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Tri-Weekly Market Reports
COTTON
NEW YORK. April 29.—Circula
tion of May notices, estimated at
about 15,01'0 bales, unsettled the cot
ton market in today's early trading
Scattered liquidation of near month
cotton resulted and after opening
unchanged to 11 points net higher
the market Sold off several points
with May declining to 29.35 or five
points net lower. Trade interest were
buyers of May, however, while there
was commission house buying of
new crop months, promoted by re
ports of rains in the Mississippi
valley. Texas and Oklahoma. As a
result prices steady with May ad
vancing to 29.45 and October to
24.35, or about 5 to 20 points net
higher. .
After selyling up to 29.67 for May
and 24.52 for October, or about 27 to
40 points net higher, the market be
came much quieter. It was reported
that large trade interests were tak
ing up the May notices but some of
them will still circulating in the fore
noon and there was a little near
month liquidation. This combined
with realizing eased prices off sev
eral points from the best but the
market was fairly steady around
midday with active months showing
net advances of 15 to 25 points on
bullish spot advices and complaints
of too much rain in the southwest.
The market up to 29.78 for May
and 24.54 for October during the
early afternoon, or about 38 to 52
points net higher on the active posi
tion but turned easier around 2
o'clock on realizing, dropping 20 or
30 points from the high level.
.NEW YORK COTTON
Ttie following- were the ruling prices la
the exchange today:
lone, steady; middling, 2'J.SOc, quiet.
Last Free.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close
May ...29.60 29.78 29.35 29.44 29.11 29.45
July ...27.70 28.27 27.69 27.85 27.85 27.75
Oct. ...24.20 24.54 24.18 24.26 21.25 24.15
Pec. ...23.62 23.95 23.62 23.71 23.70 23.53
Jan. ...23'.33 23.57 23.33 23.38 23.00 23.’30
Ten forty-five a. m. bills, steady; May,
29.52 c; July. 28.03 c; October, 21.37 c; De
cember, 23.78 c; January, 23.15 c.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, April 29.—The
cotton market opened steady with
Liverpool just about as due. First
trades were 2 points down on July
and 5 up on October compared with
the previous close. There was no
trading in May at the start but May
in New York was higher despite
the circulation of 17,000 notices
there. The market advanced after
the opening on covering based on
expectation of unfavorable weather
In the belt, July trading up to
27.56 and October to 23.66 or 14 to
16 points above the previous close.
Business was comparatively quiet.
The market steadily gathered
strength during the morning, being
supported by the map showing con
siderable rains in the west and by
private reports of heavy rains in Ok
lahoma and Arkansas. The prompt
stoppage of the May polices in, New
York also helped old crop months.
May traded up to 29.73, or 37 points
above the previous close, but trading
in that month was light. July ad
vanced to 27.90, or 48 points net. high
er, while October advanced 38 points,
trading as high as 23.88. The market
was near the highest levels reached
at mid-session.
The market ruled quiet around
noon and into the early afternoon
and prices eased off about 15 points
on said to be due to expec
tations of a favorable weekly weath
er report tomorrow. There was no
pressure, however, the market being
supported by the reduction in the
certificated stock both here and in
New York, by. a report soifie of the
notices In New York were stopped
by a firm intending to export the
cotton. July has ruled steady for
some time around 27.75 or 15 ponits
undei’ the highest.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were thfr ruling price* 1»
,he exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 29.75 c. steady.
•Last I'rev
Open. High. Low Salo. Close. Close
May ...29.45 29.73 29.32 29.32 29.32 29.36
. July ...27.10 27.90 27.10 27.54 27.52 27.42
Oct. ...23.55 23.88 23.53 23.70 23.62 23.50
Dec. ...23.18 23.55 23.18 23.41 23.44 23.18
Jan. ...23.23 23.25 23.23 23.25 23.27 23.07
Cotton futures. 11:45 a. m. bids, steady;
May, 29.60 c: July. 27.76 c; October, 23.72 c;
December, 23.41 c: Januayr, 23.25 c,
SPOT - COTTON
Atlanta, steady, 29.50 c.
New York, steady, 29.80 c.
New Orleans. stbady. 29.75 c.
Galveston, steady, 30.25 c.
Mobile, steady. 29.50 c.
-x Savannah, steady. 29.05 c.
Wilmington, steady, 29.25 c.
Norfolk, steady, 29.75 c.
Boston, nominal.
Dallas, steady. 29.10 c.
Montgomery, stead', 29c.
