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VOL. XXL NUMBER 99
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Committee Reports Unprec
edented Deterioration in
Crop—Holding Companies
Planned —Congress Ends
BY HALL STEED
(The Journal’s Staff Correspondent)
NEW ORLEANS. La., Sept. 10.—
Adoption of the report of the cotton
price fixing committee reoommending
a graduated price of 36 to 40 cents
was the outstanding feature of the
convention of the American Cotton
association, which closed Its session
here Tuesday. At the closing session,
the following additional reolutions
were adopted
Asking the census director to stop ,
reporting cotton and cotton linters
together; providing for the appoint- i
ment of a committee to confer with
Governor Harding, of the federal re
serve board on the completion of the
export corporation; providing for
further study by the government of
the cotton oil industry and all re
strictions against Its use be remov
ed.
The motion of L. D. Jennings’ of
South Carolina, to indorse President
Wilson and the League of Nations
was lost through the passage of a
motion to adjourn. It was explained
that this action was taken, not .
through opposition to the president
and the league, but in keeping with
the association's policy not to in
ject political questions into the pro
ceedings.
• Following is the report of the
price-fixing committee: .
“Mr. Chairman: Your committee .
appointed to recommend a minimum
price on cotton, beg leave to subnr*
the following report:
"On account of existing conditions
we find it will be absolutely imprac
ticable to recommend a minimum'
price for cotton based upon supply
and demand, the price of the manu
factured product, a comparative
price with other commodities, and
the high cost of living.
“Until the peace covenant has been
confirmed the European markets will
be limited, this condition practically
eliminating competitive buying. A
joint resoluton by Senator E. D.
Smith, of South Carolina, has just
been adopted bycon gress requiring
the secretary of agriculture to issue
a statement by October showing
the acreage abandonment, which, he
states, is record-breaking and our
records show as one-quarter per cent
Deterioration Great
"We find as a result of a pains
taking investigation the deteriora
tion in the cotton crop since August
25 is unnrccedented. Included in the
cotton carried over on July 31 is
an enormous amount of linters and
other unsplnnable ctton. The maxi
mum possible outturn from the
growing crop, which certainly will
be the smallest crop produced In
the last decade, added to the total
amount of spinnable cotton brought
over on July 31 will fall far short
of the pressing demands of the
world before another crop can be
produced.
“The president of the United
States has been requested to issue
a call to the bankers, exporters,
manufacturers and other large busi
ness interests of America for the
*• purpose of meeting and arranging
and putting into effect and force
credits for Europe, which will en
able her to enter our markets. In
addition to this we have appointed
a special committee to co-operate
with Governor W. P. G. Harding in
pushing forward the completion of
the export financing corporation,
and we also are pushing the organ
ization of the Jennings domestic fi
nancing cornoration. Both of them
will have a bullish effect upon our
market.
Increase Seen
“Immediately upon the consum-’
mation of any or all of the above
> plans, it will of course, be neces
sary to recommend an Increase in
the minimum price suggested be
low. Just as soon as the peace
covenant is confirmed the law of
supply and demand then will be
come operative, we will have active
competitive buying to fill an un
precedented demand from a gross
ly Inadequate supply. It will then
be in order to recommend a mini
mum price based upon supply and
demand, price of the manufactured
product, cost of production, and the
price of other commodities. We rec
ommend that the executive commit
tee of the American Cotton asso
ciation meet upon the call of the
president for the purpose of recom
mending a higher minimum price.
“That said call be issued upon the
judgment of the president or upon
the special request of a majority of
the executive committee. We. there
fore, recommend as a temporary
minimum price and until conditions
warrant a higher minimum price,
the adoption of the following scale:
“September 36 cents, October. 36
1-2 cents. November, 37 cents. De
cember 37 1-2 cents January 38
■ cents. February 38 1-2 cents. March
39 cents. April 39 1-2 cents. May
40 cents, basis middling grade Unit
ed States government delivery poiqt
of origin.
