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"I 1 . WEATHER Fon Want All th Aews About Businett Read the Ada Dally Pair mid Colder Today. Kridiiy Fair. GREENSBORO BAITY NEWS i VOL. XXIV. NO. 52 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1921 f.VT:RF.n AS SKIOM' CUSS SUTTVK DOCTORS IN ISSUING CERTIFICATES WILL USEOWN JUDGMENT BELLAMY GETS RULING Reserve Board Head To Hold His Office ALLIES HAVE VIOLATED TREATY OF VERSAILLES SAYS AGERMAN PAPER Vorwaerts Declares It Is Techni cal Beginning Of War. OCCUPATION IS INVASION No Crime Committed Unless Wil ful Statements Are Made. THE QUESTION OF SANITY Doctor May Decide This Phase By the Ordinary Means Ac cessible To Him. SUPREME COURT OPINIONS W. .1. CrmveJI, nf Merklrnliurg, Loses Petition Is Arllon HrnuKkt Ajtnlnst Him II 7 II In Wife Restore .orfolk Southern Train. 7b r.re?D!tljQro Dally Nesa Bursa. Cft Mercbanta National Sank Bldf. By IV. T. HOST. Raleigh. March 9. Bulllnir the marl'tal marleet being remotest from his mlsd. Representative Bellamy, of (few Hanover, this morning; went to Attorney (Jeneral Manning's office aft er reading the Daily News editorial. "Has AVrecked the Marrying Business," and asked that gentleman to rule lib erally on that section of the law which penalizes the doctor who gives a cer tificate of fitness for marriage. Mr. Bellamy sought mitigation of the offensp charged to the doctors. He would make the Issuance of a false pa per rest wholly on Intent. .Should a physician not be conversant with any disabilities in the marital candidate; should the doctor give a clean bill to those persons who might have been adjudged at some remote time Insane or otherwise mentally unfit, the fact that he know not what he did would not be criminal. The doctor must be wilful in the commission of wrong. The legislature had adjourned when Representative Bellamy had his atten tion directed to the hill. It cannot be corrected until the next session, which a vast number of people think la Im minent In an extraordinary call. But the attorney general's ruling will make for unlikelihood of conviction save In -the intentional wrong-doing of the doe tora who make untruthful affidavits u to conditions antedating marriage. The passage of this act was one of the sensailons of the general assembly which closed Its work at an early morning hour. Notwithstanding the renunciatory character of tha general assembly, ita frame of abolition when It came here, and Ita deeply depressed nanclal state. It legislated radically .nd even loosely on mfirrUgiw iwWn a sweeping cut In the period ef aban aenment as a condition of divorce, mak ing marriage Infinitely more difficult and divorce twice as easy. The touches suggested by the Dally News will doubtless be given to the bill when the next general assembly gets . a chance tb go over it. Attorney General Opinion. The attorney general wrote Mr. F right: "You ask this office to Interpret the Bellamy act with especial reference to the obligations of certifying physicians thereunder. . - .'The act is apparently drawn with full knowledge of our existing mar riage laws. As does that, It enforces Us design by prohibition and penalties npon the officers and physicians who are to administer It, and not upon the parties to the marriage contract It self. Any marriage then, which has been solemnised since March 5, the date on which the Bellamy act was ratified, is perfectly valid, though upon license issued also sil-ce March 5 without the certificates required by the act. In other words, a marriage when performed by the Justice of the peace or minister of the gospel is valid though there may be an Illegal license, or no license Ht all. .."The Bellamy act forbids the reg later of deeds to issue a license to a male applicant unless the application Is accompanied by a certificate that he has no venereal disease, no tubercu losis lit its Infectious state and that he not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction an nrf 'risa - The Analogy Concedes Point That Invasion Of Belgium Wasn't Justified. DR. SIMONS IS CRITICISED Conservatives Criticise lcleantlna for ""Sine W HUnani-a io ode Too Much and Ike Kntlre lreas Bluinea Ike Allies. PARTYINM SOUTH Ask Lincoln Johnson, Negro, To Resign As Committeeman. OFFER HIM FEDERAL JOB I1AII.T ON'.V. IT.OII PKB YA1 daily a.vh snyt. la mi n: mi PRICE FIVE CENTS Mr. Harding Asserts His Leadership of the Party On the Colombian Treaty Issue He Doesn't Wait For Endless Con ference and Efforts At Conciliation, But Lays His Course and Then Acts Party Is Expected To Follow. Split Considered Serious In Extent. Go A bolt the Matter Diplomati cally, They Don't Want to Lose Negro Vote. PARTY TO TOUR THE SOUTH W illlam P. a Harding, of Alabama, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is one Democrat likely to remain in office Indefinitely, according to reports from Washington. It Is said that Pres ident Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon admire the way Gov