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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE HEWS J0F_THE SOUTH
What li Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreign
Reports that Mexico is suffering are
shown to be that the populace Is
starring in the midst of plenty and
tbat General Carranza has 12,000 tons
of grain stored near Mexico City.
That England resorted to her old
subterfuge in flying the American
flag is shown by a report from Lon
don that the steamer Colonian wav
ed Old Glory while passing through
the war zone to escape danger from
submarines.
The condition of the king of Greece
la reported to have taken a favorable
tnrn. He is now believed to be out
,of danger.
A treaty has been signed at Pe
kin between the Chinese republic and
the Russian empire explicitly out*
lining the boundary line between Rus
sia and Mongolia,
General Villa, fearing intervention
by the United States from the tone
of President Wilson's recent note of
warning, has sued for peace from Gen
eral Carranza. Villa offers to meet
Carranza on some neutral ground so
that terms may be arranged. His de
feat at Leon is said to have provok
ed this action.
The industrial situation in France is
reported satisfactory.
A campaign has been launched in
Holland for the promotion of many
new industries, the manufacture of
which is necessitated by the war.
King Constantine's condition is re
ported to bo alarming. Many have
abandoned hope for his recovery.
Mexican advices state General Obre-
gon defeated General Villa and bis
army at Leon and that the outlaw’s
forces are now in hasty retreat north
ward.
European War
Russian successes in the Galician
hills are reported from the London
war office. Dispatches say it is a
repetition of the Muscovite victories
before Warsaw last winter.
Word from London says a captur
ed German submarine commander has
stated neither he nor his brother of
fices like their jobs of sinking un
armed vessels, but that they have to
obey commands from the Berlin na
val office.
Germany is now in receipt of the
second note of the United States, re
cently drafted by President. Wilson
and which caused former Secretary
Bryan’s resignation. Baron von Ja-
gow, imperial foreign minister, made
no comment other than he was quite
displeased that the note should have
been published in the United States
before' its -transmittal to Berlin. A
1 reply is not expected until'a special
messenger from Ambassador Bern-
storff arrives from Washington.
The battle between the Teutons
and Muscovites is still raging in the
Galician bills.
Official circles in Berlin are deep
ly stirred over newB of Secretary Bry
an’s resignation. Baron von Jagow
ordered the press to refrain from any
comment upon the matter until fur
ther developments. Many assume Mr.
Bryan wanted a sharper note than
president Wilson was willing to sanc
tion.
An aerial bombardment of Venice
by Austrian aircraft is reported from
Vienna.
The English press widely comments
upon the Bryan resignation. While
voicing praise for the secretary in his
stand for peace principles, London
newspapers are loud in their enthu
siasm for President Wilson, and feel
be is the greatest American executive
In many years.
I Italians are massing for a groat bat
tle at the head of the Gulf of Triest,
consolidating their forces along the
River Jsonzo.
A Zeppelin airship has been report
ed to have been destroyed in midair
near Ghent by a young Canadian aer
onaut.
Rumors in official circles in the al
lied capitals say Germany is ready to
negotiate peace terms on the grounds
that it has been demonstrated that
neither Europe can crush the imperial
government nor can Germany do any
more toward succumbing her enemies.
Ceylon BuddhiBts in the Island of
Ceylon are reported in open revolt
against Moslem citizens of that Brit
ish possession.
The first big battle between the
Italians and Austrians is reported to
be raging for the possession of Tol-
mino.
London advices state the Turkish
forces on the Dardanelles have been-
pressed back toward the Interior of
the Gallipoli peninsula and two lines
of Moslem trenches have been cap
tured together with 2,000 Ottoman
prisoners.
Koumania is rumored to be ready
to enter the war when called upon by
Italy.
The Russian transport, Yenisei, has
been sunk by a German submarine in
the -Gulf of Riga in the Baltic sea.
The .French forces are reported to
be gaining on the Germans in the
west.
