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Chatham Record Ji JnilK ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. 0. JULY 17, 1919 VOL. XL NO. 50 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph Domestic Calls for labor continue to pour in on the war department bureau which is finding jobs for the discharged sol diers. A naval clemency board is now en gaged in reviewing courtmartial sen tences imposed during the war. Many punishments involving prison terms or fines are being investigated. Many cases which well deserved punishment in time of war, may be regarded as too severely dealt with now that hos tilities have ceased. Secretary of the Navy Daniels an nounces that not a man was execut ed as the result of naval courtmartial during the war. Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Thom as J. Mooney, who is serving a life sentence after his conviction in con nection with preparedness day bomb explosion in San Francisco, called at the white house in Washington and conferred with Secretary Tumulty. She desired to see the president, but sec retary Tumulty explained to her that the president had done everything possible in the case of her husband. President Wilson has signed the res- . olution repealing the act under which the telephone, telegraph and cable companies were taken over during the war. President Wilson spends many hours each day working on . the business ac cumulated in his office while he was abroad. Secretary Backer, appearing before the special house investigating com mittee, says that southern sites gen erally were favored by the war de partment because of favorable weather conditions. He admitted that he made a mistake in proceeding with work on Camp Benning, near Columbus, Ga., following the action of the senate mil itary committee. ' More than one hundred ' criminal complaints, alleging the crime of kid naping in the Bisbee, Arizona, depor tations of July 12, 191T, were placed in the hands of. Justice of the Peace Jacks, who has issued warrants of arrest for the persons .named in the complaints. Many of the most prom inent men in. the state' of Arizona are named in the complaints. Completing its investigation of the lynchinf of Frank Foukal in the Bald win county, Alabama, jail, June 28, a grand jury convened in special ses sion 'and returned indictments against nine men1 for murder in the first de gree, against four for second degree murder v and ' fourteen indictments charging unlawful conspiracy. . Washington" '-...- Pre'sidelitwrfsoh has accepted the resignation of Ed-vard N. Hurley as chairman of the shipping board, effec tive August 1. It is understood that Hurley will be succeeded by John Bar- A Weimar dispatch, via Coblenz, says the're&biution"ratifying the peace treaty was adopted by the Cerman Na tional assembly .by . a vote of- 208 to 115. Ninety-nine deputies abstained from voting on the resolution. Advices from New Orleans show that the war department has fourteen million pounds of sugar stored away in that city. Investigation has shows that the principal shortage of sugar at present is in states east of the Mississippi. Offers df 10 cents per pound have been made for the entire surplus of sugar held by the war department, but the prospective buyers wanted to ex port this sugar, and the secretary of war declined the offer. He stated that the American people come first in ev erything produced in America. The war department's holding of thousands of tons of food supplies un til six months after the armistice was signed before making an effort to sell them to the public has been a "most important factor in maintaining the high cost of living," Chairman Reavis of the special house subcommittee of the national congress to investigate quartermaster supplies, declared af ter the testimony of C. Willing Hare, director of war department sales, be fore that committee. It is stated that the. war department made an agreement with the whole sale canners, of the country to hold off the m!rkets fully.' one hundred thousand dollars' worth 'of canned vegetables, so as to not disturb the market ."during the coming season. Peas, cprn and squash were added to the ' army ration to protect the can ners rather than because . soldiers needed' these articles. President Wilson in his first speech, in New YoVk, since his arrival from abroad declares that the peace just concluded -at -Paris is a just. jPeace, He stated, in referring to his oppon ents, some people, having no vision. are Innkiner too much UDon the ground. Sale ' of twenty-one million pounds of surplus, sugar now held by the war . department has been authorized, it is announced, at a minimum price to be fixed by the United States su gar equalization board to cover the cost to the government. The one con dition of the sale will be that none of this sugar may be exported. Seven million pounds of sugar, it is shown in recent investigations, are stored by the war department in San Francisco. Ambassador Roland S. Morris left Tokio, Japan, for an extended trip through Siberia to Omsk to report of ficially, upon the situation there, and . it is admitted by the state depart ment