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VOL. XXII. NO. 16.
COMPROMISE SEEN
ON PEACE W
I BY SENO SMITH
Georgia Senior Senator De-:
dares Belief That Accept
: able Reservations W4II Be ‘
•[ Passed at Next Session
’ Senator Hoke Smith has not aban- I
doned hope for the ratification of ;
the peace treaty and the League of .
Nations covenant, notwithstanding ,
their failure at the recently ad- I
journed session of congress. He en- [
ter tains the belief that the cove
nant can be ratified speedily after the
senate/ reconvenes in December.
The senator, in a carefully pre
pared, analytical statement, which
he issued Monday morning, discussed
in detail the treaty fight in the sen
ate during the last session of con
gress, and gave reasons to supprot
' his contention that the covenant
can be ratified when the senate re
convenes through mutual concessions
by both sides.
It is the view of Senator Smith
that the treaty should have been
ratified at the last session, and that
ratification would have been accom
plished had conciliatory efforts at
compromise received the encourage
ment that the situation really de-,
pianded.
In his 'statement Senator Smith'
amplifies the reservations of chief
importance, and from an analysis of
the several votes in the senate as-,
serfs that it is apparent that the
differences can be composed and an !
agreement easily reached. - ’
The Senator’s Statement
Senator Smith’s statement followsr
"The treaty of peace with Ger-'
many ought to have been ratified
~ before the senate adjourned. I hope
and believe it still can be ratified
soon after the senate meets.
"There are fifteen Republican sen
ators and one Democrat who wish
to kill the treaty. There are eighty
one senators who are willing, and
most of them really desirous, to
have the treaty ratified. Much of the
delay has been due to the efforts of
the fifteen senators to kill the treaty
and to ill-advised insistence by oth
• ers that the treaty should be ratified
without reservations.
“Within thirty days after the
treaty reached the senate it was per
fectly clear that a majority of the
senate was opposed .to ratification
without reservations. I regret that
all the friends of the treaty did not
.then take up the question of reser
vations for the purpose of agree
, ing on them. They concede now their
' mistake.*
"The seven reservations which I
introduced October 2 had been pre
pared after conference with Sena
tor Hitchcock and other leading
Democrats, and with Senators Mc-
Cumber, Kellogg and other conserva
tive Republicans. Reservations about
„ as they were written might have
v been agreed upon at the time, but
it developed that a number of Demo
crats* has assured the president that
the treaty would be ratified without
reservations. They were unwilling
to modify their position except with
his approval. But for the sickness
of the president we would have
agreed on reservations several weeks
ago and passed the treaty.
rive Main ~ eservations
“The reservations of chief impor
tance are on the following subjects:
“First. The league covenant al
lows any nation to withdraw at the
expiration of two years after notice
of desire .to withdraw, provided the
nation has performed its obligations
under the covenant, but does not say
who is to determine whether the ob
ligations have been performed. It is
of .the utmost importance to settle
, this question now, and we w’r’i - »
settle it by declaring that the Unit
ed States alone will be the judge as
to whether its obligations under the
covenant have been performed.
I “Second. The league covenant
i leaves domestic problems, and esne
' daily the question of immigration, in
a state of doubt. Under the lan-
J guage of the covenant the council
might investigate questions of this
character and even force them to ar
; b; (ration. This can not be permit
ted. We must protect our domestic
questions and immigration from in
terference by other nations.
“The first important question be
j sere the senate, when I entered the
’ senate, was the peace treaty with
I Great Britain, and, under the lead
ership of Senator Bacon, we put in
a reservation preventing reference to
arbitration of domestic questions and
i especially immigration.
"Unless we guard clearly these
two first proposed reservations, we
leave an uncertainty in the league
; covenant which will be a constant
cause of wrangle and war.
“Third. Under the terms of the
j covenant a mandate, compell
-1 Ing the United States to take charge
' of and police foreign countries,
might be placed upon us by our rep
resentative In the council. It is of
the utmost Importance that a reser
vation be passed declaring that the
United States will accept no such
responsibility unless congress ap
proves it.
