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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878:
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. FEBRUARY 27, 1919
VOL. XL NO. 30.
PRESIDENT WILSON
WOULD OPPOSE A
Proudest Thing to Report is That This Great Country is Trust
ed Throughout the World. No Nation Distrusts the
Purpose of the United States.
THE WORLD WAR WAS WON BY
Critics Invited to Test the Sentiments of the American Nation:
"We Set Out to Make Men Free, and Now We Will Make
Them Free, and Sustain Them in Their Freedom."
Mechanics Hall, Boston, Feb. 24.
The -text of President Wilson's, ad
dress here is as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor,
Fellow Citizens: I wonder if you are
half as glad to see me as I am to see
you. It warms my heart to see a
great body of my teUr- t citizens
again, because in some respects dur
ing the recent months I hare been
very lonely indeed without your com
radeship and counsel, and I tried at
every step of the work which fell to
me to recall what I was sure would
be your counsel with regard to the
great matters which were under con
sideration. I do not want you to think that I
have not been appreciative of the ex
traordinary reception which was giv
en to me on the other side, in saying
that it makes me very happy to get.
home again. I do not mean to say
that I was not very deeply touched
by the cries that came from the great
crowds on the other side. But I want
to say to you in all honesty that I
felt them to be a call of greeting to
you rather than to me.
I did not feel that the greeting was
personal. I had in my heart the
over-crowning pride of being your
representative and of receiving the
plaudits of men everywhere who felt
that your hearts beat with theirs in
those great crowds. It was not a tone
of mere greeting; it was not a tone of
mere generous welcome; it was the
calling of comrade to comrade, the
cries that come from men who say,
"We have waited for this day when
the friends of liberty should come
across the sea and shake hands with
us, to see that a new world was con
structed upon a new basis and.
foundation of justice and right."
Inspired by Crowd's Voices.
I can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out of those simple voices of the
crowd. And the proudest thing I have
to report idym ' is " that this great
country of ours is trusted throughout
the world.
I have not come to report the pro
ceedings or the results of the pro
ceedings of the peace conference;
that would be premature. I can say
that I have received very happy im
pressions from this conference ;the
impression that while there are many
differences of judgment, while there
are some divergences "of object, there
is nevertheless a common spirit ind
a common realization of the necessity
of setting up new standards of right
in the world.
Because the men who are in con
ference in Paris realize as keenly as
any American can realize that they
are not the masters of their people;
that they are the servants of their
people, and that the spirit of their
people has awakened to a new pur
pose and a new conception of their
power to realize that purpose, and
that no man dare go home from that
conference and report anything les;
noble than was expected of it.
Why Conference "Goes Slowly."
The conference seems to you to so
slowly; from day to day in Paris it
seems to go slowly; but I wonder if
you realize the complexity of the task
which it has undertaken. It seems
as if the settlements of this war af
fect, and affect directly, every great,
and I sometimes think every small,
nation in the world, and no one de
rision can prudently be made which
is not properly linked with the great
series of other decisions which must
accompany it. And it must be reck
oned in with the final result if the
real quality and character of that re
sult is to be properly judged.
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case; hear it from the mouths
of the men most interested; hear it
from those who are officially commis
sioned to state it; hear the rival
claims; hear the claims that affect
new nationalities, that affect new
areas of the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone. And I -have been struck
by the moderateness of. those who
have represented national claims. I
can testify that I have nowhere seen
the gleam of passion. I have seen
earnestness, I have seen tears come
to the eyes of men who pleaded for
down-trodden people whom they were
privileged to speak for; but they were
not the tears of anguish ; they were
the tears of ardent hope.
And I don't see how aay man can
fail to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to the feeling that
he was not there to assert an indi
vidual judgment of his own, but to
try to assist the cause of humanity..
All Look to America.
And in the midst of it all,, every
interest seeks out, first of all, when
it reaches Paris, the representatives
EASY TO OVERCOME "NERVES"
At Least This Treatment Has the
Merit of Not Arousing Antago
nism In the Patient.
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When you are all unstrung for no
particular reason, and don't know
which way to turn, and can't put your
mind down to any one thing, try be
ing good to yourself this way :
The treatment easiest at hand is an
interesting book, not necessarily a
"UirUier," bvt cat ufflclsatlr abmb
DEFIES THOSE WHO
LEAGUE OF
THE INSPIRATION OF IDEALS
of the United States. - Why? Because
"and I think I am stating ' the most
wonderful fact in history because
there is no nation in Europe that
suspects the motives of the United
States.