ernor Harding has handled financial affairs and desire him to remain in of fice as long as he conveniently can. Much satisfaction was expressed in the capital because of the new President's utiuune. as it Indicated that the Fed era) Iteserve system is to be kept out of politics. idiot, lm- BE Beer and Wines Are Given the '. Same Status As Whisky. AN OPINION BY PALMER TWf May Bav- Prescribed For Medicinal and Other Non Beverage Purposes. WILL CARRY OUT, RULING Volstead Enforcement Officials Will Prepare Draft of RetralatJons Plans of the Dry Advo cates May Be I paet. Washington, March 9. fleer antj wines are Riven the flame status as whisky under an opinion by the attor ney general made public today by the bureau of internal revenue. The ruling, one of the most impor tant since the advent of national pro hibition, makef it possible for all alco holic liquors io be used for medical d other non beverage purposes and for all to be manufactured and sold for these purposes subject only to the limitations of the Volstead act on non beverage intoxicants. The opinion was written by former Attorney (Jeneral Falrner the day be fore he retired from office, and was In reply to a series of questions from in ternal revenue and prohibition of ficials bearing on construction of half a do sen moot points In the law. Whether It will upset any regulations of the revenue and enforcement bu reaus had not bee determined tonight, Commissioner Williams, of the revenue bureau, saying he had not had an op portunity to study the opinion. He najle It public without comment ana saKl that officials concerned with en forcement would prepare at once to Si-kIiI Cable t Daily Newt. (Copj-rlght. 1H1M, by rnllarMphla .'ubltr Lwlcer lierlin, March 9. French occupation or Dussehlorf and other towns con atitutes a violation of the Versailles treaty by not giving Germany until May 1 to make rr pa rat Ion proposals as provided in the pact and is the Uchnual beginning of a new war, de clares Vorwaerts, the social Demo crat organ in a leading article. The attention of the press has been drawn from commenting on the break up of the London conference to mak ing detailed arguments to prove that the allies now have broken the treaty by applying military forces before the time spec! fled and conclude that the treaty now is null and void and that (.Jtirmany is no longer bound by the signatures affixed at Versailles. The occupation of the cities in the Rhine district he likened to the invasion of Belgium in the same article as made on "defenseless and unprotected ter ritory." It is interesting to note that the drawing of this analogy concedes a point heretofore denied In Ger many that the invasion of Belgium was not justified. Statements are also made that the occupation of Germany will not fill empty treasuries, that the break up of the London conference was not unex pected and that the people were pre pared by the repeated statements by government -officials that the Paris proposals were .not acceptable and that i the representatives at London could not suggest anything approaching them. Dr. Simons offer to accept the Paris conditions for a five-year period,, providing upper Silesia remained Oer man was generally criticized as being Impossible to fulfill. Conservatives criticize the delegation for showing willingness to cede too much and the entire press blames the allies for breaking off negotiations that might have led to a solution of the problem. The Deutsch Zeitung, ultra-Militarist, expresses relief that the danger of ar riving at some compromise approach ing the Paris proposals of 8,000,0000,000 a year for 30 years and 12 per cent ex port tax now is passed and urges the people to stand up for their rights. Declarations of Germany's innocence In causing the war again are freely made. The social democrats who seem to have honestly hoped all along that the London conference would not prove .rultlss, are warn I mi? 'thrtwople atid government to be prepared against monarchists activities, the opportune moment for which has arrived. Mr. SI cnip Will Head Subcommittee Which Will 4 on mi It With U. O. 1' Lender In ftorth. Mouth Caro lina, (ieftrjtrtn. Other Mates. ion bu ... ih. o beclle, or of unsound mind. The f e- i qrait rru'ttl,"'' , th male applicant must present a certlfi- " cat that she has no tuberculosi Its Infectious stage, and that she has not been adjudged by a court of com petent jurisdiction to be of unsound mind. The term 'applicant' in the tatute in the connection in which it i used Is somewhat obscure, but we think It should be Interpreted as ap plicable only to those persons, male and female, for whose benefit the li cense is issued. The register of deeds who Issues the licenses without these two certificates having been presented to him, is declared guilty of ft mis demeanor and is subject to a tine or Imprisonment. Any reputable, duly li censed physician, resident in the coun ty in which the license is applied for may make the certificate. The county health officer of such county must ex amine the applicants on demand, and If he finds them fit. must give the cer tificate without charge The physician who knowingly and wilfully makes any false statement In such certificate Is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be neil or imprisoned. "It is asked though, how ran the Physician certify that the applicant has ever been Judicially declared of un ounil mind? Many cases may be siig gfsted. In which it would tc impos sible for the applicant to siilifv th certifying; physician es to this point beyond cftvli or doubt The certifying Physician Is not. however, an insurer of the truth of staments in the cer tificate. All the law r.