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' - - - A n 1; THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C," MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921. TWO 1 it i BRUSH OPINION HAS FORMED ON INDEMNITY Public Sentiment Inclines to :, Moderate View of German V Reparations v IS THERE A FARMERS' LOBBY IN WASHINGTON Br GEORGE X. BARXES (Special Cable Dlspmch 'to The v. Star, Copyright l2t LONDON, Feb. S. British public opinion, in he belief of the writer, would have favored a more . moderate settlement of the reparations question than that, reached at Paris one which would be capable of fulfillment by vigorous enforcement, enabling- the more speedily to get Germany into .ns league of nations, and permitting the world to settle down the normal re lations. Instead, the conference again put reparations on an ascending scale, pro viding for an indemnity of 55 billion dollars spread over a period of 42 years, plus a tax on the paying ability of Germany as" reflected bv her exports Progressive demands predicate such a re-organization of German internal life and labor "as would make her the world's most efficient productive coun try and this raised the question, of the effect of her exports on other coun tries. Two schemes have been formulated to enable impoverished countries to buy goods on credit. One is the work of Lloyd George, the other was plan ned by Sir Edward Mountain and ap proved by the federation of British industries. A condition precedent to the opera tion of the first plan would be to as certain the gold value of the assets of the countries concerned, the Tatter being required through their govern ments to issue bonds for the purchase o floods from the, countries possessing them. The second plan could be put in operation immediately, providing only that governments would share the risk with the trading and banking interests of their, respective countries- Sir Ed ward Mountain proposes pooling that risk by the British government putting 13 million pounds" in the pool and the merchants' bills to be covered by in surance policy. v The league should consider both plans and get one of them at least, in early operation, otherwise there will be .precious little gold or even human value left in the countries concerned. Although the draft of the Kussp British debts and a reciprocal absten tion from provocative acts Russia agreeing to desist from lrer propaganda in the orient and Britain undertaking not to initiate proceedings for the at tachment of scold or goods imported from Russia, it is not a promising document. Nothing in it prevents an - individual claimant from initiating a seizure for former debts. Trade is not likely to progress much under such conditions. Nor are the Serbians likely to abandon their propaganda in the east or elsewhere! It is their only chance of success. Any contrary - agreement, however, would simply be . a scrap of paper. Trade might even be used to stimulate propaganda, which contingency Is figuring strongly in the Japanese deliberations on Russian trade. I maintain my view, already ex pressed, that the prospects of- Russo British trade are not good and will not improve unless both sides are induced, by urgent necessity, to make for greate concessions-1 and give far greater assurances than has hereto fore been the case. Interest in the South African elec tions is intensifying, apparently as the chances of General Smuts are improv ing. The Dutch nationalists, realiz ing that "cutting the painter" is not . so popular a slogan as they expected, already are disclaiming their, intention : to force the severance question, even if successful at the polls. Smuts, how ever, is forcing them iy .face the issue. Labor's unemployment proposals have been found to be somewhat con- servative. Although emphasis is laid on the .resumption of trade with Rus sia and central Europe, there are no helpful suggestions toward removing the difficulties. Parliament will be asked to adopt the proposals as will the labor convention scheduled for February 23. Meanwhile, the impres- sion --prevails that labor failed to score. By HARDEN COWAX (Staff Correspondent of The Star, t-op-rlgat i3tl v. WASHINGTON, Feb. fc-Is there a farmer's lobby? la it working in the interest of agriculture or in co-operation, with other industries? The answer to these questions are wanted by the house committee on banking and currency which has start ed a thorough investigation.of all the various farmer organization who main tain headquarters in Washington. "We wish to know the scope and outside connections of these organiza tions," says Chairman MeFadden of the investigating committee. "We want to know the extent to which they repre sent