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VOLUME XX.
GERMAN CASUALTIES
MM9IHLL:
2.000.U1]0 ARE DEAD
••Appalling’’ Death Rate
Among Officers—New Hin
denburg Line Behind Neu
tral Zone Is Threatened
When the total German casualties
»ia published, the number of dead
will be about two million, according
io the Cologne Gazette of November
3X, a copy of which has been re
ceived in New York. Up to October
25. the total casualties reported weic
'• 0M,7t9. of whom mborc than 4.750.-
*•9O were Prussians. The total in
clude® the naval casualties, which
were 70. v0 rt . comprised of more than
25.000 dead, more than 13.000 miss
mg and nearly 20.000 wounded.
Casualty list No. 1.281 published
on October 34th, according to the
Cologne Gazette, placed the number
of de.nl ax 1,611.101. the number of
wounded at 5.683.143. and the miss
ing at 77X522- The paper says that
of the number reported missing
189.000 na' be considered dead.
* The Cologne paper uses tho word
“appalling” in dcscribit.g tne cas
ualties ’among the officers. The to
tal on October 24th included 44.<00
officers killed. 82.460 officers wound
ed and 13.609 mtssrng. a total of
140.760. The loss in officers aior.e.
the paper points out, exceeds the
total casualties of Germany in the
Franco-Prussian war of 1579. when ’
•the total losses were 120.*33.
The total on October 24t.i. which
did not include casualty lists from
the fighting on the western treat
after that date, nor the German
losses in Palestine, was apportioned
by the pap’r as follows among tuc
various army contingents: Ii
Prussia: 1.262.060 dead: —BB—.-i
671 wounded; 616.139 missing; total. I
4.760,87*,
Bataria: 150.658 dead: Z 1
wounded; 72.113 missing: lol;-.!, .
586.396. . i
Saxonv: 10S.<*17 dead: -a-.v2i .
wounded: 51,787 misaing: total,
♦ll.B*l- . ... J - ...
Wurttemburg: 64,a0< dead; 100.-
634 wounded: 16.802 missing; total,
236.963 .
Navy: 85,862 dead; 28.948 wound
ed: 15.679 missing: total. 70.509.
••PEOPLE’S LEAGUE” IS
FORMED IX BERLIN
"A people's league” has been or-
in Berlin, says a Central
News dispatch from Copenhagen
The league’s committee included
Prince Maximilian, nf Baden, former
German imperial chancellor; Hugo
Haase, independent Socialist; Count
ion Bernstorff, former ambassador
:<* the United States, and Mathias
Erzbergtr. the centrist leader.
■ ■
Demand Commission
To Enforce Dry Law
Establishment of a nations
commission to enforce the nation
wide prohibition law when it be
comes effective next July 1. was
recommended in resolution adopt
ed in Washington by the National
Temperance Council. Amendment
of the law to make possession of
liquor illegal also was urged.
1.400,000 Soldiers of
France Die in War, |
Deputy Voihn Says
PARIS, Dec. 21.—French soldiers
to the number of 1.400.000 were kill- .
ed during; the .var. according to v j
statement by the Socialist deputy,;
Lucien Voilin. in the chamber of dep
uties this afternoon during the in- !
terpcllation of the government on de
mobilisation.
Socialistic Industry
In Russia a Failure
<>r LAST MINUTE CABLE,
BERNE. Dec. 23.—Reliable infor
mation from Russia brings confirma
tion of reports that the Socialisation
of iudustrv there is a complete fail
ure. Official statistics show that in
almost all the 513 mills and factories
controlled by the state, expenses
have considerably exceeded receipts ,
inuring .he first four months of 1918
the government paid out more than
490.000.000 rubles to cover these defi
cits and has been obliged up to the
present to advance 1,000.000.090 ru
. bles to the factories under its con
trol.
• Technical experts assert that Rus
sian industry has been crippled for
many years to come by the Bolshe
vist regime.
“Pack to God’
Sing W ounde*
As They .
n LINTON X.'sT ARB
“Bach to God’s country! Boy.
howdy! Lemme get my foot on gool
old di’.t again:”
He -tood with his ■.•rutches resting
on the lower step ot the car, ready to
be the first man off the train that
brought eighty-three wounded men
to the base hospital at Fort Me
Pherson Monday morning.
He didn't say ’’feet” because P»i
\ate William M. Wood, seventy
two inches high and all of biin
1 s, is minus his left leg as th .
result of charging a machine gun
in the Chanwagm sector. Just fiw
days before the armistice was
signed!
