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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
STUDENT DESCRIBES
" FAMINE IN CHINA

, Dear Editor:-Just very recently l
received letter from my friend who
is missionary in China, telling me
about 100000 in North China are
being affected by one of the most terri.
BILE famines in the history of China.
The famine which is the result of
prolonged drought, has caused condi-
tons so appalling as to be almost
beyond comprehension of western
minds. He writes as follows:
1T is hard for you to realize how
terrible is the distress of the people
suffering from one of the most terrible
famines in China. The people had
gathered weeds, thistles. and leaves
for food-but even these have all been
eaten up in many regions. All sorts
of stories tell of whole families COM
hitting suicide rather than face such
hopeless conditions. Parents are sell
ing children and when they cannot
get any price thew are giving them
away if anyone will take them. The
severe cold winter is approaching. the
sreat number of them have already
pawned away their clothes for the
purchase of food and had already torn
down their houses for getting fuel to
cook their simple dishes. Therefore
'Nioi Z iohS,, In dtultiOil " tuV EuuVi
ing of hunger they will freeze to
death"
"s Draws Picture.
Another terrible picture of the ia
mine situation is given by Mr.. Robin
son, of the American Board Mission in
China. Il spent about two and a half
hours in one village looking around
and talking with the inhabitants I
have no doubt the sights | saw and
the tales | heard could be duplicated
in many other villages were one to
take the time to visit them. A hun
dred families in the village of Tung Tu
through which l have made a trip,
have no grain to eat. They are gather
ing a sand burr which grows on
vine along the side of roads and is the
bane of barefoot boys and bicyclists,
for it bears a burr with sharp thorns
for seed pod. These burrs are being
gathered and used for food. They are
ground with chaff, which means the
seed of the weeds in last years grain,
mixed with elm bark to hold the mass
together. made into a cake and
steamed in Chinese fashion.
People Eat Thistles.
II saw some of this food and asked
myself how long American children
could exist on this. | was told that
the Chinese probably can live on this
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
American Legion

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. IL
Christmas celebrations for all ex-serv-
ice men and women who are in Indiana
hospitals because of disabilities suf-
fered during their service, will be pro-
vided by the Indiana posts OF the
American Legion, according to plans
being formed by state officers Of the
Legion. F. w. Galbraith, Jr, national
commander of the Legion, has asked
Legion posts throughout the country
TO arrange such celebrations.
The state officers are working on
suggestions that soon will be sent to
the local posts. They recently assign
ed the AZ hospitals in the state where
cX-service men and women are sta
toned, to posts Of the Legion in the
cities in which the hospitals are
located, with instructions to the posts
TO send their members to visit the
service men at least once each week.
The assignments for Christmas cele-
brations will be to the same posts for
the same hospitals.
The posts will be asked to provide
Christmas trees, gifts for the men and
women, and a Christmas entertain
ment.
Several of the posts will see that
the men under their care are remem-
hered on Thanksgiving day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

for a month or more; but what are
they going to do when there is no
more to be gathered from the road
side On the farm at home as a small
boy | wondered that cattle would eat
thistles and seem to relish them.
Little did i think then that I would
ever see people eating thistles, but
that is what they are doing in Tung
Tu. Thistles and elm leaves are their
principal vegetables.
THE drought seemed enough for
these people TO bear, but that is not
all. Although there would have been
no grain to harvest could it have been
left alone. there might have been a
bit of fodder for animals had the
locusts not come. Just outside Tung
Tu village I saw one field containing
seven or eight acres which is as bar
rem as though it had been raked with
fine-tooth rake and yet they told me
a few weeks ago millet stood about a
foot high all over this piece. The
locusts camped on it for about two
weeks until it was completely eaten
up. I saw other fields where they
had stripped off the leaves. but this
left
People Are Leaving.
On my return journey all along the
way We passed sojourners leaving
their native regions, with a bundle of
bedding, hunting for some place where
they can find food Scores. if not hun
dreds, of such people are passing
through Paotingfu daily
Now Chinese and Foreign Relief
Association has been organized in
China and millions OF dollars are be-
ing raised in China and in foreign
countries for meeting the needs of this
great famine. Six Chinese Of this city
have already sent back to their native
country a sum Of about $50 The
American Red Cross already has ap-
rropriated 100000 for the relief of
the famine sufferers Nevertheless
aid is still being urgently requested in
view of the hugeness of the area af-
fectcd by the famine and of the
vastness of population suffering from
this most terrible disaster
] am, Yours Truly,
Ang Chung Waung,
Earlham College
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

