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SIRIVE TO AVERT WAR
Congress Blocks Move to Give Power to Wilson
Youngest Enthusiast at
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How English View
Am%rica,n Crisis
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 28.—The Westmin
ster Gazette yesterday reflected the
best British opinion by speaking of
President Wilson's address to Con
gress Monday as another step for
ward.
“President 'Wilson based himself
not merely on the rights of the
United States, but upon the great
principles of compassion and protec
tion which mankind had sought to
throw about human lives. That the
American people will respond to the
appeal implied In these words is the
confident expression here,” it says.
The Daily Chronicle this morning
Bays:
“If the Laconla case is not the overt
mct, it is a little difflcult to conceive
what will be.
“The vessel not only carried Amer
fcan passengers, but two of them—
Mrs. and Miss Hoy-—perished. The
fate of these innocent and helpless
women left adrift in an open boat,
dying of exposure in the bitter night
and buried at sea before the British
rescuers came up, has been the fate of
English as well as of Norwegian and
other neutral noncombatants on pre
wious occasions, past counting. That
does not make it any the less savage
fnhumanity, shocking to every civ
flized mind, nor will it, we concelve,
blunt the appeal which these mur
dered Americans make from their
ocean grave to the millions of thelr
watching fellow countrymen.”
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Raider Mystery Ship,
Bays Jap Commander
{By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb., 28.—The Japa
nese steamer Hudson Maru, which
was captured on January 5 by the
mysterious German sea raider in
th American waters, arrived here
from Pernambuce with first-
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The great auto show at the Auditorium is drawing them all—¥
young and old. Here we have little Miss Elizabeth Pittard, dangh-,'
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Pittard, of No. 652 Highland avenue, who |
was at the show Tuesday afternoon looking them over. She re-|
luctantly posed at the wheel of one of the fine new models which'
the photographer found her inspecting eritically. [
hand accounts of those stirring times,
The identity of the raider will not
be cleared up until after the war, if
then, according to Captain T. Fakes
Hima. The commander characterized
the reports that the raider was the
Vinet as wild.
“Not one of the 237 prisoners was
able to learn her {dentity,” he de
clared. “They were kept apart in
small groups and not allowed to com
mundcate with each other. This much
I know: The steamer was a large
cargo vessel of 5,000 tons, and she was
equipped with two guns and two tor
pedo tubes. She had two masts, one
funnel, and could make eighteen
knots.”
The Hudson Maru was held by the
ralder for a week after her capture,
during which time Captain Huna saw
four vessels sunk. There were six
other captains of merchant vessels
prisoners aboard the raider.
‘Captain Jack,' P
aptain Jack,’ Poet
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Scout, Dies at 70
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—John Wal
lace Crawford, “Captain Jack, the poet
gcout,” is dead at his home here to
day. He was chief of scouts under
General Custer, succeeding Buffalo
Bill, and was well known for poems
of prohibition and preparedness, He
was 70 vears old and died from pneu
monia.
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AUSTRIA REPLIES TODAY
That blaze of glory investing the
Southeastern Automobile Show at the
Auditorium has become nothing less
than a conflagration.
Entering upon its fourth day Wed
nesday, the show had justified its ad
vance notices and the enthusiastic
ravings of Its friends in announcing
that it was to be the most superla
tive of shows.
There was something of the glamour
of Tuesday night still hovering about
the glistening showroom Wednesday.
Echoes of the tumult and the shout
ing that arose when the million-dollar
band from Yaarab Temple took
charge of the festal gathering were
still in the afr, |
Wednesday night's events will be
no less salubrious, it is promised. At
lanta Rotarians will be in the sad
dle or at the wheel, as the case may
be, and wlill perform their well-known
funetion of whooping things up. The
particular nature of thelr stunts is
still shrouded in impenetrable mys
tery, but the enshrouding veil will be
lifted at 8 p. m, or thereabouts. |
And, whatever the program is,
there is always the crowning pleas
ure of viewing the million-dollar dis
play of automobiles, which, after all,
is the big answer to the whole show,
After three days of exhibition, the
cars had evolved an intoxicating qual
-Ity to the atmosphere, so that their
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1917
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(By International News Service.) |
CHICAGO, Feb 28.—Husbands
who amble home at 4 a. m. and pota
!tnos which are priced at $4 a bushel
all can be attributed to one cause:
A woman and a telephone.
