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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
'"BEHIND the SCENES"
BY George Matthew Adams.

behind that simple
all cricsing
judge-not merely things
beings their behind the
they there nevertheless They think They
there They there. They laugh
deceiving things world Clothes
after all just Their doesn't change the skin the
behind
Nobody auction off
than that these silently
credited givingbecause
do--behind the
happiness may
reality driving forces
he is and to everybody
is personality hopes
one O
the footlghts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

In previous articles I have told of
the high esteem in which our country
and our president are held in Europe.
This is all true, speaking in a broad,
general way of the feeling of the
masses of the people. At the same
time, it should be remembered that
men in authority in these countries
are going to be Influenced in their
dealings with us by coldly practical
considerations.
France and England desire to re-
build their industries and their for
eign trade faster than Germany can
rebuild hers. Therefore, they are 60
ing to keep American manufacturers
out of their respective countries as
much aSfthey can. How can We OPP
pose them In this? We have pro-
tected our infant industries; now
France and England are going to pro-
tect their invalid Industries.
Recently company was organized
in France to obtain rights to manu-
facture American articles, on a royalty
basis. Half-page advertisements in
the STARS and Stripes" urged our Of
ficers and doughboys to use their in
fuence at home to get such manufac-
turing rights. Big money rewards
were offered. Practical American ma
chimes and devices are needed in
France, but France wishes to make
them herself, rather than import them.
Allies Need Our Friendship.
Our European friends will not be
slow, however, to forget this fact:
American help was needed to win this
war, and American help would be
needed il there should come to pass
an eventuality that is the DOGGY of
allied statesmen: warlike and threat
ening alliance between Germany and
Russia. With America to back them
up, England and France and Italy
need not worry much about any such
combination.
America can be a powerful friend.
We have unlimited natural wealth:
we are quick and resourceful. Our
trade balance during the past three
years-our excess of exports over i'm
ports-reaches the enormous total OF
50, ,903,969. We have loaned more
than eight billions to the allies, and
our annual interest charge will be
large. There is much talk In France
of delicately suggesting to US that we
not only cancel all these debts, but
that we also shoulder big share of
the war expenses of the allied coun-
tries. AS friendly as we are, and as
We shall undoubtedly continue to be,
Americans probably will not wish to
be as generous as that
However, we ought to feel compli-
mented over Frances good opinion of
our liberality and our financial DOW
ers. as manifested by such large-scale
proposals for us.
(The next article In thlo series
will tell Of the work Of IN American
Red Gross doctor In the devastated
regions Of France after the first armis-
tice was signed.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Britain's Cooperation Vital
to Our Interest at Conference

Germany and France. OF course
France will regain Alsace and Lor
raine; shall she also have the Saar
Basin, rich in minerals, and shall
she be given some sort of control
of the German territory west of the
Rhine
6. What indemnities shall Germany
be forced to pay? Each of the allied
countries will ask to be reimbursed
for it's total war expenditures, in ad-
dition to the reparation that will be
required for damages and for the
footing of industrial plants and banks
in Belgium and northern France.
Fixing Armaments knotty Problem.
These are only few of the most
knotty problems that await the pres.
ident's return. The fixing of arm.
aments for the various nations, in
Guiding Germany, has ticklish aspects.
So far the conference sessions have
been comparatively mild affairs. but
there will be real doings when the
time comes to go into rival claims,
presented by claimants with high
temperatures and feverish pulses.
President Wilson has his League of
Nations" they will say; now let him
stand aside while we get what we
came for" Premier Hughes of Aus
tralia feels that way. So do the Ital-
ian delegates. So do some of the
others.
The French leaders are, of course,
hoping that President Wilson will not
interpose any objections to their pro-
gram for putting Germany in her
proper place. They are bound to put
Germany there, absolutely determin-
ed about it, and they hope that Amer
lea may not have any foolish notions
about mercy.
We do not know what President
Wilson thinks about all these issues,
except for the knowledge that he
wants a square deal for each of the
small nations in the allied group, and
favors a general settlement that will
insure peace instead of sowing pro-
vocations for whole flock of new
wars.
Eng!and's Attitude important to Y. s..
1t must be apparent that England's
attitude through the second phase
of the peace conference is most i'm
portant to us. If Lloyd-George and
his associates continue in close &C.
cord with President Wilson, the settle
ment will bear the impress of Ameri-
can ideals. Otherwise, America may
have little to say about the new or
der of things in Europe.
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before they recall the princess whom they exlled.
There is a strong faction in Germany which seeks
the return of the Hohenzollerns and looks upon
the former kaiser as martyr. 1t has the sup
port of thousands Of common people who are still
in love with the old system. The Independent
Socialists and the Sparatacus group would prob
ably execute the former kaiser and crown prince
with the same pleasure that the Bolshevih in
Russia got rid of the Romanoffs, but they do not
comprise all the German people.
A deep-seated spirit of revenge turks in the
German soul and the war spirit is far from being
dead. The old regime gave them commercial SUI
premacy and industrial prosperity for which they
are still hankering, and many OF them Wouio De
willing to pay the bills of large military estab-
lishment in return for conditions that prevailed
prior to 1914.
This explains why France led by Premier
Clemenceau is insisting so vehemently on punish
ment for Germany that will prevent her from re-
covering within the next decade.
France knows Germany as no other nation on
the globe knows her. France has suffered under
German oppression more than any other nation
on the globe France is astute enough to know
that Germany will try to regain her old COM
mercial supremacy and military prestige. The
United States and the other Allied nations must
not be lulled into sleep by a blind adherence to
the theory of League of Nations which would
permit Germany to recuperate to the danger OF
the whole world.
Germany must be crippled SO badly that all
thoughts Of returning to the world family with
powerful military machine will be broken forever,
So1ong as Germany cherishes the slightest no
ton of rehabilitating her war machine, she is a
menace to the future peace of the world. The
Allies have it within their power now to crush
this ambition forever and the German people
must be told and taught that their old love for
world power is nothing more than a dream that
will never come true.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Canada's Repatriation Plans