"You're mighty tootin. Slim,
tame a voice from the car. inspe---
t- revealed as its owner one Jolin
Pore, corporal, two legs gone, but a
"million dollar sm'.le” beaming all
over his face.
“You’re mighty tootin’. Buddy l
Üb’-’s’mas. too!”
They were the two most seriously
wounded of the eighty-three who
wece brought to Fort McPherson :n
charge of Lieutenant J. E. Slicer, Hos
pital train 'officer and a brother of
Attorney Sam Slicer, of Atlanta.
Mine Georgians in Party
Nine Georgians, three of them ne
-roes, were, m the bunch—Private
James C. Hopper, of Calhoun On«
Hundred and Fiftieth machine gun
battalion: Private Sam Robertson, if
Chatswcrth. One Hundred and For
ty-eighth infantry: Private Andrew
Greer, of Griffin, One Hundred and
Fiftieth machine gun battalion-
George Nicholson. Forty-second en
gineers: Claude H. Green. One Hun
dred and Forty-fifth Infantry: Jesse
Glazier. Ninth machine gun battai
lion. The i;egrovs were Jerome Gra
ham. Fire Hundred and Eighteenth
-ngineers; Walton H. Walker. Three
Hundred and Seventieth infantry,
and Albert Moseley. Three HundreJ
1 and Tenth stevedore.
Qrie wounded officer was in the
1 ;>arty. Captain George A. Blair,
1 Tennessee Thera Mere
fl: iter eases -FtWB
Gifted Writer Joins
S.-W. Journal Staff
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MINS CAROLINA JEWETT
DIVERSIFIED COOPS
HENCEFORTH SUM
OFSOUTHERNFARMEH
Never Before Has There Been
Such a Buzz of Commer
cial, Industrial and Agri
cultural Activity
Will the south, having been "in I
the saddle” several years, be satis
fied to revert to its pre-war status I
in industry and agriculture?
Judging from these reports gath
ered from ail sections of the south,
Dixie will not revert to its old pre-
I war status. Never before in the
; history ox Dixie has there been sucn
I a buzz of commercial, industrial and
I agricultural activity as now.
New industries are springing into
I existence daily; old ones are enlarg
ing tneir lacilities; merchants are
increasing their stocks; banks have
more money than ever before, and the
southern tanner, having learned his
lesson in diversified crop-raising to
nelp win tne war, will nevei again
revert to the one product crop—cut
ton —prominent planters deciare.
“Diversified crops” hencetorth will
be the slogan of the southern farm
er. Modern agricultural implements,
considered only a few years ago as
experiments, arc b< ing used to re
lieve the labor shortage.
With many tens ot thousands of I
acres of land heretofore fine, the I
south has started a concerted drive I
' to have the federal government par-.
I cel this land for soldier and sailoi ;
I settlements, thus absorbing to sem? ;
} extent the labor surplus when the;
i»oys returning from overseas tuc
' mustered out.
For the avowed purpose ol rapidly ,
; assisting agricultural development in
■ West Tennessee, eastern Arkansas
and north Mississippi, tw o new slock:
land banks, with a combined loaning j
cs.pacity of 87.500.00 v. have recently
opened in Memphis. These •■banks
have been chartered by the "federal
farm loan board at Washington, lin'd j
will operate under the federal farm I
loan law.
Birmingham and Jeffersoti county.'
Alabama, are planning to spend be-|
tween >5.009.000 and $6,000,000 in i
permanent improvements, . now that I
peace permits the release of material
from government work.
Real estate dealers in Atlanta. Bir
mingham. Memphis. New Orleans,
I Jacksonville. Nashville and other
1 large southern cities assert that they
are receiving daily scores df calls for
residence, industrial buildings find
vacant lots. \
Industrial plants in the . south 1
which had war contracts cancelled as|
a result of cessation of hostilities
are switching to civil contracts with
little trouble. Industrial men gen-1
erally assert that they arc glad to (
get back on civil contracts as there |
is more money in them.
s Country,”
d Southerners
Arrive at Fort
two hours late. Within thirty min
utes, under the direction of Cap
tain M. Me. Dougherty, adjutant, the
men had been assigned to wards and
were eating breakfast.
Most ot the men came from over
seas on the Comfort, the ship that
had a stormy voyage of eighteen
days; was battered about on high
seas; ran out of coal and had to put
in at the Azores where the wounded
spent Thanksgiving. One of them
displayed a Christmas card—-“ Good
luck front the sub-chaser men at the
Azores.”
Cream of World News
For Our Busy Readers
Christian Scientists at Evanston.
Ilk. sued to have "flu” ban removed
from their church.
