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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
STORES READY
Ito FIGURE UP
LUXURY TAXES
List of Articles That Will Pay
Revenue, Beginning Today,
is Announced.

Salespeople and department heads
in Richmond stores were busy until
late last night fastening tags on all
articles Of merchandise on which
luxury tax must be paid. Payments
of the tax began today. It amounts
to 10 per cent of the cost of clothing,
art objects and other articles above a
certain maximum value The consum-
er is to pay the tar, The iaws sineludes:
Carpets and rugs, including fiber, ex-
cept imported and American rugs
made principally of wool, on the
amount In excess OF SIS per square
yard;
Picture frames, on the amount In
excess of $40 each;
Trunks, on the amount in excess of
$50 each;
Valises, travelling bags, suit cases,
hat boxes used by travellers, and fitted
toilet cases, on the amount in excess
Of $25 each;
Purses, pocketbooks, shopping and
handbags, on the amount in excess of
$3.50 each.
Lighting Fixtures, too.
Portable lighting fixtures, including
lamps Of all kinds and lamp shades, on
the amount in excess of $25 each;
Umbrellas, parasols and sun shades,
on the amount in excess Of 81 each;
Fans, on the amount in excess Of 81
each;
House or smoking coats or jackets,
and bath or lounging robes, on the
amount in excess of $3.50 each.
Mems waistcoats, sold separately
from suits, on the amount in excess
OF S. each;
Women's and misses hats, bonnets
| and hoods, on the amount in excess of
SIS each;
Mems and boys hats, on the amount
in excess Of S. each;
Mems and boys caps, on the amount
in excess Of 81 each;
Mems women's misses and BOYS
boots, shoes. pumps, and slippers, not
/ including shoes or appliances made to
order for any person having a crippled
or deformed foot or ankle, on the
amount in excess of. $40 per pair.
! Mems and boys neckties and neck
wear, on the amount in excess of 81
each.
When Socks Cost Over 81.
! Mems and boys, silken stockings or
/ hose, on the amount in excess of 81
! per pair.
Women's and misses silk stockings
or hose, on the amount in excess of
! 50 per pair.
Mems shirts. on the amount in ex.
cess of So each.
Mems women's, misses and boys
pajamas, night gowns and underwear
on the amount in excess of IS each /;
And kimonos. petticoats and waists
on the amount in excess of SIS each
The tax shall not apply to any arti
Gle ornamented, mounted, or fitted
with precious metals and limitations
/ or ivory, or to any article made of fun
on the hide or pelt. or of which any
such fur is the component material oi
chief value.
/ In addition tax also becomes eff
fective Thursday on all classes of me
dicinal and toilet articles, on which
one cent is to be paid for every 25
! cent purchase.
i Postmaster Charles B. Beck an
nounced Thursday that his office hac
not as yet been supplied with the pro
prietary stamps issued by the treas
i ury department and purchased by tn,
dealers. These stamps are to be can
celled upon the sale of any articl,
upon which war tax Is made.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
WAYNE COUNTY
STILL SHORT
$696,35O IN
FIFTH LOAN
City Committee Officials
Claim Richmond and Town
ship Have Subscribed Their
Portions.
CITY QUOTA MILLION
VICTORY LOAN OVER TOP
IN CITY AND TOWNSHIP

The Victory Loan campaign has
come to a successful conclusion in
Richmond and Wayne township,
with the subscription of $1,100,000
in the township against a quota of
$1,000,000.
We urge, however, that all per-
sons still wanting bonds continue
to place their subscriptions with
the banks, In order that we may be
certain that the county. campaign
may come to a successful conclu-
sion, as several townships are still
far short of their quota.
(Signed) E. M. CAMPFIELD.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
Today's Temperature.