-qnir. s ( him that he should satisfy his j.i.lgmrnt n ach particular c.4e. witli ; dividual features incident to it by the ordinary means accessible to h.-n H commits no crime uqIi.s. h w:ifuM nd knowingly makes a fulse state ment, or makes s.k h false tlal.-i:!"' Talessly without belief, or a y fa.i aad Juat ground to believe in it truth A conscientious physician ami a "Jority of them are. appoint tls teosral rules, will have lilt - J.fT. ul- In dealing with part;, uiar ' irawtrll l.mmrm His IVlM-a Henry Caltiwtll and K..st-r r,ea. under dea'h srtri-e f r tt. !. r of Henry J ne .f a tt.e centra! characters in th. r'i: a" unsuccessful lyncbine t- . ' " 'ha ago Inst their a;-p-a" in '! S'lpirme court today at .! ; rs r ocrujon must s"n tnv.rt b i tl.un t s . ' There were many rumors that tne opinion had wrecked plans of dry advo cates to obtain further restriction of liquor sales. Officials refused to com ment on the reports, however, but Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the anti-saloon league, issued a state ment In which he said that 39 states had state codes prohibiting the pre scribing of beer for medical purposes. Mr. Wheeler declared the opinion was not In accord with the purpose of the federal law. "Congress clearly did not. Intend to attempt to legalise hat the state laws nrohir.lt." Mr. Wheeler said. "In- !,. the opinion Is overruled. Congress, should amend the law. It Is difficult, of course, to overrule It because the government and the brewers are on the same side of the case and there is no one to contest It. unless the new at. torney general overrules the opinion." The opinion appeared ambiguous in some respects, officials said, and as result they were unable to determine w nether rhr goernment had power, in the light of the ruling, to limit the number of prescriptions which a phy sician may writ- ex. -pt that -the law than a pint per per rlo.l Mr Palmer dn 1 It li'.f purpose of the physic. an "un- l.v governmental control." yet Mt tr.it r. KilUtn ns might r. s t rt. t th1 a:r,our r.f pr. orip'i"n specifies n son in a 1 , !ar. .1 be Concr'ss fetfred !' h- thn prop, r: on any i-.lay Win he sold Mr . of I'l ... .i M.-d i hi ,,c i; . .t.-.l ! -"1 . nf 1 to pro- . had In n he FKKXCH CAPITA I, T.tkKN THE MOVE IKTO UKItKAtV UUKTI.V SwIil Cakli M Dall Ins (Coprrlfht, 1931, br PMIadelphla Public Leorer.l Paris, March 9. While history may record March 8. 1921 aa one of the most fateful days in the life of contempor aneous France, the populace of the French capital Is outwardly quite In different about It. The Micareme festival a few days ago proved conclusively that Paris crowds have not lost their ability to enthuse or get excited but the prob lem of Germany is too old a atory. No unusual crowds fill the streets, there are no excited throngs about the news paper offices and the boulevardier still complacently sips his aperitif on the terrace of his favorite cafe. Extra editions ars read as eagerly for the racing returns from Compelgne as for official communiques from General Degoutte's headquarters at Neuss. The Quai D'Orsay atmosphere nat urally Is tense and surcharged and the underlying feeling generally is that the nation Is face to face with a grim reality the reality that 40,000.000 Frenchmen are once more not In a state of peace with 60,000.000 Germans. The problem of reparations Is now definitely added to the long list of causes that during centuries have ren dej-ed Germany as a neighbor both dangerous and unsupportnble. .On this point it is necessary to state in order to conform to realities that nothing has been definitely finished or achieved. This situation also conforms to predictions cabled by your corre spondent for many weeks. Following the fanfare of pr?ss trumpets over the famous "Accord of I'aris" In January France Is again forced to occupy Ger many this time happily with the aid of her allies, but as a matter of force majeure, ao far as England la con cerned. nevertheless. Had the Geor gian policy not wavered finally in the exact lirectlon It did the ltriand gov ernment would have fallen within 24 hours. France would have marched alone and probably In a different direc tion than Dusseldort and by a long jr route. As a result nf allied rather than Just French penalties, the present occupa tion of Germany is likely to last a long time. Kvcn so. success cannot be guar anteed except by a careful and vigorous policy. It Is political intelligence that the future must call upon to give a dur able solution to he problem of Ger many, that Is, unless year after year it must be the soldiery to answer to the call. For the moment l'remrer Brland by obtaining "allied" ormupation is on the top wave of governmental, parlia mentary and press popularity. While he remains In London several days longer, "to- discuss the eastern prob lem." he rtoubt!. on his return will be escorted from the train In triumph i Con t in i on p. three I iOtTHKH PflWCH HAITI t timraii tio owismo tSSll ! llll'j .