Paid employed of the food admin
istration will be ousted January 1,
it is announced from Washington.
More than 8,000 returned soldiers
will be given immediate employment
Ijy the Pennsylvania road.
•’Crazy” cabarets and restaurant
dancing are causing the bone-dry sen
timent to spread. New York hotel
man declares.
Two editors of a Philadelphia Ger
man language newspaper were sen
tenced to five years each for sedi
tious utterances.
Germany’s 70-mile gun that shelled
i Paris during 191« killed 196 persons
and severely injured 417.
Miss Helen Cudahy. Milwaukee
I heiress who Jumped overboard from
| a liner in mid-Atlantic, bequeathed
■ >75,000 to charily. *
| Authorities in Chicago closed a
L hospital for negroes because abut-
B ting householders objected to the in-;
LEAGUE OF WONS.
SHS OEFMFF!
Germans Have Confidence ini
Wilson’s Ability to Put Iti
Over, Declares Former;
Ambassador Here.
;BY LAS'J MINUTE CABLE
BERLIN, Dec.. 21. (11:45 A. M.) '
—The German people led that their;
political salvation is contingent
upon the successful inaugural son o.
a league of nations, according to
the opinion of Count Johann von
Bernstorff. former German ambassa
dr to the United States. Bcmstorir,
who knows the American president
personally better than any othei
German in public life, is optimistic
over the outlook for a peace settle-,
meat along the lines advocated bj ;
President Wilson. .
Bernstorff, who, since his le uali ,
from Turkey, has been acting techni- i
callv as foreign secretary under the
Socialist government, gave today the
first public utterance which he has
directed at Americans since our dec
laration of war against Germany.
"The people of Germany are over
whelmingly aware that their salva
tion. as well as the salvation of the
entire world, lies in a strong Icagu-’
of nations founded on a peace Os
justice and right.” declared Bern
■ily.Tr.jicv arc confident that, under the
leadership of President Wilson, such
a league can be inaugurated at tne
coming peace conference, blessing
the entire world.”
Won’t Talk on Other I«ines
An attempt at this point to draw
the ex-ambassador out on other lines
failed. He refused absolutely to
discuss at this time the charges
made in the United States that Cau
tain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papeti.
former attaches of the kaiser s em
bassy in Washington were involved
in plots against the United States
. government. He did. however, deny
emphatically that he was included in
any such conspiracies. Without con
senting to be quoted on this point.
Bernstorff reiterated his statement
made on leaving the United States iff
1917. namely, that he had done every
thing in his power to prevent a
break with the United States. He
asesrted that he had never for a
moment doubted the gravity of this
error on the part of the kaiser’s
government. . .
(Copyright. 1918. by the United
Press. I
Georgia Man is U. S.
Solicitor General
Named to
ceed John W. >a * ' wy
vis as United
States solicitor |
general. Mr. King
is likely to be 1
confirmed by the jB
He an
Atlanta. Ga.. law- . jg
yer of legal and > IS
political proini-
ncnce. is
now United States
<SHtkE
ambassador to
Britain.
Rain and Possibly
Snow for the South
WASHIVGTON, Dec. 28. —The possibility
of snow iu parts of the south for Christ- j
I mxs rue v.ai indicated today by the weath- ,
vr bureau, which said Tcnnesaee, Virginia I
' iind the northern part of Mississippi would !
have suuw or raiu Tuesday. For other parts
of the south rain Tuesday was forecast.
I There was n weather disturbance ovet
cast Texaa this morning, moving east
uort beast ward. This was causing general
snows in the Texas panhandle and rorth-
I ward and westward, while in east Texa,
jit was causing rains. The movement of
I ibis disturbanee toward the northeast would
' be attended by general rains Tuesday over
j tlie sonthern. and snows over the northern
| districts east of the Mississippi river, ex
cept in New England and the middle At
| laniic states.
Colder weather was indicated in the
ronlh Atlantic states tonight and it will bo
colder Tuesday in Tennessee, the east gulf
states and west Georgia.
Food Restrictions on
Hotels Are Removed
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.—Wheat
less days and meatless days together
1 with other food restrictions placed
! upon public eating places by the food
i administration were declared off to- ;
I day.
