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WRECKAGE COMBED
IN HUNT FOR MODE
BODIES JFJEXANS
Worst Huricane in History of
Texas Coast Sweeps Death
and Disaster Property
Loss Great
The worst hurricane and storm in
the history of the Texas coast, which
passed over Galveston and surround
ing counties, has left a toll of death
and destruction in its wake. Scopes
of bodies have been washed up along
the' Texas beaches and hundreds ot
persons were injured. Thousands
-i are homeless and property losses will
Veach $3,000,000 or more. As yet an
accurate estimate of the dead is im
possible, as reports are coming in
, gradually.
The list of known dead in Corpus
Christi, Tex., and environs is now
nearing the two hundred mark and
is being swelled almost hourly.
It is now feared that the death
toll will reach far into the hundreds
as reports reaching here from
across Nuceces Bay in the vicinity of
Portland, White Point and Rocita
and other towns in that section tell
a uniform story of heavy casualties.
According to reports from that
section today the receding waters
have left bodies strewn along the
entire north shores of the bay. Burial
parties are being sent out from
here to scour all lowlands along
‘Nueces bay and bury them in the
most expeditious manner, as prac
tically all hope of identifying any of
tlse bodies has been abandoned.
The temporary morgue opened in
the Corpus Christi courthouse was
, closed today, and all bodies now are
being carried directly to the ceme
teries. where they are buried with
simple rites by waiting clergymen.
Pieces of clothing, jewelry and other
keepsakes found on the bodies of
the victims are being preserved and
filed with the county recorder in the
hope they may later be of use to
relatives and friends as a means of
identification
Five military airplanes from Kelly
‘field, San Antonio, will arrive in
Corpus Christi this afternoon to aid
ifi -the search of the victims and ma
rooned refugees and to open up com
munication with points still cut cff.
A plane circled over Corpus ’hris
ti and Port Aransas yesterday aft
ernoon and reported that many bod
ies could be discerned at Port Aran
eks, but that a landing was impos
eible before high water.
The most reliable estimates here
today place the loss of life at Cor
r pnus Christi. Port Aransas and Kan
sas Pass at about 250. The bodies
being recovered today are in such
condition that Identification will be
almost Impossible. A drenching rain
began fall!" • this forenoon, handi
capping relief workers and adding to
the suffering of the_ homeless.
Today, more than seventy hours
after the tropical hurricane and tidal
wave that tore huge rents in this
Texas coast city and environs, it
was still impossible to estimate with
any degree of accuracy the loss of
life or damage to property.
Each report from searchers, how
ever, revealed the 'ncreasing magni
tude of the disaster. It was be
lieved that it might be a week or
more before the true extent was
known.
The great piles of wreckage strewn
from one end of the city to the other
may conceal numerous bodies, it is
believed, and today hundreds of men
were at work exploring them.
, Officials generally were agreed the
death list would be in excess of 100
and some unofficial estimates placed
it as between 200 and 300, with hun
dreds of persons Injured or suffering
from exposure. Estimates of the
property loss varied from $10,000,000
to $15,000,000.
Seventy-seven bodies, all blackened
and bruised, were reported to havs
been washed ashore last night on the
northern side of Nueces Bay, upon
which Corpus Christi is situated. Os
the seventy-seven bodies, the report
said, thirty-eight were taken from
. West Portland, twenty-nine from
White Point and nine from Sinton |
and one from Odem. Other points
also reported the washing ashore of
bodies during the night.
v Military officials were exerting
'every resource today to ascertain the
fate of twenty or more soldiers who
were washed out into the bay while
the storm was at its height and of
; whom there had been found no trace
t -The men. members of company t
Thirty-seventh infantry, and other
regiments on border duty, were at
the government rest camp here for
a week-end furlough when the camp
was washed away.
Captain B. M. Edgeland, of Web
ster, S D., camp commander, was
drowned during the storm, and his
wife also is believed to have lost her
life.
Attempts were being made today
to rig out several sailboats to cross
Nueces Bay to rescue twenty-five
persons who are reported in desper
ate straits at White Point.
