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    The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal
VOLUME NIX
WILSON STATES TERMS ON WHICH THE U. S.
COULD ENTER LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE
GERMAN SEA RAIDER
IS REPORTED SUNK BY
CRUISER IN ATLANTIC
British Ship Glasgow Said to
Have Sent Down Commerce
• Destroyer One Hundred and
Thirty Miles Off Para
(By Associated Proas.)
BUENOS AIRES. Argentine. Jan. 22. —
L* Prens* publishes a dispatch from
Rio Janeiro saying that according to
a cablegrata received at Pernambuco.
t the British cruiser Glasgow has sunk
a German commerce raider 130 miles
off Para. No details are given.
Germans Rejoice Over
Exploits of Sea Raider
tßy Assorted fre**.)
DON DON. Jan. 22- —German rejoicing
over the exploits of the commence raider
in the South Atlantic is unbounded, ac
cording to an Amsterdam dispatch to
the Times.
Captain Persius, the German naval
critic, writing fn the Tageblatt. recalls
that when German destroyers "carried
out attacks in the English channel and
at the mouth of the Thames in October
and November.” Arthur Balfour, then
secretary of the navy, assured the house
of commons that the British guana
service "would be so careful in the fu
ture that the Germans would never ven
ture to undertake such dangerous expe
ditions again
Captors Persius says that Sir Edward
Careen has been unable to justify Mr.
Balfour's assertion, and maintains that
German light forces have made several
attacks in British waters and the
Mcrwe the second, a big above-water
ship, successfully passed the British ad
vance guards and reached the Atlan
tic. ”
"Our thought during the next month
and weeks."' concludes Captain Persius,
••■will accompany the Moewe the second
and our hopes are with its brave crew."
The Times' correspondent says that
the chief of the German admiralty staff
when congratulating Lieutenant Bade
witx. the prize commander of the Yar
rowdale. asked whether it did not seem
a ticklish job to take charge of 469
prisoners with such a small crew. Lieu
tenant Ba de witz said that he had let
his prisoners move about freely and con
sidered the situation quite safe as long
as "one had. a pistol." * He also said
• that feeding the prisoners was quite
•asy considering the circumstances.
Gerard Quotes Papers
In Report on Raider
By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. =2.—The first
•ttspatch to me state department from
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin about the
German raider and the prisoners
brought in on the prize Yarrowdale was
received io<)ay. Il merely quoted from
Berlin evening papers that the Yarrow
dale had put into port with 469
era. of whom 103 were neutrals. It was
jnereiy a newspaper summary, wrthgut
any official confirmation.
11. S. Inquires About
Seizure of Americans
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. —Inquiry has
been made of Germany as to whether
there were any Americans among the
193 neutral sailors brought in as pris
oners of war on the German prize Yar
rowdale for having taken pay on armed
merchantmen. The inquiry was made
entirely on press reports and not on any
official information which has come to
the state department.
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THOUSANDS WATCH
HUMAN FLY CLIMB
IN SPOTLIGHT'S RAYS
Gardiner Shins Up and Down
Fourth National Bank Build
ing Before Great Crowd That
Jams Five Points
Harry Gardiner, the Human Fly, last
night-climbed the Fourth National bank
building a'nd climbed back down to Jhe
ninth floor in the presence of a crowd
that probably, surpassed both in size
and interest the vast thropg that wit
nessed his first performance on Tues
day.
In Atlanta's history there has prob
ably been no larger audience at Five
Points. The biggest election night
crowds on record were sparse by com
parison. In the whole space in every
street affording a view of the Fourth
National bank they stood so thick that
it was impossible for street cars to
move or policemen to make their way
through the pack.
Every window of every building
where one could catch a glimpse of the
Fly was filled with people.
Little children in the midst of the
crowd were packed so tight that a mar\
could stand beside one of them and look
down and be unable to see the top of
its head. But when the free show
started their parents lifted them up on
shoulders and they watched the mar
velous climb with staring, fascinated
eyes.
CROWD CAJ)IE EARLY.
