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Newspaper Page TextSetttMUetWw Wttntal « VOL. XXL NUMBER 98 DELEGATES AT MEET |N NEW ORLEANS TO AGREE ON MINIMUM Large Delegations of Geor gians Present at Two-Day Convention Senator Hoke Smith Speaks BY HAL STEED (Th* Journal's Staff Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, Sept. S.—Forty x cents will be the price which the /. American Cotton association which •opened its two-day session here to day, will declare tomorrow is a rea sonable figure for the 1919 crop. The association will not fix this as an ar bitrary price, but will declare that this is the figure which crop condi tions, the cost of living and produc •tion and other conditions have made fair and equitable. That the association will decide on , i. e v. 3.3 unofficially announced today. Delegates are so unanimous on it that it is not believed the decision will be changed, although it will not be formally announced until tomor row. Senator Hoke Smith and Governor iHugh M. Dorsey arrived at 10:20 ■■■'clock this morning. Morning Session The morning session, which was formal In character, was called to order by Governor R. G. Pleasant, of Louisiana. Mayor Martin B. Her man, of New Orleans, and B. C. Casinas, president of the New Or leans Chamber of Commerce, deliv ered addresses of welcome and the response was made by T. J. Shackel ford, of Athens, personal representa tive of President J. S. Wannamaker. Georgians figured largely in the afternoon session. Chief in interest was the address of Senator Hoke Smith. Dr. A. M. Soule, presi dent of the Georgia Agricultural college, was another Georgia speak er. Addresses also were made by D. D. Moore, editor of the Times- ; . Picayune; Colonel W. B. Thompson. New Orleans, and Phillip C. Wads worth, of New York, who is an authority on handling and compress | ing cotton. In addition to these addresses there were appointment of commit tees and messages from the cotton states, either through their gover nors or their representatives. Georgians Present The Georgia delegation arrived in New Orleans on a special from At ’ ianta Sunday morning. Among -prominent Georgians attending the (convention here are J. J. Brown com » 'missioner of agriculture; T. J. Shac kleford, of Athens, personal repre sentative in Georgia of President Wannamaker; L. B. Jackson, of the state bureau of markets; J. H. Mills, president of the Georgia farmers union; D.F. McClatchey campaign di rector for Georgia; Judge H. A. Boy kin, president of the Georgia divi sion of the association; J. A. Davis, secretary and treasurer of the Geor gia division; John N. Holder, and T. S. Johnson, of Jefferson county; Green Braselton, of Braselton, Ga.; Charles Kilpatrick, of Warrenton; J. W. Williams, of Statesboro; A. J. Fleming, of Atlanta, and W. L. Brown, of Lawrenceville. D. F. McClatchey, Jr., who is con valescing from an attack of typhoid fever, is here wth his father. 'Today’s session of the association brought ideas of the different cot ton producers and authorities of the south preliminary to what will be the most important developments of the entire meeting, and that is an agreement on the part of the dele gates on what should be a fair and jtist price for cotton. This impor tant development will come on Tues- , day. Unlike every other cotton meet ing that ever was held in the south before, the present one will not fix an arbitrary price either minimum or maximum. It simply will agree, on what, in its opinion, is the price that the southern farmer is entitled to. Base on Costs This decision will depend in large measure on the discussion at to day’s meeting. The opinions of various producers, governors and state officials will be offered, • dis cussed and weighed. i It also will be based on the high lost of living, on the cost of produc tion, including the cost of fertilizers, Toss from boll weevil, and the like. . It is recognized, for instance, that , the manufacturers get a much better price for the finished goods than the farmers get for the raw product, and this condition will figure on the ad justment of the price figure. The delegates recognize that arbi trary fixing, or arbitrary acreage re duction never has worked out in prac tice, although various cotton meet ings have taken action of this kind. In addition to the price development, there will be discussion of the gen eral plan of the association, which is to finance the cotton through a system of warehouses with the back ing, eventually, of the federal re serve system. This plan already is being orked out in some states through the co-operation of banks which now hold membership in the federal reserve system. There will be reports on this phase of the or ganization as well as reports from the various state organizations. Dorsey Presides Tuesday Tuesday’s session of the associa tion will be a notable one. The morn ing meeting of the delegates will be ' called to order by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, of-Georgia. There will be addressss by United States Senator Ed C. Smith, of South Carolina; J. Thomas Heflin, congressman -from Alabama; F. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education; J. M. Parker, formerly United -States administrator, of New Orleans, and United States Senator J. S. Ransdell, of Louisiana. At the afternoon session there will be an address by Harvie Jordan, of Monticello, formerly president of the Southern Cotton association, and by Marshall Ballard, editor of the New Orleans Item. The afternoon session will be an open one with the important reports by committees. The lessons here will be devoted largely to a membership campaign, including reports from various state organizations on the progress made Fn this direction. A The delegates in New Orleans, which is a typical cotton city, in clude not only producers of cotton, but presidents of state bankers’ as sociations, who are interested in the i ‘important question of cotton financ ing, heads of farmers’ unions and state officials whose duties are along tnV line of caring for farm develop ments. Returning Commander-m-Chief Will Parade-Down Fifth Avenue •x x’SSC •* .5 mHEF ‘ ■ w f f fa < ''i i., ■ •iilP’U ■ .y, M X- ■ M, I' ' I GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING Arrangements have been made for the parade in New York City of the First Division, headed by General Pershing, and the reception of the famous commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. The parade will be held on Wednesday. This is one of the lat est photographs of General Pershing. TREATY REPORT TO SENATE TO BE BIG EVENT OF WEEK BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Report of the peace treaty as amended by the senate foreign relations commit tee and a possible back-fire from the country as President Wilson tours the west and assails the sen ate foes of that instrument, are the headline developments expected in congress this week. • While the president on tour warms up to his subject and pro ceeds to go after the senate recal citrants in Rooseveltian style, out ing more punch into his speeches day by day. so far the senate sit uation shows little Improvement from the administration viewpoint., During the past week, the “reserva tionists” gained a Democratic re cruit in Senator Shields, of Tennes see. member of the foreign relations committee, who finally broke over to the opposition. The reservationists proceed with their “nose-counting” and allege confidence that there will be other recruits for their cause as the trea ty comes before the senae for de bate. The house is doing little nowa days except to look on as the senate wrangles and delays action on the treaty. It is. of course, too early as yet to ascertain what effect the president’s speeches before western audiences will have back here In Washington as the plain people be gin to write* it. It seems a bitter struggle, with neither the president nor the ’senate recalcitrants inclined so far to give an inch Senate’s Earewell Kick. As the president left on his speak ing tour the senate foreign relations committee figuratively gave him a farewell kick by voting to report out the peace treaty with four reserva tions, none of which is wanted by the administration. These reservations, which have been fully exploited in the press, deal with the Monroe doc trine, withdrawal from the League ot Nations, article X of the league cov enant and the intent of congress to reserve solely to itself determination of all domestic questions, such as immigration and the tariff. The emasculated peace treaty is scheduled to go into the senate this week and will be constantly before that body until ratified or rejected. Debate promises to be long and bit ter, notwithstanding the fact that many hundreds of thousands of words have already been uttered on the senate floor for and against the treaty. One development of the past week to which members of congress are paying not a little attention is the change of pace shown by President Wilson as a public speaker. News paper accounts indicate to congress that after his first speech in Colum bus, where the audience was not over enthusiastic, the president threw aside his natural deliberate manne of speaking and thereafter proceeded to lambast the oi position in a vigor ous oratorical style which reminded his auditors of the old Rooseveltian days, and the