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fii -, - - . .J. POLK COUNTY HEWS; TRYON, N, t 4' 4. ? a V lnnDTAMT NEWS unrui THE WORLD OVER MPCRTANT HAPPENINGS OF TH18 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS! OF THE SOUTH : - , . r.T - : ,: . ; What It Taking 'Place li The South land - Will Be Fouiki In v Brief Paragraphs European The German national assembly pass ed the national army bill on third read- - ing. '';'? " : . V Ground was broken for "Pershing Stadium" iff Paris, where the great inter-allied games will be held in June. "-The stadium is to be situated at Joinville, near. Paris, and will have seating accommodations for 22,000 per sons and standing room ' for 40,000 more.- '' - - ; .- - : ' . -.. .'" The Jugo-Slav delegation to the con ference for peace has presented their terirtorial - claims,: asking ' that the Isonzo be made the boundary between them and Italy, to which Italy raises serious" objection. -: i " The workmen's and soldieis' coun cil of Munich has sent a wireless mes sage to air countries announcing that a dictatorship has been proclaimed in Bavaria; v v : s Prince Leopold, -former commander-in-chief: of the German armies on the Russian front, has been imprisoned at Munich on suspicion of being one of the : instigators of the murder of Premier Eisner of Bavaria. One of .the German long-range guns which shelled Paris at intervals dur ing the last few months of the war, now -is on its way. to Paris, and will be placed on exhibition in the Place de la Concorde. The approximate dates of the de parture for home of two National Guard and two national army divisions comprising half the American army of occupation, have been announced at third army headquarters at Coblens. Domestic . Before an audience that crowded the immense auditorium to "the doors and applauded him to the echo time and again, ex-President Taf t delivered an addressing Atlanta in defense of the league of nations as drafted at the Versailles conferenceand brought back " to the United States by President Wil : sen. ' , , y A' telegram from ' Augusta, Ga., says that it is announced that General Oli ver . Edwards, commander at Camp Hancock, has received orders to dis mantle Camp Hancock with the ex- . . ceptionof a small auxiliary at the re mount station. Capt. Elsberry V. White, survivor of' the Monitor-Merrimac battle in . Hampton . Roads during the Civil war, , r died at Clifton Springs, "N. Y., accord v. ing to advices received by relatives at Portsmouth, Va., aged. 80 years. He was a member of the Confederate en gineer corps, and was assistant engi neer of the Merrimac. " ' . Henry B. Gray, former f lieutenant : governor of j Alabama and prominent capitalist, died suddenly at his home in Birmingham as he sat down to din ner. He .had been down town and was apparently in the best of health and spirits. He was born in Georgia, and had at one time been a reporter on the Atlanta Constitution. As soon as Mrs. Stella Abbott,, who , shot and killed her husband, a fireman, in Atlanta, Ga., makes bond of five thousand dollars, she wil be released from the Fulton courty jail, where she has been confined about two months. All the charges against W. B. Cody, chief of the Atlanta fire department, were dismissed and his administration is head of the department found to be V efficient by the board of fi remasters, .-v before whom his administration had r. been thoroughly " aired, and against whom certain charges of inefficiency had. been filed. - -The Texas state senate has gone on , record as being opposed to a reduction V in the cotton acreage! ; - - The mysterious death in an Atlanta : hospitatl of J. W. Hickman, who said, before his death that he was from -, Brunswick,' Ga., was cleared when G. A. Black; an" employee of the American Shipbuilding company at Brunswick, surrendered to Chief on Police Burgess of "Brunswick, announcing that he was the 'man wlio struck Hillman the blow that produced his death. He said that ,k in a ; dispute over a missing planer, he struck' Hillman.V A later difficulty . :ensued.;l;;' '-v.;Vi'" :' A Mitchell ' Palmer, the alien prop erty custodian, said in a formal state v ment tha the resolution of Republi can Senator Calder calling, for inf or mation covering the operations 'of the custodian's office was fully answered & in his report' now ready for submis ' ' sion to President 'Wilson. 