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VOLUME XVIII
AUDIENCE OE 15.000
IT ST. LOUIS WILOLY
APPLAUDS RESIDENT
’ I
• Fleet of United States Should
Be Unconquerable, He De
clares, “the Most Powerful
in the World”
(By AmocUiml Pre«> )
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 3.—President Wilson
today told an audience of 15,000, which
responded with a tumult of cheering,
that the United States should have the I
greatest navy in the world.
"I believe the navy of the .United
States should be unconquerable." he
said, "the greatest in the world.”
The president declared submarine ,
commanders abroad have instructions
which for the most part conform with
international law. but that the act of
one commander might set the world
afire, including America
"Upon the ocean there are hundreds
of cargoes of American goods.” he said.
"Cotton, grain and all the bountiful
supplies America is sending out to the
world—and any one of those cargoes,
any one of those ships, may be the
point of contact that will bring America
into the war.”
For the first time during the tour the *
president told how one set of belliger
ents was cut oil au..i the world. He said
this kept the United States from help
ing them as it would like. He made the
statement in trying to show that the
United States was really neutral.
At the breakfast of the St. Louis Busi- |
ness Men's league, the president de-
• fared here that he believed there would
never be another war like the present,
and that the war will hasten the time
of general peace
SITS BY GOVERNOR
Governor Major, of Missouri, sat next
to the president The room was deco
rated with American flags. Enthusiastic
applause greeted the president as he
rose to speak.
When he spoke of his conviction that
a tariff board should be created the ap
plause was enthusiastic. He then spoke
•of national defense.
FINDS OUT SOMETHING.
The president opened his coliseum
speech with the statement that he had
"come seeking something in the middle
west and found It.” He said he had
been told the middle west was against
preparedness, but did not believe it.
"I know the people of the middle west
were just as patriotic as the rest of
the nation,” he said.
“No man can lead America where her
people don't want to be led. I believe
it to be my duty to subordinate my in
dividual feelings to the conscientious
attempt to interpret and express In
these international affairs the genuine
sprit of my fellow citizens.
“So far as America is concerned no
man need go amongst us preaching
peace. We are disciples of peace al
ready and no man need preach that pos- |
oel to ua
“Suppose my neighbor's house is on
fire and the roof is of combustible ma
ter ial. it -is not my fault if the fire
spreads Th* danger is not from with
in but from without.
"The commanders of submarines for
the most part are in t.ccord with law I
of nations but the act of one command- |
er may set the world on fire.
'There are cargoes of wheat and cot- 1
ton and manufactured articles on the
sea and every one of them may cause
trouble because they go into the zone of i
fire. America has drawn no fine points,
no new issues in her international rela
tions. She has merely asserted the
right of mankind when the life of man
kind is threatened in a world aflame
with war. She has rested upon what
is already written plain in the docu
ments of international law."
The crow cheered when the president
said that some day statesmen of the
older countries would have to admit
that it was America that kept burning
the flame of international law upon its
altar when every other altar in the
world was swept by the winds of pas
sion. “I am ready to make every pa
tient allowance." he continued. ’*for
those whose tempers are upset by war."
U. S. REALLY NEUTRAL.
“You know how one set of belliger
ents is shut off from the rest of the
world. Therefore the United States is
not able to express itself toward them
as they would like. I believe the Uni
ted States is really neutral
"My fellow citizens, while we know
our own purpose it does not follow that
other nations understand.
“Men press forward with a sort of
blind recklessness
XOT UP TO AMERICA.
"Tlie peace of the world, including
America, rests with the remaindet of
the world and not Ith America.
"Either we shall sit still and wait
for the need for immediate national de
fense to come and then call for volun
teers who would be, for the first few
months, impotent as against a
experienced enemy: or we shall
adopt the ancient American principle
that the men of the country shall be
eady to take care of their own govern
ment.”
The crowd roared with approval.
"You have either got to get the men
of this nation ready to withstand the
first onslaught or you’ve got to be ready
to suffer frcm the first disaster."
When the president said he was only
asking for a trained citizenship he was
• heered. Tie said he did not want to
■omrnand a great army, but to command I
:he support and confidence of his fellow
citizens. He urged that it would be
cruel to send untrained men into battle.