Washington
The greatest feeling of optimism
now prevails over the outcome of the
German situation since the drafting-
of the first note.
Several .statements regarding Pres
ident Wilson's attitude toward the
German situation have been issued
by former Secretary Bryan. Many
of the newspapers of the country have
editorially stated their refusal to print
Mr. Bryan’s comments further, on the
ground that they are unfit for publi
cation in a time of national peril. It
is reported the members of the cabi
net are considerably displeased with
Mr. Bryan’s actions since his retire
ment from public office.
Secretary Daniels has announced
that Capt, Joseph W. Oman, now in
command of the North Carolina will
be transferred to the captaincy of
the battleship Georgia.
The department of justice has or
dered that Lieutenant Brauer and sev
eral sailors missing from the crew
of the Prinz Eitel, which interned at
Newport News, shall be found. Search
throughout the country will immedi
ately be made.
Secretary Garrison of the war de
partment is massing troops on the
Mexican border for readiness for any
outbreak or intervention. All troops
are waiting for any order of Presi
dent Wilson.
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan parted with deep personal re
gret. All of official Washington has
found the Commoner a particularly
lovable and upright character and the
leave taking at the White House was
sad one. Both clasped hands and
uttered a fervent ”God Bless You.”
The statement of former Secretary
Bryan tbat his intention in private life
was to sound public opinion regarding
President Wilson’s attitude regarding
Americans sailing on belligerent ves
sels, has amazed official Washington.
While no comment came from the
White House, it was understood Pres
ident Wilson was astonished at Mr.
Bryan’s announcement.
Officially President Wilson has an
nounced Counselor Lansing will be
temporary secretary of state. Ho
says he is in no hurry to announce
Mr. Bryan’s permanent successor, but
it is more definitely known the pres
ident favors Mr. Lansing. Rumors
tbat a coalition cabinet would be form
ed, as in the present case in Eng
land, have been in circulation and
that either former Secretaries Knox
or Root were being considered for
the portfolio.
The entire interest of official cir
cles and the- nation centers in the
sudden resignation of William Jen
nings Bryan as secretary of state, who
resigned because he did not agree
with President Wilson’s attitude to
ward Germany regarding thMlAjsita-
nia incident. The resi#fcl(fiiP,wi
deeply deplored by President^VilsonT
BERLIN EDITORS’
OPINIONS DIFFER
German Press Considerably Divided On
Attitude Taken By The Amer
ican Note
NO COMPROMISE IN SIGHT
Some Editor* Declare Germany Will
Disregard Note—Others Says Sub
marine Warfare Will Cease
Berlin.—The Berlin papers general
ly comment more or less extendedly
on the American note.
While there is a general disposi
tion to’ recognize the friendly tone of
the note and the fact that it makes
further negotiations possible, the
press is divided, roughly, into two
parties, one disposed to enter into
negotiations looking to a compromise
on a new basis, while the other, by
implication, or expressly, rejects any
departure from the course heretofore
followed. Among the representatives
of the latter idea is the Tagliche
Rundschau, which declares that while
the note seeks a way to a compro
mise, it seeks it along lines ‘‘which
must result to the disadvantage of
Germany."
The Rundschau continues: ’’The
note, therefore, is calculated only to
postpone a settlement of German-
American relations, and not bring
it about The friendly tone we ac
knowledge, but the declaration that
the sinking of the Lusitania was un
paralleled in modern warfare seems
opposed to the character of upright
friendship."
Domestic
Vice President Marshall, arriving at
his Indianapolis home from the San
Francisco 'exposition, publicly endors
ed President Wilson's attitude toward
Germany and approved the note sent
to the, imperial government.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, a former
president of the United States, out
fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off the
Mississippi coast, when notified of
former Secretary Bryan’s resignation,
asked if “war had broken out" and
if he “had better return immediately."
