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By E. L. RAINEY
THE BOLSHEVISTS PLAN BIG
SPRING DRIVE, WITH MIL
| LION MEN IN FRONT.
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poland, Rumania and Balkans May
Be Aided in Fight Against “Red”
Attack by France and Italy. Seeks
Turkish Union to Spread Soviet.
More than 3,000,000 men will be
drown into fighting along the Rus
sian boufdary early this spring, ac
cording to information given out by
military experts gathered in Paris.
Their advices indicate that the fighting
iront will extend from 200 to 250
miles
The bolshevists are expected to
jaunch several major spring drives,
the French authorities said. Meeting
them will be troops fromr several Bal
[an states rallying in support of Ru
mania, (zecho-Slovakia, Poland andi
perhaps the border states which Rus
sia wishes to reclaim. The report of
the military strength of the countries
expected to enter the fighting gives
Russia 1,000,000 men; Poland, 500,000
men: Rumania, 500,000 men and the
Baltic states 200,000 men.
“\filitary experts. agree that 500,000
men expected from Poland would be
her maximuim strength, while the mil-
Jion ascribed to Russia was a mere be
ginning. That number, however, in
view of her ability to train and equip
an army, is regarded as the maximum
which Russia can put into the field in
the spring.
France and Italy have not discussed
their attitude, but it is expected they
will do so at the coming conference
of premiers to be held in Paris. Mean-'
while, active preparations fof war are
proceeding at a dozen scattered pointsi
m Europe.
Reject Rumania’s Proposals. I
One of the significant things was
the speed with which Italy and Jugo-
Slavia arranged to ratify the Rapallo
treatv, composing alt differences be
tween the two countries. Statesmen
regarded the activity as part of a pro
gram to rid themselves of all encum
brances so the “Little Entente' can
act wnitedly in behalf of Rumania
when the expected bolshevist attack
occurs.,
Rumania is said to be trying to ne
gotiate with the goviets on the matter
of altering the Bessarabian boundary
line, with Russia rejecting all propo
als, [n many European capitals ‘this
is regarded as an effort by Russia to
Jeave the Bessarabian province an ex
cuse for attack in the spring.
While the northern states see in the
projected Russian attack an attempt
to spread soviet power over Europe
the southern nations look upon it as
a means of opening the way to Con
stantinople. Combining the drive
through Rumania with an attack on
the castern side of the Black sea,
these nations believe the soviets would
be carrving out a plan to link Turkey
and Russia and make Constantinople‘
an outpost of bolshevism. |
I'he southern states look upon “red”l
concentrations along the Polish and
Balkan lines largely as measures of
defense, while the real shock troops
and heavy artillery were being piled
on the Rumanian and Azerbaijan
ronts .
] Soviet Can Call 5,000,000. i
~ The strength of the bolshevist army
is a matter of much’ speculation in.
European military circles. The “reds”
themselves claim” ability to put 5,000,-
000 men in the field by next summer,
French experts say. They do not doubt.
the remendous human resources of
Russia, but are skeptical as to her abil
ity to train and equip that number.i
Reliable advices showed that 500,000
arc now under arms, while equal num
bers of reserves are stationed near
Moscow, Petrograd and Reval. 1
g.'sz of the busiest places in all Rus-
Sia, according to reports reaching
Paris is the Putiloff munitions fac
‘)(;"[_‘;'.th';tr Petrograd. Before the war
£l persons were employed in that
:d”‘-'r:‘:v and its output was sufficient
0 ¢qup an army of millions. Otherl
munition plants are also kept busy
mgnt and day, according to reliable}
2000 Men Fight For
30 Cents an Hour Jobs
Baltimore Plan to Tide Over Unem
ployment Period Is Extended.