“In submitting the above recom
mendation, your committee is of the
opinion that while the above scale
provides for a price of forty cents
in May. 1920, we feel that it would
be to the advantage of ?'l who can
to hold their cotton until more fa
vorable conditions will warrant a
higher minimum price.
“Respectfully ‘submitted:
"J. J. Brown, chairman; H. A. Boy
kin. chairman sub-committee; D. F.
McClatchey, secretary.”
On Tuesday, the cotton producers
who represent ten southern states
decided to organize a buying corpora
tion in every county and parish In
f the belt with the object of buying
every bale offered, then holding the
i staple until the minimum price, to
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Mrs. Louis W. Quick.
Woman suffrage has done a lot of
things. Among them is to align the
Wehrum family of Brooklyn on op
posite sides of the political fence.
Mrs. Mary A. Wehrum was elected
a member of the Democratic county
committee at the recent primary
elections. Her daughter, Mrs. Louis
W. Quick, was elected to a similar
office on the Republican ticket. Both
state that while they differ polit
ically they get along perfectly well
when Mrs. Quick visits mamma.
FREIGHT TARIFF
HEARING IS ON
IN COURT
The hearing on the proposed per
ishable freight tariff No. 1 involving
the rates, rules and regulations af
fecting refrigeration and heating on
freight lines throughout the United
States was begun Thursday morning
in the United States court of appeals.
Attorney Examiner C. R. Marshall, of
the interstate commerce commission,
is conducting the investigation, as
sisted by Examiners W. V. King and
H. J. Wagner. The hearing was
adjourned at 12:30 o’clock to resume
in the afternoon.
The tariff is an attempt on the
part of the United States railroad
administration to consolidate the tar
iffs now prevailing on the different
lines and to make certain changes in
the rules, regulations and charges
governing refrigeration and heating.
The administration is submitting the
tariff to the interstate commerce
commission for advice under section
eight of the federal control act.
Similar hearings have been held
in other sections of the country in
cluding Los Angeles, Cal., Portland,
Me., Denver. Colo., Chicago, 111., and
New York. After the Atlanta hear
ing there is one scheduled in New
Orleans for September 18.
It is probable that the hearing
will last four or five days. C. E.
Bell, assistant traffic director of the
U. S. Railroad administration is
conducting the hearing for the ad
ministration and Elmer Westlake is
counsel in charge for the adminis
tration. Other officials of the rail
road administaration are present for
the hearing.
Invented and His New Portable Wireless
Telephone Which Does Away With Cussing
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Lee De Forrest says that the problem of inadequate telephone
service has been solved. With his new portable wireless apparatus all
one has to do is to adjust a plug to an ordinary electric light socket
and talk. At present the workable radius is twenty-five miles. Sound
wave adjusters prevent “listening-in."
WING RENEWED
IN BOSTON; DEATH
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Governor Coolidge Asks War
and Navy Departments to
Be Prepared to Render As
sistance in Emergency
BOSTON, Sept. 11.—Following a
renewal of rioting here today, re
suiting fi"om the police strike, Gov
ernor Coolidge asked the war and
navy departments to be prepared to
render assistance, in case an appeal
to President Wilson were necessary
The governor, in his telegram, said
there were "rumors of a very gen
eral strike.” Union officials, it was
known, were preparing to take votes
among the various workers on the
question of a sympathetic walkout.
The rioting, which broke out on
Boston Common, resulted in the death
of a sailor, who was shot by state
troops. This was the fifth death of
the strike, which began Tuesday eve
ning. The trouble started when
guardsmen arrested a number of men
who‘were shooting craps. Sympa
thizers sought to release the pris
oners and the shooting followed.
State troops, called out by Mayor
Peters and Governor Coolidge, pa
trolled the sections of the city where
rioting and disorders had been most
frequent. Neither the authorities nor
union officials held out any hope for
an early settlement of the strike.