Was there ever so wonderful a
thing seen before? Was there ever
so moving a thing? Was there ever
any fact that so bound the nation
that had won that esteem forever to
deserve it?
I would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
disesteemed by those who know them.
Quit the contrary. But you under
stand that the nations of Europe have
again and again clashed with one an
other in competitive interest. It is
impossible for men to forget those
sharp issues that were drawn between
them in times past. It is impossible
for men to believe that all ambitions
have all of a sudden been foregone.
They remember territory that was
coveted; they remember rights that 1
it was attempted to extort; they re
member political ambitions which it j
was attempted to realize and while j
they believe that men have come into '
a different temper; they cannot for
get these things, and so they do not
resort to one another for a dispas
sionate view of the matters in con
troversy. They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable distinc
tion of being regarded as the friend
of mankind.
Whenever' it is desired to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where it is thought
nobody else will be welcome, they
ask for American soldiers. And
where other soldiers would be looked
upon with suspicion, and perhaps
meet wtih resistance, the American
soldier is welcomed with acclaim.
Many Grounds for Pride.
I have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
that I am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal prid.
I'd be the most stuck-up man in the
world. And it has been an infinite
pleasure to me to see those gallant
soldiers of ours, of whom the con
stitution of the United States made
me the proud commander. You may
be proud of the Twenty-sixth division,
but I commanded the Twenty-sixth
division, and see what they did
under my direction, and everybody
praises the American soldier with the
feeling that in praising him he is sub-,
tracting from the credit of no one
else. j
I have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe
to believe in us. Before this war Eu
rope did not believe in us as she does
now. She did not believe in us
throughout the first three years of
the war. She seems really to have,
believed that we were holding off be- j
cause we thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
all of a sudden, in a short IS months, '
the whole verdict is reversed. There
can be but one explanation for it.
They saw what we did that wtihout
making a single claim we put all our
men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who were fighting for
their homes, in the first instance, but j
for a cause, the cause of human
rights and justice, and that we went
in, not to support their national
claims, but to support the great cause
which they held in common. J
And .when they saw that America
not only held ideals, but acted ideals, j
they were converted to America and '
became firm partisans of those ideals.
' Met Greek Scholars. I
I met a group of scholars when I
was in Paris--some gentlemen from
one of the Greek universities who had
come to se and in whose presence, or
rather in the presence of those tradi-'
tions of learning, I felt very young
indeed. ' J
I told them that I had'one of the'
delightful revenges -that sometimes
coaies to a man. All my life I had
heard men speak- with a sort of con
descension of ideals and of idealists, j
and particularly those separated, en
cloistered horizons whom they choose
to term academic, who were in the
habit of uttering ideals .in the free,
atmosphere when they clash with no-;
body in partciular.
And I said I have had this sweet
revenge. Speaking with perfect
frankness, in the name of the people
of the United States, I have uttered ,
as the objects of this great war ideals,
and nothing but ideals, and the war
has been won by that inspiration. !
Men were fighting with tense muscle
and lowered head until they came to
realize those things, feeling they
were fighting for their lives and their
country, and when these accents of
what rt was all about reached them
from America they lifted" their heads, '
they raised their eyes to heaven,
tixr fn fol-o vnnr mind off yourself. If
convenient, go off bOmewhere alone
with your book, where you won't be
Interrupted and constantly reminded
of the hundred and one things waiting
to be done.
The music lover certainly has the
greatest panacea for all nervous ills.
Still, playing for one's self isn't always
the most restful thing to do. Hunt up
a symphony concert somewhere. If
you can't do that shut yourself up In
a room and turn on the "boxed" music.
But everybody Un't a music levtfi
when they saw men in khaki coming
across the sea in the spirit of crusad
ers,, and they found that these were
strange men, reckless of danger not
only, but reckless because they seem
ed to see something, that made that
danger worth while. Men have tes
tified to me in Europe that our men
were possessed by something that
they could only call a religious fer
vor. They were not like "any of the
other soldiers. They had a vision,
they had a dream, and, fighting in the
dream .they turned the whole tide of
battle and it never came back.
Tribute of a Humorist '
One of our American . humorists
meeting the criticism that American
soldiers were not trained long enough,
said:
"It takes only half as long to train
an American soldier as any other, be
cause you only have to train him one
way, and he did only go one way,
and he never came back until he could
do ft when he pleased."