This was the explanation given for
wrecked homes @and soaring food
prices by Mrs. John C. Bley, presi-
Milady, Jr.,
right at home
at the wheel
of her ‘‘Bix.”’
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dent of the Housewives' League, in a
‘speech at the meeting of the grocers’
cfficiency bureau in the Masonic Tem
ple.
~ Mrs. Bley said that the woman who
orders groceries seven or eight times
during the day, and then has to make
a last call at the store just before
dinner, is not in the proper frame of
mind to greet “hubby” when he comes
home,
“She is harried, a nervous wreck,
land when her husband comes home
she gives vent to her feelings on him,”
ghe said. "“He bears it patiently, but
finally he takes his hat and goes to
the club. Pretty soon there is another
home broken up, all becausg of the
woman and her telephone,
“There is a vacant space In the
heads of many women, and they can
not think of more than one thing at a
time. The first time they call their
grocer they order a few things, and
by the time the dellvery boy has gone
they think of soyne more. That adds
much to the overhead charges of the
grocer, and he must charge higher
prices for his wares to recompense
himself.”
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perfections create an exceedingly
dangerous lure to every visitor. s
pecially is this so in view of the fact
that prices are temptingly low for the
little cars, and that the big ears are
temptingly beautiful and convenient.
’ A number of the cars on exhibit
have been sold to visitors who came,
saw and were enraptured. There's a
gort of spell about the affair that
makes such things possible,
+ Wedemeyer's Band will give {is reg
ular concert Weaednesday afternoon
and night.
By DUDLEY GLASS,
Staff Correspondent of The Georgian.
‘ ROME, GA. Feb. 28.—The armor
plate board of the Navy Department
‘mday was being shown the four tracts
of land which Rome offers free to the
‘Government for a site for the pro
posed armor plate plant which will
cost more than $11,000,000.
Four automobiles bearing parties
of Rome citizens left early today ea
corting Admiral Frank F. Fletcher,
Commander Frank H. Clark and Lieu
tenant Commander R, E. Backhus to
the sites.
f The first visit was to North Rome,
where the big Mitchell Douglass tract
'was shown.
The party then went to East Rome,
then to Shorter College for a view of
the third site and then to the South
Side.
Admiral Fletcher sald he expected
to have the board’'s report completed
by April 1.
A decision on the location should
soon follow.
Visitors were entertained last night
at an informal dinner by Chamber
of Commerce officers.
The visitors will be given a lunch
eon by Rome Rotarians this after
noon, After luncheon the formal
hearing of Rome's claims to the ar
mor plant will be held in the Audi
torium.
The members of the board will
leave tonight for Atlanta, where they
will remain until Thursday at noon,
before leaving for Washington.
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Will Asks 3 Faiths
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- To Guard Big Estate
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA., Feb, 28—
The will of Ranloiph McMullen, a
wealthy farmer of Tyrone township, di
rects that his estate be divided under
the supervision of three trustees to be
appointed by the court, consisting of a
Protestant clergyman, a Catholic priest
and a Jewish rabbi. The reason ex
pressed in the will for this request is
that each trustee will watch the other
and that every cent given to charity
will be rightly applied.
The estate, estimated to be worth
SIOO,OOO, will be divided among the
poor of Blair, Huntingdon and Cam
bria countles. ‘
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'Food Prices |
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E(Dy International News Service.)
{ EW YORK, Feb. 28.—Food |
§ N prices today dropped as diz
{ zily on the East Side as they
5 had skyrocketed last week. 3
{ Chicken was quoted at 20 cents ‘
! a pound, agalnst 30 last week. 2
( Onions were down to 9 cents, {
é against 18 last week. Potatoes ||
! were offered at 7 cents, against 12 ‘
éund 14 last week, and were re- {
{ fused Other foods were similarly
! reduced, but there was little trad-
E ing. Women surrounded pushcarts
{ and stores and drove trade away.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—" A SI,OOO home
for every man as soon as he becomes
married,” was one of the features of a
scheme advocated by Thomas Jefferson
Sanford, the economist, in an address
before the International Hobo College.
Many of the student hoboes didn't like
the idea of a $2,000 home. Homes
weren't in their line, they sald.
“Give us a SI,OOO box car,’” sald one
gaunt-looking son of rest, “and we'll
be happy for the rest of our lives. The
speaker has advocated & four-hour
working day. That's fine and dandy
for the slaves, but not for mine. I'm
not interested In work for even five
minutes.” (Loud applause from his
brethren.) ‘
Sewer Contract Let
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At Increased Price
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The Council Sewer Committee
Wednesday afternoon recommended
the acceptance of the bid of the Meek
Construction Company for sewer ma
terial for the year. The total cost
of the material figured $18267.50, a
considerable Increase over the unit
cost of last year.