A message from Judge P. A. Hunt
of Rocita, Texas, was brought into
Corpus Christi saying there were
twenty-five bodies at White Point
and twenty-five refugees there were
starving The twenty five bodies re
covered at White Point will be bur
' ied there by a military squad be
cause of the lack of coffins here and
because no boats are available with
wkich to transport them seven miles
across the bay.
Reports from other smaller towns
in the path of the storm stated that
the authorities were burying bodies,
some unidentified, as rapidly as pos
sible for sanitary reasons.
Although business here was at a
standstill and wire communication
demoralized, a more cheerful spirit
seemed to pervade the city today, due
largely, officials thought, to the ar
rival of relief trains with food and
supplies for the thousands made des
titute by the storm:
Makes Fords Start Easy
A new Gas Generator, winch heats tne
inanifolu, vaporizes the gas and makes In
stant ignition possible, tias been invented by
the Bear Mfg. Co., 113 Bear bldg., Kock
Island, 111. This simple and Inexpensive de
vice does away with hot water makeshifts,
etc., and gives you a ‘ready to start" motor
in the coldest "weather. It also saves 10
cents a gallon on gasoline because with it
you can use the cheapest gasoline all winter.
IfVyou want to try this great trouble and
* money saver send them $1.50 and they will
send you one of these remarkable devices
postpaid under a guarantee of satisfaction or
nJtaey back. Write them today.—(Advt.)
ASK PRESIDENT TO
CALL IMO ON
EORDPEANCREDITS
Wannamaker Announces
This to Southern Business
Leaders Here Governor
Harding Is Guest
President Wilson has been asked
by J. S. Wannamaker. president of
the American Cotton association,
acting in behalf of the association,
to call a meeting of all the great
interests of America for the purpose
of arranging financial credits to
Europe.
This became known Wednesday
afternoon when Mr. Wannamaker
delivered one of the principal ad
dresses at a conference of bankers,
business men and farmers held un
der the auspices of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce and Ameri
can Cotton association.
Speaking Wednesday evening at
the Capital City club to several hun
dred guests assembled at the dinner
given in his honor by the American
Cotton association, W. P. G. Hard
ing, governor of the federal reserve
board in Washington, declared it to
be absolutely necessary to arrange
foreign credits if the price of cotton
is to be upheld.
No matter how much the bellig
erent nations of Europe may need
and want cotton, Mr. Harding pointed
out, they can not buy it unless they
have money or credit. Immense de
struction of liquid wealth, caused by
the war, renders it practically im
possible for them to pay cash for
cotton in very large quantities at
prevailing rates of exchange. Hence
they are obliged to have credit for
long-term periods ranging as high
as three to five years. To protect
the price of her staple commodity
by keeping open the foreign mar
ket, it is therefore imperative' that
the south should immediately take
steps to provide these credits.
Mr. Harding regretted that the or
ganization of the proposed American
Cotton Export Financing Corpora
tion, launched some months ago at
New Orleans at his suggestion, has
not progressed very far. He ex
plained that the organization com
mittee lost enthusiasm during the
recent summer months because the
price of cotton was then mounting
steadily. They overlooked the fact,
he said, that this was due to emer
gency purchases of cotton by Euro
pean belligerents with money loaned
to them by the United States. Now
that the war loans are nearly used
up, and no more potton is being
purchased in large quantities in Eu
rope, the price is declining.
Mr. Harding indorsed whole-heart
edly the objects and purposes of the
American Cotton association in so
far as it proposes to protect the in
terests of the cotton producer and
improve his conditions, but he
stressed with great emphasis the
proposition that foreign credits must
be arranged and he urged the im
portance of pushing forward the ex
port financing corporation as a com
panion movement which ought to go
hand in hand with the cotton asso
ciation.
-Dinner Largely Attended
The dinner Wednesday evening
was largely attended by a most rep
resentative gathering of men from
the whole cotton belt. In the au
dience were farmers, merchants,
bankers, editors and men in other
professions and lines of business.