Article Ten Reservation
"Fourth. The provisions in the
treaty which place an • obligation
upon the United States to send our
. boys throughout the world into war,
must be so changed that congress,
as each particular .case arises, may
pass upon it without a prior moral
ebligation to furnish our hoys for
sacrifice.
“Fifth. Provisions must be made
by which the six votes given Great
Britain, while the United States has
only one, may not be used to the
injury of the United States.
"There are other reservations in
cluded among those approved by a
: majority of the senate, for which
there is general aPPP° r t that should
be added to those I have named. Os
these, probably the most important
is the reservation relieving the Unit
ed States from taking part in the
■ International labor organization, un
less congress hereafter so provides.
"Senator Hitchcock, on November
15, presented to the senate reserva
tions covering the five propositions I
have mentioned, which differed front
the reservations known as the Lodge
reservations only in their mode of
expression.
” “On Wednesday afternoon, short
* ly before the senate adjourned, Sen-
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Battalion of Death
Fighter Yank’s Bride
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NEW YORK —Mrs Agnes Men
fee is a war bride indeed. She
has been a member of the Rus
sian battalion of death and spent
five years at the front. She was
a prisoner of war»six months in
Germany and was twice decorated
by the czar. Now she has come
to America as the bride of an
American artillery officer, Harry
C. Menefee, Covington, Ky.
FARMERS'UNION
WILL MEET HERE
ON NOVEMBER 25
What is expected to prove the
largest convention of the Georgia
Farmers’ union ever held will open
in Atlanta on Tuesday. The conven
tion will hold its session in the hall
of representatives at the state capl
tol and will probably continue for at
least two days.
Delegates are expected from each
local of the Farmers’ union in the
state of Georgia, representation being
based on the membership of individ
ual locals. In some cases two or
three locals in one County have sig
nified their intention of sending one
set of delegates to represent all or
ganizations. The attendance at the,
convention is expected to be around
500.
The raising of Georgia’s quota of
the fund for the erection of a na
tional temple of agriculture in Wash
ington, D. Q., will be one of the im
portant topics of discussion. The
temple of agriculture is p/oposed as
a nation-wide project and many thou
sands of dollars have already been
secured for this purpose. It is plan
ned to have legislative headquarters
of the various farmers’ organizations
in the temple. Authority will be
asked of the state union to allow J.
H. Mills, president for Georgia, to
devote the month,-of December to
raising Georgia’s quota of the temple
fund.
The discussion of co-operative pro
jects among farmers will be of par
ticular interest, since tangible,-evi
dence as to the workings of the co
operative store and grain elevator at
Dublin, Ga., will be presented to the
convention. This co-operative en
terprise in Laurens county has at
tracted much attention throughout
the south and the success already
scored by the store has been taken
as proof that other sound business
enterprises may be established by the
farmers themselves for the market
ing of their products.
The program for the year 1920 will
be outlined in some detail, it is an
nounced, while the various problems
facing the farmers of Georgia will
be discussed by able speakers. Sug
gestions as to the best method of
combatting the rising cost of all
necessities in the production of crops
will be received at the various ses
sions.
The election of officers will con
stitute the final feature of the'con
vention. The present officers are J.
H. Mills, Jenkinsburg, president;
James D. Weaver, Dawson, vice presi
dent; Andrew J. Fleming, secretary.
Among the principal speakers dur
ing the convention will be Charles
S. Barrett, president of the National
Farmers’ union, who will discuss the
developments at the national con--
vention in Memphis; J. H. Mills
and J. J. Brown, state commissioner
of agriculture.
SALE OF FROZEN
BEEF ALLOWED
BY GOVERNMENT
A telegram authorizing- the- sale
of army frozen beef to any butcher,
jobber, municipality, institution, hotel
or restaurant was received' Monday
morning by Colonel M. Gray Za
linski, local zone supply officer. The
sale of this product, according to
local army authorities, will be al
lowed to any private concern, or con
cerns making up clubs, where the
minimum of 30,000 pounds is includ
ed irt the orders.