Mr. Roosevelt applauded President
Wilson in his decision in the Bryan
controversy.
The jitney buses of Atlanta lost
their fight before the Georgia railroad
commission and were declared to be
common carriers - subject to regula
tion of the commission.
The steamer El Paso, bound from
New York to New Orleans, put into
port at Savannah on account of trou
ble with the engines.
The Massachusetts Institute -of
Technology has been made the re
cipient of $1,000,000 for an endowment
fund.
Minnesota voters have closed eighty
saloons within a week.
William C. Potter, a New York
banker, has been appointed head of
the Red Cross Mexican relief com
mission.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
issued a defense and endorsement of
Frank P. WalBh of Kansas City, chair
man of the Industrial relations com
mission in the latter’s blame of John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., for the Colorado
strike situation.
Samuel Woolner, Jr., of Peoria,
president of the Wholesale Liquor
Dealers’ association, in session at Cin
cinnati, attacked prohibition and urg
ed efficiency in product of beverages.
The International Dancing Masters’
association, in session at San Fran
cisco, has declared all the rag dances
tabooed and placed them under a
ban of “zoo” dances. New steps are
to be evolved for the coming year.
The court of inquiry appointed by
Secretary Daniels to probe the case3
of alleged cheating in examinations
by seven naval cadets at Annapolis,
has begun its work. It is said the
investigation mqy last many days.
The National American Woman Suf
frage conference, in session at Chica
go went on record as discrediting all
efforts of political leaders of other
parties to attack the Democratic par
ty and the administration of President
Wilson. The leaders of the confer
ence were Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
Mrs. Harriet -Taylor Upton of Ohio
and Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of Ala
bama.
Solicitor General Dorsey will fight
commutation of Leo Franks’ sentence
when it comes before the governor of
Georgia, either Governor Slaton or
Governor-elect Harris. •
COLONEL HOUSE IS HOME
Return Of President's Close Friend
Regarded With Deep Significance
Greatest Interest
New York.—Admitting that he had'
talked with leading government offl-j
cials of Germany, France and Eng
land, but denying that his trip to Eu
rope in any way was connected with a
possible peace mission, or that he
was the personal emissary of Presi
dent Wilson, Col. Edward M. House
arrived here from Liverpool, a pas
senger on the American line steam
ship St. Paul.
“I did not talk peace, and that was
not my mission abroad," Colonel
House declared. “That report was
the biggest piece of nonsense that I-
have heard.” He also said that he
called home by President Wil-
el House said that since-leav
ing New York on January 30, of this
year, he had met and talked with
leading officials of the European gov
ernments, but added that his visit was
a personal one, as a private citizen,
and that it had no political signifi
cance. He said that he went to Eu
rope almost every year, and this trip
had been no exception as to intent
or purpose.
UNNAMED KINO or the Continental divide
T HE latest addition to our fam
ily of national playgrounds Is
the Rocky Mountain National
park of Colorado. It is the thir
teenth in number and the fourth
in size, embracing 230,000 acres. After
a long controversy and hard-fought
battle as to the proper boundaries,
congress has passed a bill and Presi
dent Wilson has signed it, creating
the park. The state of Colorado re
joices and the people of the United
States, who know anything about the
glory of western mountain peak and
valley, rejoice. For all time this beau
tiful, lofty region is dedicated to the
people, says James Hamilton Byrd in
Grit
It is full time that Colorado, truly
the mountain state of America, should
be distinguished with a great national
park. There are more than a hundred
mountain peaks in thiB great back
bone of the United States which are
above 14,000 feet in height, while in
all the other states combined there
are less than a score of mountains of
such commanding altitudes, so that it
is altogether fitting that the. portion
of the great continental divide which
traverses Colorado, and where the
raindrops from the descending storm
find their way, part of them to the
Atlantic and part of them to the Pa
cific, should be set aside as a national
playground.
