth street
Mrs. Wirebaugh is captain of a
troop of scouts in Toledo, Ohio,
and the local girls are expecting to
hear some more ideas about Girl
Scout activities.
The girls are planning some
other special scout meetings to be
held during Mrs. Wirebaugh's stay
in this city, but nothing definite
has been decided yet.
Captain Wirebaugh expects to be
in this city about two weeks.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07

A few months ago Lieut.. Omer
Lockyear thrilled the world with
his daring feat of dropping from one
airplane $500 feet in the air to the
top of another plane few feet be-
low. Just few days ago he over
Swallowed this feat by standing on
the top wing Of a plane, then jump
ing UP to grasp a rope ladder sus-
pended from an airplane above and
climbing into the plane above. All
this happened $500 feet above the
earth at Atlantic City.
Lockyear denies he does the thrill
lers simply to defy death and gain
publicity for himself He says he
has one purpose in mind-to boost
tviation. His feats in transferring
himself from one plane to another
show, he says that fuel and sup
plies can be transferred in midair
without stopping plane. This &C
complishment will make nonstop
transcontinental flying possible, he
points out.
Lockyear modestdly points out
that someone must be pioneer in
developing certain phases and gath
ering certain facts concerning fly
ing and that he is doing what he
does to contribute his part.
The air-acrobat is an experienced
flier. He was flying two years be-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07

fore the war started. He got the
idea Of riding an airplane much as
lady acrobat does horse in a
circus while a cadet at Barron
Field. Tex.
The government regulations de-
mand that every cadet must be
able to read ten words a minute
from panels on the ground while
flying at a certain height. The
work is difficult because, as the
plane circles over the field some
part of the framework or wings
constantly interferes with ones Wis
ion. Lockyear decided to get a
clearer glimps of the ground when
he tried to pass the test. So he
simply climbed over the side Of the
cockpit onto a wing of the plane
and then slipped down to the land
ing frame below. Needless to say
he read the ten words in minute
and got a perfect score.
Lockyear's favorite positions
while doing his stunts on a plane
are standing poised, apparently
ready to jump, on the upper wings
of the plane, and hanging by his
knees, head downward, from under
frame Of the plane. Occasionally
he takes a notion to straddle the
tail and work himself out to the
end of it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
Strawberry Time

A bunch of Strawberries, ruby red.
Hanging high over Baby's head.
No, Baby, no! you must not grasp.
You'd crush them In your Needless
clasp.
Shut your eyes beneath your curls:
Open your mouth with its six
white pearls.
II Baby had her way / know
Where all the berries ripe would
go.
Sent in by
Robert G. Banner.
Sd Grade, st. Andrews School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
The Best Place

OF course I'm sticky. mother,
But you'll iieere me anyway;
So hold me, please Ill tell you
Where have been today.
This morning did you miss me?
/ went away SO far
! found lovely place way down
Where all the berries are.
/ ate all kinds 'cept green ones,
Smacked my lips and shut my eyes.
They tasted most as good, ! thought :
As those in grandmas pies.
l let the sun squirt down on me.
And make the freckles grow.
And swallowed berries, one by one,
All juicy, sweet, and slow.
! didn't mind this morning
How berry bushes scratch;
/ thought the best place in the
world
Was in the berry patch.
But now I'm tired little bit.
Maybe I'll take nap.
/ know the best place in the world
Is on my mothers lap.
Selected by
Dorothy Feltman.
Sd Grade, st. Johns School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
The Circus Through
Biuy's Eyes

We missed quite
A bit of the ..... ..
Barnum G Bailey circus
Tuesday night. We
Found more fun in ."..
Watching Billy Yarbrough
Watch the show
Than watching .....--
1t ourself. Billy,
Who is about five
Or six years old,
We'd judge, was there
With bells on, ...-.
Take it from him.
He sat astride his
Fathers knee right
Next to us, and
II he missed anything ~.
That went on under
That canvas 1t j.
Wasn't because he ....
Didn't try to see 1t all. And
Just think of watching
A circus through the
Eager, wonder-struck
Eyes of Billy Yarbrough,
Five or six, or .$..-
Somewhere thereabout!
1t was fairy land
To Billy and he didn't
Try to conceal the
Fact that he was
Enchanted and under
The spell Of the
Circus magic. When ...
A clown came by and LIZA.
Stumped his toe on
Nothing and fell all
Over himself and then
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
"A PET.