The dinner followed a conference
held Wednesday afternoon at the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce,
where an address was delivered by
Mr. Harding along lines similar to
his evening address. In the after
noon he stressed the necessity for
foreign credits, as he did in the
evening. The number and repre
resentative character of the men at
tending the conference and dinner
was in itself a remarkable evidence
of the strength of the movement to
organize the farmers and their busi
ness allies in a great association for
mutual benefit and protection.
Clark Howell, editor of the At
lanta Constitution, presided at the
dinner and introduced Mr. Harding
in an eloquent and forceful address,
emphasizing the importance of or
ganization to prevent the south’s
great staple crop from being dumped
on the market at one time, thereby
forcing a decline in prices and
forcing the farmer to start again in
the vicious borrowing circle which
has been the bane of the south’s
economic existence for fifty years.
I Oganization, coupled with the facili
ties afforded by the Federal Re
serve system, declared Mr. Howell,
are destined to emancipate the cot
ton producer and make him the most
prosperous and independent agricul
turist in the world.
Govenor Dorsey spoke briefly
along the same line. He said the
hour has struck when it would be a
stupendous folly for the farmers
and business interests to fail to or
ganize. If the business interests
tail to assist the farmer, he said,
they deal their section the hardest
blow it has had since the civil war.
FULLER E. CALLAWAY, of
LaGrange, prominent Geor
gian, who is one of the twen
ty-two men chosen by Presi
dent Wilson to represent the
public in the conference in
Washington, October 6, on re
ationship between employers
1 employes.
H
W. P. G. HARDING, Gover
nor of the Federal Reserve
Board, who Wednesday even
ing addressed a conference of
bankers, farmers and business
in at x he Capital City club on
“The Economic Conditions in
the South.”
ITALY THROWS
CORDON AROUND
CITY OF FIUME
PARIS, Sept. 18. —Italy is throw
ing a naval and military cordon
about the city of Fiume, which is
still held by Captain Gabriele d’An
nunzio’s forces. Food supplies of
Fiume are reported to be low and
an effort is being made to close all
avenues by which stores can be rush
ed into the city and thus force the
surrender of the troops holding the
place.
Advices received here Indicate that
Captain d’Annunzio’s men have en
trenched themselves about the city
and intend to defend it against any
attack. In the event it is found im
possible to hold Fiume, it is said,
plans have been laidr to destroy the
city.
General Badoglio, deputy chief of
staff of the Italian army, is in Fiume
and has issued a proclamation call
ing upon the d’Annunzio troops to
return to their units. Some are said
to have left the city. General Diaz,
commander-in-chief of the Italian
army, has been recalled from his va
cation and has been in conference at
Rome with King Victor Emmanuel,
and Premier Nitti.
Dispatcbea relating to the situa
tion at Fiume are being subjected
to rigorous censorship, but it is re
ported that Rear Admiral Casamova,
who landed at Fiume on Tuesday to
restore order, is under virtual arrest
there.
It develops there were no Ameri
can detachments in Fiume when
Captain d’Annunzio marched into the
city last week. Early reports from
Italy stated American units had left
by steamer, but it is believed the
only Americans there were members
of the American food administration,
who might have been mistaken for
soldiers because they wore United
States army uniforms.
22 SELECTED - FOR
“ROUND TABLE”
CONFERENCE OCT. 6
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—No
tifications that President Wilson had
selected them to act as representa
tives of the public in the labor con
ference he has called to meet in
Washington, October 6, next, today
were in the hands of twenty-two
men residing in all parts of the
country. The notifications were sent
out last night, each embodying an
expression of the president’s "sincere
hope” that the recipient might find
it possible to “undertake this very
important service.”
"Formulating plans for develop
ment of a new relationship between
capital and labor,"’ was the phrase
in which the president described the
object of the conference.
Besides the representatives of the
public, twenty-two representatives of
oganized labor and organized em
ployers are to participate in the con
ference. These are to be selected lat
er by organized labor, leading agricul.
tual associations, investment bankers
and manufacturers.