president is said to be getting by with his new brand ot sledge-hammer oratory. Railroad control Bill Aside from a desultory discus sion of the peace treaty in the sen ate last week, probably the most important action taken in the upper chamber was the agreement in the interstate commerce committee on the railroad control bill. The house committee meanwhie continued its hearings. The tentative bill of the senate committee proposes restora tion of the railroads to private con trol, but provides for a. drastic federal supervision at all times. The bill also recognizes that the para mount interest in all industrial dis putes shall be the public interest. In the senate, there was adoption of a resolution requiring informa tion from the federal trade com mission as to the reasonableness of the maximum profit limitations fix ed on the meat packing industry by the food administration during the war. After a long filibuster by Sena tor La Follette, the senate passed the land leasing bill. Two amend ments to this bill, which were ac cepted, were offered by Senator Harris, of Georgia, former chair man of the federal trade commis sion, and were directed at the Standard Oil company. One .amend ment prohibits the interchange of stock among stockholders in the twelve constituent companies of the Standard which were dis- I solved by a decree of the supreme court. The other amendment re- I quires that oil shall be sold at uni ! form prices throughout the coun try, making allowance, of course, for transportation cb' rge differ ences and local selling expenses Both houses of congress finally passed a bill making the commander of the American expeditionary forces, John J. Pershing, a general of the army for life, and the presi dent signed the hill before leaving Washington. The senate passed the nro’Ubition enforcement bill with slight liberal- AUSTRIAN CABINET VOTES TO ACCEPT TREATY OF PEACE VIENNA, Sept. 6.—The Austrian cabinet decide today, after the re port of Chancellor Karl Renner, to recommend that the national as sembly accept the peace treaty which was presented in final form by the allies this week. Dr. Renner has informed the newspaper correspondents here that he would return to St. Germain Sunday and sign the peace treaty handed Austria this week. EXPECT TREATY WILL BE SIGNED WEDNESDAY PARIS, Sept. 6. —Dispatches which reached the peace conference today from Vienna indicated that the Aus trians probably would formally de cide tomorrow to accept the peace treaty. Chancellor Renner is expect ed to return to Paris immediately, in which cases the treaty will be signed Wednesday morning, Septem ber 10 at St. Germain. Bulgarian compact probably will be signed within a fortnight while the Hungarian treaty will be ready for presentation as soontas the gov ernment at Budapest is organized and sends a delegation to Paris. But all these treaties have been perfected by postponing most stub born problems. The Dalmatia, Thrace and problems all have been postponed and behind them looms the question what is to be the dis position of Turkey. This daily is becoming more complicated. France, Italy, England and Greece are seem ingly hopelessly involved in the Turkish tangle, having such conflict ing aspirations that it would appear unlikely that they can agree on the partitioning of Turkey among them selves without an arbiter. Meantime, the British withdrawal from Armenia is threatening the en tire Armenian population with mas sacre, and the Turks are showing increased hostilities to the Italian troops in southern Anatolia and to the Greek troops in the vicinity ot Smyrna. In fact all Asia-Minor is in a state of ferment while the grand vizier in Constantinople is holding meetings with representatives of va rious allied commissions and endeav oring to raise funds to hold Turkey together pending an international decision as to her future. The conference undoubtedly will take a recess when the Austrian, Bulgarian and Hungarian treaties are signed and it is likely that many of the new members of the confer ence will participate in the delibera tions after the United States decides whether it will accept a mandate for Turkey and the entire Near-East ern question will be considered. Probably many new experts will be called and much smaller delegations from the principal countries. The entire Turkish problem hinges on the attitude of the United States towards the mandates. Kolchak Commences Counter-Offensive LONDON, Sept. 8. —Admiral Kol chak, head of the all-Russian gov ernment, began a counter-offensive against the Bolshevik! on September 1, says an official message from Omsk, the seat of the government, received today. ization of the measure as it came