dusries to be disturbed by the sudden ending host
es but in the eastern provinces the problem is acute
A complete industrial survey of the whole country
has been made by the and the information
is kept to date Government employment offices
being opened every city with 200 population
These offices directed from Ottawa and daily reports
sent to the director of repatriation who thus
accurate information regarding the employment situation
in all parts of the country Information has been
from all the soldiers their previous
poyment and their desires the future and all
employment offices receive advance informa
ton regarding the about their districts
Millions of acres of farm land in the western prov
nces be made available for soldiers and the
ment is giving substantial assistance all who will
ling to become farmers limited amount of free home
stead land close to the railways still remains and this
reserved for soldiers This land will not be sufficient
and the government has undertaken to purchase land
from private and resell it to soldiers twenty
year payment terms. payment to commence two years
after agreement to purchase In addition, the
ment provides substantial for stock and equip
ment on similar terms of repayment.
To prevent initiation in farmland prices the
ment will appropriate land soldiers arbi
trated price This policy is of opposed Wig
orousy by holders of lands. but popular
plan and probably the only practicable plan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
From The Outlook.

From The Outlook.
~ ANADA. trustworthy and wellinformed cores
pendent informs is graphing in busnesslike
~ fashion with the problems of reconstruction. The
speedy repatriation of nearly 100000 taken from
population little than 100000 people, and
the adjustment of industry to the conditions of
peace, constitute easy task. There is confidence
among Canadians however that the energetic lead
ershp which ena bled the Dominion to adapt herself
quickly successfully the conditions of will
find a solution for the problems of peace.
The sudden cancellation of contracts has thrown
many thousands out of employment; but there will be
speedy remedy this situation factories adapted
again their old lines manufacture. The real prob
lem Is the repatriation of the soldier
first months of the Canada laid the founda
tons of system vocational training and re-educaton
for her disabled soldiers which has become model
for begerent nations to follow. Her system ha
been adopted almost in toto in France and Britain it
was closely studied last year by visiting commission
from the United States with the result that the American
plan follows step by step the pattern set by Canada
The SAME plan been adopted in Australia In all
these countries partly disabled man is being effect
lively helped to help himself
The big problem Of the moment is to find employ
cn for the thousands OF returning men who are not
disabled In the provinces there is little diff
Guilty as that portion OF the Dominion had few war In
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Germany up to Her Old Tricks

