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She Atlanta Stairmil VOL. XXII. NO. 38. DUELS DENIES THE MORALEOFNAVYWJS "SHOT TO PIECES" Tells "Committee Admiral’s Views Probably Influenced by His Having Seen Most ly Shore Duty WASHINGTON, D. C.—Persona.’ differences developing between Rear Adipiral William S. Sims and Ad miral Henry B. Wilson, former com mander of American naval forces off the French coast, were followed by the omission of Admiral Wilson’s name from the list of officers recom mended for medals by Admiral Sims, the senate committee investigating naval decorations was tohrthis week by Secretary Daniels. '■•While Admiral Sims recommend ed young officers who served well in minor posts lor distinguished serv ice medals, and every other flag of ficer under his command for the same honor,” said Mr. Daniels, "he omitted that distinguished admiral who commanded all American naval forces off the French coast, Rear Admiral Wilson, now commander-in chief of the Atlantic fleet "When the history of the war is written Admiral Wilson’s service will stand as high as that of Sims, Mayo, Benson or Rodman." When it was decided^ to appoint! Admiral Wilson commander-in-chief i of the Atlantic fleet, Secretary j Daniels said. Admiral Sims wrote a j letter of protest. Characterizing the j contemplated appointment as a “very grave mistake indeed,” the letter called Secretary Daniels' at tention to the “trouble Admiral Wil son gave me in the discharge of my | duties.” Daniels Reads Reports "I attempted to correct it by per sonal letters.” Admiral Sims' letter said. “Admiral Wilson criticized not only this organization, but me per sonally, including that most de structive of all criticisms, the im pugning of motives.” Secretary Daniels appeared before the committee to answer criticisms of Admiral Sims and other officers of the manner in which naval decora tions were awarded. Referring to Sims’ criticisms that his recommen dations of 1 a distinguished service I medal for Commander J. C. Babcock, j his chief of staff and his "every thing," had not been followed. Sec retary Daniels said: "If I had thought Commander | Babcock the ‘everything’ of the navy I across the sea, I certainly would j have sent him to renresent the r.avyl instead of Admiral Sims. I do not , believe in having two supermen to I do a one-man job." Defends Righting Record Referring to the record of Admiral ; Sims’ testimony before the subcom- ■ mittee. Secretary Daniels said: “Admiral Sims "ays our nav*y was j not in this war in a fighting sense. ; We were acting as motor lorries be- ; hind the army except that we were j on the water. There was no fighting on the sea. Secretary Daniels said a document issued from Admiral Sims’ own head quarters in London, entitled ‘‘A Sum mary of Activities of U. S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters,” contained accounts of over 256 attacks by United States naval vessels. He added that the records of the armed guard section contained accounts of 227 encounters betweeni American merchantmen and G.rmhn j submarines. In 139 cases the attacks were successfully combated. Referring to Admiral Sims’ state ment that he had not recommended any enlisted men for medals because “we had nothing to give them,” the secretary called the committee's at tention to the act creating the awards which he said made no dis tinction between an admiral, captain and enlisted man. “It is the service he renders, the service in peril, and not his rank that counts,” he added. ’‘There are. occasions when a ship, is threatened with destruction and when' for the moment, its safety and protection depends on an enlisted man and he is then in a ‘position of great responsi- | bility,.’ and s is he performs his duties j at that moment with courage and | devotion, he is fully entitled to the j recognition of'his conduct by the dis- I tingtiished service medal." Morale Not Gone Referring to the bestowal of that I medal on Admiral Benson, because j of his services as chief of naval op- ' erations, Mr. Daniels declared he would give the same medal “that goes to that great and distinguish ed officer to the humblest sailor lad, who,' when placed in a position of great responsibility in a tipie that tested the stuff of which a man is made, met the demands of those du ties and placed his life in j’eopardy in order that his ship and the lives of others might be preserved.” With that in mind, he ordered fur ther study of navy records when he found that only 119 enlisted men of the 500,000 in the navy during the war .had been recommended for any ; high he explained. As the | result of this .study as yet uncom- { plete he said thirteen additional en- | listed men were awarded the dis- I tinguished service medal and sixty- i eight more men were put on the list I for navy crosses. Emphatic denial was made by the j secretary