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VOL. XVII
TAFT OPENS CONGRESS HERE: LAUDS WORLD LEAGUE
Wilson Wins First Round in Extra
Session Battle as Victory Loan
Bill Is Reported Favorably.
(By International News Service.)
: WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—President
f Wilson today won the first round of
his battle with the Senate over the
question of an immediate extra ses
sion, when the victory loan bill was
favo-ably reported to the Senate by
the finance committee, authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to is
sue short-terms notes up to $7,000,-
000,000,
¢An effort was made by Chairman
Simmons to report the bill yesterday,
but it was blocked by Senator Jones,
of Washington, who wanted it amend
ed and who announced he would “talk
at great length” upon the measure if
necessary. Apparently this threat of
a filibuster was overcome by the
President’s visit to the Capitol yester
day, whefi he took no pains to con-<
b‘l his decision that an extra ses
slon will not be called at once, and
“‘l," supply bills are held up, the
Republicans who hold them up will be
permitted to bear the burden of
blame.
‘ Congress will mot permit Secretary
Glass to fix the interest rate on bonds
and the plan for the notes is new
legislation and must be passed by the
present Congress if the notes are to
be issied. o <
If a filibuster holds this legisla
' tion up the Treasury Department will
find itself unable to do its share in
raising the balance of the §19,000-
000,000 which Secretary (ilass has
advised Congress will be the tota!l
expenditures for the present fiscal
year. The President's view, it seems. |
is that if neceéssary legislation is not
enacted because Republican Senmors}
wasted time by talking about the
league of nations, while Demovrmici
Senators at his request, kept silent,
the blame will be n'aced by the peo- ‘
| ple upon the Republicans. "Rhe lat-‘
er, however, retort that the billsi
which have come over \from * the
HBouse are highly important moasuresl
which deserve plenty of discussion
and that they will not accept blame
‘for their failures. Gther bills include
" the army and navy and sundry civil
bills.
The President is keenly anxious to
have the navy bill go through, this
being the measure concerning the
passage of which he cabled Secre
tary Daniels from France. The army
appropriation bill includes the fixing
of the size of the peact time army
and is highiy important.
If these bills do fail of passage
and with only three more legislative
days to go, a very modest filibuster
will hold them up, the President may
be forced to change his mind as to
‘the date of the extra session. At any
te it is very evident that much of
' the Senate is not in accord with his
view.,
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Wilson Denies Report
About Irish Question
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—The
published statement that President
Wilson told members of the Senate
and House foreign relations commit
tees at the \White House dinner that
“the lrish question was a matter be
tween Ireland and England and that
Ireland would not have any voice in
y@e peace confereénce at present,” was
‘“yirorously denied at the White House
this afternoon.
‘“The President wishes me to sas
cthat this statement has no foundation
in fact and is a deltberate falsehood,
said a former denial issued by Secre
tary Tumulty.
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Cascade Tennis Club
Officers Are Chosen
Plans for beginning spring sports
were made by the Casoade Tennls
Club at its meeting Thursday night.
N. H. Giles was elected president,
Walter Anderws vice president and
J. . Cooper, Jr, secretary and treas
urer,
Committees were appointed to put
the courts of the club in shape, and
games are scheduled for Saturday
and Sunday
A number of applications have been
received for membership in the elub,
and it is believed that 1919 will prove
one of the best tennis seasons in his
tory of the erganization,
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Wife Says Husband Had
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Regular Desertion Habit
Mrs. Eva L. Wolfe was deserted repeat
edly by August G, Wolfe, #0 she set out
in & suit for divorce filed I"rm.'\r in Su.
perior Court. She said he would+ leave,
and, after staying away awhile, would
return and Lk her to take him back.
Mrs. Wolfe algo charged that her hus
:and mistreated her, and failed o support
er.
The Sgsslidqgg\ gfm t“l}.emggggfesf qf{ the ljgfaggg*qrf‘ Natiqns Will “Be Open to the Public and All Are Co‘t;'.diallhluy lnvwlt;d‘
Fuli l_nternational. Ne—wa Service
The Jingles in
I The Headlines
By HARVE WESTGATE.
X-PRESIDENT TAFT is with
E us to discuss the league of
nations, and to tell us of his
feelings and his recent observa
tions; we're a people patriotic,
but we hope that war will cease,
and the Scouts who act as escort
will be singing songs of peace
Woodrow Wilson tells the people,
in a way that's most emphatic,
they can trust the scheme he
sponsors, for it's truly democrat
ic; and he ’'lows the counstitution
will not bend, or bulge or crack,
and that things will be quite love
ly once we've taken up the slack.
