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Copyright, 1919, y
History’s Contrasts,
Kaiser and Liebknecht,
‘““Red Rosa’’ and Cavell,
No Throne, a Garage.
~~~~ By Arthur Brisbane -~
Writers. of history will find
strange eontrasts in this war,
Edith Cavell, the English nurse,
is shot as a spy in Belgium.
Rosa Luxemburg, “Red Rosa,”
.who lived with Lenin in Switzer-
Jand and taught him the Bolshe
vism with which he rules Russia,
is shot in Berlin by milder Social
ists that want a republic with or
der, not her prescription for cur‘ng
all ills.
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The Kaiser, who dreamed of rul
ing the wofrld, is a fugitive in Hol
land. The Allies and his own coun
try seek to extradite him, and hang,
guillotine or shoot him.
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Liebknecht opposed the Kaiser's
plan, he was one of the handful
‘that spoke out against him “and
was put in prison. He opposed the
war that has rnined Germany.
Now he is shot to death in Ber
lin with his companion, “Red Rosa.”
Part of the Kaiser's dreal'n was
to providé six “newly carpeted”
thrones in Europe for his six sons,
as Napoleon supplied thrones for
his relatives and proteges.
The oklest Hohenzollern son
lives in a fisherman's hut on a
lonely island. g No throne there.
Another son has found a job with
an automobile concern. He may
find there the peace of mind and
safety that he wouldn't have found
on the throne.
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The Hohenzollerns that for 700
years had been building up power,
in good times and bad, began as
‘usurious money lenders in' a poor,
barren country. They ruled Ger
many, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria
‘and Greece, and intimidated neu
trals but a few months ago. Now
Ebe-t, the harnessmaker, rules in
Berlin, and Morges, a tailor, is the
head of the Bfunswick Govern
ment, fighting the national Gov
ernment of the Berlin harness
maker.
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There are some contrasts for
you. o ;
When the war began the United
States eonfined itself to_its own
continent. The President mnever
left hls country. The newS§papers
printed regularly George Washing
ton’s advice about “foreign entan
glements.” &
Today the President is sitting
with the Prime Ministers of Ing
land, France and Italy and the Am
bassadors from Japan and other
countries im Paris, running this
country by wireless, and helping to
settle the affairs of all the gevern
ments of the world.
These are a few ' contrasts that
will strike the future writers of
history. ‘They will have to think
hard and steadily to present \the
entire picture complete, with its
changes, meanings and its causes.
That will not be done in this cen
tury, e A
When the war began Poland was |
a nation chopped to pieces, divided |
up by the bandit countries, al'
wolves divide and tear up a deer.
The end of the war sees Polend
going back to her old nationality,
with the approval of other nations.
And whom do you find at the head
of Poland in this movement of a
nation’s rebirth?
Is it a descendant of the Poni- '
atowski. who, with bullets in his
body, blood streaming, jumped his
horse-into the river to swim across
and attack the enemy of Poland,
erying, “One must dig like a
Brave?”
Is it a descendant of Kosciusko,
who helped this country in its fight
and for Poland started with 5,000
men to fight the whole of Russia?
No, none of the old Polish names.
The new head of Poland is Pad
erewski, the musician. The Poles
choose as their leader one repre
senting_the intellectual genius, not
the fighting quality, of Poland. *
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instead of a fierce fighter, you
have the gentle musician as head
man in Poland. He has already
been shot once, and shot at flve
times, :
Great as she has been in fight
ing, Poland has been even greater
in the production of genius. The |
name of Copernicus will stand out.
‘in real history thousands of cen- |
turies from now, when every name
that you read in today's paper-—
Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George,
Wilson—will be as completely for- |
gotten as the names of the gen
erals that fought under Caesar, or
the chiefs of the tribes that strug
gled here. .