Flowers of the tea plant somewhat
resemble those of the strawberry
plant
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

Every Druggist in U. S. In
structed to Refund Price
While You Wait at Coun-
ter if Relief Does Not
Come Within Two Min
uteS.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
No Babies Left in Poland,
Saws u. S. Relief Officer

NEW YORK. Nov. 17.-Babyless
towns thickly dot the forlorn land
scape of Poland and in many there are
no longer any births, declared DR.
Herschel c. Walker, chief of the Amer
lean Relief administration, who recent
ly returned from that country. He
supervised the distribution of Ameri
can food to Polish sufferers.
All of the infants born in the striok
en- areas in the last two years sue
cumbed to starvation and the diseases
1t introduces. or have been removed 10
places where they can be properly
fed, DR.. Walker said
Hundreds of houses that once echo
ed baby's laugh are gone and whole
families live in squalid dugouts with.
out light or ventilation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

Some mothers have kept their child
rem alive on grasses and roots made
into a thin, tasteless soup. Hunger
brought the slaughter of cows by the
wholesale, and milk can be had now
only by the wealthy.
These conditions precluded mainte.
nance of the ordinary birthrate, but
other sufferings have obliterated it 81
most entirely in parts of Poland. said
DR.. Walker. Homes have passed away
with the departure of both men an ::
women for service in the army. Ema-
citation of the women and the pre-, a.
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noon to make aprons for a Christmas

noon to make aprons for a Christmas
bazaar.
CENTERVILLE, Ind, Nov. 17.-Cen-
terville High school has the honor of
having three members who won prizes
in the Earlham contest of essays on
What Earlham College Means to
Wayne County" Miss Gladys Riden-
hour won first county prize and first
township prize netting her 500 Miss
Pearl Blue won second township prize
and Miss Opal Clevenger of Abingdon,
who is pupil in the High school. wc1
first township prize Of Abingdon town
ship.
Abner Jones and wife of Hagers-
town spent Sunday with Mrs. Anna
Lashley and daughters.
The freshman class of the High
school will attend Treasure Island"
at Richmond Tuesday. They are study
ing this at present in school
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
MILLIONS SUBSCRIBED
TO ASSIST SUFFERERS
IN CHINESE famine
(By Associated Press)

Wy ASSoSldtcu
SHANGHAI, Nov. 17.-Mililons of
dollars have been subscribed to the
general fund raised in various centers
tants of a great belt spread over seven
nrops have failed and whole popula-
tons were starving to death.
1t is estimated that the famine. the
a century, has fastened it's grip upon
between 10000, 900 and 100000 600 of
people who faced a north country
winter after a harvest only about
eight per cent of normal.
While relief organizations were be-
ing formed in Picking and other cen
ters and the Chinese government had
set in motion ponderous and slow
moving machinery, about 40 leading
Chinese organized the Seven Prov
inces Famine Relief association, and
within week mad received contribu-
tons amounting to a little less than
$4,000, 900.
Foreign aid in the campaign for
funds was enlisted at mass meeting
that was attended by representatives
of the American and British CHAM
bers of Commerce, the American Assc-
citation of China and number of Other
foreign organizations. A committee
appointed at this meeting. working
with the executive body of the Chinese
Relief association. outlined and car
ried through the general campaign
The minimum of 100000 that was
fixed as the least sum that Shanghai
should contribute-as it was estimated
that not less than $200,00O,000 would
be required-was passed in the first
weeks of the campaign, which began
in September. and was to be contin
ued on into December.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