•The plans now before congress are
merely plans to save the lives of Amerl
youths.” he said, "and those plans
will go through. I am not insisting
upon the details, but upon the princi
ple.
"The modem fighting ship, submarine
. e very instrument of modern warfare
—must be handled by experts. All we
are asking for now is a sufficient num
ijer of experts and a sufficient number
«if vessels at their disposal. There is
no better service in the world than
the service of the United States navy.
Hut the navy must have more ships
and we are going to give the navy the
ships it needs.
“We oght to have the greatest navy in
the world.” he declared amid great ap
plause. He explained that the coast
lire of the United States was so long
that rnanv ships were needed.
SHOULD “HliiE A HALL.”
The president said there were many
people in the United States talking about
SECRETARY WINE
SAYS LINER APPAM
IS A GERMAN PRIZE
No Question of Status of Cap- I
tured British Liner, but
Question of Her Disposition
Is Being Considered
.By Associated Press.)
NEWPORT NEWS. Va., Feb. 3.—Every
I one aboard the Appam except the prize
| officer and members of the prize crew
i will be permitted to land whenever they ,
• desire. It was decided late today. ,
(Bt Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.—Secretary .
Lansing stated today that there was no
l question as to the Appam's status as a
prize, but that the question of her dis
position still involved further consider-i
ation of The Hague convention and the i
Prussian-American treaty. Lieutenant
Berg's refusal to land British seamen
who' were gun pointers on British mer
chantmen will be the subject of further
consideration.
Appam Moves Up James
to Newport News, Va. .
(By Associated Press.)
NEWPORT NEWS. Va., Feb. 3 —With [
her German prize commander on the
bridge, the British liner Appam moved;
up from Old Point early today .and
anchored off this port to discharge the
245 persons on board given liberty to j
land in the United States. Lieutenant
Berg, the German officer, commands, but
| he moves his craft only on orders from
Washington through Collector Hamilton.
“We are treating her as an English
ship which has put into an American
port flying the German naval ensign and <
‘ under charge of a man who says he is |
an officer of the German navy,” Is Mr.
Hamilton'* explanation of the present '
attitude of the United States govern
ment. .
Some of those who were passengers
on the Appam when she was captured
by the German raider known as the
Ponga or Moewe, prepared to land fn
Newport News, but most of them will
be transferred with the'crews of other
captured British vessels to Norfolk,
there to board a steamer to New York
on their way to England. Sir C. Meri
wether and other British colonial offi
cials who have large quantities of bag
gage have arranged to place their prop
erty in customs bond here and proceed
directly to New York to take the first
available ship for home.
Lieutenant Berg still maintains his j
determination t< permit no one on board
the liner except those who have official I
business. Though studiously polite, he'
extends no undue courtesies even to
American officials, and insists upon rec
ognition of his absolute authority over
the ship and her company. He is hold
ing more than 200 people aboard, includ-'
I ing his own prize crew of twenty-two,
• some twenty Germans who were prison-
i ers of war on the Appam. Captain liar- i
I rlson and, the entire crew of 155 of the 1
Appam arvl twelve of her passengers
whom he claims belong to the British I
army or navy.
Until the Washington government
passes upon the German contentions, all
these persons will remain on the liner.
GOVERNOR STATES VIEWS
i ON LYNCHING PROBLEM
Stands for Rigid Enforcement
of Law. but Says Educa
tion Is Needed
Governor Harris has given out .a
statement in which he declares that
unless conditions are improved by the
time the general assembly meets next
summer he will ask that proper steps
be taken to put an end to the many
lynchings which have for so long dis- •
graced Georgia.
The governor's statement followed the
receipt of a letter from Rev Rembert
G. Smith, pastor or tne First Methodist
church Marietta, in which Mr. Smith
requested that Governor Harris, as the
state’s chief executive and asea candi
date for re-election, make a statement
outlining his purpose to take vigorous
steps toward the reduction or elimina
tion of lynchings.
Mr. Smith sent a similar letter to Dr.