Houston, steady. 29.75 c.
Memphis, steady, 29.50 c.
Little Rock, steady. 29.50 c.
Augusta, steady, 29.37 c.
ATLANTA“”SPOT" COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 29.50 c
Receipts -19
Shipments 7'6
Stocks 18,097
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Upen. Close.
Spots ... 10.00(6.1(1.1.*
jlav 9.906/ 10.05 10.11@10.13
June 10.1561 10.28 10.206/10.30
July /.10.35ftt 10.39 10.356X10.37
Aug 10.41,6/ 10.50 111.456/ 10.49
Kept 10.5561 10.59 10.556/ 10.56
Oct 10.006/ 10.20 10.056/ 10. 10
Nov. ... ... ... 9.2-*6/ 9..*0 41.0., (it 9.10
Do, 9.1061 9.10 ll.lOftj. 9.45
Tone, easy: sales, 10.300.
Liverpool’ cotton
LIVERPOOL, Aprß 29.—Colton spot, mod
erate business; prices easier; good middling.
18.16 d; fully middling* 17.71 d; middling,
17.21 d; low middling. 16.36<1; good ordinary.
15.36 d: ordinary, IJ.SGd. Sales. 7.0(10 bales,
including 5.200 American. Receipts, 3,009
bales, including 2.200 American.
Futures closed barely steady, net I to 10
points higher than previous close.
Tone, barely steady; sales, 7,000 bales;
good middling, IS.IGd.
Prev
Open. Close. Close
April 17.30 17.25 17.21
May 17.09 17.C6 17.04
June UI.S2 1it.87 16.53
July 16.44 16.47 16.42
August 15.69 15.64
September 14.92 14. u 3 14.83
October 14.20 14.26 \ 14.16
November 13.85 13.92 13.53
December 13.79 13.(59
January 13.59 13.64 13.54
February 13.51 13. it
Marell 13.(8 13.51_ 13.13
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
NEW YORK. April 29.—Coffee, Rio No
7, 15%e: Santos, No. 4. 10%c.
Open. Close
Mav 13.41 13.48
July ... 12.90 1.3.07
Sept. . ... ft 12.30 12.45
Oct. 12.31
Dee. ... 11.95 12.05
March ... 11.71 It.so
FLAX QUOTATIONS
DULUTH. Minn.. April 29.—Flax close:
May, $2.37 . July, $2.38451 September,
CHICAGO CASH - QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, April 29.- Wheat, No. I •
|1.07 ’ 1 ': . "So. - ■*' I. $1.07' : 'i i .12.
Cor::. No 2 mixed. 76ft; 76%c; No. 2 yel
low, 7.-'_. 7'l, . x
Oats. No. 2 white. ISxQlOe: Ne. 3 while.
47 %:</ 48•• l e.
Rye. No. 2 , JOT’ic.
Barley, 726/>7e.
* Timothy seed. 85 00',/ 7.50.
i lover seed. sl3.soft{ 21.60.
I. a rd. SlO 60.
F l". $9 .
Bellies. $10.25.
TOLEDO - ’QUOTATIONS
TOLEDO <Y 'o. April 29. Clover --cd
pritnt old, $1 ■"■ new, $10.75 October.
$11.85. Alstkc prime, $9,50. Timothy seed,
p ime. and May $3 70.
HIE AH.AMA nil-U i.FuALY JOUKNAL
GRAIN
CHICAGO (Tuesday), April 29.
The worm has turned and file wheat
market today was one of activity
and strength. Some of the more ac
tive local traders have switched to
the long side on the theory that
liquidation in May has gone as far
as it is going and that the market
fails to reSpond to bearish news.
There was covering of a, big short
line of May wheat and those who
sold the May bought the deferred
futures. Carriers continued to buy
May and sell July at 2 1-4 cents dif
ference. This made the shorts trim
their lines. Weather was generally
favorable. Seaboard advised of some
Manitoba wheat being sold to
Sweden. Aside from this cables from
abroad were not very promising as
to business. Milling demaill was
quieter.
Wheat closed 3-4 to 1 cent higher.
May, $1.06 3-7; July, $1.06 to $1.06 1-8;
September, $1.06 7-8; December.
$1.09 5-8.
Corn was helped by the strength
in wheat. Locals bought because of
this fact .and shorts covered. Com
mission houses seemed to have corn
for sale on the slight rallies. Cash
corn was weak and the basis was
1-2 cent to 1 cent lower. Consign
ment notices are slightly heavier.