PALTIMORE, Md.—Two thous
and men fought today for the one hun
dred jobs at 30 cenfs an hour, which
the city is offering through the mu
meipal employment bureau, in an efx
olt 10 relieve the unemployment sit
uation, :
Long before the office of the bureau
bened for its first day’s business the
sidewalk in front of the door- was
¢rowded. About half of them were
negroes, 3
The doors were opened at 9 o’clock
and five white and five negroes were
admitted at a time. When this began
the men fought, 4n good nature but
€ager for work, to get in. Three flpo
licemen who were on duty were flat
tened out against the door, and had
¢! they could do to prevent the men
”w_'wl breaking it down by their
weight.
] Dot
Negro Population in
Northern Cities Increases
WASHINGTON, D. C—The ne
-810 population of Pittsburg, revised
10 October 22, 1920, was 37,688, an
Mcrease of 12,065, or 47.1 per cent. Ne
-50.¢ in Philadelphia numbered 134,-
‘C‘"‘- an mcrease of 49,639, or 58.8 per
ent.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Georgia Negro Given
Long Term in Chicago
For Stealing a Rooster
Good .@, . ! Stealin’ chick
.y l‘d o N
en amnt no 5 san accom
plishment,” am.-’r" =sRpstick, a
negro, of Chicago- e eyes
in puzzlement. He was Yo
gia, and had just been s. !
to from 3 to 20 years’ imprison..
after a jury, deliberating but five
minutes, had found him guilly of
stealing one little rooster.
“No, suh,” mused Eddie, as they
led him away, “it ain’t nowise nat
ural. Supposin’ it a’ been a juicy
hen, T reckon I'd got hung.”
}DECLARES BUILDING UNHAB
| ITABLE AND WILL RECOM-.
| MEND STATE SELL IT.
- ATLANTA, Ga.—That “he will not
live in the governor’s mansion when
he takes office, but will continue his
residence at the Georgian Terrace Ho
tel, has been made known by Thos.
W. Hardwick, governor-elect. The
imposing old residence at Peachtree
and’Cain streets is in a very dilapidat
ed condition. Recently it was neces
sary for Governor Dorsey to have the
overhead knocked off in an upstairs
room, where his children play, to keep
it from falling on their heads. The
entire building is uncomfortable and
almost uaninhabitable.
Governor-elect Hardwick, comment
ing on his decision to stay at the Ter
race, said he would strongly urge the
legislature to sell or exchange the
mansion.
“To put the house in habitable con
dition,” said he, “would cost as much
as building a new house. The location
is not suitable for a residence. The
property is too valuable for the state
to. hold for a mansion. It is wasteful
to hold it and unfair to the city of
Atlanta, as-the mansion stands in the
way of progress. I have unofficially
asked some real estate men to get
data on suitable sites for a mansion
and the cost of building, .etc., and will
submit this data to the legislature.”
PO W ERFUL ORGANIZATION
. WITH PRACTICAL MEN
AT ITS HELM.
Farmers of the great “bread basket”
of the United States, extending from
the eastern boundry of Ohio through
to the Rocky mountains, are organiz
ing. They are forming a powerful or-
The object of the big organization
ganization to market their products.
is to handle the crops from the farms
to the millers or to the exporters. The
organization will build or purchase
grain elevators in the crop producing
territory and will also obtain elevators
at the seaports. The farmers are not
asking a single favor of the govern
ment and are not advocating the use
of public money in any of their en
terprises. They are asking the .poli
ticians to keep “hands off,” rathet
than asking them to pass “remedial
legislation for the benefit of farmers.
Farmers Ready to Organize.
Three hundred different farm organ
izations are in the plan. For six
months their representatives have been
working on a plan of action. That plan
is nearly ready to be reported back
to the 300 distinct organtzations for
approval. As soon as this is done the
farmers are ready for action.
C..H. Gustafson, of Omaha, Neb,,
is chairman of the committee which
is now working out the scheme. As
sisting him are 16 of the best known
farmer organization experts in the
country. Committees of these men
have for the last six months been in
vestigating farm marketing conditions
in all parts of this country, as well
as in Canada.
SNOW IN LOS ANGELES;
} ’
WHILE BALL PLAYERS GO TO
CHICAGO PARKS, CALIFOR
NIA REPORTS BLIZZARD.
