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VOLUME Vl.
Russia Seems Lost To Allies, As Radical
faction Is Apparently Beat On
Making Terms With Teutons.
Turkey’s Proposition Follows Peace
Proposals Made To Russia
By Germany
Petrograd.—The Council of Soldiers
and Workmen’s Deputies has issued
an appeal to the army in which it
declares that German imperialism is
- seeking to destroy revolutionary Rus
dia and enslave the Russian people.
It appeals to the, soldiers to defend
Russia with all their power and de
clares that a separate peace is im
possible,
Russia May Make Separate Peace
New York.—Russia still looms in
the eyes of the world as a portentous
obstacle to an early successful issue
of the war for the entente nations
and the United States over Germany
and her allies,
‘ With a far from satisfactory state
of affairs existing between the coun
cil of workmen’s and soldier’s deputies
and high Russian government officials,
which in the last few days has re
sulted in the resignations of the com
mander of the forces in Pertograd and
.. . the minister of war and marine, comes
i ‘a renewal of the rumor that Turkey
. is following in the foosteps of Ger
many’and Austria-Hungary and is en
deavoring to effect a separate peace
with Russia.
The compensation said to have been
~ offered by Turkey embraces a thing
that has been the life dream of Russia
—the complete opening of the Darda
nelles to Russian ships, both mer
chantmen and men-of-war, Turkey
also would be agreeable, if Russia
would consent to lay down arms, to
consider a satisfactory sgettlement of
the Armenian question, long a thorn in
the side of mankind, and likewise deal
with her various subjects on the prin
ciple of nationality.
CENSORSHIP AND PROHIBITION
MEASURES KILLED IN SENATE
After Radically Changing Administra
tion Bill, Senate Passes it By
: Vote Os 77 To 6
Washington.—After nearly three
weeks of debate, ranging over innum
erable problems of the war, the sen
ate, by a vote of 77 to 6, passed the
administration espionage bill, pro
* nrounced one of the most drastic and
all-inclusive measures in American
congressional history.
A similar bill has passed the house
and virtual redrafting of many of the
most important provisions is expected
in the conference.
During the final consideration 'the
senate stripped the measure entirely
of provisions for mnewspaper censor
ship and restriction upon manufacture
of grain into intoxicating liquors, and
rejected an amendment designed to
curb speculation in food products, al
though sentiment obviously was over
whelmingly in favor of such legisla
tion later, |
Authority for the president to em
bargo exports when he finds that “the
public safely and welfare so require,”
was added to the bill. |
Zeppelin Destroyed By British Planes
' London.—British naval forces de
stroyed Zeppetin 1.-22 in the North sea
according to an official statement is
sued by the admiralty. A Zeppelin
with three gondolas, enveloped in
heavy smeke, was sighted at Terschel
ling, Holland, a Reuter dispatch trom}
Harlingen, Holland, reports. When;
the smoke disappeared 15 minutes |
later the Zeppelin was no longer to‘
be seen.
116,455 More Men For Regular Army
‘Washington.—Orders to bring the
regular army to its full war strength
of 293,000 men were announced by
the war department, and the organiza.
tion .of 44 new. regiments will begin
at onve, with further efforts to stimu
late ‘recruiting and bring in the 116,-
456 men needed to fill up the ranks.
il stop ‘Speculation In Foodstutts
* Washington.—Speculation in food
supplies was vehemently denounced on
the floor of the senate and in a re
‘markable debate there was shown
plainly an overwhelming sentiment
for putting a stop to gambling in the
necessities of life. An amendment to
the espionage bill is proposed to sus
" ‘pend ' during the war all exchanges,
boards of trade and chambers of com
merce that permit speculation in food
stuffs. This was beaten only because
(it was thought the provision had no
- place in the bill e
NUMBER 29.