HOT ELECTBOCUTED
■While arranging electric wires on j
a Christmas tree at his home in ,
Eatonton, Ga.. Lyman Hearn, aged
twelve, was electrocuted.
j
\Miss Carolina Jewett Engaged for Editorial Staff \
Os Semi-Weekly Journal, With Tips to Girls at Home
Following its policy of constant extension of service for the ben- turned up. Your mother was right, because she would have been
efit of its readers. The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal takes pardon- indignant if the boy next door had asked you to do something, then
' able pride in announcing that its staff of contributing editors has decided to take out some very attractive new girl, who, perhaps, had
I l>een augmented by the engagement of Miss Carolina Jewett, who will just come to town' to visit. It works both ways. When anyone
hereafter conduct a department, in each issue of this newspaper, to be makes an engagement, they are bound to keep it unless some un- ■
called, “Tips to the Lonely Girls at Home.” I foreseen circumstance makes a change of plans necessary.
Miss Jewett especially invites letters from girls and young I * * •
women who read The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal concerning I am married, but do not live with my husband. A year and
problems that may present themselves, and questions concerning a half ago I met a young man who said he loved me. I never !
any such problem may he safely asked of Miss Jewett, in strictest j have been out with him. He has my picture, and is now in
confidence, and they will be answered directly by mail. ! France. When he was here at camp, he always wrote to me, but, ■
All readers are invited to write to her. Just address your after he went to France, I never heard from him. This young
letter to: i man will be coming back here in a short time, and I would like'
MISS CAROLINA JEWETT, to tell him that I am still married. I like him, but do not love
The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. him; so please tell me how I can ever explain it to him. I live
Be sure to Inclose a three-cent stamp for reply to your letter. ; with my parents. M. J. (
There is no other charge or obligation. I Your letter brings three questions to my mind, namely: How ,
BY CAROLINA JEWETT I you could give your picture to a man you admit you do not love? :
Here is Miss Jewett’s first article written for The Atlanta Semi- j Why did you ever let him deciare his love for you? And how
Weekly Journal. I invite you all to write me. , could you allow yourself to deceive him about your marriage? It
Here are some letters I have received very recently: ' seems to me that you have done him wrong in all three ways. It
1 have a sweetheart, or at least he calls himself one, in Eng- is a great injustice to him, and I think that the very least you
land, who is 23 years of age. Recently I received a postal inclosed can do is to confess all to him at the earliest possible moment.
! in an envelope from him, stating that he was too lazy to write a * * *
letter. Now, do you think he really loves me, since he will do a I have a friend whom I dearly love, and J think be likes me,
thing of that sort, or is it because he does not know any better? I for every time he sees me, he always speaks to me, and he treats
have always known him to love me. GIRL OF NINETEEN. ■me right: but he never has said for me to go with him. Shall I
It may possibly be that your sweetheart does not know any bet- : ask him to come down to my housq or ask him to make a date,
ter, but it seems very strange that he should be too»lazy to send or wait until he asks me? 1 think he is too bashful <o ask me.
you more than a postcard. I think you will be justified in being ex- • ANXIOUS.
I tremely annoyed. If he holds your love so lightly, it does not seem It would be perfectly correct to ask him to your house, with
to me that he can be entirely sincere. If I were you, I would be the consent of your parents or guardian, of course. You will then .
I inclined to be rather severe in writing him about the matter. have an opportunity of forming a natural friendship: of learning !
• ♦ • his tastes and of making him acquainted with yours. Even if he
I am only fourteen, and just beginning to go out with boys. I is bashful, he will find some way to overcome it if he really likes
had accepted an invitation to go to a picnic one day with a boy who you. I should never admit that I loved a man dearly unless I
lives next-door and whom I had known for ages. Then, suddenly, a knew him better than you seem to know this man.
young second lieutenant came up in his machine and asked me to [ Write YOUR question on one side of the paper, give full
go riding with him for the afternoon. I went, and my mother i name and address, inclose three-cent stamp for reply, and mail to ;
scolded me dreadfully. I suppose it was wrong, but I don’t see why. MIS CAROLINA JEWETT,
KATE H. The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
It was not the thing to one Invitation and ignore All letter* confidential. Only the most typical ones will be j
l.’ -Iz>rivn»l . .... . . . L
ATLANTA, GA.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918.
Madcap Pet of Fortune
Now Happy as Jani tress
|| !|ML
Work and Service is Secret:
of Joy Says May Yohej
Who’s Hunted it World j
Over,
r .
* Searching for happiness, con
ventionally and nnconventionsl
ly, along tho gilt edges of tho
world, madcap May Tobe, once
darling of royalty, has found! it
at last as the wife of a work
ingnnnx, amid humble snrronnd
ings, herself a Janitrtts iu Se
attle, Wash.
