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VOL. XVII
U. 5. TROOFS READYTO STOP SEATTLE RIOTS
SOUTH IS UNITED FOR HIGHER COTTON PRICES
ENGLISH STRIKES BREAKING UP: MEN RETURN
GHOWERS DEMAND FAIG
AETUANG FROM NOW ON
10 ACT AGGORDINGLY
e By ’RHOMAS M. SKINNER. *
" MACON. Febh. 7.—The first steps
toward organizing Georgia tarmers‘
definitely into r; thorough and far
reaching movemtent to nold cotton
were taken here yvesterday afternoon, |
wher the State-wide convention of
furmers and business men authorized
Commissioner J. J. Brown to appoint
a chairman in each connty to secure a
working committee and arrange for
meetings in every section of the State.
Pledges stipulating "a reduction of
23 1-3 per cent below norma! in the*
3916 crop will he elicited from the
farmers, *who will be qalled upon to
stand together for better prices and
acreage reduction. -
A resolution prepared and acted fa-
Vorably upen previcusly, ealled for a
reduction of only 25 per cent. After
much consideration, the convention
decided to go still farther and pledge.
10 cut their eron even more, adopting
35 1-2 per cent as the vroper figuve.
A seeond resolution, adopted unani
mously, urged the growers to follow
the plan of diversifying crops. Di
versification was begun some time
ago, and reports received by the Agri
culfl{‘rnl Department indicate that it
bas brovght remarkahlecand unprece.
dented prosperity to those who have
n«lopg?d and carried it out faithfully.
Set Date for Pladges.
Governor Dorsey was called upon
to name February 15 for State-wide
county meetings to secure pledges
and take other steps necessary to ef
fect reduction es cotton and diversifi
cation of erops.
“Diversification has given the South
the ability and the grit to demand a
g rofit on its cotton,” declared the Fes
olutions commiitee, Farther and wid
er observance would, it was predicted,
miake the Bouthern farmers inde
pencent of all other sections, and
# self-supporting.
Pointing out the fact that exposure
1o weather will ruin the staple, the
fuymers were urged, by all megns, (o
sheiter the cotton that is being held
for better prices 1
Mere stringent action than fipst
cimtemplated was taken toward abol
ishment of the ecotton exchange.
Goorgia's Senators and Congressmen
Wwere called upon to have passed
through Congress rigid measures reg
ulating the New \'n{k and all other
n%mn exchanges,
t was pointed out that Government
Jezisiators from time to time have at
tempted to curtail gambling on the
Cotton Exchange by certaln legisla
tion, which has not heen effective,
bat impliedly recornized the right of
the exchanges to gamble in futures
botween coertain limits,
Gambling Condemned.
Gambling in futures was con
demned strongly, and the meeting
fayored puiting the exchanges back
on the basls previous to the entranec
‘cf mpeculators and gambles, who
have made fortunes at the expense of
the Bouth, it was declared,
It was conceded that the exchange
18 val\l%hle to the farmer if operated
on gan"honest basis, providing a falr
means of communication and of con
ducting businesg between bhuyer and
seller, and that no objection could be
offered if they were operated as in
tended wheu they were opganized,
By resolution the convention ree
ommended that the exchanges bhe
compelled to publish from day to day
the number of bales offered for sale
and the number of bales actually
consummated, the names of thé par
ties buying and selling, the location
and the grade of the cotton,
The bpoks would be placed under
inspection and control of the Govern
ment, through any of its agencies. It
is provided that any person oriflrm
who shall make a falge affidax 't shall
be punished by fine or imprisonment
as a eriminal.
Demand New Law,
The resolution put the convention
on record as condemning “the prac
tice.of the New York and other ex
changes tendering nine grades of cote
ton om middling contracts, and de
munding Georgian's representatives in
Congress to have a law passed regu
lating these exchanges and requiring
delivery of the actual grade con
tracted for.