a PET.
/ once had little Robin, and its
mother killed it, and one died.
And she hasn't any more. I'm go
ing to sell her. I'm going to ask
my mother to got me a better one.
Bernice Alice Reed.
ga, Hibberd School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
Fell all over himself
Some more, trying to
Find the nothing he

Some more, trying TO
Find the nothing he
Had stumred his toe
On to begin with, why,
Billy guffawed until -...
He got red in the face.
He didn't know that
That was old stuff -
With the merryandrews
OF Shakespeare's day,
And maybe further back
Than that. And he
Didn't care. 1t was
New stuff to him
And SO far as he
Was concerned 1t was
Just what the doctor
Ordered. And Billy
Was pale with rapture
When a beauteous and
Bespangled lady hooked
A bunion over
Trapeze bar and swung
Head down from one s..
Side of the big tent
To the other. He
Cheered when she waited
A kiss to a spectator
Where he sat, And when
The spectator blew her E.
Back another, why, that
Was just too alfred
Utterly too too for
Words! To Billy those
Tin spangles she wore
Were as precious as
The jewels that came
From Ormus and old Ind.
And he'd no idea that
All those unbound raven
Locks which whipped In
The breeze as she
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-07
Rose and fell with
The trapeze bar were
IN oil l;LaI;h0od crc~x,

The trapeZe bar were
In all likelihood grown
On somebody else. And
The men in gaudy coats
Who put up wondrous
Contraptions for the
Actors and took them
Down again-they were
To him maharajahs of
A charped land and
He wouldn't have thanked
You to tell him that In
Reality most of them
Were Weary Willies
OF the purest ray
Serene. To Billy
Everything that glistened
Was fine spun gold;
AS golden as his
Own little world of
Dreams and fancies as
He sat astride his
Fathers knee dazzled
BY the beauty and
The splendor and the
Gorgeousness Of 1t all.
And we minded the time
When we sat astride
Our own fathers knee
And thrilled as little
Billy Yarbrough thrilled
At the tinseled men and
Women and grew drunk
With wonder at the maze
OF miracles performed
Before our startled eyes.
So, betwixt envying
Little Billy Yarbrough
And being tickled at
His enthusiasm when a
Clown or somebody would
Do something that Just
Simply couldn't be done,
We got all our pass
Called for, and then
Some on top of that
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
NAMES MADE PUBLIC
Senate Committe Files List of
Well Known Pacifists.
Sixty-two Persons, Many of Them Col
leae instructors, are Accused
of RadicaIsm.

Washington, Jan. 27-The senate
committee investigating German
propaganda put into the record a list
of names of 81 men and women, many
of them instructors in colleges and
universities, who, Archibald Steven
son, of the Military Intelligence Blu
reau, had testified earlier in the week,
hold radical and nacifist views" Mr..
Stevenson said the names were OBJ
tanned in investigations by the Mill
tary Intelligence bureau
Included in the list, which the wit.
ness designated as a who's who"
are the names of Miss Jane Adams of
Chicago; Frederic c. Howe, commits
sioner OF immigration at New York;
David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeri-
tus of Leland-Stanford Jr University;
Morris Tiillquit, Scott Nearing, Oswald
Garrison Willard and Eugene V. Debs.
When Mr. Stevenson referred to the
list last Wednesday during his testi-
mony the senate committee went into
executive session to decide whether
the names should be inserted into the
record of the investigation but no de-
cision was announced until now.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
MOVE HELD EXAMPLE
Congress to Give Quick Action on
Unemployment Question.
Domestic Emergency Bill for 500, ,000r
600 To Be Considered-Many APP
peaIs for Aid Fund.

Washington, Jan. 27.-Having dis
.ensed aid to Europe's starving mill
lions, Congress next week is to be
called on for quick action on the press
ing domestic problem of unemploy-
ment. Senator Kenyon and others to
whom appeals for emergency legisla-
ton are coming from mayors, COVER
nors, chambers of commerce and plain
citizens out of work will demand imme-
date consideration of the bill creating
an emergency public works board with
money to employ thousands
I'VE have voted 100000 900 to Eu-
ropes hungry" said Mr. Kenyon. do
we refuse to appropriate at least an
equal sum to keep thousands Of Ameri-
cans from going hungry"
Senator Kenyon's bill provides $780,
100000 as an emergency fund to start
public works.
"Of the money we spend for food
for Europe, much will never be re-
turned to the public treasury and we
don't grudge It," he went on.
But every dollar used now to put
an American to work means dividends
to America. Public works provide per-
manent public improvement"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
LEADERS ARE WORRIED
Strike Epidemic in Berlin Caus.
ing Great Anxiety.
res Workers Compel Granting of Six.
Hour Day and Large In
crease in Wages.