Gardiner had begn announced to start
his climb at 7:30 sharp. Taking no
chances, the early birds began to pick
good places an hour ahead of time, so
that the street car motormen were
fussing and the traffic cops were bel
lowing as early as 6:30. By 7 o'clock
the big space at Five Points and in
the adjacent streets was packed. By
7:30'll was tight and solid like a log
jam.
Searchlights began to play up and
down the side of the Fourth National
bank at 7 o'clock, revealing windows
on the north side of the building pack
ed with people leaning far out and
looking down.
At 7:23 the Fly stepped out of the
office of Captain James W. English,
president of the bank, and stood on the
coping, dressed in a white suit and
wearing a white cloth hat and white
tennis shoes For a moment he stood
on the coping, facing the great sea of
faces in front of him and all around
him on three sides, and the crowd sent
up a thunderous cheer.
Then he turned. flattened himself
against the face of the building like a
squirrel against a tree, and began his
marvelous demonstration of the power
of will and the strength of man’s mus
cles when trained to the Nth degree.
All the way up the Fly climbed, then
half way down, flirting with death in
dare-devil and breath-taking feats.
Tennessee Shipping
Law Effective July 1
(By Associated Press )
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 22—The
only new prohibition bill so far signed
by Governor Rye is the wholesalers’
bill, prohibiting the receiving of orders
for shipments of liquors. The law be
comes effective July 1. next.
House bill No. 1. the anti-locker club
bill, and house bill No. 2. another whole
salers' bill, prohibiting the of
liquor, have been passed by both houses,
and probably will be signed today. These
measures become law as soon as the
governor affixes his signature.
Full Text of Wilson’s Message
ißy Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—The presi
dent in his address said:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
On the 18th of December last
1 addressed an identic note to the
governments of the nations at war
requesting them to state, more defi
nitely than they had yet been stated
by either group of belligerents, the
terms upon which they would deem
it possible to make peace. I spoke
on behalf of humanity and of the
rights of all neutral nations like
our own, many of whose most vital
interests the war puts in constant
jeopardy.
The central powers united in a
reply which stated merely that they
were ready to meet their antago
nists in conference to discuss terms
of peace. The entente powers have
replied much more definitely and
have stared, in general terms, in
deed, but with sufficient definiteness
to imply details, the arrangements,
guarantees and acts of reparation
tion which they deem to be the in
dispensable conditions of a satisfac
tory settlement.
We are that much nearer a defi
nite discussion of peace which shall
end the present war. We are that
much nearer the discussion of the
international concert which must
thereafter hold the world at peace.
CONCERT OF POWERS.
In every discussion of the peace
that must end this war it is taken
for granted that that peace must
be followed by some definite concert
of powers which will make it virtu
ally impossible that any such a ca
tastrophe should overwhelm us
again. Every lover of mankind, ev
ery sane and thoughtful man must
take that for granted.
I have sought this opportunity to
address you because I thought I
owed it to you, as the counsel asso
ciated with me in the final determi
nation of our international obliga-.
lions, to disclose to you without re
serve the thought and purpose that
have been taking form in my mind
ih regard to the duty of our gov
ernment in these days to come when
it will be necessary to lay afresh
and upon a new plan the foundations
of peace among the nations.
It is inconceivable that the people
of the United States should play no
part in that great enterprise. To
take part in euch a service will be
the opportunitj’ for which they have
sought to prepare themselves by the
very principles and purposes of their
polity and the approved practices of
their government ever since the
days when they set up a new nation
in the high and honorable hope that
it might in all that it was and did,
show mankind the way to liberty.
They cannot in honor withhold the
service to which they are now about
to be challenged. They do not wish
NATIONAL HIGHWAY
THE BEST OF ROADS
SAYS C. C. BRANTLEY
jValdosta Editor Calls Journal
-1 Herald Route “Nigh Dry
Highway’’ Through . South
Georgia and Florida
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
VALDOSTA! Ga., Jan. 22.—Since the
rainy season started in several weeks
afro, the National Highway, The Jour
nal-Herald route through Georgia to
Florida, has come to the front more
than ever before as the "nigh, dry, high
way” through the lowlands of southern
Georgia and Florida. This is the opin
ion expressed by Editor C. C. Brantley,
(Continued on Page 8, CoL 5.)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1917
to withhold it. But they owe it to
themselves ami to the other nations
of the world to stale the conditions
under which they feel free to ren
der it.