The men selected by the president
are from varied walks of life and of
several political faiths.
Mon Selected
In the list of those who will rep
resent the public are Bernard Ba
ruch, of New York, former chair
man of the war industry board.
Robert S. Brookings, of St. Louis,
former chairman of the price fixing
committee of that <M-ganization
John D. Rockefeller, Judge Elbert
W. Elliot, prt o.flpThe g iE Ir nu
H. Gary, of New York; Dr. Charles
W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har
vard; Charles Edward Russell, of
New York, and John Spargo, of Ver
mont. The last two named are So
cialist leaders.
The others on the list are O. E.
Bradfute, Xenia, Ohio, president
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation;
Ward Burgess, Nebraska; Fuller E.
Callaway, LaGrange, Ga.. extensive
cotton manufacturer; Thomas L.
Chadbourne, New York; Charles G.
Dawes, Chicago; H. B. Endicott,
Milton, Mass.; Paul L. Feiss, Cleve
land; Edwin F. Gay, dean Graduate
School of Business Administration,
Harvard university; Georgia R.
James, Memphis, Tenn.; Thomas D.
Jones, Chicago; A. A. Landon. Buf
falo; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines,
lowa, editor Successful Farming;
Gavin McNab, San Francisco; L. D.
Sweet, Carbondale. Colo., and Louis
Titius. San Francisco.
J. Hamilton Lewis
Explains the Use of
Term, ‘Socialization’
CHICAGO, Sept. 18. —J. Hamilton
Lewis today said the term “sociali
zation” applied by him yesterday in
predicting President Wilson will de
clare himself soon for “socialization
of all resources” was coined by the
president himself.
Mr. Lewis in a speech here said
the president will declare for so
cialization of all resources, includ
ing railroads, coal and oil.
“I am convinced,” Mr. Lewis said,
’’that he means public agencies nec
essary to the uses of the govern
ment should be put under a system
by which they will serve the uses
of all society without discrimina
tion.”
This ian differs from socialism
which does not include the item of
recompense of owners, Mr. Lewis
said. He predicted the plan will oc
cupy much of the president’s next
Inessage.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1919.
SAYS ENDANGERING
OF PUBLIC SHfiOLD
NOT BEJDLERATED
Telegram to Washington
City Government Read to
Senate Committee —Urges
Justice and Generosity
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Presi
dent Wilson, in a telegram £ sent
from Dunsmuir, California, and re
ceived today by the local city-.-gOV
ernment, said that organization of
the police forces of the country for
the purpose of bringing pressure
against the public should not be
“countenanced or permitted.”
The telegram was read today be
fore the senate committee consider
ing the resolution by Senator Myers,
Democrat, Montana, to shut off the
pay of all members of the Washing
ton police force as long as they re
main members of the recently organ
ized union.
The president’s telegram follows:
I hope that you understood my
brief telegram of the other day.
I am quite willing that you
should tell the senate committee
that my position in my conver
sations wit£ you was exactly the
same as I have expressed recent
ly in speeches here in the west
and, of course, I am desirous as
you are of dealing with the po
lice force in the most just and
generous way, but that I think
that any association of the po
lice force of the capital city or
of *hny great city whose object
is to bring pressure upon the
public or the community such as
will endanger the public peace
or embarrass the maintenance of
order should in no case be coun
tenanced or permitted.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
POLICE UNIONS FATAL
TO GOVERNMENT —ROOT
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Certain
overthrow of the American govern
ment will result if police unions gen
erally are allowed to affiliate with
the American Federation of Labor,
according to Elihu Root, speaking at
a “Constitution Day” celebration
here last night.
The government cannot exist, he
said, which cannot control the force
to see that its laws are respected.
The strike of Boston police, he said,
was an attack on the American gov
ernment; -
DISSOLUTION ORDER -j t _..