Angry jailersgnow are puzzled, as
they seek an explanation, as to
how that oily stranger disappeared
down at the station; he just
donned his hat and beat it, and
no jailer saw him “went,” did this
man who earned his litle of an
oily, slipp’'ry gent. Once again we
common people have to stand for
prices soaring, you can hear us, if
vou'll listen, as we do our daily
roaring; we must pay another
penny every time we take a
smoke, but the cruelest blow, by
gthunder, is the upward price of
“coke.”
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N. P. Pratt and George L. Pratt,
weli-known Atlantans, were made
wealthier by $800.060 Thursday when
Congress sent back to conference the
comtrdet -bill, with instructions that
the Henderson Minerals amendment
be accepted. This aection walidated
the claim of the Atlanta men made
for the production of pyriles. .
The Pratts responded to the urgent
appeal of the Government for pyrites
production during the war, and -
vested mgore than SBOO,OOO in their
pyrites property on the Chestatee!
River in Lumpkin County, about 20
miles from Gainesville. Under the ac (f
of Congress known as the Mlnu:‘uls‘
Act, passed October 5, 1918, the Sec
retary of the Interior was author
ized to reimburse operators for ne(‘~!
essary mineral predaction, but nfim‘%
the war the money could not be ;mm‘
out without the further uulhunzution{
by Congress. .
N. P. Pratt 1s president of the N. \'4|
Pratt I.aboratory, assayers, vhmm.\lsi
and manufacturers, while George L.|
Pratt is vice president of the Ches- |
tatee Pyrites and Chemical Corpora
tion. Neither was in the city Friday i
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Denmark Premier Quits
Because Loan Is Beaten
~ (By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 28.—Premier
. T. Zahle, of Denmark, resigned to
day because the Upper House of the
Danish Parliament refused to sanc
tion a national loan of $3,000,000.
The Danish Cabinet was the only
one in Europe that had remained in
tact through the stormy days of the
war, It is likely Mr. Zahle will be
succeeded by Dr. Christensen, The
outgoing Cabinet was said to be
stricter against smuggling into Ger
many than any other in the neutral
countries bordering the German state.
Bolshevism in Denmark was held
“down with a strong hand by Mr. Zahle
and his colleagues.
\ It was this Cabinet which negoti
' ated the sale of the Danish West In
dies to the United States for $25,000,-
000.
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By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
PARIS, Feb. 28.—An unconhfirmed
report that fighting has broken out
between the Italians and the Jugo-
Slavs as a result of the dispute over
the disposition of Dalmation terri
tory was received here today. Ef
forts are being made to pacify the
Jugo-Slavs and the Italians before the
quarrel spreads any further. The
Italians allege the Serbian army has
mobilized and that Serbia is prepar
ing to back up Jugo-Slavia's claims
for territory on the Adriatic littoral.
The Serbians are minimizing the
“Laibach incident”-—the expulsion of
the Italian military mission from Lai
bach. They say it was only a local
matter and will have no serious con
sequences.
Coercion Is Alleged.
The Serbians, in denying there has
been any special mobilization of the
army, assert the Jugo-Slavs have
eleven divisions. 'The Italians charge
this force has been collected merely
to coerce the peace conference into
taking action favorable to the Jugo
‘Slav demands in Dalmatia. 1t is
'semiofficiallv reported by Italians
_that the frontier has been closed from
Tarvis® so” Fame; * The statement
‘added;, - W o S R o X
. “Phe military command at Laibach
has suddehly expelied the Italian mil
itary mission stationed there in con
formity with the terms of the armis
tice to regulate railway trafiic for
feeding the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-
Slovaks.
“The local command contedded that
as the state of Jugo-Slovakia has
been recognized by the Entente, Lai
bach could not any longer be consid
ered any part of the Autro-Hun
garian Empl;p. Despite their pro
tests. Major Dinei Giorgi and all of
the officers of the mission Wero\com
pelled to leave the city immediately.
Confronted by such a serious offense,
the Italian Government. which has
not yet recognized Jugo-Slovakia, or
dered the closing of the frontier, as it
did ndT wish to have recourse to mili
tary occupation, which was agreed to
by the terms of the armistice. At
the same time the Italian Govern
ment took hecessary measures to in
tensify the revictualization of
Jugo-Slovakia.
Train Was Attacked.
“It is worth nothing that since
February 12 a train heurin}f released
Italian subjects was attacKed at the
Laibach station by soldiers in Ser
bian uniform while it was returning
to Italy. The soldiers tore down and
burned Italian flags that had deco
rated the train.”
A dispute has been unofficially dis
cussed by the peace conference dur
ing the week. The Italians desire the
peace conference to take such action
as will check the alleged aggression
of the Serbians, .
I The real cause of the d"npute is
Italy’s demands for Fiume’ and the
| Dalmatian coast, which, Serbia con
tends, would deprive Jugo-Slovakia
of all useful outlets to the Adriatic.-
The feeling prevails here that the
conference will not tolerate any fur
ther inflammatory action an‘ may
anticipate the actual formatioh of a
league of nations and take measures
to calm the dispute. One effective
course suggested is the holding up of
supplies and finances,
It is believed the economic weap
ons would prove most effective,
The Serbians allege Italy has about
3,000,000 men under arms. In this
same connection Italy has begun te
inquire why France has stationed
practically her entire fleet in the
Adriatle.
The question of the frontier of Ger
many will come before the big five
next week, with Premier C'lemenceau
sitting with the French delegation.
The French report on this big prob
lem has not been made, and Andrew
Tardeiu, member of the French dele
gation, refused to discuss the possi
bility of a buffet state being formed
on the western bank of the Rhine, M.
Tardieu's only comment was:
“Neither Belgium nor France can
again allow the left bank of the Rhine
to serve the future offensive base for
Germany, as has been the case in the
past 50 years, We don't want an
nexation; we want only safely"”
l It is believed France will claim the
entire Sarre valley, whose mineral
wealth will greatly compensate her
for economic losses through the
wanton devastation wrought by Ger.
mans in Northern France.
It 1= not positive the peace prelimi
naries will be ready for signatures by
March 8, but it is fairly eertain mili
lmry. naval territorial and financial
terms will be completed by March 15,
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919
THE OLD FAMILIAR SMILE |
William Howard Taft, friend of Atlanta since the Billy Possum days, is here facing the camera. Shaking his hand isi
Mayor James L. Key, who welcomed him at the Union Station when the former arrived Friday for the Southern Congress of the |
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ALBANY, Feb. 28.-—A loss of ap
proximately half a million dollars re
sulted from fire this morning which
destroyed the Davis-Exchapge Bank
Building and three of the largest re
tail stores. The bank building con
tained seventy offices, in which all
tenants guffered complete loss, in
cluding unregistered Liberty bends
and other securities.
The other principal losers were
Churchwell & Carter's department
stores, Watt-Sapp Hardware Com
pany, Exchange Bank and Myer Ros
enburg, groceries, The 8., B, Brown
Building, Bell Drug Store and Wool
worth Ten-Cent Store were dam
aged by water and smoke. The losgses
are about half covercd by insurance.
Senate Beats Effort to
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Lift Cotton Embargo
WASHINGTON, Feb, 2§.—The ad
ministration bill appropriating $1,000,-
000,000 to fulfill the Guvernment's
guarantee of wheat prices to the
farmers for the 1919 crop was passed
early this morning by the Senate,
without material amendment. It now
goes to conference.
After President Wilson had refused
requests of a congressional delega
tion from Soutkern cotton-growing
States to remove export embargo re
strictions on cotton they endeavored
in the Senate to add a rider to the
billion-dollar wheat guarantee bill to
repeal laws authorizing the embargo.
The amendment, however, was re-
Jected, 36 to 23,
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Fatty” Arbuckle To Be
In City This Afternoon
Atlanta movie fans will be given an op- |
portunity Friday afternoon to see "Fatty'
Arbuckie, the funny man of the screen.
l}uu train arrives at the Terminal at 6
p. m. and will stop for 30 minutes, during
which Arbuckle will' delivér 4 short speech
to his admirers
| Louis. L. Dent, muanagber of the 8 A,
Lynch ‘enterprises, and local exhibitors”of
the Paramount and Artetaft filnis, have |
appointed a reception committee of lhrrel
| joeal Movie officials
Wilson to Discuss
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Third-Term Question
With Party Leaders
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Will
President Wilson permit the use
of his name as a candidate for a
third term? '
That was expected to be one of
the important topics at the White
House today when members of the
Democratic National Committee
gathered for luncheon with the
President.
During the meeting of the com
mittee, at’ which Horger 8. Cum
mings was named chalrman, ‘here
was much discussion as to presi
dential candidates, and there was
a persistent demand to know if the
President would permit the use »f
his name. Some of the members
of the committee, it is known, were
inclined to put the question to the
President direct, for the reason
they feel the groundwork of tae
1920 campaign would be simplified
were the answer known,
Another matter the President
was expected to discuss with the
committee is the apparent dead
lock he has reached with the Sen- |
ate over the urgent supply bills, in
cluding the Liberty Loan measvre
and the question as to the date of
the extra session.
Woman Is Found Dead
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From Gas Asphyxiation
Mrs. Amanda C, Clark, 82, was fuund‘
dead in bed from the effects of gas as
phyxiation at her home, No. 208 Spring
street, Friday morning, Her death was
discovered by Percy F. Clark, a suu.‘
when he called her for breakfast It
Is belicved that she accidentally lurnwfl
lon the gas when she cut off the electric
light upon retiring Thursday night. The
gas and electric lights were on the |
same fixture, ;
Mrs, Clark was a native of Augusta,
and her body will be sent to that (-n,\"
for burial after an inquest at the chapel
of H. M, Patferson & Sons Friday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock, She was a uu-m~‘
ber of the Pirst Christian Church, Two !
sons, Percy F. Clark and Roger L. Clark,
survive
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Ruling on Filing of
Income Tax Modified
WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—N0 “urgent |
lrmu\nnk" will have to be given to u--]
cure an extension of 45 days for fl'wmzl
)n\'-'oun profits or income tax returns, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue announced
Thuraday, modifying a previous ruling
The extension may now be ww-nrmll
without any reason belng stated, but
lmw-!mxrth of the estimated tax must
be paid on or before March 15
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lssued Dally and Eutered as Second-Class Matter st
ihe Postofice st Atianta Under Act of March 3, 1379
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Presi
dent Wilson will go to the Capitol
to sign whatever bills are necessary
next Tuesday, when, at noon, the
present Congress will end. This was
announced at the White House today
when the President’s program just
prior to the start of his return trip to
Europe was made public.
After adjournment he will leave im
mediately for his special train at the
Union Station, where he will have
luncheon. He has let it $e known he
has no intention of addressing Con
gress,
The President’s special train will
leave the Union Station early in the
afternoon and will stop en route to
New York at Philadelphia., The Pres.
ident will remain in Philadelphia an
hour and a half to visit his daughter,
Mrs, Francis B, Sayre, and to greet
for the first time his fourth grand
child, the son born to Mrs. Sayre Feb
ruary 23,
The President's train will arrive in
New York at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday
night He and his party will go
direct to the Metropolitan Opera
House, where the President will de
liver an address on the league of na
tions and the work of the peace con
ference,
After his address, the President,
with his party, will go directly to the
George Washington, which is expect
ed to sail about daybreak Wednes
day.
Owen Wants League
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Statutes Changed
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Fab, 28.-The Ameris
onn delegates to the Peace Conference
would be regquested to offer two amends
ments to the lesgue of nations' «constity
tien under a resolution introduced in the
Senate Thursday afternocon by Senator
Owen, of Oklahoma
The first amendiment would prevent the
league from exercising anv contrel over
mports or exports, immigration or emigra
| tion, or the domestic affairs of any mems
l her nation
b T™h econd amendment wonld give the
| lengue the power to mak nternationn! law
throagh the submission of internationnl res
'n'\)' ons to member nntions 'he resolus
tiong waould bhecomie part of international
inw when they have been ratified by all
the States where representatives composed
the executive council and three-fourths of
the other nations in the league '
AR AR AR AA A A A A
HOME EDITION
A Paper for Atlanta, Georgia,
~ and the South
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Any Time; Don't Miss
These announcements were made
following the morfiing session of the
congress: !
Seats will not be reserved for del
egates on the lower floor after the
hour for the opening of sessions,
but will be thrown open to the pub
lie.
l Charles Sheldon, city organist,
will play before the afternoon ses
sion and render a 30-minute recital
before the evening session Satur
day.
Persons who do not wish to at
tend sessions because Mr. Taft's
“name does not appear on the pro
gram are urged to come anyway,
because Mr. Taft has said that he
probably will break into the pro
gram at any time,
Thanks were extended to the For
ty-fifth Regiment band for its mu
siec preceding the session, and also
to Mr. Sheldon for his playing.
Program for the Friday afternoon
and evening sessions follows:
VAfternoon.
2:30 p. m. Auditorium--" Ame
rican lnt‘resl and a League of Na
tions.” !
Addresses-—Dr. George Grafton
Wilson, professor of international |
law, Harvard University; Dean E,
C. Branson, professor of rural eco
nomics and sociology, University of
- North Carolina; Edward A. Filene,
director Chamber of Commerce of
~ the United States.
| Bvening. .
8:15 p. m.—Auditorium-—"Amer
lcan ldeals and a League of Na
tions.”
Addresses—Dr, Anna Howard
Shaw, honorary president of Na
tional American Woman Suffrage
Association; Dr. A. Lawrence Low
ell, president Harvard University;
Captain Thomas G. Chamberlain,
First Battalion, Aireraft Artillery,
AK P [
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Three Burn to Death in
Catholic Home for Aged
(By International News Servics.)
FOND DU LAC, WIS, Feb, 28.—Three
wrgong were burned to death, three
{mdly hurt and nearly a score uuffnrin.’
from shock and exposure as the result
of a fire which swept the Boyle Catholie
Home for the Aged early today
The blaze, which was due to an over
heated furnace, broke out while the
inmates of the home were retiring fog
the night and the sisters in charge of
the institution were at prayer. 'The loss
Is estimated at SIOO.OOO.
NO. 179
Entire South Represented as Na
tables Start Sessions at the
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The world's need for the league
of nations, for a civilized agreement
between cl'vilized peoples which shai
make war unnecessary and virtually
impossible, was outlined Friday in
Atlanta by Willlam Howard Taft,
former President of the United Statos
and now president of the League to
Enforce Peace,
Mr, Taft was the principal speak
er at the forenoon session of the
Southern congress for a league of
nations, held under the duspices of
the League to Enforce Peace, and the
last of a series held throughout the
country. The only other visiting speak
speaker was Dr. Chas. E. Brown, dean
of the School of Divinity, of Yale Un
iversity. The meeting was jpresided
over by Clark Howell, regional chair
man for the South, after it had been
opened by Sam . Dobbs, president
of the Atlanta Chamber of (Com
merce. y
Auditorium Is Filled.
Mr. Taft was greeted by the larg+
est audience which has ever assem-~
bled in the forenoon at the Auditor
dum. The main floor was half-filled
with official delegates, and just be
fore the speaking began it was
thrown open to the public, which
filled it completely. The boxes and
circles were filled, and the bal
conies heid several thousand persons,
There were as many women as men
in the house, and the special sec
tion at the left front reserved for
negro’ delegates held a hundred or
more representatives of that race
Mr. Taft gave many of his hearers
their first clear insight into the pur
poses and the workings of the league
’of nations which President Wilson
is sponsoring and which the Ameri
can public is apn'ked Eto :nd:.r:e.
League Plan Explai &
. He took up the several covendwtl
included in this epoch-making docu
ment and discussed them, one by
one, making his points clear. He
made no attempt at lofty oratory,
nor did he veil his meaning in legal
verbiage. He talked as a plain man
to a plain people, and there was
never a thought which he did net aXw
press in a manner perfectly clear,
“We are to create seven republies
across the seas,” he said at one point,
“The Czecho-Slovak republic, to be
a buffer State between Germany and
Russia, is one, Constantinople is to
be internationalized and the power
of the Turk eliminated forever.”
Wilson's Name Cheered.
Mr. Taft was greeted with cheersd
at this point. The most vociferous
applause, however, came whenever
he mentioned the name of Prestdent
Wilson, with whom he is working to
make the league of nations possible,
Mr. Taft began speaking at 11:20
o'clock and spoke until nearly 1
o'clock. The guestd left immediately
for the luncheon to be given at the
Piedmont Hotel. Sessions were
scheduled for the afternoon at 2:30
o'clock and the evening at 8:1b
o'clock,
Samuel, C. Dobbs, president of the
Chamber. of Commerce, opened the
congress by extending the visitors a
hearty welcome to Atlanta on the
present and future occasions. He
was followed by Clark Howell, re
glonal chairman, who outlined the
prupoges of the gathering. Then the
meetix was turned over to William
H, Taft, former President of the
United States.
Taft and Party Arrive.
Mr. Taft and his party arrived in
Atlanta at 8 o'clock, and were escort
ed to the Piedmont Hotel ‘y the
Atlanta committee, headed by C
Dobbs.
The leaders of the national move
ment for the league of nations trave
eied from St, Louls in the rear Pull
man, not even using a private ecar,
and they detrained on the Pryor street
crossing.
There prabably has never been such
a notable party of visitors since the
Southern Commercial Congress
brought to Atlanta President Taft,
ex-President Roosevelt and Governoe
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
Many Notables in Party.
In this party with Mr, Taft were
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the famous
woman publiclst and suffragist; A,
Lawrence Lowell, president of Hare
vard Unliversity; James W, domfi
former Ambassador to Germany, an
Edward Al lilene, vice chairman of
the executive commitlee,
The party was immediately takes
to the Piedmont Hotel, to be greeted
by Governor and Mrs. Dorsey and
ushered into a private dining room
for an old-fashioned Southern break -
fust of country sausage, eges and
corn muffins, After the breakfass
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