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VOL. XXii. S.O. IG.
. SERIOUS SITUATION
FOR CONGRESS.
ASSERTS MEKGE
Government Divided by Party
Strife and Political Ambi
tion While Prices Soar,
Says Writer
BY DAVID LAWBEKCE
(Copvrlghl. 1919. for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Pec. I.—There is
no exaggerating the seriousness ot
the picture that presents itself as
congress conics back into session.
Helpless in some respects, hopeless
in others, the government is divided
by party strife and political ambi
tion, while the economic factors that
are keeping the cost of living high
and ma ysend it even higher are un
controlled.
President Wilson has written his
message, and although greatly im
proved in hea' ii._ he still is unable
to leave the White House. He still
believes that at the bottom of Amer
ica's ills is. that unratified peace
treaty. Reports from Europe are
disquieting. European governments
are telling the United States govern
ment that the future looks dark, that
Industrial and mass unrest is spread
ing, and that America, upon whom
they had relied to help them to their
feet after the most terrible war in
history, now was apparently going
back on them.
Con'"rets itself is deaf to the pleas
of foreign governments. Already a
sentiment is rising to Ignore Europe
and attend to domestic affairs inside
the United States. The coal situa
tion is menacing. Congress is look
ing on while the executive branch
of the government, though disclaim
ing any intention of crushing union
labor, is making such a big fight
against the miners as to hearten
those who think now is the tim? and
America, is the place to stop a rising
tide 'of socialism.
T.ie-ican Situation
There are those who go so far as
to believe that America ought to use
the opportunity presented by the
Jenkins case to have war with Mex
ico in order to solidify the country
and revive the war-time restrictions
on prices and supplies. There is no
reason to believe the president him
self has changed his mind about in
tervening in Mexico, but congress is
represented as restless and anxious
to do something. So is the war de
partment.
But -what about the leaders of the
Republican party, who feel that in
the present session of congress they
njake good the pledges they
made in the 1918 congressional race?
Can they reduce taxes? There is
grave doubt whether they can do so
even though America doesn’t have a
new war. There is a certainty that
war with, Mexico will not reduce
taxes. T.ii ■. to be sure, is altogether
apart from the merits of the contro
versy with Mexico, tor while a good
many men in congress think the sit
uation below the Rio Grande should
i.e cleaned up, they would prefer to
wait until after the 1920 elections,
by which time, perhaps, there may
not be so many calls for federal
troops to put dottm industrial dis
turbances inside the United States
and to aiiord protection to the many
governors of stamps who are calling
for troops for various purposes.
They reason that inasmuch as Amer-*
ica has waited seven years, she can
wait still more to tackle the Mexican
problem.
It would not be surprising, how
ever, to find the president “passing
the buck” to the Republican con
gress on the Mexican situation, espe
cially in view of the jealousy ex
hibited by the senate in the recent
League of Nations controversy con
cerning the right of congress td con
duct America’s wars.
Nor is it Certain that congress is
going to adopt a resolution declaring
the war with Germany at an end.
Some of the opponents of the peac
treaty are flaunting that threat, but
it is an empty threat at best. For
the truth is the house was kept x in
session just before the senate voted
on the peace treaty recently and the
proposal to adopt a resolution de
claring the war at an end was dis
cussed in a friendly conference be
tween the Republican and Demo
cratic leaders on the house side. It
is reliably reported that at the end
of the conference Republicna lead
ers Gillett and Mondel saw so many
epmpl’cations ahead that they begged
their senate colleagues not to put
up such a proposition to the house.
And they didn’t. And another in
teresting fact is that more than one
third.of the house members will vote
against such a resolution thus clear
ly , demonstrating the impossibility
of over-riding the president’s veto.
For it is a foregone conclusion
that Mr. Wilson will not accept a reso
lution by congress as ending the war
because of his conviction that while
a joint resolution might proclaim
legal peace inside the United States
it would not make America at peace
with Germany. Only an international
agreement can bring legal peace ex
ternally, according to the advice
upon which the president is relying.
CONGRESS CONVENES
IN MOMENTOUS SESSION
WASHINGTON, Dec. I. Congress
is at work again.
House and senate met at noon to
day for the regular session. There
were many vacant chairs in both
houses.
With the routine organizing reso
lutions out of the way, both bodies
passed resolutions for appointment
of committees to notify President
Wilson that the congress is awaiting
any communication he may wish to
make on the state of the union.