It is as Mrs. John Andy* Smuts
that the tempestuous opera Jsjar of
yesterday has added a brigliv chap
ter to the life? that led the American
girl to an English peerage at 18, into
troublesome days of escapade,
through heartbreaking years and
decline of fame, into marriage again
and adventures in far lands.
All in the restless search for love.
At the end of her kaleidoscopic
career she 13 now in Seattle, know
ing poverty and the meaning of toil,
and che says she’s found what she’s
hunted for a lifetime in the man
who loves her and fa good 8» her.
1 Twenty ago, May Vnbe had
the theatrical world at her feet, rfhe
became Lady Frances Hope, mis
tress of the great blue Hope dia
mond, jewel of ill omen. As such
she was the petted favorite of aris
tocracy and of King Edward VII.
Then she listened to the blandish
ments of Captain Putnam Bradley
Strong, son of the then mayor of
I New York, and. peeking hanpincss
unconventionally, went away with
i him. The adventure brought only
I sorrow and disappointment.
Later she became the bride of.
Great Britain to
Provision Her Armv
Via River Scheldt
(BY LAST MINUTE CABLE)
BRUSSELS, Dec. 23.—1 t is report- I
I ed here that Holland has been in- ;
formed by Great Britain of her in
tention to send supplies to the Brit
ish army ot occupation in Germany
byway of the river Scheldt and
Dutch Limberg.
DYE HEAD SKIPS
BERLIN. Sunday. D 22.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —Dr. Cd'l
Duisburg, of Leverkusen, head of the
German aniline dye industry, is re
ported to have fled to Switzerland.
Dr. Duisburg was generally looked
upon as the connecting link between ,
"business” and General Ludendorff
and was one of the most active of the
1 pan-Germans.
TWO COPS SUSPENDED
I W. D. MeMichen and J. C. Mose
i ley. two Atlanta policemen, have
been suspended on charges of failure
Ito properly patrol their respective
beats.
ALAMO TCUTH WOUNDED
Casualty lists just published con
tain the name of Roy L. Robinson,
of Alamo. Ga.. as being ’severely
w ounded” in France.
START SCHWAB BOOM
I Friends of Charles M. Schwab, the
, steel man. have «tarted a boom for
J ‘Schwab for president in 1920” in
Chicago.
• TTNFN.
The Large portrait shows May
Yohe in the hey-day of her foot-
Jight popularity; the smaller one
May Yohe as she looks today. Be
low is Captain John Andy Smuts,
her husband, taken in the Seattle
shipyards where he works.
Captain John Smuts, epusin of Gen
eral Jan Smuts, of Boer war fame,
and himself an officer in that war.
She quit the stage and accompanied
him to South Africa, to Singapore, to
India. China and Japan.
Coming to America last year in the
hope that he would get a commission
in the British army. Captain Smuts
went to work in a Seattle shipyard
when bls application was turned
down and ready funds were not
available. w
swayed the footlfght world went to
work as janitress to eafn their daily
bread.
As worker and nurse she battled
desperately for his life—and won.
'•Won the greatest happ.nees I
have ever known,” she said, “as well
aa the life cf my dear husband.”
When Captain Smuts resumed his
work in the shinyards after his ill
ness he "banished” Maj’ Yohe to
keeping house in their one-room
apartment here, where they are liv
. ing today.
No Trace of Dukes;
Friends Say His Bank
Books Are All Right
No trace has yet been found of C.
; C. Dukes, the young lianker of Ml-
I lan, Ga.. who disappeared mystcri
. ously from his room at the Hotel
I Ansley on December 10, leaving his
watch, overcoat and handbag. Rela
tives have been conducting a vigor
ous search, while the police authori
i ties and the Pinkertons have .also
been seeking clues to lead to the
solution of the mystery.
Friends of the missing man stated
I Monday morning that an audit of
the books of the Merchants’ and
Farmers' bank of Milan, the institu
tion with which he was connected
as president, was completed Satur
day and showed that its affairs were
in first-class condition. No shortage
was found, it is said, and the exam
ination. made by an expert account
ant under the direction of W. E.
Wilcox, named as temporary receiv
er, failed to disclose any reason why
Mr. Dukes should have disappeared.
No official report has yet been made
by the auditor to W. J. Speer, state
bank examiner.
Mrs. Dukes, who has been in At
lanta ever since her husband's dis
appearance. returned to her home in
Milan on Saturday night, but P. M.
Dukes, his brother, is still in this
city aiding in the search.
Boy Mourn’s Mother’s
Death, Kills Himself
r I
Grieving over the loss of his
mother, who is said to have died
two months ago, William llughie
I Duff, of Chattanooga, committed
) suicide in Nashville by firing a
bullet from a .38-caliber revolver
through his brain.