' CHICAGO.—The- celestial master
of the weather shifted nervously in
his easy chair and focused a baleful
eye on that portion of the United
States known as California. Then he
velled “Front” and his special agent
came hopping up on the double quick.
' “I’m sick and tired of hearing these
people bragging about their climate,”
said the weather man. “To hear 'em
talk you'd think they deserved the
credit ‘instead of I; stick a couple -of
isnowstorms in your pocket and shake
‘em out over that wonderful climate.”
. And so it came to pass that from
iLos Angeles, capital of the Kingdom
of Sunshine, “where mermaids disport
‘in the surf the year around,” came the
news that the weather man had wrapp
ed the nonpareil climate in a_ white
‘winding sheet and placed it in the
cannery for a time at least. Instead
of bathing in Long Beach they are
‘throwing snowballs, according to the
late bulletins.
I In Chicago parks and on the lake
front today baseball games were be
ing played. In hte woods in the middle
west the lilies and wild flowers are
budding, as are the trees and the rest
of the flora which comes to life af
ter the winter has gone its way.
Los Angeles—Rain, snow and hail,
accompanied by thunder and light
ning, were parts of an unusual storm
that visited sections of Los Angeles
city and county yesterday.
The San Gabriel mountains, north
of Pasadena, were snowclad from the
peaks almost to their base.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1921
'ENGLAND SEEKS FAVORABLE
TERMS OF PAYMENT ON ITS
' BIG LOAN FROM U. S.
TOTALS FOUR BILLIONS
Europe Now Owes the United States
; Government Nineteen Billion Dol
lars, and All Debtor Nations Are
Seeking Long Time Payments.
| WASHINGTON},/ D. C.—Postpone
ment until the advent of the Harding
administration of the further négotia
tions of the refunding of the Ameri
can government loan to Great Britain
is expected to be one of the results
of fhe conference in London which
British Ambassador Geddes departed
so suddenly to attend coincidentally
with the cancellation of Lord Chal
mers’ journey to this country to dis
cuss the matter with the Wilson ad
ministration.
The reiunding of the $4,000,000,000
loan to England into definite long
term bends, including unpaid interest
on the principal, is only one of num
erous matters” in which it will be nec
essary for the two governments to
reach an understanding at an early
date. :
+England is seeking favorable terms
in the refunding of the loan. Ameri
ca wants more favorable treatment of
American oil interests in Mesopota
mia. Mr. Harding wants England to
consent to the revision of the Hay-
Paunceforte treaty so as to permit the
exemption of American.ships from the
payment of Panama canal tolls and
has said he thinks he sees a way of
achieving this end.
~ Others Owe U. S. Big Sum.
The loan negotiations with Great
Britain will pave the way for refund
ing all the loans to the allies, which
now aggregate, with unpaid interest,
close to $12,00Q,000,000. The total of
all foreign obligations to the United
States at this time is placed at $19,-
000,000,000, inclusive of the loans to
the allies.
Consideration of the problem has in
volved the issue of German repara
tions and that nation’s powers of re
habilitation and payment. Even
French statesmen are less optimistic
today about Germany’s capacity to
‘meet her obligations than they were
‘when the terms were written into the
peace treaty. Omne of the fallacies
‘which were factors in estimating Ger
many’s potential economic strength
was the prosition that, for some years
before the war began, Germany was
expending annually $400,000,000 on
armaments. The argument was that
Germany would be able to conserve
this item of her pre-war budget and
turn it into the reparations. ,
Economic System Upset.
| However, the buying capacity of
the world before August, 1914, was
iequal to the agricultural and industrial
output of the world, and it is pointed
out that should Germany manufacture
iand sell the amount of goods that
'would enable. her to put that $400,-
000,000 into reparations she must take
|awa_v from England, France, the Unit
‘ed States and other countries just that
amount of business. The United States
also, it is said, can produce more com
modities than it is putting out, but its
output is equal to the demand of its
igoods, regulated by the capacity of
‘the other countries to pay for them.