Because the president is not able
to receive the delegation, the usha:
language of the resolutions wa*.
changed by omitting instructions to
the committees to wait upon the
president. They were simply told to
notify him. This probably will be
done in writing, 'or through the ex
ecutive offices. The same form ot
resolution was passed last May when
President Wilson was in Paris. At
that time the notification was cabled
to him.
Following the chaplain’s prayer,
Vice President Marshall gave the
usual notice that the constitutional
time for the assembling of congress
had arrived, and ordered the calling
of the roll. Senator Newberry, ot
Michigan, indicted on'Saturday by a
federal grand jury at Grand Rapids
in connection with alleged irregulan
# lies in his election, was in his sect
and answered present. Fifty-four ot
Ihe ninety-six senators answered the
roll call.
U. S. Naval Commander
In Adriatic Whose Fleet
Patrols Troubled Coast
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Bear Admiral Philip Andrews
Reports that the D’Annunzio forces
contemplated a raid on Spalato, the
American naval base in the Adriatic
where Rear Admiral Philip Andrews
has a fleet of twelve craft, led to
a conference in London between Un
der Secretary Frank L. Polk, of the
state department, head of the Amer
ican peace delegation in Paris, and
Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, com
manding all American naval forces
in European waters. Under an agree
ment reached in Paris, Admiral An
drews' ships were assigned to patrol
a pa: t of the Dalmatian coast.
Whether new instructions were sent
to the American commander in the
Adriatic was not announced.
NEW INDUSTRIAL
CONGRESS OPENS
IN WASHINGTON
i WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Seventeen
men, widely known In business and
public life, representing no partic
j ular group as such but acting for
the people as a whole, assembled
here today to confer on the coun
try’s Industrial situation. The con
ference, the appointment of which
I was announced from the White
House November 20, marks the sec-.
I end effort of President Wilson to
devise means for settling the chaotic
conditions that have prevailed for
months in industry. It was designed
to accomplish what the recent na
tional industrial conference failed
on. The pending session was set for
2:30 o’clock.
No form of procedure was set for
; the gathering and this will be deter-
I mined by the conference itself.
Organized labor has expressed dis
> satisfaction with the personnel of
the conference because of the fact
that no labor men were named al
though, they claimed, every Other
interest was represented. The con
ferees, forming federal and state
officials, business men and econo
mists, are as follows:
Secretary of Labor, William B
Wilson.
Thomas W. Gregory, Austin, Tex.,
' former attorney general.
George W. Wickersham, New
York, lawyer, attorney general in
Taft cabinet.
Oscar S. .Straus, New York, diplo
mat. lawyer and author; secretary of
commerce and labor under Roose
velt.
Frank Taussig. Washington, polit
ical economist, former college pro-;
fessor and chairman of the United
States tariff commission.
Samuel W. McCall, Boston lawyer,
former governor of Massachusetts.
Herbert Hoover, mining engineer
and former food administrator.
Martin H. Glynn, Albany, N. Y..
newspaper man and former gover
nor of New York.
H. C. Stuart, business man and
former governor of Virginia.
W. O. Thompson, Presbyterian
minister and president of Ohio
State university.
George T. Slade. St. Paul, rail
way man and lieutenant colonel with
American expeditionary forces.
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago, mer
j chant and philanthropist.
O. D. Young, New York lawyer.
Henry J. Waters, agricultural
i economist, and former president of
I Kansas State college of Agriculture.
Stanley King,’ Boston lawyer, for
' mer member council of national de
| sense and assistant secretary of war.
I Henry W. Robinson, Pasadena, Cal,.
[ former member United States ship
| ping board.
Richard Hooker. Springfield,
i Mass., newspaper man.
Printer Arrested m
Newberry Case Pleads
Guilty to Conspiracy
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 1. —
William E. Rice, local printer, one of
the more than 130 men indicted by
the federal grand jury here on
charges growing out of the investi
gation of the campaign of Senator
j Truman H. Newberry last year, ap
peared before Judge Sessions in the
United States district court and
pleaded guilty to the charge of con
spiracy in the campaign. He was
released on bond of SI,OOO.
SENATOR NEWBERRY HAS
NO STATEMENT TO MAKE
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Senator
Truman H. Newberry, indicted on a
charge of alleged election frauds,
returned to Washington today from
Hot Springs, Va., and made ready to
plunge into the business of the reg
uk.r session of congress. He has
made no plans for going to Grand
Rapids, Mich., where he was indict
ed, as he said he had not yet been
officially informed of the’ action.
It was indicated ,that he has not
yet decided to claim immunity. He
said he had not made any definite
plans and that he would not until
he had had an opportunity to “see
what there is in this.”