And now do you realise that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world ..imposes a bur
den upon us if yoi choose to call
it a burden. It is one of those bur'
dens which any nation onght to be
proud to carry. Any man who resists
the present tides . that run in the
world will find himself thrown upon
a shore so high and barren that it
will seem as if he had been separated
from his human kind forever.
The Europe that I left the other
day was full of something that it had
never felt fill its heartxso full before.
It was full of hope. The Europe of
th esecond year of the war, the Eu
rope of the third year of the war, was
sinking to a sort of stubborn desper
ation. "They did not see any great
thing to be achieved even when the
war should be won. They hoped
there would be some salvage; they
hoped that they could clear their ter
ritories of invading armies; they
hoped they could set up their homes
and start their industries afresh. But
they thought it would simply be the
resumption of the old life that Eu
rope had led in fear, led in anxiety,
led in constant suspicious watchful
ness. TLsy never dreamed that it
would be a Europe of settled peace
and of justified hope.
All Peoples Buoyed Up.
And now these ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples
of Europe are buoyed up and confi
dent in the spirit of hope, because
they believe that we are at the eve
of a new age in the world when na
tions will undrstand one another,
when nations will support one anoth
er in every just cause, when nations
will unite every moral and every phy
sical strength to see that the right
'hall prevail.
If America were at this juncture to
fail the world, what would come of
it? I do not mean any disrespect to
any other great people when I say
that America is the hope of the world,
and if she does not justify that hope
the -e3ults are unthinkable, Jtfen will
be thrown back upon the bitterness
of disappointment not only, but the
bitterness of despair. All nations
will be set up as hostile camps again;
the men at the peace conference will
go home with their heads upon their
breasts, knowing that they have fail
ed for they were bidden not to come
home from there until they did some
thing more than sign a treaty of
peace.
Suppose we sign the treaty of peace
and that it is the most satisfactory
treaty of peace that the confusing ele
ments of the modern world will af
ford and go home and think about our
labors; we will know that we have
left written upon the historic table at
Versailles, upon which Vergeness and
Benjamin Franklin wrote their names.
nothing but a modern scrap of paper.
No nations united to defend, no great
forces combined to make it good, no
assurance given to the downtrodden
and fearful people of the world that
they shall be safe. Any man who
thinks that America will take part
in giving the world any such rebuff
and disappointment as that does not
know America.
Challenge to Critics.
I invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation. We set this up to make
men free, and we did not confine our
conception and purpose to America,
and now we will make men free. If
we did not do that, the fame of Amer
ica would be gone and all her powers
would be dissipated. She then would
have to keep her power for those nar
row, selfish, provincial purposes which
seem so dear to some minds that have
no sweep beyond the nearest horizon.
I should welcome no sweeter chal
lenge than that. I have fighting blood
in me and it is sometimes a delight
to let it have scope, but if it is a
challenge on this occasion it will be
an indulgence. Think of the picture,
think of the utter blackness .that
would fall on the world America has
failed. America made a little essay
at generosity and then withdrew.
America said: "We are your friends,"
but it was only for today, not for to
morrow. America said: "Here is our
power to vindicate right" and then
the next day said: "Let right take
care of itself and we will take care
of ourselves." America said: "We set
up a light to lead men along the paths
of liberty but we have lowered it, it is
intended only , to light our own path."
We set up a great deal of liberty,
and then we said: "Liberty is a thing
that you must win for yourself, do not
call upon us." And think of the
world that we would leave. Do you
realize how many new nations are go
ing to be set up in the presence of old
and powerful nations in Europe and
left there, if left by us, without a dis
interested friend?
What of the Helpless?
Do you believe in the Polish cause,
and so won't find the solace to be had
out of sweet harmonies. For nerves
In general then, there Is no treatment
auite so oleasurable or so effective as
the "movies." One. noted physician in
sists that the darkness and the silent
action with its accompanying music iS
the most popular "cure" of all.
Try to recaU those few pleasant
treatments the next time you become
conscious of having "nerves."
Crystal Trlek.
Dissolve in bat weter as taea alam
as I do? Are you going to set up Po
land, immature, inexperienced, as yet
unorganized, and leave her with a
circle of armies around her? Do you
believe in the aspiration of the
Czecho-SIovaks and the Jugo-Slavs as
j I do? Do you know how many pow
j ers would be quick to pounce upon
them if there were not the guarantees
of the world behind their liberty? '
Have you thought of the suffering
of Armenia? . You poured out your
money to help succor the Armenians
' offA. V, 9 1 . A
anci lu.cj' e uucicu , nuw set jruur
strength so that they shall never suf
fer again. .