Local butchers and retail Concerns,
it is thought, will take advantage of
the government’s prices, which are
20 per cent lower than the prevailing
Qiarket price in Chicago, according
to the telegram. -
The telegram from Washington
reads as follows:
“All previously quoted prices on
surplus beef, fresh frozen, hereby
canceled. Under former conditions
offer for sale throughout your zone
frozen beef at Chicago quotations,
for medium steer, lowest range, less
one-fifth of 20 per cent. Price in
•effect on day car is delivered will
govern. You are authorized to sell
to butchers, job.bers, cities, institu
tions, hotels and- restaurants without
limit, but meat must not be exported
nor stored take advantage of a ris
ing market. Zone supply office at
Chicago will advise you by wire
daily of low-range quotation on me?
dium steers. Make every effort to
sell this meat at these prices.”
Supreme Court Quits
Until December 8
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The su
preme court today adjourned until
December 8 without announcing any
decision as to the constitutionality
of war-time prohibition or the le
gallty of 2.75 per cent beer.
CROWDED DOCKET
AWAITS CONVENING
OF NEWCONGRESS
Peace Treaty, Domestic
Questions and Army and
Navy Legislation on Calen
dar for Session
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—A crowd
ed docket will confront congress
when it convenes in regular session
one week from today. Included on
the program are the German treaty
and the League of Nations, the Lodge
resolution declaring the war ended,
half a dozen other treaties growing
out of the war, the Mexican situation
and many reconstruction questions.
Domestic matters pressing for the
‘attention include return of the rail
roads,development of the merchant
marine, legislation ■■ to stamp out
Bolshevism, reorganization of the
army on a peace basis, establishment
of the naval policy, tariff legislation,
development of public lands and nat
ural resources, encouragement' of
Americanization and appropriation of
several billions of dollars to run the
government through the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1920.
In addition to this program con
gressmen must participate in the
political campaign which will get un
der way soon after the Christmas
holidays. One-third of the senate and
the entire house of representatives
must stand for re-election.
Domestic questions facing the new
session when it meets next Monday
shaped up today as follows:
Railroads: President Wilson is
expected to return the railroads to
private owners January 1. Legisla
tion-must, be ready to govern their
operation under private control. The
house has passed the Esch bill. The
Cummins bill containing the anti
strike clause which the house re
jected, Comes up in the senate im
mediately at the opening of the ses
sion. The two houses are far apart
and long negotiations to adjust their
differences are probable. If a law
cannot be put through by January
1, a temporary measure probably will
be passed to continue government
guarantee earnings under private
control until permanent legislation
is enacted. The Plumb plan for
control of the railroads largely by
employes themselves appeared to be
dead for the present. Labor will
fight the senate’s plans to include
a provision in the railroad bill mak
ing rail strikes or the advising of
them a crime.
Americanism and Bolshevism:
Scores of bills have been introduced
in both houses aimed at red agita
tion and Bolshevism. Most are in
committee. The senate has pend
ing, however, one report out with
the approval of the senate judiciary
Committee "by Senator Sterling, of
South Dakota, designed to punish
sending of bombs through the mails,
writing or circulation of radical lit
erature advocating violent overthrow
of the government. Bills to deport
radical aliens and to require all im
migrants to learn English within five
years after arrival are pending. Sev
eral Americanization bills are also
pending, some appropriating federal
funds in co-operation with states and
private employers to provide teach
ing of English to non-English speak
ing workingmen. Naturalization
lews will be made more strict.
Appropriations and “H. C.
Appropriations: • Thirteen regu
lar appropriation bills must be pass
ed before July 1 to run the govern
ment through the following fiscal
year. These include the bills for
the army, department of agriculture,
District of Columbia, Indian appro
priations, navy, sundry civil ex
penses, postoffices and post roads,
fortifications, legislative, judicial and
executive expenses, general defici
encies, diplomatic and consular ap
propriations, pensions and the mili
tary academy at West Point.
High Cost of Living: Several
high cost'of living measures passed
the last session, but an extension
of the Lever act will be considered
soon after congress convenes, a bill
for regulation of cold storage, which
has passed the house will come up
in the senate, and numerous investi
gations still pending will probably
result lb further definite proposals
to reduce the Cost of living. Bills
to regulate the meat packing indus
try will be pressed.
