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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XXII. NO. 48. LIST RESERVATION TO TREOTY OWE SEMITE FOO VOTE t ‘ I French Papers Caustic in * Their Comment.on Presi dent Wilson's Reference to I Their Militarism WASHINGTON. March 10.—Tha j senate today took up article N. ’The question on which the coming presidential campaign may turn, am’ upon which ratification of the treaty certainly does turn is now befoie senators ». No senator dared predict whether the differences separating the two parties will be reconciled and some form of compromise reservation on this article adopted. But the belief is general that if sc-called compromise is agreed to. ; will mark a surrender by one side or the other of prinicples which both j have repeatedly declared to be vital and never to be surrendered The question today is just what it was last November. It is sim ply f. Shall the United States assume an obligation to help protect other na tions against a predatory, warfare or shall it refuse that obligation" If it refuses, there can be no | League of Nations, says President Wilson. . Trying to Compromise There still labored today a little group pf compromisers, who pro fess to believe that after all. either,, the president or Senator Lodge might yield at the last minute, ,in spite • vx their statements to the public. ■ The compromise move seemed like ly to develop into an effort to pass . the onus of responsiblty for defeat I of the treaty, rather than to rat;- I fy it. Both sides have their eyes on | the campaign, apparently. Dozens of substitutes for the. l odge reservation are to be offered. Most of them are so much like it that the ordinary citizen would have difficulty finding any difference. The final vote may come this ween early next week. While debate on the much-disputed section of the League of Nations covenant is in progress, negotiations looking to a compromise on the Re publican reservations will be contin ued. though both sides frankly are without much hope that an agree ment will be effected. Several Re publican leaders drafted a substitute reservation yesterday for which they said they obtained the support of twenty-eight Democrats, but even that number is from two to six short of the minority votes needed by the majortiy to ratify the treaty carry ing qualifications which Prefcident Wilson has declared cut the “very heart - front the pact.” A score of Democratic senators met today in Senator Owens’ office in an effort to agree on some reserva tion to Article N. At the same time Republican mild reservationists were exerting themselves in every direc tion, trying to get an agreement, i But when the senate met none of I these efforts had succeeded. It was | “ stated at that time that twenty-eight j Democrats had tentatively agreed to | accept some modification of the Lodge reservation on Article N, but were i not pledged to any particular draft. . Senator Lenroot, mild reservation* | ists. was prepared to offer a pro- ■ posed compromise to the senate, and | ' there was a bare possibility that the ■whole question would come to some sort of decision before the day ended. The reservation on voting power in the league, declaring that the United States declines to be bound by de cisions to which congress has not assented until voting power is made equal, was readopted yesterday, 57 to 20. Article T n Here is article ten, on which the fate of the peace treaty again is suspended just two compact sen tences set in the midst of an eighty thousand word document: “The members of the league un dertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the ter ritorial integrity and existing poli tical independence of all members of the league. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.” FRENCH PAPERS COMMENT ON LETTER OF WILSON PARIS, March 10.—President Wil son’s letter to Senator Hitchcock re j garding reservation to the Versail t les treaty was given little space and a minor position in most of this morning’s newspapers. The Gaulois prints its comments on the first page under- the caption “Warnings of Wilson.” “Mr. Wilson,” it says, “takes re venge for the silence»imposed upon him by illness. In less than 2 4 hours he presents us with two docu ments in which he affirms in a sin gularly aggressive manner that 'he bar? - >wtG >eu run possession of his masterly faculties. “He finishes the weakening of governmental frameworks of order and discipline which he already has so thoroughly shaken. His ’anti imperialist’ formula will bring new encouragement to international bol shevism, under cover, of which Ger _ many prepares her future revenge f which Mr. Wilson denounces but not , with the clearness and energy we expected from his fairness, if not from his friendship The Paris Midi says the accusation of France as militaristic is “impu dent,” and it refers to Mr. Wilson's gratuitous insult to this country.” it adds: “Mr. Wilson accuses France of be ing militaristic, and at the same time Josephus Daniels, secretary of the American navy is the only minister in the world who announces an un limited program of armament.” L’lnformation says’: “Today there are men conscious of the evident necessities of France, but there is no * longer a militarist party, properly speaking.” > Mlatrtw Sri-Wcekln Wwwal NEW YORK.