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YOL. XV
PRESIDENT SAILS FOR HOME
Czecho-Slavs to Buy $1,500,000 Worth of Georgia Cotton
After paving the way for the sale
of 10,000 bales of Georgia cotton to
the new Czecho-Slay_republic, and
arousing the National Food Admin
istration to a probe of alleged dis
erimination against Georgia farm
ers by hog buyers, Lem B. Jackson,
director of the State Market Bu
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reau, left Washington Friday night
for Atlanta. He is expected here late
Saturday.
Mr. Jackson arranged for the sale
of about $1,500,000 worth of Georgia
cotton to the Czecho-Slavs through
Charles Pergler, American commis
sioner to the new republic. He went
t¢ see Mr. Pergler concerning the
cotion requirements of his country
men and +was informed that a pur
chase of 10,000 bales was contem
plated. Pergler agreed to cable to
his country at once for further del
teils and then to come to Atlanta for
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final negotiations.
Mr. Jackson expects no trouble in
securing the export license and, put
ting the deal through. Therefore he
plans to loeate the cottoan needed. as
soon as he gets back to this city
Another matter to be taken. up by
the market director ypon his arrival
bome will be a thorough investiga
tion of the Georgia hog market., He
rerorted to Chief Sayder.ol the meat
division of the food administration,
that at an auction sale at Valdosta
No. 1 hogs brought only 11 1-8 cents
in the face of the Government's sta
bilizing price of 17 1-2 cents. Allow
ing the Z-cent differential which the
trade has established against peanut
led hogs in favor of corn fed #hogs,
Jackson claims that the prices being
paid in Georgia are too low. He is
rot wiliing to admit that peanut fed
hggs should be so penalized, but
waiving that, he still contends that
Georgia farmers are discriminated
agaiinst by hog buyers. C(onsumers,
he says, are charged the same price
so: pork, whether it be the peanut
or corn variely.
Jackson has been instructed by the
food administration to look into the
matter thoroughly to ascertain wheth
¢ the buyers in Georgia are not
taking excess profits, and to report
ty Washington. If conditions warrant,
the whole matter may be referred
t¢ the Kederal Trade Commission for
investigation and action.
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many Georgians to
Attend Cotton Meet
Here are the delegates named by Gov
ernor Dorsey for the big ¢éotton conven
tion in New Orleans February 17 and 18:
Messrs. J. R. Page, Mcßae, Ga.; Jl. J.
Brown, Atlanta; Lem Jackson, Atlanta;
Dr. A, M. Soule, Athens; R. C. Neely,
Waynesboro; Howell Cone, Statesboro:
J. J. Smith, Hahira; Charles C. Jones,
Cairo; A. J. Lippett, Albany; T. R.
Bennett, Camilla: J. D. Clifton, Lees
burg; M. B. Council, Americus; Harvey
Simmons, l:ul:r;xngt-, Charles L. Davis,
Warm Sprihgs; W, D. Crawford, Buena
Vista; Jim H. Brown, Newnan; Charlié
Barrett, Union City; J. W. Camp, Doug
lasville; W. V. Almand, (‘onynm‘. A, T
Brand, Lithonla; J. H. Mills, Jenkins
burg: W. A, Bellas, Stockbridge; Harvie
Jordan, Monticello; R. 8. Beadles, Fay
etteville;, J. 8. Calhoun, Cartersville:
A. V. Jones, Canton; Kelley Bitting,
Summerville; Paul B, Trammell, Dalton;
M., V. Calvin, Marietta; C. H. Howard,
Stephens; Claude Bolton, .\"iinfll, James
H. Dozier, Athens; H. L. Bond, Roy
ston: Jim Price, ‘Athens; L. G. Hard
man, Commerce; H. H. Dean, Gaines
ville; N. L. Carithers, Windsor; C. P
Norman Alpharetta J B. Cullers.
Lincolnton; Jesse Trawick, R. F. D,
Sparta; l. H. Holt, Sandersville; Tor
runce Trainer, Milledgeville; J. B. Hor
ton, Fitzgerald; J. B. Clements, Irvin
ville; J. N. Quincey, Douglas: H. G.