State and city officials said no effort
would be made to negotiate with any
of the striking policemen until order
had been restored. Union leaders de
clared recognition of their organi
zation must be the first step in a
settlement. Meetings of locals of the
Eastern Massachusetts Street Car
Men’s union will be held tonight,
when the question of setting the
time for a general walkout of all
union carmen of the eastern Massa
chusetts railway lines will be voted
on.
No intimation as to what time will
be set by the carmen for the walkout
was forthcoming, but it will be
either tomorrow or Saturday.
A “vigilantes committee” com
posed of ex-service men, has been
formed in the West Roxbury district.
All have been sworn in as special
policemen.
About fifty members of the Boston
Automobile Dealers’ association went
on duty today to handle traffic |
throughout the downtown districts.
The Cooks and Waiters’ union,
with a membership of 3,500, voted
to strike in sympathy with the po
licemen. The strike will not be put
into effect until thme central labor
union votes on the question of a
general strike.
Fifty-three Metropolitan police,
members of the force in charge of
the park system of Greater Boston,
refused to do police duty in the
place of the striking policemen.
They were suspended.
Ran, which fell intermittently
throughout the night, faled to keep
the crowds indoors and riots in
which thousands of men and women
and boys clashed with the military,
hurling stones and using clubs, were
frequent.
There was no Indication of an early
settlement of the strike today. Mayor
Peters, in a statement, declared the
restoraton of order was the first ob
ject to be obtained, and that the
strike would be taken up when the
city was under control. Leaders of
the striking policemen declared the
men were as determined as ever to
hold out for recognition of the union.
In South Boston, where the mili
tary fired on men and boys looting a
store, Anthony Carr, 24, and Robert
Sheehan, 16, were Instantly killed,
while four girls who were watching
the looting and refused to move away
when ordered to do so, were serious
ly injured. One man was killed in
a street brawl.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1919
GEN. CHARLES WOOD
HOOPER, commander-in-chief
of the Alabama division, Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, who
died last week. General Hoop
er was to have taken a promi
nent part in the reunion in At
lanta in October.
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SON OF GEORGIA,
DIES AT SELMA
SELMA, Ala., Sept. B.—Gen. Char
les Word Hooper. commander-in
chief of the Alabama division. Unit
ed Confederate veterans, who died
■here Saturday, was an Illustrious
son of Georgia, born at LaFayette,
near Rome, son of Charles Jeffer
son Hooper and Jane Byrd Word.
His record as a Confederate sol
dier was a brilliant one, and the
bestowal upon him of the highest
honor in the Alabama Confederate
veterans organization was highly
merited, and was discharged with
credit.
Elected brigadier general of the
Alabama division, U. C. V.. in 1913.
General Hooper was two years later,
in October. 1915, elected to head
the State division as c&mmander-in
chief and was re-elected three suc
cessive terms by acclimation.
FREDNEWPUTON
TRIAL FOR DULUTH
BANK ROBBERY
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.. Sept. 11.
Fred New. one of the men impli
cated in the Duluth bank robbery
August 7. was placed on trial in
Gwinnett superior court Wednesday
morning and the case will possibly
go to the jury sometime Friday. On
being formally arraigned. New plead
ed not guilty.
The first witness was Cashier G.
A. Jordan, of the Farmers’ and
Merchants’ bank. He stated that he
was at work in the bank about 8:30
when he was ordered to throw up
his hands. He thought some one
was “kidding him” and paid no at
tention to the command, but when
he looked round and saw three pis
tols pointing at him. he put his
hands up and was ordered to open
the bank vault. When he had done
so. the robbers entered the vault,
got the money, shoved him into the
vault and locked him in.
Fred Webb, who lives at 71 Mc-
Afee street, Atlanta, was the next
witness. He stated that for three
months he. Fred New. Keith Nix
and Tab Lo.very h-d been talking
about robbing the Brand bank in
Lawrenceville; that they arranged
to come and left Atlanta early one
morning and came to Lawrenceville.
