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MONDAY, FEBRUARY u
PRESIDENT MAKES
REPLY TO GERMANY
AND AUSTRIA.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Chicago.
Chicago, February 11.—Decidedly
enlarged receipts gave the com mar
ket 'today a down turn. Opening
prices, which ranged from a shade to
l-i§ (® 1-4 lower, with March 1.27 and
May 1.24 7-8 to 1.26, were followed
by a moderate setback all around.
Oats, like corn, showed weakness
owing to a material increase of ar
rivals and to a prospect that the
movement would continue to be of
much more liberal volume than has
of late been the rule.
Big receipts of hogs led to a sharp
break in provisions.
The close was firm at a shade to
1-8 to 1-4 net advance, with March*
1.27 K4 @ 2-8 and May 1.26 1-8/
Open High Low Close
COBN-
March . .1.27 1.27% 1.26% 1.27% I
(May. .. .1.24% 1.25% 1.24% 1.26%
Chicago, February 11.—Hogs, re
ceipts, 60,000. Slow. Bulk 1G.05 <&
.*50; light 15.60 @ 16.35; mixed 15.80
(a) 16.30; heavy 15.55 (2) 16.30; rougli
15.55 <® 80; pigs 12.50 <§> 15.00.
Cattle receipts 15,000. Steady.
,Native steers 8.40 @ 13.90; stocker.
and feeders 7.20 @ 10.40; cows and
heifers 6.25 (2) 1T.65; calves 9:50 (2
15.25.
Sheep receipts 25,000. Weak. Weth
ers 10.00 @ 13.30; lambs 14.25 (2)
17.50.
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
FIRST CUSS MEN
NOW IN PROGRESS
Work Rewan Saturday—
Forty Per Day Handled
Quota of 109 to Leave.
• The local exemption board is busy
tyday examining registrants in class
.one, the work having begun Saturday
Forty per day are being bandied until
the quota of 109 which is expected to
leovowmmd February 15, is reached.
Hoot of tho number will be composed
of negroes.
Very few men in class one will
likely eaeap* the draft Flat feet, un
der. weight, email chest expansion and
other similar defects that exempted
many military registrants when the
draft was nude last year will
affbrl no excuse for exemption at fu
ture examinations by the local board.
Bid the men accepted will be assigned
tb some branch of the army service
that will not ax their physical endur
ance too much.
Moat Men to be Accepted.
In the future drafts few men will
escapo because of an ordinary physi
cal defect. They must have serious
defects one {hat will absolutely in
capacitate them for military service
of any iwtgfo. •
Skin 'diseases will not disqualify a
man unless the diseases is of long
Banding. R fs necessary for a regis
trant, however, to have good vision
Bid good hearing. Pleurisy, pneumo
nia, typhoid Wver or any disease that
the registrant has had in the past
will .not bf aocepted as an excuse for
AIT registrants above seventy-eight
iochifer iirlWght will be accepted, pro
vided »thgy are well proportioned.
Thoeo under Hfiy-efght- inches will be
rejected. Those over gfty-eight and
imder'ghtte (MB. be referred to the
MUSil advisory board. Registrants
k r one hundred pounds will be re-
d, prbvidcd they have not had
me, previous sickness and are not
(bod physical condition. Regie-
.ts over one hundred and fourteen
be referred to the medical ad-
■ board. Registrants will be ac-
under weight according to
their height. —
Registrants over weight will also
be accepted provided their obesity
does not interfere .with their physical
activity.
THORNTON'S MEATLESS DAT
Special Tomorrow.
Chicken Salad, Bread, Choice of
Coffee, Chocolate or Milk. 25c
Vegetable Soup 10c
Brunswick Stew 15c
Baked Red Snapper, Dressing Tar-
tare Sauce, French Fried Pota
toes Egg Bread 35c
Chicken Hash on Toast 25c
1 doz. Oysters, fried or slewed..60c
1-2 doz. Oysters fried or stewed.,30c
Aaked Apple, Whip Cream .. . ,10c
Home Made Pies .. 10c
Lemon, Apple, Sweet Potato,
Cocoanut.
Coffee 5c, Chocolate 10c, Tea 5c.
SMILEAGE BOOKS
AFFORD A CLEAN
ENTERTAINMENT.