’Per Capita Os $33 Asked As Direct
Tax In Addition To Indirect
Tuaxes Now Being Paid
Washington.—The war tax bill, ex
tending its excises to the fabric of
every American home, was formally
bresented to the house by the ways
and means committee with plans for
passage.
As a forecast of what may come
later, it proposes special taxes to raise
$1,800,000,000 in addition to the pres
ent normal annual revenue of $1,500,-
000,000. When its terms are effective,
the American -people will be paying
direct taxes of $33 per capita. The
people of the British Isles—half as
many—now pay per capita taxes of
sixty dollars.
While the principal features of the
new war levy are increases in income
and profit taxes, internal revenue rates
and customs duties,‘many of its pro
visions reach the innermost structure
©of every home and make up a list of
taxes, probably the most formidable
ever faced by the American people.
The household, light, heat and tele
phone bills, admission tickets to
amusements, fire and life insurance,
railway tickets, automobiles, automo
bile tires and tubes, soft drinks, post
age rates, golf clubs and baseball bats,
club dues and a host of other every
kday necessities or luxuries come under
the taxation.
Already protests against many fea
tures of the law are pouring in and
attacks upon it will center in the sen
ate finance committee which will con
duct public hearings on it and proba
bly make some amendments.
SEVEN AUSTRIAN SHIPS |
‘ BOUGHT BY GOVERNMENT
!Tonnaqe. Totals 52,651 And The Price
| About Half The Prevailing
; Price For Vessels
~ Washington—The federal shipping
iboard has announced that it has pur
chased from American owners seven
’Austrian merchantmen held in Ameri
‘can ports, totaling 52,661 tons, for $6,-
’778,006. The price is about half the
‘Prevailing price for ships. The ves
sels will be repaired within a few
months and placed in the war emerg
‘ ency trade by the board.
~ The ships are: Dora, 7,037 gross
tons; Ida, 4,730 tons, both at New
York; Erny, 6,516 tons, Boston; Anna,
1,676 tons; Clara, 3,932 tons; Tresa,
3,769 tons, at New Orleans, and the
Lucia, 6,744 tons, at Pensacola.
They were bough* from A. T. Herd
and George A. Carden, New York ship
owners, who agreed to sacrifice their
profits and sell at virtually the same
price they gave for the vessels.
“This economic experiment is in
sharp contrast to the experience met
by the government in ship purchas
ing at the outbreak of the Spanish-
American war,” Chairman Denman of
the board said, explaining that an
American corporation to whom the
owners were under contract to sell
also had agreed to waive its inter
est.
The ships were bought at President
Wilson’s. direction and payment will
be from the $100,000,000 war emerg
ency fund at the president’s disposal.
Other similar purchases are contem
plated by the shipping board and it is
said some of the seven other Austrian;
ships now in American ports may be.
acquired. |
Teutons To Make Another Peace Bid
Copenhagen.—A special dispatch re
ceived. here from Berlin says Dr. von
Bethman-Hollweg, the imperial Ger
man chancellor, will answer a peace
interpellation in the reichstag soon.
The dispatch adds that the reichstag
will adjourn in the middle of May, but‘
not' to autumn, as is customary. Par
liamentary objections to leaving the
government uncontrolled from the May‘
adjournment until autumn have result
ed in plans for a short summer session
in July. ‘
Over 30,000,000 To Produce Foodstuff
Washington'—Two months of cam
paigning for a million gardens have
turned the attention of more than
thirty million people to the task of
producing food. ‘“The people not only
are endeavoring to produce food for
themselves,” said Charles Lathrop
Jack, president of the emergency gar
den commission, “but they are learn
ing the value of land as never before.”
Liberia Joins Allies Against Germany
Baltimore.—Announcement that Li
beria hag severed diplomatic relations
with Germany has been received in
Baltimore by Ernest Lyon, consul gen
eral of the negro republic, in a cable
gram from Secretary of State C. D. B,
King. No reasons were given. Con
sul General Lyon hds notified the state
department at Washington. He says
the break carries a practical advantage
to the entente allies because it will
remove from German control the wire
less telegraph and cable facilities of
liberia, ;
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IRWINTON, WELKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917.