Dickerson, Somerville; B. J. Brinson,
Stillmore; Iszie Bashinski, Dublin; Eu
gene Talmadge, Mcßae; John 1. Cravey,
Bastman; Dr. Hs A. Cook, Parrott; B
K. lLewis, Montezuma, W R. Terry,
Shelton, Ga
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Harvard’s President
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To Be Club's Guest
Plans have been announcgd Baturday
by the Harvard Club of A"uht:l for a
reception and dinner to be given Februsry
28, at which President A. Lawrence Low
e, of Harvard, will be the honor guest
President Lowell is & member of a party
headed hy Willlam Haward Taft, that (s
to be in Atlanta at that time in attend
wnee on the Routhern Ceongress of the
lLeagne of Nation®
Any Hdrverd wen desiring nformation,
it was anvounced, can communicete with
Maughinon Richurdson, seeretary of the Har
ardd Clyb, at No. 626 Grant Building,
telephone Ivy 6612
Full International News Service
$3,000,000 FIRE LOSS AT SAYANNAH
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SAVANNAH, Feb. 15--Conserva
tive estimates of the great flre which
Friday swofit Hutchinson Island, de
streying the plant and stock of the
Southern Chemical and Fertilizep
Company and two warehouses of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, placed the
loss at about $3,000,000. The fire was
under control at 9 o'clock Friday
night, but certain portions of the fire
swept area continued in flames all
night.
The origin of the fire is supposed
to have been in the motor room of the
Southern Chemical and Fertilizer
Company. The flamés had gained
some headway when discovered, and
before the force of fire fighters on
the island could be mobiiaed, the
flames were being swept across to the
cotton platforms of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, where thousands of
bales of cotton were stored, driven by
a wind which almost reached the pro
portions of a gale.
General Fire Alarm.
All the tugs and other craft in the
harbor responded to the general fire
alarm, and firemen from the Savan
nah sida of the river were quickly fer
ried across to the island, which is on
the South Carolina side opposite the
Savannah Cotton Exchange. Two
British vessels laden with ammurl#]inn
were hurriedly drawn away rom
proximity to the fire by the river tugs.
Thousands of persons lined the Sa
vannah side of the river threnghout
the night, watching the progress of
the fight, which at first appeared te
be a losing one, The battle against
the eastward march of the flames,
ajded by flying embers and firebrands
carried far from the scene of the orig
inal fire by the gale sweeping the
coast, was an epic one. 7
Loss Estimates Growing. .
Early this morning with new esti
mates of the damage coming in, the
loss was still mounting. One cotton
man declared that the loss in cotton
alone would be $1,000,600. The loss
of the Southern Chemical and Fer
tiliber Company was officlally esti
mated at close to §sl,oooooo, Sea
board Air Line officials stated that
5,000 bales of cotton had been de
stroyed. The naval stores wharf,
which caught fire early in the eve
ning, was damaged to an uncertain
extent. Seaboard officlals say that
the damage to wharves and sheds will
not be extensive, and that zl] damage
is fully covered by insurande. Ac
cording to Savannah insurance men,
practically the whole loss 18 covered
by insurance
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Glass Says Congress
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Should Aid Railways
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.~1f Congress
fails to provide the appropriation of
$750,000,000 requested by Direetor Gen
eral Hines to add to the $500,000,000 al
ready provided as a revolving fund for
the rallways under Federal control, the
effect will be distressing, Secretary of
the Treasury Glass told the House ap
propriations committee during Ms hear
ings on the bill, it is learned
“If the rallways are compelled to go
into the open market for the money they
may need--probably £I,OOO 000,000 t
would have a disturbing effect upon the
next, and I hope the last, Liberty Loan,
and it may have a very distressing and
demoralizing effe¢t on business gener
ally,”” the Secretary declared
A bill embodying the request will be
presented to the Heouse
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State Librarian Has
Income, War Tax Data
Mrs, M. B. Cobb, State Nbrarian, has
provided the library with all informa
tion concerning the income tax and war
tax acts for the benefit of the publie
Georglans interested in the new acts
can acquaint themselves thoroughly
with all detalls by calling at the library
in the Capitol
This information is especially valuable
at this time, for the reason that income
tax returng must be made before March
1 The Hbrarian also has on file in the
library copies of Income Tax Service
and War Tax Service, issued by the
Corporation Trust Company and in
which the tax laws are minutely inter
preted
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F% 7o if LEABING NEV/SPAPER 00 Tre s\ ]OF THE SOUTHEAST Y 757
A spirited protest, charging that
Federal fixing of intrai-State .ele
plione rates in Georgia is a violation
of the constitution and direct disre
gard for States’ rights has been sent
by the Georgia Railroadl Commission
to Postmaster General Burleson,
who instituted a new schedule of
ratés in Georgia in January,
The commission ordered also that
Judges J. K. Hines, ils legal counsel,
Intervene in behalf of Georzia, in a
test case to beé instituted in some
wiher State, to bé decided upon later.