Back hurt you? Can't straighten up
without feeling sudden pains, sharp
aches and twinges? Now listen!
That's lumbago. sciatica or maybe
from a strain, and you'll get blessed
relief the moment you rub your back
with soothing, penetrating st, jacobs
Oil" Nothing Else takes out soreness,
iameness and stiffness so quickly.
You simply rub it on and out comes
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

the pain. 1t is perfectly harmless and
doesn't burn or discolor the skin.
Timber up! Don't suffer. Get n
small trial bottle from any drug store.
and after using it just once, you'll
forget that you ever had backachc.
lumbaso or sciatica. because your back
Will never hurt or cause any more
misery. 1t never disappoints and has
been recommended for 60 years-Ad
Verisement
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17

lence of misery on every side has
made ii impossible or forbidden the
bringing of children into a world in
which only hunger, sickness and early
death appear to await them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
Better Than
Whiskey for
Colds and Flu

New Elixir, Called Aspironal,
Medicated With Latest
Scientific Remedies, Used
and Endorsed by European
and American Army Sur
geons to Cut Short a Cold
and Prevent Complica-
tons.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
News of the Counties

GREENSBORO, Ind.-The Aid so
ciety and all others interested in the
Christian church are to meet at the
home of Mrs. Veal Thursday after
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
Masonic Calendar

Wednesday, Nov. 17-Webb lodge
No. "a F. & A NJ Stated meeting.
Friday, Nov. liking Solomon's
Chapter No. 4 R. A. NJ Called Con
vocation. Work in the Mark Master
degree.
Saturday. Nov 20-The Loyal Chap
ter No. 40 o. E. S. Stated meeting.
Initiation of candidates. This is the
annual Past Matrons night.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10

ington and pay for their wise ana
steamer tickct---n mere wise in LatNln
costs 1900 Lettish Nrubles-waited
months for Washington TO answer, ana
then had not heard at all or had
only heard that they were refused
and had lost both cable charges anC
the chance to go. To those accustom-
ed to the prevailing notion in this
part of the world that getting to the
states is about as easy as crossing
No Mans Land in 1917. the phcnomen-
on in Warsaw and Danzig seems TO
call for explanation
1t might be observed in passing that
this whole matter of granting pass
ports to foreigners appears To need
Strengthening ont. Ono finds ConsulS
everywhere, vague as TO what the DC
rartmcnts policy is or whether 1t ilhs
n policy.
Here the bars are down: there chch
case must he acted on by Washing
ton; at still another place the Consul
is told that he may grant vises on!!
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10

1t may appear to he moving slowly,
but as Il matter fact. In commission
with the emigramts of the nearby
countries, who have to wait months
often even to have their applications
acted on, these Polish applicants arc
particularly favored. They fill ont
their papers one day aad. as Il rule,
get their passports the next. At the
latc they are being hurried thru in
decd some 25O,OOO Polish Jews Will
have gone to America in the next year
thru Warsaw alone.
From Warsaw they proceed. ms 4
rule, to DanziG, assisted by one of th"
powerful Jewish orgdniza tiOns, which
gives advice sends cables. and even
provides special trains. AS Poland is
full of typhus and the disease is car
ried by the body louise, all the third
class and some of the Second-claSs
passengers are sent to n detention
camp and thoroly dclouscd before be-
ing permitted to embark.
Col. Gilchrist, in charge, Of the
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10
Remember the
Location

American commission to fight tyDhus.
feels that there should be IL twelve
day quarantine at Danzig. Tlr Of
ficer sent by Our Public Health De-
partmcnt to oversee the departure of
these emigrants told me. however.
that inasnuch as the voyage took a:
least fourteen days, and MS tile dc
lo,ising was carefully done and tile
cmigrants remained for II week gen
orally in the camp, there was little
danger of the disease getting into
America in this way
After going on to describe some of
the typcs the immigrants represent
the correspondent continues:
.Tp me. after hearing all summer
cf the difficulty of getting to America
the spectacle was. indeed. astounding
In Finland. EsIhonia, Lutvia, and
Lithuania one had heard the same
Stories-dclays and difficulties Of all
sorts, apparently desirable people, who
in spite of exchange had scraped to-
gether the money to cable to Wash
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10
Getting to America and
Some of its Difficulties
WARSAW PRESENTS STRANGE
SIGHTS TO NEWSPAPER MAN
WHO WATCHES IMMIGRANTS.
IL. C. IL. Scrvicc)