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Mrs. Eugene M. Mitchell
Died Saturday Night
Mrs. Bugene M. Mitchell, of No. 1149
Peachtree street, died Saturday night
‘{, 10:30 o'clock at a private hospital,
s#he was the wife of Kugene M. Mitch
ell, well-known Atlanta attorney, and
former chairman of the City Board of
Education,
Besides her husband, she is survived
b{ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John K.
gcahenl; three sisters, Mrs, Margaret
, Gress, of Jacksonville; Mre, Kdward
. Morris, of Grinage, Conn.,, and Mrs,
vid P. Crocket, of Atlanta; twe
thers, John Stephens; of Jackson
le, and Lieutenant Alexander H. Bte.
mm, with the engineer corps in
nee; two children, Lieutenant Ste
men; ")lucheu and Miss Margaret
tehell.
puliiasil, st S ghard, ot 5 .
reon pending funeral ar
rangements, which will L announced
later. |
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VOL. V. NO. 42
ONE PACKING FIRM, ARMOUR PLAN
PRESIDENT MAKES NEW PLEA FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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American Executive Makes His
Most Significant Utterance
at Versailles.
U.~S. CAME ON A CRUSADE
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World’s Fortupes Now With the
Plain People, One Striking
Statement. 1
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|BN ANANAEA NS iAy
. President Wilson's speech in full
‘i will be found on page 4. 5
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Jan. 25.—1 n the most re
markable speech he has made since
i he came to Europe, President Wilson
Mhis afternoon, speaking in the name
Ens humanity, asked the peace con
ifr-renw‘ to #rame a league ‘of nations
| that would purge the world of armed
| strife "
President Wilson asked for the cre
lation of a society of powers that will
be the eye of the nations to keep
’
\énch on their common interests.
| The peace delegates, President
é\\'nsnn declared, are bidden by the
| people to see that this strain (of hor
;rr-r tum warfare) does not come upon
them again.
I America did not enter the war to
interfere in European, politics, biit for
a great cause, said the President, and
:I!\'- keynote of this cause is a league
{"—' naticns.
Plain People. Rule.
“The fortunes of mankind are now
in the hands of the plain people,” was
one striking utterance.
The Americans came as crusaders
not merely to win a war, but to win a
cause, declared the President. .
A resolution providing for the ap
pointment of a committee to work
out the details of a league of na
tions ,“to promote international ebli
gations and to provide safeguards
against war” was presented today
;at. the second plenary session of the
peace conference,
‘ The restlution sets forth that a
league of nations “is essential to th=
‘maintenance of the world settlement
'which the associated nations are now
met to establish,” and provides that
the “league should be created as an
sntegral partsof the general treaty of
peace and should be opened to every
civiliZed nation which can be relied
upon to promote its objects.”
Reparation To Be Settled.
At the same time resolutions also
were presented for the appointment
of committees to inquire and report
on the following important questions:
Breaches of the laws of war, re
paration, the conditions of employ
ment from the international aspect
and the intornational means neces
sary to secure common action on
matters affecting conditions of em
ployment and to recommend the form
of a permanent agency to continue
such inquiry under the league of na
tions.”
The resolution concerning the In
vestigation of the breaches of the
laws of war” provides that the com
mission shall report on five phases of
that question. They are:
Responsibility for War.
1. Responsibility of the authors of
the war.
2/ Facts as to"the breaches of the
laws and customs of war committed
by the forces of the German Empire
and their allies on iand and sea and
in the air du¥ing the present war,
3. Degree of responsibility for these
offenses attaching to particular mem.
bers of the enemy forces, including
members of the general staff and oth
er individuals, however highly plhced,
Will Try Offenses.
4. The constitution and procedure
of a tribunal appropriate to the trial
of these offenses,
5. Any other matters cognate or
ancillary to the above which may
arise,
~ On the question of reparation the
resolution provides that the commis
sion shall report the two subjects of
the amount of reparation which the
enemy countries ought to pay and on
iwhfl they are capable of paying and
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‘Nitro Explodes?
{ (By International News Service.) ¢
S ULSA, OKLA,, Jan. 25.—Eight {
5T persons are reported dead>
§ and a score seriously in-z
gjured in an explosion of twoa
§ quarts of nitroglycerine which was
ghoing hauled through Big Heart,
Okla., in an automabile. Practi
cally every window in the town,
which is 36 miles north of here, $
was broken by the force of the
explosion. §
WFE,
NEWARK. N. J, Jan. 25—Mrs.