An idea of what splendid work
smileage books may do can be gath
ered from the following picture by a
well-known writer of conditions that
faced a body of American soldiers:
“I remember standing on the
streets of Columbus, shortly after
Villa had devastated that village,
Watching over 6,000 soMtera come
over the railroad tracks into town
in the evening. iMIbOT
No Place to Go.
“There was absolutely nothing for
them to do there—no movies, no li
braries, no place to write letters, no
homes to which they could go—noth*
ing but saloons and a welborgnnized
Red Light district.
“In this war wc arc driving those
vicious agencies out of business and
settingup clean entertainment In
their place. This has a direct bear
ing upon the health of our army and
is an absolute necessity in maintain
ing the morale of our men.”
HERALD WANT ADS.
WO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION
FOR SALE—Furniture.
FOR BALE—One Piano, household
furniture one Wood Stove end one
Gas Stove. Apply 649 N. Lumpkin
St file.
IftJBE AND CHIEF MAY HAVE LEADING ROLES
, this Yeah
must say, very vague and very con
fusing. it is full of equivocal phras
es and leads it is not clear where.
But it is certainly in a very different
tone from that of Count Czernin and
apparently of an opposite purpose.
It confirms, I am sorry to say, rath
er than removes, the unfortunate im
pression made by what we had learn
ed of the conferences at Brest-Lit-
ovsk.
His disqpssion and acceptance of
our general principles lead aim to
no practical conclusions. He refuses
to apply them to the substantive
items which constitute the body of
any final settlement. He is jealous
of international action and of inter
national counsels He accepts, he
hays, the principle of public diplom
acy, but he appears to insist that it
be confined, ut any rate in this case,
to generalities and that the several
particular questions of territory and
sovereignty, the several question
upon whose settlement must depen'
the acceptance of peace by the twen
ty-three states now engaged in the
war, must be discussed and settled
not in general council, but severally
by the nations most immediately con
cemed by interest or neighborhood.
He agrees that the seas should be
free, but looks askance at any limita
tion to that freedom by international
action in the interest of the common
order. He would without reserve be
glad to see economic barriers remov
ed between nation and nation, for that
could in no way impede the ambitions
of the military party with whom ho
seems constrained to keep on terms.
Neither does he raise objection to
a limitation of armaments. That
matter will be settled of itself, he
thinks, by the economic conditions
which must follow the war, but the
German colonies, he demands, must
be returned without debate. He will
discuss with no one. but the represen
tatives of Russia what disposition
shall be made of the peoples and the
lands of the Baltic provinces; with
no one but the government of France
the “conditions” under which French
territory shall be evacuated; and on
ly with Austria what shall be done
with Poland.
Favors League of Nations.
In the determination of all ques
tions affecting the Balkan Htates he
refers, as I understand him, to Aus
tria and Turkey; and with regard to
the agreements to be entered into
concerning the non-Turkish peoples
of the present Ottoman empire, to the
Turkish authorities themselveB. After
a settlement all around, effected in
this fashion, by individual barter and
concession, he would have no objec
tion, if I correctly Interpret his state- 1
ment, to a league of nations Which
would undertake to Hold the mew
balance of power steady against ex
ternal disturbances.
It must be evident to everyone who
understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper of
the world that no general peace, not
peace with the infinite sacrifices of
these years of tragical suffering can
possibly be arrived at in such fash
ion. The method the German chan
cellor proposes is the method of the
congress of Vienna. We can not and
will not return to that. What is at
stake now is the peace of the world.
What we are striving for is a pew
international order based upon broad
and universal principles of right and
-justice, no mere peace of shreds and
patches. -
Is It possible that Count Von Hart-
ling does not see that, does not grasp
it, it in fact living in his thought In
a world dead and gone? Has ho ut
terly forgotten the Reichstag resolu
tions of the nineteenth of July, oi
does he deliberately ignore them?
They spoke of the conditions of a
general peace, not of national ag
grandisement or of arrangements be
tween state and state.
Just Settlement Neceooary.
The peace of the world depends up
on the just settlement of each 1 of the
several problems to which I adverted
in my recent address to the congress.
I, of course, do not mean that the
peace of the world depends upon the
acceptance of any particular set of
suggestions as to the way in which
those problems are to be dealt with.