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James Wallace Is the Eighth
American Killed Since
July 22 “Almost Final
Straw,’’ Say Officials
WASHINGTON, D. C. James
Wallace. American citizen, was shot
and killed by Carranzista soldiers
near Tampico last Wednesday.
The state department was advised
of the killing Friday and immediate
ly ordered a thorough investigation
Details of this latest outrage were
lacking, but administration officials
did not hesitate to characterize it
as “almost thp last straw” in the
chain of “aggravating” incidents
which have occupied the attention of
the department for several months.
The Wallace referred to is believed
here to be E. T. Wallace, of the Gulf
Refining company, about forty years
old, and one of the company’s best
men. He had operated for the com
pany in Colombia as well as Mexico
and went recently to Tampico.
If the identification of Wallace is
correct he is the eighth official of
the Gulf Refining company to be
killed in Mexico and the eighth
American to be killed since July 22.
1919, when the state department
warned the Carranza government
that more killings of Americans
would lead to a change in policy of
this government toward Mexico.
The statement issued by the
state department was as follows:
“James Wallace, an American em
ploye of American Oil company near
Tampico, was murdered by a Mexican
federal soldier at Potrero del Llano
on Wednesday, November 26. The
murderer was not taken into custody.
According to the department’s ad
vices the officer in charge of troops
camped in the vicinity claimed that
Wallace had provoked the murder.
The department has been informed
as a result of an investigation, that
a mule on which Wallace was rid
ing to the place of his employment
shied at a machine gun which it
was passing,' overturning the gun.
The soldier immediately shot Wal
lace, the bullet striking him in the
neck and killing him instantly.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Renewing
its request for the immediate release
of Consular Agent Jenkins, impris
oned at Puebla, the latest American
note to Mexico made public here to
day arraigns- the Mexican govern
ment’s conduct in severe terms and
characterizes it as a studied attempt
to ensnare the American consular
agent in the intricacies of legal pro
cedings.
No ultimatum was served and no
indication was given of what the
American government’s course would
be if Jenkins is not immediately re
leased.
The United States, the note says,
is “constrained to the opinion” that
Carranza arguments that the case is
being investigated and that Jenkins
has not taken opportunity to be re
leased on bail are “mere excuses.
This government does not admit,
the note says, that it is necessary to
keep Jenkins in jail while his case
is being investigated, and this gov
ernment “fails to discern” that the
“intricacies of the Mexican penal
law” have been applied with impar
tial effect to Jenkins.
“The Mexican government cannot
argue that it cannot interfere with
the judicial processes of a state un
less there has been a denial of jus
tice, the American note argues, be
cause it contends, there already has
been a denial of justice and the Mex
ican constitution extends the power
of the federal government to “all
cases concerning consular officers
and diplomatic agents.”
U. S. Not to Be Driven
The United States is not to be
driven by such “subtle arguments, ’
says the note, “into a defense of its
request for the release of Mr. Jen
kins. It is for Mexico to show cause
for his detention: not for the Unit
ed States to how cause for his lib
eration.”
Then, the note says, “stripped of
extraneous matter with which the
Mexican note of November 26 en
deavors to clothe it, the naked case
of Jenkins stands forth.” The note
then reviews the history of the case
and takes up the argument.
Jenkins was imprisoned for “ren
dering false judicial testimony” in
connection with the abduction of
which he was the victim, says the
note.
“In whose interest is the charge
of false swearing brought against
Jenkins?” asks the note. “His ab
ductors? The Mexican government is
prosecuting the victim instead of the
perpetrators of the crime.”
“While the outlaws who endanger
ed his life and took away a large
part of his fortune enjoy their free
dom the Mexican authorities now de
prive Jenkins of his liberty.” That
Jenkins is supposed to be guilty of
rendering false judicial testimony,
the note says, is merely an opinion
of the Mexican government “entirely
unsupported by evidence.”
“The Mexican government,” says
the American note, “cannot expect
the United States to accept in the
grave circumstances of this case
a bare unsupported statement as a
valid excuse,” Jenkins, weak and ex
hausted in a hospital, the note says,
“has been harrassed by the Mexican
authorities while evidence against
him was obtained through intimida
tion of witnesses.”
Studied Efforts to Ensnare
The note says the only conclusion
this government can draw is that
Mexico has been made a “studied
effort” to ensnare Jenkins in legal
intricacies, divert the attention of
the American and Mexican people
both from the fact that the second
largest city in Mexico is overrun by
bandits and that the Mexican au
thorities have been negligent.
