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SLAUGHTERING TEE FEACE
PLAN.
In time and temper the reserva
tions to the treaty of peace adopt
ed by the senate committee on
foreign relations read like an ul
timatum from the late imperial
German government. Wilhem
strasse never employed more off
ensive language than Senator
Lodge and his associates use to
define the terms under which the
senate ill consent to ratification.
But quite apart from any ques
tion < i language and manners is
the vital fact that the second re
servation destroys the League of
Nutj, , lS _ ij “t! e I'nit' and States de
clines to assume under the provo
sions ..f Article -X. or any other
article, any obligation to do any
of the tilings to prevent war and
maintain peace which the league
was created to do, what remains?
The covenant heroines a sci;ap I
paper. It becomes worse. It be
comes a piece of shameless diplo
matic false pretense to trap the
peoples of the world into a sense
of sec ;rity that dors not and can
not exist.
If the United States refuses to
assume any obligations whatever
even “to adopt economic mea
sures for the protection of any
other country” from external ag
gression, no other coui ,1,, y can no
expected to assume any real obli
gations, and if there are no obli
gations of any kind under the
covenant we are hack where we
were the day that the .German
troops crossed the Belgian fron
tier. Nothing is left except for ev
ery country to arm to the tettli
and make such alliances as it can
for the day when the enemy
threatens.
There can be no reduction in
armament under such a league as
the Lodge reservations leave. On
Ihc contrary, the old competition
in armament must he resumed at
once, with the United Stales as
one of the leaders, for if there are
no obligations on the part of any
body to lift a finger to prevent
war, every nation, including our
own. must he prepared for the
worst, and the American people
must make up their minds to be
taxed at least $1,500,000,000 a
year for the upkeep of an ade
quate army and navy.
There must be no illusions
about the meaning of the second
reservation. It wrecks ihe league
and is intended to wreck the lea
gue. Senator Lodge and his asso
ciates have done indirectly what
they dare not do directly.
As for the attempt to make the
ratification effective when three
of the four principal allied pow
ers, which are Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan, have ac
cepted the reservations, that is
only an invitation to trouble.
Twenty-seven governments sign
ed the treaty of peace and the
covenant. T' ey cannot he ound by
any action taken by three of the
allied powers and they cannot be
obligated to recognize changes in
the treaty to which they have not
assented. This provision substitu
tes for a League of Nations an in
effective alliance bound by no dis
tinct ties and recognizing no obli
gations. It too is bogus. '
The World lias never been op
posed to reasonable reservations
defiling more clearly, f need be,
the duties and obligations that the
United States assumes under tlie
League of Nations, but the Lodge
reservations, even when they have
undertaken to do a legitimate
thing, have done it in so Prussian
a manner that net nation could ac
cept them in their present form
without sacrificing its selfrespect.
It is inconceivable that the sr
nate, unless it is bent on destroy
ing the league and wrecking the
treaty, will accept tlie language of
the Lodge reservations. I’ossiblv
the committee does not expect
that these reservations will be , e
cepted. We have been assured 1 y
the Tribune that it was engaged
in accumulating material for trad
ing purposes and that its decisions
were not to be taken too seriously.
In the meantime the special
HEALTHY INCREASE IN
SHIPMENTS FOR EX
PORTS IS NOTED.
Coal, Iron, Phosphate, Tobacco
and Apple Businesses Flourish
—Thirty-Four New Hotels for
Florida.
Washington,. Sept.. 12.—Opti
mistic notes of conditions in the
south are contained in the weekly
report on traffic by the director
o( icral of railroads, who says re
venue freight loaded in ihe south
ern region for the week ended
September 8 showed an increase
of 3.807 cars over the correspond
ing week Of last year, and 10,97d
ears over the week ending Sep
tember 1 this year. General busi
ness conditions, he says, have not
improved very much and buying
is limited owing to uncertainty of
prices and labor.
Movement of export coal
through < 'harleston, S. <\, is im
proving, going mostly to Cuba
and France.
The Birmingham iron and steel
distri< i sends satisfactory and en
couraging reports with 27 fur
naces now in blast and only 1
out.
Strike conditions in the Florida
phosphate fields have improved
and the movement of phosphate
rock has increased.
The Tampa cigarmaker’s who
were on strike for some time June
returned to work.
Reports indicate a good apple
crop along the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad in Virginia, approx
imately 100,000 barrels more than
last year.
The Southern Shipyard corpo
ration, Newport News, is making
rapid progress electing its plant
and expects to begin operations
about .January I.
Offerings of freight to coast
wise steamship lines continues in
large volume. There is a heavy
movement of canned goods from
the Baltimore canning section to
Louisiana and Mississippi points,
as wells as tthe heavy movement
of cotton liagging from Massachu
setts to southern points. Passeng-
er traffic on coastwise ships is in*
creasing.
Indications are that it will he
necessary to increase sailings be
tween Savannah and New York
from two to three weekly to take
care of the fall cotton movement.
Kxports of coal from Newport
News have been large.