from the house. One of the liberal senate amendments exempts from the operation of the prohibition law the farmer or housewife who makes wine of fruit juices for home con sumption only. Hearings continued before the sen ate agricultural committee on the Kenyon and Kendrick bills to regu late the meat packing industry, the meat packers produced dozens of witnesses to testify that the “big five” do not mnopolize the meat busi ness and federal regulation was un necessary. Following favorable action by the house, the senate is scheduled soon to take up the Platt-Brand amend ment to the currency law to assist in financing the cotton crop and othei agricultural crops by increasing the. limit of loans on paper backed by such products. Stomach Trouble or Tape worm Banished. Many persons who' suffer from stomach trouble really have a tape worm and don’t know it. A guaran teed remedy which-has proven to be remarkably effective in expelling tapeworms and giving quick relief in all forms of stomach trouble is being sent on free trial by the Schoenherr Co., Dept. 55, Milwaukee, Wis. They guarantee it to remove, in less than one hour, any tapeworm with its head. No pain, no dieting, no dan ger; also, to relieve any form of stomach trouble or it costs nothing. Take advantage of their free trial offer. Write them today. (Advt.) ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1919 PRESIDENT FIRM AGAINST PROGRAM UF RESERVATIONS Great Throng Hears Speechi at Omaha Leaves aw Noon for Souix Falls,' South Dakota OMAHA, Neb., Sept. L—Discussing for the first time durii/g his speaking tour proposed reservations to- the League of Nations, President Wilson replied in an address here to argu ments advanced by those who favor reservations. “A reservation,” said the president. ' ‘‘is an assent with a big ‘but.’ We agree—‘but.’ ” The proposed reservation provid ing for unconditional withdrawal from membership, said the president, meant that its sponsors wanted to “sit near the door with their hand I on the knob” and if they saw any thing they didn’t like ‘‘to scuttle and run.” The league proviso that interna tional obligations must be fulfilled before withdrawal never would re strain the United States, he said, because this nation always would live up to its provisions. Those who wanted a reservation to Article 10, Mr. Wilson continued, simply didn’t want to come in now, but wanted to be “late joiners.” Any reservation regarding the Mon roe doctrine, he added, was unneces sary because the doctrine has been "swallowed, hook, line and sinker,” by the peace conference and had been authenticated by the big pow ers of the world for the first time. So far as reservations about do mestic questions were concerned, he | declared, it would be a work of superogation. “We. didn’t ask Germany’s consent about the meaning of any one of those terms when we were in Paris,” 1 I he said. “We told them what they wanted ■ and said ‘sign here.’ Does any pa- : triotic American want that method changed?” There were cries of “No! No!” from the' crowd. Shantung Provision If reservations were put in, Mr. | Wilson told them, all the senate i had written in would have to go ■ back for the consent of Germany. ■ He added that there were indica- I tions that those on the other side of the water are, not -in as good ; a humor as they had been. Th'fe only way the Shantung pro- | vision could be bettered, Mr. Wil son declared, would be to go to war with Japan, England and France. He told the crowd that nations could not sign all but a part of a treaty. “We cannot re-write this treaty,” said he. “We must take it or leave it.” He said he believed the treaty would be accepted soon, but added: “But no man can tell how long it will take the United States senate to do anything.” The president said he had heard that some man wanted the United States to stand alone for an “armed pan-Americanism,” but he did not believe the people would accept it. He paid a tribute ta Senator Hitch cock, the democratic leader in the treaty fight, whose home is in Oma ha. He had “been proud to stand by Senator Hitchcock.” he said, in the fight. Ou the night before the meeting, the president alighted from his au tomobile and stopped at the home of C. N. Deitz, brother of Gould Deitz, president of the State League to En force Peace. The president chatted for a few minutes with Mr. Deitz and his mother. Labor Provision Bill Prompt acceptance of the treaty, so that uncertainties in labor condi tions throughout the world may be cleared up, was urged also by Presi dent Wilson. The international labor organization to be set up under the treaty, he said, would give to labor a new bill of rights. Mr. Wilson spoke to a crowd of Nebraskans and lowans which filled every corner of the auditorium, said to seat 7,500 persons. SHE EATS WORDS ALIVE! This nine-year-old Cai- ifornia girl Josephine x. Chiesa, of Glenwood— /' lakes short-hand dicta- '.ion at the rate of 144 sj x Olte ords a minute without i error. She is the oungest student at he University of Cali- ’ornia, where she is t ~ , , w studying advanced stenography and business x ethics. / IIPM hast 4, IROW-' *'" a ® iMir -*□ gyjßßs. iMV/ ,_ ; IBOW s > I tlofclß ’ .gMB» Mi- t rWaWBL - , .g _, | j »&.