If any easy going citizen of this nation be-
lieved that the collapse of the German military
machine last November meant that Germany had
experienced real change of heart, and that mill
tarsm had been given the deathblow by Marshal
Foch, he might just as well get that notion out
of his head now as three or four years later.
Germany has been defeated but not perma-
nently. The temporary setback to her military
aspirations has not eradicated her insane dream
of conquering the whole world. Substantiation
of this assertion can be found in many press dis
patches that have come from Germany, and from
the expressed declarations of her leaders.
Look at the pictures of Germany's soldiers
marching through the streets of Berlin after the
defeat on the western front and you will see them
decorated with flowers, marching with happy
faces, surrounded by cheering crowds. This
manifestation of joy was not because the war
was over but because the Germans believed these
veterans could again in the future fight in behalf
of the German nation
A well known author writing in the Saturday
Evening Post, finds no trace of malnutrition in
Germany, and letters from soldiers show that
the German people have bounteous supply of
food all stories to the contrary notwithstanding.
Dispatches this week show that the German
people are only waiting for the turmoil to settle
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Women Booze Runners"
Rounded Up in West
tBy Associated Press,

LINCOLN, Neb.. Feb. 27-women
booze runners" have smuggled large
quantities of liquor into Nebraska
from Wyoming, according to T. S.
Allen, United States district attorney.
Several women are charged with
bringing liquor into the state in auto
mobiles.
Federal authorities say women were
not suspected until reports showed
the. number of male offenders had
greatly diminished.
Women got in with a number OF
loads of liquor before they were
caught" Allen said.
A novel method of smuggling was
disclosed at Omaha. Whisky was
shipped into that city in empty gun
shells supposed to be war souvenirs.
Each shell" held a gallon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

has been the growth of har
mony and understanding between the
British and American representatives
The League constitution is in reality
the work of Lord Robert Cecil and
General SHUTS, with few minor
clauses and suggestions from Othe,
sources. President Wilson preferred
indorsing a good program drawn by
someone else, to submitting one of his
own, and in this be no doubt showed
tact.
This disposition of English and
American delegates to look at things
in the same calm and dispassionate
way is particularly interesting and
significant when we look ahead to the
probable developments of the second
phase of the conference, which opens
on the return of President Wilson to
Paris after his brief stay in Washing
ton. The second phase will be crowd.
ed with practical problems, difficult,
and filled with possibilities of friction.
Let us examine briefly few of them:
Rival Ambitions
/. Japan and Australia are watching
each other nervously, each anxious for
control Of islands in the Pacific, and
neither quite satisfied with the pro-
gram for manufactures.
2. Italy and Jugo-Slavia both desire
the territory on the east coast of the
Adriatic. The Italians claim exclu-
sive dominion of the Adriatic, the an
nexation of the ports of Fiume, lara
and Valona, the possession of the
whole of Dalmatia and a protectorate
over Albania. They base their claims
on secret treaties made with the allied
governments. The Jugo-Slavs assert
that 100000 Of their people would be
included within such territorial limits,
hence their resistance.
3. Japan makes claims on China
which the Chinese are bound to op-
pose. The Japanese desire to take
over all the concessions in China that
the Germans once possessed and some
besides.
4. Poland is badly divided internally
over the claims of two rival factions,
each claiming. the right to speak for
and control the territory.
5. Then comes the problem of fix
ing the new boundary line between
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
MlaGnEa OF THE ASSOCIATES PRESS
Street Corner Strategists

More battles are won and lost in corner-gro-
Gerry, cigar-store, and club parlors by amateur
strategists than on the field
The American army has been severely criti-
cized by many critics who know as little about
military affairs as does the average man about
conditions on Mars. They seem to believe that
it is their holy prerogative to lambast General
Pershing and the other commanders for alleged
incompetency. Many of the critics could not di-
rect gang of men digging sewer or boss crew
of section men. And yet they have the brazen
impudence to criticize men who have directed
war machine. The Cincinnati Enquirer pays the
following tribute to these petty critics:
Cornergrocery strategists cgarstore tactcians and
congressional military theorists slghtel
their expert thought and mortgaged time directed
the most recent utterance of General John j. Pershng
concerning American participation in the victorious Euro
even the risk OF running their carefully plot
ted campaigns of criticism
The commander in the field. speaking under world
in France asserted that the American soldier
by the exhibition of certain fundamental qualities turn
cd impending defeat into overwhelming victory Wars
entered and battles fought for the
Of nsurng victories for the impeling Of beg
erency. Pershng said that this colossal
conflict against autocratic domination He there
and knew what was happening The general in command
at Beleau Wood. raked by western told the
congressional committee In grieved tones that the Amer
the battle criticized and had done in
few hours than the French in many years toward
smashing that particular sector of the German line
Our athome field marshals invariably envisaged
martial action carefully staged and highly regulated
sparring contest with padded gloves and frequent rest
ing intervals If they could 1t it really is the du
pcate gigantic scale of rough-andtumble battle
in which victor often badly bruised and battered
the loser they would from troubling and let the
generals and soldiers be at Yet they will not. be-
to them there is sweeter sound in all the world
than the mellifluous music of their words.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
When Did Reid
MemorialHosbitdl
Open It's Doors?