They drove about town and decided,
he said, that there were too many
people here to attempt the robbery,
so they went to Duluth and came
back to Olin New’s and spent the
night. The matter was talked over
at Olin New’s that night, he con
tinued. and early next morning they
went to Duluth, stopping on the way
for Fred New to black his face.
They reached Duluth as the Bell
train came up at 8:30 a. m.. and
while the crowd was at the train,
they went to the bank and robbed
it.
The money was placed in a sack
and the robbers drove to Olin New’s,
he said, where each took one hun
dred dollars and left the balance
with Olin New. They went from
there to Norcross, and on towards
Tucker and Atlanta. On the way
they were shot at by an officer, he
said. Webb stated that he had been
double-crossed by the New Boys,
and. did not get his share of the
money, and that, together with his
fear that he would be arrested at
any time, led him to make a con
fession and get out of it the best
he could.
The case is the most sensational
ever tried here, being the first
bank robbery in the history of the
county. That, together with the
fact that two of the prisoners were
reared in the county and belong to
one of the leading families of the
county, makes the trial of great in
terest.
Americans Reported
Captured by Bandits
Near Tampico, Mex.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The
American embassy at Mexico is in
vestigating an unconfirmed report
that three Americans, including two
named Jones and Ferguson, of Tam
pico, were captured by badits who
blew up a train betwen San Luis
Potosi and Tampico.
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.)
MINORRY'S REPORT
SAYS RESERVATIONS
INOIILOJOLLLEIGIIE
Senator Shields Leaves His
Colleagues and Joins Re
publican Majority Com
mittee Delay Criticized
.’WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—Rejec
tion of the peace treaty with its
League of Nation covenant, or
adoption of amendments, would mean
sacrifice by the United States of all
concessions obtained from Germany
under a dictated peace, minority
members of the foreign relations
committee declared in a report pre
sented today to the senate.
The report, prepared by Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ranking
Democratic member of the commit
tee. urged speedy ratification of .the
treaty without amendments, or reser
vations. It deplored “the long and
unnecessary delay the treaty has
been subjected while locked up in
the committee, whose i ’ommenda
tions were from the start a fore
gone conclusion,” and asserted these
recommendations could have been
made in July.
Senator Shields, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, did not sign the report, hav
ing announced he favored league cov
enant reservations prepared by
Chairman Lodge. It was stated he
would not present a separate report.
Those signing In addition to Senator
Hitchcock, were Senators Williams,
Mississippi; Swanson, Virginia; Po
merene, Ohio; Smith, Arizona, and
Pittman. Nevada, ail Democrats.
The minority denied the claim put
forth in Chairman Lodge’s report
that the peace conference still was in
session and has power “to bring
German representatives to Paris,”
saying such power of compulsion had
been exhausted, and that Germany
“had closed the chapter by signing
and by ratifying.”
“If an amended treaty is not signed
by Germany,” the report added,
“then it is in none of its parts bind
ing on her.”
Urges Treaty Adoption.
The report mentioned twelve con
cessions the United States would lose
by failure to ratify the treaty, these
including industrial and economic ad
vantages and agreements.
Reservations proposed by the ma
jority, the report said, were “for the
purpose of destroying the league,”
which has stood “the test of world
wide criticism and unlimited at
tack.”
The minority urged that the work
of the peace conference be confirmed
and the peace of the world advanced
by ratification of the treaty describ
ed as the best hope of the world
“even if like all instrumentalities it
be not divinely perfect in every de
tail.”
The report contended that the in
dustrial world was “in ferment.”
The financial world in doubt and
commerce halted while delay in the
treaty had been caused “by the ma
jority of a committee known to be
out of harmony with the majority of
the senate and the majority of the
people.” This was declared to be
government by obstruction as well as
by minority.
