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8 MONROE DOCTfIINE FDR FIR EAST IS JM'S . WARNINETD NATIONS Head of Japanese Mission De clares That Territorial Ag gressions Against China Will Not Be Tolerated yw YORK. Sept. 19.—Proclaiming a Monroe doctrine of the Far East. Via count Ishii, head of the Japanese mis sion to the United States, warned the nations of the world tonight that hie t country will not tolerate a«r«asions against ths territory or independence of China. At the same time he pledged Japan not to attempt similar aggressions - on her part. Speaking at a formal dinner in honor of the imperial envoy's visit to New York, the ambassador of Emperor Yoshl hlto outlined publicly for the first time since he set foot on American soil the policy of his government as it relates to China. “Circumstances for which we were tn no sense responsible gave us certain rights on Chinese territory.* Viscount Ishii said, “but at no time in the past and at no time in the future do we. or will we. seek to take territory from China or to despoil China of her rights.” , Then, with dramatic earnestness, he expounded the "hands off’ policy of his , government. "We wish to be. and always to con- I tlnue to be.” he declared, "the sincere friend and helper of our neighbor, for we are more interested than any one else, except China, in good government there. Only we must at all times, for self-protection, prevent other nations from doing what we ha-/e no right to do. | We not only will not seek to assail the integrity or the sovereignty of China, but will eventually te prepare-* to de-. fend and maintain the integrity and In dependence of China against any aggres sor. For we know that our own land marks would be threatened by any out side invasion or Interference in China " While he boldly warned the world against any attempt to Invade the rights of the republic of the Far East. Viscount Idhii promised with equal earnestness that the door to legitimate trade in China never would be closed by Japan. , This declaration was cheered by the 1.000 public men. bankers, merchants and captains of industry who heard him. > 'The door is always open; It always ; has been open; It always’ must remain open." he said, "to representatives of these vast commercial interests repre sented so well in this great gathering of kings of commerce.* • . . We are trading there where we have a natural advantage and where, unless we are very stupid or very inactive, we are bound to succed. “Gentlemen, I asure you that a clossd door in China has never been and never I will be the policy of my government. The door is open; the field Is there.” Viscount Ishii attributed to German machinations "sinister rumors of op pression or the false suggestions of a policy directed against China,” whenever Japan or 'America appeared to make progress In that country. The envoy declared emphatically that the “gentlemen's ' agreement” entered into between Elihu Root, when secretary of state, and Ambassado Takahlra should be sufficient guarantee of continued friendly relations between the two na tions. “Gentlemen. Japan is satisfied with this.” he exclaimed, “are you?" Referring to the alliance between America and Japan in the war. he said in closing: “We must win. so that when peace shall come the hosts of immortal dead may rest In honor add the hosts of liv ing throughout all centuries to come ffiay place the unbreakable seal of per manent approval upon the great alliance of today which forever set a whole world free.” • Jap Mission Witnesses Review at West Point WEST POINT. N. T.. Sept. 29.—Ja pan's mission to the United States saw West Point’s cadets in review today. Accompanied by Ambassador Sato and American army and navy officials. Vis count Ishii and his associates arrived at the United States Military academy from New York City to find the future army officers drawn up In regimental formation In the visitors’ honor. * The three battalions marched past the reviewing party and then formed for inspection. The Japanese were en- ■ thusiasttc in their praises. After a re- *. cepfion at the quarters of Colonel Sgm- i übl E Tillman, superintendent of the | academy, the mission returned to New York. The visitors came to West Point I up the Hudson on a private yacht. U. S. Marines Guard Villages of France; Taken from Command AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN . FRANCE. Sept. 28—(By the Associated a" Press.)—The American marines who fl have been with Major General Sibert's ■ command have now all been withdrawn M f *om it and split up into provost guards ■in dozens of villages and cities of I France, some of them also going to ■ England They still hope, however, for ■ service In the trenches, for they were ■ among the most forward troops tn I grasping every detaß of modern war- | I fare. WASHINGTON. Sept. 28,—N0 report . on the separation of the marine regiment | from Major General Sibert's command had been received by the war or navy departments today and officials regard- | «d It with some surprise. It was not Interpreted, however, as meaning that the marines are not to see active service at the front, but rather that thq need for their services In provost guard work is at this time more pressing Can Anybody Beat This Lowndes Potato? • - ‘bijfcial Dispatch to The Journal.* VALDOSTA. Sept. 29.