"~ The following telegram from Jo
'meph A, McCord, governor of the
5'4"5‘ Reserve, was pecelved yen
hustastically : :
“Regrut exceedingly that absence of
associate offifficers pre?ml my at
tending ecotton convention today. 1
wish.to assure the farmers, thra:gh
you, that the mmumfli k
[ull International News Service
dium of national banks and the
State banks that are members of the
Federal Reserve system, in financing
the production and marketing of
their crops by the erdiscount of their
notes when offered through member
banks on commodities when stored in
warehouse and insured.
“We gan not render such assistance
through State banks tdat are not
members of the Federal Reserve sys
tem. Present conditions of national
finance and world affairs make it im
perative that all eligible State banks
join the Federal Reserve system,
thereby mobilizing the entire finanys
cial resources of this section for
proper agricultural development.”
Hoke Smith to Help. -
A telegram from Senator Hoke
Smith assured his earnest support of
the 'farmers in any movement they
might decide to undertake, and urged
the importance of gpening all mar
kets as soon as that possibly can be
done. Here is his message:
“The work of your convention will
receive my most earnest support, I
suggest, first, the importance of
{orening all possible .markets at the
{ earliest date possible for the sale and
| consumption of cotton. You know
. coston still is on the embargo list and
lis exported under supervision of the
l'wur trade board. They license ship
i ments of ebtton only in limited quan
| tities to northern Europe. The time
{has come whén cotton should be re
indwved from the embargo list and
! permitted to go to all desiring to
| purchase it, It might be well for your
«convention to cable the President
turging the importance ®f his remov
{ing cotton from the embargo, list,
‘ “2. The time has/ passed when
jcotton exchanges should be permitted
im deliver four grades above and four
! below middithg in settlememt of their
rconfracts. The Smith Lever bill
Ishnuld be amended to restrict deliv
!l eri€s on cotton exchanges to not more
! than tvws grades above and two
ggrudvs bélow middling, and if possi
’Me, to prohibit short selling. This
measure is in force through its tax
!pmvisiun aud the amendment must
toriginate in the House. You might
well urge members of the House to
| Press this amendment to the passage.
{ We can handle it quickly in the Sen
sate, but it first must be -passed by
| the House.
\ Must Reduce Crop.
l “3. We rmust raise foodstuff and
| reguce cotton planting this year.
| An eight million bale crop would sell
for more than a sixteen miilion bale
ferop. An eight million bale crop
{would bring 30 cents or more, A
| sixteen million baleg. crop would not
[ bring half thta pri?\w These are the
'Hnrs upon which, at present, service
can be rendered I would be with
‘}'Hll but so many pressing measures
]un» upon us in the closing days of
fl'nnm‘r;us that 1 fae\l can serve you
best here."
{ Captain L. H. Stevens, represent
ing the Rumble & Wensel Company,
of Natchez, Miss, was given a place
on the program. This company has
been conducting g campaign of ad
vertising all over the South, urging
| that the farmers hold cotton and cut
acreage, Advertisements are running
im-w in 62 leading papers of the
,Hunthnrn section, and in other trade
and agricultural papers all over the
' country.
“For more than fifty years the
South has furnished the world cheap
clothing,” said Captain Stevens,
{ "And what.is her reward? Hore it is,
| "They are living in little mortgaged
'hhfll’!“l'fl in the rural distriets, and
‘l‘:wo little strips of ‘elay that they
cull roads, Poverty isestaring them
lin the fact all the time, their chii
| dren are poorly clothed, and are not
;w(-ll educated,
| North Has Prospered.
‘ “The farmers of the North and
Weut have prospered, Poverty has
!(-nmml the bagkwardness of the
Southern farmer. The speculators
and the mills purpose to pay the
grower nineteen cents for his cotton
rext year, With that in view, the
puycholggy of the situation demands
,thm the farmer sell at the present
jprice of 26 cents, or thereabouts,
“Hut common_ sense tells him to
hold, 1 want to plead that every
farmer hold his cotton tightly., Let
none of it get away, and pay no S
tentioh to fluctuations in the mar
ket. The law of supply anl demand
| soon will regulate cotton,
i Chance to Make Money.
i It we will all hold the staple now
on hand, we can make moneyonit,
nt the prices which must come in a
very short time. And we . will be
able to market our 1919 crop for 35
or 40 and possibly 45 cents a pound,
I we raise even three-fourths as
much cotton we will make about
‘twlfl z much oy
H. li.mgflfl declared that
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Gieorgian Market
Editor and Page
Get High Praise
: ACON, Feb., 7.—At the big
3 cotton convention here on
3 yesterday, just before the
. resolutions committee submitted
E its report, J. J. Brown, presiding, ¢
{ drew attention of Qho\deleqltu to |
$ .