Sixth Week Since United States Entersd
Conflict And Much Legislation
Still On Calendars
Food Control Legisiation' Expected To
Cause Much Debate And Aroused
Decided Opposition
Washington.—Congress began the
sixth week of war with the calendars
of both houses of congress still filled
with legislation which the adminis
tration feels is essential to the sue
cessful conduct of the conflict with
Germany. g
The house probably will conclude
discussion of the $1,800,000,000 war
revenue bill and send it to the sen
ate, where two days of committee
hearings have indicated that many
changes are to be made in its struc
ture.
The espionage bill has been stripped
of the press censorship section and
the injection of an amendment prohib
iting the use of cereals or grains in
the manufacture of intoxicants during
the war, although a bitter pill to the
foes of prohibition, probably will not
greatly delay ultimate passage of the
entire measure.
Plans of leaders in the senate are
not clear as to what measure shall be
taken up after the espionage bill, but
it is probable it will be the food con
trol. bill, a subject looked upon by ad
ministration leaders as of vital and
pressing importance.
Conferees on the war army bill were
called to meet again because the house
after once rejecting the so-called
Roosevelt amendment, wants to put
it in.
In the house an effort may be made
to put food control legislation through
after the war revenue bill. The depart
ment of agriculture has sent bills on
the subject to the House committee.
The measures received committee ap
proval and aré virtually ready for the
floor. :
In both houses the food legislation is
expected to cause much debate and
arouse some decided opposition, al
though it probably will have the force
of the administration behind it. It is
almost certain that a measure will be
passed giving the department of agri
culture money and authority to make
a food survey of the country, and to
curb speculation in food produects.
SUBMARINE BASE SHELLED
BY BRITISH WARSHIPS
Great Damage Done At Zeebrugge,
| With 63 Persons Killed And
! Many Injured
| Rotterdam.-——According to reports
‘received here, the naval attack on the
&German submarine base at Zeebrugge,
on the Belgian coast, was the most
‘destructive yet made by British war
‘ships.
~ Two submarine sheds were blown up
and sixty-three persons were Kkileld.
‘Upward of a hundred persons were
taken to hospitals.
~ London.—An official statement is
sued by the British admiralty anent
‘the naval aerial bombardment of
Zeebrugge says that a very heavy
bombardment of the important area
at Zeebrugge wag successfully carried
out by a portion of the British forces
under orders of the Dover vice ad
miral.
Two of the British machines failed
to return. One of these descended in
Dutch territory and was interned,
Petrograd Garrison Loses Commander
Petrograd.-——General Korniloff, com
mander of the Petsograd garrison, has
resigned. He explains that his resig
nation is due to an impossible posi
tion arising from the efforts of vari
ous organizations to control the garri
son, and adds: “Well, then, let them
take the responsibility.”
Large Crate Plant Destroyed By Fire
Tampa, Fla.-—Fire destroyed the
plant of the Overstreet Crate com
pany and nearby houses owned by
the concern at Lockhart, near Or
lando, entailing a loss conservatively
estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000.
Foreigners Forced Into German Army l
London.~—Herr Kunert, a Socialist
member of the reichstag, according to
a dispatch from Amsterdam, question
ed the government about the incorpo
ration of foreigners into the German
army. He declared the foreigners in
this category included North Ameri
can citizens who had been provided
with official identification paper. Colo
nel Marquardt, replying for the gov
ernment, said the war minister would
communicate with military command
ers and make an investigation of the
whole question,
N.C. & St. L Takes Charge Os The W.
& A. December 27,1917, For
| Term Os Fifty Years
RENTAL $45,000 PER MONTH
State’s Property In Chattanooga,
Tenn,, Not Included In Present
[ Lease Os W. & A.
