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iiiiruHiaiMi.hcwo THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8 HIGH mmm .. j AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAY8 GIVEN THE NEWS 0F THE SOUTH What la Takina Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs f President-Wilson recommends " that goods released from storage for inter state commerce bear the selling price at which they went into storage and requiring that all goods destined for interstate commerce bear the price at which they left the hands pt the pro ducer. Says President Wilson : "We and we almost alona now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and self-possesesion depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It is in this su preme crisis the crisis for all man kind that America must prove her mettle." The project to build the St. Mary's river canal from the port of St. Mary's Ga., across the base of the state dfv Florida to the Gulf of Mexico, took on new interest in Washington when Senator William J. Harris of Georgia introduced a resolution which directs the secretary of commerce and the inland waterways officials of the rail raod administration to submit all available data and facts on the scheme to the senate. Increased rates on cotton and cot ton from points in southern territory to various destinations in the United States and Canada, asked by south eastern railroads in connection with carriers not under ' federal control, have been approved by the interstate commerce commission with ut formal hearing. Glenn E. Plumb, author of organized labor's bill for public ownership of the railroads, who was formerly a cor poration lawyer, much in the employ of the railroads of the West, and is now in-the employ of the railroad bro therhoods, took the stand before the house interstate commerce committee, and declared that every railroad sys tem in the United States was sub jected to a systematized plundering under private ownership. The permanent military policy rec ommended by the war department, in volving under revised estimates, a I standing peace army of 576,000 . and ... a ll of -the home of Oscar Lawler, a prom- universal military training ror youms inent attorney. of 19 years of age, would cost the Will N. Harben, native Georgian, county nine hundred million dollars one of the most famous American annually, Gen. Peyton C. March, chief writers and well known as an editor, i of staff told the senate military sub- Domestic ' Walter Dent, asisstant attorney gen eral of Mississippi, knocked Theodore Bilbo dow.i in a fist fight in the of fice of the secretary of state, .Joseph Power, who, jvith other officers, sepa rated the men. The governor said he was struck without warning. No ar rests were made. Atlanta has approriated one hundred thousand dollars to purchase food supplies-pending settlement of the rail road strike. State troops have been ordered re moved from the scenes of the Chica go riots and the stock yards after a general strike of union workers, had badly crippled the packing companies and live stock dealers had notified producers to suspend shipments to Chi cago temporarily. New Orleans sold ten thousand pounds of bacon to consumers at cost. The Brooklyn street car strike will be settled by mediation. Charles H. . McGwire, assistant en gineer of the municipal department of public works, who committed suicide at Los Angeles by leaping from the office of Distict Attorney Thomas L. Wool wine on the eleventh floor of the hall of records, was held responsible by public officials fo rthe dynamiting is dead at his home in New York. He was the author of "Pole Baker" and a large number of other stories, most of them dealing with characters of the South. ' Four persons known to be dead, probably six, seriously wounded, prop erty, and crop damage estimated at more than two million dollars and two hundred families driven from their homes, was the toll of the electrical storm which 'swept northern Ohio. Three of the deaths occurred in Youngsotwn, where two persons were killed instantly by lightning and an other electrocuted by coming into con tact with a live wire. Efforts to anticipate the results of any quick switch in the government policy for disposal of the 1919 domes tic crop of wheat knocked the bottom out of values on the board of trade at Chicago. The Choccolocco valley of Calhoun county, Alabama, lays claim to having the champion rattlesnake killer of the season. Adair Hill killed 21 rattle snakes. Hill says he came upon one big diamond rattler which immediate ly gave battle and was killed after a struggle. , ' j It is reported that German agents are trying to force the raising of the embargo on potash, so they may be gin shipments to this country immedi ately, although their stock at present is said to be small. German agents, in their effort to re gain control of the potash industry in this country, are reported to be sup ported by the fertilizer trust of the United States. Washington High prices, President Wilson says, are not justified by shortage of sup ply either present or prospective, but are created in many cases artificially committee, considering army