The telephone companies . thems
selves were freed of all blame, tue
commission recognizing th& me.iis of
their argument that they are operat
ing under supervision of Mr. Burlé
scn and that they have no other al
ternative than to obey any erlers
ceming from Washington.
Postmaster General Burleson's fix
ing -of intrastate rates was termed
by the commission as a dire..t ‘blow
at the very foundation of State sov
ereignty, depriving the States of the
exercise of police powers vested sole
ly and directly in them.
Futting its protest in a more gen
eral way, the commission sail “we
view with apprehension the inf inge
ment on the police powers of the
States by the Federal Government,
under a. Democratic administration.”
In the opinion of the commission,
Mr. Burleson’s tactics have brought
about a revulsion of feeling on the
part of the public against all Govern
merrt control.
The protest to Mr. Burleson and
the decision to intervene were the
outgrowth of hearings held last week,
when the Southern Bell, Galnesboro,
Consolidated and Fruit Balt telephone
companies were summoned by rule
nisi to appear before the commission
and show cause why rates in force
previous to new schedules promulgat
ed by Postmaster General Burleson
should not be restored.
A comparative table prepared by
the rate iepartment of the commis
sion shows an average increase of $1
a month in both residence and busi
ness rates, in Moultrie, Boston, Car
roliton, Greenville and Fort Valley,
which are served by the enapanies
cited.
Terrell Defends Stand
On Tax Rate Increase
W. H. Terrell, the only member of
the board of school gcommissioners who
voted againsgt the proposed tax rate in
crease from $1.26 to $1.50 to furnish
more money for the schools and other
city departments, Saturday published
an open letter in justification of his re
fusal to support the plan
Mr. Terrell claims that the schools'
apportionment under the proposed plan
wi‘lnw but SISOOO higher than its pres
ent appropriation arbitrarily fixed under
the recent change in the school law.
‘Mayor Key and other members of the
school board and the finance committee
of Council who woted for the measure
hold that it will give the schools an in.
crease of nearly $200,000.
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ATLANTA, GA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919
““No-Beer-No-Work”
Plan of Labor Likely
To Cause Stir Here
The “no beer-no work™ movement,
started by union labor of New York
as a protest against nation-wide pro
‘hibition,” Is destined to provoke a spir
ited fight among Atlanta union or
‘ganizations ‘when official rwueat' by
the New Yorkers for action here is
received, it is the expressed opinion
6f leaders, who Saturday awaited its
arrival with especial interest.
. It. was stated that the New York
plea, when official notice arrives, will
be given .due consideration and that
definite action will be taken by local
labor bodies, but the labor men hesi
tated to venture a suggestion as to
the possible oulcgmo. It generally
was eonccded, however, .that the
movement would not receive as strong
backing in Atlanta and the South as
has been indicated it will attract in
other sections. It was regarded as
very doubtful t e uthern la
-bmngwnan'\foum% extent of
Joining in a &trike to force the Gov
ernment to permit the sale of beer
and light wines.
Opinion Divided.
It was pointed out by one labor
leader that the Atlanta and Georgia
union men are pretty bagly split on
the prohibition question, one element
favoring beers and light wines as a
solution to the porhibition problems,
another backing absolute prohibition,
and still a third element that is op
posed to the injection of the prohibi
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~ Crashing into a tar-kettle while re
turning to his home on Pace's Ferry
road Friday night at 10:30 o'clock,
William D, Grant, 22-year-old son of
~John W. Grant, was seriously injured
when his car overturned on Peachtree
road and he was pinned beneath the
Tmeerinx wheel. Mr. Grant was car
ried to the Davis-Fischer Sanitarium,
where Saturday morning his injuries
were roported as serious, but not
fatal.