Marion Riplgy and Sergeant Maitland
Petrie, of the United States Marine
[(‘()rps, are still in a serious condition
{in a local hospital, following today's
llr:lgmiy, in which the two were shot
!hy the woman’s husband, Bertram
il{iplu\, a wealthy member of one of
%lhv oldest locai families, who then
| killed hims®f. The shfoting occurred
lin the library of the Ripley residence.
| Sergeant Ripley, the 22-year-old
{son of Dr Charles, Ripley, a brother
?nf‘Rt rtram Ripley, was at home on
;Il furlough frem Parls Island, S. C.,
S:mll arrive® Wednesday for a visit to
:rhu Ripleys. ’A:Q- marine and Mrs.
él:ip!fl\' wére in the library when Mr.
:Riph-y entered, and began shooting.
| Mrs. Ripley received a wound in the
| left side, Petrie was shot in the ab
| domen, while a bullet hole in Ripley’s
| temple ended his liPe before servants
{ could reach. the scene. Mrs. Ripley
; and Petrie may recovert
, Mrs. Marion Doremus, mother of
| Mrs. Ripley, said that Rifley had be-
Ewumu mentally unbalanced “by .his
{ struggle whether or not he should en
{ list.” She added that the sight of the
{ marine in uniform probably aggra
| vated his suffering
| “Oh, why didn't he shoot me in the
bead,” moaned Sergeant Petrie in his
ihml at the hospital. Thesc are the
{ only words he has spoken,
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Seldiers Can Stay in
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Army Awaiting Jabs
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Any sol
dier who can not find a job when he is
dischdrged may remain in the army
upon his own written request until
such time as he can secure employ
ment, it was announced today by the
War I.)e?artment.
Secretary of War Baker made it
clear, however, thaty this does not
mean that an indefinite number of
soldiers who can not get a job im
mediately will be permitted to remain
in the army an indefinite length of
time. There is, Mr, Baker said, such
a large amount of work to be done
at demobilization eamps and at busi
ness depots that the chances are thag
the order issued today will take care
of all who wish to avail themselves
of it,
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Kaiser May Be Exiled
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To Dutch Indies, Report
_st International News Service.)
HE HAGUE. Jan 25.--The ex-
Kaiser of Germany mav be exiled to the
Dutch Indies, it was reported today.
Advices from Berlin stated that it was
expected that the German and Dutch
Government would find an early solu
tion of the problem ,presented by the
vresence of the former German Em
peror in H®lland,
N NI AN AIAAS SIS G SIS
; Go Investigating %
! Today Through the
”
| “Automobile” Celumns,
§ A fine !ot of good cars are
d bolru‘] put on the market
§ which are gure to hold the
) attention of an(body who
0 has even considered the
{ ownershl;})‘ of a car. Most
) of them have been more or
{ less used, but you would
§ never know it to look at
! them, and their service will
$ measure up well with a new
é car,
? Turn to the “Automobiles”
{ columns over in The Ameri
-5 can today and read the in
teresying offers there. Then
y go farther, Call up the per
¢ son or firm offering the cars
$ which appeal to you _and
¢ make an engagement, (o see
§ the cars in action.
: Your desire so own a good
‘3 car can be fulfilled rlfiht now
‘ at termg which ‘I be a
;é pleasant surprise %o you.
| Read the “Awtomobiles” col
} umns today.
® §
;’ The Georgian and American
Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
! ‘Read foe Peofit-Use for Rasults
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
Special Meetings of School Board
. .
and City Council Called as Re
* sult of Conference.
WOMEN CAN KEEP SECRET
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Little Information Leaks Out of
All-Day Meeting to Discuss
r Salary Question. '
What was accomplished at the
four-hour conference between the di
rectors of the Atlanta Teachers’' As
sociation and the members of the
School Board’'s finance committee on
Saturday afternoon?
What came out of the day-long ses
sion of the association’s executive
committee, which, began at 9 in the
merning and continued until 7 o’clock
in the evening?
No answer could be found last night
to these questions. Certain develop
ments are known—as thé fact that
the meeting of the entire Teachers
Association, scheduled for Monday
afternoon, and then postponed indefi
nitely, has been called again;
that a _special meeting of the
St hool Co¥mission and subsequently
a speejal meeting of City Council will
il-p r:uéod. but the proceedings at the
several meetings of scheol officials
}:md teachers yesterday which result
"mi in the changes are veiled behind
the persistent silence of School Gem
' missioners and teachers alike.
