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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1918
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GREAT SWISS MANIPULATOR Os GREAT
INTER-LINKING TELEGRAPH SYSEEM
WAS SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR
Captured at Gettysburg And Rememberir g The Trials of The Great American
Civil War, This Promotor Has Worked Out a Wonderful
System of Wires
BERLIN, Feb. 10. —Emil Frey, form
er president of Switzerland, Is one of
the notable men of the country, who
since retiring from the presidency, has
become head of the international un
ion by which the telegraph, cable and
wireless systems of the world are reg
ulated at this central point. But while
Mr. Frey has risen to the highest of
fice in his own country, he feels that
he is about half American, for he was
in the American civil war from start
to finish as a member of an Illinois
regiment, was captured at Gettysburg
and held a prisoner for fifteen months
at Richmond, met and knew such war
figures as Grant, Sheridan, Lee and
Longstreet, and later on returned to
Washington as Swiss minister, where
he renewed the acquaintance with
Sheridan and others made in war days.
When a friend remarked on the cor
rectness of his English, he said:
“I took my lessons under rather
novel conditions in Libby prison at
Richmond. My prison companions
could speak nothing but English so
that after being witji him for fifteen
months I had acquired a good knowl
edge of English.”
Held as a Hostage.
Mr. Frey was held as a hostage
against a Southern prisoner, Captain
Gordon, held in the North under sen
tence of death, and as a result he
also was under sentence of death un
til Gordon was released. When Gor
den died later, some of the Southern
papers had the picture of Gordon and
Frey as the two whose lives had been
paired against each other. But few
knew this Northern soldier, Frey, was
the President of Switzerland.
• The International Cable and Tele
graph Union, which Mr. Frey directs,
is one of those world-organizations ad
ministered here in Berne. It is rather
strange that Switzerland, far from the
sea without any cable connections,
should be chosen to direct the vast
ramifications of the world’s cables, to
which has now been added the world’s
wireless systems, and all the telepraph
of Europe and the Orient. But is is
largely for the reason that Switzer
land has no direct interest in these
huge systems and stands at one side
a? a neutral observer .that she is
chosen to carry on this intricate ser
vice. Mr. Frey’s offices occupy a large
building, with an extensive personnel
ai work on cable and telegraph tar
rifs, the adjustment of disputes be
tween countries over rates and proce
dure ,the preperation of cable, tele
graph and wireless maps and printed
volumes embracing every point of the
world over that can be reached by any
of the modern methods of quick trans
mission.
Uniqueness of Union.
"This union is unique in one re
spect,” said Mr. Frey, “as it is the first
realization of the idea of a world-ad
ministration. Before it was created in
1565, different nations had passed
similar laws, and uniformity was se
cured by treaties and conventions un
der these laws. But the International
Union actually realized a world-admin
istration which is now carried on for
nations all over the globe with the
same regularity as any administration
ot a state or private organization.”
The war has had a paralyzing effect
on cable and telegraph transmission
greater in its restriction and interrup
tions than anything in the history of
electrical transmission. This affects
chiefly the belligerent countries, all
transmission between them being at a
standstill, while the transmission be
tween neutrals and belligerents, and
between two neutrals, is very much re
stricted and subject to new and round
about routes.
The latest list of interruptions com
piled by the International Union cov
ers sixteen closely printed folio pages
—a first list of twelve pages and a sup
plement of four pages. Thirty com
plete interruptions of all communica
tion between countries are recorded,
while the rest of the list is made up
of numberless restrictions in cipher
telegrams, admissable language, etc.,
each country having put out a mass of
regulations as a measure of military
emergency. For example, the first
page of the list shows the following
complete interruptions: 11 communi
cation between Hungary and Russia,
between Austria and Russia, between
Belgium and Germany, between Ber
lin, Petragrad and Teheran, bteween
France and Luxembourg between Aus
tria and France, between Austria and
Montenegro, between Hungary and
Serbia; between Bosnia-HerzagovinU
eia between Constantinople and Odes
and Serbia, between Turkey and Rus
sa, between Constantinople and Tene
dos, between Italy and Austria, be
tween Bulgaria and Serbia, between
Rumania and Serbia, etc., etc.
This is only one page ,and each sub
sequent page gives its mass of inter
ruptions, complete or partial. Austria
has put out a great number of restric
tions, and so has Turkey and Hungary.
But Germany is the one country mak
ing no restrictions, apparently seeking
(to increase rather than restrict its
communications.
War interruptions of wireless is
seperately compiled, and makes four
printed pages. Singularly the restric
tions of the United States form the
larger part of this, its restrictions be
ing one-fourth of the whole, and great
er than that of any of the belligerents.
All Pay Their Part.