Shipping demand was slow.
Corn closed 1-8 higher to 1-8 low
er. May, 77077 1-8 to 77; July,
78 3-8; September, 77 7-8 to 78.
Oats were irregular. May oats met
with pressure from the leading long,
but futures reflected the firmness
in other grain. Shipping demand
was slow. Consignment notices were
larger. Cash oats basis was about
1-2 cent up. Sales of oats were 50,-
000 bushels to go to store.
Oats were 1-4 lower to 1-4 higher.
May, 46 3-8; July, 44 1-4; September.
39 7-8 to 4(1.
Lard was firm on support from
smaller packers. Some liquidation
noted in ribs.
Lard closed 71-2 cents higher:
ribs 5 cents-lower to 2 1-2 higher,
and bellies 2 1-2 to 10 higher.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
Tlio following were the ruling prices t»
the exchange today:
I’rev,
Open. High. Low.* Close. Close.
WHEAT—
May . .1.03 1.04 1.02% 1.03% 1.02%
July . .1.05% 1.06% 1.05 J. 06% 1.05%
Sept. ,’..1.06% 1.06% 1.06 1.06% 1.06
CORN
May . . 76% 77% 76',5 77 76%
July . . 78% 78% 78% 78% 78%
Sept. . . 78 78% 77% 77% 78
OATS—
Ma.'- . . 46% 46% 45% 46% 46%
July . . 41% 42% 43% 4IQ 44%
Sept. . . 39% 40 39% 39% 39%
LARD—
May . .10.55 10.60 10.52
July . ..10..80 10.85 10.77
Sept. . .11.05 11.10 11.02 11.10 11.02
RIBS—
May . . 9.62 9.65 9.70
July . . 9.82 9.90 9.80
LARD—
May ... 10.55 10.62 1 0.55 10.60 10.52
Julv ... 10.80 10.85 10.80 10.85 10.77
RIBS—
May .... 9.62 9.65 9.62 9.65 9.70
julv .... 9.82 9.1 M 9.52 9.90 9.87
BELLIES—
May.. .10.10 10.15 10.10 10.15 10.10
July ...10.37 10.47 10.37 10.47 10.37
RECEIPIS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 41 cars
Corn 225 cars
Oats t . 126 cars
Hogs 24,000 head
KANSAS CITY - QUOTATIONS
KANSAS CITY’. Mo., April 29. —Wheal.
No. 2 hard, 98cfti$1.21: No. 2 rod, si.loft/'
1.11. Cora. No. 2 yellow, 75%e: No. 2
mixed, 72%c. Oats, No. 2 white, 49%c-
ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS
ST. LOVIS, April 29.—Cash wheat No.
2 red, sl.o9fti>l.lo%: No. 2. $1.07%®,! .09.
Corn. No. 3 white, 78c; No. 2 yellow', 80%c.
Oats. No. 2 white, 19%fr/j49%c; No. 3.
48%@49c. Futures: Wheal. May. $1.02%;
Ju!v,"sl.os. Corn. May, 78%c: July, 79%e.
Oats, May, 48%c; .Inly, blank.
GRAIN MARKET OPINIONS
r.ainson Bros.: It. looks as if prices will
hold pretty well around these levels .
Hulburd, Warren & Co.: Lower prices ap
pear probable for wheat and coin.
Clement. Curtis A- Co.: Legislative possi
bilities are still uppermost in the minds of
traders. x
Stein, Alstein & Co.: We look for grains
to continue in a trading area.
Harris, Winthrop & Co.: Europe appar
ently remains iu an independent position as
far as supplies are concerned, without re
sorting to the United States.
Logan & Bryan: A trading market is
probable.
Sugar Market
NEW YORK, April 29.—Raw ’sugar was
steady early today on the basis of 6.15*'
for Cubans, duty paid, at which sales of
10.U00 bags prompt ami 10,000 for .lime ship
ments were made to local refiners.
Under continued liquidation raw sugar
futures dropped 4 to 8 points early in the
session, followed by sharp advances on re
poets of disturbances in Cuba. Price rose
7 to 45 points from the lowest ami at mid
day were about unchanged to 3 points net
higher.
Eefined was quiet and changed at 7.80 c
to s.ioc for fine granulated.
Refined futures were nominal.
NEW YORK RAW*SUGAR MARKET!'
Open. Close.