“It appears,” says the. note, “to
haVe been the purpose of the Mexican
government to assume a wilful in
difference to the feelings of the
American people that have been
aroused to the point of indignation
by the exposure, hardships and phys
ical suffering by Jenkins during his
abduction and his subsequent treat
ment at the hands of the Mexican
authorities.”
The note was directed to Charge
d’Affaires Summerlin, of the Amer
ican embassy at Mexico City.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1919.
Mlffi IM.
GOWIMCOST
TO BE HVE BILLION
Post Bellum Estimate of
Glass Shows That Old
- Peace-Time Expenses Are
to Return No More
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—The rec
ord billion-dollar congresses of ordi
nary peace times faded into the past
today when Secretary Glass, pre
senting the annual estimates, pro
posed appropriations of practically
five billion dollars for conducting the.
peace-time activities of the govern
ment during the fiscal year 1921.
According to these figures, it will
cost more than five times as much
to conduct the peace-time affairs of
government as it did in the year im
mediately preceding the World war.
The greatest individual estimates
for expenditures, of course, go to
the army and navy. The yearly in
terest on the war debt, however, is
$1,017,500,000, which sum alone is
greater than all the appropriations
for all purposes whatsoever of any
peace-time congress.
All in all, the estimates’ justify
the predictions made on the floor of
congress, during consideration of the,
war tax bills, that the present gen
eration would not see the govern
ment conducted at an expense o
less than four bilions a year.
The estimated appropriations for
the principal government depart
ments were presented as follows:
Legislative (congress) 59,025.-
297.25.
Executive (White House apd gov
ernment departments) 5149,111.-
163.77.
Judicial—sl,634,l9o.
Army—5989,578,657.20.
Navy—5542,031,804.80.
Pensions—s2ls,o3o,ooo. •
Public works —$283,921,810.17.
Mi5ce11ane0u5—5833,717,637.96. •
Foreign intercourse 511,243,-
250.91.
The total of all estimates, inclufl
ing some comparatively minor items
not included in the foregoing is
$4,865,410,031.62, the greatest sum
ever asked of any congress when the
country was not actually at wtar.
Waterway Estimate- >•
Rivers and harbors estimJj»ss?s in
clude:
Flood control. river,
$10,000,000; Southwest Pass,
sippi river, $2,191,000; Mobile bay,
$300,000; Black V*arrior. Warrior and
Tombigbee rivers, $200,000; Water
way, Mississippi river to Sabine
river, $332,000.
Cumberland river below Nashville,
$460,000; above** Nashville, $10,000;
Tennessee river above Chattanooga,
$210,000; Chattanooga to Riverton.
$864,000; below Riverton, $252,000.
Galveston harbor, $203,000; Galves
ton channel,! $1,203,000; channel, Gal
veston to Texas City, $88,000; chan
nel to Port Bolivar, $34,000; Houston
ship channel, $700,000; Freeport har
bor, $471,000.
Lays Out Clothes
And Kills Herself
MOULTRIE, Ga., Dec. I.—After
laying out the clothes she wished to
be buried in, and writing a note to
her husband, in which she explained
that she was tired of life and meant
to commit suicide, and giving .in
structions as to her funeral, Mrs. P.
E. Monk shot and killed herself at
her home at Pelham, near Moultrie,
Saturday night.
For several months, Mrs. Monk
had been in ill health and had grown
very despondent. Mrs. Monk’s hus
band is on the night police force at
Pelham and her body was not found
till Mr. Monk returned Sunday morn
ing. The pistol with which she shot
herself was still clutched in her
hand.
Americans Urged to
Wait for Ratification
PARIS, Dec. I.—The French repre
sentatives in the peace conference are
urging American delegates to delay
their departure for home until the
protocol is signed, putting into effect
the peace treaty with Germany, it
was learned today
Although today was the date set
for the exchange of ratifications of
the treaty, no definite news was
at hand regarding the Intention of
the Germans as to the signing of
t protocol in which they are ex
pected to uarantee the carrying out
of the armistice terms. r
The supreme council today adopted
the terms of the reply to the recent
German note regarding prisoners of
war. The contents were not given
out. •
Many Dipping Vats Are
Built in Dodge County
EASTMAN, Ga., Dec. 1. —Since the
county commissioner authorized the
beginning of work for cattle tick
eradication in Dodge county some
months ago construction of the vats
has been rapidly going forward.
Some twenty-five vats have been
constructed since September 1, bring
ing the total number now in the
county to over fifty. Twelve addi
tional still remain to be put in by
the county officials. Many private
individuals have had vats on their
farms for seevral years, but the work
of freeing the counts’- as a whole
was only begun in the late summer.