Army and Navy: Complete new
peace-time policies for national' de
fense yet are to be worked out. Mili
tary committees of both houses are
considering universal military serv
ice, the size of the peace army and
encouragement of aviation, naval
committees will have to decide
whether the United States will rely
on heavy dreadnaughts combined
with light and swift cruisers or on
the new composite ship combining the
weight of the dreadnaught with the
speed of the cruiser. The size of the
navy also will have to be decided
upon. Indications are that if the
League of Nations is finally rejected
the administration will urge a large
army and navy.
Labor: With elections approach
ing there is expected to be much
talk about labor. Anti-strike legis
lation, proposed in the Cummins rail
road bill, will be bitterly fought in
the senate. The house has already
voted down such a proposal. Com
pensation and training of persons
injured in industry will be consid
ered as will minimum wage legisla
tion for government employes and
encouragement of home building by
working men.
Merchant Marine: Efforts to keep
America among the foremost mari
time nations will be made through
legislation to encourage ship build
ing, protect coastwise trade against
foreign competition and to keep
American built vessels under Ameri
can registry. Legislation to continue
the shipping board as an advisory
and co-ordinating agency is pend
ing.
Cuts Clothing
Prices in Half
Here’s away to save $lO on your
clothing expense. Simply drop a card
to R. A. Allan, 831 W. Adams St.,
Chicago, 111., and ask him for a copy
of his new tailoring book No. 1531
with big cloth samples and latest in
formation about styles and prices. He
will make you a special offer and
quote you prices so low that you will
be surprised and wonder, how he can
do it when others are asking such
high prices. All orders are sent on
approval with privilege of returning
if not satisfactory. Send him a card
today.—(Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919.
Origin of Wilson Death
Rumor, Stopping Speech
Os Marshall, Is Mystery
Telephone Call Was a Locil
One —Motive of Perpetra
tor Not Known —Reward
Offered by Dorsey
•
The identity of the man who per
petrated the most sensational hoax
Atlanta has ever known by telephon
ing the auditorium Sunday night that
President Wilson was dead and hav
ing the message delivered to Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall in the
middle of his address, had not been
learned by the authorities by noon
Monday.
Nor did they have any clue to his
identity. Although a reward, of $ 100,
had been offered by the state, al
though city detectives and the tele
phone company were making an in
vestigation, although federal authori
ties were considering the case, noth
ing had come to light to solve the
mystery. • : •
Moreover, should the perpetrator of
the hoax be discovered, there is sohne
doubt, according to legal authorities,
that he can be prosecuted. United
States District Attorney Hooper
Alexander, while declaring that the
trick was indefensible, said that, in
his opinion, unless some conspiracy
against the government could be
proven, he did not see how the lie
had broken any federal statute. There
was also doubt, it was stated, that
the hoax was a violation of any state
or City law.
Regardless of this, no stone was
being left unturned to uncover the
man’s identity and the entire city,
through telegrams tp Washington
from its various civic organizations
and from individuals, deplored the
happening.
Various theories were advanced to
explain the hoax.
It was thoroughly established by
the Associated Press and other news
agencies that President Wilson was
not dead and that the message did
not originate from any news agency.
It was also declared by J. Epps
Brown, president of 'he telephone
company, that the company had no
record of a long-distance call from
Washington Sunday night either for
Mr. Marshall or for anyone else.
This narrowed the possibilities
down to the theory that the call
was a local call by someone in At
lanta, and Mr. Brown stated that, al
though efforts had been made, it was
impossible to trace such a local call.
Almost as great a mystery as the
identity of the perpetrator of the
hoax was the motive for his deed.
That sopie one deliberately broke
up the meeting through sheer malice,
was one \theory; but there did not
seem any reason for. such an act,
since th? meeting was not, in its
strictest sense, political, and Mr.
Marshall is not known to have anj
enemies either locally or nationally.
Misunderstand Considered
Another theory that the rumor
was deliberately started for the pur
pose of ' causing a nation-wide dis
turbance, did not seem to hold water,
since a less favorable time for this
could not have been picked than Sun
day night, when all stock exchanges
were closed, when business was
stopped and when it was most easy
to throttle such a rumor before it
could be flashed around the world.
