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a * COTTON: 20 ft Cents. nbmarine Menace Overshad owed All Other Questions of' Sending Americans to the Front at the War Conference. Shipping Takes Precedence Over Every Other War Prob lem »t the Moment, Says Eng lish Lord—Shipbuilding Now Needed. (fly George Martin, United Press Staff correspondent.) Washington,, D. C., May 1.—The submarine menace overshadowed every question of sending Americans to the front at the war conference of the allies here tods#. The British expert, Lord Eustace Percy, in formed the American government that the shipping problem takes pie- ccdence over every other war prob lemat the moment. - "Die situation is very eerious," he said. Standardisation of ship building in England, America, Canada and Japan i* the biggest immediate detail of the conference to dispose of.. England’* standardisation plans, it was made known, were placed at tho disposal of all tho allies at the war parley. "Germany is sinking shi[fe faster than the alhe* am buidling them,’’ said Lord Percy. "I cannot give you the figures, but they am appalling.” The British havo /impressed upon the American government that it will requim combined maximum ship building facilities of the allies, speeded op to top notch, to supply bottoms, absolutely essential to the prosecution sX the war. ALLIES GIVEN - USE OF GERMAN LINERS standing on ' the' bridge with him, gave the order to fire from tho stem gun, christened “Teddy Roosevelt” by its draw, and the booming alx-fnch rifle went home, and another Ger man submarine wept to the bottom. Lieutenant .Were’* home is in New ton, Mass. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy. Atlantic transport company ship Mongolia, fired the shot which put the United States in the greet war. When the German submarine was sighted off the -port bow. Captain Rice ran his veiscl directly toward the enemy craft. He passed over the spot. The submarine came up (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., May 1.—Tho government has turned over the Ger man liners Portonn and Clara Men- nig, at New York, for the us* of the awe*. . seem to think .that they would have very much trouble in setting their at- loted number before time for the Chautauqua to come to Athens, Each of the ladies was given a number of tickets to dispose of and it is not thought that share .will be any trouble' on sailing them. There, are hundreds of pledges in the office of the chamber and these' will be sold first All of those who tledged them selves to a certain number of tickets pm selling the ticket!. ATHENS, GA, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1917. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. $5.00 PER YEAR. EYES OF WORLD TURN [£-! IL Only Report of Fighting Made by Field Marshal Haig Was of Night Raid by British Forces North of Ypres—Both Sides Hurrying Up Fresh Troops For Later Renewal of Terrific Battle—yVom Out and Cut to Pieces, German Infantry Quiets Down. May Day French and German armies still locked in tlje most tremendous struggle of the world war, but the eyes of the world turned for the moment on the central pow ers, where the bursting of the long-brewing storm of discontent was awaited with mingled hope and fear. No German newspapers are al- lowed to paaa through to neutral countries and for ten days irav- elers were forbidden to leave Germany, making , the central powers'almost as isolated as old Japan. Reports p.achlng The Hague, how ever, said that socialist leaders an nounced that they were unable to take the responsibility for the main tenance of the peace order by Ger many after May Day. Another re port said strikes have been going on for ten days in the Westphalia and Rhine provinces. Swiss reports, of vogue, indefinite authority, said a widespread out break of typhus is attributed food conditions in Germany, Sweden, where a nationwide May Day strike Was also planned, also voked censorship. As a result of recent strikes by German war industries workers the meet and potato ration has been in creased, according to a Rotterdam dispatch. There it no big- newe from the French front The French are con solidating yesterday’s gains in Cham pagne. : The British raids. Selectfve Conscription Again Passed by Senate Senate Changes Age Limit of Those Subject to Draft to 27 Years—Senator LaFollette In troduces an Amendment Which Would Put to Referun- dum the Question as to Wheth the American People '• Want to Be Conscripted. (By Robert J. Bender, United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, D. C. f May 1.— The senate this afternoon for the second time passed the ad- ministrrlion's selective conscrip tion bill. It will go at once to conference^ for straightening oat of house imd senate differences. The senate also voted down, 54 to 17, McCumber’s motion to strike out of the bill the clause exempting ‘certain, recognized religious sects” from taking up arms. announce ^ auwe^rf^ DEADLOCK IS APPARENT ALONG BRITISH FRONT (By United Preaa.* London, May 1.