% work done by The Daily Georgian
and Sunday American-th behalf of
! the farming interests, and, with
out warning, introduced Victor @
Barron, the market editor of those %
, papers. 2
| Before his introduction of Mr, :
| Barron,Mr. Browh spoke in praise %
; and appreciation of the newspaper $
| assistance received from every pa- j
per in the State. He held Thes
. Georgian up as “having the best g
| raarket page of any paper in this
section.” He called then for a ris- g
| ing vote of thanks to the newspa- |
rers, which was given with a will, }
! Mr. Barron spoke for about ten !
! ! ¢
! minutes. Delegates swarmed up .
! to the press table on the platform,
! congratulating Mr. Barron and as- |’
! suring him that The Georgian has
the friendship of the farmers. §
AA A A A A AP APIAAIIrd
the Government has lost millions of!
& ‘
dollars on the revolving fund of five
miilion doilarg given the railroads.i
and that it recently has voted the
several humdred million dollar wheat
bill for 1919 crop of wheat, and that |
we are sending a hundred million
]niui!.lrs to Europe to feed our allies
and the South is paying its share m,
taxation. o i
He declared that if the Govern
ment would appropriate a three hun- |
dred million dollar fund for the purs-'
chase of spot cotton, that it would |
!h 1d the market up, and relieve thel
:fi;, pressing situation in the South.
Mr, Elders said he would introduce
a bill at the next Legislative session]
putting buyers and sellers of ('ulul‘k‘fl,
in jJail and revoking charters of State |
bar kg whose officials speculate inl
cotton, He said it will provide also
for closing exchanges in Savannah
and other Georgia cities,
The following is copy of an appeal |
sent to President Wilson asking that |
Irh blockade be removed and cotton
taken from the embargo list:
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President United States,
Paris. ‘
| Germany having surrendered her |
Im«z.~. airplanes and guns and hav
'n..: practically demobilized her arm- |
{ies and the military authorities of
{the United States advise that Ger- |
muny is helpless and can not renew
ithe war, we respectfully urge upon
yvou the necessity of the immediate
iremoval of the blockade of the Cen- |
lrml Empires, as it has already serv- !
‘ni its purpose, and respectfully re- |
{ quest the removing of cotton from
| the embargo list, This is imperative
{ to save the farmers and business in
| terests of the South from financial
distress,
Signed ‘
Statewide Convention of |
{ Georgla farmers and busi- |
! ness men assembled to ;
{ eonsider the crisis in cot
{ ton
| By J. J. Brown,
Commissioner of Agriculture, Chair
{ man
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Speech by Brown
“ i
Creates Stir
MACON, Feb, 7.--J. J. Brown, State
{ Commissloner of Agriculture, brought
the 1,000 farmers, business men, bank
ers and others attending the cotton
convention here Thursday to their fest
with shouts of approval to his short,
i-wb«;; sentences that criackled like fire
tand actlon
! Whew* he shouted that the majority
| of the holders of spot cotton in Georgia,
| Including some preachers, would hold
| their cotton until it crashed to b cents
| ® pound and until hell froke over and
I-n. n skate on the ice before they would
{sell for o cent less than 35 cents a
| pound I’.a crowd yelled and wildly
| applauded,
“The South today is more indepen
jdent than at dny time in history to hold
| its cotlton and reduce thls year's acre
tage,” he thundered “And unless you
"wl.l your gotton, and cut the acreage
you can not expect the soldiers’ re.
turn to the rural districts and attempt
to raise a crop that now s selling bhe.
low the cost of production on the fu
| tures exchanges 1
| Scores ‘‘Gamblers.’”
i "I say, with every ounce of strength
{1 have, disaster s staring us in the
'.‘nu unless we unite and fight thie con
{ ruming crowd, and the speculative
gamblers to a finish
“I say if the exchanges can not make
v living by doing legitimate business
they should be rurwii to close thelr
doors, 1‘
“When it comes to a time that these
mill men and gamblers can sit in their
offices and romp on the floor of the
exchanges and sell millions of bales of
cotton which they have not got and
don't expect to get, unless thep are
able to deliver the cotton—actual cotton
l Continued on Page 2 Column 1
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919.