‘ There is any amount of gpeculation
on the matter, and it generally is be
)ll'-vod that the plan of the tecachers
\\\‘xll follow closely the substitute
'budget submitted at a rece nt meet
‘in;: of the board, providing for the
elimination of the summer schools,
and a general paring of school de
partmental appropridtions to provide
a salary increase fund. This belief
is.given color by the fact that mem
bers of the School Commission, fol
lowing the copference, stated that the
plan of the teachers did not contem -
piate calling upon Council for more
funds, and intf.nated thai_the plan
would involve little more than a re
adjustment of the schoo! budget.
New Budget Not Liked.
| The substitute budg:t designed to
increase the teachers' sularies through
retrenchment in other departments of
the school system found little favor
With the commission when it origi
‘nally was introduced by W. H, Ter
;rell. and city officials close to the
~school situation expressed the belief
last night that if the teachers wero
basing their hopes on this plan they
were foredoomed to disappointment.
These officials said that such sweep
ing retrenchmert would seriously
cripple many, school departments and
they expressed the belief that the
Commissioners wouldd = no#® reverse
their original stand in the matter.
However, such a readjustment of
the budget properly could be handled
in its entirety by the School Com-
Imuslon, and does not suggest any
reason why a special meeting of
Couneil should be called. Only two
reasons could be advanced for a sffs
cial Council meeting. These were
that the city legislative body might
be asked to retufn to the schools
somo/’lo.ooo pruned fromr its appro
priat ; last summer, and that the
city might be asked to assumne re
sponsibility for the completion of the
new sehools, therebv releasing an ad
ditional $40,000 to be applied to the
teachers' salaries. >
The teachers and the Commission
ers refused to discuss these specula
tions one way or the other,
Yesterday's meetings vere execu
tive in character, and lit » of any
thing leaked out coneern..g them
C. B, Fhulips, president of the Teach«
ers’ Assoclation, admitted that the
icontefinco between the teachers and
the School Commissloners yesterday
afternoon centered about the asso
clation's plan for the creation of a
fund to make the salary increases
possible, but the nature of this plan
was guarded as zealously after the
conference as before,
School Officials Excluded,
The conference at the beginning
was not ‘held to be an exclusive ses
sion, Later Mr. Phillips said it had
Leen decided to exclude the press.
Btill later, he sald, the press would
be admitted, but again announced
that a strict star schamber session
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Bolsheviks Prepare to Flee Pet
rograd and Plan to Execute
Prisoners.
REDS TO ATTEMPT TRUCE
Rioting Renewed in Berlin With
Many Casualties Reported in
. Street Fighting.
BULLETIN.
GENEVA, Jan. 25.—Leon Trotzky,
Bolshevik War Minister in Russia,
was shot and Kkilled by soldiers at
Libau, according to an unconfirmed
report received by the Polish press
bureau at Berne today.
(By International News Service.)
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25.—The Bol
sheviks in Petrograd are making hur
ried preparations to evacuate the city
and plan to execute most of the pris
oners that have fallen into their
hands, according to information from
Helsingfors today.
REDS TO ACCEPT TRUCE.
(By Universal Press.}
PARIS, Jan. 25.—The Bolshevist
Government, according+to some quar
ters usually in close touch with Mos
cow, is ready to accept the proposal
of the Allied and associated Govern
ments for a truce in Russia and for
an international conference on Princes
Island.
The Bolshevik government at Mos
cow has sent out a wireless message
inviting the communist groups of all
countries to an international prole
tariat congress.
REDS TAKE ORENBURG.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The cap
ture of Orenburg on January 22 by
the Bolsheviki was reported to the
State Department this afternoon in
a dispatch from Omsk. Orenburg had
been held for a year by the Orenburg
Cossacks, loyal to the Allies.
Terrorism Resumed
In City of Berlin
| (By Universal Service.) '
‘ AMSTERDAM, Jan, 25.—Terrorism
‘has been resumed in Berlin. Today's
dispatches do not make clear what
the present situation is, but there
\was heavy ‘fighting 7Thursday night.