real farmers and how far they may be associated with other interests that have a direct or indirect relationship to the agriculture - of this country." The national board of 'farm organi zations, affiliated with 15 farm' asso ciations in the country, and engaged in urging a system of .land banks in each of the states that will be owned and controlled by "the. farmers, was under the committee's searchlight when Charles A. Lyman, secretary, was called as a witness. Mr. Lyman said that the Income of ..his association last year was only $14,090, contributed en tirely bv the croups of farmers, and devoted to meeting the legitimate ex-kin the conference. Fadden intimated that he wished to know if the department of agriculture is lending its influence to a , particular organization; of farmers tp '. the possible detriment: v'of other organizations. The Investigation . 6? the committee has developed the fact that many agri cultural communities in the country are engaged in bitter controversy over the rsrlatioris of the county agents to farm organizations. It has brought out further that the salaries of the county agents in about 80 per cent of the cases are,tald .with public funds and most of the money Is provided by branches of state governments. In some of the states,' the salaries of the county agents are paid by the county farm bureaus. ' ! The house committee has been told that the effect of so many farmers organizations has been to cause irri tation among farmers" -as well as con fusion in the handling of their legis lative interests. GOWNS AND GODLINESS DfeTRACHifHAMiTES New York Getting Cross-Eyed Watching- Mrs. Harding and ' Zion Archdeacons GERMANS DEBATE OVER THE Q,ITE9TH3 OF REPARATIONS By JESSIE HENDERSON, (Staff Correspondent of The Star, Copy right. 1921) NEW YORK, Feb. j. Gowns and godliness have contended fior" first place in the thoughts and emotions of Goth- amites this week. With the arrival simultaneously of the wife, ' of the President-elect and of the two lady arch deacons from the Tate," "Prophet" Dowie's city of Zion, Ills., public vision has become slightly cross-eyed in the attempt to focus on activities both at the Ritz and along Broadway. Mrs Hardins came, qf course, to select her inaueural warjdrobe. The ORGANIZE DEPARTMENT OrliAWs ENFORCEMENT CONGRESSIONAL WORK WILL RUN FOR MONTHS Bill to Be Offered General As sembly Creating Pr6hrti- ! ticwf t?ttrimissioiT (Continued-from Page One) ate, has been allowed to sleep here un til this gooS day." Bills hare accumulated in the senate to such art extent that now within a few weeks of the end a choice be tween finishing the appropriation measures or the emergency tariff vir tually has had to be made. This tariff. . . ' legislation is written to cover only a (Special to Tfce tT J ten-months period. During the last WASHINGTON, Feb. . This corre- few days the trend hajs been toward spondent wasJJrifofmed today that a 1 continuing with the tariff discussion bill for a state prohibition enforcement I in the hope of bringing it to a vote commission would ,: lie introduced .at' within a week or ten days. This will Raleigh in a few . days. The measure . delay appropriations so that it is will provide for a, cHief officer, five as- doubtful if all can be completed at this isistants and 40 field men to cover thai session. So far the senate has voted various counties. .. - - ' ' only on the .District of coiumDia ap- "Wll0n it r r, m . . 'tween appropriation biiil" Mln b'- pending measure (tariffs . allowing tho a ..' rr-r. I' M 1 "P bill 1 sn;i'l fav. The- bill provides for a department of special law enforcement, to be dl rected by a . commission consisting 0f t-of North Dakota, ,w;ko has charge of penses of the association, in Washing ton, including the purchase of a per manent office building. "Our board is not In reality an organi zation, but a clearinghouse through which our members may present a com mon front and speak in one voice," said . Mr Lyman. He added that the board does not engage in lobbying but admitted that' it is interested In many .of the agricultural measures pending before congress, including the Capper Volstead bill, which is designed to facilitate the organizing of co-operative marketing factilities among the farmers. Ben C. March, of , the Farmers Na tional council, denied improper activi ties on the part of his organization. He said that It is interested in matters of transportation and railroad rates that affect the farming interests and also that it believed In the public ownership of railroads. Differences existing in the Grange societies of the farmers in the eastern states were revealed to the committee by John A. McSparren, master of the Pennsylvania Grange. He