legislation. General March asserts that the pres ent time is the most appropriate for inaugurating a system of military training inasmuch as military camps are in readiness over the country and also the necessary equipment. President Wilson has issued a for mal statement saying that the "frank statement" made by Viscount Uchida as to Japan's policy regarding Shan tung "ought to remove many of the misunderstandings which have begun to accumulate about this question." Viscount Uchida says: "The policy of Japan is to hand back the Shan tung peninsula in full sovereignty to China, retaining only the economic privileges granted to Germany and the right to establish a settlement under the usual conditions at Tsing-Tao." Foreign The Spanish parliament has approv ed the proposal that Spain join the league of nations. Nicholas Misu, of the Roumanian peace delegation, was called for the second time before the supreme coun cil on account of the Roumanian re fusal to comply with the demands of the peace conference. The attitude of the Roumanians is causing great embarrassment to the supreme council. The surrender of General Kruska, commander of the German prison camp at Kaiser, has been demanded by the allies as the first of the enemy officials to be tried for violation of international law. The Belgian chamber of deputies unanimously ratified the peace treaty with Germany. ' . An agreement for the sale of Amer ican army stocks in France for $400,- 000 was signed by the French, says and deliberately by vicious,, practices. Marcel Hutin, in Echo de Paris Retailers are responsible in large part ror extortionate prices. , President Wilson has laid specific proposals before congress for check ing the high cost of living, but at the same time declared permanent results uuxxul uc CAJJCtLCU UUIU pttaUtt Lime basis is fully restored by ratification of the peace treaty. The country's "corn crop showed a decrease of 27,052,000 bushels, as a re sult of weather and other conditions during July. . The average age of all United States men killed in the war was 23. This emphasizes the youth of the American army. President Wilson has decided to ad dress a message to congress recom mending additiona legislation to aid in reducing the cost of living. Department commanders have been instructed by the war department to prosecute vigorously their campaign to obtain recruits for the American forces in Siberia. ; ; Agents of the department of justice will ferret out all hoarders of neces saries and profiteers throughout the country, who will be prosecuted under the food control act. ',-(, .... American reports say that Rouma nians entering Budapest, the Hungari- an capital, are demanding hostages and to kill five hosta?Pa f- each Roumanian 'soldier injured in Bu dapest; - . ' " . Seven nunarea ana miy-six or the United States soldiers killed in action ..Jj.tma of fraa . Increase in the number of national banks . in July-was the greatest of any month in recent years. Great Britain , has settled her obli gation to the American government Itlnns negotiated for during th wu King George conferred upon Premier David Lloyd-George the Order' of Merit as a sign of the appreciation of the English people of Mr. George's war services. Lieutenant Godefroy, a French avi ator, performed the feat of passing under the Arc de Triomphe at Paris in an airplane flight. A dispatch from Vienna' by way of Copenhagen says that the United States has sent an ultimatum to Rou- mania demanding withdrawal of the severe armistic terms presented to Hungary on pain of cessation of the shipment of food to Roumania. Herbert Hoover, head of the inter allied relief commission, has stopped all relief supplies on their way to Bu dapest, taking the position that he would be unwarranted in letting sup plies reach Hungary while Roumanians are now depriving the people or rood- stuffs. The sunreme council has sent a note to the Roumanian authorities begging them to conform to the conditions of the entente and not to embarrass by previous decisions the work of he inter-allied investigation committee sent to Budapest. - A Paris dispatch says that telegrams from American- officials at . Budapest state that Roumanian troops upon en tering Budapest started plundering in the suburbs. Fifteen or twenty civil ians were killed by -the Roumanians during the day. : . . Great Britain purposes establishing a central authority to deal with profit eering, i .--" v v .. i . v, , . ; , , The settlement of the Adriatic ques tion, affecting Italy and Jugoslavia, is imminent. v The allies have not altered their de cision to hold the trial of the former German emperor in' Loudon. w 13 mmmmmm ".'.V. .V ttff iiSI . Wjjjp;..., ., J ?wZn 'Km'w Union ajTiTlnflnn - iwmbmw'wvwmmmwiwww------ " ' hv the inunicioalitv to the public of provisions bought from the government. 2 The U. B. 88, fitst German submarine to enter the Mississippi, in dry dock at New Orleans -for minor repairs. 