- The arrangements of the present
peace cannot stand a generation un
less they are guaranteed by the unit
ed forces of the civilized world. And
if we do not guarantee them, cannot
you see the picture? Your hearts
have instructed you where the bur
den of this war fell. -.' It did not faD
upon the national treasuries, it did
not fall upon the instruments of ad
ministration, it did not fall upon the
resources of the nations. It fell upon
the victims' f homes everywhere,
where women were tolling ; in hope
that their menrwouldr come "Pack.
No Doubt of Verdict? .
When 'I think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle where
this great hope is disappointed, I
should wish for my part never to have
had America play any part whatever
in this attempt to emancipate the
world. But I talk as if there were
any questions. I have no more doubt
of the verdict of America in this mat
ter than I have of the blood that is in
me.
And so, my fellow citizens, I have
come back to report, progress and
do not believe the progress is going
to stop short of the goal. The nations
of the world have set their heads now
to do a great thing, and they are not'
going to slacken their purpose. And
when I speak of the nations of the
world, I do not speak of the govern-!
ments of the world. I speak of the
peoples who constitute the nations of
the world. They are in the saddle and
they are going to see to it that if their
present governments do not do their
will, some other governments shall.
And the secret is out and the present
governments know it.
There is a great deal otj harmony
to be got out of common knowledge.
There is a great deal of sympathy to
be get out of living in the same at
mosphere, and except for the differ
ences of languages, which puzzled my
American ear very sadly, I could haT
believed I was at home in France or
in Italy or in England when I was on
the streets, when I was in the pres
ence of the crowds, when I was in
great halls where men were gathered
together, irrespective of class. I did
not feel quite as much at home as I
do here, hut I felt that now, at any
rate, after this storm of war had
cleared the air, men were seeing eye
to eye everywhere and these were the
kind of folks who would understand
what the kind of folks at home would
understand and that they were think
ing the same things.
Manners Very Delightful.
I feel about you as I am reminded
of a story of that excellent witness
and good artist, Oliver Herford, who
one day, sitting at luncheon at his
club, was slapped vigorously on the
back by a man whom he did not know
very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy,
how are you?" He looked at him
rather coldly. He said: "I don't
know your name, I don't know your
face, but your manners are very fa
miliar," and I must say that your
manners are very familiar, and let
me add very delightful.
It is a great comfort for one thing,
to realize that you all understand the
language I am speaking. A friend ot
mine said that to talk through an in
terpreter was like witnessing the com
pound fracture of an idea. But the
beauty of it is that, whatever the im
pediments of the channel of commun
ication, the idea is the same; that
it gets registered, and it gets regis
tered in responsive hearts and recep
tive purposes.
I have come back for a strenuous
attempt to transact business for a lit
tle while in America, but I -have real
ly come back to say to .you, in all
soberness and honesty, that I have
been trying my best to speak your
thoughts.
When I sample myself, I think I
find that I am a typical American,
and if I sample deep enough, and get
down to what is probably the true
stuff of a man, then I have hope that
it is part of the stuff that is like the
other fellow's at home.
And, therefore, probing deep in my'
heart and trying to see the ... things
that are right without regard to the
things that may be debated as expedi
ent, I feel that I am interpreting the
purpose and the thought of America;
and in loving America I find I have
joined the great majority of my fel
lowmen throughout the world.
DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE
ARE "LORDS OF THE WORLD"
London. Under the heading "The
Lords of the World" The Frankfurter
Zeitung publishes a rather lively
sketch of the peace delegates in Paris.
It wonders whether any of them will
turn out to be a Metternich, a Talley
rand, a Hardenberg, a Nesselrode,-or
a Castlereagh, but thinks that none
of them at present can be compared
with Bismarck, Disraeli or GortScha
koff. It is added: '
Wilson, Clemenceau .and Lloyd
George are already characters with
sharply and firmly outlined features.
What they have done for their coun
tries the war raises them high; above
middle stajure. But their greatness
as statesmen has still to undergo ths
tests of fire at the green tablet. 1
as It will hold, and place in th solu
tion any object you wish to cover with
crystals. Set the solution In a. quiet
place and in a few hours crystals of
alum will be deposited on all .the ob
jects. In this way baskets made of
iron wire may be covered . orj dried
grasses may be made to look as if
laden with frost.
opasrnuuiw 9vt mvu. i
One never appreciates valuable ad-i
vice until It has passed its vftlnuble
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FIGHT ON EMBARGO
Of GGTTQH STATES
AMENDMENT INSERTED" IN THE
SUNDRY;CIVIL BILL. REMOVES
RESTRICTIONS CN EXPORTS.