That some one might have done it
under the delusion that he was
staging a practical joke was admit
ted, but the police declare if this
was true the man who could see a
joke in a cruel trick must be
either mentally unbalanced or carry
ing a large load of blind-tiger
whisky.
It was also suggested that the man
Officer Held by U. S.
For Liquor Violation
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Lieutenant-
Colonel Francis T. A. Junkin, official
of the war contract department in
Washington, was held to the grand
jury on bonds qf SI,OOO today when
araigned before United States Com
missioner Foote on a charge of label
ing a shipment of liquor to Washing
ton as music records. Lieutenant
Colonel Junkin is a wealthy Chica
goan.
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VICE PRES. THOMAS R.
MARSHALL, whose speech in
Atlanta Sunday night was in
terrupted by a hoax message
to the effect that President Wil
son was dead. ‘
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who telephoned the auditorium might
have heard a wild rumor that Presi
dent Wilson was dead and acted well
meaningly in endeavoring to inform
the vice president of what he consid
ered to be trutfh.
There was still another theory
that the hoax was caused partly
through a misinterpretation of -what
the party calling the Auditorium
really meant to say. Interest was
lent to this theory by the statement
of G. T. Christian, an employe of the
custodian’s office, who answered the
telephone. \
A man’s voice, acording to Mr.
Christian, said, “Is that the Audito
rium? I want to speak to Vice
President Marshall.”
“You can’t speak to him; he's
making a speech and he’s right in
the middle of it,” Mr. Christian says
he replied, whereupon the man on
the wire said:
"Tell him it’s the Associated
Press and that President Wilson’s
dead and he’ll come to the phone.”
Mr. Christian then left the pay
Station where the call was received,
gave the message to a policeman In
the lobby and the two in turn Went
to the tear of the stage, beckoned
to Charles J. Haden and gave him
the message, Mr, Haden then inter
rupting Mr. Marshall in thj middle
of his speech to inform him that the
Associated Press wanted hi' . on the
phone because President Wilson was
dead. When Mr. Marshall reached the
pay station, there wa« no one on the
wire.
Dramatic Scene
Mr. Christian's statement regarding
the manner in which the call was
received has given color to the theory
that some one actually wanted to
speak to Mr. Marshall and, when he
waa told that the vice president
couldn’t come to the phone, mr.'e the
remark about' Mr. Wilson in the be
lief it would never be delivered, but
would result in Mr. Marshall being
balled to the telephone.
Underwood Would
Accept Leadership
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 24.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood would
be glad to accept the minority lead
ership of the senate, if elected, he
told newspaper men here when he
returned from Washington.
Senator Underwood said he would
not enter the presidential primaries
in South Dakota and would not be a
candidate for the Democratic pres
idential nomination. He will return
to Washington within ten days for
the Democratic caucus.
MEXICAN CABINET
CONSIDERS 11. S.
NOTE ON JENKINS
Special Session Held on
Case of American Consu
lar Agent at Puebla —Ac-
tion Not Revealed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The
American government’s sharp note
demanding the release of William O.
Jenkins, American consular agent at
Puebla, was considered at a special
session of the Mexican cabinet on
Friday, at which the governor of
Puebla was present. Advices today
to the state department did not dis
close what action, if any, was taken.
COURT-MARTIAL TO DECIDE
FATE OF VILLA (xEJiERAL
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 24.—The fate
of General Felipe Angeles, known as
the intellectual head of the Villa
revolutionary movement in Mexico,
was expected to be decided today by
the military court-martial at Shl
huahua City, which began the trial
of the captured rebel leader yester
day. Passengers arriving at Juarez,
Mexico, from Chihuahua City said
there was no hostile demonstration
against Angeles when he was
brought to the federal penitentiary
there from the South, and the belief
was that instead of the customary
death penalty he would be given a
penitentiary sentence.
SENATE ACTION
MERELY POLITICS,
HUN EDITOR SAYS
BERLIN, Nov. 24. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Failure by the Unit
ed States senate to ratify the treaty
between the allied powers and Ger
many is considered the result of par
tisan politics by Die Ziet.