3 First photograplubf the "million dollar fire" at Columbry-les-Belles, France, when junked air- planes and other material were ourueu. HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Addresses Congress on Cost of Living and the Pos- J sible Remedies. PACKERS TO BE PROSECUTED General Campaign Is Started Against Profiteer Railway Union De- H mand More Pay, Urge the Plumb Plan and Threaten Uf; to Strike. Jn By EDWARD W. PICKARD. r , The open season for profiteers has, come, lr tnere is a Dngnc spot in ue world's sky, that is It. For the rejit" the clouds arc black enough to suit the most confirmed pessimist. m Government officials, investigating bodies, Individual economists all hne been earnestly seeking for the prime causes of the high cost of living. The cold-blooded, greedy profiteer who bajtf tens on the misfortunes of the people Is the most easily discerned of thosi j causes and is going to be the first tp be dealt with. All the sympathy h$ gets must come from himself. jit President Vilson appeared before congress Friday and delivered a schoK arly essay on the subject, which In cluded various recommendations for legislative action, and told what the government already is doing In te. way of curbing the operations or tne profiteers. He urged the permanent extension of the food control act; law regulating cold storage, a law re quiring that all goods entering Inter state shipment be marked with thf producers' price, prompt enactment of the pending capital Issues bill, ana, what seems to the writer most import tant of all, the passage of a law re fliifrfno1 -fcki onn 1 H ncY clntr oil nrrmTfY'- ations engaged m interstate commerce The president did not overlook the opportunity to push the Immediate ratification of the peace treaty and league covenant. He devoted much of his message to assertions, in vaiffd form, that until peace is establish only provisional and makeshift results can be accomplished In the way of reW duclnir livlnsr costs. There can be no settled conditions anywhere In the ... . ..... l.'-6'- worm, ne aeciarea, until tne treaty $9. out of the way. Such views did not 3 with the approval of most of the Re publican congressmen, and their Indig nation was aroused by the fact that the president used the domestic issijie as a' weapon in the contest over tie1 League of Nations. ? Most prominent of the alleged profit-; eers are the Chicago packers, the "big five" who are reputed to control much! of the world's food supplies. Some time ago they were investigated by the federal trade commission and that bo$y made a report that was bitterly at tacked by the defenders of the pack ers. Now with that report as a basjjls President Wilson has directed the Te4 partment of justice to institute at once civil and criminal proceedings against the big five. The attorney general stat-; ed that he was satisfied the evidence, developed Indicated a clear violation: of the anti-trust laws, and that Isadr J. Kresel of New York was in charge of the prosecution. The packers ate .. .. m. ... - ihii to De accused or unfairly and illegally using their power to manipulate liye stock markets, to restrict interstae and international supplies of foods, d control the prices of dressed meali and other foods, to defraud both the producers and the consumers of foos to crush competition, to secure specikf privileges from railroads, stock yards companies and municipalities, and M profiteer. The department of justle; win proceed against them not only tof violation of the anti-trust laws but alio under the'provislons of the food law 6 1918 against the hoarding of food. I As for the heads of the big packing companies, some of them profess 4q welcome the legal action as giving them chance to demonstrate to the public their innocence, harmlessness and help lessness, and all of thera repeat their oft heard protestations that they are the victims of economic conditions be yond anybody's control. Their asser tions that they make an almost infin itesmal profit and often operate at a loss do not seem to make much im pression "on either the public or the agencies of justice. That, their state ments are not always ingenuous is in stanced by the following assertion of the "commercial research department" of one of the big five: "The general high price level is not due to manipulation. This Is shown by a recent report of the war -industries board, which proves that prices in other countries of the 'world have risen as much as or more than they have In the United States, and that :this has been true even In countries relatively unaffected by war conditions, such as Japan and Australia..' The truth is that Australia is glutted with food products and its people are struggling to keep prices up to a prof itable leveh Also, while there was a big advance In the prices of Japan's chief food, rice, it was admittedly due to the manipulations of hoarders and profiteers and was the cause of riots and of government action. The sugar situation is confusing and statements are as conflicting as those relating to the packing industry. However the government believes the" sugar men also are profiteering and three officials of the Pittsburgh branch of a Chicago concern were arrested. It is asserted that scalpers have vast quantities of sugar stored away and that dealers are forced to buy where they can and pay what is asked. In this, as in the case of other food prod