I mean only that those problems eaeii
and all affect the whole world and
that unless they are dealt with in v
spirit of unselfish and unbiased jus
tice, with a view to the Irishes, the
natural connection!, the racial aspir
ations, that security, and the peace
of mind of the people involved, ‘no
permanent peace will have been at
tained, They can not be discussed
separately or in corners. None of
them constitutes a private or separ
ate interest from which the opinion
of the world may be shut out. -
Whatever affects the peace, affects
mankind, and nothing settled by mil
itary force, if'settled wrong, is set
tled at all. It will presently have to
be re-opened.
A Court of All Mankind.
Is Count Von llertling not aware
that he is speaking in the court of all
mankind, that all the awakened na
tions of the world now sit in judg
ment on what every public man, of
whatever nation, may say on the is
sues of a conflict which has spread
to every region of the world? The
Reichstag resolutions of July them
selves frankly accepted the decisions
of that court. There shall be no an
nexations, no contributions, no puni
tive damages. Peoples are not to be
handed about from one sovereignty to
'another by an international confer
ence or an understanding between riv
als and antagonists. National as
pirations must be respected; peoples
may now be dominated and governed
only by their own consent.
- “Self-determination” is not a mere
phrase. It is an imperative principle
x>f action, which statesmen will hence-
fore ignore at their peril. We cun
not have general peace for the ask
ing, or by the mere arrangements of
a peace conference. It can not be
pieced together out of individual un
derstandings between powerful
states. All the parties to this war
must join in the settlement of every
issue anywhere involved in it; be
cause what we are seeking is a peace
that we all can unite to guarantee
and maintain and every item of it
must be submitted to the common
judgment whether it be right or fair,
an act of justice, rather than a bar
gain between sovereigns.
Is Not European Arbiter.'
The United States has no desire to
interfere in European affairs or to
act as arbiter in disputes. She would
disdain to take advantage of any in
ternal . weakness or disorder to im
pose her own will upon another peo
ple. She is quite ready to be shown
that the settlements she has suggest
ed are not the best or the most en
during. They are only her own pro
visional sketch of principles and of
the way in which they should be ap
plied. But she entered this war bfr
cause she was made a partner, wheth
er she would or not, in the sufferings
and indignities inflicted by the mili
tary masters of Germany, against tae
peace and security of munklnd which
will touch her as nearly as they will
touch any other nation to which is en
trusted a leading .part in the main
tenance of civilization. She can not
see her way to peace until the causes
of this war are removed, its nenewal
rendefed as nearly as may be impos
sible.
Origin of the War.
This war had its roots in the dis
regard of the rights of small nations
and of unationalities which lacked the
union and the force to make good
their claim to determine their own
allegiances and their own forms 'of
political life. Covenants must now
he ontered into which will render
such things impossible for the future;
and those covenants must be backed
by the united force of all the nations
tnot love justice and are willing to
maintain it at any cost.
If territorial settlements and the
political relations of graet popula
tions which have not the organized
power tb resist are to be determined
by the contracts of the powerful gov
ernments which cpnsider themselves
most directly, affected, as Count Von
Hertilng*proposes, why may not eco
nomic questions also? It has come
about in the altered world in which
we now. find ourselves that justice
and the rights of peoples affect the
whole field of international dealings
as much as access tp raw materials
and fair and gpual conditions of trade.
Count Von Heraling wants the es
sential bases of commercial and in
dustrial life to be safeguarded, but
he can not expect that to be conceded
him if the other matters to be deter
mined by the articles of peace are not
handled in the same way as items in
the final accounting. He can not ask
the benefit of common agreement in
the one field without according it in
the other. I take it for granted that
he sees that separate and selfish
compacts with regard to trade and
the essential materials of manufac
ture would afford no foundation for
peace. Neither, he may rest assur
ed, will separate and selfish com
pacts with regard, to provinces and
peoples.
Count Czernin seems to see the
fundamental elements of peace with
clear eyes am) does not seek to ob
scure them. He sees that an independ
ent Poland, made up of all the indis
putably Polish peoples who lie con
tiguous to one another, is a matter
of. European concern of course be
conceded, but Belgium must be re
stored no matter what sacrifices and
concessions that may involve; and the
national aspiration must be satis
fied, even within his own- empire, in
the common interest of Europe and
mankind. If he is silent about ques
tions which touch the interest and pur
pose of his allies more nearly than
they touch those of Austria only, it
must of course be because he feels
constrained, I suppose, to defer to
Germany and Turkey itv the circum
stances.