STATES CONDITIONS.
That service is nothing less than
this. To add their authority and
their power to the authority and
force of other nations to guarantee
peace and justice throughout tile
world. Such a settlement cannot
now be long postponed. It is right
that otfore it comes this govern
ment should frankly formulate the
conditions upon which it would feel
justified in asking our people to ap
prove its formal and solemn adher
ents to a league for peace. I am
here to attempt to state those con
ditions.
The present wah must first be
ended; but we owe it to candor and
to a just regard for the opinion
of mankind to say that so far as
our participation in guarantees of
future peace is concerned, it makes
a great deal of difference in what
way and upon what terms' it is end
ed. The treaties and agreements
which bring it to an end must em
body terms which will create a
peace that is worth guaranteeing
and preserving, a peace that will win
the approval of mankind, not mere
ly a peace that will serve the sev
eral interests and immediate aims
of the nations engaged.
We shall have no voice in dete.r
mining what those terms shall be,
but we shall, I feel sure, have a
voice in determining whether they
shall be mad.e lasting or not by the
guarantees of a universal covenant;
and our Judgment upon what. is
fundamental and essential as a con
dition precedent to permanency
should be spoken now, not after
ward, when it may be too late.
NEW WORLD’S ATTITUDE.
No covenant of co-operative peace
that does not include the peoples of
the new world can suffice to keep
the future safe against war; and yet
there is only one sort of peace that
the peoples of America could join
in guaranteeing. The elements of
that peace must be elements that
engage the confidence and satisfy
the principles of the American gov
ernments', elements consistent with
their political faith and the prac
tical conviction which the peoples of
America have once for all em
braced and undertaken to defend.
I do not mean to say that any
American government would throw
any obstacle in the way of any
terms of peace the governments now
at war might agree upon, or seek to
upset them when made, whatever
they might be. I only take it for
granted that mere terms of peace
between the belligerents will not
satisfy even the belligerents them
selves. Mere agreements may not
SUITS FDR JIM,IM
FOLLOW GEORGI# WRECK
Widows of David B. Printup
and Inspector Whitehead
Are Plaintiffs
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GREENSBORO. Ga., Jan. 22. —Suits
against the Louisville, Nashville and
Atlantic Coast Line railroads as joint
lessees of the Georgia railroad, aggre
gating 1150,000, were filed in the city
court of Greensboro today by Attorneys
Hill and Adams, of Atlanta. The suits
grew out of the Georgia railroad wreck
near Union Point, October 27, when two
white men were killed.
David B. Printup, known as the weal
thiest engineer on the road, was scalded
to death. The suit growing out of his
death was brought under the federal em
ployers' liability act by H. F. Norris,
his executor, in behalf of the widow
and four minor children. The Printup
plea is for SIOO,OOO.
The suit growing out of the death
of Mr. Whitehead, the inspector killed
in the same wreck, is for $50,000. and
was brought by Mrs. Sadie Hamilton
Whiteside, the widow. Both suts are
charged against the railroad as negli
gence and that the switch into which
the train plunged was unlocked.
Northwest Digging Out
Os One of the Heaviest
Snowfalls in 20 Years
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 22.—This and
other cities of the northwest set about
today clearing away the results of one
of the heaviest snowstorms in twenty
years which yesterday covered Minne
sota, Wisconsin and South and North
Dakota with from two to seventeen
inches of snow.
A wind that reached forty-two miles
an hour, piled the snow into huge drifts
which impeded all traffic. Some trains
still are stalled in great banks of snow,
and others are being drawn by two lo
comotives.
A sharp drop in temperature followed
the storm, and below zero weather pre
vailed today.