By EARL C. REEVES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
LONDON, Feb, 7.—Great Britain's
red terror, ‘arising from strikes in
spired by Bolshevik leaders, is wan
ing.
Subways again were in operation
teday after being idle for two lays
and it is believed the steam railroads,
which were tied up by strike troubles
will have resumed within 24 hours
The Government's determination to
smash Bolshevism and arrest the
leaders is expected to frustrate the
threatened strike of the electrical
workers, who declared they W 1d
plunge the city into darkness
Subway Men Win.
At Glasgow, where a recurrence of
rioting was feared, a maljori 1
strikers voted to return to wor
was a victor for the men ;. B n
Tt '~‘!v. Kxpress Dl
for wt 1 the tube workers were con.
tending is the same as that of the
t is unlikely that the hotels nd
restaurants wi Ltake hacl mians
are foreigners The places of these
ikers are being filled b womer
Newspapers are making an
demand that these foreign strike {
eported, “»
Daily Express Comments
The London Dai KxXpr .
garded in England as refiectin the
views of the British Government Ir
view of that f t, the following di
patch s significant
We publish an article from Amer
ica showing it is not a rike the Brit
is nation Ils up against 1t is an at
tempt first to paralyze and then de
stroy society, including laborer who
are trikir it i t of the Bo
The \ wh i exlled
Kaiser and w 1 behe \
not Mng t bow t t o
150! Robespiers The unauthorized
triker W lear 1 x day or two
v when it wear 1 smile .'“ !
he Britisi itior hits has
'he Governmer id Now t
swiftlv.”
Decatur Protestants
v v v
Take Church Census
{ ongro ' tethodist, §
n, Bapt ' wa n D
‘ tior ! 1 I o . xty
o three t X I ved
Chu \
' howing 1 )
g y »
T'wo Wounded in Duel
Improved in Hospital
p Font £
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' { ¢ Herrington's
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‘No Beer, No Work, Is
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Slogan of 30,000 Men
(By Internationn! News Seryvice,)
NEWAR) I I
; t ‘,..» v“v "‘ u:?v
re t of a ! 1 t .
‘ i to 1 Kasex tr nefl to
strike th hout tate on July
1 if the [ oor toppe
FESS IN SPEAKKIR'S RACE,
WASHINGTON, | ! resentatiyve
u,,\.‘_,. Feas. of Oh 1 vl ) the
Republican congressional comimnitteg for
mally announced himaelf ag a candidate for
the speakor ul',lh-' next house yesterday.
' Calend f ‘
cLaiendar Keiorm
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. Plan to Be Taken |
§ §
2 0 reace Loniabp
? (By International News Service.) |
3
; ARIS, Feb, 7.—The peace con- |
2 ference will not be permit- $
§ ted to adjourn until it has |
§ reformed the calemdar, if the )
f French Academy of Science hné
{ its way. The question of dual dat- |
; ing through the Gregorian and §
! Justinian calendars and other an- !
{ omalies, has troubled many gener
{ ations of scientists, and it is felt (
that this opportunity of settling !
! the matter for all time should not
| be allowed to pass.
! The academy proposes to lay !
} !
two plans before the conference.
. One divides the year into thirteen ‘
months of 28 days and iour weeks,
{ accounting for 364 days and leav
{ ing one undated day every year
= !
with two every leap year.