Mav , A 4.40 4.59
July 4.56 4.76
September 4.55 4.77
December 4.18 1.38
March 3.77
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, April 29.—United States
governbent bonds closing:
Liberty 11',...- $ 99.21
First 4s, bid 100.3
Second Is, bid 99,30
First t%s 109.3
Second 4%s 100.00
Third 4%s 100.13
Fourth 4%s 100.4
Treasury 4%s 101.1.5
Money and Exchange
NEW YORK, April 29. -Foreign ex
changes steady. Quotations in cents:
Gloat Britain, demand, 4.;i'' : s ; cables,
4.35%; 60-day bills on banks. 4.36%.
France, demand. 6.45; cables, 6 46. Italy,
demand, 1.17%: cables. 4.48. Belgium, de
mand 5.45; cables, 5.46. Germany, demand
t per trillion), .23%: Holland. demand,
37.35: Norway, demand. 43.80: Sweden, de
mand. 26.28: Denmark. demand. 16.79:
Switzerland demand. 17.81-: Spain, demand,
13.68: Greece, demand. 2.00: Poland. de
mand. .000012; Cz.eeho-Slovakia. demand.
2.92%. Jugoslavia, demand, 1.25: Aust:;”,
demand ,0014's: Rnnania, dem md. .52%:
Argentine, demand. 32.75. Brazil./ demand,
,11.20. Tokio, demand. 40%; Montreal, de
mand. 98 15-32.
Call money firmer: high, 4%.; low. 3%:
ruling rate. 3" 4 ; closing bill. 4%: offered at
I-' 1 ,: last loan, 4’..; call loans against a'
| eeptanves, time loans, steady; mixed
| collateral, tlii-'.'O days, I’-..: four-six months.
I 4%,%4%: prime commercial paper. 1%-ftt
I 4 "'-
Bride Accidentally
Shot by Her Husband
EUFAULA. Ala., April 28.—Mrs.
Harry Wooldridge, Jr., a bride of
six months, was buried here today,
the victim of a gun which acci
dentally discharged while in the
(hands of her husband.
! Mrs. Wooldridge was shot throng’,
the heart Saturday night, when her
j husband started to investigate a
noise in his chicken house. Wool-
I dridge told the coroner that he ran
j over a chair in the dark room am)
Hoboes Seek Chief
HAMMOND, La.—From Weary
Willie Camp, south of here, where
the hoboes have gathered for the
strawberry picking season, has come
a call for Klondike Pete. Kansas
City Slim, “boss'* of the camp for
' several years, was killed recently
in Kansas, and the he loe s w ant
Klondike Pete m come here and take
I up the job where Slim left off last
l spring.
COM TO BE WET
AS MTIG OCEM
I DUIfflC MENTION
t
BY ROBERT T. SMAI L
(Special Leased Wire to llie Journal.)
1 (Copyright, 1921.)
t NEW YORK, April 26.—From
1 present prospects it looks as if New
1 York would be about ns wet as the
t Atlantic ocean during the Demo
> cratic national convention.
1 The bootleggers of the metropolis
seem to have gained the impression
! —of course they are wrong—that
■ one reason the convention was voted
5 to this city was because of the ef
j ficiency of the bootlegging trade.
5 So they are taking no little pride in
s the arrangements they are making
to care for what they believe will
be a thirsty army descending upon
' these hospitable shores along about
' June 24, next. The profession de
' sires to show the delegates—and
! alternates —exactly what real high
class bootlegging means. They ex
; pect above all things to amaze the
’ pilgrims with the low prices which
1 prevail in this market.
1 Naturally the committee of ar
! ran^ements for the convention has
had no truck with the bootleggers.
’ The committee has received the
guarantee, of the hotels that they
’ will not boost their prices in any
way. The New York hotels will not
insist, as the Cleveland hotels are
• doing, that there shall be pay for
■ three persons in a room regardless
1 of how many occupy the chamber.
■ Nor will the New York hotels insist
' upon a six or seven-day contract.
They say the delegates may come
when they please and go when they
please. Os course the local bonifaces
know the Democrats. They know
the convention will last far more
than any six or seven-day period, so
. the contract idea would mean noth
ing.
Restatiran(s Plan Killing
After committing the hotels, the
committee set about to line up the
restaurants. Here it was found that
some had made plans to boost their
rates during the Democratic con
clave. This prospective rise has
been promptly squelched, however,
and normal rates will prevail in all
the eating places, cafeterias and
automats included.
The bootleggers have agreed
among themselves that they will not
be outdone in hospitality by the
hotel-keepers and the restaurateurs.
