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a ... J POLK COUNTY NEWS, TEYON, N. C. 1 r.-v. i - s. - r ! . i i ,! .,'1 ' b ! . ! i'. ii. V' i i ' C - r r i"!i;..r; i'vH-,,..-.! rut 11 :j i .. IMPORTANT NEWS f I WORLD OVER 1 r I M PCRTAKT, HAPPENING OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH ,1 What Is Taking Place In The 8owtl. land Will Be Found In .Brief Paragraphs. European . From eight to twenty-seven persons are estimated to have been killed and tromi twenty to seventy-three wounded In rioting during three days -at the Kimmel military camp at Rhyl. Wales, .according to a Liverpool dispatch. .It is stated that also there was great property damage. The riot was start ed ty about two hundred malcontents. The men who caused the trouble were wnr casuals who had served for three year5 or more in Franc. Thpy com plained that their embarkation had been postponed while other nn wo bad seen less service were sent back home. ' ' A Berlin dispatch savs that ngotia ion?' at Sna ra1'at'nrs to the sMplne pvocfior havo bn bokn off. Th3 alif'. the r" adds, demanded all th reman'nr Cman merchant shin? without being w'Uinflr to undertake tb rblip-pt'n of. supplying Germany with foodstuff". . . - German troons at Berlin police h.?d ouarters fired on rioters in the neigh borhood and severe! cBma!t?s are re ported to have resulted. The-'troom bad been called to disperse the crowd" which were gathered in . increased; numbers around the headquarters. The British rrvomment has decided to release all Irish. Twlitical prisoners. At a-meeting of the German cabinet i. . , to EPeciHate too far on German n.i- f tince' in their demands on th Ger man peot?e. Germanv will insist on Wilsons' fourteen points, and will not submit to 'dictation bv the entente powers. ; It is declared Germany went, into the armistrc0 in good fath and expects other nations to act in good faith. .. Germany opposes the dismissal of German crews from the ships requisi tioned, stating that it is not only in human to throw forty-two thousand seamen out of employment, but di rectly contrary to President Wilson's "brotherhood of man" program. Difficulty is being exnerienced In ar ranging for the promised abatement of the cost of living in France through the importation on the government ac count of large amounts of food supplies from America because of the hesitation of the Frence government to expend specie in purchase abroad, fearing that the high cost of exchange will be still further increased by heavier adverse trade balances. The United States strenuously ob jects, it is stated in Paris, to the en tente allies seeking cheaper food sup plies anywhere else than in the United States, which would compel reduction of prices in the-United Statesand se riously injure American, farmers. The allies must stand by their war agree ments. In the opinion expressed by United States J army officers who have spe cialized on the question of demobili zation and readjustment of. the enemy forces, there is no longer any doubt about the complete uselessness of the remnants of the old German army now In regimental and battalion depart ments; throughout Germany. This view is entertained in Coblenz. American Red Cross agents have been vainly trying-to induce Trans-Siberian railway authorities to halt a -aeatn tram" on which 800 persons are being sent back toward Samara, J administration of the government to after they had been shipped from that imperil the financial interests of the city in Russia on a 4,500-mile journey I railway systems of the country and to across Siberia in mid-winter, manyjmake arbitrary use of powers jintend- vi wnom are in with typhoid fever. A new map of Europe is rapidly tak ing form, and w-ithin a week the fron tiers of the old states will be largely defined as they are to appear in the peace, treaty, and the successive doc uments fixing territorial limits. Domestic President Wilson told the American peopit .in an address at New York on the eve of his return to Paris that he was going back to the peace confer ence to battle with renewed vigor for creation, of a league of nations. "The first thing I am going to tell the peo ple on the other side of the water is that an overwhelming majority of the American, people is in favor of 4 the league of nations," said the president. v Second Lieut. Walter Wirz, pilot, and Sergeant Olmstead, both of Post .field, were killed at Lawton, Okla., when the airplane in which they were flying fell. - , Supply Right at Hand. "The study of the occult sciences In terests, me very much," remarked the new boarder. "1 love to explore the dark depths of the mysterious, to delve into the regions of the unknown, to : fathom the unfathomable, as it were, and. to "May I . help you to some of the hash, professor?" interrupted the land lady.. ' , ' " - ;v,. .. And the good woman never knew why the other boarders smiled audi- v A -. wireless ' message t from the "George Washington" says ; the JpreBi-1 d tint's rest , was cut short by, the sound- ing of a" general alarm summoning, all , hands to the boat to, abandon ship. Mr. Wilson ,? adjusted his - wife's life belt and thert hlr own and stood quietly, by until the fire dri!l, the cause of the alarm, was . completed, , - Secretary Daniels "and a pnrty