But while war has thus paralyzed
the cable and telegraphic facilities,
none of the fighting countries has with •
drawn from the International Union;
every one of them paid the last regular
assessment; and the Union is continu
ing its work of carrying on this world
inter-communication as far as possible
under the limitations imposed by cen
sorship and laws completely stopping
communication.
Some idea of the tremendous growth
of the cable and telegraph In peace
times is given in the list of stations
published by the International Union,
compared with their first list in 1868.
The first list gave 10,750 as the total
number of telegraph stations through
out the world; the last list gives the
number as 175,000. The Union pre
pared the first list of cables in 1877,
when there were 420 government-own
ed cables, 140 private-owned, totalling
118,700 kilometers in length. The
last cable list shows a four-fold ex
pansion, viz, 1629 government-owned
-cables, 412 private-owned, in all 2,104
cable lines having a length of 469,973
kilometres, or about thirteen times
around the world.
Just now it is the wireless which is
making the most rapid strides, and
Mr. Frey finds it difficult to keep up
with the sweep of this new medium of
communication to the remotest islands
o fthe geae. Each government gets up
a list of its own stations, but the Un
ion consolidates the lists of all gov
ernments, the American section, for
instance, showing all army, navy and
private wireless stations, all boats
with wireless, including even the
yachts of Vincent Astor and others
MONEY TO LEND
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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
with wireless equipment.
Going Into Uncivilized.
The telephone, which is also ad
ministered by the Union, shows how
this civilizing process is being car
ried into uncivilized regions. For ex
ample, the Ivory Coast in Africa has
82 telephone stations; Senegal 173,
Dahomey 88, Gabou 77, Madagascar
369. And there is hardly a people the
world over s 0 low in the scale of civil
ization as not to be in touch with the
outer world in some of the many mod
ern means of quick communication.
Mr. Frey has seen cable and tele
graph rates go down as the extent of
the systems has gone up. The rate
from Berne to Berlin used to be 15
francs ($3) for twenty words; now it
is 2 1-2 francs (50 cents). The rate to
Petrograd has fallen from 35 francs to
8 francs; to Bombay from 100 francs
to 50 francs ;and from Berne to New
York from 540 francs (3108) for 20
words in 1855, to about 30 francs ($6)
today.
Ends in Uniformity.
One of the chief ends of the bureau
is in establishing absolute uniformity
of cable and telegraph service through
out the most of the world, with the
exception of the telegraph In the
United States, where private control
and difference in rates to various
states has made uniformity impossible.
But in most civilized countries the
same identical system prevails, so that
if a person sends a cablegram from
Berne or Paris or Berlin, to Japan, he
knows it will go through exactly the
sam peorcess of delivery as a cable
gram from Japan to Europe. This
gives an assurance to the public in
communicating to various remote
feints, besides the administrative
control over the network of cable and
telegraph wires stretching around the
world. However the control is made
automatic as far as possible. For in
stance, when a despatch is sent from
Spain to Turkey it passes through
many countries and over many lines,
the first country taking out its portion,
according to the Union’s schedules,
Lnd passing the balance to the next
tountry; and thus passing along con
tinuing until the terminal portion is
finally received in Turkey.
1916 POLITICS IS
NOW UNDEII WH
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 10.—With the
meeting of the state democratic exec
utive committee scheduled to take
place in Atlanta one week hence, on
menting widely on Governor Harris'
speech in Macon last Monday night, it
may be said that the 1916 political
season is under way.
The main duty of the democratic ex
ecutive committee will be to fix the
date of the gubernatorial primary, pre
sumably the latter part of August, or
early in September.
The committee will also decide on
how the delegates from Georgia to
the national democcratic convention at
St. Louis shall be chosen. It is ex
pected that they will probably allow
them to be voted on in the various lo
cal county primaries, which it is ex
pected may all be held about the same
date, and in time for the national con
vention.
In the meantime Governor Harris’
speech, while not an announcement of
his platform was a statement of hi 3
views regarding the future, and an
account of his stewardship during the
first term. It is being talked of more
than anything else politically at this
moment, and has been commented on
afvorably by most ot the daily and
weekly press of the state.
SUGAR BEETS HAVE
EONE IIP IN PRICES
IN LANDI OF MIEEfi
BERLIN, Feb 10—As increase in the
maximum wholesale price of sugar
beets from 35 pfennigs per hundred
wight to 1.35 or even 1.50 is held to be
necessary of production is to be en
couraged sufficiently to insure a norm
al crop in 1916. Representatives of
the sugar industry ,and of agriculture
in general gathered recently in the
ministry of the interior to discuss the
sugar beet problem. According to the
test obtainable estimates, the 1916
sugar production from the beet crop
will total only 30 million hundred
weight, as against a normal production
of from 50 to 55- hundred- weight.
