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'} Kaiser and Liebknecht. ;
| ‘‘Red Rosa’’ and Cavell.
. No Throne, a Garage.
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»~~~ By Arthur Brishane ~~~
Writers of history will find
strange contrasts in this war.
‘Edith Cavell, the English nurse,
i 8 shot as a spy in Belgium.
. “Rosa Luxemburg, “Red Rosa,”
who lived with Lenin in Switzer
land and taught him the Bolshe
vism with which he rules Rusgia,
is shot im Berlin by milder Social
ists that want a republic with or
der, not her prescription for curing
ail ills.
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The Kaiser, who dmmed%t rul
ing the world, is a fugitive in Hol-
Jand. 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
sthat spoke out against him and
was put in prison. He opposed the
war that has ruined Germany.
Now he is shot to death in Ber
" lin with hig companion, “Red Rosa.”
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Part of the Kaiser's dream was
to provide six ‘“newly ea:jlted"
thrones in Europe for his siX sons,
as Napoleon supplied threnes for |
his relatives and.proteges. T
The oldest ~ Hohen¥%ollern son
lives in a fisherman's hut’on a
lonely island. No¢ throne there.
Another son@®as 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 -
vears had been building up power,
in good times and bad, began as
usurious money lehders in a ‘poor,
# barren country. Tnei ruled Ger
many, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria
and Greece, and_intimidated heu
trals but a few months ago. Now
Ebert, the harnessmaker, rules in
Berlin, and Morges, .a tailor, is the
head of the Brunswick Govern
ment, fighting the national Gov-.
ernment of the Berlin harness
maker. <
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There are some .contrasts for
you. 3
When the war began the United
States confined itself to its. own
continent. The President gever
left hi§, country. The newspapers
printed regularly George Washing
ton's advice about “foreign entan
glements.” A ¢
’,{loday the President is sitting
"é!ts the Prime Ministers of Eng
land France and Italy and the Am
basdadors from Japan and other
countries in Paris, running this
“{ country by wirele/u. and helping to
settle the affairs ‘of all the govern
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.
When the war began Poland was
a nation chopbed to pieces, divided
up by the bandit = countries, as
wolves divide and tear up a deer.
The end of the war sees Poland
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
na#ion’s rebirth?
Is it a descendant of the Ponjg
atowski who, with bullets in his
body, blood streaming, jumped his
horse into the river to swim across
and attagk the enemy of P&land.
crying® “One must die like a
brave?”
Ig 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, ndne of the old Polish names.
The new head of Poland is Pad
erewski, the musician. The Poles
‘choose as their leader one repre
':' genting the intellectnal 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 five
times.
(Gire@ut-as she has been in fight
ing, Poland has been even grenter
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, (Mémenceau, 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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Rumely Fights Against
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Washington Extradition
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Dr. Edward
Rumely, former owner of The Eve
ning Mail, appeared tefore Judge Ju
lfus Mayer, in the United States Dis
trict Court, today on writs of habeas
corpus and certiorari, in an effort to
f)n-wnt his removal to Washington,
. (', to answer an indictmant charg
fng him with violation of the espion
v age lnw, .
" Counse! for Rumely entered the
’mh»n'm" that the-former newspaper
Yowner should not be removed because
he is= under similar indictment here
and has been under $35,000 bail since
last July. Ye also insisted that there
is ro reason for the New York court
to defar the trial of Ruml‘;x on the
mdieysmts returned here.
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Forecast for Georgia: Rain Sun
day; Monday fair; fresh east, shift
ing to northwest, winds.
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VOL.-V. NO. 42.
ONE PACKING FIRM, ARMOUR PLAN
PRESIDENT MAKES NEW BLEA FOR LEAGCUE "OF NATIONS
American Executive Makes His
Most Significant Utterance
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U. S. CAME ON A CRUSADE
World’s Fortunes Now With the
Plain ngle, Oge Striking
tatement.
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President Wiison’s speech in full
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Jan. 25.—1 n the most re
markable speech he has made since
he came to Europe, President Wilson
this afternoon, speaking in the name
of humanity, asked the pea(fi con
ference to frame a league of nations
that would purge the world of armed
strife.
President Wilson asked for the e¢re
ation of a society of powers that will
be the eye of the nations to keep
watch on their commen interests.
The peace delegates, President
Wilson declared, are bidden by the
people te see that this strain (of hor
ror and warfare) does not come upon
them again,
America did not' enter the war to
interfere in Eureopean polities, but for
a great cause,said the President, and
the ke‘yr‘;ote of this ‘cause is a league
‘of nations,
Plain People Rule.