ucts, the accused say the government Is partly to blame for shipping vast supplies to Europe and thus creating a domestic shortage. The concerted attacks by federal and local authori ties caused immediate and sharp de clines in the wholesale prices of many foods, but there was little evidence that the consumer was profiting by the declines, which seemed to put some of the onus on the retailers. The federal trade commission late ly has been making an inquiry into the shoe business, and has informed con gress that the high prices of shoes are due to the unprecedented and unjust ified profits taken by the slaughterers, tanners, manufacturers and dealers. Here, again, the packers are hit, for they are charged with causing an un warranted increase in the price of hides, the supply of which they are said to control. Following up the memorandum of the locomotive engineers presented to the president, fourteen railroad uni ons acting as a unit handed to Director General, Hines a demand for wage in creases with a general program de signed to meet the present crisis, In volving the threat of a general railroad strike. They ask that congress appro priate the money to provide Increased pay and that the proper rate-making ,body then determine what increases if any should be made in rates. "Any permanent solution of the rail road problem must necessarily remove the element of returns to capital as the sole purpose of operation," say the unions, and so the director general is asked to recommend to President Wil son that he try to obtain the passage by congress of the so-called Plumb plan. This plan, in eliminating pri vate capital from the railroads, not only proposes but demands that the present private owners be reimbursed with government bonds for "every hon est dollar that they have invested"; that the public, the operating manage ments, and labor share equally in cor porations to, take over the railroads, and that in all revenues in excess of the guarantee to private capital the op erators and employees share one-half, "either by Increasing the means for service without increasing fixed charg es or by reducing the cost of the ser vice which the machinery then in ser render.'V . , The union leaders say that if the Plumb plan is rejected they will start a campaign- both -in and out of con gress that will ' compel its adoption, and they declare frankly that It Is their hope that It will lead to th. zation of all other basic industries. senator Thomas of -: Colorado de nounced the demands of the rail work-, ers as near-treason, -and other-members of congress shared his opinion, though they were less outspoken, -v Already the railroads of the country are greatly hampered by the strike of the shop workers. This was not au thorized by the national unions, and it began to collapse when the president told the men their demands would not be considered until they resumed work. Both England and France are han dling their tremendous labor difficulties fairly well. In the-former the strike of city policemen seems to be a fail ure, though in Liverpool it was accom panied by serious rioting. In France the workers have sensibly agreed to postpone all strikes for six months and meantime they will join with the em ployers and the government in earnest efforts to solve the problems of wages and prices to stimulate greater pro duction, which alone, it is believed, can save their coutnry from economic disaster. It would be an unmeasur able blessing if some of the common sense that has moved the French la borers to keep up production could be Instilled in the American workers so they might realize that In cutting off production they are cutting their own throats. Chicago's race war, which at bottom was largely industrial and partly po litical, practically came to an end, and on Thursday more than 3,000 colored employees ofS the packing houses re turned to work. 1 As they walked in, a large number of white employees laid down' their tools and quit, some of them because mosf- of the colored workers are nonunion and others be cause they objected to laboring under police and military protection. After Bela Kun and his communist government of Huugary quit and made way for the Socialists things moved rapidly in Budapest. The Roumanian army, which had routed the Hungarian Red troops, advanced to the city and occupied it, and Roumania issued an ultimatum to Hungary which was not countenanced by the allied peace coun cil. Therefore French and American troops were sent to Budapest and as sumed control and the Roumanians were told they must get out. Next the socialist government was overthrown and its members arrested and Arch duke Joseph assumed power with the title of governor of the state. He was supported by the entente mission in the city and announced he would form a coalition " cabinet with Stephen Friedrich as premier. The Austrian peace delegates made their counter-proposals to the treaty terms submitted by the allies. These were unexpectedly mild" and the com plaints of the Austrians are almost pathetic. They assert that too much territory is taken from their country, citing especially the Tyrol and south ern Bohemia, and say