“We must accustom ourselves to
the fact that the peace treaty upon
which, for us, life and future de
pend, is treated in America largely
as a political party matter,” says
the newspaper. “Not because the
treaty displeased the Republicans,
who were more inimical to Germany
than the Democrats, nor because the
conditions were too hard for Ger
many, do they condemn it, but be
cause the Democratic leader signed
the treaty, And they wish to dis
credit him and his party in the com
ing elections.
•“It is plain now that President
Wilson had no right to act as the
protagonist of the League of Nations
nor to make promises to the Euro
pean peoples for the fulfillment of
which he was unable to rely even on
his own people.”
America’s position in European af
fairs is not "that of a theater gues’&*
who can depart If the play is dis
pleasing,” the Deutsche Tages ‘ Zei
tung declared today.
America is destined to have a
tremendous interest in ‘what Ger
many and Russia may do,” the news
paper added, declaring that for this
reason the United States cannot re
main aloof.
The German press today generally
accepted the defeat of the peace
treaty in the American senate as
final and expressed bitter regret over
the absence of American representa
tion upon the commissions to enforce
the terms of the treaty.
America evidently wants it to re
main "our European situation,” the
Deutsch Tages Zeitung said, leaving
France and England to “work the:r
bitter wills against Germany.”
Germany should consider "no price
too high” to interest America in her
plight and secure American aid to
bring her people "to life,” the news
paper added.
Impeachment of Judge
Anderson for Coal Order
Is Demanded by Labor
CHICAGO, Nov. 24. —A demand
for impeachment of Judge A. B. An
derson, of the United States district
court, was formally voiced today by
the new national labor pan yin a
petition addressed to congress. The
jurist’s action in granting the .gov
ernment a mandatory injunction 'or
dering rescinding of th.e coal miners
strike call was the reason assigned.
Only one voice ’■ in the gathering
was raised against the resolution, R.
L. Martin, a West Virginia official
of the United Mine Workers, object
ing to the procedure as “a waste of
time.”
“Congress has never paid atten
tion to the demands of labor,” he
said. “The only way to remedy pres
ent conditions is to change control
of the government by voting the na
tional labor party into power.”
Nevertheless, Martin and every
other delegate to the convention
signed the petition.
Oil Mill Burned
GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. 24.
Fire of unknown origin early today
destroyed the oil mill, ginnery and
fertilizer plant of the Fountain Inn
Oil and Manufacturing company, caus
ing property loss estimated at SIOO,-
000.
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WILSON BETTER,
IS TAKING ACTIVE
PART IN AFFAIRS
Prepares Messages to Con
gress and Industrial Com
mission—Plans Fight for
Treaty, Ratification
•WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Presi
dent Wilson, rapidly recovering from
his nervous breakdown, today was
engaged In:
(1) Writing a message to con
gress, urging an extensive program
of domestic legislation.
(2) Preparing a message to the
industrial commission called to meet
here December 1.
(3) Planning the second fight
for ratification of the peace treaty
and the League of Nations.
(4) Selecting a new secretary of
the treasury, and a new secretary
of commerce.
(5) Studying the coal strike sit
uation, so he‘ will be in a position
to make an attempt to prevent the
wage scale conference breaking up.
(6) Conferring at length with
Secretary Tumulty on a number of
important subjects.
The president spent an unusually
restful night, it was learned at the
White House and was much refresh
ed this morning.
He was informed early in the day
that all 17 men invited by him to
form the new Industrial commission
probably would accept, as no re
fusals have been received. Plans
for the commission’s sittings were
completed, it being arranged to have
them in the Pan-American Union,
where the Industrial conference and
the international labor conference
convened. Mr. Wilson’s messages to
these 17 commissioners, it was un
derstood, will lay the nation’s indus
trial situation before them in detail
and urge the speedy drafting of an
industrial code to w’hich capital and
labor can subscribe.