- r-harlott". March S Th Pntnr company. of Cha ni;',i!l a decision from f.-rp'.rat ion cnmm'eslon as r.ites l.e'ore 1 t.a ugura 1 1 nir ' ge ,. .' on rl the Judg- ; an be supplanted .-. - r,t offu la . s .. ...lid r. ult from ; -.p. t ' cot lrt.1 t lie I .4 r S 1 1 U r.eth. r j a- d 1.. r;- - . i.r.. r ' esc t t ae Tb'.) Southern rlotte. Is the state to power plans for th,. construction on Mountain Island, in miles from Charlotte, of a lorn ii.-i. pi,..r plant and the increasing of the apar!'y of that company so .is to supp!v electrical rsisir to more ma nnf a. : 'i r nK establishments lf . hdro-ei, , Tic power - 1.11IO l,e obtain-I eil several :arire manufacturing plants '( , a t, I., ! -1 . 'harb.iie or vnirii'v .n the imcie, i ae f-iture." stated T T I llis. n - t'e chamber of commerce ! Wit.l M. i.ath of the l.ng toil jl .ad -Mr y . .n "encoura gem. ri t is, ; KlVen ' 1 Ir." OfSS.t,ity Of III IDlT.II. 1 in power a urease f,,r this se,tion, . t i in. r - . . . : t :.al i "harlot ' e s . la uns , ; ' ee' "a- f- trtamf acTTTTti.a y ' p .-is .-r, oe made beontf a.l fevr of I I Dally Neva Hu,.:au anil Tri.gTr.ph Ornts. Til" Hits' Bulling IRv U.wd Win) II j THUOnOKK TII.I.UIl Washington. March 9. In their de sire to re-organlxe and build up tha Republican party in the South mem hers of the Republican national com mittee have made a start by suggest ing that Lincoln Johnson, the negro member from Georgia, resign, get out of the factional controversy In Georgia and accept a lucrative position In the federal service In Washington. So far as could be learned today Johnson haa net decided upon his course, but it was learned that Re publican leaders believe the southern situation would be clarified should Johnson get off of the national com mittee and make no attempt to lnter fer in the distribution of patronage in bis state and in the south. White members of the committee are said to have gone about this mat ter diplomatically. They do not want to alienate the negro vote nor dis criminate against tha negro man in bis politics, but they are fully aware that in the southern statea the Q. O. P. can not get ahead so long as it la called the negro party of tha aouth. Johnson Is the first negro member of the national committee. He was elect ed at the Chicag-o convention and right now there is a bis row In progress In Georgia over control of patronage, with three factions contending for recognition. Johnson head on of these factions and haa been Insisting on his rights, . A aubeommlttea of the national com mittee headed by Representative Blemp, of Virginia, is to make a tour of th southern statea In th next few weeka. They will go to consult with party leaders In North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and other southern states and will present their report to a meeting of the full committee In June. This report will deal with re organisation of tha party In th south, the question of representations In na tional convention, and what steps should be taken by the a. O. P. to make further' Inroads upon Democrats. Tha Slerap subcommittee members ars wise enough to appreciate that th negro In Republican politics In th south Is an obstacle in the missionary spwi etm,iir tn VK l ' 'Voters' " The race Issue and' the prospect of negro office holders are questions raised whenever Republican missionaries at tempt to break the "solid south." That section does not want negro orTIc holders and the Republican leaders here know It. 1 Resignation Would Clear Problem. Klevatlon of Johnson to a place on the national commutes no doubt haa complicated the Issue. It would sim plify the Republican problem If John son should resign from the committee, accept a M.000 appointment from Hard ing and settle In Washington, keen ing his hands off of Georgia politics and allowing the white Rennhllcan. 