—A deadlock was apparent along the British front to day. Field Marshal Haig’s only re port of fighting was of a night raid successfully carried out by his forces north of Ypre«, where a few Ger mans were taken prisoner. Else where he reported “nothing spec ial.” The raid was the same-sector where yesterday the British com- mander-in*chief reported a similar minor actfon. This is the aecond day of appar ent immovability In the British,! force from Arleux south to Monchy. Both sides are locked, along this sector. Tremendous fighting of Saturday and Sunday has seemingly brought on a period of temporary abatement dur ing which both aide* are hurrying up fresh troops and fresh amtenals for a renewal at a later time. On the French there was like wise a lull in heavy fighting, acco** - ing to the official statement. Th e *’ e were numerous German raids, in the Baris sector and between Troyon and Hurtebise. Artillery fire was in tense along the Chemin-des* Dames front but in the Champagne the night was quiet. The statement re ported more than 400 prisoners taken yesterday. BREATHING SPELL TAKEN BY OPPOSING ARMIES (By William Philip Simms, United Press Staff Correspondent.) With tho British Armies Afield, May J—Britiah and German forces alike took a “breathing space S Wom oat and cut to pieces by their repeated and reck!qp* attacks of tho past few days, the German Infantry has quieted down. The British for their part, settled down to artilleryinq. Their guns roared in never-ending chohie and German eannon replied in thunderous Cb Guemappe waa shelled all day yes terday and quite heavily. Arleux »** likewise the target for German pro- ^Thl’cermani vpre palpably nerv- ous. fearing a ifitish attack south of Oppy, and rer this reason they are spraying shells along the entire Oppy-Gavrelle line. The German* were particularly Jumpy during the night and kept star-shells eonstanriy shooting toward the sky, .carefully for any movement across No Men’s Land, while their shells pounded awav * ** **** feS- In only one spotdid thePnosians counter-attack. Thia.wss id British post to the west of Havrineourt. The attack carried ham over the British (Ctatinoedoa page 5.) chamberlain amendment. Washington, D. C., May 1.—'That war with other nations than Ger many may threaten the United States was indicated in the senate today when Senator Chamberlain intro duced for repo^sage the conscfipt army bill. 'Upon advice of the judge advo cate general, I desire to amend the bill,” Mr. Chamberlain said, “so as to substitute the word ‘emergency fQr the word ‘war’ wherever it ap plies in the .bill. “The reason given me is that the bill may now be construed to apply only to the war with Germany, and if we were drawn into a war with other nations, it would not apply to those.” There was discussion over this, and Senator Hoke Smith said ’’war” should remain because the bill ap plies to the existing war—another **might not meet with the approval of congress.” AMENDMENT DEFEATED. The amendment was voted down and if the judge advocate’s opinion on the interpretation of the bill is correct America’s conscript army technically may be for battle with Germany alone. Other minor amend* ments covering phraseology were ac cepted. The age limit of those subject to draft was changed to 27 years, as approved by the senate Saturday , night. An amendment which would ex empt from service “certain well-rec ognized religious bodies” drew from Senator McCumber the question as to whether those unwilling to bear arms in their country’s defense should be allowed rights of citizenship and the liberties afforded by the United Btates. “I intend to move to strike opt the whole exemption clause,” McCumber declared. The senate adopted an amend ment by Senator Jones, of Washing ton, prohibiting the maintenance of disreputable resorts within ten miles of soldiers’ training camps. LAFOLLETTE IS UP AGAIN. Senator LaFollette then offered his amendment to the bill which is a sub stitute for the conscript measure. LaFollette would put to referen dum the question as to whether the American people wish to be con scripted, and on the question of send ing troops to Europe. After the reading of the LaFol lette amendment had been concluded the senate was “at ease” until after the French commissioners arrived, had been received and had left La- follette was ready to speak on his amendment immediately after visitors had gone. . _ „ After an hour’s talk LaFollette amendment was defeated 68 to 4. Those in favor were Fore, LafFolIette, Gronna and Vardaman. PLANNED 10 EXPLODE BOWS IN WALL SI, (By United Press.) New 3 York, May 1.—Details of o wild plot to,blow up an important Wall street office, presumably J. P. Morgan’s, to be followed'by tapping telegraph wires and spreading false reports of President Wilson’s assas sination and U-boat raids were re vealed by the police today, following close questioning of Wolf Hirsh, for merly a petty officer in the German submarine service. Hirsh, with George Neiringer, an other German, is held on the charge of having a bomb in their possession- The police declare he hoped ta cause a “stock panic” and profit thereby. Hirsh, according to the police, de clared he was engaged in the Germar secret service and that he had “pullet good stunts” in London and Peto grad. This is being investigated. Investigation of the infernal- ma chine which the men made at Roose velt hospital, where they worked showed it was made of ascetic an< picric acid, and fitted with a 30-miii ute fuse. Hirsh is an expert chem* ist. He has been under surevlianct for some time. Officers charge the) watched him experimenting with ex plosives in the Roosevelt hospital laboratory. It is alleged Hirsh and Neiringer plotted to cut the Chicago-New York and the Washington-New York tele graph wires after the blast and send out fake stories of assassinationv and U-boat raids. As the plot is so widespread, the officers believe the men must have accomplices. If not taken by department of jus*, tice officials, Hirsh and Neiringer will be prosecuted on a charge o' making bombs, the penalty being seven years. STARS AND STRIPES FLOAT OVER HALL OF CONFEDERATE VETS (By United Press.) Richmond, Vdfclay L—The Stars and Stripes float over R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veter an Hall here—for the .fint time. • With scarcely ' a dissenting vote the camp decided the flag of the union should hold the commanding positions, reversing its policy'that the hall should be dedicated only to commemorating southern sacrifice. lJUTCH VILLAGE RAZED BY BOMBS DROPPED BY UNKNOWN AEROPLANE Amsterdam, May l.