Many public schools in Minncaopils
and other cities were closed today be
cause pupils could not reach the build
ings.
Newspaper Man Dead
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. —Charles A.
Edwards, for years one of the best
known Washington newspaper corre
spondents. died here last night, after a
lingerng illness, aged fifty-six years. He
represented a number of Texas ncws
taper.-i '.ip until about three years ago,
when he was compelled to give up ac
tive work.
make peace secure. It will be ab
solutely necessary that a force be
created as a guarantor of the per
manency of the settlement so much
greater than the force of any nation
now engaged or any alliance hither
to ofrmed or projected that no na
tion, no probable combination of
nations, could face or withstand it.
"If the peace presently to be
made is to endure, it must be a
peace made secure by the organized
major force of mankind.
"The terms of the immediate
peace agreed upon will determine
whether it is a peace for which
such a guarantee can be secured.
The question upon which the whole
future peace and policy of the world
depends is this:
"Is the present war a.<truggle for
a just and secure peace, or only
for a new balance of power? If it
be only a struggle for a new bal
ance of power who will guarantee,
who can guarantee, the stable
equilibrium of the new arrange
ment? Only a tranquil Europe can
be a stable Europe. There must be,
not a balance of power, but a com
munity power, not organized rival
ries. but an organized common
peace.
“Fortunately we have received
very explicit assurances on this
point. The statesmen of both of the
groups of nations now arrayed
against one another have said, in
terms that could not be misinter
preted. that it was no part of the
purpose they had in mind to crush
their antagonists. But the implica
tions of these assurances niny not
be equally clear to all—may not be
the same on both sides of the water.
I think it will be serviceable if I
attempt to set forth what we under
stand them to be.
"PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY.”
They imply first of all that it
must be a peace without victory. It
is not pleasant to say this. I beg
that I may be permitted to put my
own interpretation upon ‘it, and that
it may be understood that no other
interpretation was in my thought.
I am seeking only to face realities
and to face them without soft con
cealments. Victory would mean
peace forced upon the loaer, a vic
tor’s terms imposed upon the van
quished. It would be accepted in
humiliation, under duress, at an in
tolerable sacrifice and would leave
a sting, a resentment, a bitter mem
ory upon which terms of peace
would rest, not permanently, but
only as upon quicksand. Only a
peace between equals can last —only
a peace the very principle of which
is equality and common participa
tion in a common benefit. The right
state of mtind, the right feeling be
tween nations, is as necessary for
(Contraned on Page 8, Col. 2.)
GUTZON BORGLUM
HERE TO INSPECT
MOUNTAIN WORK
Famous Sculptor Tells Inter
esting Story of His Plans for
Carving Most Unique Memo
rial in the World
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of in
ternational reputation, is in Atlanta
Monday as the guest of Samuel H. Ven
aole at the latter s home in Druid Hills,
having made a hurried trip here from
North Carolina to inspect the recent
work on Stone Mountain, where the
progress of erecting a mighty memo
rial to the southern Confederacy is rap
idly beginning to assume definite shape.
For the first time Mr. Borglum made
clear many hazy points about the me
morial which will be sadved from the
precipitous side of the mountain.
"The work of clearing up the rubbish
on the top of the mountain is’ practical
ly finished, and in April I shall take
np quarters on the site, preparatory to
launching into the actual work. From
now until April the engineers in charge
iof the work will begin erecting the
I steel scaffolding upon which I must
I work in placing my designs. Steel cables
will be dropped at intervals of fifty feet
along the mountain where the slope
becomes sheer precipice. These in turn
will be crossed by cables running lati
tudinally, and in this way the whole
northeast, or precipitous sjde, of the
cliff will be plotted out like a vast
; checkerboard."
RETURNS IN TWO WEEKS.
"In this way we can arrive exactly at
■ the pitch of the mountain, as well as
being able to calculate exactly, from
working models, just exactly how the
work will look."