01 me state to reconcile their differ- ences and agree on a pntropag slate. tnere is no doubt that Hann t in. coin jonnson Is a negro man of snrewaness and ability. He haa Knowledge or law. makes a irnnii apeech and la a capable politician. ..venures 10 nave jonnson locate In vvasnington and accept some good position in lieu of his present place "ii mt national committee are said to have been made quietly within the past few days, but the atorv leaked out here today. Johnson may accept the suggestion for his own financial good and the good of the party In the southern statea, although John son is not expected to agree to any program for reading the southern ne gro out of politics. He will press for negro enfranchisement and In this he will have the hacking of manv while members of the national committee. However, the Johnson move Is the first concrete action of the Republi can committee looking to a greater G. O. P. In the southern states. If the race Issue can be met in some way, Republicans believe here there are thoussnds of white men and women In the south who believe in a protective tariff and other Repub lican doctrines and will join the party If the race question Is clarified. The excursion of Chairman Plemp and his subcommittee Into the south ern states will be an unusual pro ceeding and will show that the Re publicans, having temporarily, at least, obtained control in Tennessee and Oklahoma, are really In earnest about breaking the Democratic south and making the Republican party formidable from Virginia to Texaa. If Johnson should resign from the Republican committee the tentative program bere la said to be the selec tion of Henry Jackson, of Atlanta, as Johnson's successor on the com mittee. When Mr. Slemp and his associates go Into the south they will undocbt edly he asked about the policy of the Republican party toward the negro and If Johnson Is then out of the way and tucked away In a federal Job here In Washington, and the Georgia factional rows are settled, Mr. Slemp's subcommittee will hsve easier going In the southern states Senatnra Coming Home. Senator F. M. Simmons left tonight for his home at New Kern. The sen ior senator will take a rest until early April when '"onirress will be called Into extra session. Senafor t'v.rman, who will go to North Carolina next week, has not yet seleeied a privste se. retary to surceed i Hubert Martin, who died a t' w .lavs air-i. Mr Overman prob ably will s.)e.t a eecretarv while In the state 1 1. Is .inderstooi to hae offered the postttor to James II. I'ouai. of U ; in ' net on. but Mr. t'owan was uiiiy .limn to relinquish the co. le.torsliio f 'he port and other con-rie- . s a W n tni !, K1 on. Pallv N.va Bureau and TVIrgraph OrfW. The kite ttiiliilliK I Ih Loaned Hire) itj c. v. .it.iii:irr. ICmnrttht. IDHI. In rbltaiMiJila rutilk Le,Hcr. I Washington. March 9. President Harding In his message to the senate today oil the Colombian treaty makes his first definite assertion of par'y leadership. On this Issue hf did not wait for endless conference and ef forts at cou'lllation. Having chosen his course he acted. The general expectation is that the party will follow him In accepting the Colnmhian agreement. The split Is Be. rlntie In extent. And with Borah lead ing the opposition to the treaty a long fight is probable. But the opposition to the treaty will probably distlntegrate steadily under -pressure from the White House. Ocfectlve leadership in the senate Is responsible for Harding's being com pelled thus early In his career to assert his authority. Senators Lodge and Secretary Fall assumed thai, there would he no difficulty In putting the Colombian treaty through. It waa al lowed to become known that this was the policy of the foreign relations com mittee group in the senate. The plan bore no special stamp of approval from the white house and has not behind It the weight of any particular authority. Publicity with regard to it gave the opposition a chance to solidify. The atmosphere was rather unfavor able to the treaty. When Proaldent Wilson proposed It many of the Re publican aenatora had voted agalnat. Senator Lodge's leadership In the sen ate is not sufficiently strong so that it can be taken for granted that men under It will vote without question for something which a short time ago they voted against. Rut this seems to hav been taken, for granted. Moreover th so-called Roosevelt wing of the pa,rty Is not In the moat pleasant frame of mind. It has an as sistant secretary, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. It waa easy to raise th standard of revolt among men In this state of mind. Before the administration ' or the senate leaders knew what waa happen ing th senate was polled and the op ponents df the treaty felt assured that they could master enough votes to beat It. Among the- senators counted oh were only two or three Democrats so the defection among Senator Lodge's followers waa considerable. It waa only when this situation de veloped that Senator Lodge and secre tary Fall turned to President Harding for aid. The only center of party dl el;illne was the President. He had to act and act quick or see hla adtuints tratlon become one of conference and conciliation which never made a de clslon. A little faltering would have been fatal. The wholo trouble might have been avoided had there been In the senate a better understanding of the senate situation. Had