L. G. Hardman, the other announced
candidate for governor. Dr. Hardman
was in Atlanta Wednesday evening, and
said he had not yet received the letter
However, he said:
"I stand for the rigid enforcement of
all laws. I do not believe that any
should be overlooked, and I am a firm
believer in law enforcement. Later 1
shall discuss the matter more exten
sively. Just now I haven't the time to
go into it. 1 have been very busy, have
not gone through my mail, and I want a
little more time to prepare a statement
J in regard to the matter.”
national defense who do not know what
they are talking about.
“They should be encouraged to nire I
I a hall, ’ he said.
Some or the newspaper editors who
opposed preparedness, the president said,
should see the crowds before him.
"They would be convinced." he said,
"that what they say would not deceive i
any one.
"For every day I have been away I
from Washington I have had just this ;
feeling! The country is up; there is no |
man who is not awake, who does not '
realize what the situation, is, and what!
we should do to meet the situation."
The president emphatically reiterated |
he believed the United States was with i
him. He said the living rooms of the |
White House do not face toward the city
of Washington, but toward Virginia and |
the open spaces.
"That is where 1 listen for the voice !
of America," lie declared.
"I think 1 have heard that voice say I
that we must let no one invade the
rights of America.”
The president ended his speech amidst
applause. The band played "America.'
He stood and sang. There was a great
overflow crowd on the outside of the
building.
BRITISH LINER APPAM taken into Newport News by a daring German crew. No exploit of the Ger
man navy has been more daring than the capture of the British liner Appam, bound from French Senegal, in
Africa, to England. She was taken by an armed merchantman off the African coast. The British crew was
overcome, and the vessel was sailed across the Atlantic to Norfolk. In the meantime the British owners be
lieved the vessel had been sunk in a. storm.
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KEATING CHILD LABOR
DILL PASSED BY HOUSE
It Proposes to Bar Inter-State
Shipment of Products of
Child Labor
'By A»»«ci«.ted Preu.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The Keating
child labor bill now awaits the action
of the senate.
The measure, which would prohibit
the interstate shipment of’ products of
child labor under heavy penalties, pass
ed the house late yesterday by a vote of
MV to 46.
The bill was amended so as to exempt
boys’ and girls' canning clubs from its
operations.
Child Labor Conference
Meeting in Asheville!
ißy Associated Press.'
ASHEVILLE. N. C„ Feb. 3.—The
twelfth annual child labor conference
under the auspices of the national child
labor committee began here today with
many widely known civic, educational
and social workers in attendance.
In the absence of Dr. Felix Adler,
chairman of the national chid labor com
mittee, who was detained in New York
because of illness, Dr. Samuel McCune
Lindsay, professor of social legislation
at Columbia university and vice chair
man of the committee, presided over
the initial session this alternoon. The
atinual report or Owen R. Lovejoy, gen
eral secretary of the organization, was i
fallowed by addresses of welcome by D. |
Harden Ramsey, commissioner of pub-1
lie safety of Ashevlle, on behalf of the'
city, and J. S. Carr, Jr., of Durham. N. i
C„ on behalf of the state.
Today’s program included a discus
sion by Dr. J. Howell Way, of Waynes
ville. N. C., and Dr. Dixon Carroll, of
Raleigh. N. C., on "The Effects of Child
Labor on the Child and on the Race.”
Dr. Lindsay was substituted for’Rabbi |
Stephen 8. Wise and led a discussoh of
tlie proposed federal regulation of child
labof 1 as embodied in the Keating-Owen
bill now before the senate. A stereopti
con exhibit depicting conditons as re •;
lated to child labor was one of the sea-.
tures of the session.
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ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY. I-’EBRCARV 4. 1916.
ALLEGED SLM GOES ON
TBiAL, HEW GUARDED
Sixty Deputies Surround Court
House at Sylvester While
Negro Is Tried
'Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SYLVESTER, Ga., Jan. 3.—With sixty
armed deputies surrounding the block;
in which the court house is located I
where Jim Keith, colored, went on trial I
Thursday morning for the murder of i
Sheriff D. R. Moreland, and with other |
armed deputies at other strategic points, I
Sylvester Thursday resembles a Texas
border town under martial law.