-The Dutch Tillage of Zierikiee, near the Belgian frontier, was laid in utter waate Sun day night by bomba dropped from an aeroplane. The aviatort national ity and his reason for dropping death dealing missilea on a neutral, unpro tected city, hav enot bean established. There were several casualties— five, according to one report today. “The whole village ia in ruins," de- dared The T*iegr»*f < today. ELECTION CALLED ON MATTER OF SCHOOLS FOR RURAL DISTRICT This morning at the regular month ly meeting of the Clarke county board ofeducation, there were a large num ber of men from ail districts in the county to appear upon the floor in regard to the rural schools for the county. There were not Ufa than twenty citizens of Winterville here and they were all in favor of having an election for the purpose of improv ing the county school conditions. Aftsr the meeting had progressed for a short while it wss spparent that and election would be called for come time ih the near future. When the petition which was sent out to ail of the districts to see iust how many of the people in the rural districts wanted better school accommodations and to see whether there were a suf ficient number to warrant the calling of an election, The petition was signed by a great majority of the people throughout the rural sections and districts of Clarke county and showed that the people were not satisfied with the present school system and that they wanted -Her schools as soon as they could possibly get them. This move was first brought to the attention of the people in Clarke countv bv Mr. J. T. Pittard, of Win terville, when he read some notes he had made on the matter at the quar. terly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce ijjiich was held in the month of March. It ia expected that thoae in favor of the achoois will have them. It was decided that an election on the matter of the ecboole would be called for May SI and that at that time it wonld be decided whether the rural districts were to have hsttar achoois or not. Those who have been working for the betterment of the achoois are aura that they will carry the election end it ia expected that it is only a matter of a very abort time before the work will be started. Thoae who oppoeed the election stated that they thought *-at there were no negroea in va rious sections of. the county who were paying taxes end that they thought that the negroea ahould have to pay up if thair scho<' tered. New York's White Way Flickers Into Gloom Early Today (By United Press.) New York, May 1.—Broadway’s nipht life dieff early toduy. Mayor Mitchel’s war ukase went forth— cafe lights at 1 a. m. and as the clocks tolled a requiem the famous great White Way flickered into gloom. From midnight frolics and roof revues where popping corks and tinkling gold used to make the wee, sma’ hours gay, the merrymakers flocked. The music slopped and the shuffle, shuffle, shuffle of cafe refu gees feet blended in a mournful sym phony with the sad cry of the taxi driver. . At the hour when the chorus was won’t to kick highest Broadway was inhabited only by grim policemen. COMMISSIONERS MEET IS HELD ON TUESDAY Put Us in War With First Shot Fired From “Teddy Roosevelt* hools - were to be bet- NEBRASKA DRY TODAY (By United' Preee.) ~ Lincoln, Neb., Stay I.—Nebraska went dry today. Prohibition, de creed by the voters Inst November by 30,000 majority, became effective today ' when the amendment to the state constitution and the dry law, drafted to put teeth in the amend ment went into force. The Ana) hone-dry ban waa staved off until the last minute by itate senate wets. v The regular monthly meeting of the board of county commissioners was held in the county court house this morning. There were a number of most important matters to be brought before the commissioners and it is expected that there will be much activity on county work during the rest of the sunrfier months. The matter of the Beaver Dam drainage system was taken up and gone into nt length. It is thought that this work will be rushed as soon as possible. County Agent Wood ruff stated that the matter of drain age in this section was at the pres ent time one of the most important pieces of work to -be done by the ounty. County Warden Long reported that he had planted nearly ail of the county farm and that he hed :iot touched any cotton. He stated that he planted several acres( in what he thought was oats, but which turned out to be wheat. He said that there were about twenty-five acres of wheat on the county farm doing fine. In his report Warden Long stated that with a little rain the county farm would be bettor this year than ever before and that he had every reason to believe that much nqore revenue would be recived