4 . : Mayor William Hale Thompson, Re publican candidate,' was nominated for re-election in the municipal primary . by" an indicated 'plurality, of forty-five thousand tver Chief Justice Harry Ol ' son of the Chicago - municipal court. , R M.' Sweitzer is the Democratic nom inee o over seventy thousand plural- - More than three hundred girls were ; . rescued by ftremena score overcome " by smoke 1 nd ' a dozen 'injured In a ;Pectcular re which destroyed --3th.jp uilding occupied by Duff's lousiness 'lege la the heart of, the usiness -irt ut Pittsburg. ' 1 1 Hit I The members of the Boys' Pig Chin in Georgia, of whom there ire- more than eight thousand, ere going to play an important .part in the coming Diric national power farming demonstration to be held in Macon the week begin ning March slO.. It Is expected that several hundred of them',will attend. ,S.'W. Peek, a prominent - private banker: of Hartwell. Ga., as well as a pecan grower, accidentally shot and killed himself. An industrial commission for con trol and operations of industries; es tablishment of a state ' bank wnn which to finance industries; nome builders' act by Which the state will engage in construction of homes for residents on a building and loan asso ciation basis, are some of the Socialis tic plans that, will be tried out , by North Dakota, such features having been enacted into law by that state. The senate public lands committee. sitting in Washington, recomm.enus that one hundred million dollars be made available to purchase farms for discharged soldiers, and sailors. This measure provides loans to men who served with the armed forces during the war. v ' Thiriv-nine per cent of the army of ficers on duty November 11. 1918. and 33 per cent of the enlisted personnel had been discharged by February 19. Washington - President Wilson has denied the published story of his views on tne Irish questions. 'John Sharp Williams,. Mississippi senator, says the presi dent, when asked about Ireland, re plied that the league of nations had nothing to do 'with domestic ques tions. - - Differences between Democratic and Republican " leaders over the legisla tive situation, echoes from which have been heard daily since-President Wil son made known his determination, not to call an extra session of the new congress until his return from France, may be forced to an issue in the sen ate with the calling up of the "victory loan" bill. The Democrats are quoted as being resolved to push the loan measure. A London dispatch says: "It is nec essary to hold the Dutch army ready against any effort to annex Dutch ter ritory, the Dutch minister declared in an address to the second chamber. He said disarmament at present would be dangerous." 1 A Paris dispatch says: "It wcufd be difficult to, exaggerate the success of President Wilson's first speech at home, so far as its Puris audience is concerned. President Wilson accurate ly, forcefully and courageously put be fore the American people the condi tions in Paris, and it is further felt that he is fighting in America to save all the best possibilities of the Paris conference." News comes by way of Copenhagen that Norman Hapgood of New York has ben appointed American minister to Denmark in succession to Dr. Mau rice Egan, who resigned on account of ill health. Nomination of Hugh C. Wallaceof Tacoma, Wash., to be ambassador to France, has been confirmed by the Senate. Authoritative opinion of American navy officials apparently is definitely crystalized against any proposal to sink the surrendered "German fleet. An outline obtained of the views-held in Washington pointed out that such a course would represent sheer eco nomic waste, for which there could be no possible xcuse. Special allowances t for travel and subsistence are classed as compensa tion on which men in the military or naval service arenot required to mae income tax returns or pay taxes, pro viding the total does not . exceed $3,- 500 for 1918. y Representative Frederick .H. Gillett of Massachusetts was nominated on the first ballot by the Republican con ference as the party candidate for speaker in the next house of represen tatives. w The administration bill appropriat ing one billion dollars to fulfill the gov ernment's guarantee of wheat prices to the" farmers for the 1919 crops was passed by the senate, without material amendment, and now goes to confer ence.' ' "; : Uncertainty over the status of rail roads in the immediate future has been largely removed by Director General Hines' announcement after