Export trade, the report said, had
suffered because of delay in ratifi
cation; that private credit waited for
peace, and that this government,
which has been advancing to Euro
pean governments, has about reached
the end of its authority given by con
gress. Private enterprise, it is said,
from now on must keep up Ameri
can commerce with Europe. Answer
ing the majority, the report said
exports to Germany since the armis
tice amounted to only fourteen cents
worth of American products for each
person in Germany or two cents per
person per month.
“Referring to the action of the
majority of the committee,” said the
report,, “we unite in opposing and
condemning the recommendations,
both as to textual amendments and
as to proposed reservations. As far
as the propos textual amendments
are concerned, we see no reason to
discuss their character at length. In
our opinionfi they have no merit, but
whether they be good, bad or indif
ferent their adoption by the senate
can have no possible effect, except
to defeat the participation of the
United States in the treaty. None
of them could by any possibilty be
accepted even by the great nations
associated with the United States in
the war and none of them could by
any possibility be dictated to Ger
many. To adopt any one of them,
therefore, is equivalent to rejecting
the treaty.
GEORGIA LEGION
TO NAME PLACE
OF STATE MEET
MACON, Ga., Sept. 11.—The state
executive committee of the Georgia
chapter of the An.erican Legion, re
cently named by Chairman Walter
A. Harris, began its first session
here this morning in the office of
State Secretary C. Baxter Jones in
the Citizens’ and Southern bank
building.
The committee had before it the
question of naming the date and
place of the fall convention of the
state chapter and the determination
of the representation to which each
local post will be entitled at the
state convention.
It is stated that resolutions will
be adopted expressing the attitude
of the executive committee on many
matters that have come to the at
tention of state headquarters from
national headquarters. Reports will
be received from the secretary, treas
urer and cliairman.
Bolsheviki Claim
Capture of 12,000
Kolchak Troops
LONDON, Sept. 11. —A Bolshevik
wireless dispatch from Moscow today
claims the capture of nearly 12,000
prisoners from Admiral Kolchak’s all-
Russian forces in the region of Ak
tubin-Skorak. It is declared the sur
render olf. the remainder of Kolchak's
southern army is expected.
A PURE AMERICAN MARRIAGE
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COLORADO SPRINGS. —European nobility has no more ancient
pile for a royal marriage than this Santa Clara Pueblo couple who
were wedded with Indian ritual amid the ruins of their ancestral
homes. It was the biggest Indian affair in the history of Colorado.
Joseph Tafoyia, the groom, had just returned from overseas. The
bride was Petra Sousea.
45 PERSONS ADRIFT
IN BOATS WITHOUT
FOOD NEAR MIAMI
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MIAMI, Fla,. Sept. 11—A wire
less message received here early to
day said 45 persons were adrift in
small boats between Fowey Rock
lighthouse and Cape Florida, about
15 miles from Miami. All were re
ported "in distress” and without food
or water. No details were given and
there was nothing to indicate their
identity, but it was presumed they
were members of crews of ships that
went down during the hurricane, that
swept this section early Monday.
Boats have left here to bring them
in.
Practically the entire business sec
tion of Goulds, twenty miles south
of here, was wrecked Wednesday
afternoon by a tornado which devel
oped as an offshoot of Tuesday’s hur
ricane. The storm moved inland for
several miles, leveling trees and
houses.
Three large packing plants, two
stores, railroad depot, and a number
of residences were leveled at Goulds,
the cutting a path forty feet
wide through the main section.
Two women were painfully injured
by flying debris and scores miracu
lously escaped death.
KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 11.—One
dead, three missing, property dam
age estimated at between $1,500,000
and $2,000,000 and several hundred
families homeless, was the known
toll today of the West Indian hurri
cane which swept over Key West
Tuesday night.
Approximately 340 houses, many
of them of frame construction, and
five i’etail stores in the business dis
trict were destroyed by the high
winds, while the harbor was one
choked mass of wrecked and dis
abled fishing craft and small boats.