INCLUDES ALL OUR EXPORTS
Reappropriation Item Approved After
Adoption of Bland Amendment '
Relating to Embargoes.
V Washington. Representatives, from
the cotton growing states were suc
cessful in their efforts to write an
amendment into the sundry civil bill,
designed to remove . all ' embargoes
placed by the war trade board against
cotton export shipments. The amend
ment, including the amendment, now
goes to the senate.
Although designed primarily to af
fect cotton shipments, the amend
ment applies to all American goods
exported to foreign countries. The
amendment prepared at a conference
of southern representatives, was of
fered in the house by Representative
Bland,, of Georgia and afterward
amended on motion of Representative
Stegall, of Alabama, so that cotton
seed and peanut oil also would not be
subject to embargo.
The amendment was offered while
the house, in committee of the whole,
was considering an item of the sun
dry civil bill reappropriating for the
war trade board the unexpended bal
ance of appropriations granted last
yar for continuing its operation.
Continuance of the agency for a part
of the next fiscal year may be nec
essary, it was said by members of the
appropriations committee, who fram
ed the sundry civil bill. Funds, it
was added, also would be necessary
for the agency to settle its accounts.
The reappropriation item was ap
proved after adoption of the Bland
amendment which directs that no
part of the appropriation bill will be
available unless all embargoes are
lifted.
IRISH DELEGATE PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS TO CONFERENCE
Paris. Sean O'Cealligh presented
himself to the peace conference as
the "accredited envoy of the provi
sional government of the Irish repub
lic." O'Cealligh has sent to Premier
Clemenceau, to Paul Dutasta. secre
tary general of the peace conference,
and to each delegate, a letter, in
"which he -hrimRta .their notice the
claim of his government, in the name
of the Irish nation, for international
recognition of the independence of
Ireland and for the admission of Ire
land as a constituent member of the
league of nations.
This communication was accompa
nied in each case by copies of the
Irish declaration of independence.
"In his letter O'Cealligh states that
Professor de Valera, Arthur Griffith
and Count Plunkett have been dele
gated by the national assembly to pre
sent a statement to the peace con
ference and to the league of nations
In the name of the Irish people. He
asks a date be fixed for the reception
of these men.
POLITICAL OFFENDERS ARE
FREED BY AMNESTY DECREE
Rome. Under the amnesty decree
just published, various socialist lead
ers, condemned for political offenses,
such as incitement to revolution, were
released from imprisonment in Turin.
Among them are Signor Serrati, edi
tor of The Avanti. . v v---
In the evening the released men
went to Camera del Lavoro, Turin,
wherft a great crowd of workmen
awaited them. A triumphant meeting
followed. The tenor of the speeches
may be gathered from the language
used by Signor Serrati, who said Rus
sia was the only nation which hd
fovrad the right way of treating ene
mies of the proletariat. Virtually all
the speakers urged the people of Italy
to follow in the footsteps of Russia.
FIRST SPEECH IN SENATE IN
DEFENSE OF CONSTITUTION
Washington. The first address in
the senate in defense of the proposed
constitution of the league of nations
was delivered by Senator Lewis, of Il
linois, Democratic whip, who took is
sue with the recent criticism made
by Senators Borah, Republican,, and
Reed, Democrat.
Speaking for nearly two hours,
Senator Lewis denied contentions of
opponents of the league that it would
abrogate the Monroe doctrine.
CLEMENCEAU'S WOUNDS DO
NOT INTERFERE WITH WORK
Paris. Premier Clemenceau's
wounds have not interfered with the
conference work and a general i ffort
has been made to speed up all work
of committees so as to be able to es
tablish with all possible rapidity tho
preliminary peace terms. It is intend
ed that in preliminary peace terms,
which it is hoped will be ready for
signatures earlier than was generally
expected, the future frontiers of Ger
many will be drawn.
APPEAL TO GET BUSINESS
GOING AND KEEP IT GOING
Washington. In an appeal to the
country "to get business going and
keep it going," Secretary of ; Labor
Wilson issued a "signed statement de
claring t.iat labor organizations were
in a bt'tter position, to resist reduc:
tion in wages than they have beeu
before and asserting that it would be
shortsighted for any business man to
run the chance of destroying his3 in
dustry for the opportunity ef -lrii
IER
KILLED AT MUCH
GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
AMONG THE PEOPLE IN THE
STREETS OF MUNICH.