The campaign that has been waged
during the paBt five or six years to
obtain the creation of this park was
in the hands of Representative E. W.
Taylor of Denver.
Mr. Taylor's speech on the floor of
the bouse In favor of the Rocky Moun
tain National park would lead one to
believe that for beauty, grandeur and
absolutely unrivaled magnificence
. ARMISTICE IS OFFERED
Carranza Forces Are Offered Respite
By Members Of Convention
Party
Vera Cruz.—The Democrata, the
Carranza organ here, published an ex
tra edition containing a dispatch from
Publa, which Is in substance as fol
lows:
“Gen. Pablo Gonzales, who has been
sent with the Constitutionalist army
to take Mexico City, has been visited
by three members of the convention
party from Mexico City with an of
fer of an armistice. The delegation
suggested that the fighting In that vi
cinity cease as all the people were
fighting with the same purpose.
“General Gonzales replied that the
forces in Mexico City had better throw
in their lot with General Carranza or
evacuate the city without bloodshed.
He gave the delegates forty-eight
hours to return and present his prop
osition to the convention.
"Constitutionalist headquarters here
believes the Mexico City forces are
preparing to flee and turn over the
city to General Carranza. General
Gonzales is said to be preparing to
feed four hundred thousand persons
should Mexico City be taken within
a few days.”
Braved Storm For Confederates
Washington.—When President Wil
son drove through a violent wind and
rainstorm to attend > Confederate Me
morial Day exercises at Arlington Na
tional cemetery, he found that the
crowd assembled for the ceremonies
had broken in a wild rush for electric
cars and automobiles. The few peo
ple remaining had taken refuge un
der trees and in some small tents
near the speaker’s stand. For halt
an hour the president's automobile
stood in the driving rain, but the
president remained.
Auovc the Timber Line
Traction Strike In Chicago
Chicago.—A strike of the 14,500 em
ployees of the surface and elevated
traction systems has been ordered.
The men were directed to finish their
runs and return their cars to the
barns. The strike was called after an
all-day conference of transportation
officials, labor leaders and Mayor
Thompson had shown the two inter
ests at' odds on the question of the
increased wages, .which the men in
sisted must be guaranteed before ar
bitration could be considered in any
of its phases.
there is nothing else in the United
States than Colorado, and especially
She Rocky Mountain park region. How
ever, except as comparisons where dif
ferent portions of the United States
are concerned are sometimes danger
ous, it would be difficult to overesti
mate the glory and sublime grandeur
of the Colorado Continental Divide,
while of this region the new park area
is more than representative.
Long’s Peak a Feature.
Long’s peak, a wonderful feature of
the park, is a second Mont Blanc,
rearing its splintered horn 14,265 feet
above sea level. From its height the
traveler’s eye with a single sweep
may take in through the clear atmos
phere a distance, of 300 miles—that
distance to . the west, north and south
being made up of scores of mountains,
ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen thou
sand feet .in height, dominated ; by
Gray’s peak and the great mass 'of
Pike’s peak, both over 14,000 -feet in
height. Long’s peak is 145 feet higher
than the famous Pike's peak, and has
been termed “a jewel -set in the'erest
of the Rockies."
The Rocky Mountain path region is
no. uninhabited wilderness. Ev§h with
the first year of its existence it will
vie with the’ renowned Yellowstone
park in popular favor, for already its
beauties are enjoyed annually by
thousands of visitors. Last summer
20,250 people visited the Yellowstone,
but at the same time over 50,000
people camped and dwelt among the
mountains and valleys of the Rocky
Mountain park. Of the new park re
gion the moving spirit for the past
half-dozen years has been a small
slight, wiry, . mountain-loving man
with a shock of red hair -and a mouth
like a steel trap, Enos A. Mills, the
naturalist and writer. In season and
out. he has fought for the park, stub-
. bornly and even viciously and always
confident of ultimate victory in the
face of at times apparently insur
mountable difficulties and controver
sies.