the move for the treaty come to tne senate primarily from President Harding in the shap of message the opposition would have had no chance to form. All but a few of tha Republican senators would hav bowed at once to the will of the Presi dent and admitted the force of his reaa ons for changing the praty position upon Colombia. For any lesser man to 1 el I It to change Its position was un wise. For Mr. Harding to speak only alter th opposition had , orystallsed was inexpedient. The division Mr. Harding faces over the Colombian treaty is not the begin ning of anything. The Roosevelt wing of the party may be roused on Issues that relate to the past, or Issues purely personal to their deed lender like this one but there Is no real line of olevag between them and the conservative rulers of the party today. They are touchy about Colombia and about th failure to put General Wood in th cabinet but on th real queationa of the day the tariff and foreign relations they divide aa other Republicans di vided. This estimate leaves out. of con. slderatlon the extremists of the' Borah Johnson sort. The Roosevelt schism, this belongs to the past. There Is no cohesive principle in It. It wMl present a united frpnt on foreign relations or th tar iff. Th Isaus which has arisen over the Colombian treaty Is. therefore, unimportant, except as It shows th weakness of senate leadership and as It gav an opportunity to President Hardin to, assert himself. If any real division comes to trouble the Harding administration It will arts over th tariff, these men who are In th opposition on th treaty today will themselves split In two over the tariff If Mr. Harding ex hausts his efforts as a conciliator and falls to hold together the Industrial sections of the oountry which want to reach the foreign buyer and th agri cultural sections which want to ex clude the foreign buyer. In th end Harding; will have personally to de cide the Issue as he just has th Co lombian treaty Issue. IINSMIENIIS . British mmm Asheville Postmaster Writes Hot Letter To PostoiTice Depart ment Official. IS ABOUT ROLLINS CASE (tmeUI ts Diltr nm.1 Asheville, March .Postmaster Owen Gudjrer today wrote a hot letter to first Assistant Postmaster General John C. Koons. denouncing that official's action in statins; that Qudrer would h re moved for maklntr public the corre- spondencfl in the Rollins case hers. Mr. Qude;er says In the letter that It poor ruia tnat win not work both ways and he Is at loss to understand why Air. tvoons two years as;o made public correspondence when he waa tryins; to remove Uuda-er and now doea not wish to make public the same regarding Miss Itoiiln. ; i ulnar's answer Is In the form of a defy to tha Republican holdover first assistant postmaster areneral and the local postmaster tells the Republican to go It. Knons, according; to dis patches received here last night and today, said that Oudger's action making public the correspondence was enough to causa his removal and that he would recommend same. In his let ter today (ludger refers to what took place two years ago when he refused to make public the suspension and sub sequent reinstatement of Miss Rollins and states that action this time was taken by Inspectors and not at his sug. gestlon. Mr. .Qudger saya: "When Mr. Koons tried to oust me four years ago he let it be known publicly through the press on what grounds he was bringing charges. When Mies Rollins was re centty suspended by postofflce Inspec tors, who disclosed shortages In her postal funds, I made public only what the department returned in their re ports, doing; so In answer to thosa who charged me with seeking the removal of Miss Rollins for political reason. Mr. Koons brought charges against me four years sgo specifying lack of executive ability as the result of counter charges brought by Miss Rol lins and others in the office here against me when 1 preferred charge against Miss Rollins. "Everything has been dim open and annve board tn this o trice and I nave nothing to hide," he added In defense of his action ANOTHER TRAIN IS RUN ON A, B. AND A. RAILROAD Iron i mmpmmy'm 4 aalrniaa Handle the Throttle Wall- Hallrvag Off I rial la .'tftf Hrlr, . I HI It M OII I . W TT I.IFK r f 'ff K "f'-ai ' t r r J r'l,. r rt "f his 11 Mi-t -'.r! JO tf:" ! a ten f. tr - man f Tl f l.''n rf f , n c'.urvh. gat r t r nfanfn . r. " . r.;rt'i'!t a r. 1 t an 1a. .man. It b-eraua rirmlnahani. Ala., .March 9 Another pasnr train wan operated on the A., It. and A. from Iflrmingham to Line vine, and return today. A. II. Wood ward, chairman of the Woodward Iron company, anin handttng the throttl. with . K Watkins who has ben with t h- road dlnrt- it organ buaine-as II xfRtn nftn. nerving as conductor, and thr nifmi-v-m tf the rre-w bi-ing of- h;-iit!ft of th road and -rr.p;oyes of the r.f-..jv jrd Irn c"(ppan . The fifTice- of Sup rint-nilf rt V. K Whitak-T jn.ioun-l tonight that th-re a prfffpf-t 'f partially D-nunitng freight ft.