—A sweet potato weighing a fraction O'er eleven pounds Was on exhibition In the city today. It / was grown by J. S. Starkey, a colored 7 farmer i nthe Clayattvllle district of this county. The potato Is of the Porto Rico yam. variety, is perfectly sound and apparently of good eating qualities. It holds the record in weight for Jaiwndes rqunty potatoes Lower Flour Predicted MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Sept. 28 Ixtwer flour prices are predicted by milling men here today provided the government can supply sufficient grain to keep mills running to capacity and prodded ‘wheat continues to be of the same quality as that now being ground Camp Jackson Transforms Columbia, Historic Capital, From Quaint and Quiet Dixie Town to Busy War City HL w- ' jMr ‘ W <■& J ■■ WBBHs I 2bF- ■< mb Cm;■ ■ U1 # /Ji v '* IF'* 1* I ’ jmHKIL ■^B ■*; jgg - s k Jv y w- ■'.> ‘ - ■ nsß • ' • ■ nHSMBb- ■ ■ * > ~- <. W- ' ■2' 4 * -r ■; r,' ~ ■ - ZaZZZwffiUuCC 11 BRIGADIER GENERAL G* W. M'IVOR. commander of the One Hundred and Sixty-first brigade at Camp Jackson, on the left, with Colonel Edwin Bell, commander of trains and provost marshal of the military police —Staff Photo by Winn & Mathewson. BY WABD GBEEME. CAMP JACKSON, Columbia, S. C., Sept. 27.—N0 more fitting place could have been chosen for making fighting men out of the lads sent to the colors from North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida than this open-hearted southern city, capitol of the hot-blooded state that was first to secede from the union fifty years or more ago. and now is second to none in spring ing to her defense. Both by reason of its ideal loca tion in the sandhills of the slop :ng Atlantic seaboaru, and its prox imity to the heroic environment of Columbia itself. Camp Jackson ranks high among the national army cantonments that Uncle Sam has planted from the Atlantic to the Pacific in less time than it takes congress to appropriate money for the purpose. Columbia is situated well near the middle of the state of Soutn Carolina, within easy distance o" Charleston to the southeast, Au gusta to tjie south, Greenville. Spartanburg and Charlotte to the west and north. One readies here in a round-about way from Atlan ta, the trip requiring nearly a whole day,, but that is because of the lack of straight railroad con nections. By automobile, it is only a few hours’ run from a half dozen cities. Three months ago Columbia was one of those rambling, pleasant, old-fashioned Dixie towns that are the delight of northern tourists and the pride of every citizen who has lived there longer than a year. Its streets are broad and shaded; fre quent monuments look down on the passerby; the houses are white pillared. red-bricked, frescoed with green vines; a cemetery neat* the center of the city, rich with epitaphs, echoing to the laugh ter of children who play among the rusted tombstones. It is like Sa’-annah, where old men ride bi cycles up and down the flat streets; or even New Orleans, with its Creole architecture and leisurely ways. Then there came a rumor. Can tonments were to be built* in the south.’ The Carolinas were to get one. Columbia was being consid ered. So Columbia got up on Its hind legs and went after that can tonment. And Columbia got it. Today the change is marked. A man who used to live here but left five months ago. only to return last week, told me he never saw so much activity in Columbia, barring a political campaign, which is ac tivity raised to the nth power in South Carolina. The streets are so full of soldiers cn Saturday nights that. broad though the sidewalks are, passage 4s difficult; lodging houses are full and rents have gone sky-high; r«>ms at the hotels must be engag ed days in advance; the restaur ants have scratched out "luncheon — thirty-five cents” and substituted "table d'hote —one dollar and a nuarter";* the stores wear a gay and thrifty holiday air; autorno b.les are parked thick along the curbing and rush madly around cor ners; people smile jovially or else year that harassed expression which indicates bursting pocket books; Main street, from the grand old state house to the Jefferson hotel, is Its own little Broadway; the man who owns the drug store on the off corner and was consid ering taking out bankruptcy, has bought him a Ford and wears a cream vest with green stripes across the buttons. CHARM OF AGE AND LEGEND STELE BE MAIN Yet with all Its prosperity. Co lumbia has not lost the gray charm of age and legend. An old red brick mansion across from the Record office flaunts a Red Cross banner, hut its portico still blooms with star jeaamlne. Columbia has Its THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2.J917. modern hotel, but it has. too. its state house, where anyone can show you the corner snagged off by a bomb shell when Sherman burned the town. And while soldiers swarm its streets, pretty girls and gentle old ladies still sit on their veran dahs, and children play "kick-th%- can” through the twilight of the cemetery. The reason for all these boom times. of course, is the canton ment, where thousands of workmen have been collecting $5 and $lO a day for spending-money, and where the 8,000 selectmen now in camp will be Increased In a month to 45,000, and—some whisper— within another month to SO,OOO or 70.000. The cantonment is located only five miles from Columbia, just be yond the eastern edge of the city, on a sandy, well-drained plateau that is part of the Piedmont plain. It is one