Mr. Grant had just completed the
turn beyond the Brookwood Station
of the Southern Railway. The mr-‘
kettle, being nsed in repairing Peach
tree road, had been left in the road by
the workmen. Mr. Grant did not see
it until too late to avoid contact with
one wheel of his car, and the kettle
was dragged for 50 feet, scattering tar
over the roadway. The force of the
collision threw the kettle directly in
front of the machine. After being
pushed for 40 feet it stalled, causing
Mr. Grant's car to be overturned.
A Buckhead car passed the scene
just after the accident, the passen
gers alighted, and Mr, Grant was sent
to the hospital in a passing auto, He
was stunned, and it was believed that
his injuries were more serious than
subsequent events proved, »
Mr, Grant was discharged from the
naval flying corps only a few weeks
ago, after qualifying at Pensacola as a
pilot. He had enterd the real estate
business with his father in the Grant
Butlding,
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Atlanta This Year
Sixty-sever conventions will be held
in Atlanta thid vear, ¥red Houger, sec
retary of the Atlanta Convention Bu
reau, announced Friday Twenty con
| ventions have been added to the lis=t
#ince the meeting of the bureau Janu
ary 28. One of the most important con
| ventions landed within the last month is
that of the American Institute of Civil
llcnmm'-vrs. who will come to Atlanta in
the latter part of June The Southern
Il"urmlure Manufacturers Assoclation
will meet in Atlanta March 4, Mr.
Houser sald
This is the second year that Atlanta
has been host to the furniture men,
Meeting here last year, they needed no
great urging on the part of Mr. Houser
to get them to come agaln Andrew M
Fairtie, prominent Atlanta chemical en
gineer, gave valuable assistance to Mr
| Hourer In bringing the engineers to
Atlanta One of the prime rwgmsnan
for the convention was available lab
aratories where axperimentg could be
made and Mr. Fairlie proved Atlanta's
superiority in this respect,
tion guestion into the affairs of the
unions, holding that it is entirely an
outside matter. This difference in
sentiment, it was suggested, presaged
some lively discussion whenever the
“no beer-no work” question is raised.
The New York labor men, accord
ing to information from that eity,
have planned to ask every labor or
ganization in the United States to act‘
on the proposition of calling a nation
wide strike to induce the removal of
beers and light wines from the ban
of the new “dry” amendment to the
Federal Conmstitution. The move to
submit the proposition to labor in the
remainder of the country was report
ed to have been indorsed by 300,000
labor men in New York. No objec
tion was raised by t(he New Yorkers
to outlawing whisky, it was said.
Concerted Action Likely.
Atlanta labor men were of the opin
_ag.gnt the movement would gain'
nsiderable momentum outside of
the Southern States, @nd sald that,
regardless of whether a natlon-wide
strike is called, they anticipated some
kind of concerted aetion before the
new amendment becomes affective,
“The South already is accustnmed'
to prohibition, but it will strike other
sections of the country pretty hard,
and indications now are that there
will be a mighty loud clamor for beers
and light wines,” remarked one prom
inent lakor man, who has been closely
studying the situation,
COLUMBIA, 8" C., Feb. 15.—The
Equal Suffrage League of Columbia
has appealed to Mayor Blalock to N‘"
quest the members of the \\'nmen's‘
Party, who are to visit Columbia on
Monday, to refrain from any demon
strations or utterance of disloyalty
to the President. The Equal Suffrage
League emphasizes that it is a branch
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, the tactics of
which are diametrically opposed to
the spectacular practices of the Wom -
an's Party. In the appeal to Mayor
Blalock. the Equal Suffrage League
Says:
“Hearing that a permit has been
given to the Women's Party for a
street meeting on February 17, the
Columbia Equal Suffrage League ear
nestly” begs you to request their
speakers to refrain from any demon
strgtion or speech of disloyalty to
President Wilson.”