of United States naray experts will leave for Europe to discuss with allied na val officials the best type of ""capital warships to be built in the future, based on the lessons gained in the great war. Gustave Mignone, youth of 20, 'wss arrested in New York on a charge of robbery in connection with the theft of $62,600 in ' securities from Milton Strohm, a Wall Btreet messenger boy. The police say he has confessed. Under the general charge of using the mails to further a scheme to de fraud Charles H. Myers, H. C. Mays, E. C. Collins, Edward Phillips, J. Eat on and Edward Franklin Clark, alleg ed wire tappers a,rrested at St. Augus tine, following failure, of an alleged attempt to secure $20,000 from Marx Carll, of Toledo, Ohio, were indicted' by a federal grand jury at Tampa, Fla. "It is ime for the South to take up and take possession of the trade of the South and Central America," said Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, In an address at Knox ville, Tenn,, before the Appalachian Merchants' Annual Short Course held under the auspices of the University of Tennessee. Removal of pork and pork products from the export conservation list is announced by the war trade board, ef fective March 8. All export restrictions havinp been lifted by the government, it is expected that prices on hogs and pork products will go higher. Washington The government has decided to re tain control of the railroads, despite I failure of congress to provide funds for I the railroad administration, and to have the roads finance themselves for . J the next few months through private locns on the open market, or through advances by the war finance corpora tion. Effort will be made to maintain operations on a normal scale and to carry on as much of the improvement program as possible, in order to avoid throwing employees out of work or otherwise disturbing industrial condi tions. No attempt will be made to solve the problem by raising rates. A dispatch from London recites that Premier Lloyd-George, addressing the first meeting of the joint committee of employers and employees constituted by the industrial parliament, said: "Civilization, . unless we try to save it, may be precipitated and shattered to atoms. It can be saved by the tri umph of justice and fair play to all classes alike." . Failure of congress before final ad journment to take any action on pend ing bills providing for repeal of the daylight saving act made certain that the-nation's clocks again would be ad vanced an hour during the period be tween, the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. ' The cotton futures rider to the guar antee wheat price bill, which was sign ed by President Wilson, becomes ef fective at once. Under it only thirteen grades of cotton from low to mid dlingcan be delivered on future con tracts, and all cotton so delivered must be classified by government grad ers. ' '" Congress adjourned March 4 in the midst of a Republican filibuster in the senate that killed a long list of im portant measures. Among the bills that failed was , one appropriating seven hundred and fifty million dol lars for the railroad administration without which some administration leaders say the railroads must be re turned to their owners before the mid dle of April. "A group of men in the senate have deliberatelv chosen to embarrass the ed to be employed in the interest of the people. 1 take it for granted that the men who have obstructed and pre vented the passage of necessary legis lation have taken all of this into con sideration and are willing to assume the responsibility for the impaired ef ficiency of the governroiftiu " ' Names of thirty-seven Republican members of the new senate, a number sufficient to block ratification of a treaty, were read, in the senate by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who said they had approved a resolution setting forth that "the constitution of the league of nations in the form now proposed to the peace conf erence must not be accepted by the United States." Special allowances for travel and subsistence are classed as compensa tion on which men inthe military or naval service are not lequired to make income tax returns or pay taxes, pro viding the total does not exteed f 500 for 1918. . ; Vain Pursuits. "No, Niblitz is dead?" ' "Yes." "Did he leave any property?" coming to speak of.: Niblitz was the bind of man who had an Idea that Fortune was always just around the corner. - - "But he never succeeded In overtak ing nerr; "No. He was either mistaken in .the location of the corner or be lingered in me-middle of the block umil Fnr, tune moved on to some other corner." MmMS I figT" IMK&te&ZZfo W.trn New.papr Union W IfWiw . . - T- jljj 1 Belgian workmen beginning to restore the entrance and subwny connections of the great railway station in Chct, destroyed by the Germans. 2 Scene at Hendon aerodrome, England, when Lord Londonderry for the "gov ernment presented to the Canadian government fifteen airplanes. 3 Col. F. M. Wise, commander of the Second battalion. Fifth marines, in the battle of Chateau Thierry, and Mrs. Wise photographed on the colonel's arrival in New York. (JEWS REVIEW OF CUBREUT EVENTS President Departs for France Without Senate's Approval of Nations' League. CHANGES MAY BE NECESSARY Filibuster in Senate Kills Urgent Bills and Early Extra Session is Pre dicted Progress of the P.eace Conference Delegates in Paris. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. When President Wilson sailed away on his return trip to France last Wed nesday there must have been some bitterness in his soul. For a very considerable part of the senate had re fused to accept his dictates concern ing the constitution of the league of nations, and congress had adjourned under circumstances that seem to make necessary the early calling qf an extra session- despite the president's flat declaration that he would not sum mon the new congress until his return from Paris. - , . Mr. Wilson, in his speech In New York, asserted that the great majority of the American people favor a league of nations, and there, is no doubt of the truth of the assertion. It is fa vored,, too. by a great majority of the senators, but many of them, and pre sumably many private citizens, do not favor the constitution of the league as it now stands. The president has told us that it is practically Impossible now to amend the drafted constitution, but that he is mistaken in this is the opinion of the opposing senators, and. according to recent dispatches from Paris, some of the delegates to the peace conference agree with thein. After Republican hold-over senators and senators-elect had signed a round robin declaring that the league con stitution should be altered and that It should . not be considered further until the peace treaty had been rati fied, it was plain to the administra tion leaders. If not to the president, that some compromise was necessary. Therefore, possibly with the authoriza tion of Mr. Wilson, Senator Hitchcock asked Senator Knox to draft the amendments which he and other Re publican senators desire.- At this writ ing the results of this step are not known, but It seemed likely that, if the president should concede some of the changes asked, the senators would con sent to making the league an integral part of the peace treaty. On this lat ter point the president takes a deter mined stand, telling his New York audience that when the treaty comes back for ratification "we will find the covenant not only in It, but so many threads of the treaty tied to the cove nant that you cannot dissect the cove nant from the treaty without destroy ing the whole vital structure." That a majority of the American people are in favor of the league con stitution as it now stands is doubted by Senators Borah, Lodge, Knox, and others of its opponents. They say they are receiving numerous letters daily that protest against it, and are willing that it should be submitted to a nation wide referendum. Though the ques tion seems to be drifting into the field of partisan politics, irtnust be said that a number of Democratic senators are as much against the present league plan as are the Republicans who signed the round robin, while some Republi cans are heartily supporting the presi dent. In the next senate there will be at least 52 votes against the league plan, and 33 will be eBough to, prevent its. ratification. . x 'When the Sixty-fifth congress gave up the ghost at noon, March 4.. a vast deal of important legislation, including appropriations of about $3,000,000,000. was' left unfinished. This" was due to a ' personal filibuster '"conducted fey Senators Sherman, France and La Fol lette. They assumed all responsibility for their action, for the Republican lenders would have permitted the pas sage of some of the bills, especially that, adding $750,000,000 to the revolv ing fund for railroad administration. Two measures that did get through in ihe last hours were the .Victory.- loan and billion, dollar wheat guarantee bills. The purpose of-the filibuster was to compel the president to call the new congress in extra session in a short time, mid so urgent are' many of the measures that failed of passage that it seems likely he will have to yield to the demand.' When he left America, however, he appeared as de termined as ever not to summon con gress until his return. His statement to the public, scoring the obstruction ists, was rather unfortunate. The peo- pie read : "It is not In the interest of the right condnct of public affairs t lint I should call the -congress in special ses sion while It is impossible for' me to be In Washington, beep use of a more pressing duty elsewhere, to co-opera to with the houses." Then they immediately recalled Mr. Wilson's statement before his depar ture for France last December, that legislation could go forward unim peded in his absence and that he could keep constantly in touch with congress by cabfe and wireless. It is the president's own opinion that the failure of emergency legisla tion will seriously upset financial con ditions, and because there Is general agreement on this it is predicted the extra session of congress will be called not later than in May. There is ho likelihood of Mr. Wilson's being back by that time, for he has announced his intention of remaining abroad until the work of the peace congress is com pleted. At first it was thought the failure of the appropriation for the railway ad ministration would result in the almost immediate return of the