zVUvtnla -Weekly Sou vital
VOLUME Xl\
GERMANS UNABLE TO STOP FRENCH DRIVE
FIGHT FOB DRAFT BILL
NOT LOST. SAYS KAHN.
BACKINGJP WILSON
Ranking Republican Member
of Military Committee to Pi
lot Measure and Shame Op
ponents in House
WASXXJTGTON, April 19.—Debate on
the admiixistt*t4on army bill will begin
tn tile house on Monday. An agreement
van reertiri today by bouse leaders and
oonsidanitlon of the measure la expected
to last from two to three days. Majority
and minority reports will be filed with
the clerk of the house on Saturday.
The house adjourned this afternon un
til Monday.
WASHINGTON, April 19—Preparing
to lead the fight in the house for the ad
ministration army bill. Representative
Kahn, ranking Republican of the mili
tary oommittee, conferred today with
Secretary Baker.
Representative Kahn received addition
al information at the war department, to
conduct the fight he has undertaken. To
all Intents and purposes he will be ad
ministration spokesman before the
house on the question of army prepara
tion.
It Is expected Mr. Kahn will present in
hi* miornity report, a letter from Secre
tary Raker sent to Chairman Dent two
days ago in a final effort to get the com- I
mittee to approx e the administration ,
plane which outlines clearly the purpose
of the military experts to provide places j
for nearly 780.000 individual volunteers
in the expanded army and na
tional guard, and their reasons for dis
trusting any scheme for raking into the
service complete volunteer units as pro
posed by the majority of the house com
mittee. „
ENGLAND AS OBJECT LESSON.
Representative Kahn will have avail
able also, a detailed study of Eng
land’s struggle with the volunteer sy»-
•em made by American military ex
perts. who personally watched the pro
cess. It is understood these reports
graphically picture the failure- of rhe
.vstem under Its greatest test in his
tory and point out the costly delay
and experiment cost, and the attendant
military disasters at the front charged
Discussing his plans. Representative
Kahn said the position taken by the
ommlttee minority will be that the
•avmen of congress have no right to
■et aside the view of trained experts ■
•n favor of a plan which those experts
believe is dangerous to th ® .
Representative Kahn pointed out that
onlv four members of the house nad
personal military experience and
*our favor the administration bill.
KAHN HOPEFUL
The" fight is not lost,” Mr. Kahn
-aid "I do not believe that the house
•eels will care to assume the respon
sibility of overriding the unan.mous
judgment of trained military men ; u
home and abroad and set up an army
rcanization of Its own for the failure
of which congress would have to bea
the full blame If the plans> of our
Arnerts are tried and go wrong, the
will be their. It will not rest
ThebVH as amended by the ocmmit
, was introduced today by cha ' l ? l “u
T'ent “t was immediately referred back
•r> the committee for the P erfu "® t
-poort Mr. Dent expects to report the
WlTSonday and take It up in the house
’ VheYouse also passed the administra
tion bill raising the eligible, age 11 mH
for officers of the naval
3S to 50 rears in order to get into the
service many merchant ship officer. The
house also passed a bill to «n"e..e the
number of naval officers In the hydro
standing squarely be-
Mni the president in his conscription
n lan said they will deliver a minority
report -which will show the
HOW nollliw and f«wr of defeat at the
the committee majority to
— up m
,l*l provides, tn COM " I ‘TX
t ure. that all physically able males be
•ween twenty-one and forty years are
‘under an agraemen- reached later
this afternoon by Representatives
Kachin Mann. Dent and Kahn, there
will be eighteen hours of general d
late with further debate under the five
•r.inute rule. -.--r
NEW SENATE AMENDMENT
While this preliminary action occur
red in th* house. Senator McCumber in
’reduced In th* ••nate an amendment
-jo the administration measure propos
•ng to raise the army needed by calling
for volunteer* proportionately from
-jcnh voting district, a resort to draft
_ made possible only after the volun-
teer plan fails
• nher congressional war steps of to-,
cay were Introduction of » Ml by Rep
-esentative McKeown, Oklahoma which
would prevent sale of explosi e.
hroughout the war. excepting by spe
,j*J license, and introduction cf a
measure by Representative Ayres. Kan
-as. making artificial speculation In
•oodstuffs punishable by a fine of from
1500 to 15.000 or sentence of one to five
-.ear*. or both.