—Peggy Hop kins, Broadway star, recently married J. Stanley Joyce, mil lionaire Chicago lumberman. The groom’s present to his wife was a $ 150,000 home at Miami, Fla., with $50,000 in furnishings for it. This is the bride’s third matrimonial ad venture. Her first husband was Everett Archer, million aire from Denver. In a short time she had the marriage an nulled. Then she married Sherburne Hopkins. Jr., also rated as a millionaire. She ob j taint'd a divorce two years lat- ; I cr - ■ FIVE BILLS TO END MERCHANT MARINE PUZZLE WASHINGTON.—-Uncle Sam's poli with respect to the future of the American merchant marine is to be decided by congress following testi mony to be taken on five bills now pending before the commerce commit tee of the senate. The fundamental problem -at stake however, is covered by the two bills of Senator Jones of Washington— Senate bills 3355—and 3356 —which, respectively, lay down a policy for the disposition or operation of the vessels now owned or in process of construction by- the government and provided for the creation of a United States Merchant Marine corporation. to sustain and build up American shipping. Was Selling Ships In the absence of any specific in- ; structions. by congress, the shipping board, under the direction of Chair- | man John Barton Payne, was pro- ■ ceeding with the sale of Uncle Sam’s; merchant ships. Prior to the stopping by a private injunction suit, of the sale of 30 for mer German passenger ships, the board had sold 10-1 ships, with a total of 1.274,371 deadweight tons, for $95,500,000, or approximately $75 per ton. This is from $125 to $l5O per ton less than it would cost to build the same type of ships today, and an equal amount less than the cost of* the vast majority of the 1.688 vessels remaining in the possession of, or under contract by. the shipping boafd. The board was proceeding to throw the government’s vessels on the mar ket. for sale to the highest bidder, under provisions continuing the ves sels under the United States regis try and on trade routes designated by the shipping board, on the theo ry that now the war was over Uncle Sam should get out of the shipping business immediately, and at what ever loss necessary. Would Mean Big Lost * This policy would have put into the hands of private shipping interests, for less than $800,000,000 vessels costing some $2,100,000,000! Chairman Payns has stated, how ever. that even at cut-rate prices, pri vate shipping interests might be ex- • -pected to absorb only some 300 ships, i . Those vessels that would find buy ers would, naturally be the cream of | the fleet. Our best vessels would move into private ownership tjft prices far be low present cost and Uncle Sam would be left in possession of Sjpme I I 1.500 boats, including all the second i class ships and tiie inferior types, ; which the government would have to ) operate in competition with the bet- I ter ships. It is to prevent just this situation that the Jones bills are drawn. They would set up a "United States Mercantile Marine corporation.” with a grant of life of 30 years, which would take over the entire govern ment fleet, both for purposes pf op j eratiou and of sale. ! Trees Cause Apparition . PARlS.—lnquiry into the supposed appearance of the Virgin Mary at a village between Metz and Nancy sug gest that it was due to natural rather than supernatural causes. 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Send for their Style Book and price list today and save big money on your clothes.— (Advt.) NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRA TS NOMINA TE HERBERT HOOVER HALF NIILLION LIFE LOSS CHARGED TO U. 5. NAVY BY SIMS Failure of Department to Fully Co-operate in First Six Months of War, Proved Costly, He Says WASHINGTON, March 10.—Fail- I ure of the navy department to fully co-operate in the war during the first six months .after.-America's entry cost half a ufijlioii fifteen bil lions of dollars, 2,’500,000 tons of shipping and prevented a victory over Germany by July, 1918, Rear Admiral Sims told the senate inves tigating committee today in present ing documentary evidence in support of his charges of delay against the department. The officer read to the committee recommendations he had made to the department immediately upon his ar rival in London in 1917. A cable gram sent late in April, 1917, said that the critical area where the war would be won or lost was in the eastern Atlantic at the focus of all lines of ocean communication to England and France. Admiral Sims told the committee that although he repeatedly urged that every destroy-- er and small craft that could be sent to sea be dispatched immediately to this area, his