“I will come to Atlanta again in two
■ weeks, bringing designs,” Mr. Borglum
said when asked about how long it would
be before the actual figures would begin
to assume shape. "This summer lam
going to put in almost six months of
hard work upon the mountain. Along
steel cables will be automatic hoists for
' carrying me and my workman, and the
: entire portion of the stone to be sculp-
I tured will be fenced off with steel fences,
f to protect the public from causing dan
ger by starting rocks from above, to
i fall upon us workmen below."
Mr. Borglum took pains to state that
while newspaper drawings and sketches
had been made of his work, he had nev
er given out a design. “All sketches,”
I he said, "have been made from my ver
bal descriptions. The actual work on
Stone mountain will be that of a vast
j army, working in natural military order
along the face of the mountain. All the
I gear of warfare contemporary with the
I War Between the States will be used,
and each division of figures will be cap-
I tained by some great chieftain of the
i Confederacy.”
SAYS TERMS DM WHICH
PRESENT WAR IS ENDED
MUST SATISFY AMERICA
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. —President Wilson/ in a personal address
the senate today, laid down the question of whether the United States shalh
depart from its traditional policy of isolation and no entangling alliances,,
and take part in a to preserve peace after the war.
Shattering precedent of more than a century, the president, regard
ing the senate, with its treaty making power, as his counsellor in foreign
affairs, explained why he believed the time had come for the world to
know America’s position; and discussed the underlying causes on which
he believes a permanent peace of the world can be maintained.
While President Wilson was speak—
FRENCH FIRE STOPS
TWO TEUTPII DRIVES
ON BANK OF MEUSE
British Report Defeat of Turks
Near Kut-EI-Amara and
Capture of Positions on
2,500-Yard Front
(By Associated Pross.)
PARTS, Jan. 22.—Two attacks were
made by the Germans last night on the
Verdun front, on the right bank of the
Meuse. Today’s official announcement
says they were driven back each time
by the French fire.
The communication follows:
"On the right bank of the River
Meuse, after a violent bombardment,
German troops yesterday evening at
tacked on two different occasions the
trenches northeast of Caurieres wood.
The fire of our artillery together with
tnat of our machine guns checked these
enemy attacks, and our lines were main
tained without break. •
“Artillery fighting proceeded actively
during the night in the sector of Cote
de Poivre. In Lorraine and in Alsace
there have been patrol encounters. The
night passed quietly on the remainder
cf the front.”
Berlin Admits British
Repulsed Minor Attack
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Jan. 22. —(Via Sayville.)
The repulse of a minor attack by the
British on the German lines near
Is announced in today’s German army
headquarters statement regarding oper
ations on the Franco-Belgian front,
which reads:
"Western front: Near Lens a minor
British attack was repulsed in a hand
grenade engagement Near Bezonvaux
and east of Pont-a-Mousson, reconnoit
ering detachments brought back several
prisoners and one machine gun from
short incursions into hostile positions.”
Night raids in the Riga region in
which the Russians were repulsed are
the only developments on the Russian
front reported in today s army head
quarters statement which reads:
“Eastern front: Front of Prince
Leopold: West of Friedrichstadt noc
turnal attacks by Russian raiding de
tachments were repulsed.”
British’ Report Victory
Near Kut-el-Amara
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The British
and Turks in Mesopotamia have been
engaged in vigorous fighting along the
Tigris river in the vicinity of Kut-el-
Amara. Both the London and Constan
tinople war offices make claims to suc
cesses for their troops. The British of
ficial communication announces that
northeast of Kut the British trtiops
have driven the Turks from a small
strip of land they were holding on the
right bank of the Tigris and that King
George’s men are now in control of an
entire trench section on .a front 2,500
yards to a depth of 1,100 yards. It
adds that the right bank of the river
also has been cleared of Turks down
stream from Kut-el-Amara and that
southwest of the town further progress
has been made.
Constantinople says east of Kut-el-
Amara the British launched three at
tacks against the Ottoman positions,
but that none of them was successful,
and that the attackers suffered heavy
casualies.
