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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 w JOHN H. HODGES. Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance VOL. XLJX PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY MAY, 22 1919 No 19