. LEADERS AT CAPITAL
M’ADOO FOLLOWERS WOULD
~ WREST PARTY MACHINERY
FROM LATE CANDIDATE.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—James M.
Cox, democratic candidate in the late
presidential election, ‘has been to
Washington for conierences as to who
is going to maintain or assume lead
ership of the democratic party.
Through recent weeks the so-called
McAdoo leaders have been attempt
ing to get National Chairman George
Whité ‘to call a meeting of the demo
cratic national committee for reorgan
ization. Chairman White has taken the
stand that no reorganizating is neces
sary and Governor Cox is backing him
in that stand.
“There is no doubt but what the
McAdoo men had in mind putting
one of their own, like Thomas L.
Chadbourne, of New York, in Chair
man White’s place as a move of pre
paredness for 1924,” said a democratic
leader here. “But White has refused
to resign and the reorganization plans
have been slightly upset.”
There has been no secret of the fact
that the McAdoo men were anxious
and willing to meet the deficit of the
late campaign to get control of the
party organization. Governor Cox’s
reply was that he, himself, would pay
the deficit before he would eonsent to
such a “surrender.”
Vanderbilt Horses to
Be Brought to U. S.
Macomber Acquires French Racing
Stable at Approximately $1,000,000.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A large part
of the noted French racing stable of
the late Wm. K. Vanderbilt will be
brought to America this year, A. K.
Macomber, the California horseman,
announced here today. Mr. Macomber
acquired the stable last September at
a price reported at about $1,000,000.
Among thirty-six horses to be
shipped to this country are the two
famed breeding stallions. Seasick and
Oversight, which during their racing
life won $125,000 each; eight horses
in training and more than a score of
yearlings.
MAKE THEIR RETURNS
RETURNS OF THE PRESIDEN
TIAL ELECTION HAVE LED
: TO ENDLESS TROUBLE.
PENALTY IS $l,OOO FINE
Nebraska Women Arrived on Time
After Leaving Plane in Mud at Des
Moines. The States Which Have
Not Yet Reported Results. .
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The elec
toral - college, time-honored creation of
the constitution without which no
president can take office, has this year
shown every sign of decadence.
Today, the final day upon which the
certified returns might under the law
be presented to the president of the
'senate, found no less than six states
ioutside ‘the pale, and in addition the
’manncr ‘in which the returns have
been presented has led to endless
trouble and modification of the rules
in order to straighten out the errors
that have been made by the electors.
The usual final rush took place to
day and a half-score of states just got
under the wire, including the Nebras
ka messengers, Mrs. H. H. Wheeler
and Mrs. Draper Smith, who started
to Washington by airplane.
‘ Ladies Wanted a Photographer.
“The ladies, who landed in the mud
at Des Moines after a staft by air
plane from Omaha and then“contin
ued the journey by the conventional
'method of travel in the United States,
arrived here today,” said the vice pres
ident in discussing their arrival, “and
the first thing one of them said was,
“Where is the photographer?” The
vice president did congratulate the
two women on the way in which their
returns had been prepared, for during
the course of the morning the mes
sengers of three states—Minnesota,
North and South Dakota—had report
ed at the capitol with their credentials
sealed in the envelope with the re
turns. eEe 4 4
The express stipulation of the law
is that the sealed returns must not be
opened until the second Tuesday in
February, and in order to dodge this
complication Vice President Marshall
today accepted identification of the
respective senators as evidence of the
eligibility of the messengers.
James J. Hayes, Jr., the messenger
from Virginia, walked in for the sec
ond time, today. A week or so ago
Mr. Hayes entered the vice president’s
office with a brown paper parcel with
out so much as a siring around it, and
}announccd that it ‘was the vote from
Virginia. He was ‘told to go back and
try it over, but even in two attempts
‘he was not quite up to the task. The
certification on the outside of the en
velope today read:
~ “This is to certify that this envelope
contains all of the votes cast for pres
ident and vice president of the United
States,” a statement which if accepted
on its face value would let Virginia
speak for the whole country.
