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THE WEATHER Probably local ehow'ert and hmuU^ory. tonight; fooler SHE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES-T£E ONLY PAPER IN AlANY HOMES . ~ipraiiAj&s COTTON: 5-8 Cents VOL. 5. NO. 213. ATHENS, GA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1917. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. *5.00 PER YEAR. 219 FOR, 98 Senate Will Take Similar Action Before Mid- * night, Opposition to Conscription Bill Admits —3—r~ —r House Cheers Wihlly When Affiynative Vote "Is An nounced—Cheering and Stamping Deafening When; Negative Vote Is Announced--Speaker Champ Clark and Representative Jeannette Rankin Cast Their Votes For Volunteer Plan—Believed That When Rec ord Vote Comes Marty of the 98 Voting Against Meas ure Will Cast BaHots in Favor of SCfective Con scription. i # ; : —— i (By J. P. YodeR United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, D. C., April 28.—The nation will raise its armies 0 -«fby selective conscription. The house so voted just before noon today. The senate will vote likewise before midnight tonight—barring the completely unexpected. Anti-conscriptionists admit this. ^he house vote was 279 to 98 in favor of the president’s and " the war college plan to at once raise an arniy of 500,000 for serv icer at smile future date, in Europe if needed. Miss Jeannette Rankin, first woman to hold a seat, voted against consumption. She cast her vote without incident. The house vote wa%on the Kahn amendment to the ahny bill • as reported by Chairman Dent’s military committee., The Dent bill authorized the president first to try raising an army in the old . fashioned way—by the volunteer system. Kahn’s amendment turned the bill into what President Wilson and his war headl 1 'wanted—a straight ouAuid-out selective conscription method.# Josephus Daniels j A Private Marine \ (By United Prcia.) *. New York*- April 28.—Jjnsephiia Daniels, aj;dd 21, eldeit eon or Secre tary Daniels, enlisted 18 the United t, States marine corps reserves * a private this afternoon, it eras an nounced at headquarters here. He enlisted in Washington. Young Dan iels will be sent to the League laland navy yards, Philadelphia, for training. Hia enlistment etas one' of tha first five to begin the marines to briar the marine corpe up 17,400 men ful war strength. HO] ME& , CHEERS RENT HOUSE. • The house cheered wildly? as the affirmative vote was announced. V When, to thewurprise of members, subsequent announcement of the neg- • ativo vote-showed that 08 for tho vol unteer plan the cheering and stamp ing was deafening. , There was no record vote. That will come later. Tho house, when the vote was taken, was in committee of the whole. A roll cajj.. will come later in the day. Speaker Clark, firm to the last, , voted for the volunteer plan along with Miss Jeanette Rankin, who asked her constituents if she must “stand alone" for conscription. There never . was a doubt of tho vote after Representative Saunders, of Virginia, in the speaker’s chair as chairman of the committee on the whole, announced a yote would be taken on the Kahn amendment and asked for ayea. m ., A tremendous shout arose. A somewhat weaker shout greeted the chairman's request for the “noos.” The chairman then asked for tellers—the nearest to a roll vote that can be obtained.in a session of "the committee of tho whole. CRUSH OF MEMBERS AND CLERKS. The mob, swirling, suriing, that looked as if it include^ every con gressman — and their clerks — In ■ Washington arose and joined in a crush at the front of the chamber, ready to walk between Chairman Dent and Representative Kahn, the tellers, up the center aisle of the house to show they were {pr the Kahn amendment. * When the recoitf vote does come, many members predicted, many of tho A 98 who voted against the presi dents plan. wilUhave switched, there by makinJPthe vote against the vol unteer plan even greater than that recorded while the body was acting in committee of the whole. ROOSEVElTl' OVERSHADOWS ALU IN’ SENATE DEBATE The Roosevelt plans overshadowed all other isauea in the senate today as the conacription army bill nears a vote. ; 7 , _ At last a debate between influen tial senators, three being ift favor of the Harding amendment to permit Roosevelt to recruit a volunteer di vision. They were Harding, Lodge and John Sharp Williams. . , —. — - , - ■, , „ .. "Gentlemen, this: is not a party Jthe first time in Anglo-Saxon hi- .war it is :in American war," Senator story that a nation has resorted to the . I»dgc said as he mad. a vigorous [draft at the beginning of the war. speech in favor of the Roosevelt divis-1 “Conscription is always the last ion. "For Heaven’a sake," shouted the veteran Massachusetts senator, "is there any reason why ho shouldn't bo allowed to offer hia ljfa for what ha'believes most sacred?” He declared Roosevelt was the only man in tha country.who could raise a division and to lot him do so would not injure tho principle of universal service. Lodge dwelt upon | effect of a former presidei American troops, in Europe. Senator Williams, of Mississippi, one of the president's moat loyal sup- K rters, in either heuse, agreed with dge, biit asserted that.while R< velt was competent to command a I It, ht was not fitted to lead a out that lead a.di vision. PROVIDES ADVANCE GUARD * OF AMERICAN IDEOI "For us to authorise Roosevelt raise hia army would be legiiiatlon which will make possible a volunteer army for immediate and intensive training, to be recruited by Colonel Roosevelt, former commander-in- chief of the United States army and navy," Ranting said. -~ "It provides the advance guard of American ideals, bearing the ori- flaDime of new world Hbgrty, new world civilisation and new world hu manity. and armed usurance of our everlasting committal to maintain our national right. “Our people have wondered why the typical American tender and the typical Rooseveltian tender of the volutneer force should' find'no/en couraging American response.” Harding declared the proposed josevelt division would “give form » a Rooseveltian expression of eager d ready Americanism and to pro vide an army of Americans who be lieve in him and bis gospel of Ameri canism." “And surely the interest is not a matter of politics here at home. God forbid there should be anywhere in places high or humble any narrow prejudices or partisanship in these solemn 'days of a-. great American wMMT , ’’ . . -iT “There will be amazement through the land if this proposition is de feated. There will be an imputation of motive for which neither the con gress or the executive ought to give • BEGOT UNDER * CONSCRIPTION LAW “(By'United Press.) i Washington, D. C., April 28.—The first 600,000 men for tho army to he railed under the selective conscrip tion will be called to the colors about September 1 or thoreabouts, the sec retary of war announced late today. The first national registration day will be within thirty days from. pas sage of the bill—in other words about June 1. It will probably be denominated by presidential procla mation. The president will call upon all able-bodied citizens to come forward voluntarily and register at voting booths. Slackers will be gone after later. It ia expected 7,000,000 men will be registered, in the opinion of Secretary Baker. Of these, 600,000 or 700,000 will be chosen by the' jury wheel system.. After physical, industrial and other exemptions are made of the men, the ’first 600,000 will be placed Inglmme- diatc training. \ The exemption machinery, the war department stated, will be conducted as far as possible under the guidance of loea^ authorities.* * SECRETARY WILSON ASKS $2^14,246 FOIJ WAR EXPENSES (By United Press.) Washington, D. C„ April 28—Sec retary of Labor Wilson today submit ted to congnse estftnatee totalling 12,314*246 for war expenses. Items included $1,000,000 for guarding and maintaining internad enemy aliens. An itein of $08 additional ■tent’s employment bureau, presuma bly to obtain farm labor. EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS « AN’ ENTIRE VILLAGE Rome, April )HL-»The entire village Of Monterchi. was destroyed in the earthquake of yesterday, according to word received here today. Complete casualties are not yet available. ■ Ten ^rsons were fettled • In the earthquiM shocks in Tuscany and Umbria, ah offtclaLstatement assert ed today. Thirty pereons ware se verely injured .’Citema was almost completely Wretked,, thirty being caught in the wreckage and injured. At A’ngihard and San Sepoicio there was great damage done, but-no lives lost. Most of the inhabitants of the stricken districts have fled in terror of other shbeks and are canlping out in the open. Half of Village Of Oppy Cap tured In Desperately 4l Fighting—Arlcux Also Falls to Tremendous British As sault—Fighting Progressing in Other Sections on -a Tre mendous Scale of Intensity. Marshal Haig’s Offensive Still Gaining Ground Around Gav- relle. (By William Philip ’Simms, United Press Stag Correspondent.) With the British Armies Afield, April 28.