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Virtually every speaker touches upon
the prisoner question before he leaves
the tribune. Tell a German first that
the armistice made no provision for
the return of German prisoners, and,
second, that, while Germnny begs dally
for food, she attempts at the same
time to saddle herself with 800,000
more mouths to feed, and It has no ef-
feet on him. It cannot be sheer pity
for the welfare of the prisoners, be
cause plenty of Germans know only too
well how slim food Is.
Listening to delegates to the assem
bly, and talking to Germans outside of
It, the correspondent finds that the old
German viewpoint fie lenrned'to know
so well during the war until the breach
with America Is still abroad In the
land, though In less truculent form.
The Gerrann does not understand why
he now should suffer; why everything
cannot be placed on a basis of status
quo ante; why anyone should hold
against him the conduct of the war
with which, he claims, he had noth
ing to do.
PMCH TREES AND FALL GRAIN
Peasants Without Uniforms Give
Valuable Assistance to Inter
national Army.
Many Old Faces Remain and
Many New Ones Are Not
Unlike Old.
In Nearly Every Attack Made on
Enemy These Partisans Go Ahead
of or Along the Flanks Look
ing for Pot Shot.
Only One Member Has Admitted Ger
many Had Part In Starting the
War—Hun Doesn't Understand
Why He Should Suffer.
With the Americans on the North
Russian Front.—In this International
army, which Is fighting numerically
superior bolshevik forces In north
Russia, there are, mingled with the
half dozen or so varieties of uniforms,
men who wear no uniforms at nil.
They fight, as did the francs tlreurs
in the Franco-Prussian war, and the
first minute men of the American rev
olution, for the protection of their
firesides.
They are peasants, bearded or
beardless, with nothing to distinguish
them from the thousands of other
peasants living around them but their
guns and cartridge belts. They are
the irregular or “partisan” troops, j
and the sentiments they are showing 1
and fighting for In this wilderness of
snow and pine trees loom up so patri
otically that the government of north
ern Russia Is beginning to look upon
them as the keystone on which to
build a Russian state that will be free
from bolshevism.
I Hall Allies as Rescuers.
These peasants have known the rav
ages of bolshevik troops in their vil
lages. They have seen friends exe
cuted for antlbolshevtk TCCtlVltles.
They hail the allies as rescuers. In
neurly every attack the regular troops •
make against the enemy one finds
these armed partisans, crack shots, go
ing ahead of or along the flanks of
the Americans, British, French and :
trained, uniformed Russians to scout
a path or take a pot shot at the enemy.
The point of view of these peasants
Is this: The army has not yet been or
ganized ; we are robbed and ill treated
by the bolshevlkl; therefore we have
to defend ourselves. The peasants in
the Kholmogory district, along the
Dwina river, have been fighting for
four months. Military authorities say
they do their work as cheerfully and
efficiently as regular soldiers. The
red guards are helpless against the re
volted population.
The appearance of peasants fighting
voluntarily ngalnst Trotzky’s forces
has a demoralizing effect upon the
bolshevlkl, as It disabuses the minds
of some of them of the theory that
they are being opposed only by '‘im
perialists.”
Scout Like Animals.
The partisans know Jhat If they are
The German national assembly has
demonstrated two things clearly. It
is unable to do business much more
speedily than the old relchstag, chief
ly because there Is little unity and
much dissension between the pnrtles,
and the old order of things has
changed very little despite the new
faces.
The latter Is perhaps the most im
portant point, because the assembly
was hailed by German papers—and
particularly by the agencies that sup
ply the outside world with news—as
the birth of the new republic, the be
ginning of a new regime, the living em
blem of the passing of the old.
It is new In a sense, and the old
regime has passed, perhaps, but there
are enough of the old people left, and
so many of the new people are not
much unlike the old that the effect In
the Weimar theater Is not much dif
ferent from the relchstag. One hears
precisely the same arguments from the
floor, watches precious time fly by over
the same and similar arguments as
used to make one despair of construc
tive legislation.
One Admits Germany’s Guilt.
^PerhaiLS , thT"ffiosF"'sfi ; i6ing thing Is
the tone of the great majority of the
party speeches. Just one delegate has
had the courage to attack the con
servatives and the moral strength to
go on record as admitting that Ger
many had something to do with start
ing the war. Man after man, regard
less of party, has, in speeches proved
to his own and the house’s satisfaction
that Russia, France or England, not
Germany, started the war.
One lone man has had the courage
to tell the house that the German
treatment of Belgium forever forbids
German complaints from being ef
fective. The great bulk at least of
northern Germany, seems to have
adopted the attitude:
“Well, it’s all over now. We, the
people, didn’t start the thing at any
rate, so let’s start out even and square,
with no hard feelings on any side.”
The assembly is the principal out
let for every known kind of propa
ganda, Indulged in nearly as vehement
ly and excitedly by the social demo
crats as by the conservatives. First
there is the Alsace-Lorraine question.
It comes up three, four, a dozen times
a session, and always rouses the same
enthusiasm. Every old and shopworn
argument Is trotted out and cheered.
It has never occurred to the Germans
that on the other side of the fence
there are fairly good arguments to sup
port France’s retention of these prov
inces.