The construction of vats will be
completed prior to January 1 and
the dipping of cattle will start about
March 1.
Dr. J. J. Vara, of the bureau. of
animal industry, United States de
partment of agriculture, is in charge
of the work of eradication in Dodge
county.
Baltimore Blue Laws
BALTIMORE, Md.—The old Sun
day blue laws, enacted 100 years ago,
are to be enforced strictly in Balti
more in the future. Sale of food
stuffs or merchandise of any sort
comes under the ban.
First steps toward closing the city
on Sunday were taken by the grand
jury when the members refused to
present saloonkeepers unless confec
tioners and others whose places are
kept open on the Sabbath were also
prosecuted. Accordingly, four sa
loonkeepers and one confectioner
were presented upon charges of sell
ing merchandise on Sunday.
57.500.00 d BAPTIST
OUOTA IS EXCEEDED.
REPORTS INDICATE
Early Returns Show Surplus
of $1)000,000" or More.
Local Churches “Go Over
the Top"
That Georgia Baptists exceeded by
$1,000,000, if not by more, their
quota of $7,500,000 in the great
southern drive for $75,000,000, was
indicated by reports received Monday
morning at campaign headquarter l -'
i: the Baptist Tabernacle.
Practically every church in At
lanta, whose quota of $1,300,000 was
the largest of any southern city,
went over the top Sunday, the
city going considerably beyond its
quota. Reports from churches
throughout the state were similarly
encouraging. The telegraph an 1
telephone wires were busy bringing
reports Sunday night until midnight
Hundreds of churches could not re
port by wire because their telegran'i
offices .were closed. Early Monday
morning the reports began pouring
into* headquarters in a steady stream
For several weeks the preliminary
work of the $75,000,000 campaign ha
been in progress throughout th
southern states from Virginia
Texas. On Sunday the general sub
scription list was opened. Although
the list was supposed to be kept
open one week, from Sunday to Sun
day, there is every indication that
the whole amount was subscribed on
the first day. From southern head
quarters in Nashville the news was
received Sunday night that Georgia
and Kentucky are leading the list of
states.
“We regard this as the greatest
day in the history of our denomina
tion,” declared Dr. Arch C. Cree,
state director, Monday. “It is a won
derful thing that on the first day
of the drive Georgia Baptists went
over the top in this gigantic under
taking.”
. A telegram from Dr. L. R. Scar
borough, cVrector general of the en
tire Southern Baptist convention, at
noon stated that the south was head
ed for $100,000,000. Every state was
either over the top or was already
assured and'the state officials were
reporting that they would go beyond
their quotas by several million.
Within fifteen minutes between 11
•and 12 o’clock Monday $1,500,000 was
reported by telegram and long dis
tance to the Georgia headquarters.
At 12:30 came in from
one association reporting more than
$500,000,000 with six churches not
represented. There are fifteen as
sociations not reported yet which in
clude more than 300 churches.
80,000 Immigrants
Return to Italy From
U.S. Through Naples
NAPLES.—About 80,000 immi
grants have returned to Italy from
the United States through the port
of Naples since January 1. The
number is increasing month by
month, and with the recent release
of ships hitherto requistioned by the
allies, it is estimated that 10,000
Italians will greet Vesuvius again
every month.
The fortunes brought by the re
turning Italians are gladly welcomed
by their relatives, made needy by the
war. The properous appearance of
the passengers is generally com
mented on, being probably the re
sult of five years of savings at war
time wages in America, and their
well-made clothes and substantial
baggage form a striking contrast to
the bags and rags in evidence when
emigrants leave for America.
Emigration of Italians to the
United States byway of Naples, the
most important embarkation point
of emigrants in southern Europe, is
still very far from pre-war levels.
Data from the Italian emigration of
fice in this city indicate that, aside
from returning reservists, 3,217 Ital
ians sailed to the United States dur
ing the first eight and a half months
of 1919, The great majority of these
were wives, children and other near
relatives of Italians already in the
United States, who have hitherto been
prevented from joining their fami
lies because of conditions incident
to the world war. The number of
actual emigrants as the word is or
dinarily used is practically negligi
ble.
In contrast with this condition, it
may be noted that in 1913, the last
year before the war, 198,664 emi
grants left Naples for the United
States. The difference between the
two totals is ascribed to the results
of the operation of the literacy law
of 1917, dearth of ships and ab
normally high passenger rates, and
the continuance of American pass
port restrictions.
Fresh Country Eggs
Are Advanced Again
John A. Manget, chairman of the
fair-price committee of Fulton coun
ty, announced Monday morning that
he had authorized retailers to ad
vance the price of guaranteed fresh
country eggs to 85 cents a dozen,
effective immediately.