The Saddest of Them All
The saddest man of all the messen
gers probably is the Oregon appointee.
Just as the vice president was explain
ing that any messenger who failed to
get his state’s vote in today would be
subject to a fine of $l,OOO a dispatch
came over the wires announcing that
the Oregon messenger intended to
leave home about February 1 so that
he might arrive in time to matriculate
and take actual part in the meeting
of the electoral college February 9.
Still Oregon outranks Maryland
and North Carolina, from which no
returns at all have come, but Oregon
has sent in its mail copy. Indiina,
home state of the vice president, has
not made its personal returns and its
mail copy has been invalidated, as it
reachett Washington merely address
ed to the vice president, and Mark
Thistlewaite, his secretary, opened it.
Tomorrow it will be the duty of the
vice president to go over all of the
returns. Where the record is not clear,
either through mail or personal re
turns, Mr. Nfarshall will call upon the
secretary of state to appoint a mes
senger to go to the states in question
and obtain the third copy of the re
turns, which under the law must be
deposited with the district judge, and
at the same time Mr. Marshall will or
der the imposition of the $l,OOO fine
upon all messengers who have accept
ed appointment and been derelict in
their duties. .
The states which were out on the
roll call tonight, made just before the
vice president’s office closed, were Ne
vada, Utah, Indiana, Maryland, North
Carolina and Oregon. .
.TWO RETURNS FILED EXCEED
$4,000,000 AND FOUR HIGH
ER THAN $3,000,000.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One re
iturn of income of $5,000,000 was filed
in the calendar ycar 1918, according to
completed statistics for that year is
sued tonight by the bureau of internal
revenue. Two _returns were filed of
incomes from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000,
four of incomes of $3,000,000 to $4,-
000,000, and sixteen of incomes of
$2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
Corporations, exclusive of personal
service concerns, reporting during 1918
numbered 317,579, of which 202,061
reported a total net income of $B,-
361,511,249, which yielded income tax
es of $653,198,483 and war profits and
excess profits taxes of $2,505,565,949,
a total tax of $3,158,764,422.
Partnerships reporting net income
numbered 91,132, with a total net in
come of $939,831,678, while there were
1,997 personal service corporations,
with a total net income of $51,923,953.
“SOME BEAN!” MULE KICKS MAN
ON THE HEAD AND BREAKS ITS LEG
HUNTSVILLE, Ala—The claim of Joseph Jones, of Merrimac, to
hospital attaches that he had “some bean,” was borne out ‘today when
his story that he had been kicked by a mule on the head and that as a
result the animal was lying helpless with a broken leg was investigated
and found to be true.
Jones said his way was blockedby a stray mule and he made a
threatening movement to frighten it-away. It refused to stampede, how
ever, meeting the assault with a well directed kick to the brow. The
mule’s leg was found to be broken in two places. "It was pronouncéd a
helpless cripple and shot. Jones will recover.
FIVE MEN FAIL TO BUDGE
GIRL SANDOW COULDN’T LIFT
“Georgia Magnet,” Five Feet Two Inches High and Weighing 115
Pounds, Claims to Have Control of Natural Laws.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The girl that
Sandow, Plachette and numerous other
professional strong men could not lift
defied the united strength of five men
at a private demonstration in the Hotel
Astor yesterday afternoon. Miss An
nic Abbott, known as the ‘“Georgia
Magnet,” stands about five feet two
inches high and weighs 115 pounds.
She is delicate as a puff ball in build,
but is seemingly impervious to the
cave man tactics brought to bear on
her yesterday for demonstration pur
poses.
Medical men were present and the
general opinion was that there is noth
ing metaphysical about Miss Abbott’s
powers, but that she uses the defences
of the Japanese wrestler and the. ele
mentary leverage principles of physics.