of the most easily acces sible cantonments in the country, not alone because it is just five miles from town, but because the transportation companies took enough forethought and. pains to make it so. First of all, the Atlantic Coast line built a spur track out to the camp, for its own use and for the use of the Southern railroad and the Seaboard Air Line railroad long before the cantonment opened; it is used by all Giree rhads. which maintain a joint agent’s office, and it takes care of the traffic, exceed ingly well. One of the most impressive fea tures about this track is the fact that, it does not stop at the en trance to the camp, but spreads out like a fan into many tracks, so that every part of the vast canton ment —5.000 acres in all—can be reached. For instance, when the selectmen arrive at Camp Jackson, they are rolled into the cantonment and right up to the door of the muster ing office. It is only five steps from the train into the army. DOUBLE TRACKS TO CAMP COST OVER 8300,000 * Street car service to Camp Jack son Is even better. The Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric company built a double track to the camp, which was finished a month or more ago. The cost was something over $300,000, but on its own initia tive the company went ahead and spent the money, laid double track age for five miles, and did the whole job in forty days. "It would have taken less time FREE TO ASTHMA SUFFERERS A New Home Cure That Anyone Can Us t Without Disoomfort or Loss of Time. We have a New Method that cures Asthma, and we want you to try it at our expense No matter whether your case is of long standing or recent development, w’hether is present as occasional or chronic Asthma, you should send for r. free trial of onr method. 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That/ made it hard to get labor.” It is stated, that the company is planning to extend the line even further, so that it will loop the camp from the southern end to the northern end. A fare of ten cents each way between the city and the camp is charged. A few months ago, on the site, now occupied by Camp Jackson, were only cotton patches struggling in the sand, a few tumble-down ne gro houses, a campmeeting grounds, snake holes and a bog. The negro houses are still there, although the occupants, all of them tenants, were forced to move. But the rest of the territory is changed almost beyond recognition. Anybody who has seen Camp Gordon, in Atlanta, knows about what Camp Jackson looks like, since the barracks are all built on the same plan. The general plan of construction, however, is somewhat different. The entire camp has been laid out like a gigantic horseshoe, the en trance at the opening in the shoe, the barracks built around the edge. 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Chastain, who has been actively engaged during the past few weeks in arousing interest among the farmer? of north Georgia in *the breeding of high-grade stock. During the past week a carload of registered Shorthorns was sent to Had dock.’ Ga.. consigned to G. T. Stallings, who is making stock ra’.sng a feature of his big plantation. These animals were picked from the finest stock :n lowa. Wisconsin and other western states. Thia wee ka full carload of fine cat tle will be distributed among ten farm ers of Habersham county, I’. M. Reeves, cashier of the Habersham bank, having : been instrumental in arranging for the importation of the stock As a climax of the record-breaking imports of blooded cattle Into Georgia, I forty-five head of blooded Shorthorn•> will arrive in Atlanta in about ten days to be offered at nubile'auction,on Octo ber IS, during Ahe Southeastern fair. This sale is attracting much attention and the animals disposed of will be dis ‘ tributed throughout the territory to be used for breeding purposes. Aggregating 150 head, the importa f tions of fine cattle during the next two : weeks will establish a record in Georgia i for receipts of blooded stock withn a similar period. . 1 facing the open space in the cen ter. which is used as drill grounds. Starting at the left at the en trance, the company streets are numbered from A to Z. A man Is fortunate if he lives in street A. for he has only a short distance to walk after he gets off the car. If his address is street P, he will have a tramp of about two miles before him —that Is about the length of the horseshoe. MUCH TO BE DONE BEFORE CAMP IS FINISHED Like Camp Gordon, Camp Jack son is not yet completed. The sound of hammering goes on ceaselessly throughout the day. Tn fact. It is far from the stage of completeenss that Camp Gordon is. None of the Y. M. C. A. buildings, for instance, has been finished; the present Y. M. C. A.’s are in barracks. When completed, however. Camp Jackson will be one of the biggest cantonments of them a11—1,500 buildings and 72 more buildings for the hospital, with a remount station for some thousands of horses but a short distance away. I first saw Camp Jackson on a windy autumn morning, after a hard rain. The dust, which they say hangs thickly over the camp most of the time, was missing. The sandy soil was soaking up the wa ter in puddles here and there; the raw pine buildings seemed to stretc hfor miles into the distance; squads of soldiers and near-soldiers drilled back hnd forth across the parade ground: a spanking breeze I kicked out of the west, and over It all spread a cloudy, windy sky like a gray curtain. This is Camp Jackson, home of the lads from the Carolinas and the Land of Flowers. Fiery Eczema and Skin Eruptions Readily Yield to This Old Remedy Successfully used for fifty years. 