They, too, will not go on a profiteer
ing basis. Instead of thinking of in
creased prices they arc. concerned at
the moment only with the thought of
getting entugh hard drink into the
city caches so that no man during
the convention season shall go thirs
ty so long as he has the price of a
drink or a bottle.
Whisky prices have been standard
ized in New York for some time, with
little or no variation for the past six
months. The moving of the rum fleet
from the three-mile limit to the 12-
mile limit had no appreciable effect
upon the scale of prices. Good Scotch
is selling at from $55 to SGO a case,
laid down at hotel, club or home.
Poorer qualities can he had at cheap
er prices. Bottle prices range from
$5 to $7.
Push-Cart Saloon Found
The bootleggers may be entirely
wrong about increased demand which
will come to them from the Demo
cratic convention but they do not
propose to be taken by surprise.
They want to have plenty on hand.
They also have been reading about
the efforts ot the national prohibi
tion authorities to dry up Cleveland
in anticipation of the Republican con
vention which is to meet there on
June 10. The Republican gathering
will be a brief one at best. Here in.
New York there is no telling how
long the convention will be in session.
At no time since prohibition has*
there been greater activity than at
present among the bootleggers. One
big ocean-going tug boat has been
captured four times within the last
few months, filled to the gunwales
with liquor. Each time a case comes
up the boat is freed under bond and
it immediately returps to its evil
ways.
<»An entirely new phase of retail
nootlegging was discovered Easter
Sunday. A perambulating saloon
was discovered in the shape of a
; push cart. It was well stocked and
doing a thriving business on the
east side at 46 cents a drink.
Speech of Tardieu
Stopped by Hecklers
PARIS, April 28.—Communist
hecklers broke up a political meet
ing addressed by Deputy Andre Tar
dieu in a Paris suburb last night,
after repeatedly dragging him off
the platform. M. Tardieu was badly
bruised in the scuffle and a sleeve
was torn from his coat. This is the
second experience of the kind he
has had within a week since begin
ning his election campaign. He was
French high commissioner in the
United States dur ng the war.
Grasshoppers Worry
Watermelon Grower
THOMASVILLE. Ga.. April 28.
County Agent I’at Ward reports re
ceiving a message from Meigs tell
ing of grasshoppers on the water
melon vines on the Alligood farm
near Mint town. The grasshoppers
were believed to be damaging the
melon vinos ami the owne.s wc;-e
anxious to know what to use for de
stroying them. These are the first
grasshoppers or anything else re
ported as injuring the melon vines,
as they are generally said to be in
particularly fine condition in the
county.
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PEACE EFFORTS OF WILSON
BEGUN IMMEDIATELY AFTER
U. S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR
Tremendous Burden of New
Workl Ideal Assumed by
Executive in Earnest Hope
of Permanent Peace
BY I)A\ ID LAWRENCE
(t'<i)n rislit. 1921. by the George 11. Doran
company in the United States, panada. South
America. World jmblicntion rights reserved
by Current News Features, Incorporated.)
CHAPTER XXVII
NO one thing led the United States
into war with Germany. .The
sinking of American ships by
submarines, the z loss of American
lives on the high seas, the plotting
of the German foreign office of an al
liance between Mexico and Japan
against, the United States, the procla
mation of unrestricted submarine
warfare by tne Germans in defiance
of the laws of war and the tights of
neutrals, all of these played their in
fluential part, but when Woodrow
YVilson read his message to congress
he idealized the war—he said it was
Io make the world safe for democra
cy through the defeat of militarism
Rud autocracy.
Those who watched at close range
the events in Washington which led
to the great climax will differ in
their judgments of what turned the
scales to war but it is the author's
conviction that President Wilson,
conscious of a united public opinion
and resentful of the violation of
American rights, entered the contest
because he believed, first, that the
United States must aid the allies to
win and, second, that the entry of
the United States was the surest
means of forcing peace.
The effect of the Russian revolu
tion, which at first inspired everyone
with enthusiasm because of the re
birth of Russia itself, soon came to
be understood as a German victory
for it released the kaiser’s troops
from the eastern front and enabled
the German high command to con-1
centrate on the western front, where
the forces of the allies were proving
themselves unable to withstand the
drives of the German army. The;
Russian revolution impressed Mr-
Wilson as a bad omen for the allied ;
cause—for he never believed that a,
German victory would mean peace
in Europe. He thought it would only
be a truce until another war could ,
be fought, for he knew the spirit of
France and England. In the United
States preceding the declaration of (
war which came on April 7, 1917,
there was no doubt about the deter
mination of President Wilson.