Mr. Manget said that his reason
for this was that fresh country eggs
are costing the retailer 75 cents a
dozen wholesale and that it was not
fair to the retailers to force them
to sell eggs on a margin of 5 cents
profit. The fair price of fresh coun
try eggs up until Monday was 80
cents a dozen.
Mr. Manget also announced that
cold-storage eggs had advanced in
price from 55 cents a dozen to 60
cents to the consumer.
Anti-Jap Measure
WASHINGTON, Dec. I—An1 —An amend
ment to the constitution of the Unit
ed States which would deney Ameri
can citizenship to children born In
this country of parents who them
selves are ineligible to citizenship Is
to be proposed shortly by Senator
Jones, Washington, it was announced
today. The measure is aimed at
Japanese and Chinese, whose chil
dren, born in this country, are
American citizens under the con
stitution.
U. S. CUTS H. C. OF DREADNAUGHTS
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Oven s<>oo,ooo has thus Lar keen saved for Uncle Sam in build
ing the great drfeadnaught Califoi’nia at the Mare Island Navy Yard,
instead of by private contract. The huge hall has just been launch
ed. Equal in length to the New Mexico, and 1 foot wider, she is
America’s largest warship. Cost of hull, $7,800,000; total, $15,000,-
000; length, 624 feet: beam, 96 feet; mean draft, 30 feet; displace
ment. 32,000 tons; 28,000 HP electric turbines; estimated speed,
21 knots.
Impressive Welcome
Planned in Parliament
For Lady Nancy Astor
LONDON, Dec. I.—Lady Nancy I
Astor, first woman M. P., was to
take her seat in the house of com
mons this afternoon amid impressive
welcome from her future co-workers
and high government officials.
“The noble lady, the member from
Plymouth,” officials have decided tc
address her. Premier Lloyd George
and Arthur Balfour, former premier,
were to act as her sponsors.
There was an unprecedented de
mand for the meager seating ca
pacity in the house. Huge crowds,
which had gathered to welcome the
Prince of Wales home from the
United States, planned to proceed
fcom this jubilation to the parlia
ment building to welcome k“Oui
Nancy” to her seat among the law
makers. Hundreds of women, among
them many of Great Britain’s old
time suffrage workers, were on hand
for the welcome. Former hunger
strike heroines, who saw in Ladj
Nancy’s election a partial realization
of their hopes, carried placards ot
victory and wore the Pankhurstlan
colors.
Mounted police were to escort the
viscountess’ automobile to the par- .
liament building.
Knowing Lady Astor’s Ipibit of
quick action, many of her friends
expected her to make her maiden •
speech in commons before tonight.
She may have an opportunity to
get the floor during the debate on I
the lottery loan, trfey thought.
Congress May Extend
Lever Food Act for
6 Months After War
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Extension
of the Lever food and fuel control !
act for six months after the procla- j
mation of peace will be one of the :
first measures to be considered by |
the house in the regular session open
ing day.
With the government’s efforts to
end the coal strike resting entirely
on the Lever act, a sudden ending of
the war through a peace resolution
or ratification of the treaty would
remove regulations on coal prices
and officials of the miners’ union
would be left free to prosecute the ’
strike, the injunction against it be- j
coming invalid.
The majority of the house agricul- I
ture committee favored extension j
when it was considered before the j
adjournment of the special session I
and in view of the threatened coal j
famine, Republican Leader Mondell
hopes to pass the extension before
ths end of the week.
Kolchak’s Army is
Retreating Rapidly
LONDON, Dec. 1. —The forces of
Admiral Kolchak, head of the all-
Russian government, are retreating
with such rapidity they are unable
to construct defensive works, of
which there is none west of Irkutsk,
says a wireless dispatch from the
soviet government at Moscow today.
Partisan bands continually harrass
Kolchak who has formed a body
guard of 3,000 to protect himself, the
dispatch adds.
Prizes Awarded Fiddlers -
At Americus Convention
AMERICUS. Ga., Dec. I.—The an
nual convention of the South Geor- I
gia Fiddlers’ association, arranged I
by Secretary O. A. Perry, of Cor- \
dele, and held under auspices of
Camp Sumter, No. 642. United Con- j
federate Veterans, was attended by
more than 51)0 residents of Sumter
and adjoining counties. Judges in
the contest staged were Captain H.
D. Watts, Prof. L. D. Lockhart and
Captain John A. Cobb. The conven- |
tion held its session in the superior
courtroom of the Sumter county j
courthous'e.