recommendation was not complied with until about six months later. Other Recommendations He also recommended, he said, that two divisions of ' American dread naughts be sent to Brest to guard against raids in the channel by Ger man cruiser forces but this recom mendation was entirely disregarded, but said. Failure of the navy department to throw the full force of the navy into the struggle, he said, resulted “in the unnecessary loss of 1,500,000 tons of shipping by submarine at tack in 1917 and 1,000,000 tons in 1918. “If the topnage lost in 1917 had been saved by the prompt co-opera tion of the navy,” he said, “■America could have had a million men in France at the beginning of 1918 in stead of 300,000.” Admiral Sims said the German of fensive of 1918 was due to the fail ure of the German submarine cam paign and that in all probability it never would have been undertaken and the morale off the German people would have been broken-in the Ameri- < can troops had been more- promptly dispatched to France. He estimated on the basis of what happened when the American forces did arrive that vic tory cov.ld have lAen achieved by July. 1918, if the tonnage had been preserved. Plans Late The navy department’s first real | decision as to participation in the war, Admiral Sims said, was con tained in a cablegram to him twen ty-seven days after America entered the struggle. The message said the department intended to send thirty six destroyers, one tender and a mother ship to the British Isles, ana asked for minute information re garding the possibility of obtaining necessary supplies at Berehaven, th® probable base. “All of these plans should have been worked out long before we en tered the war,” said Admiral Sims, “and should have been placed in ef fect. in substance at least, the day wc entered th. war.” Regarding his allied losses, Admiral Sims said: “I have made this estimate -not be cause I assume or pretend that it is I completed but in order to present to ; you seme conception of what such a - policy as that of the navy depart j ment’s the first six months of the j war, and of such delays and military I errors as those committed by the de i partment in this same time,, cost the 1 nation and the allies. I merely wish j to call your attention, as vividly as I possible,-to the fact that the ques j tions under discussions are not pure ly academic, but have the vastest i consequences that must inevitably • be suffered unnecessarily if such mis i takes are committed in time of war. ' It is no light matter which cost the • cause for-.which we were fighting half j a million lives, fifteen billions of dol lar's and two and a half million tons I of shipping.” Admiral Sims told the committee i that the allies bared their war se icrets completely to him, although at | first they were reluctant to do so, and i yielded only after he strongly in isisted on it. Askod Aid of Page I Admiral Sims said that when he i found that his oWn efforts to im- ■ press upon the navy department the 1 seriousness of the situation were un- ■ availing he invoked the aid of the I late Ambassador Page at London, I who on April 27. 1917, sent a confl- I dential cablegram to Secretary Lans ing and PresWWrt Wilson declaring that “there .is reason for the great est alarm about the issue of the war, caused by the increasing success of German submarines.” Declaring that British anti-subma rine forces were entirely unable to stem the rising tide of sinkings, the ambassador urged the immediate as signment of every available United States destroyer and submarine chaser to British waters. Even this request went unheeded, for some months. Admiral Sims said. The witness read a message to the department in 1917 saying the Brit ish government “appreciated” what the United States was doing to keep down submarines. “incidentally,” he added, “that is a case of international politeness. They were thanking us for sending six destroyers.” Admiral Sims insisted that he had been badly handicapped by failure of the department to keep him in formed of its plans. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920. SS wiihmmlLßHM O®® 1! Iron news boys were used in Salem, Ore., for the first time in the United States during a recent snow storm to distribute a newspaper. Trac tors with carriers astride the gasoline tanks nego tiated the othedwise impassable drifts ail'd before night fall 90 pet cent of the subscribers had re ceived their papers. Then the tractors broke trails to all parts of the city, hauled snow-plows along street car tracks making it possible to-resume car operation, and revived traffic generally. NEED TWO STATES NOW TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE RIGHT WASHINGTON, March 10. —Suf- frage leaders today were confident that the constitutional amendment granting votes to women will be finally ratified by April. A suffragist victory in West Vir ginia, after one of the most dramatic Hights of the long campaign, will make the number of states which have