of Admiral Sims’ state- i ment that the policy followed in awarding medals had “shot to pieces” the navy/s morale. “It is an insult to the splendid men of the navy to say that the mor ale of the service could be serious ly impaired by any question of awards to individuals,” the secretary said on that point. "They are made of sterner stuff than to be rattled by a matter so unimportant in compari son with their devotion to their du- ] ties. Their loyalty is in no sense | dependent upon medals.” Important Notice to 'Figure Puzzle Players We wish to announce that the auditors are busy checking up the charts and results of the Figure Puzzle Game. We will announce the winners and mail checks to the winners just as soon as the auditors have finished their work. |THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY - JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga. KEEP TREATY ODT OF 0. 0. P. PLATFORM. WARNS WILL HAYS Has Been Assured Pact Will . Be Out of Way Long Be fore Time for the Con vention WASHINGTON. Feb. s.—Will H. I Hays has issued “confidential in structions" to members of the Re publican committee on platform and policies to keep hands off the treaty in making suggestions for I the Republican platform. His In i structions said that Republican sen ators would supply any necessary information on foreign affairs to the resolutions committee to be ap pointed by the Republican National convention. The Republican chairman's em phasis of this point in his talk with I congressional members of the spe cfal committee was taken today as further evidence of his desire to keep the treaty out of the campaign. He has been assured by leading Re publican senators who agree with him on this point that the treaty will be disposed of long before con vention time. One reason so much effort is being expended on getting the treaty rat ; ified and disposed of so far as the senate is concerned before campaign j time, senators said, is that such ac tion will lessen the importance tn ! the party of Senator Hiram John son, a bitter foe of the treaty and an aspirant for the nomination for president. Senators Johnson. Borah and the • other “irreconcilables” now are a i force to be reckoned with, as Sena- I tor Lodge, the Republican leader, I learned recently, senators pointed out. But with ratification accom plished, Senator Johnson would be without an issue except withdrawal from the league, it is stated, and this issue would not get him any where in the belief of astute Repub lican politicians. It is regarded as highly important for the solidarity of the party to keep Johnson from becoming too powerful. Senator Johnson, back today from a stumping trip in Missouri, defi i nitely announced that he will call ' up his amendment to equalize the i votes of the United States with votes of the British empire. He said I he believes Viscount Grey's letter j has wiped out opposition to the i amendment. BRfTFSHPRESS ‘ COMMENT ON COTTON IMPORTS LONDON. Feb. s.—The “stoppage i of cotton imports is one of the first j ana most telling effects of the ex- I change situation,” between Great I Britain and the United Statps, the ,> Star declared today. While no official ban has been placed on cotton imports from Amer ica. newspapers pointed out that British manufacturers can improve their situation only by refusing to buy until the value of the pound be comes more nearly normal in New York. British cotton buyers are being forced automatically by the exchange slump to stop the’r imports from ' America, the Manchester Guardian, i in the heart of the British cotton manufacturing area, asserted. As a result of yesterday’s sensa tional slump in the value of the pound sterling in New York the movement to refrain from buying i American made goods today reach- I ed such proportions it caused grave : concern among representatives of j American business houses here. Brit ish financial authorities pointed out that hte government has for its only object the relieving of the sterling exchange situation. One after another. newspapers have joined the campaign, urging the people not to buy anything made in the United States except absolute necessities. The latest adherent to I the cause was the Evening News, one ■of Lord Northcliff e’s newspapers. “Today’s drop in exchange puts an I effective and definite halt to any I ideas of importing cotton under ex- I isting conditions.” the ■ Guardian said. f Manchester manufacturers of cot- 1 ton goods, the newspaper asserted, I even have started shipping cotton back to the United States, selling it for dollars and making more profit, owing to the decrease in exchange since they bought the cotton. than they would have by manufacturing the cotton into cloth in British mfrlls. “There is sufficient cotton in Great Britain to keep our mills busy for nine or ten weeks.” the Stai’ said, adding