Shortly after the McKeown resolution
was introduced. Secretary of Interior
luuie submitted to Representative Fos
rer chairman of the bouse mining com
m.ttee, a Mil providing for government,
.ervislon over the manufacture, sale
and* use of all explosives.
Tptown" the executive end of the
• ~o«ernrnent continued its war work At
the navy department announcement was
rade that building of warships is no'
to Impede commerce ship construction
'Secretary Daniels issued orders that n«
special" hurry need be attempted as to
building of ships on the second year of
the program. The department believes
that right now merchant ships In great
number* are as essential, if not more
sc. than wadships
FIGHT IN SENATE.
The fight In tb* senate against the
administration"* proposed drastic news
paper censorship regulations—which
form p*rt of the espionage measure con
tinued unahated today.
s-.u peiwietjau .<*pot J >®po*X joytu»s
(Continued on Page Three. Cob 5.)
"WAKE OP AMERICA”
DAY STIRS PATRIOTIC
SPIRIT OF COUNTRY
Reminders of the Battle of
Lexington and the American I
Fight for Independence!
Given in Demonstration
NEW YORK. April 19.—Nine “Paul
Reveres" carried a "wake up America
message" to New York today, starting a
, series of patriotic demonstrations that
j are country-wide in celebration of the
, battle of Lexington.
Typical of the changed times, the first
of the nine was a woman, Jean Moehle,
who rode horseback as did the original j
Paul Revere, one hundred and forty-two
years ago. The other eight were avia- :
tors who bombarded New York with
posters calling for recruits for the'
army, navy and marine corps.
Clad in the uniform of a continental ‘
soldier. Miss Moehle rode through the j
mists which hung about the great build-I
ings of Broadway and Fifth avenue,'
shortly after midnight, carrying an i
American flag and followed by Barnard j
college girl trumpeters in automobiles.
"America,” "Hail Columbia,” and "Co
lumbia the Gem of the Ooean,” chimed
in the towers of scores of churches at
midnight, was the signaJ for the start
of the modern feminist night ride to
Lexington.
Thousands saw the girl rider, mounted
. on a big gray horse, cheered her and
broke into patriotic songs as she dashed
I by
At one o’clock this afternoon eight ,
• aviators, each carrying an observer, were ■
to leave Hempstead plains and sweep
over the city as the days mammoth pa
| rade was forming, dropping posters call
ing for recruits for America's new fight
I "for universal freedom" and for a re
vival of the spirit of ”i 6.
Under Colonel Grey, recently in the I
British armies in France. 3,000 of our
British allies. Englishmen now resident
lin New York, formed a section of the
parade. Nearly 19,00 ff schol children,
carrying flags, the boys khaki clad for
the most part, formed another section,
.and 5.>00 boy scouts marched, carrying
i relief kits and garden tools. Suffragists
< were out in force and many other wom
an's organization, were represented.
Many of the units had planned floats
depicting patriotic scenes, or putting
over recruiting arguments.
Door of Senate Naval
Committee at Capitol
Pried Open During Night
WASHINGTON. April 19-—The door
of the senate naval affairs commitee
in the capitol building was "jimmied” I
during the night. *
Early today the door was found
standing open. Police believe the "job"
was the work of spies seeking infor-'
mation of naval plans. An investlga-l
tion is under way. The force of guards
1 about the capitol was questioned. As
far as could be ascertained nothing was
missing from the room.
1 The door had been splintered and
pried open with an iron instrument.
The marks of the instrument were
plain.
Senator Swanson, acting chairman of
the commitee, declared as far as he
could learn, nothing had been taken
1 "Evidently some one thought there
were valuable plans or information in
the room.” he said. "As a matter of
’ fact, there Is seldom anything ol a
■ confidential nature in the committee
1 j room."