roads to their former owners, though this is desired by neither the owners nor the general public. Director General Hines 'stated later that a hew plan of financing the situation would be devised ; that an effort would be made to prevail on the railroads and other business interests to borrow money .necessary to enable the administration to go forward with' its railroad plans and that in no case would he countenance a policy which would slow down industry or throw men out of employment. T,he director general also declared that "there is no occasion to discuss the question of re linquishment ot the- railroads." ' ( The fact remains that the railroad must have at least $700,000,000 before May 31. and if they are forced to bor row in the market the success of the Victory loan will be jeopardized. With the return of Premjer Lloyd George to. Paris the peace delegates rook up the consideration of the treaty, tackling first the 'question of the dis armament' of the enemy. naval and military, which was lifted from the armistice terms and will become a part of the peace pact. As framed by the commission,. this clause will effectually safeguard the world against aggression by the Huns for a long time. As was expected, the amount of money to be exacted in reparation has been cut down greatly, but- it still stands, at an enormous sum. The commission on the matter of the western frontier was said to have virtually finished its work. France may not get all her most, en thusiastic citizens hoped, for, but an adequate buffer between her and Ger m any will be provided by the creation of the neutralized strip along the west bank of the Rhine. . . According to the last reports, the commission named to determine the responsibility of the authors of the war, which is headed by" Secretary Lan sing,, has conie to ' a'f conclusion that will arouse a storm of protest through out the civilized 'world. - Its report; it Is said, while fixing moral responsibil ity on the former kaiser and his as sociates, fails to find legal responsibility- because there, is no precedent or, 'aw applicable to the case and no ex isting court Competent to try the ac cused If their legal guilt were evident. The ' layman will wonder why it .: I necessary1 to find ' a 1 precedent . when Wllhelm and his crew created so uianv ?n their murderous warfare, and wh? any criminal court in America, Grea Britain, 'France ir Belgium is hot com petent to try the accused Individuals whatever may have been their rank. Eminent legal bodies in several coun tries have reaciied conclusions at total variance with the reported finding' of the commission over which Lansing presides. The Pan German league also is taking steps to protect the ex-kaiser from justice, havmg issued a procla mation declaring the national assembly or the Kbert government" is in honor bound to furnish him a safe retreat on German soil. That Ebert government, by the way. is becoming rather cocky in its attitude toward the allies. The cabinet . held a meeting the oilier day with party lead ers and others and all agreed that Germany could not submit to coercion from the entente powers in the ar m'stice negotiations or in the peace pourparlers. It was declared that the government would decline responsibil ity for possible consequences "if the entente'. tries to speculate on German patience." The demands of the allies for the .Immediate surrender of mer chant shipping were held to be irnic ceptable because they would "paralyze he country's economic future." and the dismissal of Gorman crews from the ships requisitioned . was alsokvob jected to. In many parts of Germany the disor ders created by the Sparta cans con tinue unabated, and there has been fre quent and bloody fighting, in Berlin as well as other places. The Reds keep up their method of starting strikes, and in addition are said to be trying to open up the way through Koenigsberg, East Prussia, for the entry of their bolshevik brothers from Russia. This move was temporarily checked by the semiing of strong forces of troops. Government soldiers also operated ef fectively in Berlin, where the Sparta cans were trying to get possession of the police ! stations but were routed by artillery fire. The government press predicted that. the workingmen and the government would reach an agreement and that the general strike would fall, leaving the most radical Reds as the only malcontents. The government has proposed that the soldier and workingmen's council be made an or ganic part of the governmental sys tem under the new constitution that is being constructed at Weimar. Most of the present German leaders are still a'gainst any concessions to the demands of the Poles as to the eastern frontier, and the allies' com mission now in session at Kreuz on the Brandenburg-Posen border, has n diffi cult question to settle. Field Marshal von Hindenburg is quoted as saying that the territory In dispute never will be held by the Poles, but will" belong to either the Germans or the bolshe vik. He declares the Anarchist hordes cnnot be beaten off unless the people there rally to the defense of their homes and their families. The allhvi forces in northern Russia have retired :somewhat before the at tacks of the soviet troops, but have inflicted great losses on them. Trotsky is getting his big army more organized and is reported to be planning to drive through Bessarabia and Into Rouroanla and Hungary, with the expectation of capturing Budapest. The most-amazing story coming from Russia recently is. that the soviet government hopes to arrange.;! big loau. in America in re turn for mining and railroad conces sions. And, at that. It might be done. The Irish question pestered the president almost to. the hour of his de parture. The house before adjourning adopted- a resolution asking the peace conference to recognize the right of Ireland to. self determination; and a bl g del egatlon of Americans of Irish blood waited on Mr. Wilson In New York to tirge that he support that propositi on.r He refused to meet them until Justice Cohalan of New York had withdrawn, that individual having beep accused', of , taking. part J n Sinn Fein conspiracies and having been a defend' er - of i Jeremiah ' O'Leary 4vho - was charged , with . obstructing;, the draft. What the president told the delegation was not made public PLOT TO DES TBI U. S.G0VER ANARCHIGTS,; TOGETHER y, I. W. W.'S AND OTHERS, F0r' AN AMALGAMATION. OBJECT, BLOODY REVOLUlt Radical Elements of Country . ' '4 .ney. nave round a CommCl, Cause Upon Which to Unite. - Washington. Mail matter o'&""6 cue ar rnistke I u,ouuocu lUttl lue V . vv. anarchic raaicai socialists, and others are ic,-"6 " aiiiaigciiuaiion which Y iui "ujcul me overtnrow ol qA American government t!imi, Diooay revolution" and the establish. ment of a bolshevik republic, accon1. ".vu.auuuy, OCUL U) inp OAv ate propaganda committee by Soli" tor Lamar, of the postoffice rw? ment. The memorandum w: f.uuwu vy iub commutee. --" mui in uuiSIieVlS'.ll thf lauicai eiemenis oi tne countrv frT Y r Aii.i !.'. v jjlol, iouna common upyu wnicn iney can unite" v. iainar saia- nis inrormation showed propaganda against the government ii4fc tuuuuticu wiiu great rcgjJ iiniy anq us magnitude could measured by. the "bold and outspokea smiements" round m the literature Apcnmnanvlnff ViJo 1 i,b illo mciiiui auuuni werii several hundred "excerpts from maf matter showing the trend of the prop, aganda. These will be made publie later. Particular reference was made l,r the solicitor to the activity of the dis satisfied foreign element in the roun try, but he said perhaps the I. w w was , the most active in the disseminaJ tion or the propaganda because it has at its command a large faitf force known as recruiting agents subscription agents, etc., who wort unceasingly in the furtherance of 'the cause.' " "This organization publishes at 1m t five newspapers in the English lan guage and nine in foreign languages. This list comprises only official pa pers and does not take into account Lthe large number of free lance paner? puniisned in the interest of the above organization." : .; SENTENCE OF DEBS TO TEN YEARS TN PRISON UPHELD Washington. Convicti ons lirifipr tht espionage act of Eugene Dehs, social- isi leaaer, ana Jacob Frohwerk. a newspaper editor of . Kansas CMv. were sustained bv the simreme court in unanimous opinions delivered by Justice Holmes. Both men wre sen tenced by tho lower courts to 10 years' imprisonm yt. , While not passing directly unn the constitutionality of the act the curt in effect did declare valid tbe sn-ealleri enlistment section and reaffirmed its opinion that the esm'onage law is not an interference with the constitution al risrht of free speech. , Debs was convicted on thre eou"K but the court passed directly on onV !one of, these, that charging hm obstructing recrufting and enh'stmenf through statements made in a. suptIi at , Canton. Ohio, last June. The otVr two counts charged b'm with atfeTint ing to incite insubordination and loyalty, and also with uttenn? lan guage intended to provoke a"d en courage resistance to the United States government. WORK ON NFW PATTl chfps HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED Washington. Possibility th-t the battle cruiser . program . of te r -v-. 'nvolvine an expenditure nf nearlv half a jbillipn dollars. v'll be ahpi doned itvfvor of a- new tvn"of cmis er battle shin was in dfcatM bv an ar nouncempnt that Secretrv D-'nie had ordrd susnenson of work on the s'x 35-knot crusor' aTnmv thorized until dfCsion as t ho f" ture tvne of capital ship could be reached.' INSUROPNT DEMOCRATS AF MAKING FIGHT ON CLARK Washincrton. A ffpht is befs: rnde on Speaker Clark by insurgent Dem ocrats who claim that he should rot be the minority leader of the house under the Republican regime soon to be ushered in. , Indirectly Representa tive Kitchin, of. North Carolina, and Representative Dent, of Alabama, are involved. It was asserted that -TO Democrats had been pledged to over throw Mr. Clark. FRANK MORRISON TALKS OF PRICE READJUSTMENT r Washington. Organized labor wilt refuse to "share in the. result" of price readjustments if its "living sUndards are to be endangered," Frank W. Mor rison, secretary of , the American Fed eration ct Labor, said. Mr. Morrison triticised th declaraUons by the fed eral reserve board, in a recently pu' lished yA review f of its forthcoming bulletin .that all factors in product ioa "should bear their share in the gen eral process of readjustment ' A E rol - j , -w una