..Onc of the sights of Warsaw. par
ticularly for those who have some ac
punintance with the difficulties Of get
ting passports for America in th2
ncighboring countries, Is the long
t queue of Polish Jews in front of the
american Consulate. There have been
DAYS since the Bolshevik drive began
to threaten Warsaw wren the whole
street was black with them for blocks
and the police had TO be called 70
clear the way.
On the day I visited the Consulate
il was rai,iing hard and the line reach
ed only from the door downstairs and
thru the court and Il little way down
the street There was one day, so
the Consul told me, when they had
5000 applications, and on an aver
age. lie said. they granted between
800 and 1000 applications daily.
Old men in little black caps ana
the long black jewish coats. stoop'
shouldcred boys with flat derbys rest
ing on their ears. fuzzy haired young
girls and wrinllled elder women with
brown wigs-tlcy wait there all day.
with the long suffering patience aiid
determination of their race. as the
line shuffles forward inch by inch to-
ward the promised land.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10

for an urgent reason, leaving linn to
puzzlc ont what urgent may mean
To stop emigration altogether
is an Understandable policy
Put to make the getting of pass
ports all but impossible for one sci
of cmigrants, and at the same time
remove all restrictions for anothc'
class. no more desirable as future citi.
zcns, is neither understandable noI
just And it ought to hc possible,
onc would think, so to organize thu
business that the department might
cables of its own representatives in
days rather than months. Arthur
Rubel New York Evening Post.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10

ether cities in Poland who were
about to be sent from Warsaw back
TO their homes, received permission
TO remain in the Polish capital until
the formalitics attending the visa of
their passports are complied with.
The stay of most of these cmigrants
exceeded the terms Of their passports
while some of them had no passports
at all. Both groups. according 10
Polish regulations. would have been
sent back to their native cities to Oh
tain passports or to haNt their expired
passports renewed.
The Socictys Commission. however,
succeeded in securing the consent of
the Minister of State to have pass
ports issued to those immigrants in
Warsaw intcud of huYing them 20
back to their native cities
This information has been received
per cable by the Hebrew Sheltcriug
aud Immigrant Aid Society of Ameri-
ca.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10
TIE PROT0COLS-THE CHILD OF
A YELLOW NOVEL.

In 1865. IL postal clerk in Prussia.
one Herman Goedschc. began to write
nsational novels based un contempt
. rary history which had considerable
success at the time. Gocdsche was
Inan of somewhat unsavOry reputation
Jle had been discharged from the
postal service because of plot te
ruin the Democratic leader, Benedict
Waldeck. who had drafted the German
constitution of 1915. Conspiring with
certain Pr,Issian iunkerS who were ull-
firing in their efforts to defeat ris-
ing democracy in Germany. he manu-
facturcd Il letter which Waldeck was
supposed to have written to a jew in
switzerland and then as member oi
the authorities. Among the novels
which he wrote about the time of his
discharge was one catitlcd "Gacta,
Warschau rnd Ducppel.'' AS origin
ally published, it was frankly II work
of fiction. Thirteen Jews from all
white robes, gather about the tomb oi
n mythical Grand Master Caleb, the
Holy Rabbi Simeon brn Jchudah" in
the Jewish graveyard at Prague, tby
the way, Il name entirely unknown in
that cemetery. The meeting which
he says is held once every hundred
years hy the leaders OF intciTatiOna
Jcwry commences at midnight sharp.
Gcrdsciifs novel related that the
meeting is addressed hy n Chief Rabbi
who cxpounds the plan of Simeon,
handed down from generation to gen
Grafton by which the Jews may secure
domination over all the nations of the
earth. NiIus closely follows the Coed
$che novel.
For some years. this story received
no more attention than vsould any
other fantastic yellow novel With the
beginning of the nnti-Scmitic move
nent in Germany. some journalist
who had good grasp Of the psychol-
ocy of the masses. utilized it for the
purpose of agitation. 1t first came
into prominence i'll the anti-Semitlc
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10
PASSPORT TERMS EXTENDED BY
POLISH GOVERNMENT.