The Mayor is urged to take such
action as is incumbent upon the of
fice. :
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82d Will Seon Be Home
That the Eighty-seeond Divislon
soon will be on its way home was the
opmion expressed in Atlanta Saturday
by Colonel Bruce Mcßride, of the Third
| Army Corps, who i 8 visiting his parents,
It‘ulnm-l and Mrs. A. J Mcßride, No
188 Cooper straet Colonel Meßride,
| whose corps has been at Coblenz, has
| not seen the Kighty-second, and spoke
L only from unofficial information
l “The Eighty-second is not on the list
of units intended to remain In France,”
|he sald, ‘“This would indlcate it soon
| will be sent home,"
Colonel Mcßride does not believe it
likely the division will be sent to its old
home, Camp Gordon, to be demobilized
“The rule is to demobllize a divigion
’hl the camp, nearest the homes of most
of the men,” he sald,. ‘Most of the
Kighty-second men were from the Fast
’Il seems, and Camp Upton therefore is
likely to be the camp chosen.'
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Carolina Lawmakers Gel
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Suffrage Valentines
COLUMBIA 8. C., Feb. 15, ~Every
member of the House and SBenate of the
South Carolina General Assembly found
a valentine on his desk I'riday It was
in the shape of a red heart and hore the
inmeription, “Have a little heart, Votes
for women There i& no clue as to the
origin of the valentines,
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Sinn Fein President
Is Reported as Dead
(B{ International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 15, -~There is a per
sigtent report at Cork that Professor de
Valera, M, P,, president of the Sinn Fein
organization, lis dead He recently es
caped from prison and was lalter re
ported to be on his way to Paris,
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(By International News Service.)
MADR'D, Peb. 15.-—A state of siege
was declared at Grenada loday, fol-‘
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lowing riots in whick three pvrsmm‘
vere kille! apd twenty injured. :
Unequal distribution of food was
said to be the cause. 1
The custom house was burned by
the riolers.
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Berlin Warehouse :
Strikers Riot }
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15 —Consider
able rioting has marked the strike of
the warehouse workers in Berlin, ac
cordiug to a dispatch from there today.
'Fnfly thousand workers are out,
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Government Seizes
Belfast Plants
(By International News Service.)
BELFAST, IRELAND, Feb. 15.—Gov
ernment troops today took possession
of the %as works and electric power sta
tion he Mayor has appesaled for vol
unteers to carry on the mumicipal serv
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To Try New Torpcdo‘
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.—The experd
mentation by the United States Gove |
ernment of the operation of torpedoes
and ‘‘under-water carriers of high ex
plosives’—with the view of determin
ing the advisability of constituting this
marvelous invention as part of the de
| sense system of the United States-—and
the appropriation of $417,000 with which
to carry out these trials, are recom
mended to Congress in the fortifications
appropriation bill for the fiscal vear,
1912, just reported to the House
| John Hayes Hammond, of Washing
ton, D. C., is the inventor of the radio
dyrnamic torpedo, and although the in
vention for some time has been undser
investigation by a joint army and navy
| board, this is_the first step tdfvard act
ual demonstrition by the Goverament
of the r:ylm torpedo \
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' Special Board Examines
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Conscientious Objectors
(By International News Service.)
LEAVENWORTH, KAN., Feb, 1)
}\Vht-n Judge Mack, of Chicago, and
Dean Stone, of Columbia University,
{ Special investigators of the War De
partment, arrived at Fort Leavenworth
they Immedjately began reviewing and
'KUIIIK over she cases of the 450 or more
conscientious objectors now confined to
llho barracks As in the previous ex
amination of the objectors, following
which 113 of the objectors were re
leased from the barracks upon recom
mendation of the investigators the men
apoeared before the examiners and were
| agked questions and statements of thelr
cases are taken
' It is thought the present session of
the investigating board will oecupy
| several weeks
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Golden Fails to Get
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Conference on Strike
COLUMBUS, Feb, 15 After spend
ing five days here in a futile attempt
to obtain'a conference with Columbus
mill owners, John Golden, president of
the United Textile Workers of Ameriea,
left last night for Tennessee and North
Carolina. He will return here later and
attempt a settlement of the textlle
strike
Approximately 8,000 striking opera
tives staged an orderly parade on Broad
street yesterday
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Michigan Wants Yanks
Withdrawn From Russia
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| WABSBHINGTON, Feb. li.—A petition
gigned by 105,000 cQlizens of Michigan
and calling on Congress to request the
| War Department at once to withdraw
| American troops from Russia or reiu
force them, has been presented in the
flluuw- by the Michigay delegation, a«
ling Jointly in behalf of the Michigan
| citizens
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Berlin Police Arrest
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Russ Bolsheviki Agent
BERLIN, Feb 14 (via London, Feb. 15)
Karl Radek the gelf-confessed agent
of the Russian Bolsheviki In Germany
i# being held here incommunicado He¢
Is kept heavily fetterad, even in hig cell
Anticipating his arrest Radel had
conferred power of attorney upon a
friend, Slegfried Weinberg
Issued Daliy and Butered as Second-Cless Matter ai
the Postoflice at Atianta Under Act of March 3, 1879
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{ ASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Vice
g W President Marshall has
¢ caused to be read into the
? Congressional Record a resolution ?