Reid Memorial Hospital was incor-
porated in 1902, the cornerstone OF
the present structure was laid late in
September. 1904. and It was opened
on July ~, 1905.
It absorbed the small st. Stephens
hospital, which for years was the only
hospital in Richmond. This institu-
ton was at the corner Of North
Eighth and C streets.
Since its beginning, the hospital has
done an increasingly beneficial work
and has been filled to its capacity
with patients most Of the time.
It maintains modern Nurses train
ing school, from which the graduates
are as efficient and capable as any
trained in any hospital in the United
States.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO
TODAY
Petition of Richmond ministers
against the repeal of the county OPP
ton law was presented in the legis-
lature by Senator Kirkman.
Second series of the Y. M. C. A.
basketball teams were played.
Residents of Riverdale insisted that
the city and Pennsylvania railroad
jointly construct viaduct or tunnel
at either Eighth or Twelfts street
crossings.
jeremiah L. Meek, 80 years old, one
OF Richmond's oldest residents, died
at his home here
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
BETTER BE POLITE TO THEM

Columbia Record.
1t would be interesting, suggests, to
know how many absolute teetoallers will tuck be-
so, little bottle of brandy sort of
hinder of days that will have gone whstling down the
dream of things that 1t also be worth while
knowing their and addresses and cutvatng their
acquaintance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
THANK THEM FOR DOING so

Columbia State
Boston doctor that one cause of influenza is
the habit of putting too clothes naturally
naked animal like At least the gentle half of
humanity is taking all the precautions it
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

Houston Post
The "spoils system" may be defined contempt
be and degrading political code of ethics observed
Republicans greedly holding the offices when
the Democrats in brutay withholding
Democrats places eoument and trust when the
Gratis power.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Signs Of Spring

Just date ahead three months from
the time the first robins and bluebirds
are reported, says Sheriff Glenn Carr,
and you may know that spring will be
coming along in month or so.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
~HURRAH FOR THE MINORITY

Ohio State Journal
Anne Rittenhouse says that the vast ma iority of
women straight pand-down lead pencils,
but of course the minority is often right.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
WE DON'T START, BUT WE FINISH

Balt1mOre sun
Uncle Sam is one Of those felers that wants to be
peace with everybody that is at peace with him. but
keeps his fist doubled up just for emergencies.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Why is it that hear the old argument that
prohibition will never prohibit any more?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
ONLY ONE, BUT IT'S BIG ENOUGH

Chicago News.
Probably the Father of his Country would be proud
that the only entangng foreign alliance we have
contracted is to adopt the world.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Nv VICTOR M,NAUGHT

ARTS, Feb. 27.-(Special Cor
respondence) - The most
significant and important
development of the peace
conference up to this time,
outside the framing of the
League of Nations program,
has been the growth of har-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27
Good Evening!
FIRST AID AFTER JULY /.
BY ROY X. MoULToN

If you drop raisin in a glass of
sarsaparilla and drink the sarsaparilla
next day the results will be quite sat
isfactory. The trouble will be waiting
until the next day.
A kick can be put into a glass of
plain soda water by dropping cake
of yeast in it. The combination will
not hurt you if you don't drink it. 1t
makes an excellent dentifrice.
Cider can be hardened quickly by
inclosing it in a glass receptacle and
placing said receptacle in the sun.
II you are farmer and own a silo.
silo juice will answer all requirements
The drippings of the cornstalks fer
ment into a creamy ale, which, drawn
from the bottom of the silo, makes an
excellent substitute for drug store
whisky. The silo builders report an
unprecedented business.
The man who believes that Germ
any hasn't got kick left in her is
the same gent who bets his whole
stack on a pair of treys against full
hand and Wanders why he doesn't cop.
Reds execute four Russian dukes,
OOt Al IhSy SldIL eAtGIHlludtluS those
boys they will have little time for any
body else.
After reading eighty-flve magazine
articles, three hundred and sixty-seven
newspaper columns and five books on
the subject, written by the ''favorite
lady-in-waiting to the late empress of
Russia" we do not believe that the
empress led a very happy life The
burden of proof seems to be all
against it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-27

Reds execute four Russian dukes
but If they start exterminating those
boys they will have little time for any
body else.