charged the jcounty agricultural agents in his state with trying to set up a counter organi zation, known as the Farm Bureau Federation. "We believe that county agents are ladies from Zion were not attempting BERLIN, Feb. 6. The premiers' of 1 anything so intricate; their task was the several federated states of th simply to prove to New Yorkers that German nation were in session with the earth is fiat and to cleanse Broad the Berlin cabinet hsre until late this t way of tobacco, theaters, and other evening over the reparations question, symptoms of worldliness. They plan "to the meeting-being followed by th an- ' accomplish this by mans no more nouneement that complete unanimity spectacular than the distribution of prevailed among all the participants I pamphlets. But out of Illinois has come The speech of For- a hint that if pamp eign Minister Simmons in the reich- stag had been given unqualified en dorsement by the representatives of Bavaria, Baden, Wuertemburg, Saxony and other states, it was stated. The conference was presided over by Chancellor Fehrenbach. Dr. Simmons spoke at length and was followed by other members of the cabinet, after which the visiting premiers were heard, the debate lasting until 7 o'clock. The invitation extended by the en tente to send representatives on March 1 to London convention on reparations is construed here as indicating that the allies expect Germany to submit counter . nrnnnaala anrl thn Mia nrn. tiations at Brussels by the experts on Pn- pa.lm f the CGr ?ho .fund, U financial, and economic" affairs are therefore superfluous for the time be ing. (The postponement of the Brus sels conferences until early March, after the London conference was re cently announced from Paris.) Leaders of German industry, 'ship ping and finance bave been arriving in Berlin during the past few days for consultations with the government's staff of economic experts who under the direction of Undersecretary Berg mann of . the ministry of economics, are engaged in the drafting of the German counter proposals. -i Much of the press comment in re pamphlets fail, ttie leader Voliv.a himself may descend on this town Avith a regiment of reformers in flowing white garments. Broadway is still wearing short skirts and a look of expectancy, i It is a curious thins that the two inaugural shades which stand .forth from the rainbow xt modistes and manikins at the Ritz are those in which the city administration is at the mo ment draped. Gendarme blue has been the prevailing tint at police headquart ers sincie ' Whitman, investigator-in-chief, declared that a "graft room" ex ists where a man whose car has been stolen may force gifts into the quiver- needed," said Mr. McSparren, "but they r sard to the situation warns the gov are exceeding their' official ditties in J eminent against pinning its faith on trying to establish a counter organiza- the. possibility that the attitude of the tion. The work they propose to do I new Washington govern'ment will sup- would be a duplication of that which is performed by our own Organization. I do not object to the organization of other farmers' societies, but federal em ployes should not use their time and effort to create rival societies where the farmers already have , associations of. their own." Mr. McSparren insisted that the de partment of agriculture manifested "undue friendship" to the Farm Bureau Federation movement and suggested that the county agents should sever all connections with it. .".'The county agent should be the servant of all of the farmers," he con tinued, "and not merely the servant of some one organization in which he appears to have a personal Interest." The American Farm Bureau Federa tion, with representatives in Washing ton, is created for the purpose of "siijl plementing the work of other farm organizations." said Gray Silver, chief of the Washington office. He denied an intention on the part of his associa tion to "swallow up" other farmers' societies or to arouse discord and animosity within their ranks. "We never thought of such a thing," he insisted. "Neither do I know of any 'inside agreements' between our association and the department of agri culture to the effect that we are to be recognized as the extra-governmental organization of farmers of the coun Chairman McFadden wanted to know j about the work of his association in Washington and Mr. Silver replied that it is "purely legislative." He asked however that J. R. Howard, president of the federation be called before the committee to tell of its policies and purposes. A summons for Mr. Howard was issued by the committee. Representatives of the states' rela tions service of the federation will be called before the