, Sheriff Moreland, of Lee county, was
killed in Worth county, last De-1
| cernber. Two weeks ago five negroes,'
said to be the murderers, were lynched
| near Albany, Ga. The armed force of
deputies at Sylvester was called to
gether as a precaution against a possi
ble attempt to lynch Jim Kalth
Keith had been secretly confined in the
Brooks county jail at Quitman for the
past several weeks; he was rushed to l
Sylvester Wednesday afternoon at 4
o’clock in an automobile. Immediately !
upon his incarceration in the Sylvester
jail. Judge K. E. Cox, of tlie Worth su-i
perior court, and Sheriff L. A. Potts, of
Worth county, deputized more than sixty
men and put them under arms to guard '
the prisoner.
The Worth county court • house and
jail are both located in tlie same city
block; around this entire block is the
cordon of sixty deputies armed with
| rifles, revolvers and shotguns. No man
j can enter this block until he is halted,
questioned and searched. Unless he sat-
I isfies the deputies that his purposes are
i above suspicion, he is* not allowed to
enter the block.
In addition to this cordon of
men. other deputies have been stationed
at the telephone exchange, at the elec
tric power plant and at the telegraph
office to forestall any possible attempt
t.<» wreck the lighting apparatus and cut
the wires of communication prepara
tory to an attack upon the jail or court
house.
Judge Cox and Sheriff Potts do not
j expect any trouble, but they are ardent
believers in the doctrine of prepared-
1 ness.
ICHHCISEIS EXPECTED
! T 8 KB TO JURY TLHIRSMY
His Acquittal Would Free Oth
ers Under Indictment, It
Is Thought
• Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
LEESBURG, Ga.. Feb. 3. —Colonel J.
. B. Hoyle, solicitor of the city coui t
here, was the first speaker for the state
■ after the defense had closed yesterday,
! in the trial of Claude Chance, charged
with the murder of A. D. Oliver. He
[ spoke for about forty minutes and was
followed by Colonel R. R. Forrester, of
this city, and Colonel M. J. Yeomans, of
Dawson, for the defense. Solicitor J. R.
Williams followed for the state. After
j Colonel Williams had finished Judge
I Littlejohn ordered a recess of the court i
I until this morning at 8:30.
Colonel F. A. Hooper, the leading I
counsel for the state, will close this
morning and will be followed by Colonel
H. A. Wilkinson for the defense, and
attar Judge Litpejohn's charge the fate
of Claude Chance will be in the hands
of the jury. It is believed should the
I jury bring in a verdict of acquittal the,
J cases against G. W. Chance, Minter j
Kennedy and the negro, Ike Carter, will’
i be nol pressed by the state.
Roy K. Blazer, of Esthersville, Ohio,,
who it is claimed is a son of A. D. Oli-|
ver, the dead man. came to Leesburg!
this morning. He stated that he would >
1 have been here sooner but sickness in,
. iiis family prevented him from coming. l
It is said that he. Jointly with the coun
ty commissioners, employed Colonel F.
A. Hooper to prosecute the case against
the Chances.
Claude Chance, yesterday told his own
story to the jury, denying his guilt and;
giving in detail his movements on the
night that Oliver met his death.
The state rested ts case yesterday!
and after Chance’s statement the de-'
sense retsed and the summing up by
counsel began.
WILL P? TATE IS NAMED
POSTMASTER AT TRION
'Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. —Will P. Tate
was today appointed postmaster at
Trion, Chattooga county. Georgia, vice
Marshall G. Merritt. This postoffice rel
egated to fourth lass July 1 last.
GERMANS Uli
BIG DRIVE TOWARD I
THE FBEn COAST
Thrust Toward Calais and
Dunkirk, as Predicted by
London Newspapers, Would
Hit Allies Hard # , i
--
(By Associated Brees.) ,
LONDON, Feb. 3.—The Londbn news
papers express the conviction that the
Germans are planning a new offensive
on a large scale against the allies’ left
’ wing. It is expected they will attempt
to blast away to Calais and Dunkirk
• by the use of strong bodies of infantry
supported by enormous masses of artil- I
lery.
Details of Zeppelin Raid
On Saloniki, Greece
(By Associated Press.)
SALONIKI, Feb. 3.—(Via Paris.)