—British troops hare turned the German "Wotan line.” Half of the village of Oppy—be lieved to be tho northernmost town of this German defense front—was captured today in desperately hot fighting. Arleux, a trifle further to the irth, also fell to tha tremendous British assault Information from other sections' of the British front reaching the spot from which this dispatch it written detailed fighting on a tre- Dangerous Area Is Now Extended (By United Preaa.) Washington, L7. C, April 28.- Great Britain, has extended he: “dangerous area” and warned al shipping of this fact The new area stretches out -to more than double the si^ of the mlafe Mg ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 " Gerinmi; ' Dutch of the mine field England tightens her blockade of Germany and forces shipping destined for the Scandinav ian countries, lo siwng out in vast semi-circle from the heretofore straight line route. The new mine field will make it cn more difficult than before for Germany to send out either naval or ial vessels Tor the’ new zone ret 'tive mines.« FORD AUTOANDTEN KEGSARE PINCHED AT JEFFERSON BY SHERIFF Yesterday afternoon there was :i Ford car with two white men in it to pass through Jefferson. The car seemed to be pretty well filled with kegs and one of the men seemed so be making an unnecessary amount of noise. They stopped the tar in front of one of the stores in that place and it was seen that one of thorn, the one driving the car, was Ivan intoxicated condition. Tho man who runs the store colled BOMYAllWILLHAIC STRIKFS REPRESENT UNITED STATE? mendoustecale of iniquity. . tho sheriff and tried to get him for Arountr Oppy and ^rieux it was sevormi minutes. In the meantime still progressing ^.after a night of never-ceasing clashes. The armies on both sides swayed back and forth ip tho struggle. But the latest re port today showed the British still in possession of half of Oppy and alt of Arleux—and beating back desperate German eoulter-attacka. - Around Gevrtll, ■ Haig’s offensive was still gaining ground. A steady stream of prisoners from this bloody angle were being shifted back of the lines. n . To the sonth, as part of hit gigan- ' Haig's troops were • ' ‘ ' II. They ioward Greenland hill. itein of $760,000 was askad for hard and fast at massed Genpan Iditional employes in ths depart- forces » and hwarmed over ' into a German trench running south of tho TREMENDOUS BLOWS 8TRUCK. There they stuck fast despite tre mendous blows launched by the Ger mans. Not even literal melting away of the German attackers in the face of murderous machine gun firs and British tho dn the 1 i artillery atop- curteji _ ped the "desperate enemy eounter-at- acks. The German losses are stag gering in these attacks. . At the present moment the most bitter fighting, homver, was appar ently in progress Icrthe woods to tho weft . of Roeux—just above the resort of democracy," he laid. MILLION TRAITORS HERE, SAYS JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS In a scathing speech against pro- Germanism, Williams declared there are one million traitors in America. “I want to weed ’em out,” he said. “That’s why I want conscription?’ "Of the ten million Gprman-Amec; leans in the country probably nine million are loyal.’ <• As senate debate continued a sec ond fight, was precipitated immediate ly when as the clerk commenced read ing the rest of the bill, a Florida rep resentative, Cears, with the assist ance of a fellow member tried to get recognition to , make a _ left-over speech. He was finally squelched. Representative. Moore, of Pennsylva nia followed .with an amendment to make the conscription a plain draft proposition eliminating the "selective" feature for fear of favoritism.' Representative Mason, Illinois, arouseil the dormant volunteer pro ponents when discuasing the amend ment he said. "This amendment removes the coat of sugar from the bitter pill of the draft servitude. Jesuit of Nazareth on the cross, was a volunteer. "The gentWtnen on each side of hin^were conscripts.” Sca’rpe. Here the forest was liter ally beixg Mowed down by artillery fire atjd .the most stained red with rivulets of blood' as the Germans madly attacked; were locked iq bit ter confijct; then thrown back—only to re-form end attack again. Meanwhile the Britlah inched fur ther and further forward. “ROARING BILL” GORDON BURNED IN EFFIGY FRIDAY (By United Frees.) Cleveland, Ohio, April 28.