In the capture of Nanesti, on the
Sereth river in Rumania, hard fighting
of a hand-to-hand character took place
in the streets. In withdrawing from
the village German batteries raked the
Russians as they made their way.across
the bridges over the Sereth, inflicting
heavy losses on them. With the fall
of Nanesti 555 men and one officer were
captured by the Germans.
On the other battle fronts only minor
operations have been carried out. The
big guns are everywhere active. On
the line in France near Loos* the Brit
ish in a dayligWt raid blew up German
dugouts, causing many casualties
among the occupants. The artillery
duels have again become violent in the
Verdun sector.
NUMBER 32.
Ing directly to the senators, after the.
manner of Washington, Madison and.
Adams, his address was in the hands-,
of all foreign governments or on Its.
way to them.
No such history-making event with
such far-reaching possibilities to the* j
United States probably ever had been. 4
seen in the senate chdinber. Tor J
nearly a half hour the president J
spoke with members of the senate,■
members of the cabinet and packed™
galleries listening with rapt atten-B
tlon. When he concluded there wasß
i tremendous burst of applause. -
SENATORS RESERVED. H
When the president had finished anriß
the senate returned to its regular busi-B
uess. Senator LaFollette epitorruxed theß
sentiment of all present by saying: ■
“We have just passed through a
important hour tn the life of the world.
Senators generally were reserved on the,
president's address, but some Republic
ans, who said they did not wish to ba
quoted, declared they were opposed •‘to/
both the propriety and substance.” _
Briefly, the president said he beUevedV
that no peace which a peace of vic-■
tory in the present war would be a 1
permanent peace and that it must ba
taken for granted that peace “must bo
followed by some definite concert of
powers which will make it virtually im
possible that any such catastrophe
should overwhelm us again."
"It is inconceivable," he said, “that
the of the United States should
play no part in that great enterprise.”
At another pont the president said:
"No covenant of co-operative peaoo
that does not include the peoples of the
new world can suffice to keep the future
safe against war.”
In holding out the expectation that)
the United States would join other na
tions in a league for peace, the presi— '
dent declared it must be clear “to ev-s
ery man wSio can think, that there i»
in this promise no breach in either our
traditions or our policy as a nation, but
a fulfilment rather of all that we have
professed or striven for.”
In concluding, the president said:
"I am proposing, as it were, that the
nations should with one accord adopt the I
doctrine of President Monroe as the doc
trine of the world; that no nation should)
seek to extend its policy over any other
nation or people, but that every people
should be left free to determine its
own polity, its own way of
unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the
little along with the great and power
ful.
"I am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them into competi
tions of power, catch them in a net of Jn
trigue and selfish rivalry, and disturb,
their own affairs without influences in
truded from without.”
President Wilson’s own view of his
spech to the senate today was given in,
discussion with a senator just after his
address.
"I have said what everybody has been,
longing for, but has thought impossible,""
Mr. Wilson declared. “Now it appears
to be possible.”
LETTER TO SENATE
The president’s letter, dated Sunday
and in which he asked for a hearing be- '
for the senate, wag as follows;
My Dear Mr. Vice President:'. J
There is a communication concern-
ing the foreign relations of the
country which I think it my duty to
make to the senate and which I
would very much like to make in
person. I would be very much
• obliged if I might be afforded the
opportunity to do so tomorrow, the
22d, If it can be arranged without
inconvenience to the senate.
I know of no other than this in
formal way in which to convey this
wish to the senators. I have spok
en to Senator Stone, the chairman of
the committee on foreign relations
about it, and have asked him to
confer with you.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Senator Hoke Smith
Strong in His Praise
Os Wilson’s Address
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22—Senator
Hoke Smith pronounced the address
of President Wilson "the greatest
contribution to international thougni
that has been enunciated in the his
tory of time.” He was completely
■arried away with the address and"
probably was never more enthusias
tic and earnest in his approval of
anything.
Senator LaFollette the Wisconsin
Progressive leader, was warm in his
praise of the Speech. Most of the
Republican senators, however, de-. 1
clincd to express themselves until j
ifter they have fca:i and digested the .4
Jtterances. 4- ,-w