/ WITHDRAWN IN MACON
MACON, Ga., Sept. 18. —A truce
has been declared in the "war” be
tween the Macon civil service com
mission and the firemen and police
men. Following the refusal of city
council to indorse the action of the
commission in ordering the dissolu
tion of the unions of the firemen
and policemen, the commission has
recalled the dissolution order and
adopted a new policy, promising to
handle the matter later under an ar
rangement that will put the depart
ments on a basis satisfactory to all
Macon citizens.
The commission has issued the following
statement:
"The civil service commission of Macon
on Monday passed a resolution that no per
son who is a member of any union which
is affiliated with any city, state or national
organization, shall be eligible to become or
remain an officer of either police or fire
departments of the city of Macon.
"It was the intention of the civil serv
ice commission to declare itself against a
policemen’s or firemen’s union, which might
be affiliated with any city, state or national
organization.
“The civil service commission, having
passed that resolution on Monday and hav
ing rescinded it on Wednesday, this revoca
tion being due to the misconstruction that
was -placed on the resolution and due also
to the fact that when the civil service com
mission passed the above resolution it was
done with intention of having it indorsed
by the mayor and council.
“The civil service commission hereby an
nounces the policy and intent to handle the
subject at a later date, and make arrange
ments with the police and firemen which
will put them on a basis satisfactory to
all the people of Macon. That we pledge
ourselves to do.”
Warren McWilliams, chief of po
lice of Macon for a day, left the city
on the first train he could catch fol
lowing his resignation, it has been
learned. "Jack” Thomas, internation
al organizer for the textile union,
also lost no time in getting out of
the city, when he was released from
jail following the settlement of the
strike of mill workers and told to
get out of Macon and never come
back. Sullivan, the former captain in
the fire department, who was so
active in organizing everything from
grass cutters to textile workers, has
decided to take a rest, on the advice
of his physicians, he says, but he
was also given to understand that
he must cease his activities when
he was released on a small bond.
Matin Thompson, the new chief of
police, assues the people of Macon
that the policemen will be on the
job in the future.
Peace Conference May
Be Taken to London
PARIS, Sept. 18.—This morning’s
newspapers speculate on the possi
bility of the peace conference being
transferred to London. Premier
Lloyd George, of Great Britain, is
said to have urged the charge on
the ground that this country is the
one most interested in the future
status of the Turkish empire. the
consideration of which is the prin
cipal work remaining before the
conference.
Some journals anticipate a virtual
dissolution of the conference, the
work of which may be succeeded by
negotiations between the different
foreign offices.
Wear Suit Free for 30 Bays
To prove their prices 25 to 50 per
cent lower than average, to prove
their fit, style and quality unsur
passed, the Lincoln Woolen Mills
Co., 202 to 210 S. Green St., Chi
cago, 111., will make a suit or pair
of pants to leasure, and send it
delivery charges prepaid for any
reader of this paper to wear for
30 days with privilege of return
ing if not perfectly satisfactory.
Write for their free sample outfit
No. 5 with big cloth samples and
styles to choose from.—(Advt.)
PERSHING TENDERED
IMS OF NATION
FOB JOB WELL DONE
Congress, in Joint Session,
Honors Chief us A. E, F.
and Forces Under Him.
Galleries Crowded
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Stand
ing in the chamber of the house
of representatives, with the full
membership of the senate and house
about him and with galleries crowd
ed with admirers. General John J
Pershing received today the formal
thanks of congress for the services
he and the officers and men he com
manded in France rendered during
the great war. To few Americans
has it faller, to be thus honored:
to few soldiers of any nation has
been given to hear leaders chosen of
the people speak such high praises
of their services for that people as
General Pershing heard today. There
was an air of solemnity about the
scene more eloquent than words to
tell its full meaning.
Senator Cummins, as president pro
tempore of the senate, sat with
Speaker Gillett, and when General
Pershing had been escorted to the
floor before the speaker’s desk, fac
ing a great American flag draped
on the wall, it was Senator Cummins
who extended the first greeting.