Bids for sewer pipe also were re
ceived, but they will not be acted
upon until Monday afternoon, |
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. |
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J—
lL.ocal high school girls giggled
and lost a basketball game to the
North Plainfleld boysfi Now
they're sore. “They tickled us {
and won,” they sald.
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(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 28.—Austria’s reply to the United States set
ting forth the attitude of the dual monarchy on ruthless subma
rine warfare, as conducted by Germany, will be handed to Ambas
sador Penfield in Vienna today, according to dispatches received
here. While the dispatches made no hint of the tenor of the reply,
it is believed here that Austria will stand with Germany.
‘[ T By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
(Btaff Oorrespondent of the International News Service.)
l WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The United States is standing today
on the very threshold of war. Its participation in the holocaust
!which has involved all Europe may be forced in the immediate fu.-
ture.
1 Every effort is being made to avoid active participation in hos-
Ttilities, even though President Wilson and his closest advisers have
characterized the sinking of the Laconia, in the night and without
‘'warning, causing the loss of the lives of two American women, as
an ‘‘overt act.”” But it is freely admitted that the speech of
German Imperial Ohancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg contained
an illy concealed threat against the United States and the ‘‘excuse’’
given for the faiiure to release the Yarrowdale prisoners is
characterized in official quarters as ‘‘more of an insult than had
they simply been detained.’’
The domestic situation,in so far as it relates to theinternational
developments, continues very much complicated. Senator La-
Follette, of Wisconsin, as leader of the pacifist element in the Sen
ate which is demanding an extra session, has blocked consideration,
probably until tomorrow, of the Senate bill conferring authority
upon the President to institute ‘‘armed neutrality’’ and to ‘‘take
such means as may be necesary’’ to protect American rights. The
House was still groping around with no progress made to clear up
‘the questions in dispute.
| Meanwhile pacifist leaders from all over the country, with Col
‘onel W. J. Bryan as their leader, have hurried here to stimulate
Congress to resist the President. They do not want the Chief Ex.
‘ecutive allowed to arm ships or to take any step to increase the ten
slon existing between the United States and Germany without it
first is debated on the floor of Congress, and most of them also ask
that all moves be submitted to a referendum of the people.
‘While the domestic confusion
hourly is being increased a crisis
with Austria is imminent. All
plans to break with Germany’s
strongest ally because she has in
dorsed unrestricted submarine
warfare have been completed.
A-abassador Penfield, at Vienna,
has been in touch with all of his
assistants and with all American
consular officials in his territory.
They have their instructions to
turn their work over to represen
tatives of Spain on receipt of
agreed-upon orders and to pro
ceed to Vienna to join the Amer
ican Ambassador and leave with
him. 1
When these orders shall be lssued
is up to the President and Secretary
of State Lansing. Their decision
wafts upon Austria's reply to the
“aide memoire” placed in the hands
of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ot-‘
fice by Ambassador Penfleld several
days ego. Berlin advices have indi
cated that the reply will be—it is ac
cepted here that it must be-—an in
dorsement of the German methods, |
When that answer reaches here all
that can be done ig for the adminis-
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tration to recall Mpyp. Penfleld, high
officials say, and to arrange for the
departure from the United States of
Ambassador Designate Tarnowsk! and
his entire suiie. Count Tarnowsk!
has been walting here ever since the
day relations with Germany were
broken off to present his credentials
to the President. It la admitted at the
embassy that he has given up hope
that he will have opportunity to do so.
‘But. in view of the usage of diplo
‘'macy, there | nothing he can do but
stand by and walit,
No word has come from the White
}Houu as to what the President in
tends to do next In dealing with the
international crisis. He is walting
on Congress. Until he is convinced
that his outlined course is not to be
supported It 1s not belleved that he
will take any further action. But
while he 18 waiting arrangements are
all completed for the arming of all
American merchant vessgels, The guns
have been gelected, and arrangementa
are In progress to get the gunmners.
The President has determined, his
Cabinet officers say, that the Germean
commercial blockade against AméPi
can ships will be broken not later than
next week, whether Congross acts or
not, .
Incidentally, administration leasers
are analyzing the opposition in bhoth
Houses o the legislation for whieh