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The officers and the selectmen have solved the problem of going to town through the mud—they don't go. September’s training is over, but dur ing the month of October the different organizations will continue to devote theeir attention to infantry drill. The artillerymen, however, expect to take up standing gun drill very shortly with the field pieces that are now on the res ervation. \ Figaires on a Mttle pad in the statis tical department showed late Saturday that there were exactly 1,334 officers and 13,994 men now in camp, making a to tal of 15,328. Assignments of officers and men to the different organizations have been made as follows: Division headquarters, 23 officers and 10. men; headquarters train, three of ficers and 104 men; Three Hundred and Nineteenth machine gun battalion. 28 officers and 541 men; headquarters. One Hundred Sixty-third Infantry brigade. 3 officers and 19 men; Three Hundred and Twentieth machine gun battalion. 21 officers and 460 men; Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry, 98 officers and 1,521 men; Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth infantry, 103 officers and 1.765 men; headquarters One Hundred and Sivty-fourth infantry brigade. 3 of ficers and 20 men: Three Hundred and Twenty-first machine gun battalion. 21 officers and 241 men: Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh infantry, 101 officers and 1,755 men; Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry, 101 officers and 1.351 men: headquarters. One Hundred and Fifthy-seventh field artillery bri gade, eight officers and 47 men; Three Hundred and Nineteenth field artillery regiment. 64 officers and 1,241 men; Three Hundred and Twentieth field ar tillery regiment, 58 officers and 961 men; Three Hundred and Twenty-first field artillery regiment, fifty-nine of ficers and 888 men; Three Hundred and Seventh trench mortar battery, three of ficers and 62 men: Three Hundred En gineer regiment, 69 officers and 1.075 men; Three Hundred and Seventh en gineer train, 2 officers; headquarters train, military police, 22 officers and 57 men; ammunition train, 13 officers; Three Hundred and Seventh field sig nal battalion, 1 officer and 107 men. Tn addition to these organizations there are at Camp Gordon the One Hun dred and Fifty-seventh depot brigade, which now has 178 officers and 225 men; the sanitary train, the ambulance companies. No. 1, No. 20 and No. 29; the first provisional regiment which will be composed of colored troops: the quartermaster corps detachment of 186 officers, the camp quartermaster de partment. the constructing quartermas ter, the cantonment hospital pnd the Georgia cavalry, the school of bakers and bakery company, the motor truck company, ordnance suppb' depot, re- wonderful remedy is without an equal as a blood purifier, being probably the oldest blood medicine on the market. It has been sold by druggists for fifty years. You are Invited to write today for complete and full advice as to the treat ment of your own case. Address, Chief Medical Adviser. Swift Specific Co., Dept. R-40, Atlanta, Ga. — (Advt.) mount station and Eleventh cavalry. Major Royden E. Beebe will arrive at the cantonment Monday, coming straight from the Philippines. He will assume his duties immediately as assistant to Lieutenant Colonel Preston Brown, the chief of staff. All men whose records have been re turned from the mustering officer with, the date of enlistment entered thereon will be mustered for pay Sunday. An effort will be made to pay all selectmen before the end of the week. Otto K. Brennan, the Tennesseean, who was caught in Alabama and brought back to the cantonment after deserting, will be brought before a court-martial at division headquarters Monday after noon at 1 o’clock. General Swift stated Saturday that the hike which was scheduled to be held Monday, will be postponed on account of the condition of the roads around the cantonment. Additional information was published at the reservation Saturday in regard to service abroad. One of the features of the bulletin*lssued says that mas cots will not be taken to foreign soil. The receiving detail of Lieutenant Colonel Price, mustering officer, which was cut last week, will be increased again this week to handle the crowds of selectmen. There will be approximately 3.700 negroes, all from Georgia, on hand, before the end of the week. The four original colored soldiers at the canton ment have been wearing their uniforms some time. It is expected that all men 'will be in the camp by October 15. A HAPPY CHILD IN JUST A FEW HOURS If cross, feverish, constipated, , give “California Syrup of Figs” - Mothers can rest easy after giving * “California Syrup of Figs,” because in a few hours all the clogged-up waste, sour bile and fermenting food gently moves out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, and they become tightly packed, liver gets sluggish and stomach disordered. When cross, feverish, restless, see 1£ tongue Is coated, then give this delicious “fruit laxative.” Children love It, and it can not cause injury. 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