Berlin, Jan. 27.-Socialist leaders
are showing uneasiness at the strike
epidemic in Berlin. and particularly
the strikes of the electric, gas and
other municipal workers whose posi-
ton enables them to extort compliance
with their demands from public or
private employers.
In common with the bourgeoise
press, the Socialist Vorwaerts points
out the disloyal nature of the strike
of electric workers by which hundreds
OF thousands suffered great hardships.
The aldermen OF Charlottenburg, a
working class district of Berlin, at a
common council meeting criticized the
workers attitude. The criticism came
from members Of all parties.
The employees of the city gas works,
who were granted an eight-hour day
only recently, have now, under threat
to paralyze the gas supply, compelled
the granting of a six-hour day and an
increase in wages amounting to H.
100000 marks annually.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
Princess Pat to Doff Title.

London, Jan. Fixing George has
iven his consent to the renunciation
,y Princess Patricia of Connought OF
both her title of princess and her style
of address as royal highness on her
marriage next month to Commander
Lord Alexander Ramsey. brother of
the Earl of Dalhousie. The princess,
after her marriage, will be known as
Lady Patricia Ramsey. She will re-
ceive considerable fortune from the
estate of her mother. the late Duchess
Of Connaught.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
Presidents of Two Meat Packing
Firms Say Stable Market
Will Result.
.HENEY ASKS QUESTIONS
J. Ogden Armour Appears. Before Sen
ate Agriculture Committee, Louis
r. Swift Before House
Commerce Body.

Washington, Jan. 27.-Presidents of
two meat packing firms which do an
annual business of about $4,000, ,oOO, 900
urged before congressional committees
the regulation of live stock prices so
as to assure a stable market. either
through continuing the food admins
tration or by establishing some similar
system of control.
Swift and Armour Heard.
Louis f. Swift of Swift & Co., con
cluding an appearance of two days
before the House Interstate Com
merce committee, said a stable price
over periods of production was desir-
able and declared that if Food admin
istration restrictions were removed
now, disaster would result.
j. Ogden Armour of Armour e. Co,
told the Senate Agriculture commit
tee that some means of assuring a
price level for some time would be
agreeable to the packers, repeating
reasons he had outlined earlier before
the house committee.
Member of each committee evinced
considerable interest in the state.
ments of the packers and Representa-.
tive Stephens of Nebraska announced
he thought there ought to be some
government agency to control prices
irrespective of war conditions.
Heney Asks Questions.
Examination of Mr.. Armour deveI
oped new interest when the senate
committee asked Francis ]. Heney.
who conducted the Federal Trade
commissions investigation of the meat
packing industry, TO question the wit
ness. Unfairness of method and in
accuracy in deduction are some of the
complaints which the packers have
made against the commissions in
quiry and Senator Page of Vermont.
inquired if the committees hearing
was to degenerate into a prosecu-
ton"
Levy Mayer, counsel for Mr.. Arm
our, consented to the examination on
being accorded the privilege Of ques-
tioning witnesses.
Violent fluctuations of prices were
predicted by Mr.. Swift if Food admin
istration control should be removed.
Like Mr.. Armour, however, he
seemed dubious that governmental
control over the sale of livestock at
agreed prices would be practicable in
normal times.
Anything that will make for a
steady average price is better than
the same price reached through sharp
declines and increases" Mr.. Swift
said
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
Approves Bill Appropriating
$10O,O00,OOO to Furnish
Food for Europe.
VOTE STANDS So TO 18
Three Democrats and Fifteen Repub.
Iicans Oppose Granting Request
of President Wilson for
Emergency Fund.