The Spartacidc® appear to have ral
lied after th ¢ porary check, re
sulting frora . " »3 of Liebknecht
and Rosa Ly emuyorg, their chief
l%aderl, Many nasualties are report
ed.
~ The Government has ordered the
arrest of Herr Ledebour, who was one
of Llebkfiecht’u chief lieutenants,
ATTEMPT TO RESTORE ORDER.
By H. F. GREENWALL,
Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.
BERLIN, Jan. 24, via London, Jan.
25.—Following the election, Germany
is making a desperate attempt to put
her house in order to combat unem
ployment and to force the strikers
and other idlers in the cities to re
turn to the provinces, This was indi
cated to me today by Philip Scheide
mann, & Minister in the Ebert gov
ernment,
“l quite understand that abroad
they look at' Germany with certain
uneasiness and fear it will be ditficult
for us to pull ourselves out of the aw
ful situation which the end of the
war brought to us” said Herr
Scheldemann. “But you may be sure
the German people have already mas.
teredthe worst of the crisis and
eventually the great secret of how to
make good after the present defeat
will be found here. Work and still
lmon\ work must be our present reply
to the misfortune that has befallen
us. It must not be forgsaiten that
‘the German people have always been
one of the most work-loving people of
all.”
‘ The Government is facing difficul
ties, however, one of them a noisy
‘mimority, including officials of the old |
regime. |
~ The minority and their supporters
\from the old regime are charged with
deliberately trying to ugrt the Kbert-
Scheldemann government,
MONTSANTO IS STORMED.
4 (Ig Universal Service.)
LISBON, Jan. 5. -~ Montsanto,
which was held by monarchist revo
lutionary troops, has been stormed by
Government forces, it was officially
announced here today.
Part of the lLisbon garrison went
over to the monarchists at Montsanto.
When the successful attack was
made there by Government troops,
the revolutionists abandoned numer
ous guns. Many were Kkilled and
wounded in the fighting,
Many hikh officers have deserted
the loyalists, it was reported.
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Shaw Reveals Secret
Alliance That Bound
England and Russia
Menace of the Triplice Drove Her to Accept
Czardom Under Pressure of France.
By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
Copyright, 1919, by Star Company.
LONDON, Jan. 25.—At the end of the preceding
article, published in The Sunday American last Sun
day, having traced the direct course of the policy by
which the British Empire broke the power of Germany,
I promised to explain the entanglements which made it
impossible at any moment before the end of the war to
lay that policy bare to the British public, the British
Parliament or the British historian.
To begin with, the jingo Imperialists and the genu
inely liberal Imperialists were at eross purposes. Lord
Haldane, a Scot, and by far the ablest member of the
imperialist ' trio—Asquith, Grey and Haldane-—who
conducted the policy and as Seeretary of State for War,
the acting partner of the combination, foresaw the war
as a horrible possibility to be avoided at all costs short
of subjugation. He did what a man, a liberal and a
philosopher could to maintain friendly relations with
the Germans, a course which, when the war broke out,
earned him bitter vituperation and even threats of im
peachment as the friend of Germany. e
HOPED KAISER WOULD KEEP QUIET.
His two English colleagues who had drifted into the
combination under French pressure, accepted this as
the correct attitude, and, being peaceable, good-natured
persons, hoped the Kaiser would keep quiet.
The jingoes, on the other hand, were eager for a
fight with Germany. Many of them advocated a sur
prise attack on the German fleet about a year before
the war.
On the initiative of a German Count friendly ad
dresses were exchanged between the leading men of
both countries, full of platitudes about Shakespeare
and Goethe. A sentence was inserted in the first draft
of the British address to the effect that the possession
by (Germany of a powerful fleet from bheifig a subject of
jealousy could only be regarded as an additional guar
antee of civilizatibn. .
It was found impossible to obtain the necessary
British signatures until that sentence was expunged.
Evidently those who refused and those who consented
were in very different attitudes.
Men who were making a necessary provision for de
fense in the event of an attack by Germany were inex
tricably confused in the same party with men who could
hardly be induced to wait for a decent pretext before
springing the mine so carefully dug.
CALLED SURRENDER ‘“‘PEACE OFFENSIVE."