The Zeppelin which on Tuesday bom
-1 barded Saloniki was of very large di
; ntensions. After making a wide detour
' of the city it began its operations by
dropping five bombs, which fell into the
! sea. The warships opened fire on it, j
but after fourteen shots were obliged to 1
cease for fear of wounding the popula
tion which was now filling the streets.
■ The raiders missed the next target, but
i tore a woman to pieces and wounded a
small boy.
Another bomb set fire to a warehouse
I filled with fats, oils, benzine and sugar.
, The buildings flared up like a torch ana
the population became wildly excited.
French gendarmes and zouaves restored
a semblance of order. They brought a
volunteer fire brigade with hand pumps
through the mob. “
Meanwhile, the Zeppelin continued-to
rain down its missiles of destruction
one of which demolished the mosque of
Yussof-Minor, killing three and injuring
eleven Greek refugees from Asia Minor.
Another bomb crashed through the roof
of a house and killed five persons.
Flames from the blazing warehouses lit
up the whole .harbor with a red glow,
against which stood out the while sail*
of the coasting ships,. fleeing under all
canvas.
Fast aeroplanes rose in pursuit of the
Zeppelin, while British, French, Italian
and Russian sailors operated a fire boat
at a wharf and poured torrents of water
on the fire. Generals Sarrail, Mahon
and Moschopoulos, with the prefect and
the mayor, organized salvage parties, but
practically nothing could be saved in the
warehouses. The fire was prevented from
spreading to surrounding buildings. The
bombs thrown from the Zeppelin weighed
about 100 pounds and were dropped from
a helghj estimated at 5,000 feet.
U.S. Steel Spends
$15,000,000 for
By-Product Ovens
PITTSBURG. Pa., Feb. 3.—The United
States Steel corporation is to build a
group of 1,500 by-product coke ovens at
Clairton, near here, it became known to
day. The total cost will be $15,000,000,
and it is claimed that when completed |
the group will be the largest of the kind
in the world. Several hundred acres of
land have been secured and construction
work will be started in a few weeks.
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF
MEETS ESCAPED CONVICTS
MOULTRIE, Ga., Feb. 3.—As George;
I Huber, a candidate for sheriff of Col- i
: quitt, was returning from Doerun -o
I Moultrie early today, his automobile
j failed him en route and he started to
i walk in. Three convicts who had just
escaped from the county road gang were
met by him and he demanded that they
halt and surrender. The convicts re- I
fused to surrender and when Huber fail- ;
ed to draw a weapon to enforce his com- ■
mand. they turned on him and demand
ed that he "hands up.” He likewise re
sisted. but the -convicts seized him and
a scuffle followed. The pockets of the
would-be sheriff were gone through with
no results. A truce was finally formed
and Huber came on into town while the
convicts hastened away from the blood
hounds that were being put on their'
trail.
NUMBER 36.
GERMAN NEWSPAPER <
WARNS GERMANS TO
FEAR WED STATES
Frankfurter Zeitung, -Regarded
as Government Organ, Takes
Anti-American Editors of
Germany to Task
»
(By Associated Press.)
I FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN. Feb.
3.—(via London.)—The Frankfurter Zei
tung, whose utterances on certain sno
jects are regarded as inspired, publish
es an article in which vigorous objection ,
Is expressed (o the tone adopted by the
press of Berlin in,discussing Secretary *
Lansing's note on submarine warfare
and the arming of merchantmen, and
particular to the statements made in
Berlin that the proposals are unaccept
able to Germany.
It dissents from the position taken ■« J
by the Kreutz Zeitung and Prof, von Sten- ■
gel that Germat.j .'as no interest in ’!
negotiations regarding the freedom of I
the seas, since England with America’s '
assistance is only using the negotiations
to wrest from Germany’s hands her sub
marine weapon. To this the Zeitung '
rejoins:
; "It is a gross offense, not only against
international law but agginst the most
elementary conception of good morals,
to charge openly that the United States,
with which Germany is not at enmity, is
j putting forth efforts in the sphere of In
| ternational law merely with the perfid-
■ lous purpose of helping England.”