conferring with President Wilrn that the gov ernment would not turn the roads back to private, management until congress had more opportunity to consider permanent program of legislation. , Homer S. Cummings, of Connecticut, has been re-elected chairman of the national Democratic committee and the committee voted a complete reor ganization for an aggressive campaign in 1920. ; y ' y r Three additional cases of soldiers iq this country sentenced to be shot by courts-martial for military offenses and whose sentences were either remitted or commuted by - President Wilson, have been made public by the war de partment . : '. , v ; - ' , , ' Major General Crowder," judge ad vocate general of the army, appearing before the senate military committee at a resumption of hearings on ' the courtmartial situation, said thst all im prisonment sentences Imposed on men of the army during the war and found upon review to be too severe would be nlitigated through the president's jbw er of remission.' " -r vV .-f it wiU Ycost 5 the American people about' a bfllibn land a' quarter dollars a year for the next twenty-five years to pay off the. war debt, In addition tc interest of $765,060,000 t yrar. v : ii. A,-mfm pEAGE SEITIFlFi m, qunni n-fMMF Qnny 1 Men at the Bush terminal, Bruuklyn, jiving fun with some of the 8G.000 German heluiets that, have been Drought over to be used In the coming Vlctojr loan campaign ; One'will be given each purchaser of a $10,000 bond. 2 First Eagle boat made by Ford under contract for the government, on a practice trip off the Atlantic coast. 3 President Wison delivering his famous addresl on tlie league of nations before the French senate and chamber of . deputies, the chiefs of the peace congress antj other notables, v . j : ' JEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Wilson Argues for a League of Nations and the Senate Debates It. OPPONENTS' STANDING FIRM Peace Delegates Approaching Agree ment oiv Question of Reparation Germany Torn by Civil Strife . and Royalists Plan Coup . - d'Etat Labor Trou- ' bles Here and Abroad. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD. That unless the United States joins the league of nations chaos will re sult; that the Monroe doctrine Is safe because the constitution of the league expands it to cover the world and the signatory nations "will be obligated to uphold It; that It Is practically Im possible to amend the draft of the league plan that was adopted; that the limitations of the sixe of the army and navy Imposed by the league would be only moral obligations and that the restraint really would He In the limi tation of the production of arms and munitions, and that the United States could withdraw from the league at any time It saw fit such In substance was the explanation of the great plan given by President Wilson to the mem bers of the senate and i house com mittees on foreign affairs. - Mr. Wilson dined the committeemen and was frank. Jovial and enthusiastic, and answered all! their questions free ly, but after It was all over the wise ones declared that he had . not. con verted a single one- of the opponenis of the league. These Include both Re publicans and Democrats, and durlnr the rest of " the week they continued their attacks on the plan. The spokes men of the administration replied vig orously, but there was reason to be lieve that nearly every member of the seriate which must pass on the plan, had his mind made up. ' In his Boston speech the president told the people very, little about the league, but In brilliant phrases he ? pealed to the country to support the plan, declaring that the rest of the world relied on America at this junc ture. In this he Is corroborated by the British, press, which shows some anxiety over the opposition manifest In this country, and some fear that America will not-be willing to assume her share of the burden of governing. the world. It is recognized, abroad and at home, that the American people might look askance at any proposition that they accept mandates for such territories as the" former German colo nies in Africa, and the president says that In Paris he firmly . discouraged any such idea but he thinks the Unit ed States might weil become the man datory for the Armenians.' As for the newly organized nations of Europe, he says it Is "up to America to stand by them, whether or, not the league of .na tions Isformed. i In France the opposition to the, league, based ostensibly on