‘2 adopted by the Ohio Legislature,
} calling for the “apprehension and
¢ trial of Wililam Hohenzollern.”
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By BERT FORD,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION, COBLENZ, GER
MANY, Feb. 16.—"“Take the Dean
brgthers, 1f it had not been for them,
the cars in the pressg section couldn't
have run, and, without cars, the
American public would not have had
much war news. They show what
was done behind the scenes by men
of the A, K. I, who.don't get cita
tions or medals, but who are there 24
hours a day.”
Sergeant Jack Corper, of New York
City, senior N. C. 0,, of the transpor
tation branch of the American press
section, spoke with feeling and he was
right. Officers, chauffeurs and mech
anicians contributed to the har:'fst
ing of news of what the Yanks were
doing along the western front, al
though the part they played was not
spectacular, and might easily be over
looked.
Mechanics toiled over cars plastered
thick with the grime of battlefields,
day and night, in heat and cold, fair
weather and foul, and they never
grumbled. Chauffeurs went without
sleep and meals, They remained out
all night, often forced to convert the
front seats into beds in wet, penetrat-
Ang weather,
Rode Into Gun Range.
They drove through areas shelled
and gassed. They carried their cars
into machine gun range under the or
ders of correspondents whose duties
compelled visits to advanced F. C.'s
They drove without lights on nights
as black as ink, during air raids, and
navigated through the hazardous con
gestion of armies moving into battle,
And yet in spite ofthe dangers and
the hard work the chauffeurs who
drove tne correspondents had the
most faseinating jobs in the army,
They went everywhere and saw :Ih()\l{
everything that was golng on, because
the accredited correspondents had to
keep close to the heels of the devel
opments. They saw every nook and
cranny of the battle area, toured the
Britsh and French fronts in addition
to the American battle lines. "They
gaw all the big generals and dignita
ries and they had no end of narrow
vl‘u'upm:. Meanwhile the mechanics,
the Dean brothers and others toiled
under cars .and tinkered with parts
and listened to the day's adventures,
and did not complain about their lot,
because they are soldiers But they
sure did envy the men at the wheels
of the correspondents’ cars, )
Drivers Showed Bravery.
The drivers often were placed in
tigght places with their machines,
owing to the zeal of the news hunt
ers, but they never showed the white
feather, One day Corper was at
tucked by a boche aviator who let
looge a maehine gun, Jack first speed
ed and then slowed up, avoiding the
range, until the Hun was driven off
by Allied planes The chauffeurs
and mechanics came from all parts
of the United States,
There wasn't an abler driver in
the bunch than Corporal Charles
Barnes, of Aurora, 11, Sergeant Jack
Smith, of Sioux City, lowa, drove
for a general before joining the press
gang. loyd Bish, of San Antonio,
came over with the first American
unit
Corporal Clyde Foster, of Advance,
N. ', was an undertaker Before he
came over )
Other drivers who never shirked
o flinched include Corporal William
Burgess, of Johnson, 111.; Frank
Jones, a North Dakota cow puncher;
Fercy Callahan, of Detroit; Frank
West, Spanish war veteran, and John
McEnery, of New York City,
Couriers Given Praise.