-r I' In the lmm-d.ati- future and that pa r.g-r tv, would ! improve! Tl. pis-ng'r train will prot-aI.lv mak th round trip to !,ine-Vl!l- again t'-rnorrow. it was pttld. Hltl..4 IMtTt H Rl ll.ll, .tK-.THHf It 9imj LO W'n-t..Ti - S 'm Mann Klr rotn pitiv t-ft ro eJ on of the lara m -.,.! m crk i ng hut Mings of tha ltriggs St.fntr company plant hre ton.ghi ipia'Jif-g a !"t Of I lf'S.ftO CAvereil by ifjr'i Tii ofh-r Two tuii'nJsng re n t 'iaTngi. The origin of ihr fire i inkDawn- Would Relieve British Cotton In d us try Of Dependence On United States. BIG CONCERN IS FORMED Ixiulavllls. Ky.. March . rrsnlsa- tlon of a British emplrs ootton growlnf and marketing concern, flnanoed and officially aided by.th British irovsrn. ment, Is Indicated In an authorised article In the British rovernmsnt board of trade Journal for February, received here today by R. I.. McKellar, forela-n freight traffle manager, Southern rail way, with headquarters In Louisville. rar reacn in arrangements. It was Indicated, are nearlns; completion for the establishment of a hue permanent organisation with tha ultimate object or renevina- the Hrltlah cotton Indus. try of dependence upon the United States for the a-reater part of Its sup piy ot raw cotton. The official account of these devel opments Indicates that a aovernment appropriation of i.Ofto British pounds annually for flv years haa been made for preparatory work and ultimately a isras sum approaching- 40,000 pounds will be made available. Measwhll It a contemplated, according to tha arti cle, to provide what will In effect be a government subsidy to cotton growera All these objects. It Is recited, will b attained by the Imperial government ana tne Hrltlsh cotton Industry work ng tnrougn an organisation known na the British Empire Cotton Orowlna corporation. Commenting upon the potential effent of the nrltlsh plans. Mr. McKellar, who haa been active In the development of loreian iraoe, asserted In a statement today that they would operate as a Hrltlah cotton growing and srlllne rust. He stressed the importance In his connection of :Amerioaa cotton growers ana cotton mill men nlvlne heir full support to American exnort nnancing and trading organisations now nrlng developed under the prorl- lone or tne Edge law and the Webb omcrene act; of Increasing Amrrrlan cotton mill capacl'y and expanding, co ordinating and aggreaalvely selling American cotton factory products In all foreign countries. SCORE OF FOLK INJURED IN MISSISSIPPI TORNADO Pra-tl-allr Kvery Hmnm a r rat-to Fa-Sat fta IVMIUkr4-.tara trry Haly Onagea. Macon, Miss., March . A tornado which struck several points In Mnxu bee county today at I p. m. Injured a score of persons and caused damage estimated at IJS.OOO. Prairie point, two miles from here, was hit hardest, prartlrally every building In the village being demolish-, ed or damaged. The tw business j houses thers were blown down and s number of people were hurt but no deaths were reported. The loss there w as about lXO,'oo. Macon aurfertMl little damage, but the Macon cemetery, half a mile from town, waa swpt by the ornarfo. monu ments ami markers of th- majority of grave being lereil d T-n or 12 buildings, including a fw dwellings. In t h vicinity of the ct-metery were unroofed. The damage was estimated at f .hia. M'.igr reports re hed her" of dam- ag at remote piara In the county. but no one was reported kUId The rvclone camr from a southwesterly di ret tlon -Tfglii Hark wlawtaug. Vewport NVws, Vs.. March Paara are entertained hr for the aafety of the Norwegian hark K tori no, lv days out from hritlanftC th is . con. tr.anij hf r(iR Kauiiae an4 haa ; on board the captata s wtfs aad a crew ! ef ... OF MJJHR REGION Supplies For Her Military Cut Oil By the Allies. ' , - RESISTANCE IS UNLIKELY But Situation Is Fraught With Grave Consequences Be fore It Is Over. MAY, CAUSE NEW HATRED Will tne firniau Paaalvely Dakatlt, Or Are V To Hav a New World C'rlalaf Tbe Vernatllrs Pea) Treaty Hon failed, (tr Uuad Win t Daili Nm.) By VHASK SIMOMJg. Conrritht. toil, by tht Mrt'lun Kawapaper aTjealMisi Washington, March I. In th ex amination of th present phase of tha latest European crisis It Is essential to recognise at one that while th new ' invasion of Germany does not now mean war and may not In fact mean war, nnt only Is war a possibility but the preliminary military operation. strikes at th centre of all possible German resistance, were war to result. This is the case, because the occupa tion of the Khine gateway to th Ruhr region Is, In reality, th first long step toward th occupation of that great innuairtai .