For Wayne County by w. {. Moore.
Fair tonight and Friday. Colder to-
night
General Conditions-General rain
storm reported over the middle west
yesterday has caused rain from Can
ada to the gulf It's center has passed
to the east and strong westerly winds
prevail over the central states. Rapid
" clearing weather is reported over
the Mississippi valley. Temperatures
are near freezing over parts of the
west and above normal over the far
northwest
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
eoMpERs MUCH IMPROVED
(By Associated Press,

NEW YORK, May l. - The condi-
tion OF Samuel Gompers. president of
the American Federation of Labor.
who was injured here Sunday, when a
surface car crashed into q taxicab In
which he was riding. has shown a de-
cided Improvement during the last "a
hours, it was stated by his physician.
Mr. Gompers had q restful night
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
BolsheDik ENJOY Gives
Shows In Argentina

BUENoS AIRES, Wednesday, April
30.-Vladimir Chisch, the alleged Boil
shevik envoy, who was refused en-
trance to BRAZIL and Argentine is en-
joying complete freedom in Monte
video, where he is giving gymnastic
exhibitions at concerts, according to
advices from that city Argentine Inn
migration of1cials are taking precau-
tions against any possible attempt he
may make to come to Buenos Aires.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
Serious Famine Is
Reported In India
fBy Associated press)

LONDON, May 1.-Omcial confirm
alton has been received here Of local
famine conditions in India, a fact to
which scarcely any publicity has been
given owing to worlds pre-occupation
with the peace conference and indus
trial troubles. Little definite informa-
ton concerning the famine is avail
able, but 1t Is said to be confined to
a few districts and particularly in
Punjab.
Private advices. however, are more
alarming. They suggest, according to
one newspaper. that India may be
on the verge of a worse food famine
than the visitation Of 1900"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
ACTION TAKEN
!. TO ROUND UP
REDS BEHIND
TERROR PLOT
New York Bomb Squad
Corrals Radicals = Postal
Clerks Watch Mails for
More Internal Machines.
BOMB SENT oVERMAN
(By Associated Pressl

NEW YORK, May Three more
Internal machines mailed in the May
day plot to kill prominent men are re-
ported to have been discovered at the
Gimbel department store, having been
jnnocently returned there by the post
office authorities for additional post
age. They were said to have been ad-
dressed to United States senators.
A clerk at Gmbel's store who dis
covered the packages and turned them
Immediately over to the postofice au-
thorities, said that as he recalled the
addresses the names on two of the
packages were those Of Senator
Smoots Of Utah and Senator Cummins
of Iowa.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
lEssER "DETAILS up

PARIS, May 1. Various lesser
details of the peace treaty were taken
up today by the council of three,
among them the question Of the cap
tured German cables.
With the Kiao Chau problem dis
posed of the Adriatic question is the
only highly important matter remain
ing unsettled
The opinion prevails in peace con-
ference circles that the peace prelimin-
aries will be communicated to the Ger
mans Monday afternoon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
CleUeland Labor Asks
Burleson To Resign
DIV Associated Pressl

CLEVELAND, O., May Ia reso-
luton demanding the resignation of
Postmaster General Burleson was
adopted last night by the Cleveland
Federation of Labor. A copy was
sent to Mr.. Burleson.
Other resolutions adopted call for
the withdrawal of American troops
from Russia and a return to central
time in Cleveland.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
GERMANS AND
ALLIES meet
IN OFFICIAL
CONFERENCE
Victors and Conquered In
Peace Session for First Time
Shantung Peninsula to
be Given China.
TERMS DUE MONDAY
tBy Associated Press)

VERSAILLES, May /. = The first
official meeting between allied repre-
sentatives and the German peace dele
gates will take place at three o'clock
this afternoon. A committee from the
allies and the United States will re-
ceive the German credentials at that
time
The spacious dining room OF the
Hotel Trianon today received its peace
congress nstallation-three long tables
in horse shoe form covered with the
traditional green cloth of diplomacy
and games of hasard. The installation
is imposing in the size of each of the
side tables which extend some forty
or fifty feet through the room. At the
head Of the apartment is table about
thirty-five feet long at which the rep
resentative of the great powers will be
seated with President Poincare or Pre-
mfer Clemenceau in the centre.
Inside the horseshoe is another
table covered with red plush and in
the space between one side OF the
horseshoe and the windows is SINH
lar table. In the window openings
are number Of smaller square tables
for secretaries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
NlcARAGuAN IN PARIo
fBy Assoclated Press.