that shipments now were on the seas en route to English manu facturers. DEFENDANT DT. NEWBERRY CASE ; CALLED TO STAND _____ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. Feb. 5. — i Allen K. Moore, first of the indicted ' men to testify, was called to the I stand by the government when the Newberry elections conspiracy trial was resumed in federal court today. Moore pleaded guilty at first to four of the six counts and not guilty as to the others. He changed this to “nolo contendere” on January 26. Moore’s home is in Grand Rapids, and his appearance on the stand caused defense attorneys to call Charles Floyd, who had charge of the local Newberry headquarters, to ' the counsel table. Objections to the testimony came thick and fast, but Judge Sessions allowed the testimony to go in. Moore told of a trip to Detroit with Floyd, at which time Paul King ask ed him to visit the upper peninsula and sound out certain individuals on the Newberry candidacy. Moore said B. Frank Emory, at King's order, gave him SIOO for expenses, and he received a check for that amount. moore said he made daily reports by mail, and after ten days returned to Grand Rapids. He said King's sec-* retary called him on the long-distance ■ •>„] arranged another trip to the north in company with King. The Atlanta Tri=Weekly Jonrna That name carries good news to you, doesn’t it? And the paper will be better than its name. On March 9th The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal that has been coming to you twice each week, will be changed to The Atlanta Tri-Wteekly Journal, and will then come to you Three-Ti mes - A-Week In other words, instead of getting your Journal only t\Vice-a-week, as heretofore, you will then get it every other day. The price of The Atlanta Tri-IT 7 eekly Journal will be $1.50 a year, payable in advance, but it will come to all Semi-Weekly Journal subscribers with out any additional cost to them until their subscrip tion expires. So if you are paid in advance it will not cost you any more. And — Until March 9th we will accept subscriptions from all our friends and readers at the Semi- Weekly rate of $1.25 a year. 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The Gentlewoman and The Household Journal are both as good as can be had among the popular price magazines. The price of The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal alone will be $1.50. We are giving you an additional five papers for 10c less than $1.50. The price of $1.40 is just half the regular price for the combination. We are selling it to yoti at the very cheapest that it can be bought. We cannot sell r it tor even one cent cheaper. Does i this not appeal to you? Send us your ' [ ,lc Semi - Weekl y Journal, order today. Tell your neighbors i aelll , eme „ : and.friends of this offer They will > Enclosed nnd SIM lur u „ lich send me vou , ~8 /C s/x „ comiiuia _ thank you for the balance of the year ' tion °^ er - for letting them know about it. t I Name No commission allowed on this 1 p. o I ofiei. , R p Statc I ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920. NATION-WIDE PLAN TO CUT HIGH COST OF LIVING OUTLINED Government Campaign Is Indorsed at Meeting of Women’s Organizations of State Held Thursday The immense proportions of the government’s country-wide cam paign against the high cost of liv ing, and its plan to bring together ■ all the people of the United States in an effort to direct the course of after-war reconstruction, were made public at a meeting of fair price and government officials Wednesday night and at a mass meeting of Georgia women Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. Both meetings were held at the chamber of commerce and resulted ifi hearty indorsement of the campaign. Government representatives, for the’first x tirne, inaae oTilcial declara tions tjialt the United States faces an economical crisis beyond govern mental control, and appealed to the patriotism of the people as the one power jjvhich can avert an economi i cal digester. which, they quite j 'ftanklyt admitted, is impending. Pa triotic attention to the economic sit uation and a. unity of purpose in combating it was declared to be as important now as during the war. Plan Xs Outlined The government plan, as outlined, contemplates the bringing together of all consumers in a campaign sensible and thrifty purchasing and methods of living’. Public opinion will be molded, it was stated, so that the public will create its own demand and »set its own style, instead of having false demands and. styles foisted upon them by manufactures and commer cial associations, as was charged by department of justice officials. It is planned ’to give publicity to the prices charged by various mer chants and to issue lists of those merchants who are dealing fairly with the public. Prosecution, it was stated, will