the lack of a binding provision for the use of force to put its mandates into effect, has largely died out because the crit- les feared that opposition there and In America would kill the entire proj ect. The emissaries of the allied na tions s re now said to be In complete harmony In this matter, v As the week closed there were signs that the principles of the league might be given a tryout In settling the dis pute between the Italians and the' Jugo slavs, which had ' reached 'a critical stage. .The military commission of the' latter had expelled the' Italian military mission from' Lalbach, and In retail-' atlon Italy closed te f riontlerstopplng all food trains carrying relief for the Jugo-Slavs f and j the Czecho-SIovaks; On Fridaytha drpft of ,the neW and perma nent armistice was submitted to the' supreme council In Paris, but may: not be placed before the German gov- . 4 il nenr i erpmenf for some time yet.; The alued nations agreed , to it hut the United States! Reserved the right to object to provisions for the demolition of. the defenses, of the Kiel, canal, and Helgo land aril . their neutralization and . to the triifer of the German cables to the allls: The reasons for objtvting were no made public. t . . The commission that. Is working on the qution, of , representation has been making swift progress. It l r-' portedjlfhat the amount Germany will be called on to pay has been reduced eboutljp per cent from the original total jof the demands, but thU fact will no afford the Huns much oo:i.o latlonThe cut was mad because it was " rSognlzed that the greater thi Indempjty the greater must be the op portunity given Germany to do busl-; ness lfiiprder to get the money, to pay the debjf. The British , urge that the entire! post of the war shouM be as sessed j against the German ? ; t he French gree with this, but want set tlemenfirst for damages In violation of lntei-nationar law and pannent of the res If and when possible; ihe Americans have held that reparation should be demanded ' only for wanton dest rucon. The compromise plan' tha t will beffldopted probably will be such that Germany's industrial recovery shall nt be too swift, at the expense of France arid Belgium. The matter Of theP Franco-German frontier was still unsettled last week, but It seemed likely Jtatthe French might be per mitted! ifjp occupy the left bank of th Rhine luntll the Idemnity Is, paid, without! annexing the Rhenish prov inces. jJo German fiehl or fixed forti fication will be permitted In that ter ritory; The Rhenish provinces may be formed ifnto a separate buffer state. The I pupreroe council decided last week foestablish an interraetliate zone In Transylvania between the Roumani an arirt: Hungarian troops, and also heard te claims of Armenia. ; ' ' i ' " - ' Oneiestlon over r which the allied nationsjlare still at 'wide variance is that of the disposition of the surren dered erman war vessels. The Brit ish artdetermlnel that they shall not be In ie future a part. of the naval armamjnt of " the world and seem 1 o preferjthat they be sunk or broken up. The Fnch are equally firm in their deman&j that the vessels be divided amonghe allies In proportion to their naval fosses; and in this they have the supporfl ' of- Italy and - some of the smallerfpatlons. France declares the other lotions can do as they - please with tJshlps that fall to their shared but thos,e France gets will become part of "herf ijavy, that Is necessary t o po lice thjpjpseas and protect, her colonies. She cis the formidable naval building prbgrajjof the Airierican government as evidence that the most pacific na tions pave and intend to maintain navies.:".-; ..: Whill her conquerors are settling her boundaries and future relations with th rest of the world, Germany Is enjoyiii a full measure of the anarchy and dv strife that she wished on Russlaf I The disturbance In Bavaria which Jrsu1 ted In the murder of Pre-; mler Ifisner and others by reaction aries -s quelled by vigorous meas ures adapted by the government, and the lattfi" fell more than ever Into the hands the radicals. In Saxony, a new reyt was started by the Sparta cans, wfio were joined by the miners and Inmstrlal workers of the Halle reglonjiand the government 'sent a lare 'frce ' of troops to "stop the strikes j jjmd riots. Radical as are the Spartacns. they are (too mild to suit the real,anarchists. and the latter are reporte to have begun a counter-revolution flat is; centered