} _The other plan is to divide the
year into four equal quarters com
! posed of one month of 31 days and ||
! two months of 30, rounding off the '
Zyear with undated days as in the j'
! first scheme. This plan seems to l
}be favored. i
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Leaving a seribbled note to her sis- |
| ter, saying that she could not bear |
her troubles any longer, Mrg. M. C,/
Bostwick, 26, took several bichloride |
of mercury tablets about 1 n‘(-lw-ki
'l‘ riday morning in her rooms at llw;
Q"‘l'illll'l\' Apartments, and an hour |
later«lied at the Grady Hospital
The note, hastily written on Ilni
f]u:vy-..\ of thres envelopes, and ad
{ dressed to Miss Klizabeth Caldwell, \
I\\' 85 East Sixth street, is as fol- |
iin'\\ - |
i
Note to Sister. i
{ “Dear Elizabeth !
! ‘1 have tried to bear my troubles, |
:‘mn: I have comé-to the point where |
{ |
;I can’'t any longer I am 80 miser- |
i..m-* I have stayed away from you |
Il'wr that reason. 1 would be glad for |
‘\mn to have Robert-—don't let thml
| know about me. Forgive me, \
i -
i Shortly after 1 o'clock I n\l.'n\'i
{ morning Mrs. Jessie Holmes, a neigh-|
bor in the Irances Apartment heard |
’,\‘m:n.!- of a truggle and Lil‘erlH!lf'
|in Mrs, Bostwick's rooms. She called |
her brother, Harry (i, Hall, who lived |
lu- N apartment across thre hall nd |
{ asked him to see what was the mat
| ter. Mrs. Bostwick's door was un- |
| locked She was found on the floor
vimost unconscious The ambulunce |
| was called as quickly as possible, but |
{ she died soon after reaching' the hos- |
| pital |
Ars. Bootwick was an evpert tele- |
| phone operator. .She was married at
+l7, and the marriage had turned out
| unhappily There were two children
;‘r.',u of 6 and yeur iving with
relutives at McDonough, Ga. Mrs. |
| Bostwich and her husband had been!
separated for son time, and he is|
| now supposed to be in Alabama She |
v had instituted divorce y...wmm,.,,,i
[ agninst him |
| Besides the sister, Mrs, Bostwick | !
| survived by a brother, ( F. Cald-|
!\\vl!, lving in Savannah., The body |
| was taken to the Harry O Poole |
chapel, to be taken later to Savannah |
for burial |
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Sl , v ra |
| Railroad Y. M.C. A. Will |
Y .
. Resume Sunday Meelings !
! 'he popu funday afternoon meetings |
ot the ¢Ralirond Y. M. C. A., which have |
been held up sinde moving from the old|
location to the new at No. 75 South For
ayth street “re to be resumed at thie new
address Bunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock l
Rev, Caleh A, Ridley, pastor of the Cen
tral Baptist Church, has heen secured for |
the addross He also will conduet the|
services on the three succeeding Sundays ‘
His church choir will assist in the sing
ing and an orchestra will sustain the lead,
Issned Daliy and Eutered as Second-Class Matter at
the PostoMice st Atlanta Under Aet of March 3, 1879
i
, Preparations are being made 1 So
licitor General Boykin to place on the
Criminal Court :‘.L.-'l for the week f
February 17 ter murder S W
greatest number to have accumulated
in the Fultor irts in many vears, and
t resu f Atlanta's recent epi «
f traged
number that nas a umuiate i’lt“ the
Tv “.tl!‘:"‘j’i,“tv \ g out
itstanding 1 1 -VA‘VA v"‘
I m.. the ¢ e 3 trial i
“murder weelk," altho Solicitor
B ) d he was 1 ¢ n wheth- |
Mrs. Abbott on List
y 1 .“—‘.- J 3 A - _\._
8 ‘ t ed Car i
t is his plan » bring Albright t trial
Hil .v:‘ ‘l ‘ M 1,.‘ : : .l, "'
i‘\“.v,.-,v E Les %W , :' % di A 1
per <l~l" effort ‘w' "‘~ "
rest of Hill and Moore. b
To Probe Eoy's Death,
Dave Rice, & negro, will be tried on
¢ { irge of murder E A ma W
Abe Ringhof froT £ the )
yme in M P ree Rice !
e cordi t the « 1
gaged in a pistol duel, as t rrowt
rucl “vvl») 'WIV‘ 1 the ," ‘, .