Weather conditions were practi
cally normal today.
That no deaths occurred in the
city was considered a miracle. Many
narrow escapes were reported.
The small steamer Grampus, with
a crew of fourteen, sank in the har
bor Ten members of the crew were
rescued late yesterday and one body
recovered. No trace had been found
early today of the three remaining
members of the crew.
The Mallory line steamer Comal
was aground in the harbor today,
having broken loose from her dock
during the hurricane. The vessel was
said to be only sEghtiy damaged.
The British oil tanker Tonawanda,
which ran afoul of the Comal, was
scuttled in order to save the latter
vessel.
A heavy downpour of rain through
out Tuesday night intensifu 1 the
suffering of the homeless and added
to the damage ia the city. Plate
glass windows in pract.ca .y eveiy
store in the city were blown in by
force of Tie wind, which reached
a. maximum force of eighty-five
miles an nour at t'mes. Many com
plete stocks of goods in stores are
known to be almost a total loss as
a result of being flooded.
Much suffering is expected here
among the homeless. Outside aid
probably will be necessary.
Efforts were being made today to
reach Pine Key, which was reported
to have suffered heavily. Uncon
firmed reports indicate that the loss
of life there will be heavy.
Scores of small vessels were sunk
around the neighboring islands, and
it is feared that the loss of life will
be increased as communication is es
tablished throughout the keys.
Beats Sas or Electricity
New Lamp Has No Wick. No Chim
ney. No Odor. Most Bril*/
liant Bight Known.
A new lamp which experts agree
gives the most powerful home light
in the world, is the latest achieve
ment of VV. H. Hoffstot. 913 Factory
Bldg., Kansas City 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
tender of The .T" •' - -o whites
him. He wants one person in each
locality to whom he can refer new
customers. Take advantage of his
free offer. Agents wanted, '..rite
him today.—(Advt.)
ULTIMATUM IS
DECLARED BY
UNION HEADS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—With
government officials trying to avert
the steel strike called for Septem
ber 22, union leaders today declared
there would be no turning back now
unless the employers capitulated.
Other developments in the threat
ened walkout, which was decided up
on here yesterday, were:
Attorney General Palmer began a
study of conditions in the steel mill
districts in some of which the men
charge the rights of free speech and
free assembly have been violated.
John Fitzpatrick, head of the steel
men’s organization committee, de
clared he had not seen President
Wilson’s telegram asKing postpone
ment of the strike action until after
the “round table conference” here
October 6.
The president’s telegram reached
the office of President Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor
this morning and was forwarded to
Mr. Gompers at Dorchester, Mass.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, who leaves for
Chicago today, announced a meeting
of the twenty-four steel union presi
dent’s next Wednesday at Pittsburg,
where strike headquarters will be
established.
The strike was called yesterday by
the executive council of the twenty
four unions embraced in the steel In
dustry after they had telegraphed
President Wilson for a "more defi
nite statement” on the possibility of
arranging a conference with steel
corporation officials and the president
in reply had wired a request that the
unions accept postponement of the
issue of union recognition until after
the industrial conference.
$275 for Penny Stamp
LONDON. —War stamps brought
high prices at an auction sale, a
New Britain one penny stamp sur
charged “G. R. I." to mark British
occupation, bringing $275.
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The eldest cousin of King Vic
tor Emmanuel, Duke d’Aosta, who
during the war. was commander o:
Italy’s Third Army, will soon
make a visit to the United States,
according to report. His plans in
clude visits <to China and Japan.
Scents a copy.
$1.25 a year.
‘A PEOPLE'S TREATY.'
PRESIDENT WILSON
TELLS GW CROWD
President Lays Down Ten
Points as Principles on
Which He Is Urging Ac
ceptance of Pact
BILLINGS, Mont. Sept. 11.—Lay
ing his appeal for the peace treaty
before the people of Montana today,
President W’ilson declared the ques
tion of its ratification was a question
whether the United States would ful
fill its pledges to its people and to
the whole world.