DEPUTIES ARE PANIC STRICKEN
Shots Wounding Minister Fired From
Gallery of Building Where First
Landgtag Was Being. Held.
Copenhagen. Kurt Eisner, the Ba
varian premier, was shot and killed
by Lieut. Count Arco Valley, as Eis
ner was on his way from the foreign
ministry in Munich to the diet, s&ys
a Munich -dispatch. The shooting oc
curred .fro. the Prannerstrasse, and
death resulted from two shots fired
from behind his head.
Eisner's body was carried into the
foreign ministry, where it lies in the
porter's lodge.
Soon after the shooting the judicial
and police authorities arrived to in
vestigate the assassination. There
was great excitement in the streets
of the city.
The diet, which was holding its first
session, adjourned indefinitely.
Munich. Herr Auer, Bavarian min
ister of the interior, has been shot.
The shooting took place during . a
session of the landtag, while Auer
was alluding to the assassination of
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier.
Auer fell wounded in the left side
and Deputy Osel was killed and two
other officials seriously wounded.
The shots were fired from the pub
lic gallery and caused a panic among
the deputies.
The diet building now is being
guarded by the military.
PREMIER CLEMENCEAU NOW
CONSIDERED OUT OF DANGER
Paris. M. Clemenceau spent a
short, time in his garden. He had
luncheon at midday and his appetite
was good. After luncheon he .rested
for a while and then received Gen
eral Petain at 2 o'clock.
Dr. Florant, whose name headed to
day's morning bulletin, is M. Clemen
ceau's personal -physcian.- Dr.- Flor
ant recently had one of his legs am
putated. His visit to the premier was
the first time he had been out since
the operation. When leaving M.
Clemenceau's resdencej Dr. Florant
declared that, with his intimate
knowledge of the premier's tempera
ment, he considered M. Clemenceau's
condition excellent.
"I consider M. Clemenceau but of
danger," he" said. "As for the ex
tracting of "the bullet, this need not
be thought of, at least for the pres
ent." LAGGING COMMITTEE WORK
HASTENED BY CONFERENCE
' Paris. The' committee of the peace
conference is very anxious that the
work of the commissions should be
hurried as much as possible. Their
labors, as was anticipated, have been
very protracted, the. league of nations
commission being so far the only one
which has accomplished its task.
It is likely steps will be taken to
impress upon the commissions the
necessity of speeding up their labors
with a view to arriving at a conclu
sion before the return of Mr. Wilson.
The task of the special commissions
on the claims of the various national
ities has been on the whole more
easy.
TWENTY THOUSAND SOLDIERS
; ON -THEIR WAY FROM FRANCE
Washington. The departure from
France of 700 officers and 20,000 men
of the army . on seven vessels, includ
ing the battleship Michigan and cruis
er Rochester. . was announced v by
the war department. The ships are
due at .Atlantic ports between Febru
ary 25 and March 5.. Included among
the men are the first units of the
27th (New York national guard) di-vi-sion
; to start for home.
MUNICH POLICE STATION
STORMED BY SPARTACANS
Copenhagen. Spartacan forces in
Munich stormed the police station
and arrested the chief of police and
several other persons, according to
reports from Berlin. The government
forces later attacked the spartacans
and early in the evening had recap
tured all public buildings.
Several soldiers were wounded in
the fighting. Sailors who formed the
spartacan garrisons surrendered.
CERTIFICATES HAVE
BEEN OVERSUBSCRIBED
Washington. The last offering oi
$600,000,000 certificates of indebted
ness was oversubscribed by $20,578,.
000, the treasury, announced. Oversub
scriptions were given by the St. Louis,
Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, New
York : and Philadelphia districts,
while the San Francisco, Boston, At
lanta, Richmond. Kansas City and Dal
las districts failed to reach their
quotas.
RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM
POLICIES OF WASHINGTON
Washington.-Crticising the league
of nations as "the most radical de
parture" from President Washing
ton's policies, ' and as spelling th
end. of the Monroe doctrine, Senatoi
Borah of Idaho, Republican membei
of the- foreign, relations committee,
declared in the. senate that befort
ths plan Vwas adopted, the - American
people should - be rllowed to glv i
verdict oil ; it. . :
BAVARIAN
reus IS GIVEN
TO IRISH CAUSE
CARDINAL GIBBONS PRESENTS
RESOLUTIONS TO BE LAID
......: BEFORE CONFERENCE.