E. J. Wright, of Arabi, was unan
imously voted the champion clog
dancer and quill blower of the con
vention, and John W. Shiver, an
Americus business man, proposed
him a silver shower, which netted
Wright, $19.55. Prizes awarded by
the judges were as follows: W. W.
Sullivan, Cordele, first prize; W. M.
Watson, Seville, second prize; J. It. i
Kitchens, Americus, third prize; J. j
M. Hudson, Cordele, fourth prize; H. I
E. Clements, Cordele, fifth prize. i
Radicalism Is Strongly
Condemned by Augusta
Post of Legionaires
AUGUSTA, Ga.. Dec. I.— Calling
on the United States congress at its
next session to enact legislation that
would bar the operation of any or
ganization of the type of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, bol
shevism and of sovietism, and to ex
act legislation that would eliminate
the present personnel of these or
ganizations, the Louis L. Battey post
of the American Legion has gone on
record as in thorough sympathy with
the proposal of the legion to throw
its entire strength behind measures
to rid this country of radicals.
Copies of the resolutions will be
forwarded to Governor Dorsey, Sen
ators Smith and Harris and Con
gressman Vinson, of this district.
The passage of the resolutions was
the outcome of a meeting of the
post, at which Rodney S. Cohen, for
merly an overseas captain with the
Eighty-second division, declared that
“the three greatest curses that con
front the civilized people of the
earth today are the boll/weevil, the
French itch and Industrial Workers
of the Worldism.” Mr. Cohen as
' se.-ted that Industrial Workers ot
the Worldism is nothing less than a
human boll weevil, striking at all
the things which Americans hold
dear, and that he knew of no better
way of showing what this insidious
element stand for than to quote from
their own teachings. He then read in
flammatory articles disseminated by
the “Reds,” after which he declared
that it is the duty of the American
Legion to unite against the destruc
tion of this government by a lawless
element that have no country, no
home, no flag.
Georgians Will Work
For Waterways Items
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Senator
William J. Harris expressed gratifi
cation at the recommendations of the
army engineer for rivers and har
bors projects in Georgia amounting
to approximately two million dollars
as published in Journal dispatches
Saturday. He expressed the senti
ment of the Georgia delegation when
he said they would work to secure
appropriations from congress for all
the recommendations.
Senator Harris does not expect to
go to Georgia until some time after
the regular session convenes as he
has been detained during the recess
by illness.
Conference Attempts
Peace With Hungary
PARIS, Dec. 1. —An attempt to
make peace treaty with Hungary
through the new Hungarian govern
ment was decided upon by the su
preme council today.
The council reached this decision
after listening to the report of Sir
George Clerk, the peace conference
emissary, who recently returned from
Budapest. It was resolved to ask
the government of Premier Huszar
to send to Neuilly, near Paris, as
1 soon ag possible, a Hungarian dele
gation empowered to negotiate peace.
Girl Disappears From
Home in Anniston
ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 1. —For the
I second, time in twelve months Ma
' mie Bone, the 11-year-old daughter
of J. T. Bone, 1315 Mulberry avenue,
is missing from her home in this
i city, and the parents of the girl
have enlisted the aid of the Salva
tion Army officials in their search
for the missing child.
About a year ago, the little girl
left her home in this city and after
several days of searching she was
found in a hotel at Tallapoosa, Ga.,
and returned to her parents. After
being returned to her home last year
the little girl did not give a very
clear account of her trip to the Geor
gia town beyond making the state
ment that she accompanied a man
and a woman there from Anniston.
Cleopatra’s Needle
LONDON. —Workmen are engaged
upon the repair of the base of Cleo
patra’s needle on the Thames em
banwient, which was considerably
injured by the explosion-of a heavy
bomb during one of the Zeppelin
raids.
SCENTS5 CENTS A I-OPK.
$1.2.- A YEAR.
U.S. WILL SEIZE
NSSES IF SWF
DOES MTENO SOON
Troops WillJße Used to Pro
tect Miners Desiring to
Return to Work —Opera-
tors Must Aid
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Seizure
of bituminous coal mines where th* ;
owners do not show a disposition to .
co-operate in increasing production,, >
and use of troops to protect all min ; , .
ers who desire to work, has been ;
decided upon by the government in .
an effort to end the bituminous coal ’•
strike, it was stated officially Friday.
Operators or miners “making any
agreement or arrangement with each J
other to restrict the supply of coal i
will be proceeded against' as the law ;
prodives,” Assistant Attorney Gen- ■
eral Ames announced.
