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Atlaiiin 3tottynw 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 V mH ’ J s-A j i - ’» •' Wll J 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. LAST-MINUTE NEWS BY 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