She did what Johnny Coulan is doing
now in Paris. For four years she was
overseas, first with the British Red
Cross and then with the American
army, but no one succeeded in raising
her from the ground. When Sandow
challenged her.they appeared together
at Windsor Castle before the King of
England and the slim resiliency of the
little southern woman was more than
a match for the enormous strength of
the physical culturist. Psycho-analy
ists have found themselves as much at
sea as strong men in dealing with her.
Five Failed to Lift Her.
Miss Abbott claims to have control
of natusal laws and to be able to in
DISASTER KILLED 50 PEOPLE
AND TORE TO SPLINTERS
ROW OF DWELLINGS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn—At least 25 per
sons, most of them negroes, were
killed, according to police estimates,
and 50 or more injured by an explo
sion of a tank car of gasoline near the
filling station of the Cglyar—Reeves Co,
set off presumably by a spark from a
workman’s chisel, which tore to splin
ters a row of frame dwellings at
Front and Looney streets here Mon
day, shattered windows within a ra
dius of 15 blocks -and shook the en
tire north end of the city.
Police and fire department officials.
attributed the explosion to a chance
spark from the chisel of a workman
who was caulking the car, which fell
into the gasoline, when another work
man removed the cap from the top of
the tank. Two of the workers were
torn to bits while the third escaped
practically unscathed.
A row of tenament housese a block
length, all of frame construction, were
leveled by the force of the explosion,
killing and maiming their occupants.
Ten bodies torn almost beyond rec
ognition were removed within a few
minutes.
Treasures Left By Spamsh
Pirates Are Sought Along
The Sandy Florida Coast
Syndicate Has Been Formed of Ad
venturous Men Who Have Begun
Quest For Hidden Gold.
Another search for a treasure-trove,
a sunken Spanish galleon laden with
stolen gold, has been launched on the
'Atlantic coast of Florida. Romance
this time has lured a group of adven
turous men of Deerfield, Fla.,, to_ dig
in the ocean's bottom for the pirate
ship which, tradition says, had hauled
too close to the treacherous shores
when pursued. A syndicate forred for
the search has begun operations where
the galleon is supposed to have been
wrecked in the sands.
This is only one of the many sirhilar
adventures off the south Florida coast,
which, in the old days before the ad
vent of lighthouses, was the scene of
many wrecks. Treasyrer seekers have
brought up a few ancient hulls, which
had been deeply buried in sand, some
dating back five or six centuries. -But
so far no ship thus recovered. has
vielded anything except ancient wood.
One prospector is said.to have spgnt
two fortunes in Florida before qgfi
ting the game. - :
Fulford, 11 miles north of Miami,
Fla.,, has been the scene of many
searches. Tradition has it that a pirate
ship escaped pursuers by sailing up
a creek near Fulford, where the crew
celebrated by getting drunk. Seminole
Indians boarded the vessel and mas
sacred the crew except one, the story
runs, and the escaped pirate succeed
ed in rescuing the ship’s treasure chest,
which he buried nearby, making a
diagram of the spot. Unable to return,
the pirate is said to have given the
diagram to a friend. This has been
used by several searching parties, but
they failed to locate the gold.
A native living nearby says the spot
is haunted, and that even now the
ghosts of the pirates howl and groan
when any one nears it. He says no
one is ever going to get the treasure
as the ghosts “carry on something ter
rible when you get close to it. Any
thing might happen in that terrible
place.” 3
‘osease or diminish the force of gravi
tation, but has no theory as to how it
is done and believes it is a gift handed
‘down to her from her father. She is
a native of Atlanta, Ga. In soft, lisp
ing accents she encouraged bashful
males at the demonstration to try to
lift her. What actually transpired was
simple enough. Any one had a -chance
to, try to-move her from the floor—
if he could.
The grip was below her arms. She
crooked at the elbow as she was seiz
ed, but was equally resistant with her
arms hanging down beside .her. There
was no other form of contact. Her
whole body was tense. Time and again
sife was almost drafiged out of her
quaint little blue silk frock, but not
once did her feet leave the floor. Her
whole body sagged and she had a
s?spicion of Houdini’s straining wrig
gle.