Relations Severed
The severance of diplomatic rela
tions with Germany on February 3.
had paved the way for the inevitable’
step. The president was simply I
shaping his course to write a war
message that would assure him of
a sympathetic opinion and an en
thusiastic nation.
Even in those days there was a
distinct objective in Washington fui-:
tilled twenty months later when the'
German people overthrew the ini '
perial German government ami'
sought an armistice. Mr. Wilson rec
ognized that his message would be
looked upon by future generations
as the exposition of a new foreign
policy. The Spanish-American war
changed our policy in the sense that
it gave us overseas possessions and
interests. There was no telling
what the result might be of the big
ger venture.
By making war on the imperial
German government instead of the
German people Mr. Wilson left the;
door open to resume relations at any .
time with the German people, of i
whom so many had come to Ameri
can shores and had become useful;
and loyal citizens. He hoped the
German people some day would dem
onstrate by their choice of leaders
that they were ready and willing to
return to those ways of honorable!
dealing and humane action which
German governments had so often in
the past manifested in their inter
course with the United States.
Hardly had President Wilson be-,
gun to organize America’s forces
when the series of missions from
France and Great Britain started an
era of confusion as to the best;
method of applying America's help
to the struggle abroad. The British
wanted food and ships, the French |
wanted troops. The story of Ameri
ca's mobilization is too recent and
top vivid in recollection to be por- i
trayed here. The president’s burdens
were staggering, yet he moved into
the fray with precision, kept his
head and never lost sight of his
main objective—peace.
Peace Step Made
Even as early as the autumn 1917
Mr. Wilson sent Colonel House
abroad to bring about if possible an'
understanding among the allies on a
declaration of war aims which would
be instrumental in laying the founda
tion for ultimate peace. The author
had occasion to present to the presi
dent in that month an inquiry pro
pounded by a newspaper editor wi’h i
reference to peace discussion. Mr.
Wilson said in October, 1917, that
he thought the newspapers could
have no conception of what fire
they would be playing with in. dis-i
cussing peace then at all. in any
phase or connection. He said:
“The Germans have in effect re
alized their program of ‘Hamburg tr,
Bagdad,’ could afford to negotiate
as to all the territorial fringes, and,
if they could bring about a discus
sion of peace now, would insist upon
discussing it upon terms which
would leave them in possession of
all they ever expect to get. It is, ;
■ therefore, very indiscreet in my
and altogether against
the national interest to discuss
peace from any point of view if the
administration is broiight in in any
way. It is perfectly evident to every
one that what Colonel House is at
tempting to do neither brings peace
nearer nor sets it further off, and
it is my stern ami serious judgment
that the whole matter ought to be
let alone.’’
In that same autumn there began
an undercurrent of criticism about
the conduct of the war. Early in
. January, 1918, the author brought
to Mr. Wilson’s attention the neces
sity of explaining to the public in
a. general way just what had been
done so that the morale of the coun
. try would be improved and the im
i pression of chaos erased. Mr. YV il
son said:
“We are working under the stern
• est conditions that men ever worked
I under since civilization began. The
j duty of every man in the United
(States just now is to look at the facts
' and not at the color which anybody
puts upon them, and look at the facts
with a view not to criticism but to
co-operation, to putting everything
before tne public in away which
will help the public to help the ad
ministration by straight thinking on
the actual facts.
“The plan you have in view seems
to me an excellent one of setting
forth just how European conditions,
which have again and again under
( gone kaleidoscopic change, neces
sarily react upon our work and con
dition it on every side.
Plans Often Changed
“Since our entrance into the
war we have had to change our
plans half a dozen times upon earn
, est representation upon the other
side as to radically altered condi
tions. Unfortunately Aot all of this
can be put into the public prints
because to do so would reveal many
difficulties and disappointments on
the part of the allies which it is
not necessary or desirable that our
enemies should know but the work
of interpretation should rest, it
seems to me, upon such statements
as *lie secretary of war made. As a
( matter of fact all the data given in
that report was carefully gone over
by the house committee on military
affairs when considering the army
; appropriation, but the whole scene
needed to be described in a single
( statement, and the secretary of war
( showed his admirable insight, ability
and candor, in the way in which he
did it.”
The statement to which Mr. Wil
son refers wa? made by Newton D.