“The fortunes of mankind are now
in the hands of the plain people,” was
one struugx ‘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
peintment of a committee to work
out the details of a league of na
tions “to promote international obli
gations and to provide safeguards
against war” was 6sgnted today
at the second plenary session of the
peace conference.
_The resolution sets forth “that a
league of nations “is essential to the
maintenance of thes world settlement
which the assoclated nations are now
met to establish,” and prcovides that
the “league should be créated as an
integral part of the general treaty of
peace and should be opened to every
civilized nation which can be relied
upon to promote its objects.” a 3
Reparation To Be Settled.
. At the same time resolutions also
were presented for the appointment
of committees to inquire and re'port
on the following important questions:
Breaches -of the laws of war, re
paration, the conditions of employ
ment from the international aspect
and_the international means neces
sary to secure - common action en
matters affecting conditions of em
ployment and to recommend the form
of a permanent agency to continue
#uch inquiry under the league of na
tions.”
The resolution eoncerning 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. Pacts 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 during the present war,
3. Degree of responsibility for these
offenses attaching to particular mém-.
bers of the enemy forces, including
members of the general staff and oth
er individuals, however highly placed.
Will Try Offenses.
4. The constitution and procedure
of a tribunal appropriate to the trial
of these offenses.
. Any other matters cognate or
ancillary to the above which may
arise.
On the quegtion 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 ray and on
what they are cnptslo of paying and
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‘Nitro Explodes
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) ULSA, OKLA., Jan. 25.—Eight
§ I persons are reported dead
and a score seriously in
jured in an explosion of two
quarts of nitroglycerine which was
Sbeing hawled through Big Heart,
¢ Okla,, in an automobile. Practi
cally every window in the town,
which is 36 miles ,north of here,
was broken by the force of the
explosion,
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NEWARK. N. J, Jan. 25.—Mrs.
| Marion Ripley and Sergeant Maitland
Petrie, of the United States Marine
Corps, are still in“a serious condition
in a loecal hospital, foll6'wing today's
tragedy, in which the two were shot
by the w*mn's husbkand, Bertram
Ripley, a Wealthy member of one of
the oldest locai families, who = then
killed himself. The sheoting occurl(fld
in the library of the Ripley residence.
Sergeant Ripley, the 22. year-old
son of Dr. Charles Riplsy. a brother
of Bertram Ripley, was at home on
a furlough from Paris Island, 8/ C.,
and arri\'f Wednesday for a visit to
the Ripleys. The m[rine and Mrs.
Ripley were in the library when Mr.
Yliple-y entered, and began shooting.
Mrs, Ripley recéived a wound in the
left side, Petrie was shot in the ab
domen, while a bullet hole in Ripley’s
temple ended his life before servants
could reach the scene. Mgs. Ripley
and Petrie may recover,
Mrs. Marion Doremus, mother of
Mrs. Ripley, said that Riplev'had be
come 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
head,” moaned Sergeant Petrie in his
bed at the hospital. These are the
only words he has spoken,
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Soldiers Can Stay in
Army Awaiting Jobs
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Any sol
dieT who can naf find a job when he is
discharged 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 Department.
Secretary of War Baker made it
clear, however, that this does not
mean that an indefinite number of
soldiers who can not get a job im
medidately will be permitted to remain
in the army an indefinite length of
time. There is, Mr. Baker®aid, such
a large :u#munr of work to be done
at demobflization camps and at Busi
ness depots that the chances are thag
the order issued today will take care
of all who wish to avail themselves
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Kaiser May Be Exiled
To Dutch Indies, Report
’I(Bv International News Service.)
HE HAGUE. Jan 26.~-The ex-
Kaiser of Germany mav be exiled to the
Duteh Indies, it was revorted today.
Advices from Berlin stated that it was
expected that the German and Dutch
Government would find an early solu
tion of the problem bpresented by the
presence of the former CGerman Km
veror in Holland.
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R AR GPSRRC TR A LIS #SS
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Go Investigating '
Today Through the ;
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| “Automobile” Columns .
; A fine ‘ot of good cars are ¢
{ beln‘ put on “the market §
g which are gure to hold the )
$ attention of sz'hody who §
¢ has even considered the
§ ownernhl? 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 |
CAr,
$ Turn to the “Automobiles’
§ columns over in The Ameri
can today and read the in
) teresting offers there. Then
go farther. Call up the per
son or firm offering the cars
which appeal to you and
make an erdgagement to see
. the cars in action.