The main feature of President
Wilson’s message to congress, it
was learned, probably will be insist
ence on quick passage of railroad
legislation and a reiteration of his
determination to hand the lines back
to private owners January 1; strong
recommendation that Americaniza
tion measures be hurried through,
and that the peace treaty be rati
fied or legislation for Increased ar
mament prepared and passed.
The president, it was stated at
the executive mansion today, has not
decided who he will name to the
two vacant cabinet posts. R. C.
Leffingwell, assistant treasury sec
• retary, was being strongly support
ed and was considered a favorite In
the running for secretary, but there
is no basis for reports that Mr. Wil
son already has decided to appoint
him. t
The Mexican “crisis" brought
about by imprisonment of American
Consular Agent William O. Jenkins,
at Puebla cannot be kept from the
president’s attention, it was admit
ted, if -the Carranza government re
fuses to release Jenkins at once, as
this country demands. Up-to-dato
Mr. Wilson has not had his mind’
burdened with this worry, but 1£ no
satisfactory answer comes from
Mexico by the time the cabinet
meets tomorrow, the president will
be brought into the situation, ac
cording to present plans.
METHODISTS HEAR
GOOD REPORTS AT
DUBLIN MEETING
I
DUBLIN, Ga., Nov. 24.—Sunday’s
program of the South Georgia Meth
odist conference began with a love
feast at the First Methodist churoh
at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W.
Q. Huckabee, of Cuthbert, Ga. This
service was featured by a number of
-short talks In the nature of testimo
nies and by singing of old-time
hymns.
At 11 o’clock Sunday morning
Bishop W. A. Candler preached at the
First Methodist church and at the
conclusion of his sermon the twelve
deacons appointed at the conference
last week were formally ordained. At
3 o’clock in the afternoon a memo
rial service for deceased ministers
was held, and in the evening Dr.
Bascomb Anthony, of Macon, preach
ed a special sermon at the First
church to the class of elders recent
ly elected. ,
The detailed reports from The
churches, schools and colleges have
been most encouraging. * ReV. Leland
Moore, president of Sparks Collegi
ate institute, reported a large in
crease in enrollment over last year,
an unusually efficient faculty and a
health record for the past year
which has never been surpassed. The
South Georgia college, under the
presidency of Rev. J. D. Smith, is en
joying one of the most successful
and prosperous years in its history
Rev. R. F. Eakes, business man
ager of the Wesleyan Christian Ad
vocate, reported that the paper now
has 12,000 subscribers, the most it
has ever had.
Rev. J. M. Outler, pastor of Boston
church, at Savananh, reported that
137 have been received into the
church this conference year and that
$4,000 has been received on the cen
tenary fund. The church maintains a
community kitchen, where 10,000
meals at fifteen cents each have been
served during the year to working
girls.
The annual report for the South
Georgia conference orphans’ home
was made by Rev. J. A. Smith. Dur
ing the year $55,000 has been raised ‘
for the new buildings and for the
maintenance of the home and 625
acres of land has been given to the
home by Mrs. Tommie Chancey Had
cock. Plans have beeni, drawn for
the erection this year of a new kitch
en and dining room, a laundry, in
firmary and chapel.
5 CENTS A < (>PT.
$1.25 A YEAR.
M'iDOO CHARGES
HUGE PROFITS
FROM COAL MINES
Settlement of Dispute Soon
to Be in Hands of President
Wilson—Middle West Suf
fers From Strike
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Soft coal
mine owners made "shocking and in
defensible” profits in 1917 and there
is “grave doubt” that they are en
titled to increased prices because of
the proposed 31 per cent increase In
miners’ wages, William G. McAdoo,
former secretary of the treasury, de
clared today in a telegram to Fed
eral Fuel Administrator Garfield. The
owners’ profits as shown by their In
qpme tax returns examined by him
as secretary of the treasury in 1918,*
he said, shewed earnings on capital
sto’ck ranging from 15 to 2,000 per
cent.
“I am convinced that the wage in
creases proposed for the mine work
ers are just and reasonable,” he
stated. ,
"Before deduction of exce.s profits
taxes—which were less In 1917 than
now—these Income tax returns show
ed that the earnings of 100 to 800
per cent on capital stock were not
uncommon,” Mr. McAdoo's telegram
asserted.