Baker, secretary of war, and reveal
ed the fact that the United States
I had proceeded further along with
its war mobilization than the public
( had been led to believe by the at
tacks of the critics. The discussion
of a war cabinet, indeed, the efforts
| of certain senators to choose a cabi
net for Mr. Wilson, seemed thereaft
er to Jose momentum and the admin
istration went forward without em
barrassment in those early months
of 1918.
The attacks from the outside,
however, did not cease. The author
, was preparing at the time an article
for the Saturday Evening Dost show
( mg how Woodrow Wilson /was man
; aging his job, but it is an interesting
fact that in the preparation of that
article Mr. Wilson was of little use
—all the information about his ac
tivities had to be obtained from mem
oers of the cabinet and others who
conferred with him.
In’ this connexion Mr. Wilson
said early in 1918’
“1 hAve been thinking a great
deal about your proposal of an ar
ticle about my executive work and
1 find that 1 han't for the life of
me think it out in any way that
would be striking and effective.
That is my trouble. The day seldom
( seems impressive when summed up
' because most of the questions which
I have decided come to me in the
: form of memoranda to which I re
ply in writing. Interviews ami con
sultations are chiefly with people
j who need not have taken my time
; and had to nothing except the grat
i ification on the part of those who
i see me that they have had their
“I am hopelessly useless for pub
licity purposes. I have long been
convinced of that. It is true that I
am constantly playing a part in the
formation of all important decisions
which are formed in every branch
of the government’s war activities,
(and its peace activities, too, for that
matter, but after the work is done
I necessarily forget its details. If
I you were to sit down with me and
pump me 1 coiilj.l not recall the par
ticulars or the conferences, or thi
| methods.
“I do not think that the articles
of attack to which yu refer do any
particular harm. I think the people
of the country are satisfied that I
an? keeping hold of as much of the
job as is humanly possible."
The foregoing quotations are typ
< ical of many others. Mr. Wilson
was not capable of selr-advertis.e
ment or self-expression though he
”Avas a master of impersonal advo
cacy of broad polices. He was no
publicity expert like Colonel Roose
velt. Woodrow Wilson never failed j
to hold national attention on major (
i questions but in tile technique of (
iteration he was a victim of self I
consciousness and modesty.
(Tomorrow's chapter tells what (
influenced Mr. Wilson to issue his
.appeal in 1918 for a Democratic (
congress.)
M. P.’s Dine Cheaply
LONDON.—“The cheapest and j
be ;t restaurant in London,” is the >
title given the dining it/oms in both (
houses of parliament. The M. P.'s j
obtain a “cut from the joint.” two j
vegetables and a dessert for 35 cents,
; or one shilling and tenpence.
'FIRST PSESMTI.IL
CONHENTIDfI STAGED
OVER CENTURY AGO
NEW YORK, April 26.—New York
ers who remember their history are
recalling that the first convention for
the nomination of a presidential can
didate was held in this city. It was
convened by the old Federalist party
in 1812 and nominated De Witt Clin
ton, then of the
state, to head the party ticket. Clin
ton received 89 electoral votes to 219
for Janies Madison.
Previous to this Federalist conven
tion, unpretentious forerunner of the
great gathering of the Democratic
party which takes place here next
month, the methods of appraising
presidential timber were compara
tively simple. Indeed, until the elec
lion of 1800 there were no nomina
tions.
In 1789 Washington was the choice
of the electors provided by the ma
chinery of the new constitution, and
“the father of his country” was
again, selected in 1792. After John
Adams had served his term, however,
party divisions began to be mani
fest, and in 1800 the first congres
sional caucuses for the selection of
the chief executive and vice presi
dent were held, with the result that
Jefferson became president after the
house of representatives had been
called upon to break the tie between
him and Aaron Burr. The congres
sional caucus method prevailed in
1804 and 1808, although there had
as jet been no platform and no con
vention.
However, the Federalist conven
tion of 1812 did not serve to commit
the parties to that system of making
nominations, and it was not until
the election of 1832 that all the presi
dential candidates were named in
this manner.
The an’.i-Masonic party, first in the
field, met at Baltimore in Septem
ber, 1830, adjourning until September
26, 1831. on which date the delegates
reassembled in the same city, ncfiiii
nating William Wirt, of Virginia,
for the presidency.