be the last resort, but will be carried through to the finish if begun. Campaign Is Indorsed Th6 campaign plans of the gov- I ernment were outlined by Mrs. Ogden I Wade, of the department of justice. I at the meeting of representatives of j Georgia wo m e n’s organizations Thursday morning. Resolutions in dorsing the campaign and urging the organization of thrift clubs in all communities for the execution of the plans were unanimously adopted by the hundred w more women attend ing the meetings Resolutions were adopted also in<- dorsing the work of county fair price committees, and a rising vote of thanks was given’ John A. Manget. state fair price commissioner, for his work in this capacity. The first real step to be taken fo*- the organization women in Geor gia will be in the appointment of a women’s state fair price commission who will be named from Washing ton. The plan of organization will be placed in the hands of the com missioner, who will name sub-com mittees in all communities to carry on the ’•campaign. Mrs. Og'den Wade, in addressing the meeting Thursday morning, de clared that the United States was now facing a very grave situation. She said: “We are facing an emergency of peace which, is perhaps more dan gerous thaai the emergency of war. There has grown out of the war a great class —not a. few —ot men who are taking advantage of conditions. As the result of this there h as spread over the country a feeling of resentment. This is good, for emotion is the creator of all things. This j emotion if we take, it in time may i be used to ar advantage, but if it I is allowed to run riot it will have I dangerous results." “Buy Now" Attack I Mrs. Wade charged the big manu i facturers with spreading a propa i ganda looking to the continued in crease of prices. She attacked., the “Buy Now’ campaign, which she al leged was causing people to make purchases vi'hich they did not need and brought about hoarding. Many * manufacturers, Mrs. Wade charged, i were expert psychologists, who prey upon the weaknesses of the Ameri- ) can woman. Mrs. Wade’s address : won hearty appljuse from her audi j ence. i Many prominent women from all , parts of Georgia were present f Thursday. Mrs. J. E. Hays, of Mon i tezuma, president of the Georgia i Federation of Women’s Clubs, pre i sided and .. made a short address. Among others speaking were Mrs. Irving Thomas, president of the At lanta Woman’s club; Mrs. A. P. Coles, president of the Atlanta Fed eration of Women's Clubs', Mrs. .1. E. Andrews, president of the Atlan ta Parent-Teacher association, and Mrs'. Samur 1 Lumpkin, director of the thrift campaign in the south eastern states. The opening meeting of the gov ernment's campaign on Wednesday night was attended by department of justice officials and fair price commissioners from the principal cit ies of Georgia. John A. Manget, state fair price -ommissioner, pre sided. Up to the Public Every .speaker at the meeting agreed on the point that the cam paign against the high cost of liv ing must be waged through the united effort of the'public, and that j.he government can do nothing more than guide the campaign. “Organized society must regulate the situation," said Mayor James L. Key, who welcomed the officials to Atlanta. “It cannot be left to the cupidity and selfishness of some who may attempt to profit from the present industrial chaps.” Marion , Jackson, assistant. fair price commissioner for Georgia, urged the necessity of studying the situation from all angles. “We cannot attack the retailer and fore.e him to fix a price and I then believe we have accomplished something,” he said. “We must go back of the situation. Back to the cost of labor, and rent and electric power and all costs which influence the retail prices. We must see that every one gets a fair return for his investment and bring the law of supply and demand back into oper ation. fgatfit is not this lav/, but in flation, Uiat has governed durisg the last three years.” Scents a < <»py. $1.25 A YEAR. GERMANY TO REFUSE TO SURRENDER IB GUILTY TIE ALLIES Noske Declares People Would Not Permit Their Deportation List of [ Major Crimes Charged BERLIN, Feb. s.—At the conclu sion of tonight’s cabinet session, a member of the government inform ed the correspondent of the Asso ciated Press that the ministers were unanimous, in declaring sur render of tne men demanded by the allies in the unofficial list or any other received here was an utter physical impossibility. The list of accused Germans, whose surrender for trial by allied tribunals is demanded, began arriv ing here yesterday. The former crown prince. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, General Erich Ludendorff, General von Falk enhyn, Admiral von Tirpitz, Dr, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg. and former Foreign Minister Zim merman, were among those whqsa surrender is demanded. The list of names began arriving in Berlin at 11 a. m. “The German people will not bear this new shame." the Lokal Anzelg er said today, protesting violenji/. against the allied insistence for de livery of German war guilty, provided in the peace treaty. The newspaper, in an editorial sajd it “was convinced the German peo iple will gather the last remainders of their strength to resist to tha' utmost.” . ' The allied demand, the Lokal Anzeiger added, involves “not tha fate of a single group of individuals but the fate of the nation.” “This question,” the newspaper said, “is to decide whether the peace treaty may be changed to enable us to Mvaj morally and materially.” The Tageblatt says the list of per sons demanded by the allies from' .Germany surpasses anything which even the greatest’ pessimists had considered possible. “One now realizes,” it adds “what tremendous stupidity it was to of fer to sign a peace treaty the terms of which were impossible to ex ecute.” “Everybody must be aware that the crisis is beginning today,” the Taglischerundse’.iau asserted, adding it “hoped thousands of Von Lersners could be found in Germany.” Vorwaerts, under a headline "Ger many Cannot Deliver,” expressed hope that “calmness would get the upper hand in the entente nations.’’ Some of Those Demanded Following ‘is "the list of the per sons demanded for extradition fra'W the German government: Karl Aegidi, Duke Albrecht. of» Wurteemberg, Submarine Command er Arnolds de la Perere, General Count Sixt von Arnim. General Otto von Below, Count Johann von Bern storff, former ambassador to the United States. Dr. Von Bethman Hollweg. former imperial chancellor. General Von Boesler, Count Bismarck, General Von Boehm, General Von Boethner, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, the Duke of Mecklenburg. General Von Bredow, Bronsart von Schelleirdorf, General Otto von Bjte low, Admiral Von Capelie, General Groener,. General Von Daimllng. Enver Pasha, Prinbe Ernst of Sax ony, General Falkenhausen, General Falkeithayn. Prince Frederick of Prussia, General Von Gallwitz, Al fred von Glasenapp, Otto von Gott berg, General Von Gravenitz, General Count Haesder . . . Hammerstejn. Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen, tha Grand Duke of Hesse. Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, ’• whose extradition is demanded by> France and Belgium; Pripce August' of Hohenzollern, Prince Eitel Fried-, rich of Hohenzollern. the Crown Prince of Germany, Prince Oscar’ of. Hohenzollern. General Von Hutier, Ismael Hakki; Pasha. General Von Kluck, General: Von Linsingen. General Ludendorff/; Field Marshal Von Mackensen. General Maltzahn. General Baron Kurt von Manteuffel, General Von Der Marwitz . . Von Moltke, Yon Montgclas. Robert Morath. . . . Von Chei (?) . . . Voh Dec Planitz ... Vo Plett/nberg. eral Von Quast, Prince 'Ratibor: - Admiral Scheer . . .Von Der Schulenburg, Count Schwerin, Talaat Pasha, Admiral Von Tirpitz, General Von Trother. T Submarine Commander Valentiner, Count Waldersee . . . Warburg,. Prince Wittgenstein, Count Vitztuin . . . Von Eckstedt. Alfred Zimmerman, former secre tary of foreign affairs. Some of Charges The accusation against Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria is tha deportations from the Lille district: the Duke of Wurttemberg Is charged with the massacres at Narnur; Field Marshal Von Kluck with the assas sination of hostages at Senlis and the massacre of civilians at Aer schot; Frield Marshal Von MaOKcn sen. with thefts and pillages in Ru mania; Baron Von Der Lancken, With the murders of Captain Charles Rry att. the British sea captain executed by the Germans, and Miss Edith Cavell. the English nurse, who Was executed on the charge of aiding pris oners to escape: Admiral Von Ca pelie. with the submarine outrages: Field Marshal Liman von Sanders, with massacres of Armenians ami Syrians; General Stenger, with is suing orders to take no prisoners; the Niemeyer brothers, with cruelties to prisoners at Holzminden camp: Maor Von Goertz, with cruelties at the Madgebourg canip; Lieutenant Rodiger, with cruelties at the lluhie baum camp; General Von Cassel, wtt-h cruelties at tht? ’-"oberitz camp: Gen eral Ven Manteuffel, with the sack of Louvain; Lieutenant Werner, Cap tain Valentine and Captain Forstnar, with submarine outrages; General Von Tesma, with the execution of 112 civilians at Allon; General Vo« Ostrawsky, with the pillage of Dynz£ and the execution of 103 civilians, and Major Von Buelow, with destruCr tion and murders at Aerschotj, Naval Award Probe to Be Resumed Saturday WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Chair man Hale, of the senate committee investigating naval aw'ards. an nounced that the hearings will uot be resumed until Saturday. tary Daniels will resume his state ment at that time.