Referring to the bituminous mine
owners’ Income tax returns for 1918,
which he said he had not seen, fike
telegram said:
“If they disclose any such profits •
as earped by the bituminous coal
operators In 1917, it would be a grave
w.ang to mit the operators to
take from the public additional prof
its In -ae form of increased price*
for bituminous coal.”
Mr. McAdoo urged that no Increase
in prices of soft coal to consumers
be allowed and that the income tax
returns of the soft coal mine owners
be made public.
CABINET EXPECTED TO TAKE
ACTION AT MEETING TUESDAY
Washington, Nov. 34.—-settle
ment of the coal strike ie expected to
be put squarely up to President
Wilson after the meeting of hie
cabinet tomorrow. The cabinet ie
slated to go over the whole problem,
and then the various proposals and
counter proposals that have been
made, together with the operators’...
contention that the puMIo will havs
<0 pay the higher wages if th«
miners* demand* are met, probably
will be placed before the president
and hts advice sought.
Dr. Garfield, Attorney-General
Palmer, and Assistant Attorney-Gen
sfkl Ames went into conference this
afternoon to discuss the general
coal strike situation.
Coal operators are waiting for the
government to assume responsibility
for increased fuel prices.
Operators hope to hear soon from
Fuel Administrator Garfield, with
whom they asked A. conference Sat
urday. They declare they will not,
unless ordered by the government,
go beyond their offer to the miners
of a 20 per cent wkge raise which
would Increase prices 35 cents a to®
to consumers.
Miners contend the government al
ready has given this order through
Labor Secretary Wilson, who pro
posed a compromise on the basis of
a 31 per cent Increase.
“We're willing to accept that com
promise,” said John L. Lewis, acting
president of the United Mine Work
ers’ Union.
Secretary Wilson is expected to go
into the cabinet meeting tomorrow
prepared to fight for approval of his
proposal.
Many operators have Openly urged
the breaking off of all negotiations
until the miners return to work.
Ten thousand union miners In
Maryland and West Virginia, who
returned to work upon receipt Os tha
order rAsfeinding the strike, today re
fused to go Into the mines. Francis
Drum, president of the Maryland
miners’ district council, today re
ceived a long-distance telephone
communication saying the ’ men
would stay out until a settlement Is
reached at the joint conference.
PITTSBURG MINERS TO
AWAIT WAGE AGREEMENT
PITTSBURG, Nov. 24.—The union
miners of the Pittsburg district will
not return to work until their lead
ers and the coal operators’ commit
tee have signed a new wage agree
ment In Washington, was the opin
ion expressed at United Mine Work
ers’ headquarters here today.
VIRGINIA MILITIA IS
SENT TO LEE COUNTY
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 24.—With
the possibility of having to deal with
a band of radical mine workers who
have armed themselves with machine
guns, Governo» Westmoreland Davis
and five companies -of state militia
today are en route to Lee county.
According to reports received here
a certain element among the miners
in Lee county has started trouble and
refused to allow their fellow mem
bers to return to work. The radicals
are reported to have mounted ma
chine guns in the mountains and
forced other miners to stay out.
Five companies of state troops,
'eluding infantrymen from this etts*,
Petersburg, Lynchburg and Roanoke
and a machine gun company from
this city, left yesterday for the
scene of th* ‘■rouble.
The governor, accompanied by John
Hirschberg, state labor commissioner,
left last night.
It is understood that the chief
executive and the labor commissioner
will make a tour of inspection of
the coal mines in Lee county with a
view of getting the men to return
to work.
First information that troops
would be needed to take charge of
the situation .was received in the
form of a telegram at the office of
Governor Davis. The message was
from the sheriff of Lee coJhty and
requested that armed forces be sent
to maintain law and order.
Whether or not the appeal of the
governor and Commissioner Hirsch
berg will have the desired effc- up
on the men is a matter of conjecture.
The governor has maintained that
he will preserve order as long as
he is governor of Virginia.
The counties of Lee and Wise nre
located in the exetreme western por
tion of the state, close to the ho-der
of Kentucky and Tennessee. Both
have extensive coal mines. >