There were no actual witnesses j
to the tragedy, Mollie Holmes, the
girl in whose room the suicide
occurred, having gone out of the |
door just before the shot was j
fired. In the pocket of the suicide ,
was found a note addressed to ;
his father, W. P. Duff, of Chat- I
tanooga, and which read as fol
lows:
"Dear Father—Here is my !
farewell message. I am going to ’
meet my dear mother, vzho you j
know is in heaven. Don't blame
these people; they have been my |
friends. I am tired of this life,
so I am just jumping off. Your j
son, irLGHIE.”
SWMHISWEfI'!
MARTIAL LAW: CARS
BUN UNDER GUABD
On account of the situation grow
ing out of the Savannah street car
strike. Governor Dorsey late Sunday
afternoon proclaimed a state of
martial law in that city and placed
the Georgia state guard, under com
mand of General Peter W. Meldrim,
in charge.
Up to noon Monday the governor
had received no report of any at
tempted violence or special incident
in connection with the military con
trol of the, situation, and hence it
was thought that good order was
being maintained. Dispatches from
Savannah stated that limited street
car service was being operated with
policemen and state guards to pro
tect the cars.
President Goes
Shopping in Paris
For Christmas Things
(BY LAST MINUTE CABLE)
PARIS. Sunday, Dec. 22.—Al
though far away from the White
House and the usual forty-pound
Yuletide turkey, President, and Mrs.
Wilson will enjoy something of the
spirit of Christmas even though the
■ day is spent in the battie zone. It
, became known today Mr. Wilson re
cently slipped away from the Murat
residence and went on foot through
> the shopping district, making pur
chases and looking about without be-
> ing recognized.
i Mr. Wilson also -lias been shopping
: alone at odd times and when Christ
mas morning comes it is fairly cer-
I tain Santa Claus will have visited tho
president's speclaJ train while en
rpuXe tu, Cftapinotrt. „
' Permanent Promotion
1 For Pershing, March
And Others Is Asked
(BY LAST MINUTE TELEGRAPH)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 93.—Bestow
al of permanent rank of general on
John J. Pershing, commander of the
American forces in France, Peyton
C. March, chief o staff, and Tasker
H. Bliss, American military repre
sentative at the supreme war coun
cil, and a permanent rank of lieu-
I tenant generals on Hunter Liggett
and Robert Bullard, commanding the
First and Second American armies,
was asked hy Secretary Baker to
day in a letter to Chairman Dent,
of the house military committee.
The New Senator
From S. Carolina
Lawyer, farmer, - ~
pro-Wilson man,
Pollock, of Che
raw, has Just been
sworn in as a
member of tlv. I
United States sen
ate from South
Carolina' to serve « jft,
until March 4,
1919, when he will
be succeeded by
N. B. Dial. In jEEraS
South Carolina
they say Pollock pcH.LOCK
is the man to de-
feat Cole Blease for the senator- ;
. ship.
FORMER AMBASSADOR DEAD
Walter Hines Page. relieved a 1
i month ago as United States ambas- I
. sador to England, is dead at Ashe- '
! ville, N. C., where he went to re- j
• cuperate his health.
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CABLE AND TELEGRAP
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PLAN NOT POSSIBLE
WITHOUT AMERICA
i Viscount Grey Also Declares
United States Must Not
Return to Pre-War Status
; of Isolation
LONDON, Dec. 23. —Viscount Grey,
former secretary of state for foreign
affairs, has written, at the request
of the research committee of the
League of Nations union, an intro
ductory note to a pamphlet entitled
"The Peace Conference and After.’-
After urging the great opportunity
afforded by the peace conference for
taking a practical step in the direc
tior of forming a league of nations.
Viscount Grey says:
“It is not necessary for the peace
conference to create a league of na
tions. The conference will in itself
be a vital beginning of such a league.
All that is absolutely necessary is
that it should not commit suicide,
but keep Itself alive by adjourning
and leaving a permanent organiza
tion instead of dissolving itself and
destroying its machinery.
”Two more points I would espe
cially commend to careful and sym
pathetic attention. One Is the possi
bility of applying the principle of
trusteeship to thost vast tracts,
especially Africa, where no inde
pendent national government of the
native inhabitants can be formed.
The other is emphasis on the earnest
; dvocacy of the part to be taken by
the United States in helping to give
I effect to this principle of trusteeship
' and in the council of the world.
; Without the United States any coun-
I cil or league of nations will soon
i be little better than the old concert
lof Europe, which was spoiled in
' variably by intrigues within it and
split into opposing groups.