In Dusseldorf, which ty was in their handjC r That I the; Ebert government Is alarmed by the spread of the Spafta can movement Is evidenced by Its dls tractedefforts ;to meet arid1 suppress It ; Mirifary Governor Noske thinks he pan pufjtdown by force .of armslirid .urges thai . the national : assembly 'au horizejiHe praising : of 200,000 addl tionai jOlllltla. But President Ebert' Wmself it ;t said,; fa vqrs hbe extrao dinafy course of seeking fo iroriclllate the radfals by establishing if tiatlonal soviet the lower legislaUve branch , of the pvernmenL Noske also' wanted to send troops Into ''..Bavaria, but the soviet government in Munich threat ened to executet ten prominent citizens If this were done. Those who have liever placed any faith in the genuineness of the German revolution of - last autumn were not surprised id read that the monarchists of that country were preparing for a coup d'etat' In the near future for the restoration of the old order of things.' The general staff with the old officer class are asserted to have gradually gained the, wliip hand and now hold the government in their power and In ttnd to overthrow It. A pumber of royalist ( officers met recently In Char kittenburg, according to the story, and pledged themselves to hold, munitions in readiness, to enlist as, many" men loyal to" the former kaiser as possible and to assemble " when called. The coup. It is bellevctl, will be carried out in Berlin, and It Is certain that bloody civil war will result, whatever' maybe the final outcome. The former army officers are a power to be reck oned with In Prussia, and it may be their efforts will be aided by the numerous- members of the old regime who still retain their: places in the various ' departments 'of the' govern- j ment at Berlin, under majority social- 1 1st chiefs. William Hoherizollern not long ago had a conference with Count von Brockdorff-Rantzan, the Germap foreign minister, and was said after ward "to be extraordinarily cheerful. Possibly - he hopes to recover ' his throne, but if so he doesn't seem; to be taking Jnto account theifact that the allies claim the right to determine his fate and that they undoubtedly have other plans for him. - The many strikes and other signs of Industrial unrest In America are caus ing President Wilson some anxiety, end after a session with Secretary of bor Wilson he had an Invltatlo .elegraphed to the governors of all the states arid the mayors of about 100 cities to meet with him In conference at the, White House March 3 and 4 to discuss "vital questions affecting busi ness and labor. " The president and the. American; labor delegation now In 'Paris 'as well are urging the adoption of a definite national policy that will stimulate publicand private construc tion and Industry. , ; ; In" line with this plan. Secretary Redfield has created an Industrial board for the purpose of stabilizing basic commodity prices, and the coun cil, of t national defense will co-operate with it. "The effort, " says an an nouncement of ,the coun6il, "should be to wholly "eliminate the abnormal, un balanced stimulation that business has had and the Inflated prices that have resulted, and to start upon a; nonrial fevel, after which industry can , safely rely' upon; the law of supply and de mand. w Reductions from high prices to the proper level should fee made as L nearly as practicable At the same time in the various Industries." ..... MMMBM m .V .Premier Lloyd George and his "col leagues In , the British government have have been working , like .Trojans td avert or at least postpone L the threatened strike of all the miners and railways men - of Great Britain.' - Ap peals to' the patriotism and common sense of the men appeared to have some effect though at this writing the outcome Is extremely- uncertain.' The miners, railway men and transport workers have formed a triple alliance, no one sectiori of which will take any action or reach ; any settlement with out consultation ; and agreement with the other, sections. A . President Wilson made several-Important 'appointments.. last; week." ; A. Mitchell Palmer,' alien," property cus todian, .was made ' attorney general ; Hugh a Wallace of Tacoma was ap pointed ambassador to France, and' Norman Hapgood was given the place of minister to Denmark-. - " t On his way from Boston to Washing- ton the president signed the new reve-'. nue bill and many of ita sections' went Into effect at once. !One ofIts