The reason for the decreased produc
tion lies primarily in the high price of
grain. Farmers find it more profitable
to plant their farms to wheat than to
beets because the wheat brings them
higher prices. Therefore, of beets are
to be grown again, the price for them
must be increased. Many of the sugar
repreesntatives pleaded for a maximum
price of 1.60 marks, or even 2 marks
per hundred-weight. It was pointed
out that the cost of labor lias greatly
increased and that many other fixed
charges that enter into the production
of sugar from beets have gone up. The
majority of those present at the meet
ing however agreed that a maximum
price of 1.50 was sufficient io induce in
creased planting of sugar beets, to a
point whereby about 40 million hun
dred-weight would be raised in all
probability. This new price, It is pro
posed, will become effective September
1, 1916, or before the crop is harvested.
The 40 million hundred-weight it is be
lieved will be amply sufficient for all
Germany’s needs.
The proposed increase in the price of
sugar beets will cause a corresponding
increase in the price of raw sugar. It
now is controlled by a maximum price
of 12 marks per hundr.ed-weight, and
will go up at least 15 marks.
ATLANTA HAS BEGUN
ENFORCING LAW
ATLANTA ,Ga., Feb. 10.—The recent
attest of the manager and head waiter
of a big local hotel and their ar
raignment in police court for serving
whiskey in the rathskellar, coupled
with numerous other arrests for pro
hibition violations and gambling are
taken to indicate the Atlanta police
department is .entering upon a cam
paign for a more rigid enforcement, or
rather a more active enforcement of
the law.
Only a few days ago five business
men, including one proprietor of a
store on Peachtree street were ar
rested for a quiet little poker game
going on in the basement of the store,
and numerous other so-called games
where money was being bet have been
pulled recently.
Particularly with regard to prohibi
tion, it looks as if the police are going
to endeavor to enforce rigidly the
present laws as a sort of preparation
for the enforcement of the stricter
laws which will become operative in
May.
New Dance Is
‘Vampire Walk’
Raging Here
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 10.—A new
dunce has struck Atlanta, called the
"Vampire Walk,” and said to be based
on the serpentine undulations of a
famous vampire actress of the silent
screen.
When danced gracefully it is startl
ing and attractive, and more artistic
than most of the modern freak
dances.
The people whose ■dvertlseuienU
you read in this paper are on the level
They’re not afraid of their goods.
LICDRIGE HAS MINE
QUEER EXPERIENCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. "The
Father of Licorice,’ just an enterpris
ing British merchant when at home,
many years ago penetrated to the
dreary city of Mosul, a sun-scorched
community on the Tigris opposite the
piounds of storied Nineveh in southern
Kurdistan, and astonished the natives
of the town by a display of willingness
tc buy all the licorice roots that they
could gather. The natives considered
this herb, with its thick tangle of
v oody roots and its defiance of the far
mer, only as a pest in their fields, and,
so, the Englishman’s eccentric demand
caused another scandie in the Near
East about the folly of the Westerner."
Thus begins a statement just given out
by the National Geographic Society at
Washington.
"At last, however, the natives hit
upon a satisfactory explanation. They
talked over the matter among them
selves and decided that the English
X'vereign liked to chew the sweet roots
of their pestiferous weed and, there
fore, had provided a contingent fund
of many millions of dollars so that
enough of it might always be on hand.
With this simple discovery, the minds
of the natives were set at rest, and
they cheerfully aided the ‘Father of
Licorice’ to spend all the money which
he cared upon the Hcrice weed. Thus
were established the foundations of a
thriving trade with world-removed
Mosul, transforming a despised prod
uct into a source of considerable in
come.
“Mosul’s export of its sweet roots to
the Western World has been rudely
broken off by the war, and mayhap,
the natives are more hostile than
before to the plant which, besides clog
ging their fields, they consider a fav
ored weakness of the British King. At
any rate ,the battle lines have cut off
the most important sources of supply
cf the popular children’s candy-sugar,
the .ever-present ingredient in cough
medicines, and the wonderful taste
making element in medicines of naus
eating personality.
"A great part of the licerice supply
lies to the east of the fighting lines, in
Asia Minor, in Russia and in Kurdis
tan. To a very limited extent, it is
grown in Louisiana and California.
Spain possesses the largest fields still
accessible to the West, and it is grown
ir. inconsiderable quantities, here and
there, along Europe’s Mediterranean
coasts.
“The! United States has regularly
been an excellent customer in the
world’s licorice market. Thousands of
pounds of licerice cough remedies are
consumed in this country every winter
and spring, while, the American being
notoriously fond of taking his medi
cine capsuled, sugared, or otherwise
disguised, a great deal of the import is
used for the improvement of the super
gcial character of medicine. Further
more, licorice sugar is more used as a
candy in this country than in any oth -
er. A great part of the American im
port was prepared in the south of Eu
rope, and brough over in black rolls or
sticks of licorice paste.”
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