The Rocky Mountain park will be a
money maker for the state of Colo
rado and for the United States. It
rivals Switzerland, and with the other
national parks it will be the means
of keeping in America a great deal of
good American coin that heretofore
has annually been dropped into the
ample pockets of Alpine scenery capi
talists. The European war will re
sult in turning westward during the
coming seasons many thousands of
tourists, and once they have “seen
America first” they will be inclined to
see it first, last and all the time. The
outbreak of hostilities In Europe last
summer and the stranding of thou
sands of American travelers in Euro
pean countries brought home to us
the astounding fact that fully $500,000,-
000 has been spent abroad every year
by sightseers and tourists.
Easy of Access.
The fact that the Rocky Mountain
park is situated at the gates of Den
ver and only 30 hours from Chicago
makes it the most accessible of all
the national parks for those seeking
rest and recreation and the splendid
outdoor life which the mountains af
ford. Hunting will not be allowed in
this park, as it is not in any of the
other national parks, and this protec
tion of the wild animal life will soon
cause the area to become well stocked
with many kinds of our four-footed
friends, leading their happy, unmo
lested lives. The wild animal life of
this great mountain state is now
hunted from valley to peak and from
peak to valley. The army of sports
men which annually invades even the
most rCmote portions of Colorado al
lows the deer and the elk and the bear
no peace, no respite; they flee from
one party and run foul of another fu
sillade of the high-power, smokeless
guns. Surely they will welcome a ref
uge of a quarter of a million acres in
which the terrifying crack of the rifle
and the occasional deadly thud of the
bullet will be no longer heard.
The Rocky Mountain park contains
many loffy mountain peaks from
10,000 feet in altitude to over 14,000,
many profound canyons and gcassy
valleys, furnishing ideal camping
places, gay with hundreds of species
of mountain flowers, glaciers and gla
cial lakes, rushing and foaming
streams alive with brisk trout, and wa
terfalls and rapids. Of the beauties of
this region a glimpse is obtained from
a paragraph of Chief Geographer Mar
shall’s report:
‘There is no predominant, command
ing national feature in the park," he
states, “such as is found in the Crater
Lake, the Yellowstone or the Yosemite
parks, or along the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado. The region as a whole,
however, is as beautiful as any to be
found in the -United States, or, indeed,
in the world. There is spread before
the eye a gorgeous assemblage of
wonderful mountain sculpture, sur
rounded by fantastic and ever-chang
ing clouds, suspended in an apparently
atomless space. At first view, as one
beholds the sbenes in awe and amaze
ment, the effect is as of an enormous
painting, a vast panorama stretching
away for illimitable distances; gradu
ally this idea of distance disappears,
the magnificent work of nature seems
to draw nearer and-.nearer, reduced
apparently by an unseen microscope
to the refinement of a delicate cameo.
Each view becomes, a’ refined minia
ture, framed by another more fasci-
mating, the whole-- presenting an im
pressive 'picture, never to be forgot-
•ten.”
Wonderful Rose.
Many wonderful things are done by
the Chin6s t e, -Japanese, and Siamese in
raising' flo’wers.' Ong of their most
.remarkable productions is known as
“the changeable hose.” The-bloom of
this rose is' ’w"hite in the shade and
rpd in the, sunlight. After dark, or
when it is in a dark room, this rose
has a pure waxy-white blossom.' When
it is taken iato.tlio sunlight, a wonder
ful transformation occurs. First the
petals’take-oil-a kind of washed or
faded blue color,* which rapidly change
to a -fadnt blush or pink. The pink
color gradually deepens in hue until
at last this .rose, which was lily white,
becomes as red as the reddest peony
that ever bloomed.
. . Fruit Frdm Tasmania.
It has been .estiihatqd that'400,000
e.qses of fruit, will be’available for ex
port from Tasmania this season.,Early
shipments have recently arrived ‘
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