ratified thirty-four, only two less than are needed to make the amendment a part of the constitu tion. The legislatures of Delaware and Washington meet this month to con sider suffrage. Washington already has it by state enactment, and for this reason suffragist* expect little opposition to passage of the ratifica tion act there. In Delaware the women made a careful poll of the legislature before pressing for spe cial session. , z If ratification should fail in either Delaware or Washington, suffragists plan to center their efforts in ob taining special legislative sessions in Vermont and Connecticut, where, they declare, they are assured of sufficient .votes to ratify, • Final ratification of suffrage by April would bring into both conven tions as well as into the November elections the full force of the Influ ence of millions of women voters who have never chst a ballot. House Passes Bill Providing for Army Os 289,000 Men WASHINGTON. March 10.—An authorized peace-time army of 289,- 000 enlisted men and 17,820 officers was approved today by the house, which by a vote of 79 to 25 refused to amend the army reorganization bill so to fix the maximum strength at 226,000 men and 14,200 officers. LOOK! 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D State All Previous Clubs and Combinations Are Hereby Withdrawn “IRON NEWS BOYS” BUCK SNOWS Flood of Subscriptions Calls for Patience Until Tri-bUeekly List Is Ready Nething succeeds like success—you kno# the old saying, and it’s a true one.| Sometimes, however,, success succeeds so rapiily that it gives rise to embarrassment, as in the offer of the new Tri-Weekly Journal, just starting out in the path of the famous old Semi-Weekly. The editors have received such a presis of new subscriptions—so many thousand requests from old friends and new ones to be put on tha list— that at present the department liter ally is swamped by the flood. Naturally, it takes time to get all these new subscribers properly re corded and to start the new Tri- Weekly to them. Naturally there have been delays—there still are de lays. And (also naturaly) the new subscribers, eager to get the new Tri-Weekly, proceed to write us let ters asking why on earth the paper doesn’t come along. Just a little patience, the editors ask—just a fair chance to get the new nsmes and addresses on the list; the thousands of new frienfls and old will be getting the Tri-XVeeKly, regularly and on time, and (we hope) for many, many years. And in the meantime, please don’t write to inquire why you are not get ting the paper or why your time has not been extended. We are several days behind, owing to the flood of new subscriptions and renewals that have been sent in during the last few weeks. The names are being put on I our mailing list in the order that they were received, just as fast as a greatly increased office force can put them on. No one will fail to get tha paper for the full time paid for, so if your paper is longer in getting started than it should be, try to realize that we are doing our ut most to start it just as soon as pos sible. Every letter we get complain- AUTHORITIES MUM ON KIDNAPING OF J. A. ARTHUR NOGALES, Ariz., March 10.— Nothing concerning reports that James M. Arthur, manager of the Mexican Consolidated Mining com pany, Is held by Mexican bandits for ransom, had been made public here today by military or civil authori ties. First information that the widely known mining man and former Unit ed States army officer was a pris oner below the border came In news dispatches from Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Arthur could not be found here early today. The reports said she had notified her father, F. E. Avery, of Columbus, Ohio, that Mr Arthur was held for ransom, and asked that $2,000 be sent immedi ately. ing that the paper has not come, helps to delay us longer. A little patience, good friends, new and old —and j-our paper will come along. It is a source of real joy and pride to the editors that the new Tri-Weekly is being accorded such a splfendid reception; and it is flatter ing that the new subscribers are so eager for the paper to start. The best way to help It start is not to write any more letters want ing to know what’s the matter. There’s nothing tl*e - atter, friends —just a great press of new subscrip tions which will require some days more to get on the lists. Just a little patience, and every body will be happy. fIUGUSTA LEADERS WT HOOVEB ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET All Shades of Political Opin ion Unite in Belief That Georgia Democrats Can Do Their Own Choosing BY BOG-BRS WINTEK (Staff Correspondent of Th.e Journal.) AUGUSTA, Ga., March 10. —Plenty of Hoover sentiment exists here in Augusta and plenty of disapproval is expressed concerning the action of the sub-committee in shutting him out of the preferential primary be cause of his unwillingness to commit himself to "undefined partisanship.” And these expressions of disap proval are not by any means con