committee. Mr. Mc- ply. Germany with moral backing. Uhese commentators urge the govern ment to present Germany's case strictly on its own merits. WEEK'S HXAXtML MARKETS NORFOLK. Feb. 6. The second month of the year in the financial markets opened with a oerceptible tightening of credits, a negligible vol ume of business and consequent im pairment of quoted values throughout the list. Call or demands rose, - to 9 per cent, their highest figure in almost three months. The advance was primarily due, according to the well informed to the steady reduction of focal reserves by Interior banks. .There , were con current advances In interest ami re discount rates by federal reserve banks. Lower prices for raw and re fined products suggested a market re adjustment of estimates in the oil trade. , Unsatisfactory earnings, threats of labor, troubles and interminable delay in the settlement of-claims of trans portation systems against the govern ment militated against railway shares., a part from occasional upward spurts in the transcontinental groups. Increasing credit strain added to the heavy tone of various steel, and equip ment stocks. Companies controlling miscellaneous specialties submitted financial statement which suffered in comparison with similar exhibits of the corresponding period last year. Pre-war bond issues of the important railways also improved but liberty and victory bonds eased. . , Movements of foreign exchange were again observed by views arising from the proposed reparational terms impos ed upon Germany." It Is understood that plans for refunding French ob ligations in this country are gradual ly crystallising. - As to Florence lavender, it looks as though several members of several municipal departments might expect to be In e words of the colored phrase laid out in lavender wheh the Whitj man criminal process gets under way. The old-fashioned idea hereabouts was to take a citizen's valuables with some appearance of stealth; at least to wfcit until the policeman's back was turned. Like other, clumsy pro cesses this custom has yielded to mod ern efficiency.. Two men in broad day light and in a downtown thoroughfare boarded a taxi which was carrying a woman to her totel and deprived the passenger of a $4,000 sable cloak be fore the meter could jump from .40 to .50. On the same afternoon a closed car ,stopped for the traffic signal at Madison avenue and 42nd street, one of the most congested spots in the world; and while thousands of people and hundreds of other cars also stopped, while the traffic officer him self stood with whistle to lip a young man opened the door of the closed car, spoke pleasantly to the lady within and helped 'himself to the purse, in her Vap. There's something Homeric about a thing like that. People who said that all this crime was due to prohibition received a shock from both Attorney Whitman and Fed eral Prohibition Agent John F. Kramer. It seems that prohibition has not come to New York yet. Between them," Messrs. Whitman and ' Kramer discovered a police boat suspected of carrying liquor -for certain favored dealers; and a remarkable leakage through the customs of liquor pur chased abroad. One New York charac ter inadvertently boasts just before the Whitman-Kramer revelations that he had made a million dollars since the country went so-to-speak dry. And there is some ground for believing he did not make it in milk. the governor, as chairman, the at : . i 3 a i x -l. j a j lorney-'generai, ana inree oiner citi zens of the state to be appointed by the governor. "The primary object of the depart ment," it says, "shallvbe the enforce ment of the laws of the state prohibit ing, regulating, affecting or concern ing the manufacture, sale and trans portation of Intoxicating liquors, and the said Cnief officer and field officers, and at least 'one of his officer assist ants, shall each of them 'have with re spect to arrests for violation of said laws, or search and seizure under 'said laws, all the' powers rights, privileges, emoluments, authority and obligations, duties and liabilities now reposed-in or imposed upon sheriffs by chapter 26 of the consolidated statutes of North Carolina, provided the said powers, etc., shall obtain in said' offlcersregardless of' county lines and throughout, the state, provided all fees or rewards re ceived by officers shall be pajd over to the department hereby created." - The bill gives the chief officer and hfsvfleld officers "power to seize and S nflscate to the use of the state any d all ' personal, property" and " ma terial found to be in the use. manu facture, sale and transportation of in toxicating liquors in violation of the law, including animals and vehicles, and to sell