—"Roar ing Bill" Gordon, Cleveland con gressman, who opposed the adminis tration conscription measure, was burned in effigy here. Students of hVestern Reserve University today discovered a life-size straw dummy tied to a stake and burned. The fig ure was labelled “ ‘Roaring Bill’ Gor don.” BANK STATEMENT New York, April 28.—The actual weekly bank statement today shows the following changes. Surplus decreased $9,256,980. Loans decreased $2,068,000. Reserve in own vaults increased $2,565,000 Re serve in Federal Reserve banks da- creased $16,519,000. Reserve in other depositories increased $925,000. Net demand deposits decreased $17,174,006. Net time deposits increased $2,823,- 000. | Circulation increased $67,000. Aggregate reserve $746,606,000. the 'men found that they would be arrested if they relmiined in that place very long and'stnrted the jit ney at full speed towanl the rear of the court house. It wus said that they made the turn on two wheels and then got a fresh start down the road at a very rapid rate of speed. When the sheriff, was found and told of the men and what they were doing ha and a party darted to chase them. They caught them ecvcral milea 'out of Jeffereon and brought (bent back and locked one at tho men up on a warrant for having whis key in bis possession. It was also found that the men had Juet left the vicinity of Athi and that they had four empty 1 gallon kega in the car as well some empty bottles. If they die- charged their cargo in Athene, it is assured that there will be eome large number of drunke pinched during the next few days. WAR CONTINUANCE OR PEACE TURKEY^ IS PREPARED FOR (By John P. Graridens, United Preaa Staff Correspondent, n, (Vis London), April 28— is ready peace—or heady for a continue^, war," declared Talaat Pasha, Turkish' vizer, here for a conference with Berlin officials. “Turkey doea not desire annexa tion' of territory, and she has mili tary strength enough to hold out in definitely. Our harvest prospects this year are of tho best “We have'not altered one whit our ‘treatment of Americana because of America's assumption of belligerency against the central powers.’’ (By United Press.) Washington, D. C., April 28.—Tho question whether to make tho new army tn be conscripted "bone-dry” caused a litter fight in the senate late this afternoon, l^io committee had offered an amendment making the army dry. Senator McKclier offered another late this afternoon, making the amendment more drastic. McKei- teria amendment to the committee amendment was addpted, 57 to 30.. Before the legislative snarl was ’over the senate had voted 39 to? 48 tainat atbling the proposition pro- bition question, and had adopted inator Underwood's amendment to Senator McKellar’s amendment. The Underwood amendment, adopted by a roll call vote of 45 to 43, would make congress bone-dry. McKellar’s amendment would make it a crime punishable by a heavy pen alty to give or sell to officers or any person connected with the army either on or off duty. Under the Underwood amendment it would be a crime carrying a severe penalty to give or sell a federal leg islator liquor. "1 assume you’ve adopted the Mc- Kcllar amendment for the welfare of the nation," Underwood said. "We need as cool heads and good judgment in the dome of the capital as we do in the camp. I am not favorable to the idea of invading personal liberty but I don't consider myself any bet ter than the boy from ray district. We want to -be good soldiers." Senator Hoke Smith assailed the amendment as "bringing ridicule upon what we’ve already done. What mem-, here of the cabinet should be included in the prphibition was suggested by Thomas, of Colorado. RUSSIAN SOCIALISTS ' VOTE MAY DAY STRIKE (By United Prepk.) Amsterdam, April 28 Directly contrary to. the government's appeals, the socialists minority in the Reich stag .and the Prussian Landtag have adopted resolutions fdvoring a gener al strike on May Day, according to Berlin dispatches today. AUSTRIAN PAPERS SUPPORT Amsterdam, April 28.