pro-, visions made; the District' of Columbia ; bone-dry. I with' the exception 6t "itir property occupied .? by foreign embas sies and ministries - ; v .. SOCIAL AND NATIONAL LIFE 0p GERMANY IN. DANGER OF COMPLETE COLLAPSE. PRESSURE OF HUNGER GREAT Allies Intend to Exact From Germany Every Cent of -War Indemnity ;r' ' She Can: .Possibly Pay. London. Necessity for a prompt peace settlement -was emphasized by Winston Spencer Churchill in th house of : commons. .. AH information he said, showed the great privations the German people are suffering and tfie danger of collapse under pressure of; hunger of the entire structure ot German social and national life. To delay the peace settlement, de clared the war secretary, would in evitably be to run the risk of having nobody to settle 'with and of havn another great area of the world sunk under bolshevik anarchy Regarding the, amount to be recov ered from Germany, Mr. Churchill said it had already been announced the allies intended to exact all Ger many .possibly could pay. There would be substantial contributions for the upkeep of the army on the Rhine in addition. ; The secretary closed by speaking of the necessity of safeguarding civiliza tion against bolshevik anarchy, and likened Europe to ' a liner sinking gradually, compartment after com partment filling and threatening th& great vessel, and all pasengers. " - - ' QUESTION OFEFT BANK OF RHINE LOOMS UP LARGELY Paris. -The question of the left bank of the' Rhine will figure in the preliminary .peace treaty, according to the Paris edition of - The London Daily Mail. In certain quarters, it adds, there is serious consideration of the formation of an independent Ger man republic on the left bank of the Rhine.. The allies, it is said, would continue - to .hold . the present Rhine bridgeheads until Germany completed her indemnity??paymenta.; - h 'In-discussing the indemnity, regula tions as fixed by the peace confer ence committee on : reparations the newspapers say Germany will have to pay a-certain sum before 'the end of 1919 and the balance during a pe riod of from 20 td 30 years. The al lied powers will decide on measures to supply Germany with raw material and the mariner in which commercial relations will be resumed. "PANDORA'S BOX TULU OF EVILS" SHERMAN CALLS IT s Washington. The ; constitution of the league of nations,, as presented at the peace conference, was pictured to the. senate by Senator Sherman, of Illinois, as a "Pandora's boxful of evils, which;; would empty upon the American people; the aggregated ca lamities of the world . Senator Sherman sharply criticised President-Wilson, asking who author ized him to "rear above the republic an autocratic power. He added that the authority was not to be found in he constitution of the United States, nor was it implied from undefined war powers, and gave jt as his opinion that the president has been acting either as" "a usurper or a dictator." WHEAT GUARANTEE BILL ' ; " r READY FOR SIGNATURE Washington. The administration wheat" guarantee bill veas comnleted with the adoption of the con f eren ce report by the house, and Is now ready for President Wilson's signature. The measure appropriates $1,000 000.000 as a revolying fund for the purchase of wheat and authorizes the president to create an agencv or agen cies for purchase of the 1919 cron at the guaranteed price of $2 26 a bushel and to1 repfe in the agency or agen cies the aiiHr'tv to cf n n merce !n-: wheats and wheat products. PRESIDENT WILSON WELCOMES NEW; ENVOY FROM ARGENTINE- In welcoming the new Areentine en voy, Mr. 'Vilson exreesd apprecia tion for tne friendshin of the South American, renribllc and promised all possible -assistance for the mainte nance of harmonious ,.f relations be tween the two countries. Amon .the bill? signed by th President were the rivers and har: bors annronriation bill nrt the meas ure validating $2,700,000,000 worth of .informal war contracts. GOVERNMENT SHOULD SF"V INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE :tWashingtbn.Governor m of Sttps and mayors' of municipalities, meeti"1? to discuss alleviation r of . vunemTl"v' mentv heard President-; W'Ison in a brief address eanpbasize the princi' that governments shoujld serve in te Interests of .th. common tnnl. Irr this. spirit he Jjrged JAst the fer'l Stete and: local jcoviR?umentStWork t(V gether "in steadying and easing an7 facilitating the whole labor processef of the. United State. :