After a convincing demonstration
with one man she was surrounded by
five. It wasn't their gentle handling
that kept her on the floor, either. They
used their untied strength to lift her,
but bending one of her knees behind
her she stood as firm as a rock. In
every instance contact was established
through the hands and arms. The most
trying test, apparently, was that of
five men trying to push her toward a
wall. She stood with arms outstretch
ed, not with her hands but with the
men stood in a row behind her, grasp
ing- the shoulders of the person in
front and all pushed while she resist
‘ed, not with her hands, but with the
slant of her body. There was intense
concentration in every line of her fig
ure. It almost seemed as if she were
in a trance. When she relaxed victo
rious she turned faint and shook like
an aspen.
| Calls It Jiu Jitsu Trick.
~ Her minor demonstrations were
‘with a chair and a billiard cue, neither
of which could be taken from her. She
pushed against her challenger and
bhroke the current of his strength. In
every instance she was ou the defen
sive. According to her own testimony
her only failures have been when men
have suddenly rushed her without
warning and swept her off her feet.
6k 7
ON CAPITOL “PORCH
SMALL PLATFORM WILL BE
| ERECTED ON WHICH CHIEF
i JUSTICE WILL GIVE OATH.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Plans for
the Harding and Coolidge inaugural
took a sudden shift today, when it
was decided that if weather permitted
the new president would take the oath
and deliver the inaugural address from
the east portico of the capitol.
Senator Harding suggested this in
a message to Senator Knox, chairman
of the congressional committee on in
augural ceremonies, and Senator
Knox, on *behalf of the committee,
promised it would be arranged. The
joint committee at a ineeting tomor
sow no doubt will ratify the promise
of Senator Knox. -
However, the new plan does not in
terfere with the program of economy
and simplicity. The erection of a cost
ly” platform and secats at the east front
of the capitol has been banned and
the proposed parade and ball will not
be attempted.
As it is arranged now only Gover
nor Coolidge will take the oath and
speak in the senate chamber.
The only expense involved in the
changed plans will be the erection of
a small stand from which Senator
Harding will speak and on which will
be seated Chief Justice White, of the
‘supreme court of the U. S., and a few
officials concerned directly with the
ceremonies. Exactly who will be seat
ed on this stand has not been deter
‘mined.
| Wilson Won’t Be on Stand.
President Wilson, according to ar
rangements as they stand now, plans
to ride with President-elect Harding
to the capitol. Mr. Wilson, however,
doesn’t expect to remain at the, in
augural ceremony, where he would be
required, according to custom, to
mount the inaugural stand with his
successor, which his medical advisers
will not consent for him to do. He
will, therefore, return to the white
house as soon as Mr. Harding reach
es the capital and await the new pres
ident and Mrs. Harding at the white
house luncheon. The president and
Mrs. Wilson will then take leave of
the white house and go to their new
Washington home.
1t will be his first appearance at the
capitol in more than a year and a half
and also his last appearance as presi
dent of the United States.
Not to Be Funny, But Rev.
Mr. Yawn Takes Pastorate
MILLTOWN, Ga.—The DBaptist
church of this place, which has been
without a pastor since Rev. J. A.
Rawls accepted a call to Tampa, Fla,,
a few weeks ago, has called Rev.
Yawn, of Ray City, a young man who
graduated at Mercer university two
years ago. Mr. Yawn has accepted.
THERE’S SUCCESS!
AND HAPPINESS }
IN CO-OPERATION.
VOL. 39.—N0. 22
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ADOPTED BY HOUSE AT LAST
SESSION AS PRE-CAMPAIGN
THUNDER IT WON'T DOWN.
SOLDIERS’ HOPES FADE
: :
Economy the Big Barrier Against Ac
tion by Present Congress. Men
Have Renewed Drive For a Meas
ure of Government Largess.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Members
of the house and senate are plagued
day after day by the promises they
made in the campaign to vote in fa
vor of a generous bonus for former
service men. Scarcely a mail reaches
a legislator that is not filled - with
forceful reminders of the pledges
which were publicly given at a time
when votes were needed.