—“A twenty- four hour general starike on May I would prove we agree with the Rus sian proletariat’s own’desire and that we war without demand for annexa tion of land nor indemnities," de clared the Vienna Arbeitcr Zeitung today. Vienna dispatches received here in dicated other Austrian newspapers be sides the Arbeiter Zeitung was sup porting tha general May Day strike T S AT ENEMY AMERICAN COLORS FLYING FROM THE EIFfEL TOWER (By United Prese.) Paris, Aprjl 28.—For the present at least, France has derided the Ameri can flag topping Eiffel Tower, shall remain there daily with the French tri-color. Makes Morning Attack on Front Several Miles North of the Scarpe—Considerable Opposi tion Encountered, But Good Progress Reported Made. Fighting Along Entire Line of Great Drive in Progress'Dur ing Day—Internal Discontent Disrupting Germany. (By United Frees.) 4x>ndon. April 28.—Field Marshal Haig .struck another tremendous blow at the German lines today in a pow erfully revived offensive ovar a front of several miles north of the Scarp*,’* ported, “meeting considerable opposition, but making good pro gress.” % V Battle front dispatches indicated violent fighting »till in progress dur ing the day along the whole line of this g # reat # drive. Germany is draining her empire of men to throw against ttie onrueh- ing waves of the Franco-Britiih ml- fensive. Necessity of interposing some check to the steady advance of the allied forces on the west front is being desperately felt by the n^l- Itary chiefs, who realize the grow ing discontent in Germuny, manifest in various strikes, in socialist peace propagaada, in dissatisfaction over shrinking rations, in agitation tor greater participation n governmental affairs by the people. 4 Information received here toddy from the German empire via Holland indicated this condition in the ce®-’ tral,empire today. GERMAN FORCES SUPERIOR. Dispatches now Indicate that Ger many is opposing the Franco-British advance with forces^far superior to the attacking armies. And still, these divisions no more than alow up (Continued on page 0.) REGULAR WEEKLY MEETING FRIDAY Selective Conscription and How It Will Be Put Into Effect (By J. Van Holt Nazh, Adjutant Gen eral of Georgia.) Selective conreription will ba put into effect by means of state laws. The governor will direct the ordi nary jof Jlch county to furnish the MUMS and age* Of all male residents of the county between 18 and 45 years. These name* would be secured by a census of each county taken under the direction of the ordinary. The war department would next decide the ages of the men it wanted conscripted, and as adjutant general I would notify all such men to report for military duty at an assigned place. Not later than fifteen days after re ceiving his report, any one designated for military duty could file an affi davit of exemption with the ordinary and I would consider such affidavits. Ail those married, or wno could show they had dependents, such as mother or sister, would be excused. All engaged in an occupation neces sary to the general welfare would be excused. And, in addition, we would carefully examine each man ordered up for service and reject those wlp> were physically unfit. So, you see. conscription doesn't mean taking every one. It means se lecting those who ought to serve in the army and exempting those who ought to stay at home. Yesterday afternoon the director* or the Chamber of Commerce held a most interesting Meeting in „ the rooms of thut organization at 4 o’clock. The meeting was declared to be one of the best that has ever been held and a good attendance of the board was on hand when, it was called to order by the president. One of the important matter* brought up and discussed at length was. that of the cannery for Athens. The account of which appeere'ill' another section of the paper. - Another important matte* brought up at the meeting was that of seed ing speakers from the Chamber t of Commerce and the State College of Agriculture to the various sectltM of Jackson county to speak to farmers and tell them how they nuiy be able to conserve their food ctpV this year. The matter of having of the chautauqua committee itsg taken up and it was decided * that committee would hold ing on Monday afternoon to and complete final arrangement! the Redpath Chautauqua which be here on May 15. It is to be h that all of the members of this < rnittee will be on hand whin 'meeting is called to order. IUATEHALA GERMAN E (By Unite* Preaa.) 'Vaahinffton, D. C., April! Guatemala has broken rolatl Germany and minister t' * annouu today.