this season than was brought i.i last year. All of the reports of the various departments were exceptionally good this month and they showed that all of the men in the employ of the county had been hard at work In their various parts of the county work. Warden Long also reported that he was getting the roads In the county in good shqpe and that he thought that all of them would be in the best of condition within the next two weeks. He stated that'tho roads at the present time were in .the best shape possible for the length of time he has had to work on them, but that they would be even better after he had had an opportunity of going over them again. The regular routine business was disposed of and the contract let for the provisions for the county farm for the month of April. The reports 'showed that there had been a num ber of the county poor looked after during the past month and much sickness attended to by the- county physicians. MM, HJIIMD SISTER KILLED DV GEORGIA TRAIN TODAY . (By United Press.) Augusta, Ga., May 1.—.Mrs. W. H. Young, wife of the pastor of the First Baptist church at Thomson, Ga., and Miss Anna Young, the minister’s sister, were instantly killed Tuesday morning when an automobile in which they were riding collided with a Georgia train at Neal’s' crossing in Thomson. Rev. Dr. Young and his little daughter. Miss Gay Young, were ae- rioualy injured, the latter probably Mrs! Young was widely known for her work in the uplift or the people of her community. Mise Anna Yonng waa formerly of Washington, D. C. Rev. Dr. Young was provioqsly pas tor of the First Baptist church at Athens, Ga, AUGUSTA GERMAN’S DEFENSE OF KAISER RESULTS IN FINE (By United Press.) Augusta, Ga., May t.—“To hall With the kaiser" got the goat of Peter Lute, a German of this city, and ha resented it to the extent that he in augurated a fistic encounter with J. A Krammer, who mad* the remark. ^wta didn’t retaliate with any re mark about America, which probably was just as well. Ha draw a sub stantial fine for disorderly conduct in police court ns it was.; , ?' ' Chautauqua Committee Meet Was Held Monday Afternoon Ladies of the Athens Woman’s Clubs Met With the Chautau qua Committee of the Cham ber of Commerce and the Campaign For the Sale of Tickets Was Launched—Best Program Ever Arranged For Athens Will Be Shown This Season, Yesterday afternoon at a called meeting of the Chautauqua committee of the Chamber of Commerce ami the Wtomen’s club, the campaign ^was launched for the sale of tickets tor the great Redpath Chautauqua which will be in this city for one week be ginning on May 21. The coming of tho Chautauqua is now an annual event for the city of Athens and it is anticipated that tha peoiple wilf show a great deal more interest this year than ever before. This is the third visit of the Redpath people to Athens and on each occasion it has been a great deal better. The program for this year is much Letter than any that has been yet shown in the city of Athens by the Chautauqua and there is every rea son to believe thst there will be a much larger attendance than ever be fore. Dtie to the fact that there were no other, organizations that would take tha reaponzibility of bringing the Chautauqua to Athens last year, the Chamber of Commerce took the mat ter up and decided that that body would make the guarantee and bring the Redpath people back here again this season. WOME’S CLUB HELPS The ladies of the Athens Women’s club have offered their services to the Chamber of Commerce to sell the tickets for the Chautauqua and make as great a success as possible and there is every reason that these la dies will make the event this year a paying one and one from which some money will be made bv the people of this city ns well as the Chautauqua people. After the amount guaran teed by the Chamber of Commerce has been paid for tickets, ail .over that amount will be split. CO per cant going to the Chsutauqpa people and \ ® ' v;.„ 'CO per cent going to the Chamber of Commerce. * It it expected that the ladies of the Women’s club will more than aall the guaranteed number of tickets and that, they will easily make a good stun over for the chamber. VERY GOOD MEETING, i All of those who attended the meet ing yesterday afternoon seemed to he ATHENS HERALD The circulation of The At^fps Daily Herald for the month of March, 1917, Was as follows: April 1 . (Sun.) April 16. April 2 ...4,925 April 17. April 3 .. 3,851 April 18. April 4 ...3,360 April 19. April 5 ...3,450 April 20. April 6 ...4,144 April 21. April 7 ...3,600 April 22. • April 8 . (Sun.) April 23. April 9..,., ...3,429 April April 10 ...3,664 April 25. April 11....*.. .. .3,438 April 26. April 12 ...3,446 April 27. April 13 . .3,444 April 28. April 14...... ..3,470 April 29. April 15*.... (Sun.) April 30. 3,488 3,515 ... (Sun.) Total circulation for April, 1917. 90,874 Daily,average circulation for-April, 1917 3,635 Daily average circulation for March, The Athens Daily Herald has* circulation in Athens approximately twice as large as that of any other Athens newspaper. Advertisers and agencies are invited to test the accuracy of these figures in comparison with the claims of any other Athens newspaper. ..8,483 . .3,673 ..3,560 .....8,558 ... (Sun.) 3,743 arch, 1917 3,516 •VO THE WEATHER Fair and cool tonight; Wednes day fair. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY f*APER IN MANY HOMES THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD