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Have You Any Millions?
They Are Safe Here.
y | America, Conservative Land!
Let Others Experiment.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE __|
If you have millions stored away,
and are worrying about bolshevism,
radicalism, revolution or anything
*red,” stop your worrying, so far as
this country is concerned.
There has never been since the
world began a country more secure
fgf- Jholders of property than the
United Statas.
In no big nation is the demand for
radical government change or for in
terference with the establishd system
of government by well organized
property interests as small as it is in
this country.
This is the conservative country of
the world and of all time. Put that
down on your tablets.
The railroads have secured their
lfl/fislatlon, and they go back to priv
ate owners with permission to make
b 1-2 per cent on their capital, after
having had $900,000,000 of public
money put into them.
\ Many roads were built unwisely.
Others were built purely for black~
mailing purposes, like the West Shore
to blackmail the New York Central
Badly planned roads, blackmailing
roads‘and all others are to have thelr
b 1-2 per cent, after and over all the
inside grafting that may be done by
purchasing departments, big salaries
and so on.
The steel trust is the greatest in
d‘;stria] organization in the world.
First, it beats its workmen with
perfect ease, making their strike
ridiculous.
Second, it wins its fight in the Su
preme Court, and is told that it isn't
a trust in violation of the law, which
means that all similar organizations
may proceedv along present lines.
The country qught to have gov
ernment ownership of railroads. But
organized capital doesn’t approve of
it and the country is not to have it.
The people ought to retain posses
sion of their national properties, ex
vpjoiting and developing them for their
!-I:m use.
The navy is shert of oil, doesn’t
xnow where to get it. The people
own the richest oil lands. But those
government lands are turned over to
private -exploiters, who- will charge
Nuyers, including the navy, the high
est possible price.
Organized finance is not willing to
Jot the people retain and develop their
properties.
The great need of a nation as we
Jearned in the late war is plenty of
ships under the national flag and
government control.
The people were taxed billions to
build ships and provide huge sums
for profiteers typified in the well
named Hog Island enterprise.
Having been taxed to build the
:#ips, the people, through their gov
frnment, ought to keep and operate
them, using profits to increase wages
and diminish freight rates.
But organized tinance forbids the
people to go in business for them
gelves. They are to work for wages
while financial intelligence runs busi
ness and takes the profits.
Therefore, ships built with taxes
taken from the people are to be dis
tributed among private owners and
put under foreign flags. The ruling
power demands it.
We have not seen even the begin
ning of trust development or trust
Yflwer in this country., Private ex-
JJoitation of public monopolies is
only beginning.’
The heathen madical will rage.
but all kinds of government experi
ments working out different theories
are useful and necessary. °
_From these experiments eventually
\Hll come the best possible govern
yant for the kind of beings that in
habit this planet.
You have in Russia the extreme of
radicalism. You have in Italy intense
socialism, with a royal palace and
the headquarters of a powerful re
ligion forming two little islands in
the sea of radiealism.
France is radical to the last degree.
England would be governed by her
Jaborers, like Russia now, weére it not
that she has at the head a wise king
wisely kept in the background and a
great body of the most highlystrained
statesmen in the world absolutely and
fntelligently devoted to itheir nation’s
welfare.
In other parts of Europe you have
every conceivable phase of construc
tion and disintegration. You have
Turkey dying, the Balkans trying to
come to life.
It is just as well probably for the
human race as a whole that this
country should go ahead, conserva
tive, using wealth spared by the war
#0 create more wealth,
‘}{ere we shall test thoroughly the
power .of industrial and capitalistic
feudalism to solve, in the feudal
fashion, the temporary problem which
is to give just emough to the many
and too much to the few.
P In any case, whether it suits you or
not, realize for your guidance that
the United States for years to come
is to be the conservative country of
the world, the country in which wise
men from mote agitated lands will
invest their accumulated eapital far
it S SSy
For Atlanta and Vicinityy Fair Sun
day; Mpnday fair, warmer; moderate
northwest winds, becoming variable.
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KASER'S AMDES NOW RULE BERLIN
FOCH GOES 10 MAYENCE TO WATCH DEVELOPMENTS;
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Atlanta Urged as Location of
Branch of Bureau of Foreign
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Georgia Working With Leaders
to Obtain Foreign Commerce
for the Southern Seaports.
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E PDANVILLE, Va, March 13.—That
the South is “on her toes” for foreign
| trade is evidenced by the organization
of commercial bodies of four South
Atlantic States into a South Atlantic
“States Association, with the prime
,pfi}pnse of promoting interests of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia and Florida in the markets of
the world.
Following addresses of Senators
| Ellison Smith and G6v. T. W.
;Bickett. organization resulted from
' the foreign trade conference in
| Greensboro March 12 and 13, at which
!100 progressive and prominent busi
[ ness men of the South conferred with
officers of the bureau of foreign and
l domestic commerce from Washington,
traffic men gnd technical advisors as
|to ways and means of best develop
ing foreign trade potentialities of
the South.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
The conference from which the
| South Atlantic States Association
lgrew was held under auspices of the
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
and the South Atlantic Export Com
pany, whose president, Matthew Hale,
was elected first president of the new
association. The following additional
officers were elected: Vice presidents,
one from each State, ex-Gov. John
Gary Evans of Spartanburg, S. 4
| Hollins N. Randolph of Atlanta and
Fulton Saussy of Jacksonville; sec
retary, C. G. Yates, with an assistant
secretary from each State as follows:
A. V. Snell of Charleston, S. e ¥
Roger Miller of Macon, Ga., and B.
R. Kessler of Jacksonville. A board
of eight directors was chosen, two
from each State, as follows: Hugh
Chatham, Winston-Salem, oW O C.
C. Smoot, North Wilkesboro, N, C.;
Davis C. Dunham, Greenville, 8. O}
J. D. Miot, Columbia, S. C.; Leland
J. Henderson, Columbus, and William
A. Lee of Augusta; D. C. Gillette,
Tampa, and Jules Burguires of West
ePalm Beach, Fla. Robert D. Douglas
of Greensboro, N. C, was elected
treasurer.
Senator Ellison D. Smith spoke of
the tremendous handicap transporta
tion business of the country is op
erated under, saying: “It was due to
the system of concentrating at a few
North Atlantic ports all exports and
imports of the country. All lesser
raliroad lines of the country have
been made tributary to trunk lines
leading to and from North Atlantic
ports, and the logical result has been
congestion, confusion, demoralization
and incaleulable loss of time and
money. Such condition reacts in every
department of industrial life of the
country. Ships can not find berths
in these congested ports. Loaded
cars can not get near warehouses al
ready overflowing. Empty cars can
not get out of these ports. Blocking
of tracks and terminals increase dan
ger of theft and pflleyage. And ali
the time Southern ports are free and
capable of taking care of four and
five times the traffic coming through
them. If traffic that is naturally
tributary to southern ports were di
| verted to them, a greater development
| would result not only 'in the South,
lbut in the Middle West, which is
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Ebert Ordered
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His Troops Not
To Firepa Shot
BERLIN, March 13.
THE explanation of how the
Ebert government was
overturned without a drop of
blood being shed was obtained
this afternoon.
When President Ebert fled this
morning in a motor car toward
Weimer he left explicit orders
to the government troops not to
oppose the advance of the revo
lutionary forces, and to avoid all
bloodshed. In consequence, the
government troops retired with
out firing a shot.
Veteran Construction Man Passes
Away at the Home of His
Daughter.,
Jacob Eiseman, for fifty years a
resident‘ of ‘Atlanta, died ‘Saturday
at the residence of his daughters,
Mrs. T. H. Brannen, 21 West Fourth
street. Funeral services will be
conducted at that address Monday
morning interment at Oakland.
Mr. Eiseman was actively en
gaged in construction work during
his residence in Atlanta, coming
here from Gainesville, Ga., while a
young man, and taking up his resi
dence at 38 Hayden street, where he
lived until a few weeks ago when
he was taken to the hom ot his son
in-law and daughter.
he married Miss Burrilla Booker of
Cassville, Ga., who died about two
years ago. He is survived by his
daughter, Mis. T. H. Brannen.
He was first associated wilh W_T.
Healey Sr. as superintendent of
censtraction, and wita Mr. Healey
he erected the old First Baptist
Church at Valton and Nor:h For
syth streets., De give's old theater
on Forsyth street, and many other
prominent buildings in Atlanta,
Mr. Iliseman served with distinc
tion in the Confeedrate army and
was woundsd in the bhattle of At
lanta. He was a member of the
Camp Walker J. C. V. He was al
ways prominently identified with all
civic movements in connection with
Atianta’s growth. He was a mem
ber of Schiller Lodge 1. O. O. F. and
the Cherokee Tribe of Red Men.
The pallbearers and the hour of
funeral and interment will be an
nounced later,
Board for Vocational
.
Education Is Scored
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Grave
charges of maladministration were
made against the federal board for
vocational education tonight by Har
old Littledale, a newspaper writer of
New York, testifying before the
House Education Committee,
Littledale asked the committee to
make a thorough investigation of the
charges which he made that the
board has used the misfortune of the
ex-soldier for political purposes and
that it has failed to care properly
for those ex-service men who desire
the training to which they are en
titled.
O -~ders isued by the board for han
dling cases were “hard boiled,” Lit
tledale declared. He recommended
the discharge of James P. Monroe, a
member of the board, and Willilam
A. Clark, in charge ih New York.
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Atlanta Missionary
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Dies at Korean Post
A cable message from Korea has
just annoanced the death in Mokpo of
Mrs, J. 8. Nesbit, who with her hus
band was the North Avenue Presby
terian Church missionary in that
country. Mrs. Nesb‘t, who was
widely known in Atiant:a, had been ill
for some time, according to letiers
received from her husbanl dated De
cember 8,
Mrs. Nesbit was n woman of strong
personality and intellectual attain
ments, The Rev. Richard Orme
Flynn, the pastor, has asked mem
bers to unite in their prayers for the
bereaved huehiod ad family
Belgian, British and French
" Forces Would Join Americans,
~ Probably Under Mar, Petain.
Officials in Washington Make No
Effort to Conceal Belief That
the Situation Is Now Critical.
By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS,
Staff Correspondent of I. N. 8. |
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Fifteen
thousand American doughboys on the
Rhine tonight are awaiting but a
word from Marshal Foch to begin a
‘march on Berlin, according to reliable
‘infom;a.tiofi obtained here.
| The Washington opinion is that this
‘word will not be long in ferthcoming
if the news from London and Paris
proves true, that the revolution in
Germany was inspired by royalists,
and that its purpose is to restore the
Hohenzollerns to power. |
With the American contingent,|
which would be a comparatively sman‘
part of the army operating against
Berlin, would be the Belgians, Brit
ish, and equal to all the . others put
together, the French troops, probably‘
under the direct command of Marshal‘
Petain.
THINGS ADMITTED BAD. ‘
Officials, in receipt of sufficlent
confirmation from American embas
sies abroad to show that something
serious is taking placv>s in Germany,
make no effort to conceal the impres
sion that the situation looks bad.
They were inclined, however, to offer
little comment, ‘
Nevertheless it was learned that if
the revolution is merely the attempt
of one faction to oust another, to set
up a representative government of
its own, the allied army of occupa
tion will merely “stand to” and see
that the disturbance is Kkept within
bounds. '
If, however, the situation inside
Germany should threaten to get out
of hand, the officers commanding the
various zones of occupation have the
power to proceed “to restore order”
on their own initiative.
Major General Henry T. Allen is in
command of the American forces in
Germany. He is chc :d with "keep
ing order” within his zone. For a
major operation he would take his
orders directly from Marshal Foch,
generalissimo of tha allied armies,
who, under the supreme counci!,
would gi the final word of com
mand to push on to “erlin.
MAY REALIZE DREAMS.
To march in triumph dowin the ave«
nue of Unter den Linden has been
the dream of doughboys, po!', Tom
my and Belgian bunkie since war was
first declared.
Under Major General Allen are 774
officers and 16,816 men of other ranks.
Most of these are quartered in and
about Coblenz. A mere handful are
in Berlin, where they are attached to
the allied mission.
The Belgians could put into the
field a force considerably larger than
this.
According to latest military advices,
‘the British army on the Rhine, based
‘upon Cologne, numbered 106,000 all
ranks. |
" To the north and south of Strass.
burg were 154,000 French soldlers
ready for operations.
The total number of allied troops
available for immediate action there
fore is in the neighborhood of 300,000.
Supporting them is a colossal quan
tity of supplies stored at ¢ avenient
depots at bridgeheads and all on the
right, or east, bank of the Ehine.
Across the rond to Berlin, blocking
ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1920.
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German Delegation in Paris
Thinks Revolution Will Be Op
posed by All German Populace.
Spirit of Nation Is Against Set
ting Up of Throne Regime, and
- Even Now Trouble Is Brewing.
LONDON, March 13.—Marshal
Foch will hasten to Mayence, head
quarters of the French army of oc
cupation in Germany, tomorrow, as a
result of the German revolution, said
a Paris dispatch to the Sunday Ex
prési tonight. The allied armies of
occupation are said to be ready for
any eventuality,
The German delegation in Paris
confirms the report that the revolu
tion is monarchical and that it is
supported by the militarists.
German officials in Paris express
the Lelief that the new German gov
ernment headed by Dr. von Kapp wlil
not last more than a few days. It
s believed that a counter-revolution
is already brewing and will bé pre
cipitated by a general strike, added
the Sunday Express correspondent,
He continued: 4
“It is believed that the struggle be
tween the German Socialists and
Pan-Germans will be brief and will
end in the return of the Socialists to
power. There is gravesdanger, how
ever, that the savage fighting and
bloodshed which are expected to fol
low will result in a spartacist gov
ernment at'Berlin.”
|l WI Wl EUI[TY
(By International News Service.)
MONTESANO, Wash., March 13.—
A jury, which for two months had
been hearing evidence against ten al
leged I. W. W, accused in connection
with the murder on Armistice Day
of Lieut. Warren O. Grimm, returned
a verdict late tonight finding seven
of the defendants guilty of second
degree murder, acquitted two and ad
judged one defendant insane:
The case had been given to the
jury early in the afternoon.
The jury had rendered two ver
dicts, but Judge John M. Wilson de
clared them improper and ordered
them back to the jury room for fur
ther deliberations.
Those found guilty of second de
gree murder were: DBritt Smith, O.
C. Bland; Bert Bland, J. C. Mclner
ney, Ray Becker, Eugene Barnett and
John H. Lamb.
Loren Roberts was adjudged in
sane, o
Attorneys Elmer Smith and Mich
ael Sheehan were acduitted.
The jury was immediately dis
charged aftér the verdicts were read.
Sheriff John F. Berry of Lewis
County arrested Smith and Sheehan
in the court room after they had been
acquitted on warrants charging them
with murder in the first degree for
the killing of Arthur McElfresh, one
of the two victims of the Armistice
Day shooting, besides Warren O.
Grimm.
Merchants Robber Is
Arrested Within Hour
Less than an hour after K. 8. Mer
lin. a merchant at 58 Wellborn street,
was robbed at the point of a revolver
by a masked negro, Policemen Wood
and McWillilams entered the home
of George Johnson, a negro, at 251
Greensferry avenue, and arrested him
for the crime. They were guided by
accurate degcription of the robber by
Merlin and his son
Ludendorff
Led Plot, Says
London Editor
By J. L. GARVIN,
Editor of the London Observer.
(Special to I. N. 8.)
\ LONDON, March 13.
IAI\I not in the least sur
prised gt the coup d’'etat
in Berlin. I believe Ludendorff
is behind the movement because
he has Jled the reactionary
movement since the armistice.
Unless the movement is blotted
out, Hindenburg will be pro
claimed regent preparatory ’to
the return of one of the younger
Hohenzollerns to the throne.
It is thke supreme council's
most urgent duty to warn Ger
many that the world will not
tolerate this revival of mili
tarism.
Germany’s New Chancellor, Born
in New York, Boosted
U-Boat Warfare.
(By Universal Sarvice,)
NEW YORK, March 13 —Dr. Wolf
gang Kapp, leader of the counter
revolution in Germany which over
threw the Ebert government and now
chancellor of Germany, was born in
New York June 24, 1858. He is the
son of a German revolutionist of 1848,
who was compelled to flee to Amer
ica.
Doctor Kapp is president of the
Fatherland party, a Pan-German or
ganizatien, and during the war, was
one of the most ardent advocates of
the “ruthless warfare’ He urged the
construction of more and more
J-boats and to the submarine war
fare gave credit to the fact that
Japan did not sénd a great army to
urope,
Doctor Kapp was a former con
servative member of the Reichstag
and general director of the German
Agricultural Society. 7e had a sharp
quarrel with Former Chancellor von
tßethmann-Hollweg durinz one of the
stormy periods of the war and there
‘iwns talk of a duel between the two,
After the abdication of Emperor Wil
llinm and the signing of the armistice
Doctor Kapp was one of the men
lwhose arrest was urged by the In
dependent Socialists on the ground
that he and his associates had been
responsible for the econtinuation of
the war,
Maj. Gen. Baron von Luettwitz, who
has been named commander in chief,
was military governor of Belgium
during the early periol cf the war
and later was'a commander on the
Verdun froat.
Gen. von Luettwitz was one of the
leaders of the military party who
opposed the peace t=caly Befure the
war he had held posts of military
attache of the German embassies at
London end Petrograd.
Gen, von Luettwitz is a thorough
Prusgsian. He has an A nerican wife,
who was a Miss Curtis Cary of Cleve
land. His marriage to Miss Cary took
place on July 14, 1892, The couple
have two children, irma and Gustave.
President Will Act as
Arbiter on Coal Wages
(By International News Service.)
WASHILNGTON, Marsh 13.—
President Wilson will act as final
arbiter in the controversy over wage
demands of the coal miners.
The President spent part of the day
studying the conflicting reports ren
dered him by the members of the
coal eommission, appointed to ad
just wage demands. It Is expected
that early next week he will render
a desision as between the report
| submitted by Chairman Henry N.
!Rnbim;nn and Rembrandt Peale and
| the minority report of John P. White,
.who represented labor on the com
l mission,
(Covyright, 1913, by the
Georglan Company.)
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Warning to Dutch Government Forthcoming,
Demanding Strict Watech Be Maintained to
Prevent Kaiser From Escaping to Berlin.
STRIKE OF SOCIALISTS IS REPORTED
Outbreak of Fighting in Germany is Expected,
With Noske Attempting to Restore His
Ousted Regime—Ebert Flees to Dresden.
By EARL C. REEVES.
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.
LONDON, March 13.—The German government at Berlin is
controlled by the militarists and monarchists tonight.
President Ebert has fled from Berlin along with other mem:
bers of the old government and, according to reports reaching the
foreign office, has taken refuge at Dresden.
The allied governments are watching future developments in -
(fermany with anxiety. There are fears in some quarters that .
civil war in Germany is inevitable. .
Thé new regime at Berlin diselaims monarchical aims, but a
number of the revolutionary chiefs are avowed royalists and junk
ers, and some of the members of the revolutionary cabinet were
ministers under tHe former kaiser.
SITUATION GRAVE. :
A “high official” is quoted by the
Pall Mall Gazette as declaring that
the situation is one of “intense grav
ity.” The Dutch government, he sala,
would be advised to keep a close
watch on the ex-kaiser to prevent
him from returning to Germany. The
appearance of William at Berlin at
this time, it is said, would aggmvnte‘
a situation that is already anxlous.;
Dr. Wolfgang Kapp was deacr!bed‘
in press dispatches from Berlln as
the imperial chancellor, but reports |
to the foreign office said he really
bad the powers of a military dicta
tor. His decrees are being keenly
scrutinized by allied statesmen, for
he is recognized as a Prussian of the
old school who were the chief sup
ports of the kalger’s war policy dur
ing the world conflict.
How fair the revolutionary move
ment has extended throughout Cer
many was in doub ttonight, but it
was reported in press advices that
all of Munich is held by she revo
lutionary troops as well as Berlin.
ALLIES HAVE NO PLANS.
The allies have not yet decided
upon any definite action, but the dan
gerous new situation which has been
created is already under considera
tion by both the diplomats and the
allled military advisers.
The Central News correspondent at
Amsterdam reported tonight that in
formation had been received from
Berlin to the effect that Karl Helf
frich, former vice chancellor under
under the Hohenzollern regime, has
been appointed chancellor of Ger
many, and that Dr. von Kapp had
formally proclaimed himself dictator.
The German Socialists were report
ed to have proclaimed a general
strike.
The Evening Standarg says that
the allies saw trouble brewing and
recently moved more troops into’ the
Rhineland area, where the allied
forces of occupation are stationed.
The military expert of the Globe
looks for an outbreak of fighting in
Germany, and expresses the belief
that Noske may attempt to restore
the former regime.
HINDENBURG MENTIONED.
In some circles the belief prevailed
that the German reactionaries may
try to install the former crown prince
upon the throne, but this view is not
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generally held. The names most com
monly mentioned in connection with
the revolution are those of Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg and Genera] Lu
dendorff.
Lord Robert Cecil is; among the
British statesmen who claim that the
allied policy was partly responsible
for the debacle.
" “We had known for a long time
that trouble was brewing in Ger
many,” said Lord Robert. “Some of
us saw it was a wrong policy for the
allies to indulge in complete and petty
humiliation for the German govern
ment.”
A copy of a proclamation issued by
Ebert and Noske in Berlin Friday
evening appealing to the populace to
resist the attempt of the militarists
to overtarn the government was re
ceived here today. It says, in part:
“We did not make revolution in or
der to recognize again the bloody
government of mercenaries.
“Use every means possible to de
stroy this return of bloody reaction.
Strike! Throttle military dictator
ship! -
“I"ight with all means at your com
mand for the preservatigpn of the
government. There is one way, and
one way only, to prevent the return
‘ot Wilhelm (the ex-kaiser).”
lDutch Warned to
‘Watch Kaiser Close
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 13.—The first
bulletins from Berlin telling of the
overthrow of the German government
were still buzzing on the wires when
British statesmen gathered for a
hasty consultation as to what offi
cial steps were advisable. Downing
street was in constant communica-~
tion with the Quai d'Orsay at Parls
throughout the day.
A note is said to have been dis
patched to The Hague early in the
day warning the Dutch government
to intensify the watch over ex-Em
peror Wilhelm at Amerongen and his
son, the ex-Crown Prince, at Wieren
gen,
The Pall Mall Gazette quoted a
“high official” as characterizing the
situation created by the German re.
volt as of “intense gravity,” and add
ing that “the Dutch will be well ad
vised to keep a close watch on the
former kaiser, since his appearance