"General Pershing,” he said, “it is
my high privilege to extend to you
the sincere and cordial greeting of
the senate of the United States. The
message I have the honor to bear
is not a greeting alone, but an ear
nest welcome and hearty congratula
tions upon your safe and victorious
return to your native land. Nor is
it welcome only, for it is full of
deep appreciation of . the tremendous
task you have so wonderfully and
worthily accomplished. You wer?
called on to shoulder the immeasur
able responsibility of commanding
the greatest body of soldiers who
ever marched under the American
flag, and you led this superb, in
vincible host of our brightest, best
and bravest boys to the very sum
mit of military fame and national
glory. While our tears are flowing
and our hearts are breaking, as we
solemnly remember the tens of
thousands who sailed away with
spirit soTesolute and courage so per
fect, and who will return nevermore
until God ’calls us all on His judg
ment day, we receive with unbound
ed joy and undying gratitude those
who have passed unharmed through
the perils of the cruelest war in the
history of the world.
200,000 Railway and
Steamship Men Told
To Take Strike Vote
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 18.—Two
hundred thousand railway and
steamship men, members of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, freight hands, express
and station employes, have been or
dered to take a strike vote, it was
announced here today by J. J For
rester, of Cincinnati, president of the
brotherhood, to enforce demands
made to the railway administration
by the brotherhood. August 18.
Orders have gone forward to every
lodge in the country, it was said,
to take the strike vote. The five
lodges in Louisville with a membet
ship of approximately 3,500 alreadv
have voted, but the result has been
withheld. Members of the organiza
tion on the Pennsylvania railroad
system, it was declared. will act
within the next few days.
Court Permits Her at 17
To Spend $50,000 a Year
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MISS MABION 3C. HOFFMAN
By court order. Miss Marion K.
Hoffman, seventeen-year-old daughter
of the late Charles Frederick Hoff
man, is to receive $50,000 a year from
the estate of her grandfather. Event
ually a residue of many millions from
her father’s estate will go to her.
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EARL GRAY, the new ambassador from Great Britain, who
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Collective Buying and
Selling Organization Is
Desired by Agriculturists
JNatiojial Board of -Fai-m Or
ga n izat I dn’f N o w*ifl Was h -
ington Enlisting Support
of Members of Congress
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TIJ.LEB
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 18.—
The national board of farm organ
izations, now in session here, is en
listing the support of members of
congress for a bill giving specific
approval to collective buying and col
lective selling by farmers. Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is listed by
the board today as one whose aid
has been promised. Other senators
favorable to the farm organizations’
plan include Underwood, of Alabama;
Kenyon, of Iowa; Curtis, of Kansas;
Sterlin, of South Dakota, and Wads
worth, of New York. Legislative
recruits are being added daily.
Members of the Georgia delega
tion in congress have from time to
time dropped in upon the confer
ence of the farm board, and a brief
address was made by Senator Smith.
The board went on record for regula
tion of the meat-packing industry.
The collective bargaining issue has
taken much of the time of the or
ganization’s meeting. Dissatisfaction
was also expressed that agricultur
ists are to have but three representa
tives at the industrial conference to
be held at the White House next
month.
“Labor has been given large rep
resentation, although it raised hell
generally, while agriculture has been
loyal everywhere,” said Milo D.
Campbel], chairman of the board of
farm organizations.
R. D. Cooper, president of the
Dairymen’s league, of New York, as
serted there was a disposition
throughout the country to force the
farmer to assume both the burden
of the high cost of living and the
blame for the same.
Claims Farmers Ignored
The farmers, he said, were not re
sponsible for the high prices. When
representation at the industrial con
ference was under discussion, Mr
Cooper said:
“We should demand that agricul
ture be given one-third of the rep
resentation at the conference. It is
very evident that the cards have
been slacked against us and
that there is a purpose to put tne
burden and the blame for the nigh
cost of living on the farmer” Mr.
Cooper was cheered.
Delegate John McSparran, of Pen."
sylvania, said the farmers were not
sufficiently organized to demand a
third of the representation at the
conference and that moderation must
be followed in their demands undtr
the circumstances.