$1,250,000 QUICKLY RAISED
Delegates From Many States, Repre
sentng Irish Organizations, Crowd
. Philadelphia Academy of Music.
Philadelphia A resolution present
ed by Cardinal Gibbons for the peace
congress to apply to Ireland the doc
trine of . national self-determination,
and that a declaration of principles
demanding that if any league of na
tions be 'created, air features which
may Infringe-on the traditional Am
erican policy, including the Monroe
doctrine, shall be eliminated, were
adopted " unanimously at the closing
session of the convention of the Irish
race in America, s
In support of the movement to
bring freedom to Ireland the conven
tion pledged to Taiae within six
months one million dollars, but "before
Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, of the New
York supreme court, chairman of the
convention, completed the calling of a
list of states and cities, more than $1,
250,000 had been pledged to the cause.
, Delegates from many states, repre
senting a large . number of Irish or
ganizations, crowded the' Academy of
Music when Cardinal-' Gibbons in a
few words presented the resolution
calling for the right of Ireland to se
lect its form of government Ap
plause swept the ' crowd as' the car
dinal slowly read the paper.
GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
DISCUSS NEW CONSTITUTION
Weimar. While the German na
tional assembly has been holding open
meetings several committees have
found time to discuss the draft, of a
new German constitution as prepared
by Hugo Pruess, a member of the cab
inet. The draft has now passed on
second reading. The original few
paragraphs have been cut up and ex
panded into 109 paragraphs, which
cover every point carefully.
The new draft consists of seven
divisions. The first division, entitled
"The Nation and Its Component
States." provides that the national
territory shall not consist of the for
mer German states as well as other
states that may, after a plebiscite,
desire to be incorporated with Ger
many. 'The flag of the new republic
will be black, red and gold. - "
ALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
MUST COMPLETE THEIR WORK
Paris. rResults of far-reaching char
acter were obtained at , the meeting
of the council of the great powers
when resolutions were adopted requir
ing such a speeding up of all impor
tant branches of - the work of the
peace conference as to permit the
formulation of a preliminary "peace
treaty by the time President Wilson
returns to Paris in the middle of
March. To accomplish this, all ques
tions of reparations, boundaries and
economic and financial issues must
report to the supreme council within
the next two weeks, or by March 8, at
the latest. '
DATE OF EXTRA SESSION
DEPENDS ON NEW LOAN BILL
Washington. President Wilson will
be advised soon after his return re
garding the extra session. The nature
of the advice, according to Demo
cratic leaders, principally depends
upon disposal., of . Jhe pending house
bill to authorize $7,000,000,000 of
short-term treasury notes in lieu of
Liberty bonds for the April loan cam
paign. If - the measure is passed, the
leaders plant to advise the President
to .call the extra session about May 15.
If It fails, it was said a request for a
call , of Congress not later than April
1 would be .submitted
SECRETARY LANE'S EYES ARE
OPENED BY SOUTHERN VISIT
Washngton. iDeclaring that what
he-saw during his recent trip to the
South to look over lands which- might
be made available for returning sol
diers and marines opened his eyes to
possblties never dreamed of in his en
tire life. Secretary Lane of the depart
ment of the interior, has just filed
with the house committee investigat
ing this matter a most interesting
and lucid indorsement of the proposi
tion. ASK RETURN, TO OWNERS OF
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONES
Washington, The executive and
special war committee of the Nation
al Association of Railway and Utili
ties commissioners, representing the
public service commissions, railway
and public utilities commissions of
the states (excepting Delaware, which
has no public service or railway com
mission), have addressed a letter to
President Wilson requesting him to
return the telegraph and telephone
properties to their owners.
APPOINTMENT OF WALLACE
.MEETS FRENCH APPROVAL
Paris. The . French government
hastens to give; Its consent to the appointment-
of Hugh C Wallace as
American ambassador to' succeed Wil
liam G. Sharp, according to M. Pi
chon, minister of foreign affairs. M.
Pichon, in behalf of the French gov
ernment, has sent Mr. Sharp a let
ter dated February 21, in which h
expresses the consent of the French
government: to tie sppoistrntnt H
Mr, Wall
CARGO
UF
SHIPPEO TO GENOA
ITALIAN STEAMER RETURNING
TO HOME PORT WITH 16,759
BALES CF COTTON. .
FREIGHT RATES WERE HIGH
Vessel Chartered Several Weeks Ago,
Transportation Charges on Cargo
Are Approximately $700,000..