1 The capitol police were notified at
■ once and began a search of the building
1 to find the means of entrance. During
' the night, the building is heavily guard
ed and sentries are posted at different
point, of the capitol grounds
1 Early in the investigation, the police
announced they believed It was done by
some one hidden in the building.
For months, no one has been per
’ mttted to enter the building after night
fall without a countersigned pass, un
less one of the houses was sitting,
when visitors were admitted to the kbl*
lories. Neither house was In session
last night.
. Spanish Cabinet Resigns,
Madrid Dispatch Says
I WASHING TON*. April 19. —The Span
ish embassv is without official informa
tion of the resignation of the cabinet,
i, y.nd Ambassador Juan Riano said he was
at a loss as to the cause. All his dls
; j patches for the last two weeks, the am
i! bassador said. Indicated the country
11 was quiet following the workingmen’s
-j disorders of some time ago.
CAN’T ESCAPE
MILITARY DUTY
BY MARRYING
WASHINGTON. April It. —Men
of military age who have married ■
since a state of war against Ger
many was declared will not escape I
military service under a war de
partment policy formally announced
today. The department's statement
follows:
"The war department announces
that all men married since the out
break of war will be treated upon
the same basis as unmarried men
in so far as their military obligations
are concerned. It is desired that ,
the utmost publicity be given by
the press to this announcement."
The department was moved to ,
take this action in order that all
men should understand exactly
what Is contemplated In the organi
zation of an army to fight Ger
many. It was desired that there
should arise no question of slackers
upon the score of marriages con
tracted since the outbreak of war
with the possible construction that
the marriage in any case was has
tened In order that military duty
might he evaded
A TLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1917.
Fort McPherson Opens the Gateway to Manhood
For Today's Greenhorns and Tomorrow's Heroes
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Above, some of the tents which are sheltering recruits at the post; left, youngster who has just received his uniform;
on the right, in the middle, rookies receiving instructions; below, center, Captain James L. Robinson peering into enlisted
man’s throat; right, Captain R. C. Humber in charge of recruits.
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Congressman W. S. Howard,
of Georgia, Asks Immedi
ate Committee Action
WASHINGTON. April 19.—Represent
ative Howard, of Georgia, today intro
duced a resolution demanding that manu
facture of malt and spirituous liquors
be prohibited during the war, so as to
conserve for food purposes 600,000,0)0
bushels of grain that annually are made
into liquor. He asked immediate con
sideration by the judiciary committee.
Certain forces in the council of na
tional defense may recommend to the
president that he take drastic action
immediately to stop completely the
manufacture and sale of liquor through
out the United States.
It remains to be determined whether
the president will be urged to stop
liquor manufacture and sale through ex
ecutive proclamation, or through emer
gency legislation similar to the anti
drug act.
According to reports compiled for the
united press based on the fiscal year
1916. action by the government to bring
"war prohibition” would mean the
closing of 1,392 breweries and 605 dis
tilleries.
The national defense council believes
more and more strongly that the na
tion’s Imperative need of the six billion
pounds of foodstuffs that go into the
manufacture of liquor is sufflicent rea
son for the government to take the step
that some European belligerents have
been forced to take In order that their
armies and people have sufficient food.
A decision as to the president's power
to stop liquor manufacture is under
stood to be in the hands of Attorney
General Gregory.
Whether he would take It immediate
ly or later probably would depend upon
the report made by Chairman Hoover, of
the national economy board, who will
make a thorough study of food condi
tions in the country and recommend
conservation measures
The “war prohibition" movement has
been gaining tremendous force in the
country during recent weeks. Many
leading agriculturists in the central
west have very strongly urged the gov
ernment to take the action now under
contemplation.
Brewers Claim to Use Only
One Per Cent of Grain Yield
NEW YORK. April 19. —Brewers !n
the United States in the last fiscal year
used 67.000.000 bushels of grain, accord
ing tn a statement this afternoon by the
United Brewers' association.
The statement, issued in view of the
nubile interest in "food conservation.”
lists grain used as follows: Barley. 48.-
000.000 bushels; corn. 17.000,000 bushels,
and rye. 2.000.000 bushels.