Secretary Baker, Mr. Ames said, a,I- :
ready has authorized commanders j .
when requested by state authorities ,
to use troops to preserve order. That j '
policy provides protection for those i :■
desiring to work, he said.
In mines seized by the government •
the 14 per cent wage advance agreed)
upon by the cabinet will be put into !
immediate effect, it was sp.id.
These plans of the government
were agreed upon by the cabinet
last Wednesday, officials said, so aS
t(f meet the situation resulting from
a refusal of the operators or miners,
or both, to agree to the government’s
wage increase proposal.
Cabinet officers expected many
mine owners to put into effect vol
untarily the 14 per cent wage in
crease. Whether the mines of those!
refusing to do so would be seized]
was not stated, but it was said I
there was no general plan for gov- i
ernment control, that each individ- j
ual case would be decided on Its •
merits.
Mines taken over by the govern-1
ment will be operated by the fuel ad- j
ministration, but details as to com-'
pensation to the owners were not dis
closed. • ? -J
While various federal agencies s
were preparing to carry out the gov
ernment’s program, Fuel Adminis
trator Garfield re-affirmed in even
more emphatic terms his position that
“profiteering on the part of either
labor or capital will not be tolerated.”
A number of operators and uniQu
officials remained in Washington to*
day, but all expected to leave for
their homes topight. John L. Lewis,
acting president of the United Mln-e
Workers of America, was closeted
a large part of Friday morning with
Secretary Wilson, but /refused to ]
discuss what had transpired'. Hp ”
also arranged an interview with
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, for later in
the day.
After Mr. Lewis’ conference with .
Mr. Gompers the American Federa
tlon of Labor chief said it had been
arranged for the attorneys of the
miners’ union to come to Washington
to consult with federation counsel
regarding an appeal from Federal J
Judge Anderson’s decision ordering J
withdrawal of the strike order. . I
Operators promised that if troops 1
were sent into the coal fields.; J
the strike would be broken
Thousands of miners would return®
to their jobs if they were sure of®
protection, operators claimed. Many®
operators, preparing to leave here®
for their homes, declared they ■
would make every attempt to run ■
their mines.
Coal now is being mined at a rate
of about 40 per cent of normal, of-1 J
ficial reports show. Most of this
tonnage is being produced by 150,000
non-union miners who refused to
strike Nov. 1. The number of union
miners who so far have returned to;
work in line with the strike rescind
ing order is characterized as negli--:
gible” by union officials.
Government officials replied thaX;
troops are available in every locali-;
ty where they may be needed and
can be called upon application to
the nearest military center through
the state governor. Secretary Baker
long ago issued orders to this
it was declared.
Although ordinary reserve stocks;
of coal now are nearly exhausted, j
according to reports of the railroad)
administration, fair stocks that;
were intended for export are avail-1 '
able for domestic use. These reserve'
stocks are on cars in Atlantic ports |
where they were halted by the rail
road administration when the strike
began.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1. —Further streng- ‘J
ent regulations for conservation of
fuel supplies, made necessary by the
strike of bituminous coal miners were
in effect today over virtually the en
tire country between Ohio and the
Rock Mountains and from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Regional fuel committees took con- j
trol of coal stocks in many states '
.nd non-essential industries continu
ed to close down because of lack of
fuel while the hours for operating
stores, theaters and office buildings • ;
wsre curtailed.
In Kansas City, Mo., and Omaha
?nd Lincoln, Neb., ail schools were
closed today, and officials of many
cities descussed the advisability df 7
closing the schools until the fuel
shortage is relieved.
Ontlook Doubtful
Reports today from the large bitu
minous fields of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania gave no as
surance that the union miners intend- <
ed to accept the offer of an increase )
of 14 percent in wages made by the
federal fuel administration. Neithe:- ■
was there any indication local set
tlements would be effected between
miners and operators.
In West Virginia union officials .
asserted most of the organized mines
in district No. 17, which includes
the Kanawha fields, would be idle -j
today. The operators, however, .
claimed the output in the New River ,
district would be increased during'
the week.
Governors of Illinois, Indiana,
lowa, Missouri, and Tennessee, and
a representative of the governor of
Kansas whe met here yesterday in ’
response to a call issued by Govrnor.
Gardner, of Missouri, to discus r
means for ending the threatened coal
famine *recommended to the federal,
government that a fuel administra
tor be appointed m each state to:
have full charge of distribution ot
al? coal available for his state. It
also was recommended that all coal
mined and in stock be distributed
equitably among the forty-eight
states on the basis of their Meeds de ' :
veioped during the war regardless .
of the state where mined. • ®