fined to supporters of Hoover, as The Journal correspondent very soon dis covered on inquiry among business men, lawyers and others. Some act ive work is being done here for Palmer by his supporters, notably Judge William H. Dunbar, a formei mayor of the city, whose son, dem ent E. Dunbar, is connected with the alien property custodian’s office in Washington, formerly headed by the attorney general. Likewise, McAdoo has supporters here, notable among them being Editor Bowdre Phinizy, of the Augusta Herald. But among the Palmer men and the McAdoo men, as well as among the Hoover men, and practically as outspoken as among the Hoover men, the sub committe’s action has not met with favor. Among the business men with whom The Journal correspondent dis cussed presidential politics were Howard H. Stafford, a prominent manufacturer, and Captain P. H. Rice, a prominent merchant. They, like many other business men over the state, are exceedingly anxious to have a business administration of the na tional government divorced from poli tics. Hoover’s magnificent record of achievement has impressed them most favorably. As they expressed ifc» they have not positively made up their minds for whom they are going to vote in the presidential primary, but it is not at all unlikely that they might de cide to cast their ballots for Hoover, and in that event where would they be? The answer, of course, as mat ters now stand, is that they would be disfranchised, or else would be obliged to cast their ballot for a second choice. s William M. Howard, formerly con gressman from the Eighth district, now a leading lawyer of Augusta, and recognized over the country as one of the ablest men that ever serv ed in the national house from any state, was interviewed by The Jour nal correspondent. Mr. Howard is not in politics here and nothing is further from his in tentions than getting in politics. Nevertheless he is a close student of national affairs and is watching with Interest the trend of events in both parties. Balinoi’ Won’t Last “If Hoover were a candidate,” re marked Mr. Howard,' “he would be running like a house afire. It is of ten difficult for American political opinion to function for a man who is not actively seeking support. We are not accustomed to having the of fice seek the men. That is one of the things that makes the Hoover senti ment so remarkable —the fact that it has come up from the people. No body knows how the convention at San Franciso will wind up. Bryan may sweep it off its feet with his platitudinous eloquence, and in that event the result is likely to be a platform composed of equal parts of prohibition and socialism. Then the conversion of the Democratic party to a' labor party will be complete. The finishing touches of its trans formation will be put on. I do not expect Palmer to last long in the San Francisco convention. In Jact, I anticipate that he will withei- up, if you will pardon the expression, like a feather in hell.” Presidential politics are being dis i cussed here from numerous and in ! teresting political angles. Prior to • his sale of the Augusta Chronicle to a company of which Thomas J. Ham ilton, is president; Thomas W. Loy less, the former editor and owner, ex pressed himself in favor of General Leonard Wood as the Republican nominee, upon the idea that he would like to see the Republicans nominate a good man in view of the impending probability of its success in the com ing election. This gave rise to much Wood talk among Democrats. Not that they are going to leave their own party and vot,e the Republican ticket, but the general personally is well thought of here, having visited frequently in Augusta an£ being credited with something to do with the location of Camp Hancock here. Then there is much interest in what Mr. Taft has to say with re gard to the presidential election, he, ‘being another Republican who has a host of personal friends who got acquainted with him when he win tered here several seasons on “The Hill” while he was president. Cox’s Visit And Governor Cox, of Ohio, was a visitor in the same suburb last week, and numerous Augusta Democrats with characteristic hospitality called to pay him their respects, and more than one of them magnanimously of fered to get up a petition signed by the requisite 100 names to place him on the ballot of the Georgia presi dential primary. Governor Cox told them he thought we would have enough candidates in Georgia without his horning into the contest’, but thanked them heartily for the com pliment. William M. Howard, men tioned above, who used to serve with ! Governor Cox in congress, chaltingly I asked him if he thought, he was*golng i tb run anywhere except in Ohio, and i the governor replied that he believed i (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAH. FORMER FOOD CHIEF ANO LEONARD WOOD WIN INJIMABIES Delegates Favoring Hoover for Party Standard Bear er Sent by Voters to ’Frisco Convention MANCHESTER, N. 11., March 10.