Seeing and conceding, as he does
the essential principles involved and
the necessity of candidly applying
them he naturally feels that Austria
can respond to the purpose of peace
as expected by .the United States with
less embarrassment than could Ger
many. He would probably have gone
much farther had it not been for the
embarrassment of Austria’s allianesc
and of her dependence upon Ger.
many.
After all, the t'est of whether it is
possible for either government to go
any further in this comparison of
ciews is simple and obvious. The
principles to be applied are these:
Essentials of Permanent Peace.
First—That each part of the final
settlement must be based upon the es
sential justice of that particular case
and upon such adjustments as are
most likely to bring a peace that will
be permanent.
Second—That peoples and provinces
ore not to be bartered about from
sovereignty to sovereignty as if they
were mere chattels and pawns in a
game, even the great game now for
ever discredited, of the balance of
power; but that.
Third—Every territorial settlement
-involved in this -war must be made in
the interest and for the benefit of tho
population concerned and not as a
part of any mere adjustment of com
promise of claims amongst rival
states; and
Fourth—That all well defined na
tional aspirations shall be accorded
‘he utmost satisfaction that can be
accorded them without introducing new
or perpetuating old elements of dis
cord and antagonism that would be
likely in time to break tho peace of
Europe and consequently of the world.
Peace that Cannot be Destroyed.
A general peace erected upon such
foundations cunnot be destroyed. Un
til such a peace can be secured, wo
have no choice but to go on. So far
as wo can judge, these principles that
we regard as fundamental are already
everywhere accepted as imperative
except among the spokesmen of the
military and annexationist party in
Germany. If' they have anywhere
else been rejected the objectors have
not been sufficiently numerous or in
fluential to make their veoices audi
ble. The tragical circumstance is
.that this one party on Germany is
apparently willing and able to send
millions of men to their death to pre
vent what oil the world now sees to
be jut.
I would not be a true pokeman of
the people of the United States, if I
did not say once more that we en
tered this war upon no small occa
sion andYhat we can never turn back
from a course chosen upon principle.
Our resources are in part mobilized
now, and we shall not pause until they
are mobilized in their entirety. Our
armies are rapidly going to the fight
ing front, and will go more and more
rapidly. Our whole strength will be
put into this wor of emancipation-
emancipation from the threat and at
tempted mastery of selfish groups of
autocratic rulers—whatever the diffi
culties and present partial delays.
Mankind Must be Served.
We are indomitable in our power
of independent action and can' in no
circumstances consent to live in a
world governed by intrigue and force.
We believe that our desire for a new
international order under which rea
son and justice and the common in
terest of mankind shall prevail is the
LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT
By S. W. STRAUS
President American Society Jor Thrift
California
has set a
worthy exam
ple to other
states in the
p r act ice of
thrift. Early
in the war
when it was
seen that food
would become»
one * of the
vital factors
of victory and
the acute need
for thrift wAs
being impressed on the nation, the
fish dealers in* the northern part of
the state formed an exchange and
contributed 5% of their gross sales
to an advertising fund.
An educational propaganda, embrac-
ing newspaper advertising, was con
ducted through which the public was
taught the food values of fish that
hitherto had little or no market de
mand. The thrift and economy of
fish diet was pointed out and the
names of dealers who could supply
species of fish that heretofore had
been largely wasted were made pub
lic.
As a result the average price of fish
to the consumers in northern Cali
fornia was lowered 10% and the con
sumption was broadened. This re
sult was secured at an average cost
of about 2% on wholesale sales in a
single month.
Later the State Legislature gave
the State Market Director control of
the fish industry with power to
license dealers and to spend the li
cense fees in advertising. This plan
now is being followed with great
success.