"This Is about I per cent of all the
grain produced in the United States." the
statement read, "and half of it is return
ed to the farms for cattle feed and in
the form of dried grains and by-pro
ducts.”
Four Hundred Rookies Learn
to Be Soldiers “Where Tail
ors Cease From Troubling
and the Landlord Is at Rest’’
The big front gate at Fort McPher
son separates the dreamer from the
doer; it is the great divide.
On the outside of the gate you may
falter, waver, vacillate, stay up late at
night, vociferate for your man servant
the next morning, and break rules,
promises and pledges: on the inside
you're prompt, unhesitating, active,
alert, regular in your habits and keep
the pledges that you make.
On one side of the big gate life may
be unpicturesque. dull, matter-of-fact,
prosaic and lacking in thrills, and you
might pot be working for anybody or
serving anything; on the other side of
the gate life is adventurous, fantastic
and helpful, and you're working for
Uncle Sam and serving your country.
And so the recruits have found it.
Nearly 400 untaught youths who have
been accepted at the office in the post
office building during the last few days
and street-cared to Fort McPherson
have found soldiering to be a lasting
thrill and Uncle Sam a strict, but con
siderate employer.
The recruit enters a new world when
he passes the sentry at the front gate
and matriculates at Uncle Sam’s school
of learning.
Several things happen to him as soon
as he arrives at the post. First, he Is
greeted, then he's fed, bathed, ex
amined, vaccinated, measured, equipped,
quartered, "uniformed, drilled, rifled —
and depended upon.
Captain R. C. Humber, of Company
B. is in charge of recruits at the post;
Captain L. Robinson is the examining
officer, and they’re assisted by a num
ber of men. The men of Company B
are looking after the unschooled youths,
kidding them, comforting them, en
couraging them, instructing them. The
whole post joins In the welcome of the
rookies.
The three-year man from Idaho, a fin
ished soldier as far as the rudiments
of soldiering and discipline are* con
cerned. pats the South Georgia rookie
affectionately on the back, and tells
him that his lank Ucle Sam is the best
little boss in the world; the corporal
from southeastern Texas takes the raw
youngster fronf Lumpkin county iqto
his own quarters and confidence, and
the hardei M soldier from Vermont
opens the eyes of the Atlanta recruit
with tales of the experiences of the
man with the uniform and gun.
STOMACH COMES FIRST
The army feeds you first. The re
cruits that have been sent to McPher
son are eating with the different com
panies because a mess has not yet been
prepared for them In the field. When
you sit down at the table the meal gets
away without any opening exercises, and
you don’t have time to parade down
some typewritten menu.
The hath, the regular, old-fashioned
scrubbing with soap and water. Is well
thought of In army circles and at the
post the recruit is sent to the bath
room as soon as he leaves the mess,
and he bathes, whether or not he has
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BIC GEFIMfIN FOFMTION
HUB REVBLTED IN BBIZIL
Strongest and Most Loyal
Troops Are Sent to Op
pose Rebels
BY CHABLES P. STEWART.
BUENOS AIRES, April 19.—Brazil's
great German population in at least
three states has revolted.
Dispatches from Montevideo (Uru
guay) today asserted the Teutons were
well armed'—even with some artillery
—and plentifully supplied.
Brazil’s censorship was down tight
on any details.
The rebellion apparently centered In
the Brazilian states of Rio Grande,
Parana and Santa Catharina. The Ger
man population—male and female —in
this section has been estimated at 500,-
000.
Uruguayan dispatches today declared
the Germans had already attempted to
dynamite the railway bridge at Santa
Maria.
The government of Rio Grande prov
ince was said to concentrating its
strongest and most loyal troops to op
pose the rebels at Alegre. In the
meantime the Uruguayan government
is massing its troops on the frontier
fearing the Germans may invade Uru
guay.