The newspaper also condemns sweep
ing generalizations drawn from the Ba-
■ ralong affair and regards it as* “disgust-
• ing” to make capital out of the incident,
as if it were tpyical of Great Britain’s
‘ method of making war or as if the Brit
ish government caused all German sea-
• men who were captured to be mur- i
■dered. •
Turning to the present status of the
Lusitania case, the Zeitung says it can
not be ignored that the negotiations
have taken an unsatisfactory form.
"Apprehensions of this kind,’.’ it says,
j "must exist in America also, as Wash
ington evidently intends to dispose of
. the Lusitania case at the same time as
the general question of submarine war
fare. and Is using the Lusitania case to
I obtain Germany’s consent on the gen
eral question.’* •
It hints that this is a very objec
j tionable procedure, involving serifius
possibilities. •
"That people in America are thinking J
of bringing the matter to a decision.*
adds the Zeitung, evident from the 1
fact that Mr. Wilson has sent Colonel
House to Europe presumably to obtain . 3
certain information from belligerents.
We hope that no breach of relations—
not to mention something worse—may!
follow between Germany and the United
' States, but if the unexpected should “
happen. Germany will confront her new
foe as stoutly as she did the old.
"But we do not want to be lured by ,
certain jingo heroes of the writing desk
into the illusion that this foe is not dan
gerous.” i
The Frankfurter Zeitung then refers
to Germany’s excellent military situa- I
tion and to the prospect that the mil
itary resources of the allies will be ex
! hausted and that Great Britan’s finan-
I cial resources will fail.
It continues: "But all this might -
change suddenly—and this is obviously
England’s hope—if the allies secured a
new helper, who would grant unlimited
loans and furthermore make contribu
tions of a war-like kind by supplying
our present enemies with all their re
quirements in ammunition.’’
The Frankfurter Zeitung concludes by
warning the German people that they ,
must consider the outcome of the war
and that every other end, however de- |
sirable, must be subordinated to it.
The feeling which has been prevalent
in German circles that a crisis is at
hand in German-American relations,
particularly in regard to the Lusitania a
ease, has been moderated, if only in
slight degree, by the semi-official an- j
nouncement regarding the forwarding to
Ambassador von Bernstorff at Washing
ton of instructions which give hope of
a definite settlement. The bourse, which
has been depressed by this situation, re
covered somewhat on publication of the
announcement.
The newspapers have little to say re
garding the situation. The chief edi
torial writer of the Kreuz Zeitung de
votes a large part of his daily review
to a dispassionate discussion of Gernian-
Amerlcan affairs, recognizing thg€ '
Washington cannot be reproached for
endeavoring to make the best of Ameri
ca’s favorable position as regards Ger
many and Great Britain by bringing |
pressure to bear upon both and playing
one against the other.
It gives a warning, however, against ~J
over-estimation of the importance - Of' j
such "diplomatic gestures.” The writer
doubts whether President Wilson will
"commit the foolish act” of entering
the world-war despite all his “bellicose N
utterances.” He doubts also whether the
president will be able to obtain any
definite results by his protests against I
British interference with trade. There
fore, this writer says, Germany must
t rely upon herself.
Navy Code Book
Lost; Officials of
! . U.S. Worried
<By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. —Navy offic- S
ials frankly admit they are alarmed at
tlie mysterious disappearance of the bat- 4
tie signal book from the destroy’er Hull,
of the Pacific fleet.
Admiral Winslow today reported that
| all efforts to find th£ highly confidential
code* h<» _• ’unavailing and navy
! officers said toaa» It probably would at j
. once be replaced by another to make
' useless the one which has disappeared
and which they admit they fear may fall M
into the hands of some foreign govern
ment. The battle signal book contains
the secret code used in war and in bat- j
tie practice in times of peace.
MOHR CASFEVIDENCE
HAS BEEN COMPLETED
R L? Feb. 3.—The -it
presentation of all tlie evidence in ths
trial of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, Cecil, 4
Brown and Henry-H. Spellman, charged
‘with the murder of Dr. C. Franklin
Mohr, was concluded at the forenoon
session of the superior court here to-, (
day. It is expected that the cas> wiU
reach the jury some time tomorrow.