<■ • •••• Text of Today’s Speech ToMAHA. Neb., Sept. B.—Presiden Ml son’s speech was as follows: Mr. Chairman and My Fellow Citizens: I never feel more pleasure in facing my fellow citizens than when I realize 1 am not repre senting a peculiar cause; that I am not speaking a single group of my fellow citizens; that 1 am not the representative of a party, but the representative of the people of the United States of America. I went across the water with that happy consciousness. In all the work that was done on the other side of the seas, where I was associated with the dis tinguished Americans of both political parties, we all of us constantly kept in our heart the feeling that we were expressing the thoughts of America that we were working for the interests and the things Chat America be lieved in, and I have come here to testify that this treaty con tains the things that America believes in. I brought a copy of that treaty along with me, for I fancied that in view of the criticisms you have heard of it, you have thought it consisted of only four, or five clauses. Only four or five clauses out of this volume are picked for criticism. Only four or five phrases in it are called to your attention by some of the different orators who op pose its adoption. Chaii*sr of Liberty Why, my fellow citizens, this is one of the greatest charters of human liberty and the man that picks flaws in it, or rather, that picks out the flaws that are in it—for there are flaws in it— because of the magnitude of the thing and because of the majesty of the intersts involved, forgets the magnitude of the thing and forgets the majesty of the in terests therein, he forgets that the counsels of more than twen ty nations were combined and rendered unnanimously in the adoption of this great instru ment. Everybody admits that it is a complete settlement of the mat ters which led up to this war, and that it contains the complete, machinery which provides that it shall stay settled. ou know one of the greatest difficulties in out own domestic affairs is unsettled, land titles. Suppose that somebody were mischievously to tamper with the land records of the state of Nebraska and that there should be as doubt as to the lines of every farm. You know what would happen. Within six months all the farmers would be sitting on their fences with a shotgun. Litigation would pene trate every community, hot feel ing would be generated—con tests not only of lawyers, but of thq farmers themselves —would arise. One of the most interesting things that this treaty does is to settle the land titles of Eu rope, and to settle them in this way, on the principle that land belongs to the people that live on it. This is actually the first time in human history that that prin ciple -was ever recognized and yet that is the fundamental American principle. The fundamental American principle is the right of the people that live in the country to say what shall be done with that country. European Land Titles We have gone so far in our assertions of the popular right that we not only say that the people have the right to have a government of their own that satisfies them, but that they have the right to change it in any re spect any time. Very well. That principle lies at the heart of the l treaty. There are people in Europe who never before could say that the land they lived on was their own and that the choice they would make of their lives was their own choice. I know that there are many in Nebraska who came from that country of tragical history, the now restored republic of Poland, and I want to call your atten tion to the fact that Poland is here given her complete restitu tion, and not only is she given the land that formerly belonged to the Poles, but she is given the lands which were occupied by the Poles, .and now are occupied by. and had been permitted to re main under other sovereignty, and she is given that land under a principle that all our hearts ap prove of. You take what in Eu rope they call high Silesia, the upper portion of the district of Silesia. The very great majority of the people in high Silesia are Poles and the Germans contested (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) Husband and Wife He Chose to Die With . When He Could Not Save Her From Train • .fc "• 1 Mr. and Mrs. William I*. Tanner Residents of Chicago and of near by Illinois towns were much thrilled last week over the story of the he roic self-sacrifice of William Tan ner, of Hubbard’s Wood, 111., who, when he could have chosen life, de cided to die in the embrace of his wife when death in a terrible form rushed upon her, and though at the last moment she had begged him to save himself. While crossing the Northwestern railroad near their home, Mrs. Tan ner’s foot was caught in a groove between one of the rails and a plank. A fast train was within 500 fdet of her. Her husband struggled fran tically to pull the foot loose. John Miller, the crossing flagman? came to his assistance and both worked in desperation with the head light flashing full upon them. Then there was roar and a rush. The watchman leaped aside, but was hit by the steam box and seriously hurt. As the Engine Strack Tanner gave up the struggle to free his wife and clasped her in his arms as the big engine struck. .The engineer had shut off steam and used the emergency brakes, but the train was heavy and its speed was not materially reduced until it had passed. Husband and wife were carried fifty feet, crush and mangled to death. Badly hurt as he was Miller man aged to tell the story of the tragedy. “It was about 8:30 o’clock,” he said, ‘.‘when the Tanners reached the cross ing. I had signalled the vehicle traf fic to stop, but they could have easily crossed but for the fearful thing that happened. Mrs. . Tanner stopped~bn the southbound track and cried, ‘My foot is caught.’ It was wedged between the rail and a sunken board. “The man tried to pull the foot out and then called to me. The elec tric headlight was shining on us. The train was a fast train due in Chicago in ten minutes. We both pulled until the woman fainted. I said, ‘My God, man, it is no use.’ U.S. WAREHOUSE SYSTEM LIKELY TO INCLUDE ATLANTA The inclusion of Atlanta in the federal licensed warehouse system is indicated in the arrival here of R. L. Nixon, chief of the warehouse sec tion of the bureau of markets, Uni ted States department of agriculture. Headquarters for the entire south east will be set up here, according to Mr. Nixon, with a federal inspector, F. G. Crout, in charge. Offices will be located in the Trust Company of Georgia building. The federal licensed warehouse system is being established to pro tect cotton producers and make it possible for them to secure ad vances on cotton, thus obviating the necessity of throwing it upon the market at inopportune times. This elimination of “distress cotton” is expected to prove of immense benefit to the totton farmers of the south, who are anxious to see the licensed warehouse system universally estab lished. Under the federal plan, a ware house, in order to be accepted by the government as a unit of the system, must be so constructed as to give the greatest protection against fire or other damage; must be in charge of a trustworthy and efficient superin tendent and bond must be given to the amount of $5 per bale capacity. The minimum bond is $5,000 and the maximum $50,000. Cotton producers may store their cotton in such warehouses, taking re ceipts whic hmayi be hypothecated to secure loans from financial institu tions. A small inspection fee is charged, while the Southern Under writers’ Association has agreed to accept the federal inspection, certifi cate as a basis for reducing in surance rates on all licensed ware houses. Mr. Nixon is co-operating with the American Cotton association and has indicated his desire to assist in ev ery way in the extension of the as sociation membership. $1,0007600 Worth of Cotton Is Detsroyed ROTTERDAM, Sept. 8. —Fire on the wharves here today destroyed $1,000,000 worth of cotton. Beats Gas or Electricity New Lamp Has No Wick. No Chim ney. No Odor. Most Bril liant Light Known. A new lamp which experts agree gives the most powerful home light in the world, is the latest achieve ment of \V. H. Hoffstot. 913 Factory Bldg., Kansas City Mo. This re markable new lamp beats gas or electricity—gives more light than three hundred candles, eighteen or dinary lamps or ten brilliant electric lights, and costs only one cent a night, a blessing to every home on farm or in small town. It is abso lutely safe and gives universal sat isfaction. A child can carry it. It is the ambition of Mr. Hoffstot to have every home, store, hall or church enjoy the increased comfort of this powerful, pleasing, brilliant, white light and he Will send one of his new lamps on free trial to any der of The him. He wants one person in each locality to whom he can refer new customers. Take advantage of his free offer. Agents wanted. Write him today.