plaved in the t
. ..' e, ' ppes
er i egro i Inma ard .‘
‘ by [t v Ky '} Fire
e s :
e sinard et the Mat its B Red
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T ranscontinental Flyers
~ Start Return Trip West
i I r
t 4 500 saw &
Parents Defend Secret
Sociely of Tech Students
. i:.l ¢ ! .v » r :
red 1 ! T tion take
' it : ’, .' re. | vb I
f ::’ The ‘:,,'uu-! v‘. nts W | “v\l
Cullough and Edward Van Wir ‘ Young
MeCullough s sala to be suffering from
concuseion of the brain,
AFTERNOON |
"ED!'T'ON
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| Caruso Must
~ Have His Littl
Joke, To Be Sure
{ EW YORK, Feb. 6.—"“Ah, yes, |
{ N Mr, Caruso said that, but he .
| must have his little joke,”
said the tenor's secretary in com- |
. menting on the announcement that, |
Caruso would stop singing on the
day prohibition goes into effect. 1 |
] “To stop singing-—that Mr.
| ! Carugo would not do. He takes a
I little old wine when he sings in |
cold weather. It is to warm him |
up, you know: but he has sources |
¢ of supply for that.” :
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Fs¢ 7.—~The United States,
France, Great Britain and Italy have
igreed that Belgium el ) e an
emn of 8 ) 0 from Ger
mar { first installment to be !
imme tely Lecor ng to the news
paper L'lntrangigeant
By International News Service.)
PARIS, Feb, T France was re
ported today to be willing to waive
her objections to compulsory arbl
tration in the constitutio of the
League of Nations on the assurance
that he United Staes will ake such
on’ as will make the League, ir
I'resident Wilson's words, “a vital
thing.” Above all else, France desires
tcohave Alsace and Loraine secured
against future attacks
Substantial progress has been made
in working out (the plans for the
League and the committee has been
expanded to allow further represen
tation by smaller nations. This move
i& designed to overcome opposition
in the plenary session of the npeace
conference when a complete plan is
adopted and also to overcome certain
objections by one or two groups
| War Council Meets.
‘ There was ameeting of the Su
reme Inter-Allied War Council to
( it the (.'.‘"‘lL" Oftice ,L*!"‘l'? "r
| Counceil of Te¢
l Natur v the question ot compul
| SOT'Y rbitration 1 the creation of
| an international police force apable
Los enforcing the mandate of the
| league of nations are the ottiest of
| the problems facing th® conferees, It
| was regarded as almost certain that
| mediation and arbitration wo 114 bhoth
| be Included in the final draft with the
| Hations concerned, saying which they
shall adopt
| Opposition from America ruinst
Lenforeed participation in Buropean
].1'1.1.‘ Is admittedly rowing
( Secretary of State Lansing ex
| plained if economic measures should
| be finally decided upon as the weapon
| for enforeing the lea @ mandate
nstead of a police force, the United
Stites would be in n excellent posi-
L tion to assigt her associate
SRS i s ’
Save Monroe Doctrine!
' . : Y
Is Slogan in the Senate
(By International News Service.)
4 VASHINGTON Feb “Save the
2 Iroe 1 )04 rine'
]
! i he slogan in Senate circles
1 eally I 8 the basis of much of the
‘ position to the that the
United State hould be called upon to
. ponsor or guardian to Armenk
Lithuania or other of the newly ore
ated small natior being made ou i
the regenerated Burope that is expect
el to rise from the Lagu of Nation
Rports from Paris declare there 18 an
Y ent desire that Uncle Bam become
respo e for Arvmenin and Constan
tinople at least "their financial re
generation
Senator hnsow” of California, and
Borah, of ldaho, who set up the FPro
-2t fve cry of “Get the American
troopg hack home declare they are
gaining support every dav and Senator
Reed, of M irl, summed up the opin
iong of the opponentg of the policy of
etting up small nations when he sald
“An nation that deserves its freadom
game enough to get it for Itself”
But back of much of the senantorial
xpression i the feeling that if the
I'nited States undertakes such manda
tory powers as are suggested, it will be
hard to maintain its century-old stand
ipon the Monroe Doctrine and that the
regt of the world would be In position
to intimate that this country should
| “stay out of Europe if it expeets Mu
rope to stay out of the American Hems
isphere,"”
'NO. 161
| i
|
| :
| (By International News Service.)