— (By Associated Press). —The native state of Major General Leonard Wood will send to Chicago a Republican delegation pledged to vote for him as long as he is a candidate for the presidency. At yesterday’s prima ries the Wood-pledged ticket for dele, gates at large defeated by a big ma jority an unpledged group of four and a fifth candidate pledged for Senator Hiram Johnson. The Demo* crats elected three district delegates pledged for Herbert Hoover. The other Democratic delegates were un pledged, but are generally considered favorable for Hoover. In the last presidential campaign New Hampshire went Democratic. CHATTANOOGA KIWANIS CLUB IS FOR HOOVER CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 10. Herbert Hoovei’ proved the over whelming choice of the Kiwanls club in a straw vote taken here Tuesday. Hoover received thirty-nine ballots, Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, who ran second, received twelve votes, Hoover was also the over whelming choice of the local Rotary club in a straw*vote taken last week. HOOVER OUTLINES HIS POSITION ON PRESIDENCY NEW YORK, March 10. (By Associated Press.)—Herbert Hoov er, in a letter received last night by Ralph Arnold, of Los An geles, New York representative of the “Make-Hoover-President Club of California, declared he was not seeking public office, that his "ambi tion is to remain a common citizen. But that he believed he, “like every other citizen, should always be ready for service when really called upon-’ Mr. Hoover’s letter followed the action of a group of prominent Cali fornians residing in this city in ap pointing a committee to go to Wash ington and ask Mr. Hoover to make known his position. Asserting that while “such propose als are indeed a great honor, I fee* that I canftot altar the attitude that I have consistently preserved," Mr. Hoover’s letter continued: "First, I am an independent Pro gressive in the issues before us to day. I think that at this time the 1 issues before the country transcend, partisanship. It Is well known that 1 ?was a progressive Republican be fore the* war and I think rightly a I non-partisan during my war service. The issues confronting us are new and the alignment upon them has not yet been made by the great par i ties. I still object as much to the | reactionary group in the Republican ■ party as I do to the radical group in the Democratic party. Second, I am not seeking public office and, consulting my own per sonal inclinations, I do not want public office. I cannot prevent any citizen or group of citizens from agi tating that I should take public of fice, but I cannot conscientiously participate in any organization to that end. “I belong to a group which thinks that the American people should se lect their own officials at their own, initiative and volition and that re sent the manufacture of officials by machine methods. I feel sure that if I entered the race for nomination to the presidency and undeitook to solicit and spend the cost,x>f propa ganda and organization, this would be in Itself a negation of the right American instinct because of the ob- I ligations that it all implies. I thor ' oughly believe that I, like any other citizen, should always be re: dy for service when really called upon, but to go out and try to persuade the public to call me is opposed to my every instinct. “Third, I hope to have the affec tion of my countrymen, but my am bition is to remain a common citizen, ready to engage in tea play with any organization and leadership that has for its objective the consummation and maintainance of great issues in the forms that J believe are to the public interest and benefit. I, of course, believe in party organization, but it must be for the promotion of issues, not of men. I am not a. straddler of any issue, I spend most of my time agitating for issues that I believe in. It is the privilege of all of us to hold our own views and it is our duty to express them when called upon to do so. But no man can be so arrogant as to assume that he can dictate the issues to the American people or to the great par ties they support. 1 •’Tcurth. You and your friends I have ui3?d. ‘hat I should undertake ;to organize ,*--'vi»‘Z a ncla f°r myself ias representing issuer, by entering i into competition for Jismination by i a great party. Aside from .he rpa {sons mentioned above, this implies entry upon a road of self-seeking, whereas my view is that I should, agitate for the issues, not for my self. You rightly say that joining sheer organization without i -sues Is simply office hunting without re gard to public service. I "Finally, lam not so ignorant as not to realize perfectly well that such a course does not lead to nomination to the presidency, but I would not be myself if I started out on a path ; of self-seeking to obtain any office.’* Brooklyn Not Dry Yet NEW YORK.—"I suppose prohibi tion has not gotten up tfiis far yet,’* Magistrate Dale, of Brooklyn, jok ingly said when he suspended sen tence on four men arraigned on a j charge of intoxication.