There were two addresses on his
day’s program, Mr. Wilson speaking
at the Billings auditorium beforo
noon so that he could reach Helena
in time for a meeting at night. He
arrived here from Bismarck, N. D.,
only a short time before the hour for
his address. At the auditorium he
found all of the 8,000 seats taken
and many standing.
Mayor W. H. Lee Mains, introduc
ing the president, said that where a
man went across the sea and did
the major portion of the work of
"righting the whole world’s troubles,
he was some man.” Yells from the
crowd greeted this declaration and
there were more cheers when the
mayor’s little daughter presented a
bouquet to Mrs. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson said he had come west
“to consult" with the people in the
light of circumstances which affect
ed the whole world. Everywhere, he
declared, the human heart beats the
same and on both sides of the ocean
there was a sinaere desire that there
should be no more war.
It was a mistake, therefore, the
president continued, to debate the
peace treaty as if it were an ordinary
treaty. It was not merelA a treaty
with Germany, he said, butNa treaty
affecting a settlement of the affairs
of the world.
"And it is this treaty or no treaty,”
he added. “It is this treaty because
inhere can be no other.
“This settlement is the first in
ternational settlement that is based
upon the happiness of the average
people throughout the world. Jt is a
people’s treaty, and I ventui'/ the
prediction that it is not wise for (par
liaments and congresses to attempt
to alter It."
Severe But Just.
It is a severe treaty, the president
went on, but justly so. Some of the
men who had called it unduly harsh,
he added, were criticising the ad
ministration a year ago because they
thought the United States would be
too easy with Germany.
“They were pitiless then,” he saidt
"they are pitiful now.”
The American dead in the war, Mr.
Wilson declared, had fought not for
the redemption of America, but for
the redemption of the world.
It was one of the hardest of his
trials during the war. he said, to
be able merely to direct the poli
cies of the nation and not to “tako
a gun himself.”
The bajsic principle of the treaty/
said Mr. Wilsop. was that the ter
ritory everywhere belongs to the
people who live upon It. It was the
laborious work of many minds, he
added, and “has very few compro
mises in it.” following in general
American specifications. Should it
fall, he declared, it would be impos
sible to get together ; again the ele
ments necessary to make a new set
tlement. The United States either
must take the treaty, he said, or
play a lone hand in world affairs.
"If you’re going to play a lone
hand,” said he “the hand that you
play must have a weapon in it. And
the weapon must be all the young
men of the country, and the busi
ness of the country must pay the
piper.”
There was a spirit of unrest ev
erywhere, he continued, and it wag
the province of the treaty to set up
an industrial democracy as well ag
a political democracy. He contin
ued that there were domestic ques
tions to be settled In that conneo
tion because there could be no in
dustrial democracy as long as monop
olies existed.
He was Interrupted by applause
when he added: “And we have not
yet finished with the monopolies."
Citing again the upheaval in Rus
sia. the president asked if his hear
ers had not seen evidences of the
spread of the unrest. It was the
“dread” of every statesman in Eu
rope. he continued, and a propagan
da was spreading it in the United
States.
36-Cent Cotton Is
Endorsed by Alabama
MONTGOMERY. Ala., Sept. 11.—
The State Farmers’ Protective
League executive board at a meet
ing here yesterday, fixed SBO a ton as
the price for cottonseed, and at the
same time endorsed the price of thir
ty-six cents a pound for cotton as
agreed upon by the American Cotton
association, it was announced today.
30 Days for Two Apples
BRISTOL Eng.—James Redman, a
dock laborer, was sentenced to one
month's imprisonment at hard labor
for pilfering two apples on the dock
where he was ’ working.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916 Fourth
street, Milwaukee, Wis., recently gave out
the following tement: "I had 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 and 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 has *snerously
promised to send it postpaid free ro any one
who writes him.”—(Advt.)