The junction with Austria provokes
an almost equal enthusiasm, and if.
would seem as If half the speakers in
sert It in their speeches for that pur
pose alone. The Schleswig-Holstein
question has come to the front lately
and Germany is filled with propaganda
to show that Schleswig should and
must remain German. No speech Is
complete without at least a reference
to Poland and Czecho-Slovakla, and yet
not one of the speakers but kn4ws that
these questions will be settled, for good
or ill, by the peace conference.
Is Same Old Hun.
The failure of the German to change
materially is in no way better to be
observed than in his attitude to the
question of the conduct of the war. It
Is only rarely that a criticism of it is
heard in the house, and the general
feeling seems to be that if anything is
wrong with it, that is all in the past
and should be forgotten or overlooked
by Germany’s enemies.
The prisoner of war question is as
puzzling to the student of German psy
chology just now a.s anything else.
W. O. Kinney,
L. J. Horton.
Loot Is Returned.
Winnipeg, Man.—-Five years ago,
with the aid of a brick, a robber too’
two dozen watches from the Jewelr
store of George H. Gilman. Today
Gilman had 16 of the original watches
returned by parcel post.
W. 0. KINNEY & CO,
SUCCESJORS’TO B. T. ADAMS & CO.
- Cotton Factors. -
614 Thirdt Street, Macon, Ga^
Farmers Supplies. Mules, High-grade Fer
MLIZERS AND WEBER WAGONS,
Mother Wants Soldier
Hero All to Herself.
Gary, Ind. — Not even the
pomp and glory of the whole
town of Gary’s turning out to
do her thrice wounded son hon
or on his return from French
battlefields could, Induce Mrs.
Kate Petkey of Indiana Harbor
to lose him for one second.
Despite the appeals of the
mayor, the chief of police and
all the dignitaries of Ihe town,
where- Walter, .Petkey was for
merly a policeman, Mrs. Petkey
clasped her stalwart son to her
bosom, pushed him Into a wait
ing taxicab and whisked him
away home. A big celebration
had been planned and the entire
personnel of the police depart
ment waited outside the station
to be led In the parade by their
former comrade.
Another soldier son, Steve,
was waiting at the Petkey home,
3729 Beach street, Indiana Har
bor, and a third son Is in a base
hospital recovering from wounds
received In France.
0TT0N FACTORS
Macon, Ga.
Cotvon, -Mules, Fertilizers
Wagons, Bagging, Ties
Money to Loan
\
Farm Lands in Houston County a 1. Low Rite
Ii|you wiut money quick write orca’l
NOTARY WAS NOT A RABBI
Hatcher-Turpin Co
Therefore Nathan and Sarah Were No
tified That Their Marriage
Was Invaiid.
5231Mulberry St.
Macon, Georgia
Minneapolis.—The unusual experi
ence of being married on Monday and
notified on Tuesday that the marriage
was Invalid because performed by a
notary public fell to Nathan and Sarah
Levy.
Nathan and Sarah married In 1900,
divorced In 1918 and almost remarried,
shrugged their shoulders In perplexity
when notified that their second mat
rimonial venture was a fizzle.
Adolph Ephraim, the- notary who
married them, and who was Influen
tial in bringing about the reconcilia
tion which followed the divorce, also
shrugged his shoulders when ques
tioned by a member of the clerk of
the district court’s staff.
"I told them I didn’t think I could
do it,” said Ephraim. “They told me
to go ahead, that they didn’t want to
go to a rabbi, so I did. I was afraid
It wouldn’t stick.”
If Notary Ephraim had been a rabbi
it would have been all right. But he’s
only a bookkeeper.
After your cotton has come
up^We will be glad to buy all
the seed you! have left. Bring
them to us as Soon as possible.
We have 90 day Velvet
Beans for sale.
lar soldiers. In December a big dele
gation of partisans went to Archangel,
and, according to the local newspa
pers, “this new apparition stirred up
all the classes of population of the
town.’’
It became clear that a sound evolu
tion from anarchy toward patriotism
had taken place among the people;
that the efforts of the partisans,
though of a local character, must be
supported, and that it was absolutely
necessary to create a suitable atmos
phere for further organization of par
tisan detachments. A big committee,
including all political parties, has been
formed in Archangel to aid this plan,
and a new partisan newspaper is to be
published for the benefit of the fight
ing peasants.
Boy Kills Wolf.
Toronto, Kan.—Lloyd Jamison, four
teen, killed a wolf with a stone and
a club, while hunting rabbits. The
carcass was too heavy to carry home,
hut he succeeded in dragging it.
Must Wear Muzzle.
New York.—Even a blind dog must
be muzzled. He may scent with his
nose and bite with his teeth despite
such affliction, said Justice Koenig, or
dering Arthur Sommerville to muzzle
his eyeless canine.
Furs Still Missing.
Kansas City, Kan.—Set of $300 mink
furs slipped from Mrs. James Goodell’s
shoulders in the lobby, unnoticed. Her
“husband” applied for and received
them at the desk. Furs still missing.
Indistinct print
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JOHN H. HODGES.
Proper.
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$1.50 a Year In Advance
VOL. XLJX
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY MAY, 22 1919
No 19