Atlanta—
The new lease of the Western and
Atlantic railroad to the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad has
been signed by Governor Harris and
officials of the road.
The contract bears the signature of
Governor Harris, attested by Philip
Cook, secretary of state, under the
great seal, and of John Howe Peyton,
president of the Nashviile, Chatta
nooga and St. Loais, and J. B. Hitt,
assgigtant secretary.
The lease was signed in the gover
nor’z office in the presence of Mur
phey Candler, chairman of the West
ern and Atlantic lease commission; J.
H. Juhnston, engineer; Grover Cohen,
‘assistam engineer, and other state
house ofiicials.
‘ The state road willi be turned over
ito the new lessee on December 27,
1919, for a term of 50 years. The
! state will receive $45,000 a month cash
l rental, and in addition, the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis agrees to
imake $60,000 a year improvements or
- pay this amount to the state in cash.
‘ Under the present least, the state
received $35,000. The state has an
}additlonal advantage under the new
contract, in that the property in
Chattanooga is not included. This,
it is expected, wili bring the state $15,-
000 a year additional revenue. The
lessee controls this real state under
present contraet.
‘ Georgia’s Share 255400 Men
~ There are ten million men in the
United States between the ages of 21
and 50, inclusive, who are subject to
call for army duty on Jaly 1, under
the draft bill, according to estimates
made by the bureau of the census.
The number of men between the
ages of 21 and 20, inclusive, repre
sents very nearly ten per cent of the
total estimated population of between
103,060,000 and 104,000,000 on July 1,
1917.
Os this number Georgia has 255,400.
Its contribution to the first half-mil
lion will thus be 12,770.
The state had a population in 1910
of 2,609,121, of which 230,149 were
males between the ages indicated. The
figures of 1917 are estimated accord
ing to the average annual increase
for the ten years preceding 1910.
Shortage Os Cans May Be Relieved
The Unied States department of
agriculture will, within the next few
days, be in position to relieve the
shortage of cans in Georgia, for the
canning of perishable products, under
certain conditions, according to infor
mation received from Congressman
Carl Vinson of the tenth Georgia dis
trict.
Mr. Vinson has communicated di
rectly with the department of agricul
ture with regard to the Georgia situa
tion, and from Assistant Chief J. A.
Evans of the department of agricul
ture, has received a communication
from him,
Fair Plans Improvement
The Southeastern Fair Association
will spend over SIOO,OOO on the
grounds and buildings at Lakewood
before the opening of the fair next
fall, $50,000 of the sum will be spent
for a new building to house the auto
mobile exhibits. The remainder will
be spent in beautifying and improv
ing the grounds.
The premium list this vear will total
$64,000, and is expected to bring out
many exhibits in every department.
Competition will be open to fa.rmersl
and live sltock men throughout the
southeast.
Georgia Could Pay For 4 Hours War
Statisticians at the capitol have fig
ured out the state of Georgia could
run the European war for four hours,
basing their estimates on the report
that it is costing Great Britain $37.-
500,000 & day. This sum is more than
five times as much as the general ap
propriations for the expenses of the
state for one year.
State Gives SBO,OOO For School
Special appropriation warrants ag
gregating SBO,OOO have been drawn on
W. J. Speer, state treasurer. For the
erection of a dormitory at the state
normal at Athens, $50,000 was paid
out. The first payment of $30,000 on
the contract for the new dormitory at
Georgia Industrial College, Milledge
ville, was made.
FORT McPHERSON NAMED
| AS WAR PRISON CAMP
North Carolina Property Secured By
| Government i Now In
| Legal Tangie
e Aifanta--
l Fort McPherson has been decided
upon as the site for one of the three
big proposed war prison camps, accord
ing to dispatches received from the
war department in Washington.
The property at Kanuga Lake, North
Carolina, which was at first accepted
for the establishment of a prisom, is
now involved in a legal tangle due tosa
dispute over property rights between
the owners. A commission of immi
gration officials from Washington is
in North Carolina making an effort
to settle the contention.