-eglon in wntcn am situated, the Krupp works' and th other great! establishments which would hav to j supply Germany with th larger frao! tlon of her mechanical means for de finding herself. Mine th Bllesian dl. ! triot is now In allied hands and allied garrisons there could promptly b re inforced by Polish division near at hand tha Ruhr Is tha single available source for German munition. Going back nearly seven years ' It will be recalled) that one-of th argue i ment most frequently advanced by th Germans In defense of their Invasion, of Belgium waa the fact that allied advanco through Belgium would bring th enemy close to the great Basra district and thus to th source of Ger man military supplies, aa well as ot German coal, th basis of all German war Industry. U is plain then that th occupation of the gateway to tb Huhr while having the character of a purely puiiltlve and political gesture. In resllty represents a dciiv thrust at th vital csntsr of any insslbl German reslat anos. Granted that Germany Is inoaps- ble of sustained military effort, that she has been deprived of th larger part ef her machinery, her heavy ar tillery, her aircraft and even a measar. able fraction of her field guns, conced ing that any resistance would be neces sarily weak and futile, it is the elimina tion of her Industrial machinery which clinches th situation and Insure hr approximate helplessness. . HeeUtane Not Likely, German policy, so far as It has re vealed Itself up to th present moment does not suggest any thought of mili tary resistance. . On the contrary there . Is every Indication that the Germans mean to employ passive resistance. To submit, but to submit and at the same time eeass to produce coal for the al lies and demonstrate . that mere force oannot compel reparation payment. The German gamble la based on the calcula tion that the self Interests of many na tions will, In the end, bring to Ger many foreign support against French policy, which must otherwise end lit paralyslslng the German markets for th rest of the world and thue add to the economic chaos of th world. Rut a policy of passlv resistance Is after all a dangerous expedient. W have all seen in recent months how Irish passive reslstanos hag In the end led lo something approximating war. Whit foreign armies are sent Into countries ss armies of occupation, incidents are almost Insvttabls, - Incidents whiclt amount to conflicts, to street rioting. to ambushes and the like. And It Is clear also that given the temper of the French, quite as muoh as of th Ger mans, Incidents can only lead to far graver developments, to reprisals of the sort which the. German gave final Il lustration of Ir, his still unforaotteu Invasion of Helgium and France The real truth Is that the whole al lied policy, Uritlsh as well as Ameri can American while we remained a party to the world settlement, British ever alnoe has broken down In the fao of German resistance, A situa tion has arisen In which th British and for that matter th Italians and Belgian, who are also parties to . th London conference, hav had to choose between going along with the French, end exercising such moderation Influ ence as they may be able, or etepplnc aside and leaving the French with, freedom of action and with an addi tional bitterness growing out ot their feeling of Isolation. - A C'baae Affray, Whether we er to have one more demonstration, such aa took placs rest summer when the French occupied, Frankfort, a demonstration which had no serious consequences and was fol lowed by a German - submission, or whether w are to hav a new world crisis, something approximating guer rilla warfare, with all th Incidental destructions and devastations with all th attendant dlaloraton of world busU neaa. la now a matter of pure chance. we are. In fact, at the mercy of some chance affray, some Jocal disturbance which will lead to a new Irish situa tion, with all the expaneson of the field and of the Importance which th rel ative sisee ef Germany and Ireland, make inevitable. And evea If the present occupation doea not provoke he deluge, w are manifestly only at he beginning, for Germany has frank ly adopted a course which can only lead to new crisis and new perils. Th reaty of Versailles haa completely broken down. The settlement of Parle as ended In a fresh and complete un- aettlement. Force and force alone haa been proven the sola method of collect- g reparations end enforcing Uermaa Contlnue n I'nge Three.! Fares n, My ataeea. . Washington. March . Virginia: Fair and colder Thursday; Friday fair.1 North and BVmth Carolina: Fair and colder Thursday, preceded by rata oa the coant; Friday fair. Florida: Local shower and eoes what cooler weather Thursday; Friday fair. Kitretne northwest Florida. Georgia! Fair and cooler Thursday; Friday fair. Alabama: Fair Thursday, cooler la south; Friday fair. Mississippi: Fair Thursday, cooler on the coast; Friday fair. Tanneaae.; Fair Thursday and prob ably Friday, moderat teenswratare. Louisiana. Arkansas: Thursday anal Friday fair, rasing . tempemiere m inn. Oklahoma: Thursday fair. rrway rair. Texas: Theredar fair. ve Ja northi Friday fair, earaaar t t teraor. We Tessa: Thnreday, fair, wa a aorta; rneay lair. warmers . r. ? I 'Continued on lge The.) 1 tCor.t J
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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