Officials were quoted in the Monte
video dispatches as asserting their be
lief they will be able to withstand all
raids. The Brazilian Germans were
known to have been preparing to move
against Uruguay. Their preference was
for occupation of Chile—which coun
try is rich in nitrates and therefore
desirable in war—but Chile was too
great a distance from their base
Brazil has a strict censorship In
force now and it was impossible to ob
tain complete verification of the revolt
or of what steps the Brazilian govern
ment had taken to quell it.
From the very start of Brazil's crisis
with Germany the greatest apprehen
sion had been expressed as to the
course which the republic's very large
German population would adopt. More
than ten days ago dispatches said that
under cover of needing troops to avert
an outbreak in an old boundary dis
pute between two Brazilian states, the
government had dispatched very strolig
forces to the states where the Ger
mans were most numerous.
Attempt to Blow Up
Liquor Depot Made
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 19.—An un
successful attempt was made last night
to blow up the state warehouse where
the big lot of liquor is stored tn Gi
rard. An explosion was heard about
midnight, but it was thought to have
been the bursting of liquor in the wreck
age. but at noon today two unexploded
bombs were found and a hole in the
wall where a third had bursted. An
investigation la on. but no arrests have
been made.
CENSOR CfiEEL RELIEVES
IN PRINTI NG THE NEWS
Washington Reporters, Once
Skeptics, Are Now Rooting
for Him to a Man
WASHINGTON, April 19. —The United
States ha-s already established one war
precedent. Its war censor mas made a
hit with the newspaper men.
Three days after taking hold of the
job, George Creel, in the position of
censor, the most unenviable job in the
gift of the president, has Washington’s
400 newspaper men—skeptics all on last
Monday—rooting for him to a man. He
has turned the trick by making it ap
parent that he intends to add to Noah
Webster’s definition of a. censor.
Instead of figuring on means of sup
pressing news. Creel is putting in eigrh
teen hours a day devising means of pro
moting It.
The first presumption was that his
new job would align him in a fight with
the reporters. Before Tie had been on
the job forty-eight hours he was lined
up with the reporters in their siege of
the citadel, the state department, com
manded by "Corporal” Lansing. He was
also working In co-operation with Sec
retary Daniels, who believes In publici
ty, but has been hampered by navy
department red tape, and with Secre
tary' Baker, who to date has been at
least unfortunate •In his relationship
with the reporters.
The new censor of silence, who made
a reputation for himself in the middle
west as a fighting reporter, before he
came east to become a star magazine
writer, has a very definite idea on the
errors of the British censorship.
Creel has told the reporters that
while the army and navy is fighting for
the democracy of the world he Intends
to fight for a little on the same in
the state, war and navy buildings at
Washington.
Berlin Denies There is
Submarine in Western
Part of the Atlantic
BERLIN. April 19.—Via London—lt
is officially announced that there is no
submarine as yet in the western part
of the Atlantic.
The statement follows:
'The Reuter telegram regarding an at
tack by a German submarine on the
American Destroyer Smith can be de
scribed only as a frivllous means of at
tributing to Germany the opening of hos
tilities. In fact, no submarine is yet
in the western half of the Atlantic.”
German Sailors Removed
NEW YORK. April 19.—Seven Ger
man members of the crew of the Nor
wegian schooner Alonzo were removed
by a British warship while at sea
March 8, it was reported today by ar
rivals from South America.
NUMBER 57.
Effl ATTEMPT IT
REACTION IS BE.ITEN
WITH W LOSSES
Nearly Quarter Million Fresh
Troops Hurled Into Fray
Without Even Slowing Up
French, Reports Say
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NEW YORK. April 19.—(8y Foreign
Cables from European Capitals.)—Ger
many has thrown nearly a quarter of a
million fresh troops into the fray on the
sixty mile sector of the western front
between Soissons and Auberive and stUl
is unable to check the French advance.
Both north of the Aisne and in the
Chaniimgne General Nivelle’s forces axe
pressing forward. The last stronghold
of the Germans on the Aisne was taken
with the capture of the Vailly bridge
head yesterday and their wavering lines
continued last night to be pushed rajpid
ly northward.