Men who weré in uniform while the
war was on have renewed their drive
for a measure of government largesse.
They were led to believe, while candi
dates were electioneering and the
husting resounded with appeals for
support, that no sooner had congress
reconvened than a bonus bill would
be brought to a vote and would be
passed by overwhelming majorities,
See Hopes Fading.
But congress has been in session for
ngarly two months and has but one
more than a month to run, and there
is not an indication that a bonus bill
will be passed. No committee of the
senate has recommended it and no
group of leaders in that body has
championed it. Hope of a bonus
check, therefore, is fading from before
the eyes of the boys back home.
The house bill, w}nch passed witha
bang just before adjournment early in
the summer, is still alive. It will not
die until the sixty-sixth congress pass
es out of existence March 4. It is the
senate, therefore, which must do the
es of the hide end of the business,
job, if it is done.
The bonus-seeker may not under
stand that when the house on the eve
of a national campaign voted in fa
vor of a soldier bonus that body was
moved by political expediency pure
and simple. Not one in 10 who sup
ported the legislation actually wanted
it to be enacted. Not one in 20 en
tertained the notion that the senate
would concur in the action of -the
house or that President Wilson would
permit such an act to become a law
even if congress should pass it.
The bill was passed by the hquse
‘because virtnally every member of
‘that body was a candidate for re-elec
tion and every one who was a candi
date felt that it would be dangerous
to fly in the face of the soldier vote.
A handful of members were bold
enough to vote against it.
Economy the Barrier. -
But the situation now has changed.
Legislators, returning to Washington,
realize that it would be almost a crime
to pay out an enormous sum of mon
ey in the form of a bonus at a time
when economy is demanded by the
whole nation; when taxation is weigh
ing more heavily upon the people than
ever before, and when national read
justment forbids any raid upon the
federal ireasury, no matter how ap
pealing the cause.
If a bonus bill should be passed
now, most leaders agree, it could only
be financed by a popular loan. There
is no conceivable way of taxing the
country for such a, purpose without
putting a blight upon business already
sorely disrupted by falling markets.
And another popular loan could only
be floated by raising the rate of in
terest to a point which would depress
the value ¢i the more than $20,000,-
000,000 in war honds still outstanding.
The iact i> the senate is less inclin
ed if anything to pass a‘ bonus bill
now than it was last summer when
the house sent the measure to it
Members who will come up for re
election two years and four years
hence had hoped that the country
would- forget the bonus; that the men
who are demanding it would all have
good jobs and would not need the
money, and that they would not be
harried by constitutents with an ap
petite for a government appropriation.
Instead of diminishing, however, the
demand fer bonus legislation -seems
to be increasing.
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Wilson’s Armenia Note
Is Severely Criticised
London Editor Wonders If We Are
Reading *“Arabian Nights.” .
LONDON.—The Chronicle, in an
editorial on_President Wilson’s mes
sage to the council of the league of
nations on Armenian mediation, de
clared it ‘“bristles with disputable
points.”
“We may note,” it says, “that the
fighting on the Crimean front result
ed not from invasion but from cxwr
war and that the troubles in Armenia
arose in the first place not from the
bolsheviks but from the Kemalist
Turks. But consider the price which
he asks ‘particular’ European powers
to pay far the benefit of his media
tion. They are to pledge themselves
to guarantee, presumably by force, the
territorial integrity of a Russia ill
defined and stretching from Poland
ag:f:oss. Europe and Asia to the Pa
cific. o
“Denied the right to any say in Rus--
sian affairs, offered nothing in return
by Russia, they are to undertake to
protect this beneficent home of reve
lution against any enemy in two con
tinents who may have a grudge
against it. This would be a tall order,
even if the United States were w
to help. But as the price of President
Wilson’s personal mediation in Ar
menja we wonder if we are reading
‘Arabian Nights.’