Replying to this speech, Presi
dent Campbell said in part: “I dis
like to disagree with my friend Mc-
Sparran, but there is a great indus
try with a hundred billions of dol
lars invested in it and forty millions
of persons engaged in it. The powers
that be saw fit in the first place to
ignore us entirely and then made
room for three representatives.
"I know the president has a multi
tude of weighty matters on his mind,
but that is no reason why he should
ignore the grsatest industry in the
United States, the industry on which
all other industries depend for their
exis fence.
“Labor has been given large renre
sentation although it raised hell gen
erally, while agriculture has been
loyal everywhere—has sent her sons
to France to be killed while providing
means for feeding the allied armies,
so that they could continue the fight
for civilization.”
Senator Wadswortth discussed the
proposed amendment to the Clayton
law, giving unquestioned permission
to the farmer to organize.
“It is time that the hand of the
government was taken off the in
dustry and the farmers permitted to
develop in the old way, unhindered
and unhampered by government
regulations,” said Senator Wads
worth. “I hayft hprjpr* of govern
ment regulation. Os course, there
were some things we were obliged to
do during the war and Which were
then excusable, but in peace are
wholly unnecessary and wholly
wrong.
“The farmers have the resort of
the collective buying and collective
selling, they should under no cir
cumstances be denied them. I will
do all possible to get a law through
congress specifically allowing this.”
Senator Capper, of Kansas, deliv
ered a speech in defense of the Cap
per-Hersman bill, which specifically
allows within certain limits collec
tive bargaining among farmers, un
der this bill, Senator Capper said,
co-operative buying and selling agen
cies could be established and as long
as the farmers made legitimate use
of these channels through which to
do their buying £nd selling, they
could not be molested by the au
thorities.
The Kansas senator declared that
the agriculturist had not been given
a square deal Unwittingly, or oth
erwise they had been treated in
many cases as enemies of their coun
try and there was an effort even'
now to saddle o nthem responsibil
ity of the high cost of living."
“Farmers are in no sense respon
sible for the high cost of living,”
said Senator Capper, “collectively
and individually they are the most
patriotic of all our citizens. They
never strike. God help the nation
if they did. Forty per cent of the
nation’s population is engaged in ag
riculture, yet there is a distinct ten
dency in some quarters to give the
industry, a subordinate place among
the useful •organizations of the
country. This has always been the
case and always will be, I fear,
until the farmers themselves through
organized effort demand and take
their rightful place in the sun.”
Germans Interned at
McPherson to Start
Homeward Tuesday
The German seamen who have been
inmates of the war prison barracks
near Fort McPherson for two years
or more will begin leaving the camp
on Tuesday for Hoboken, N. J., where
they will go aboard a ship for a re
turn voyage to Europe.
Preparations are now being made
at the camp to send the first batch
of Germans to Hoboken, and it is
expected that the departure of the
seamen will extend over a period of
several days.
There are more than 1,400 Germans
row at the camp and under the in
structions which Colonel Abner
Pickering, camp commander, has re
ceived, the entire lot will be shipped
to Hoboken.
HOOVER COMING HOME
NEW YORK.—Herbert Hoover,
whose work for the relief of war
sufferers in Europe has been second
in importance only to the prosecu
tion war, is coming home for
a well-earned vacation.
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GREAT BRITAIN CANT
OUTVOTE MW
PRESIDENTDECLARES
Foreigners Can’t Order Our
Troops Abroad and Latter
Are Not Obligated to Sup
press Irish Revolts
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18.—Re
plying in a statement today to a list
of questions put to him by a San
Francisco League of Nations organ
ization. President Wilson declared
Great Britain could not out-vote the
United States in the league; that
foreign governments could not. un
der the covenant, order American
troops abroad; that the league would
have a powerful influence toward
restoration of Shantung to China;
that the United States would not
be obligated by article 10 to aid
Great Britain In suppressing a re
volt in Ireland, that under article 11
there would be cheated a new forum
for questions of self-determination.
Mr. W'lson’s statement containing
the questions and answers follows:
1. Will you state the underlying
consideration which dictated an
awarding of six votes to the British
empire in the assembly and is it
true that Great Britain would out
vote us in the League of Nations
and thereby control the league’s ac«
tion?
