The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-06
$3.50 COAL TO
HELP PUBLIC.
SAYS HOOVER
Secretary of Commerce
Speaks at Earlham College
Jubilee Exercises Ignores
Attack of Senator Reed.
RUSSIA NEEDS HELP

mum of $3.50 a ton on coal at the |
mine in an attempt to save the con-
sumner from $3.50 coal. said Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce in an |
interview at the home of w Dudley |
Foulke, Tuesday.
THE government has no power to
set that price, and it is not an agree
ment with the operators, but 1t is |
The price that we believe is Just In !
certain sections. 1t can be enforced i
if the public is really interested in
standing back of the price"
Mr.. Hoover. arrived in Richmond
from Washington at 9:35 o'clock and !
rested at the Foulke home before his
appearance at luncheon at Earlham !
college at noon
Ignores Reeds Attack
q do not discuss Senator Reed in
any manner of FORM" he said in an
swer to a question about the Senator's
charges against the food administra-
ton and the relief administration, and
the challenge that had been given him
by Senator Reed to debate the matter
in Missouri
The American Relief Administra'
tion will stay in Russia as long as
there is an active need" he said "The
administration is going to make a sur
vey of the crop situation there this
summer, and with that as a basis we
can tell what the need will be for the
coming winter. There are absolutely
no statistics of production, of or plant
ing or farm animals
The Bolsheviki government de-
stroyed all of that, so that we have
nothing to go on
Medical Aid Needed
Mr.. Hoover said that medical cid hal
usually been given to the suffering
by the Red Cross, but that In the case
of Russia. the American Relief ad-
ministration had been active. The
doctors are dying. the medical supplies
are gone, and requirements are not
being made.
Some one will have to be in Rus.
sia doing medical work" he said, and
will stay If the money can be found to
carry it on
Herbert Hoover said in his address
Tuesday afternoon at the diamond jubi-
lee celebration at Earlham college.
The Friends must withstand the in
fluenee of Russia or the Society itself
will die"
THE very basis of the Society of
Friends, is a belief in individualisn1,
he Id Sc
in the individual, not in the institu-
ton.
THE Russian failure was due to an
attempt to substitute communism for
individualism and in their attempt to
overthrow the institutions of the mon
archy they overthrow all their insti-
tutions and brought on greater
cataclysm that has come as a result
OF the war"
In introducing Mr.. Hoover, Presi-
dent Edwards said the central idea of
Earlham was service. and that the
principal speaker of the day was ap.
propriate for the occasion because he
had rendered great service to the
world-"and by common consent is
considered the greatest benefactor OF
the age"
His work did more an anything
else to check anarchy in Europe and
10 keep our government staple"
Tribute to Quakers
Paying a tribute TO the great spirit
of service of the church, Secretary
Hoover said:
The earliest relief. that of the great
plague in London, was carried on by
the Quakers, as we'll as the relief in
all other great catastrophies since. Out
h, of - ~, Il
whole world, there has been a stand
ard of service that has been followed
through generation after generation.
In American relief work the great
proportion OF men who have done the
\ outstanding work have come from the
Society of Friends. They were the
first to enter Russia and have done
great work in the other European coun
tries. The Friends and the American
relief administration in Russia have
cared for 25,000,000 people. They have
kept 90 steamships busy, as well as al
the railroads of Russia. The people o.
America have expended S60000, 900 fol
relief
Russia Given Hope
But they have done more thai
saved the lives of 100000 people
they have given Russia some hope o
redemption. Their greatest servic
lies in giving those men faith tha
their institutions will be upheld an
their country will come through. Rus
Sia's failure was due to disregardin.
the individualistic spirit.
''Individualism is the faith of tn
Friends. For $50 years they have TO
lowed their faith in religion and eco
nomic action. II is here that the high
er purposes of individualism mus
bear fruit"
Mrs. l. c. Boyd and two children, o
Indianapolis. have given S50,000 I
Earlham college, according to an ar
nouncement made Tuesday afternoon
Robert White, of Lewtsyille. has give
$4,000.
No details in regard to either of tn
gifts were contained in the announce
ment made Tuesday.
approximately $4,000 was raise'
Sithin few minutes to supply fund
or the rev indoor gymnasium. Th
Az hedges ~ uyyed from SI00 m 500