same." Common carriers are exempted from the seiaure provision "unless it be made to appear that such common carrier was knowingly en- j gaged in transporting such liquors in violation of law." propriation. For the sake of, farmer -.r... 1 ' ' I Ml c 4 ", ne announced. "Tn . "j go emergency tariff bill c;1t, " , "llnl th, will be ten months hero? J v able tp get through both i,V' S'!ail k enerai tariff i ',.". Vs hi congress the No one can study tb ' svu'H-ssfu!lv f. POO? n i t ; ' lis; ni.r, out realizing how siu-oci, , wuh. nil ibn has been pni, , ,, ",Sf : intere,s. Tlll have demanded rPco"niti . urn'( ui uie discussion 111 this sessio of farm 1 for days, and finally i,,, .,, ,a(-' standing bill; appropriaii.m ..v. million dollars for iinprov,,'., ' great Musfc'le Shoals nitrai . , ,. '" : ' Plant , ...i. HHj; ll!IT0'll n I the fertilizer siturtior. i . K'Uer control the food i..,.-!,..,.. ' !l0M, " .11111 ,. ami relief, Senator McCumber, Republican. mands. These, with th.- n the tariff measure, has kept before the senate every day the primary claims of this legislation to protect American industries. empt producers of aKru-uiturr.i uuin iiuw ijiuM-cuuiin tiri'ifr t; trust law. further ;in.: , a : 1. : 1 1 . ttllOU 11111,. a WCIUIIV n irig' aid for maternitv lc:i 1 the act reviving the W;u- r,n-,nJ' in' (viutiuu i.uiiqiuULI' Hit S ' llii 1 1 plishments of note. a('l'0. FORMER ADMIRAL DEAD BKRLIN, Feb. 6. Admiral Count Frederich Von Baudissin, former chief of the GermaTl admiralty staff, is dead. He was at one time persial ad miral to the German emperor and for three years commanded the imperial yacht. vHe entered the navy in 1873 and was retired in 1913. He was 69 years old. - " DEMPSEY TO XBw YORK LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 6 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, said tonight he would leave tomorrow for New York in response to a telegram from his manager, requesting that the champion join him in. the metropolis. RED ARMIES ARE HOLDING ERIVAX, REPORTS SAY NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Red armies are occupying Erivan, capital of Ar menia, and Alexandropol, the railway center of that republic, a cable mes sage received by the Near East relief today reported. Americans in Armenia, the message said, interpret the advance of Bolshe vik troops to mean that Armenians are so bitterly opposed to the soviet form of government imposed, by the treaty of last December, that the Moscow rad ical leaders decided to occupy the en tire republic and either 'abolish or con trol the government by military force. Turkish nationalist troops whieh were in Alexandropol, evacuated the city before the advance of t,he Bolshe vists, the message said. It numbered the Moscow troops occupying Erivan at 3,000. Forty thousand refugees have fled from the Mosul region because of t,he .combined movement against the Brit ish by Bolshevists, Turks and Kurds, it added. Near East relief workers suggested that 16,000 of these home less people emigrate to the United States in- chartered transports. This question Is to be taken up with the state department, It was announced at the organization headquarters. TRAINMEN" ARE INJURED ' MACON, Ga., Feb. 6. Engineer G. W. Pearcall, and fireman T. W. Vann of this city, were seriously injured today when a northbound Georgia Southern and Florida freight train crashed into a .locomotive that was switching in the yards at Ashburn during a; dense fog. . . . 'a "After Every Meal over the world people this goody An use for its benefits, as well as its Pleasure. Keeps teeth clean, breath sweet throat soothed. MAKE A MOONSHINE RAID (Special to The Star) , , GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb. 6. As a result of a -moonshine" raid in the upper part of the county yesterday, Sam Montgomery and Fred White were arrested by federal and county officers on charges of operating an illicit dis tillery, while the whiskey outfit they are accused of having operated was destroyed. The still was fired up and ready for a "run" when the officers arrived. CALCUTTA Kept RiaM ealed Tight FOR NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY HONEY HAS BEEN, AND IS NOW, THE BEST BREAD MANUFACTURED IN WILMINGTON The Largest Loaf Is Only T; V. -' 1 i--Is. "'. -KIM.! i fi--1.'.f..5r. nil PAY NO MORE ?:. -'Misrs.'A&: . : i -.... .i.i f . -( L . -. 121 South Front Street Save the Wrapper and See the Shows, Or Give the Kiddies a (Coy! 1 . Established 1897 WT. FARRIS, Proprietor : i t Telephone No. 626 ) . ' 'a' , . . ' Ar . -rxj ' .v -A: , . iA-AAAA ' t i V I .-'3,1 , L V'V-i L - J a a "a' Ja - ; sr . - . ' --;" - r - C a ,-. - :
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