To the latfer the avoidanece of the war would have
been the worst misfortune that could have happened to
England. Even whem Germany capitulated, they were
still under such a terror of peace that they called her
surrender ‘‘a peace offensive.””
There is a good deal to be said for their view from
the militarist and British leonine point of view. I am
not here criticising it adversely. I am only demonstra
ting the division of opinion and feeling that existed in
the Imperialist camp.
Now, if this had been the only division in the party
and in the country, it would not have mattered, as both
sides were agreed on the practical part of the poliey.
Both were equally determined to place the British
Empire in a position te reduce the German Empire to
the degree of a second rate power If she moved toward a
hegemony and to keep ahead of her in naval shipbuild
ing, but there were other seetions whose secession would
have wrecked the Liberal Government and who were
fundamentally opposed to the poliey.
First, there were the commercial non-intervention
ists, (‘nlul(-njtus. Gladstonians and George Washington
ians, who objected to meddling in Continental quarrels,
and knew that huge profits eould be made out of a war
by neutrals supplying the combatants with war mate
rials.
PREVAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.
On their position I need not expatiate, as it pre
i\':uil«:d in the United States during the first years of the
war.
i With thetn on the practical point were the Quakers,
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Packer Chief Urges Concentra
tion Under U. S. Control in
Testimony Before Senate,
Heney Shows Concern Made
$25,000,000, Including $lO,-
000,000 in South America.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.~Many
millions of dollary could be saved
and countless duplications of effort
and service could be eliminated by
concentration of the packing indus
try into the hands of one or a few
packing companies, with govern
mental regulation, J. Ogden Armour
asserted today, in answer to questions
by Francis J. Heney, before the Sen
ate agricultural committee, as to
whether the “big five” packers were
in combination.
“If such a combination had been in
existence,” Armour said, “we could
have saved millions. I will go further
than that and say that under an ideal
condition many millions of dollars
‘could be saved; countless dußlications
of efforts and service could be elimi
nated by concentrating the industry
into the hands of a few, or one, with
governmental regulation. The live
stock interests should be represented
in this concentration. We are very
much in the same position as the
railroads.”
Concentration Shown.
Ramifications of the interests of
Armour & Co. in the pckln‘ and
allied indstries and in finance were
brought to light under Heney’s cross
examination, gll of which tended to
show the gradual concentration of the
industry into the hands of a few
packers since 1902, the time. of the fa
mous “Veeder pool.” !
The fact that the Armour South
American companies made possibly
$10,000,000, no record of 'hr\:n‘.
entered in the financial state tof
the Chifgo company, and that ana
additional 4 per cent profit was al
lowed the packers by the food admin
istration to apply as Interest on any
money the packers borrowed to han
dle the enormous business demanded
of them during the war, also was
brought out by Heney, He was un
able, however, to show by cross-ex
amination, any concrete incident of a
combination or collusion on the part
of the packers or any case of a vio
lation of law.
Armour, ornder cross-examination,
said that to'all practical purposes the
packers today are working under a
condition that might be called one of
competition, “but not aggressive
competition,” in so far as they did mot
invade each othe¥s territory nor try
to underbid one another to get busi
ness,
Denies “Map™ Exists.
He again denied, however, that he
had any knowledge of a “map” made
up by the five packers in 1902 by
Henry Veeder, and under which
Heney alleges they have been work
ing since 1902,
Heney brought out that Armour,
besides being interested in the con
tinental and Commercial Bank, Cen
tral Trust, First National and Union
Stockyards Bank of Chicago, was also
a director in the Natioral City Bank
of New York. Thig bank, Armour ad
mitted, owned the Chase National
Bank, which in turn, Heney said, con
trolled Wilson & Co, One of the for«
mer Armour employees, Samuel Me-
Roberts, is vice president of the Na
tional City Bank, Armour said.
Armour also testified that he was
a stockholder in many railroads, in
cluding the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul, G o
After being asked the diréct ques
tion by Heney, Armour stated that
the food administration had allowed
the packers an additional 4 per cent
on the profits they should make, for
the purpose of borrowing money i
order to handle the volume of buste
ness demanded during the war .
Hoover Is Um
This, he admitted, a nted bo a
13 per cent profit, instead of a ‘ V
cent profit, as announced by M&
administration. He “did net thimk
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