"It has required the united efforts
ot' the allies and the United States
to win the war of right against
wrong and to make peace. It will
need the united and continuous, al
though peaceful action of all of them
to maintain peace.
“It would be as fatal to the fu
ture of the world for the United
States to relapse into the old idea
of strict isolation, as it would be
for any power to revive the German
policy of separate conquest and dom
ination. It is, I believe, in this spirit
and for this purpose that the peo
ple of this country desire close and
cordial relations with the United
States. We think the people of the
United States are conscious of the
great and beneficent influence they
exercised on the history of the world
, by the part Urey took in this "was.
We cannot believe that they will
let this influence abate or die.”
seveWebms
KILLED IN STREET
FIGHTING IN ESSEN
ZURICH, Dec. 23.—8100dy street
fighting at Essen between forces of
the workmen’s and soldiers’ council
and the Spartacides waa reported in
a dispatch received today. There
were many casualties. The Sparta
cides apparently were defeated.
Rioting started when leaders of a
I sti ike at the Bottorr mine were ar
rested by agents of the workmen’s
and soldiers’ council. The Sparta
cides obtained reinforcements, at
tacked the prison, released thir com
irades and imprisoned the soviet rep
resentatives.
Shortly afterward, an armed mob
marched upon the Moiller mine and
attempted to destroy the plant.
Workmen’s and soldiers’ forces,
planting machine guns at strategic
points, met the rioters with deadly
fire and disoersed them. Many fell.
PRUSSIAN LITHUANIANS
SELZIC SEVERAL CITIES
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. —Tilsit.
J’emel. Jnterburg and other cities in
east Prussia hare been seized by
Prussian Lithuanians who revolted
from the German suzerainty, ac
cording ’.o .-dvices reaching here to
day.
The German press admitting tn’s
situation views gravely ths affairs of
east Prussia from the German
! .standpoint. _
KAROLYI ANNOUNCES
INTENTION TO RESIGN
ZURICH. Dec. 22.—Count Karolyi,
I addressing the Hungarian cabinet
I Saturday, announced his intention to
1 resign as premier, a Budapest d>s
i patch received today declared.
EBERT GOVERNMENT
FACING ANOTHER CRISIS
ZURICH. Dec. 23.—(Havas.)—The
Ebert government in Berlin is re
ported to be faced with another crisis
through the resignation of the mi
nority members of the cabinet.
Political circles in Berlin, another
report says, are agitated by a rumor
that General Groener, who ucceeded
General Ludendorff as chief quarter
master general, has threatened to
seize Berlin with troops that have -e
--mained faithful if order is not re
there shnrtlv.
HINDENBURG REPORTED TO
HAVE CONCENTRATED TROOPS
ZURICH. Dec. 23.—(Havas.)
| Field Marshal von Hindenburg, ac
I cording to reports received hero
| from Germany, has concentrated a
large force of soldiers In Posen.
TURRET TO TAKE BAWKRUPTCT
I BERLIN. Dec. 22:— (Delayed)—
. Turkey will declare itself nationally
j bankrunt. according to a report re
i ceived here today.
Judge Speer Left
Estate to Widow i
MACON. Ga.. Dec. 23.—Judge Em
i ory Speer’s will, which was filed
, here Saturday afternoon, gives his
widow the full estate for use during
I her life. After his widow’s death.
1 the estate is to be divided among
five daughters. Most of the estate
is invested in Liberty bonds, while
a considerable amount is in life In
[ surance, two policies of SIO,OOO each
I being named. The estate is said to
J be under $50,000.
WASHINGTON WANTS TOURISTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-=-Wash
i ing ton again is making a bid foi
I tourists. The iron-clad rules which
I have been in force around govern
ment buildings during the war, daily
are being relaxed. Passes which all
employes have been compelled to
carry have been abolished —except
at the heavily-goarded and iron
| grated treasury building.
A SHOULD GIVE 9445,000
Memoers ot the North Georgia con
i ference of the Methodist church, who
i number 136,000, are expected to con
tribute 3445,000 in 1919 for the cause
NUMBER
SENATDRSKffIXA!
LODGE EMBARRA
AMERICANMISS
TresTUent Wilson’s Ack
of Saturday Puts Euroj
Thinking—Foundation
League Constructed
BY DAVID X.-AWBEMCI
(Copyngnt, 191 s, by bew Yoiil
ing Post.)