¢ Your desire to own a good
car can be fulfilled rlfihl now
2 at termg which will be a
! pleasant surprise to you.
g Read the *“Automobiles” col
! umns today.
The Georgian and American
Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
- Read for Profit<Use for Resuits
ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
Special Meetings of Schodl Board
and City Council Called as Re
sult of Conference.
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WOMEN CAN KEEP SECRET
Little Information Leaks Out of
All-Day Meeting to Discuss
Salary Question.
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What was accomplished at the
four-hour conference between the di
rectors of the Atlanta Teachers’ As
sociation and the members of the
Sckool 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
morning 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 the 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
School Commission and subsequéntly
‘a special meeting of City Council will
[bo called, but the proceedings at the
several meetings of scheol officials
’and teachers yesterday which result
;ed in ‘the changes are velled behind
it.he persistent silence of School Com
~missioners and teachers alike,
% There is any amount of speculation
on the matter, and it genuerally is be
lieved that the plan of the tcalhers
will follow closely the substitute
budget submitted at a recent meet
ing of the board, providing for the
elimination of the summer schools,
and a general paring of school, de
partmental appropriations to provide
a salary increase fund. This belief
is given color by the fact that mem
bers of the School Commission, fol
lowing the conference, stated that the
plan 6F the teachers did not contem
piate calling upon Council for more
funds, and intimated that the plan
would involve little more than a re
adjustment of the school budget,
New Budget Not Liked.
- The substitute budget designed to
increase the teachers' sularies through
reirenchment in other,departments of
the school system found little favor
With the commission when it origi
nally was introduced by W. H. Teor
rell, and city officials close to the
school situation expressed the belief
last night that if the teachers were
basing their hopes on this plan they
were foredoomed 10 disappointment.
These officials said that such sweep
ing retrenchmemt would sériously
cripple many school departhents and
they expressed the belief that the
Commissioners would not reverse
their original stand in the matter. i
However, such a readjustment of
the budget properly could be handled
in itz entirety by the School Com- |
mission, and does not suggest any
reason why a special meeting of
Council should be called. Only two!
reasons could hg advanced for a spe
cial Council meeting. These were
that the city legislative body might
be asked to return to the B(:M)Olll
some SIO,OOO pruned from its appro
priation last summer, and that the
city might be asked to assurne re
sponsibility for the completion of the
new schoosls, 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 were execu
tive in character, and little of any
thing leaked out concerning them
C. E. Fhulips, president of the Teach.
ers’ Association, admitted that the
conference between the teachers and
the Sechool Commissioners yesterday
afternoon centered about the asso
ciation's plan for the creation of a
fund to make the salary increases
possible, but tha nature of this plan
was guarded %s«:::loucly after the
Bt Olitn Wibaed
The conference at the beginning
not held to be an exclusive ses
:z. Later Mr. Phillips said #t had
e Ay LR
S:mumt‘:t'ed. but agam anmounced
that a strict star chamber session
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Coatanwed vo Pag>6, Cokemes’3,
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Bolsheviks Prepare to Flee Pet
rograd and Plan to Execute
Prisoners.
REDS TO ATTEMPT TRUCE
Rioting Renewed in Bérlin With
Many Casualties Reported in
Street Fighting.
BULLETIN.
GENEVA, Jan. 25.—Leon Trotzky,
Bolshevik War Minister in Russia,
was shot and killed by soldiers at
Libau, accomding to an unconfirmed
report received by the Polish press
bureau at Berme- 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.
i (By Universal Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 25.—The Bolshevist
Governmént, according to some quar
ters usually in close tauch with Mos
cow, is ready to acms the ‘proposal
of thé Allied and associated Gt{gern
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 lheml
'was Heavy fighting Thursday night.
‘The Spartacides appeak to have ral
lied after their temporary check, re
sulting” from. the loss of Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxemburg, their chief
k:’aders. Many casualties are u-purt-‘
ed,
l The Governmient has ordered the
arrest of Herr Ledebour, who was one
of Liebknecht's 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.