Owing to the efforts of the European
Commission of the Hebrew SIcltcrinG
and Immigrant Aid society of Amer
ica. great number of Jewish immi-
grants from Lublin, Bialystok and
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10
Stirring Refutation of
Ford's Articles
tCoptinuation.l


London edition of the Protocols, the
Morning Post of London, Eagiahd'
which has long been recognized as the
organ OF the ultra CONSERVATION party
CT England, began n series OF articies
IN much the same manner as M.
rord,s articles: but the circulation of
the Morning Post is confined almost
entirely to people of education ana II
was therefore, necessary to ofrcr sofh"
,uoof for the assertion that the docu
mont was a bona -fidc one. The re-
suit has been that there has been coh-
siderable rummaging around III t"e
archives Of European libraries to trace
the literary and political history oi
the idea contained in Nilus. BOOK anu
much has been written OH the suhJec'
one of the best explanations Is 10
-bc found in an article by the eminent
scholar. Mr.. Lucien Wolf, winch was
published in the London Spectator
Wolf shows that the Protocols peiohg
10 a type, of forgery which was conf
mon enough in the Seventeenth ana
IInntpDnln CthtuiieS' "h'' 80
sjons ran high and the reckless sour
rilities of political warfare couid not
bo made effective without the con
coction of bogus documents. In our
avn time this fraudulent traffic has
become relatively rare thru the no.
torious Dreyfus forgcries anu ''i'
roorbacks of our own political caih-
paigns are known to all
,Nilus' documented discovery that
the Jews are ut the bottom OF all the
political and religious convulsions ana
all the social disabilities thruout the
world has been devised to bolster up
Il theory which has long failed to con
vince The theory itself is at least
three centuries old 1t was the stapi"
of the pseudo-apocalyptic literature o.
anti Christ and the Wandering Jew
which assailcd the early years of the
League during the Thirty Years war.
1t took more definite political snap"
in the tracts and broadsheets, AFTER
wards collected by the German Gierl-
Gals under the title of ''Anabapt's-
ticum ct EntnuSlasucum
which explained the Puritan ReVoiu-
zion in England as plot against
christianity and Monarchy contrived
by the Quakcrs and Frccthinkers
After the French Revolution and the
uuhenyals of 1880 aud ISIS, Il fresh
impulse was given to the agitation
Meanwhile. the illinunati had com"
into existence, and Frecmasonry hau
become known, and they were prompt
w annexed by the scaremOngcrs ana
substituted for the Quakers 7in'- fstec-
thinkers in their new rendition of the
.lIiddcn Hand" ~ number of blood
curdling works dealing in minute de-
tail with their supposed activities as
authors of the revolutions were pub
IislIcd by such writer's as Father
Harruet 1791. etc., the Chevalicr Il"
MaIet 1S17, EclScrt 1S5b. Gou-
rcnot des MousseaIiN 1S6O). Crc-
tincau-JuIy t1S63). Saint Andre
t1SsO) and ChaIauty (1SS3). Thcs'
books all fell flat: the blood of the
public refused to be curdled, and TO-
day they are only found sccond7
hand Iookshops. or in the libraries OF
collectors of Masonic and Occult
literature.
THE PROTOCOLS-THE CHILD OF
A YELLOW NOVEL.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-16
CIVIC CENTERS TO
GIVE PROGRAM
Entertainment Will be Pre-.
sented in High School
Auditorium.

Fourteen civic centers Of the city
are cooperating to produce the first
annual civic federation entertain
ment 20 be given at the high school
auditorium Friday night from TO
II o'clock. Each OF the IA centers
is contributing one item TO the pro-
gram which is 10 occupy the first
two hours and to be followed from
TO II o'clock by three reels Of mo-
ton pictures.
The program includes: River
Park, selection by school orchestra;
Muessel community singing led by
Edwin Morse; Franklin. Pathe News
in motion pictures; Coquillard, vocal
solos by Miss Theima Halquist;
Laurel, a playlet. Mr.. X, directed
by Miss Victoria Strauss and includ-
ing in the cast, Steven MOlnar, Bud
dy Bella, Emery Molnar. Henrietta
McHa,lak, Rose Borcsics and Anna
SabO; Studebaker. gypsy dance by
Virginia Turner. Kathryn Ewalt
Roberta Albert. Marjorie Brakeman,
Bernice Vinson, Mary Bowman,