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E1GET ATHENS HEUALD HEADERS ARE SUBSTANTIAL C USTOMERS FOR ATHENS HERALD ADVERTISERS 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. , Two old-tlmu pitchers at pitch- Heved/ about through a couple of - era go may bo the bright shining . un ago when McGraw son* him lights of tho National League this to Brooklyn, season If last year’s performances The other Is Chief Bender, since have anything to do with it. 1914 considered a member of the Brooklyn claims one of them, we n known Hasbcen club, whoso Sube Marqutrd, famous as the sterling work last year redeemed 113,000 bcanty who was trans- htm tn d makes him a candidate formed Into said beauty from a for premier honors with the PUU- 613,000 lemon by Wilbert Robin- u M this season, son at Now York and who was bo- Every Coffee Drinker » should try 3te INSTANT POSIGM Made instantly A sugar saver Wonderful flavor Contains no drugs. ^^*HARTUm«o(theRaii*'" AiAETCBAfTIWv TODAY SPECIAL THOS. H. INCE presents WILLIAM S. HAST IN "Wolves of the Rail” Fancy seeing Bill Hart as a staunch champion of law and order, a loyal pro tector of the railroad company’s proparty and a safe guardian of government money !! % News Events—Extra—Some Show Here! MARGARITA FISHER KEYSTONE COMEDY—EXTRA “JILTED JANET”