1‘ SEATTLE, WASH, Feb. 7.—With
| the anger of a city slowly rising to
| the belief that “this is Bolshevism™
| Seattle awoke today with thousands
| tocdless, with thousands more mas
rooned either in their suburban homes
cr downtown where hotels could not
accoemmodate them and restaurants
frowned emptily at them with closed
doors, with armed troops ready With
the police for quick eall, ‘While grave
‘t!'.-v: le is ever hrewing.
é Industry is still utterly paralyzed
as the result of the general strike
| vesterday in sympathy with the Metal
Trades Union-—which is «hallenging
'the Macy award. Fifty-2ve thousand
men are idle. The situation is tense.
With the belief zvowing that Seattle
| has been picked as the seat of the
L first Bolshevist “revolt” in Americu,
!u:.,«-,\ are beginning to ocolleet in
llittle groups about the deserted strests
land mutte
| Mayor Ole Hansen early today ise
| sued statement in which he said:
| Don’t let a few radicals disrupt
; eftire industrial life Operate
‘ r businesses, open your stores,
| publish your newspapers, and I will
| see to it tha 'u have ample proteec.
| tion this grimly as he called at
| tention to the fact that 1,000 soldiers
| have arrived from Camp Lewis at
| (tovernment order: that he has 1,000
peeial po rmed and machine
| Burs mounted on automobile trucks,
i In so far as industry is concerned
the situation remains that of the flrst
| hours of the strike. Street cars. are
| dead In their barns Only one news
| paper has been published since the
| gene I w {Ol Redtaurants are
| crosed and neot even the scup kitetrs
I'H planned by the striking umnion
men to feed their own members are
| in aperation and labor is a victim of
ity self-made hunger
| Elevators hang lifeless in office
3 tkdings, shipping is crippled and
| every phase of industry in which un
on labor is represented is affected.
In Tacoma the strike has grown al
! t te the same proportions as In
Reattle, and there, too, the War De
tment has dispatched troops te
1 the au rities in preserving or
aer »”
3 . ~ .
Striker Is Found Dying
N ‘ 1 7o
From a Bullet Wound
- (By International News Service.)
LAWRENCE, MASS., PFeb, 7.~The
first death In connection with the
texiile strike occurred early today,
when Blaggio Venturo, 41 years old, a
gtriker, died from a bullet wound.
The police believe Venturo was shot
Ly a fellow countryman during a
wrangle He was found dying and
unable to say who was responsible,
. . . .
Camp Lewis Soldiers
. m
In Seattle and Tacoma
(By International News Service.)
TACOMA, WASH., Feb. 7.--Ordered
by ti War Department to proceed at
onee to Seattle ind Tacoma to proteet
loy nent property, to quell disorders
or to inte ene if the emergency arises,
1,500 soldier from the First Infantry,
( p Lew vith a machine gun bal
v are here and in Seattle today
walting orde:
The men are regulars, equipped with
rifleg and hand grenades Sixtean ma
chine gung to a company comprige the
cquipment of the machine gun battal
{or Tha the Government authorities
e apprehensive In regard to the strike
tuation Is shown by wncellation of all
loave to officers and men statloned at
Camp Lewls An order posted at camp
equires every officer and man to be
prepared for “immediante duty
~
1,279 Men Return From
v v
Furope to Camp Gordon
Three ¢fflcers nd 1,279 enlisted men
arvived as Camp Gordon from home and
overseas pontingents this waek to offset
t T 4 oMicors and 1,062 enlistod men dig
charged [Ast Monday The population of
the camp ‘u\\ numbers 11,540 officers and
men of wihich number 8563 are officers
Only 1.698{ of the camp's personnel v|n|~‘
tist® of negro troops. No definlts Informa
tion has en received with rogard to ths
proposed Rransfer of several thousands »
soldigrs om Camp MeClellan to Camp
‘uordon. o &