2b.—~Following the election, Germany
is making a Jde€perate 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 provinees. This was indi
cated to me today by Philip Scheide
mann, a Minister In the Ebert gov
ernment,
“I quite understand that abroad
they look at (fermany with certain
uneasiness and fear it will be difficult
for us to pull ourselves out of the aw
ful situation which the ‘end of the
war brought to us” said Herr
Scheidemann. “But you may be sure
the German people have already mas
tered the 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
more work must be our present reply
to the misfortune that has befallen
us, It must not be forgotten that
the German people have always been
one of the most work-loving people of
all”
The Govepnment s facing difficul
ties, however, one of them o nolsy
minority, including officiuls of the old
regime,
The minority and their supporters
from the old regime are charged with
deliberately trying to upset the Kbert-
Scheidemann government.
MONTSANTO IS STORMED.
(By Universal Service.)
blflB()g. Jan, 28, Montsanto,
which was held by monarchist revo
lutionary troops, has been stormed by
Government forces, it was officlally
announced here today,
Part of the Lisbon garrison went
over to the monarchists at Momtsanto,
When the successful attack was
made there by Government troops,
the revolutionists abandoned numer
ous guns, Many were killed and
wounded in the fighting.
Many high officers have deserted
Ahe doyalists, it was reported.
Shaw Reveals Secret
Alliance That Bound
England and Russia
iMeuaco 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 publie, the British
Parliament or the British historian. i
To begin with, the jingo Imperialists and the genu
inely liberal Imperialists were at cross purposes. Lord
Haldane, a Scot, and by far the ablest member of the
imperialist tf'ioffiAsqnith, Grey and Haldane—who
conducted the policy and as Seeretary of State for War,
the acting partuer of the combination, foresaw the war
as a horrible possibility ta 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 Ggrmans, a course which, when the war broke out,
earned him bitter vituperation and even threats of dm
peachment as the friend of Germany.
| 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. 4 ‘
On the initiative of a German Count friendly :ul-!
dresses were exchanged between the leading men of
both countries, full of platitudes about Shakospearefi
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 being a subjeet of
Jealousy could only be regarded as an additional guar
antec.ef civilization.
It was found impossible to obtain the necessary
British signatures until that sentence was expunged.
Kvidently those who refused and those who eonsented
were in very different attitudes.
Men who were making a necessary provision for de
femse in the event of an attack by Germany were inex
tricably confused in the same party with men who eould
hardly be induced to wait for a deeent pretext before
springing the mine so carefully dug. ;
CALLED SURRENDER 'PEACE OFFENSIVE."
To the latter the avoidance of the war would have
been the worst misfortune that could have happened to
England. Even when 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. lam
not here eriticising it adversely, lam only demonstra
ting the division of opinion and feeling that existed in
the Imperialist camp. Lt
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 to 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 thére were ot }wr sections whose secession world
have wrecked the Liberal Government and who were
fundamentally opposed to the poliey.
First, there were the commercial non-intervention
ists, Cobdenitesy Gladstonians and George Washington
ians, who objected to meddling in Continental quarrels,
and knew that huge profits could be made out of a war
by neutrals supplyving the combatants with war mate
rials.
PREVAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.
On their position 1 need not expatiate, as it pre
vailed in the United States during the first vears of the
war. 5
With them on the practical point were the Quakers,
g Continued on Page 2, Column 1. i
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Packer Chief Urges Concentra
tion Under U. S. Control in
Testimony Before Senate.
Heney Shows Concern Made
000,000 in South America.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Many
millions of dollars cowld 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 qyestions
by Francis J. Heney, before the Sen
‘ute 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 duplications
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 packing and
allied indstries and in finance were
brought to light under Heney's cross
examination, all of which tended te
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 which was
entered in the financial statament of
the Chicago company, and that an
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 g
combination or collusion on the part
of the packers or apy case of a vio
lation of law.
Armour, under cross-examination,
sald that to-all practical purposes the
packers today are working under w»
condition that might be called one of
competition, “but nqt aggressive
competition,” in so far as they did not
invade each other's territory nor try
to underbid one another to get busi«
ness,
Denies “Map” Exists.
He again denied, howéver, 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,
begides 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 National City Bank
of New York, This bank, Armour ad
mitted, owned the Chase National
Bank, which in turp, Heney said, con-"
trolled Wilson & Co, One of the fors«
mer Armour employees, Samuel Mes
Roberts, is vice president of the Na«
tional City Bank, Armour said,
Armour also testified that he was
a stockholder in many raillroads, in«
cluding the Chicago, Milwaukea and
St Paul,
After being asked the direct 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 n
order to handle the volume of busi«
sess demanded during the war,
Hoovem Is Upheld.
This, he admitted, amounted to a
13 per cent profit, instead of a 9 per
cent profil, as announced by the food
administration. He “did not think
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