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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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