—(Advt.) HieliSS “ ‘Try again,’ shouted Tanner, ‘we must save her.’ ” The engine’s big electric eye had now brought them into direct focus. The crossing on which the tragedy was being enacted was as brilliantly illuminated as a stage. The roar of the train and the vi bration of the rails served to revive Mrs. Tanner. She half raised her self, and called to her husband: ’ “Will, I don’t think you can save me.” He could not hear her and bent over her. She repeated her words and added: “Will, leave me. The, babies and your mother” — The train was not more than fifty feet away. Tanner, half kneeling placed his arms about her and drew her close to him. She put her arms about his neck. “I stay with you, Mary,” he said, and closed his eyes. Miller even then made one last ef fort to save both. He seized Mrs. Tanner by the shoulders and pulled with all his strength. His efforts were futile, but he continued them, and when the pilot of the engine struck the couple and hurled them fifty feet, he was carried along with them. By a miracle he escaped death, but he sustained a fracture of the right arm, and his left leg was so badly crushed it was necessary to ampu tate it. Tanner was a young man and a railroad cashier. He leaves three children. Both his father and step father were killed by trains and his mtoher had often warned him to be most careful. Hfs'ffiofher, Mrs. W. D. Chattley, said tonight: “My first husband was killed while crossing the tracks in front of a train at Mechanicsville, N. Y. My second husband was run down and killed by a train in Albany, and now it is my son. I’m glad he chose to die that way. If he had lived, he would have gone mad. I will do the best I can for the children.” RATLROADMENTO DECIDE ON STRIKE AT DETROIT MEET DETROIT, Mich., Sept. B.—-Wheth er there will be declared a strike that, it is claimed, will tie up all rail transportation in this country and Canada, will be decided at the convention of the International United, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Shop Labor ers, which was to open here today. With from 2,000 to 3,000 delegates, representing, it is stated, 6(W,000 maintenance of way and shop work ers, attending the convention, is ready to consider action on the strike vote canvassed last week, which stood 325,000 for and 5,000 against the proposed strike, should wage demands of the brotherhood be denied. Director General Hines is ex pected to address the men during the convention. The brotherhood also asks a new working agreement which, with the wage demands, has been laid before the director general. Officials of the organization have expressed the view an agreement satisfactory to the men may be reached. It is claimed twenty-five per cent of the maintenance of way and shop workers represented receive less than $2.50 a day. An increase in wages of $1 per day per man is demanded. The convention will sit at least two weeks and, among other matters, will consider a provident plf.n, with death benefit; creation of an educa tional system, providing technical school scholarships and promoting efficiency, and the organization of a woman’s auxiliary. Found Alaska’s First Nugget; Now He’s Broke Charles Volgelreiter, now an in mate of the county home at Sac ramento, Cal., has documents to support his claim that he was the first man to discover gold in the Klondyke, making his “strike” in the summer of 1874. Volgelrei ter, who is now 80 years old, is endeavoring to persuade the gov ernment to repay him the sum of $3,000 —the cost of the first out fit trekked to the North Country' in search of fortune. 5 CENTS A COPY $1.25 A YEAR CHIEF OF J.EF. IS GIVEN TREMENDOUS OVfITIONONRETURN Thousands Greet General With Thunderous Cheers, Sirens of N, Y, Harbor Craft Add to Reception NEW YORK, Sept. B.—John J. Rershing is home again. • Standing on the bridge of the huge Leviathan, itself symbolic of vic tory over Germany, the commander of the greatest host ever gathered under the stars and stripes, came slowly up the bay today, world-fam ed and hailed as a conquering hero should be. Sad of face, stern and Impressive, q splendid figure of a soldier, he might have been thinking, as the familiar landmarks of New York came into view, of the day twenty seven months ago when he slipped secretly out of the harbor on way to France to prepare the way for the hosts that were to follow. Then he was only a major general. He came back today with four stars on his shoulders —the fourth man to wear them under the Amer ican flag. The welcome given him would