Wilmington. Carrying a cargo, of .
113,759 bales'of cotton, valued at J2(
250,000, the Italian steamer Ansaldo
IV cleared port for the return trip of
her maiden voyage to Genoa, Italy.
This is the first cargo of cotton to
leave this port since the signing of
the"- armistice. . The vessej waschar
tered several weeks ago - before the
scale of Ocean freight rates was ad-"
justed on a lower, basis and the
freight charges on her cargo are said
to be approximately $700,000.
Annexation Is Planned. V.
Durham. Several automobiles,
loaded with citizens of Durham and of
Wallace township, Chatham county,
left here to attend the hearing before
the joint legislative committee on
towns and cities, regarding a propos
ed bill to annex Williams township,
Chatham county, to Durham county.
Attorneys Jones Fuller, R. O. Everett
and S. C. Brawley, of Durham, will be
spokesmen for those favoring the an
nexation. 1
Get Prominent Mention.
Chapel Hill. In the annual report
of the Rockefeller Foundation in
which is incorporated the report ot
the general director of the Interna
tional Health Board, the following
State University alumni on the staff
receive prominent mention: John A.
Ferrell, director for the United States,
on the administrative staff; D. G. Ab
sher, junior field director of Arkan
sas; W. H. Kibler, associate State di
rector of Dutch Guiana; B. E. Wash
burn, senior State director of North
Carolina; J. F Kendrick, associate di
rector for Seychelles Islands; P. W.
Covington, senior State director of
Texas, on the field staff.
Generous Students and Faculty.'
Wake Forest. As a result of a local
campaign which has been waging for
the past three weeks, the students
and faculty of Wake Forest College
have pledged and partially paid in
J10.398 towards the State campaign
of the Baptist denomination.
Eight Murder Cases.
Louisburg. Franklin county supe
rior court is In session here with
Judge Oliver Allen, cf Klnston, pre
siding. There is to be a two weeks'
term, and because of the influenza
epidemic, this is the first court held
here in several months. Eight mur-'
der cases are to be tried, besides oth
ers of less general interest
Lynchers Are Convicted.
Winston-Salem. Fifteen of the 18,
defendants Indicted for participating
in the riot in Winston-Salem on No
vember 17, 1918. were convicted in
Surry superior court, a Jury returning
the verdict at noon.
George Douthlt, J. E. Savage, Pleas
Cline, Grover and Walter KIser and
Will Carter were found guilty of at
tempt to lynch Russell High, a color
ed prisoner in the city Jail and were
sentenced by Judge B. F. Long, who
presided over the special term, being
ordered here by Governor Bickett to
try these 'cases, to 14 months on the
Forsyth county roads.
Frank Hester was convicted of the
same offense and given a term of 18
months on the roads. '
Eight other defendants were con
victed of conspiracy and also of. at
tempt to lynch the negro, their sen
tences being as follows: Ira Whits
ker, Pearce Hammons. A. E. Caste
vens and Cris Chappell, six years
each on the county roads; John Bran
don, two years; Arthur Manley, three'
years; Carl Fields and J. I Mabe,
four years.
To Build New Roads.
Shelby. Number 9 township an
nounced that $25,000 cash for road
bonds has been placed in bank and is
now available for road work. An or
der has been made for tools, and
mules will be bought in a short time.
Captain W. P. Eddleman, who has had
long experience In road building In
Mecklenburg and Gaston counties,
and has been building roads in No. 6
and No. 8 townships, Cleveland coun
ty, for a number ot years, has been
engaged to supervise the construction
of roads In No. 9.
Negroes Arrange for Campaign.
Charlotte. The negro chamber of
commerce is making arrangements
for a campaign to promote interest
among the negro population of Char
lotte 1n bom gardening. Prizes will
be offered for the best-kept gardens
and for the best garden yields. De
tails for the campaign will be worked
out. Secretary E. N. Farris, ot the
Charlotte chamber of commerce, and
Miss Delia Stroud, city home demon
stration agent, addressed the direc
tors of the nogro chamber, urging
them to promote this campaign. t
Party for Commissioner Young.
Raleigh. A most delightful birth
day party was given James R. Young,
state insurance 'commissioner, by the
group of well-known women of the
state who compose his staff of work
ers In the fire prevention and safety
first division of his departmenL espe
cially in the realm of women's clubs
and the North Carolina Safety leagues
among the school children. The com
missioner was "deeply appreciative
of the thoughtfulness of these la
dies, who are rendering each effective
service
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