PARIS, Dec. 23. —.members <
American mission to negotiate
reel that the speech mat Si
ixnox uelivered on Tnursuay la;
very unioriunate and emoarn
tj their worit. Senator ±t.nox
terance was prominently uisj
bo tn in the Britisn and rrench
papers as muicitting tne streni
tne opposition m tne majority
m the American congress.
Senator Knox’s view that ut
tions to establish a league of n
should be settled not at the p
but by a future conference,
course, in direct opposition'to
uent Wilson’s position, who
that an organization to insV
future peace of tne world shq
the first consideration at this
Senator Knox confined his o
tion to the league of nations, i
that the present conference 1
deal only with issues betwee
allies and their enemies.
The speech of Senator Lod
Saturday, however, was more
position to the course of the
dent because in this case obj
was taken to five of Mr. Wilso
points. Senator Lodge would
not only consideration ot a lenj
nations but the questions of 14
armaments, freedom ot the se.
cret diplomacy and the remtr
economic barriers. A close frii
Senator Knox here told me tl
believed that the latter would
have made his speech of opp<
to Mr. Wilson in connection wi
negotiations at this time, if ii
known the true situation. As I
ter of fact, the desire of Mr. I
to see a league of nations pn
for in the peace treaty itsefi
I out of his wish to secure sor
ternational organization befon
spoils of war are divided amtH
belligerents and each countrjr
ted has become apathetic towar
ther considerations.
Speed Is Essential
Mr. Wilson believes strongl
unless binding steps are tai
pi - . ent further war before ea
tion gets what it individualist
out of the peace conference,
will any power on earth brij
nations into agreement. If 3
of I *'the^ T
depended upon whether it caul
ry the point of insisting upon
tlement of the primary qu(
which affect the broad polio
the world peace—wherein the
States is primarily interest!
cause she has no territorial’
tions —he would not be inclin
a moment to lend his supp
the elements here which are s
to weaken Mr. Wilson’s hand.
No one supposes that n
formula for a league of natioi
I. made in the next few wei
indeed during the present peac
ference, but an agreement is pi
i upon a provision in the treaty
1 ing mandatory upon the sia
powers tho establishment
league in accordance with g
principles enunciated. Undou
the creation of a league will r
a separate conference to decid<
details to which neutrals w
given an opportunity to expresi
objection or adherence, but Mi
son considers it a paramount
sity to have some provision
peace treaty itself compellii
establishment of a world ori
tion.
U. S. Must Act to
Save Business Wi
South Ameri
RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 23.-
tic measures must be taken I
United States government, pi
larly by the shipping board,
American business situation ii
zil is to be saved, accordin'” 1
uiuxnimous opinion today by
icta.is doing business here. '
regular steamer service for f
mail and passengers is re-estal
at once with sailing ships belp
to carry cargoes that are not 1
and unless the present cem
handicaps on private telegram
removed and a more direct c
of news communication betwee
zil and the United States is 1
the European comoetitors will 1
to seize Brazilian trade and j
can firms will suffer a stag
blew. This gloomy view of tl
nation has been deepened by tl
in Rio and Sao Paulo, where
orders for more than >lO,
worth of American goods hav
cancelled during the past’ n
The limit has not yet been n
and the prospect for future I
are fading.
High Water Does Li
Damage in West P
WEST POINT, Ga., Dec. 23
crest of the tide came earl;
morning when the Chattab
river of this place registered
The river is falling, having
down four inches by noon,
direct monetary loss is i
small, but a few living in fla
to pack their furniture and.
friends on higher ground. 8
merchants who had goods sto
the warehouses along A. & 1
railway had to raise them abo
high water. Train and elect!
service of the C. V. railroq
. been temporarily suspended. 1
I The all day i-ain Friday an
urca> vith high water is k
I people away from We»t Point
The high water has greatly r
Christmas shopping and lhefl
chants will miss lots of th efl
day trade. The West Poinl
Lanet News office is surround
water and there will be no is
that pape rthis week.
MASONIC OFFICERS CKO
HAZLEHURST, Ga., Dec. 1
i the last regular communicat
■ Hazlehurst lodge. No. 283, F. ;
M., the following officers were
ed for the ensuing year:, I
R. J. Roddenberry, won
master; John Rogers, Jr.,
warden; John W. Graham,
junior warden; R. T. William
retary; W. L. Reagin, treast
C. Tuten, tyler; p. H. Hen
senior deacon; D. C. Joncsfl
deacon; J. C. Watkins, seniefl
ard, and Frank S. Cook.fl
steward. ■
, ! . MEETING CAXUMtOM
.ATHENS, Ga., Dec. 23. fl
‘Wu” and war conditions.
of the Georgia State
society for