From Chavonne on the Aisne the
French have driven more than three
miles north of the river despite desper
ate resistance by von Tindenburg’s re
inforced armies. ,
In the Champagne the successes of the
rFench are equally striking. They have
driven a great wedge more than three
miles deep into the German lines be
tween Rheims and Auberive and lest
night’s attacks netted General Nivelle’s
men several important heights in the
Moronvllliers region.
Two more German batteries were cap
tured in the Moronvllliers fighting. Pre
viously the taking of 76 German guns
In th® new French offensive had been re
ported so that the number of cannon
wrested from the Germans must now be
nearing the 193 mark.
The tone of the whole French official
communication today is notably confi
dent. The complete repulse of every
German attempt at a reaction is unequiv
ocally claimed and the successes in the
Champagne are mentioned as having
been achieved "on a great scale.”
While the French are thus driving for
ward the British are quiescent eo far
as the official accounts show, awaiting
their turn to strike the other flank of •
the von Hindenburg line. That notable
activities are in progress behind the
British front in preparation for the re
newal of the attack on Lens, St. Quentin
and the other threatened points in the
line, however, is certain.
The French so far have taken more
than 17,000 prisoners in their
At last accounts the British had taken'
in excess of 14,000 so that the combined
offensives for the two armies thus far
has resulted in the capture of more than
81,000 men or the greater part of two
German divisions.
New German Divisions
Fail to Check French
PARIS, April 19.—Capture of Mont
Haut and several heights, including
hill 327 in further progress of the
great Champagne offensive, waa an
nounced in today’s official statement.
The Germans threw twelve new di
visions against the French between
Soissons and Auberive last night. 'The
war office announces that they were un
able to check the successful offensive
of the French.
That section of Von Hindenburg gran
ite wall which runs from Soissons to
Rheims has been shaken to its founda
tion by the terrific blows of General
Nivelle. The French have the whip
hand now and the Germans are still stag
gering from the great rebuff dealt to
them on Monday. The French soldiers
who won the first line have been reliev
ed by fresh formations and the second
phase of the battle has begun with re
newed vigor.
Unaffected by counter attacks in some
places and the sturdy resistance offered
everywhere the French have gained sub
stantia] advantages and nave driven for
ward with such speed that the Germans
have been obliged to abandon many guns
Th enemy made a desperate effort to
stem the tide between Juvincourt and’
Berry-au-Bac. This is the weakest
point of his line, being devoid of nat
ural defenses.
Thirty thousand of the beet German
troops were hurled forward here in a
furious counter attack but the move had
been foreseen and tile French gum were
ready. Artillery and machine guns
smashed wave after wave of the green
clad soldiers until Anally the attempt
was given up after awful carnage.
Two more batteries of German artil
lery were captured on the front between
Soissons and Auberlv*.
The French continued to make prog
ress north of Vailly and Os tel, not
withstanding violent German counter
attacks. The successes of the French
In the Champagne were followed by
further advances in the region of Moron
villlers. Several Important heights
and strong positions were taken.
Germany's soldiers are reaching the
panic stage as the great drive of the
Franco-British forces sweep onward
with its ghastly toll of Teuton dead.
A week ago first evidence of a break
down In the morale of the German de
fenders was observed and reported by
British commanders In the drive around
Lens.
Today, with General Nivelle’s Frencn
troops In some places more than five
miles behind the German lines in the
Soissons-Rheims sector, official state
ments told of German retreats in great
disorder, of abandonment of big quan
tities of supplies, of something akin
to terror among the Germans hereto
fore held stolid by the iron discipline
of the militarist system. # «
The tremendous number of prisoners
captured by the French drive also at
tests demoralization of the enemy, due
to their fearful losses not alone in the
fury of the French artillery fire and
the dash of the troops themselves, but
in the slaughter the German com
manders forced on their own men by
forlorn hope counter attacks. By night
it is expected the total of German
prisoners will reach 20.090. Nearly a
hundred guns have already been taken.
The French were still driving north
of the Aisne towards today In
the meanwhile consolidating their gains
of yesterday—the most important since
the great drive started. For the first
.time since the battle of the Marne the
German invaders have been driven north
of the Aisne river Not a German
dier remains in French territory to
the south. . ,