The other two prison camps will be
maintained at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga..
and Fort Douglas, Utah. They will be
commanded direetly by the adjutant
general of the army, which will re
lieve. department commanders of the
responsibility.
A guard company will be organized
at each prison.
Only soldier-prisoners will be de
tained at the Oglethorpe, McPherson
and Douglas camps. Allen civilians
under internment will be confined
elsewhere.
Auto Fund Is Held Up
Owing to the fact that a number of
counties in Georgia failed to send in
their reports of road mileage upon
which a distribution of automobile
license tax money is made, Secretary
of State Phil Cook has decided to ask
the next session of the legislature to
amend the law so that the road fund
may be disbursed May 1 to such coun
ties as have made their reporis of
road mileage and those which fail to
make their reports by that date shall
be left out.
A fund of some $130,000 which could
be spent upon Georgia's roads is now
being held up by failure of these coun
ties to send in their reports.
“l have written them time and
again, sent them everything except
the actual answers i{o the necessary
questions, and 1 can’t get the latters
back,” says Mr. Cook. “I'm going to
ask the next legislature to amend the
iaw so it will require distribution of
the money on the first day of May to
those counties who have thew (%ports
in, and leave the others out’”
Name Committee On “Liberty Loan™
Men prominent in business and -
nancial life in Atianta were named
vesterday as the central committee on
the “Liberty Loan” in accordance
with instructions received from Secre
tary McAdoo,
The committee is composed of Mell
R. Wilkinson, F. J. Paxon, J. Epps
Brown, Ivan E. Allen and W. C. Ward
law. It will operate in conjunction
with the officers of the Atlanta region
al bank, who will serve as chairman.
The object of the “central commit
tee” will be to aid in tha effectual or
ganization of all forces to be brought
to bear in the floating of the “Liberty
Loan” in co-ordination with federal
agencies, as well as to assist in the
campaign of education to be promoted
Eiu behalf of the bond issue.
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[ Looking For Oil in Georgia
Dr. 8. W. McCallie, state geologist,
announced that a party of scientists
[representing the Georgia departnent
of geology and the United States de
| partment of geology, are now prospec
| ting down the Chattahooche valley to
!ward Ceoiumbus for any signs of oil.
- For a long time there has been a
‘general belief, based upon conditions
‘existing in the valley of the Chatta
}hoochee and the Willacoochee rivers,
‘that there is oil under the surface,
‘and a number of test wells are now
being drilled.
There are three representatives of
‘the state government and three rep
resentatives of the Ifiiera.l government
in the inspecting party.
Mother Day Observed
“My Mother.”
That was the subject of sermons;
messages, and tender thoughis
throughout the land on Mothers' day,
Sunday, May 13.
Never has Mother's day been so de
votedly and generally observed. In the
grim shadow of war the occasion took
on a deeper meaning.
In practically every Atlanta church
“Mother” had a part in the sermon or
the services. Hundreds of telegraph
messages were sent to mothers far
away, hundreds were received from
sons in distant cities. The streets blos
somed with white flowers worn in
buttonholes.
Forbidden To Increase Ore Burned
Attorney General Clifford Walker
announces receipt of notice from the
United States supreme court that the
application of the Ducktown Copper
company, for a modification of the
federal court order, limiting the
amount of sulphur ore the company
is permitted to burn at one time, has
been declined by the federal court
SI.OO A YEAR
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Augusta.—The Greeks of Augusta
subscribed $2,200 for the purpose of
constructing a Greek church. .
Waycross.-——Burglary and incendiar
ism are suspecM least one out
of five fires cross has had e
cently. ’
West Point.—The public flag-raising
at the city auditorium was witnessec
by several thousand people. W. Trox
Bankston was master of ceremonies.