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
A day will come when the only
battlefield will he the market open
to commerce and the mind open
ing to new ideas. A day will come
when bullets and bombshells will
be replaced by votes, by the uni
versal suffrage of nations, by the
venerable arbitration of a great
sovereign senate, which will be to
Europe what the Parliament is to
England, what the Diet is to dor
many, what the Legislative As
sembly is to France. A day will
come when a canon will be exhib
ited in public museums, justt sa
>' H l Instrument of torture is now,
and people will be astonished how
such a tiling could have been. A
day will come when these two im
mense groups, the United States
of \merioa and Europe, shall be
seen placed in tlie presence of
each other extending the hand of
fellowship across the ocean.—" Vi
ctor Hugo.
committee of the American Bar
Association makes a common
sense contribution to the contro
versy by suggesting that the trea
ty he ratified at once without
amendments of any kind and that
such amendments as may seem de
sirable be obtained by negotiation
after peace is established. It was
in this manner that the Bill of
flights was added to the constitu
tion, and it is in this manner that
' e covenant of the League of Na
tions should be changed if it is to
be changed.
THE BARROW TIMES WINDER. GEORGIA.
TEACH YOUR SONS GOOD
MANNERS.
A few days ago while walking
along an isolated country lane I
met a little boy. lie wore faded,
patched clothes and his face was
riot overly clean, but as we met
he lifted his battered bat and said
“Good evening, Ma’am.” While
asking some questions about the
road, to which be responded po
litely, my bat blew off. He recov
ered and returned it in a manner
which spoke more eloquently of
his splendid home training than
v, • rJs have done.
A well-mannered small boy is
almost as extinct as the dodo. The
youngster to today will say
“Nope,” and “You bet ye,” no
matter how aged the woman or
venerable the man who addresses
him. In public places they push,
jostle, puff smoke in people’s
faces and trample women’s dress
es. I often hyig for some good old
fashioned mother to warm the
trousers of a group of urchins
who take possession of our side
walk for a skating rink, and who
do not pretend to avoid colliding
with arty pedestrian, regardless of
age or sex. One can only pity such
children for having parents too
indifferent or lazy to do their duty
by Ibern. If Mamina will teach her
“wee man” when sire puts Iris
first bat on that it is to be lifted
when be speaks to a woman, and
taken off on corning in the house,
that be must always give Iris seat
to a woman or elderly man, ask
pardon if Ire jostles a person, etc.,
good manners will have become a
fixed habit by the time be is old
enough to go out alone.
We all cannot give our boys col
lege educations, or money to start
them in life, but we can teach
them the manners of gentlemen,
reverence for old age and respect
for all men’s religions. They are
better things than talent or mon
ey. MRS. THERA JACKSON.
Rio, La. In Progressive Farmer.
WHY COTTON SEED BRING
LOWER PRICES EARLY IN
THE SEASON.
There are several reasons why
cotton seed do and should sell for
less in the early part of the sea
son. They are apt to contain more
water or moisture than later in
the season, and are consequently
worth less to the oil miller. This
is not usually a large item in so
far as the loss from the yield of
oil and meal is concerned, hut it
is important because it is likely
to cause the seed to damage by
healing, unless properly handled.
This not only makes it generally
necessary that the farmer market
j them promptly, but it forces them
on the market and offers an op
portunity to the buyer to hammer
down the price, as lie can and
does do, on any product the mar
keting of which is forced by any
cause.
There is also another reason
why Ihe first seed marketing may
sell for less than they are actually
worth. If tlie market for cotton
seed products, oil and meal, is low
er depressed,or if therer is any un
usual uncertainty as to the future
demand and prices of these pro
ducts. the buyers of seed must
buy at a sufficiently low price to
protect themselves from probable
loss. In fact, there is always a ten
dency to pay even less than suffi
cient to make a fair profit, in or
der to make themselves perfectly
safe.
In the early part of the season,
therefore,the prices of cotton seed
products—oil. meal, hulls, and
linters—are not the only factors
operating to determine the price
received by the producer for his
cotton seed.—The Progressive
Farmer.
About Advice.
The worst thins about advice, ob
serves a writer, is that those who are
qualified to give it never do, and those
who insist upon serving you with a
full, seven-course table d'hote meal of
It, always prove to be the worst of
chefs.
PROUD ALABAMA.
(The Birmingham Ledger.)
Alabama is not only the leading
stale in production of peanuts,
but has come forward also as the
largest sweet potato producer. If
The Ledger remembers well, we
have also got them all beat on vel
vet beans, while our cattle and
bay show the greatest percentage
of increase.
Georgia was called the .“goob
er-” state. That proud cognomen
no longer applies. In the matter of
sweet potatoes, under date of
gust 1. the Alabama crop forecast
is 19,920,000 bushels, compared
with Georgia’s $12,512,000, Miss
issippi’s 9,034,000 and so on down
the line. We are 7,000.000 bushels
ahead of our nearest competitor
and not very far from a yield as
great as that of our two closest
ii vals.
Not only will we produce more
sweet potatoes this year than any
other state, but chances are that
w e will not lose another $8,000,000
worth of the crop as w f as the case
with the last one. We have built a
lot of sweet potato storage houses
and are going to avoid that loss.
Really, what with hog sales
days, co-operative shipment of
cattle, standardizing, weights and
separating the inferior and super
ior grades of different farm pro
ducts. we are making quite as
much pecuniary headway as in
superior art in cultivation and
diversification of crops, seed sel
ection and the like.
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