Washington, Jan 27.-The senate
after a week of spirited debate, by
a vote of So to Is, passed the admins
tration bill appropriate 100000, 900 for
food relief in Europe and the Near
East The fund was urged by Presi-
dent Wilson as a means of checking
the westward spread of Bolshevism.
The measure now goes to conference
for adjustment of minor senate amend
ments but leaders believe final enact
ment will be accomplished next week
Senator Martin of Virginia, the Dem
ocratic leader. and Overman of North
Carolina, and Warren of Wyoming,
were appointed senate conferees.
One important Change.
The most important senate amend
ment changed the house section
against feeding enemy people so that
nationalities friendly to the United
States and the Allies may be aided.
Amendments designed to limit the
power of President Wilson or Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover in distribution of
the fund were rejected recently by
the senate and no final effort was
made today for their adoption.
On the final roll call Is Republicans
and three Democrats voted against the
bills passage. while "a Democrats and
1s Republicans Joined in its support.
Senators Sutherland of West Vir-
ginia and Nelson of Minnesota absent,
were announced as favoring the meas
ure.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, Republi-
can, and Thomas of Colorado, Demo
crat, who were present but paired, an
nounced that they opposed the bill. 1t
also was announced that Senator Ward
aman of Mississippi. who was absent,
would have voted in the negative.
Opponents Make Last Stand.
Opponents of the bill made a final
stand against 1t today with Senators
La Toilette of Wisconsin, Borah of
Idaho and Sherman of Illinois, Re
publicans, leading the fight. Senators
Knox of Pennsylvania, Colt OF Rhode
Island and Smith of Michigan, spoke
in support of the appropriation.
Senator La Toilette said the bill was
neither war, peace nor charitable
measure and declared that the horns
and hoofs of the beef trust" could be
seen through the bills mantle of
charity Declaring the unemploy-
ment situation in American was grave
and menacing," Mr.. La Toilette said
government resources should be used
for American problems rather than to
aid European peoples.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
LEAVES ALL TO
WORLD LEAGUE
Britain Willing to Turn Over Cap
tured German Colonies, Pal
estine and Mesopotamia.
TO TACKLE PROBLEM
Second Plenary iesson BY Full Peace
Congress Brings Out Debate on
League of Nations, Lloyd George
Presenting British Plan.

Paris, Jan. 27.-Great Britain has an
nounced her willingness to turn over
to the proposed league of nations for
settlement captured German colonies
Mesopotamia ami Palestine
This news comes on the eve of the
first official consideration of league
plans by the full peace congress.
Premier Lloyd George made the
opening presentation of league plans
at this second plenary session.
Other subjects which had been
whipped into shape for open debate
during this weeks sittings of the
steering committee" were responsible
ity and punishment for the war; repa-
ration for war damages; international
labor legislation; internationalization
OF certain ports, waterways and rail.
ways, and the procedure for bringing
territorial questions before the dele
gates.
Correspondents Admitted.
Correspondents were admitted at
the days session in observance of the
present program of five secret meet
ings to one open meeting 1t is un-
derstood that, both the British and
American plans, for the League of Ma
tions, according to the latest modifica-
tions, provide for establishment of
what amounts to an enlarged and i'm
proved Hague tribunal.
The principal provisions of the Brit
ish scheme are understood to include
establishment of a high tribunal with
forcible enforcement of its edicts rath-
er than supernatural police force;
some form of disarmament; cancella-
tion of all treaties which would inter-
fere with the working Of the league;
formation of a board to pass on in
ternational labor problems, and exclu-
sion of the Central Powers until they
had proved their fitness for member
ship.
Held AS Example.
London, Jan. 26.-Great Britains de-
cision to leave such questions as the
future of Mesopotamia, Palestine and
the German colonies to the league of
nations is profoundly important saws
the Daily News
The adoption of such a policy by
the British delegation has established
the league in it's true place in rela-
ton to the peace congress and invests
he whole proceedings of the congress
with an atmosphere of confidence and
good will, created by the refusal of
great nation to take advantage of the
accident of military possession of valu-
able territory.
IF Great Britain is ready to give
such an effective pledge of her faith in
he league of nations no other power
IS sleft with an excuse for holding back.
The decision may well prove to be the
greatest victory of the war"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
New Irish Home Rule Party.

Dublin, Jan. 27.-A new political az.
sociation called the Irish Center party.
has been formally constituted. Stephen
Gaynn, former member of parliament.
was appointed chairman OF the provis-
ional executive committee of the new
party, which embraces the constitu-
tional nationalists and southern Un-
ionists Its platform includes home
rule for Ireland within the British en-.
pire on similar lines to those which
are adhered to throughout the British
dominions.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-27
MEN CAN STAY IN SERVICE
Soldiers Need Not Leave Army While
Work is Scarce.

Washington, Jan. 27.-To solve the
problem of unemployed discharged SOL
diers, the War Department ordered
that no man be discharged from the
army against his desire until such
time as he can obtain employment in
civil life.
1t was announced that orders had
been telegraphed to all department
and division commanders at Secre-
tary Bakers direction to retain all
men who desire to remain temporarily
in the service without prejudice to
their subsequent discharge.