Valdosta. — Considerable changes
have been made necessary in the ei:b
public schoois on account of fihe call
to the army training camp offsome of
the teachers. '
Waycross.—Paul Baker, who escap- °
ied from the Ware county gang seven
years ago, was returned to the county
camp here. He was arrested in Jack
sonville, Fla.
Atlanta.—The second stage of the
Baptists campaign to raise SIOO,OOO for
the purchase price of the Georgia Bap
i tist hospital will begin in Atlanta and
| vicinity the first day of June.
! Aungusta—Rufus H. Brown has been
’appoin'»ed state chairman for Georgia
i for the tin box fund of the commission
{ for the relief of Belgium. Miss Mary
aC Cuthbert is chairman for Augusta.
! Macon—Mrs. Mattie Stokes Adams,
{ of Atlanta, who shot and killed Capt.
{ E. J. Spratling, of the Fifth Georgia
| infantry, last August, as he sat in
jhis tent at Camp Harris, was acquit
' ted of the charge of murder.
| Moultrie, — The Harrell-Thornfon
ihui!ding at Bridgeboro was destroyed
ib,v fire according to news received
here. The loss resulting iz estimated
1 at about fifteen thousand dollars, par
tially covered by insurance.
§ Atlanta.—Through the state de
partment of agriculture Governor Har
!ris has received notice of and has
| offered his indorsement to a food con
’ ference of negro farmers which is to
{ be held in Macon.
| Valdosta—The city council at a
special meeting made arrangements
to turn over ai once to the ireasurer
of the South Georgia State Normal
college, the balance of $20,000 domaied
| by the city to the college. d
| Macon.—City Attorney W. D. Me
txen has held that city council can
prohibit deteciives fregn making raids
1 outside the city limits and that it can
also prohibit the use of city auiomao
!biles outside the corporate limits, ;
| Dublin—Laurens county formaily
organized a campaign for increased
food crops, following an address by
Dr. A. M. Soule at a conference at
] tended by a large audience of the rep
| resentative farmers and business men
from all over the county.
’ Atlanta—A court fight for the re
’covery of $7,500 insurance that was
held by Capt. Edgar J. Spratling,
whose slayer, Mrs. Mattie May Adams,
was acquitted in Macon, has been
started in superior court by Mrs.
Spratling, the widow.
Fort Oglethorpe. — Announcement
was made here after reports that hun
dreds of selected Carolinians had not
received the notification cards mailed
[ that “the Carolina morning newspaper
lists of calls were official” and should
‘ be sufficient notice for the men to re
port.
Macon.—Many peach orchard own
ers in this section have disposed o 2
their crops for 1917. The prevailing
price is $1.60 per crate, which is 20
cents higher than last year's price.
This price is for peaches that are load
ed and ready for shipment. The crop
}is not expected to be as large as last
year, but there will be plenty to meet
i the demand. :
Atlanta—The tax returns of the
Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road now show an increase of $105,895
over the values originally submitted
to and declined by the comptroller
general, the latest figures having been
received. These returns show taxable
values of $5,215,665 for 1917, which is.
some SBOO,OOO short of the values ol
last year.
Macon.—Last January when the l
cense and tax committee of city coun
¢cil made up its schedule of licenses
tor the year it thought it was putting
license for labor agents at such a
high figures that it would be prohibi
tory, but that has been found not to
be the case. The license on labor
agents is SI,OOO.
C. J. Hayes, who is securing labor
for some Tennessee industries, paid
the pro rata part of the license for the
balance of the year, amounting to
$750, and will open an office in Ma
con at once. e e
Thomasville.—~The exodus of ne
groes from this section of the state
still continues and several parties of
them left Thomasville, those from here
being joined by numbers from Grady,
Decatur and other nearby counties. If
they continue to go as they are do
ing now it will do more to change
agricultural conditions in south Geor
gia than the boll weevil has done. .
There are certain crops that the white
man can easily grow himself, but cot
tongls not one of them. v
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