Answer—The consideration which
led to assigning six votes to self
governing portions of the British
empire was that they have. In effect,
in all but foreign policies. becom<
autonomous, self-governing states,
their polity in all but foreign affairs
being independent of the control oi
the British government and in many
respects dissimilar from it. But fl
is not true that the British" emp!r«
can out-vote us in the League oi
Nations and therefore control ths
action of the league, because in ev
ery matter except the admission oi
new members in the league no ac
tion can be taken without the con
currence of a unanimous vote oi
the representatives of the states
which are members of the council
so that in all matters of action, the
affirmative vote of the United
States is necessary and equivalent
to the united vote of the representa
tives of the several parts of the
British empire. The united vote
of the several parts of the British
empire cannot offset or overcome
the vote of the United States.
Can’t Order Troops .
1. Is it true that under the
League of Nations foreign counfrfet
can order the sending of Americas
troops to foreign countries?
Answer—lt is not. The right ol
congress to determine such matter!
is in no wise Impaired.
8. What effect will the League
of Nations have in either forwarding
or hindering the final restoration ol
Shangtung to China? What effecl
will the League of Nations have in
preventing further spolition of Chi
na and the abrogation of all such spe
cial privileges now enjoyed in China
by foreign countries?
Answer—The League of Nations
will have a very powerful effect
in forwarding the final restoration
of Shantung to China, and no othei
instrumentality or action can be sub
stituted which could bring that re
sult about. The authority of ths
league will, under article 10. be con
stantly directed toward safeguarding
the territorial integrity and poli
tical* independence of China. It will,
therefore, absolutely prevent ths
further spoliation of China, promots
the restoration to China of the sev
eral privileges now long enjoyed by
foreign countries, and assure China
of the completion of the process by
which Shantung will presently be
restored to her in full sovereignty,
In the past there h been no tribu
nal which could be resorted to foi
any of these purposes.
Ab to Irish Bevolt
4. ‘ls there anything in the
League of Nations covenant or the
peace treaty which directly or indi
rectly in any manner imposes on the
United States any obligation, moral
or otherwise, of the slightest char-,
acter to support England in any way
in case of revolt in Ireland?
Answer —There Is not. The only
guarantee contained In the covenant
is against external aggression and
those who formed the covenant were,
scrupulously careful in no way tq in
terfere with what they regarded as
the sacred rights of
tion.
5. What effect, if any, will the
League of Nations covenant have in
either hindering or furthering the
cause of Irish freedom?
Answer —It was not possible for
the peace conference to act with re
gard to the self-determination of any
territories except those which had
belonged to the defeated empires, but
m the covenant of the League of Na
tions it has set up for the first time
in article XI a forum to which all
claims of self-determination which
are likely to disturb the peace of the
world or the good understandings be
tween nations upon which the peace
of the world depends can be brought,
CLOTHING PRICES
GOING HIGHER
Chicago, Sept. 15. —Manufacturers
of men’s clothing are notifying their
trade of another big increase in
price. Cloth is very scarce—trim
mings have increased in cost over
100 per cent—the mills are far be
hind with their production—working
hours have been shortened and work
ingmen have been given a big -in
crease in wages.
Extensive inquiries among large
tailors brought only one hopeful
suggestion. Jas. D. Bell, head of the
Bell Tailors, Adams at Green St.,
Chicago, 111., declared the only way
to keep prices within reach of the
average purse was to cut out the
middleman; to save two or three un
necessary profits by buying direct
from the manufacturers, the same
as the government buys its sup
plies.
The Bell Tailors are said to be the
largest tailoring concern In the
world making and selling its clothes
direct to the consumer. This com
pany does not handle readymades but.
makes all Its garments to individual
measure and guarantees to save from
25 to 40 per dent. Readers of The
Journal should write for a copy of
their style book No. 154, showing
large cloth samples of many beauti
ful fabrics and all the latent New
York end Cblcr.ro —lArlvt)