have quickened the pulse of the hero of a Roman triumph. Fresh from the capitals of allied Europe where honors had been heaped upon him, it remained for New York to show the first American to lead an army across the Atlantic that “Home, Sweet Home” has a meaning deeper than “Hail to the Chief.” No foreign throats could voice the cheers, no alien hearts could pulse the greeting that was General Persh ing’s here today. There was a hint of tears in the welcome for those who gave it knew that not even the plaudits of a grateful people could banish from the sad-faced soldier’s mind the memory of his own life’s tragedy. Guns Boom Salute Dawn barely had broken fchen the Leviathan loomed through the mists off Ambrose channel lightship. Steaming slowly through the narrow passageway, the great steamship was greeted by a convoy of six destroy ers while seaplanes circled over head. The forts which guard the har bor boomed a general’s salute as the ship which once was the pride of Germany swept past quarantine and nosed through the narrows into the harbor under the shadow of the Statute of Liberty. While the guns still echoed, the whistles of mer chant vessels from the seven seas, sturdy tugs, gaily decorated ferry boats, excursion craft of every kind, and the sirens of factories on shore joined in a discordant salutation. Hydroplanes Drop Messages Messages dropped by a police hydroplane aboard the giant steam ship Leviathan at daybreak as she approached the harbor signalized the beginning of the three days’ recep tion to General Pershing by the city of New York. The moment ths Leviathan was sighted along her harbor path, river craft let loose whistles in a screaming greeting and as the former German liner pro ceeded through the narrows to Quar antine, the din started by the craft was taken up by sirens throughout the city. Vice-President Marshall welcomed General Pershing from the deck of the destroyer Blakely. In the vice president’s party were Secretary of War Baker, General Peyton C. March, chief of staff, other high officers and members of congress. Relatives at Bier. Miss May Pershing and Mrs. But ler, sisters of General Pershing from Lincoln, Nebraska; Mrs. Paddock, the general’s sister-in-law, and his nephew, James Pershing, met the commander-in-chief as he left the Leviathan with his son, Warren Pershing, ten years old, and his brother, James Pershing. Triumphal Entry From the moment the Leviathan reached Ambrose light, a score of miles from the city at 5 o’clock, her progress through the lower and upper bdys and up the North river; was a veritable “triumphal entry.” The waters were dotted with gaily caparisoned craft of all descriptions darting here and there following importantly in the wake of their colossal sister. Their tooting whis tles and bellowing sirens vied with the roaring cheers from their deck loads of passengers and the crowds on shore. On Bedloe’s island, Miss Liberty stood in statuesque splendor and paid silent tribute to the man who had defended all he represents. A small boatload of army officers and ever-present newspapermen had gone down the bay and boarded the Leviathan off Ambrose light. The of ficial reception committee, however, met the general at pier 4, port of embarkation, in Hoboken, after go ing down the bay in a destroyer. This included Vice President Mar shall, Secretary of War Baker, Chief of Staff March, Lieutenant -jenered Bullard, Major Generals Barry, Coe, Haan. Hinds, Ireland, Rogers, Shanks, Menoher and Williams; Brigadier Generals Langfitt, Hines, Nolan and Rockenbach; Colonels Wal cutt and Barnum. The group ap pointed to represent President Wil son included: Thomas Chadbourne, Allan A. Ry an, Harry Payne Whitney, Mortimer Schiff, J. L. Replogle, Hugh Frayne, Nicholas S. Brady, Cleveland H. Dodge, John D. Ryan, Henry P. Dav idson and William G. MCAdoo. In ad dition to this committee there wa;s a congressional party. CURED HER FITS Mrs. Paul Grain, residing at 916 Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., recently gave out the following s'atement: “I bad suffered with Fits, Epilepsy for over fourteen years. Doctors and medicine did me no good. It seemed that I was beyond all hope of relief when at last I secured a preparation that cured me sound and well. Over ten years have passed #nd the attacks have not re turned. I wish every one who suffers from this terrible disease would write R. P. N. Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee, and ask for a bottle of the same kind of medi cine which he gave me. He lias promised to send it postpaid free to any one who writes him.”—(Advt.)

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, September 09, 1919, Image 1