Both the Whig and Democratic
parties also held their conventions
for il.e 1832 election at Baltimore,
the former meeting on December 12,
1831, the latter on May 21, 1832,
naming respectively Henry Clay and
Andrew Jackson. y
In those days Baltimore was most
easily accessible of any city of the
country; in fact it remained the
favorite convention city until the
develop ment of the railways through
what is now the middle west.
Liquor “Blockade”
Effective in Ringgold
RINGGOLD, Ga., April 28.—Rum
runners who engage in transporta
tion of i onded goods from the Flori
da coast to northern and eastern
markets have fared badly at this
place the past week, more than
500 gallons of fine liquors and sev
eral automobiles having been seized
and their drivers arrested.
Among those captured were H. L.
Pelton, who was accompanied by his
wife and sister, his coupe taking 180
quarts of bonded contraband; E. F.
Marion, whose roadster held 147
quarts of the same liquid, and K. K.
Greenberg, whose touring car car
ried 275 quarts of “red” liquor.
Sheriff E. F. Land, who Was re
cently elected. has established a
blockade at this village that is hard
to “run,” and great quantities of
liquor valued at thousands of dol
lars have been emptied along the
roadside within a short period.
Walton’s Hopes Dim
For Review of Case
WASHINGTON. April 28—Coun
sel for former Governor John C.
Walton, of Oklahoma, in a brief filed
today in the supreme court, announc
ed they entertained “faint hbpe” of
favorable action by lhe , ourt upon
the appeal in which the former gov
ernor sought a review of his im
peachment by the Oklahoma legisla
ture.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
Folks sho is gitTin'
un-trustable ROON' heah
--US JES' nach'ly needs
A Fus-CLASS PREACHER
T' COME 'LONG HEAH EN
HOL' A
THI KfIDAY, MAY 1, 1921.
MRS. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN
FAITHFULLY AWAITS HEALIN(
AT HANDS OF REV. RICHE
Commoner’s Wife, in Invalid
Chair, Among Throng at
Hazleh u r st Meetlng M any
Cures Are Claimed
HAZLEHURST, Ga., April 28
Raymond T. Richey, of Houston,
Texas, who is conducting a ten-day
evangelistic service here to preach
the doctrine of curing through faith,
spoke to more than 3,000 people last
night, in an old tobacco storage ware
house, converted into a tabernacle.
His most distinguished listener
probably was Mrs. William J. Bry
an, who came in an invalid chair
from her Florida home to be cured
by faith, if possible. She announce*
her husband will be here tomorrow
and Wednesday and they will re
main several days. Mrs. Bryan,
who has been given treatment by
Mr. Richey during the services, says
she is improving and that she firmly
believes in cure by faith.
“If 1 am not cured,” she said, “it
will be because my faith is not
strong enough. When I believe with
sufficient strength I shall be cured,”
is the way she presents it.
The little town is all excited be
cause of the services and the crowds
that come to them from many sec
tions of the country.
Mr. Richey contends that sickness
is a. curse and can be cured through
a belief in God's ability to heal
through belief in Jesus Christ.
The improvised tabernacle is fill
ed at every performance by the
lame, the hMt, the blind and the
diseased.
Allan Dyal, a Hazlehurst man,
blind for twenty years, declared his
sight has been restored.
There are numerous instances
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where those who have received be
fits are willing to give their nan
and their experiences.
I’’. G. Brazell, Mobile, Ala., a
.Tames E. .Chard. Mount Pleasa
W. Y’a., claimed that they had be
benefited and were firm in their '
lief that each would eventually
cured. Mr. Brazell, who states tl
he has been deaf and dumb 1
years, spoke several words from t
great rostrum, claiming he coi
hear voices but could not und
stands the words, and Mr. Cha
/est his crutch on lhe stage a
walked out of the building after t
service.
In an interview he professed gr<
faith and the belief that he wot
eventually recover complete use
his limbs.
Major General Gordon
To Rest in Arlmgtq
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Maj
General Walter H. Gordon, who di
here suddenly Saturday, will
buried tomorrow at Arlington ?
tional cemetery. Arrangements f
the funeral which were comply
today call for the usual milfta
honors paid to an officer of the ra
held by General Gordon.
Jurors Locked 87 Hours
Before Convicting Murder
PHILADELPHIA. April 2X.— A
er deliberating 87 hours and 13 m
utes, a jury trying Joseph McMan
for the murder of John C. Emgab
paymaster, today brought In av(
diet of first degree murder with
recommendation of mercy. T
deadlock is said to be a record o
in the local courts.
■ PORTO RICO potato plants for sale. Bat
Nichols, Austell, Ga.
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