The courters deserve a ilon's share
of praise, They carried the copy to
the telegraph stations through mud
and rain, often riding all night,
They included Sergeant Herman
Downer, of Richmond, Va.; Cogporal
Robert Ash, of Plaza, N. D.; Cor
poral Hugh Thompson. of Charlotte,
N. €, and Willlum Carnall, of Farls
ington, Kan. The latter was the star
dispateh rider,
[EVENING
_EDITION |
(By International News Service.)
BREST, FRANCE, Feb. 15.—Pre
dent Wilson began his return journu
to the United States at 11:15 o’clock
this morning.
At that hour the American transe
port George Washington, formerly the
Hamburg-American liner, with the
Chief Executive and his party aboard,
steamed eut of the harbor,
The scenes attending the departure
of the President were spectacular.
Huge crowds lined all parts of the
water front and there werd continuad
cheers as the liner slowly made ite
way out to sea. =
. ’ .
Wilson’s Prestige «
Greater Than Ever
By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N, 8
PARIS, Feb. I.’).—~l‘|'esi?.‘nt Wilson
sailed for the United . States from
Brest today clothed with even greater
rrestige than when he arrived in Bu«
rope. This was due solely to his
magnificent achievement in getting
the plan for a league of nations
through the committee stage and bes
fore the peace conference before time
for him to leave for home.
The French, who were somewhat
touchy” at times, notably ovemtlfi
President’s opposition to international
land, sea and air forces, now acclaim
his work in the leagune of nations
committee as the strongest peace
guarantee the world has ever k;’!own.,,“
The French are particularly grdftified
that the superstate idea has been
overthrown,
Opposed Superstate ldea.
As a matter of fact, no greaté‘
tion was emnthusiastic over the ;
pect of an international body worke
ing like a medieval popey superior to
the-state :
Neither the United States, Great
Britain nor France was ready to surs
render a particle of state indepenmds
ence or constitutional rights,
Newspaper comment today shows
the experts who imagined Presiflent
Wilson ecame to KEurope to found &
modern utopia now admit he leaves
behind him a highly practicaf, simple
and workable scheme which requires
little amendment before it goes inte
actual effect,
Approved By 14 Nations. ~
As it stands, the draft reports t
unanimous judgment of fourteen na
tions: United States, British Ei
rance, Italy, Japan, Belgiom, Bras
China, Crecho-Slovakia, Greece, Pos
land, Portugal, Roumania and Serbia,
In leaving the draft in the hands of
the peace conference yesterday Pres
ident Wilson uttered a frank warning
against any attempt to clothe what W=
really a simple covenant with heavy
wrappings and ‘the deepest impres
sion was. left on everyone who lNst«
ened to his eloquent recormmmandation
for the acceptance of the draft with
the least possible change.
He reminded the delegates that
they represented 1.'.‘U0,0M.(-OOMW.
and that it 1s the opinion thesa
peoples that they had to satisfy, &
Attack on League _@g
- )
Plans Forming Y
(By. International News Service
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.—The linen
of attack and defense of the leagus
of nations constitution, read to the:
plenaty wession of the peace confers"
ence by President Wilson, were take
ing form in the Senate today.
Preliminaxy skirmishing was exe
pected this afternoon, but the main
battle sf*opinion is not expected be
fore the constitution draft s acted
upon by the peace fonference)
Senators expect that many amends»
ments to the proposed constitution
will be offered, especially by the rep«
resentatives of the smaller powers,
Thesge amendments, they belleved,
would be rejected for the most part,
and the constitution approved by the
conference practically as it was pes
yorted
; Principal Objections.
The principal objections in the
Senate to the covenant as it was
drafted are
1. That it does not make cleap
what agency is to control the naval
and military forces that may be calls
ed upon to enforce the judgments of
the league
2. That it leaves to the judgment
of an outside agency how great shatl
e the reduction in the armaments
of the several members of the leagune,
These will be the two main points
upon which the attack of opponents
of the League of Nations idea in the
Senate will center There are many
minor objections and at the same
time many of the general ideas con=
tained in the constitution are coms
piended, even by those most bitterty
crposed to any departure from the
policy of “no entangling alliances™
Views as to Success.
Senators on both sides were o
clined to agree that the League of
Nations will be guccessful only n se
{ 15 It 18 guceessfully administered.
This idea was expressed by Sehator
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