the war debt loaded on them is so heavy they are not sure the Austrian people can exist under such conditions. Japan, through Foreign Minister Uchida, promises to restore Shantung to . China on conclusion of arrange ments with the Peking government to carry out the pledge given in the agreement of 1915. President Wilson, however, now reveals the fact that the Japanese peace delegates gave sub stantially the same promise In the inter-allied conference of April 30 with out any reference to the agreement of 1915. The president believes the Jap anese statement clears up the doubt about the Shantung affair. Secretary of State Lansing told the senate for eign relations committee 'that China had never protested to the' president against ; the 'Shantung settlement by the allied peace council ; that the clause was accepted by the decision of the president and that she. Mr. Lan sing,, did not believe it was needed to obtain Japan's adherence to the League of Nations. Secretary of,. War Baker has pre sented to the house . and senate com mittees on military affairs the admin istration bill for a permanent' military policy.- It-calls for a ;regular army with a peace strength of 510.000 and a war strength of 1,250,000,. the reserves to be provided through a modified form of the selective service act Included Is. a system ,Qf , military training of three, months for all elicible youths in their -nineteenth year. . This feature may:gain for, the bill the support of the . advocates of Universal, military training. -' EPITOME OF Dc. rrltbtlMT EXORB, rc- K.r- 1X1 PRifc ONE REMEDY 15 iflt Energetic Enforc-m- . Recommended to Fore. S Vast Store "Ul Hi J Washington.-Presicl several snor.;fl .... H man., Proposal v.. for cheeking the gress living, but at the Ssmn .6Ut pected until np:ir0 t, aot be --""W1IT- Iln. . . permanent result e flbJ --j t. n , .- peace tin, , el fnliv roct.j v.. uc oases I j OUUiCU uy rafifin " 6I peace treaty. High prices, the Pres 3ustified by tortionate Drices. Strikes, the President . labor world, would only maw 3 nrnrso anH v. ..... "U. vuuse.wno sought Dlov threats nr m 10 5 ' J . were iJicvdimg tueir own gress, were not justify vli of supply, either preset i'N tive, but were cr . "artificially and deliberated clous practices." Retaner JJ' were responsible in lar J M destru, At' w.b.illiCU iaDor, the ISi dent said, he was sure w Iv vield tn spennd 'eu. v ouuei inoueV- iini it. .... inegai ana "criminal" Were " 'cuiucui useQ in terizing the methods by which' J present day prices have been bre-4 BUUUli T-.. L 1 i jricaciiL mws, ne said, would W a. : i. . . eiKeiicaiiy empioyea to the lii situation so far as possible, butter plement the existing statutes he & In it t a ... t Bincany urgea me roiiowing: Specific Recommendation!, Licensing of all corporation J gaged in interstate commerce, t specific regulations designed cure competitive selling and prst; "unconscionable profits" in the ud od of marketing. Extension of the food control ar. peace times and the application d provisions against hoarding tod clothing and other necesities as well as food. A penalty in the food control act profiteering. A law v&tntlxtinfr riYIH stnrort V lting the time during which go may be held, prescribing a methoi disposing of them if held beyond normtttod noriA and ronnirin? H when released goods bear the fe of storage. Laws requiring that goods from storage - for interstate comci bear the selling prices at which went into storage and requiring all goods destined for interstate ffl merce bear the prices at which tf left the hands of the producer. Enactment of the pending bit the control of security issues. Additional appropriations lor ernment agencies which can sip; the public with full information Drices at which retailers buy, Early ratification of the peace t" go that the "free processes oi w and demand" can operate. Immediate Steps Promised. Immediate steps by executive r. cies of the government promi the President included: The limiting and control! wheat shipments and credit? tate the purchase of wheal in vv as not to raise, but rat&er lower the prce of flour at home.. Sale of surplus stocks of W t v.q honHs of tu8 dUlillU& 111 1" ment. (: The forced withdrawal from and sale of surplus stocks m p hands. , ..... General General recommenadiwu- T n nrnrinrtion. N Careful buying by house , Fail dealing with tne part of producers, middlemea merchants. tand' That there be no threat p Insistence upon the intent gle class. vines'' : Correction of "many thing -relation between capital a , respect to wages and conditio ..ii nor. . . dent In concluding the Psi plea for deliberate, xni t reminding Congress ia anced world was Icd&M "Weand we almost -now hold the wonu - our steadfastness , and t4 depend the an, - e where. It is m.this sup &. this crisis for all mankma, lea must prove her metal- May Discontinue r 5 urcharge put on nr miums by insurance 0 Plied" in North Caronn;is most of the oi follof continued August lo. adoption .this be. done by tne sP of the natioha conreni surance common insurance r.ir - f Young returned , brought this bit 01 tor Carolina insuren.
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