Before this plan went into
hundreds of tons Of good fish either
were dumped back into the sea 0 r
were sold to glue factories and f.r
tilizer works at nominal sums. \ t ,u‘
same time the public often was called
on to pay high prices for fish. \\ hi ,“
certain varieties of fresh caught sea
food of excellent quajity was being
sola for fertilizer and glne for 5 ,,
10 cents a pound Californians w „.
paying high prices for halibut !a i
tnon. stripped bass, smelt ami
loin-of sole 15 davs after the fish
had been caught in northern waters
Communities that produce law
quantities of food such as fruit 'r
vegetables also could adopt the plm
that worked so well in California
Recently alfalfa has come into use
as a food for human consumption
and we are told that in the \\><t
where this product Is extensively
grown private Concerns are endeavor,
ing to make a broader market for i t .
For some months the public h JS
been advised on the use of wr.j] t
meat and shark meat for food, [n
all of such matters the food admin-
istratinn is much interested and has
shown a disposition to help as much
as possible.
These activities constitute the ap
plication of correct thrift principle.
Not only do they mean the elimina
tion of waste to the producer but they
comprise a definite saving to the con-
sinner by increased production. Doth
the individual seller arfd buyer gain
by the arrangement, and the nation’s
food supply is augmented.
Printers' ink can be made a potent
factor in eliminating waste, reducing
the cost of living and winning the
desire of enlightened men every
where. Without hat new order, the
world will be -without peace and human
life will lack tolerable conditions of
existence and development. Having
set our hand to the task of achieving
it, we shall not turn back.
I hope that it is not necessary for
me to add that no word of what I
have said is intended as a threat.
That is not the temper of our people.
I have spoken thus only that the whole
world may know the true spirit of
America—that men everywhere may
know that our passion for justice and
for self-government is no mere pas
sion of words, but a passion which
once set in action, must be satisfied.
The power of the United States is a
menace to no nation or people. It
will never be used in aggression or
for the aggrandizement of any sel
fish interest of our own. It springs
out of freedom and is for the service
of freedom.
How is the Human Race divided!
Why, by divorce, my dear, of course!
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
(Effective Sunday, December 9th.)
Schedule of Trains 212 and 237,
between Lula and Athens will be
changed as follows;
TRAIN NO. 212.
Lv. Athens
8:00 a.m.
Junior State
8.15 a.m.
Center .. .. .. ..
.. . .8:18 a.m.
Nicholson
.. . .8:30 a.m.
' Commerce
....8:50 a.m.
Wilson’s Mill .. ,
.. ..0:00 a.m.
Maysville
.. ..9:06 a.m.
Gillsviile
.. ..9:20 a.m.
Ar. Lula
.. ..9:40a.m.
TRAIN NO
237.
Lv. Lula
.. . .8:30 p.m.
Gillsviile
.. . .8:45 p.m.
Maysville
.. ..8:58 p.m.
Commerce
.. ..9:18 p.mr
Ar. Athens
.. .. 10:10 p.m.
J.
C. BEAM,
. ,. Effective December 9,1917.
(Eastern Time.)
Train No. 50 daily, leaves Atheu
5:30 a. m.
Train No. 62, daily except Sunday
leaves Athens 3:40 p. m.
Train No. 54 Sunday only, leave
Athens, 4:00 p. m.
Train No. 61, daily except Sunday,
arrives Athens, 12:69, noon..
Train No. 63. daily arrives Atheu
9:40 p. m.
Train No. 55 Sunday only, arrive!
Athens 12:40 p. m.
SEABOARD AIR HIE
From' 12:01 a. m., Sunday, January
13th, 1918, trains will pass Atheu
City (Eastern) Time, os follows
North Bound.
10.19 am.
1 3:28 p.m.
7:45 p.m.
11:40 p.m.
South Bound.
5:37 a.m.
..7:10a.m.
No. 5 2:52 p.m.
No. 29 0:20 p.m.
Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent.
USE HERALD
WAN7 ADS
No. 30
No. 6
No. 18
No. 12
No. H
No. 17
GAINESVILLE MIDLAND HI
SCHEDULE
TIME TABLE NO. 23.
Effective January 13, 1918.
Arrival of Trains.
No. 1, Sunday only 11:40 a.m.
No. 3, daily 6:05 a.m.
No. 11, daily ex. Sun. mixed 10:40 a.m.
Departure of Trains.
No. 2 daily 7:20 a.m.
No. 4 Sunday only .. .. .. 1:55 p.m.
No. 12, daily except Sun.. .11:30 a m.
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