PARIS, May /. = General Emiliano
Chamorro, former president of Nicar-
aqua, who is here on a special mission
to the French government, was receiy-
ed by President Poincare yesterday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
Delay is expected

Possible delay In the handing Of
the peace terms to the German dele
gates at Versailles is indicated in late
advices from the Paris conference.
The. function may have to 60 over to
next week while questions as to the
powers of the enemy's representatives
and their qualifications as spokesmen
for Bavaria are being looked into.
Today was set for the handing over
by the Germans of their credentials
to commission for examination.
The Chinese-Japanese dispute over
Kiao Chau and the adjoining Shan
tung province territory has been set
tied by the council of three of the
peace conference. Announcement Is
made that the former German hold
ings are to be given without reserve
to Japan, which would engage to hand
the Shantung peninsula back to China,
with relations between China and
Japan and the future integrity of
China to be under the control of the
league of nations.
All German rights in Shantung are
to be held by Japan. The Kiao Chau
railway will be guarded by special po-
lice forces composed of Chinese,
which will be trained by Japanese off,
GERS selected by the directors of the
railroad and appointed by the Chinese
government. ALL Japanese military
forces are to be withdrawn from the
province as soon as possible
italy Wants to Return.
Japan Is given the right to estab-
lish settlement at Taingtao, a city
| on the extremity of the point Of land
which juts southwark from the Shan.
| tug peninsula and forms the eastern
shore of Kiao Chau bay, the strategic
| base seized by the Germans in the
| far East after the boxer rebellion in
] China.
Although China is said by Peking
dispatches to be demanding the ab-
solute return to her Of Shantung prov.
| inces and Kiao Chau, 1t Is considered
| improbable that the council of three
will reconsider its decision.
Reports from Paris and Rome seem
to indicate disposition on the part
of both the council of three and the
Italian government to reach some sort
of understanding as to the Fiume ques
tion that will permit the Italian dele
gates to return to the conference with
out loss of dignity. Conversations be
tween Premier Orlando and Thomas
Nelson Page, American ambassador
took place yesterday at Rome, Mr.
Page later. reporting to President Will
son.
There are reports that the sovie-
regime at Munich has been over
thrown, but other dispatches state tha
the German government troops still
are some distance away from the city
although closing in on the sovie
forces.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
PROTEST INDEMNITY PLAN

LONDON, May 1.-One Of the prin-
cipal features of the arrangement for
indemnity to Belgium against which
Belgium is protesting Is that that
country will receive 100000, 900 as a
part of the 1,000,000,000 which Ger
many will be asked to pay by the
end Of next year as part of a total
reparation to be exacted later, accord
ing to the Paris correspondent Of the
Mail
The Belgian delegates, it is added,
decline to accept the arrangement
without consulting their government
because 1t leaves undecided the pro-
portion of the ultimate reparation
money to be allotted to Belgium.
A Reuter- dispatch from Paris states
that a meeting of the Belgian cabinet
has been held under the presidency
OF King Albert and that the question
has been discussed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-01
Weather Forecast

For Indiana by the United States
Weather Bureau-Fair tonight and
Friday. Cooler tonight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

lyn where all employees are working eiob,
hours day, yet the men and wome,
are not receiving anything like the same
pay. The girls get from S12 ana s1a
to $40 a week, while the men receive
from $50 to $50 a week for exactly t,o
same work
In report made by Miss Mary Va,
kleeck, on conditions in factories where
chemicals are used or prepared. sba
points out that, whereas these chemical,
are bad for the health of men workers
they are much worse for women. Women
are made sterile in these occupations
and children are born dead of motbers
who had worked in these factories
1t is ridiculous for Mrs. Blatcb 70
assume that the Women's JOINT Legisla.
tive Conference feels ut is quite rich,
for men to inhale poisonous gases and
work under unsanitary conditions of ANY
kind" Working men are demanding bet.
ter conditions for themselves and will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

O'clock as she must reach the Office at
III a. m. a tiye-minutc walk and She is
In the subway, waiting her chance to be
literally pitched into q car already
damned with every condition of human
ity-rich and poor, clean and unclean.
healthy and ILL., Breathing the fetid air
and enduring shocking physical contact
Mary is borne officeward.
Arrived, she vanishes into room
where artificial light, nine times out of
ten, is necessary, and here she remains
with thirty or forty minutes for lunch
In crowded restaurant, until 80 or
p. m. The experience of the morning is
then repeated, and Mary arrives at
home in d dishevelled condition, out
Wardly, at least; but who can saw what
irreparable damage has been done her
finer instincts?
But as Mary is young she Graves
amusement, and where can she find that
except in the street, at a movie or the
theatre? This is true picture of the
average working girls life-no outdoor
exercise whatever; the marvels of our
parks, the woods about New York, our
glorious Avenue in the sunny after
noons-all are lost to her.
The girl who works at night leaves
for her task, after an afternoon spent in
the open air (for the temptation to en-
ter a movie or theatre is not so great
when every ray of the sun calls one to
bask in it), on q subway train prac-
tically empty Seats are PLENTIFUL and
there is no invasion of her personal pri-
vacy. She arrives at the office at Z
p. M, goes into a room artihcially light
cd, as is that of the day shift work
er's, and performs her allotted task
When homegoing time arrives, at
o'clock an uncrowded train again
awaits her; her five-minute walk from
subway to house is in brightly lighted,
we'll policcd streets. Arrived at her
home, she rctires. and at noon, after
eight hours Of sleep (Which the day shi
worker can obtain only at the sac
riice Of social lifc), She has the whole
afternoon to spend in the open air; like
having half-holiday every day
Working on night shift is no more
unnatural than working indoors, or, IN
deed, staying awake after the sun god
has departed and night arrncd
ADA r. WOLFF.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Midnight on the 3. r L.

n T WAS midnight on the B. r. t.
1 no crowd, no hurry-everything as
calm and peaceful as Nantucket.
The newspaper woman had been on the
job since a. M, with intervals for such
nourishment as was to be painfully eX-
tracted from Park Row with the walters
all on strike. She ran for the wrong
car and caught it, but took it grimly,
thinking that Fate must have some de
signs.
Fate had. The conductorette at first
glance proved to be a person worth
knowing, and when the fares were col
lected the Park Row woman stood her
sealsllin chummily up alongside of the
blue uniform and queried, How do you
like this rum 81 like it fine said the
conductorette. mo grouches on the
night run and no crowd And go home
and sleep like log and don't have to get
up early in the morning. It's the life,
and certainly beats getting to work at
z AS in the morning.
But do you get enough sleep?
Doesn't the daylight tempt you to do too
much?'
NO. dearie; if l was to home I'd be
sitting up reading till or o'clock. any
way My man was bartender and
never got home till three, and got the
habit
'That's So" said the Other Workin-
Woman musingly; seems to me | have
heard OF women being kept up nights
before they went into industry. Come
to think of it, my mother, who had four
others besides me, and never did stroke
OF work outside the home, sleeps with
one eye open and light in her room at
the age OF seventy because she got so in
the habit during the ten wears that the
children were little that she could not
sleep any other way"
Just then Fate interviewed again. The
regulation drunken man said to infas+
the midnight cars to the undoing of all
conductorettes lurched into the scene
He wore the traditional "threedav stub-
bic that all real drunkards should nos
sess and he was very unsteady. F;rml
but gently the stalwart blond put her
hand in the middle of the old mans back
and eased him to a seat.
Look out for the step, Pop" she said
encouraglngly. land don't sit in the
lady's lap" she added as the old man
'urched toward the girl in the corner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

Yes, ! understand you want to change
at Blank Street. and the intoxicated
fare lapsed happily into an untroubled
slumber. The conversation was resumed
without a ripple "Drunks7 seemed to
be all in the nights work. and perhaps
easier to handle in a streetcar than
within the sheltered home.
There is some talk about laws to
prevent night work for women vent
ured Park Row.
"Who wants Them snapped The
Uniform. u suppose these ladies' with
no jobs of their own must be pegging
away on something, so they pick on Us.
VIII they come around with pay check
when we lose our Jobs, that's what I'm
Wondering? It's hard work. but lot
easier than standing over washtub all
day"
Just here a well groomed young man
with two girls made a run for the car.
but one of the girls fell far behind. The
conductorette stood poised with her
hand on the Hateful rope, but held the
car until the laggard caught up. and the
whole party was reunited on the md
night train The young man bowed
courteously to the conductoretto and
said Il thank YOU as he Joined his
partners in the car Memorios rose ~
before one of the numberless times when
the bell had been brisNy rung in The
face of eager would-be patrons Of the
car, arriving breathlcss Just i'm time to
have the car slip neatly out from un-
derfoot
Suddenly The Observer. wrapped e
the adventures and philosophy AZ tne
conductorette, discovered that she Nas
rolling gayly away into the Wllds OF
Brooklyn and dropped hastily of the
car, starting back on brisk cross
countcy walk toward home and the
classic shades of Borough Hall
Inc air was soft and velvety. and
dellclous fragrance was issuing forth
from bakeries where humans, male or
female, always have to work at night
1t was good old world" apparently
at peace, and The Observer ambled on
with lungs full of ozone. heart full OF
N00P ,oh'ehC ana mind nlled WIN '"'
conviction that the American woman can
work when and where she pleases with
profit and efficiency, and no one has a
right to say her nay. Working out your
own salvation is an inahenablc right,
bearing Biblical sanction, and as the
conductorette said. "Why don't they let
us settle 1T? Amt it our job?"
ANA when you come to think OF 1t,
"Ain't it?"
ANNE LEWIS PIERCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

ing and clothing the children and keep
ing the house clean, in addition to their
work outside the house They do this at
the expense of their health, and, to look
on the other side of the question for
moment, they do it also at the expense
of efficiency in their work.
THE only handicap which skilled
women will have by reason of these bills
is in the prohibition of night work.
There are comparatively few industries
that are in operation both day and night.
The only opposition before the State
Factory Investigating Commission, at
whose instigation prohibition of night
work for women in factories became a
law in 1913, came from women printers,
of whom at that time only $50 worked
at night 1t was too bad that these
women should have been affected ad-
versely by bill prohibiting night work.
Yet to refrain from passing a law for
the protection of thousands of women
workers merely because $50 women had
to seek daytime employment would have
been shortsighted and unfair policy,
and one which we could not consider.
Ever since that time some few of the
women printers who had worked at night
have sought to get exemption for them
selves in spite of the fact that the Typo
graphical Union refuses to support them
in this demand
Mrs. Maud Swartz, secretary Of the
Women's Trade Union League and
printer by trade, says:
"One of the most valuable results
from the eight-hour law for women in
the past has been to bring about the
eight-hour day for men. In states where
the fifty-four hour law for women is in
effect manufacturers have found it I'M
profitable to maintain light and power
for keeping men at work after women
employees leave for the day Women are
needed in industry. Laws for their pro-
lection will not throw them out of work.
And where we obtain good conditions
for women workers. laboring men also
receive the full benefit Of these laws.