officials that upon hi'sr report ' will depend the making of the quasi recognition of the Kolchak govern ment that has already been . accorded by the principal governments partic ipating in the Paris peace conference as-.tual recosnizanca. A demand that an the nations the world be made eligible to the league of nations was expressed in a resolution unanimously adopted in New York at the first annual congress o. the Fan-American Federation of La bor by delegates from ten countries, including the United States. President Wilson submitted to the senate only the treaty containing the covenant of tha lergue of nations. The proposed supplementary treaty umlor which the United States would agree to go to the aid of France in c:ise of an unprovoked assault on that coun try by Germany will be presented sep arately at a later date. The war cost the United States $30,- 177,000,000 up to June 29, 1919. This estimate is made by Secretary Glass, He arrived at the estimate by sub tracting the average peace time ex penses for the same length of time. at the rate of one billion dollars i n nually, from the total expenditures. 532,427,000,000, during the war. ten Payne of Chicago. Aided by a westerly wind that some times reached a velocity of nearly for ty miles an hour, the British dirigi ble R-34 is well over the Atlantic on the return, trip to East Fortune Scot land, after a stay of eighty-six hours in America. President Wilson, in presenting the peace treaty ith Germany to the sen ate, declared that a "league of free na tions had become a practical necessi ty," to which the framers of the treaty felt obliged to turn "as an indispensa ble instrumentality for the mainte nance of the new order it has been their purpose to set up in the world.' Ratification of the treaty of peace by the German national assembly at Weimar may be held not to be suf ficient, say3 a Paris dispatch. The new German Constitution provides that in caset, where territory is ceded ratification of treaties by states losing territory is necessary, in addition to approval by the central government. Marshal Foch and representatives of Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia were before the supreme council of peace in Paris for a discussion of the movement of partisans of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist foreign minis ter, against Czecho-Slovakia and Aus tria, and the advisability of combined military action against them. Secretary Daniels announces that he will not accompany the new Pa cific fleet to the west coast. The sec retary will, however, join the fleet at San Diego, California, about August 10. The date of the fleet's sailing from Hampton Roads has changed to July 22. If Switzerland does not adhere to the league of nations within two months, the 3eat of the league will not be maintained at Geneva, saya a Paris dispatch. Foreign The Hungarian Soviet government has demandec , .that . the campaign against the Hungarian legation at Vi enna be stopped. Official notification of the ratifica tion of the peace treaty by the Ger man national assembly was given the peace conference at Versailles. The notification was presented by Baron Kurt von Lersner, head of the Ger man peace mission. President Ebert signed the bill rati fying the peace treaty and the docu ment was then dispatched to Ver sailles. High tension between the Austrian and Hungarian governments is indi cated in dispatches received in Paris from Budapest. T The Austrian foreign minister has demanded the recall from Vienna ol the Hungarian minister, Czobel. Switzerland has declared officially that if Germany is not admitted to the league of nations, Switzerland will have no part therein. The allies have replied to this declaration, but the re ply has not been made public. Three allied warship, one each from the American, British and French na vies, have been ordered to proceed to Fiume, where there have been dis orders recntly between Italian troops and other elements in the force of oc cupation. The situation at Fiume is reported to be quiet. The council of five has decided to raise the blockade against Germany. So far as the action of the council concerns Frence the measure will be effective only after publication in the Journal Officiel of a decree annulling the preceding decrees regarding the blockade. A general strike has been declared in Naples, Italy, against the high cost of living. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, for mer chief of the German staff, has written "Marshal Foch appealing for his support in Hindenburg's efforts to prevent the extradition of the for mer German emperor. Von Hinden burg offers to assume full responsibil ity and to place his own person "ab solutely at the disposal of the allied powers." An anarchist plot to attack the cen tral part of Rome, Italy, by means of band grenades and ether explosives has been exposed by the arrest of six teen of the conspirators, four hours before the time fixed for carrying out the plans. A . commission composed of four generals, representing France, Italy, England and the United States, has been appointed to investigate the re cent -incidents in FiumeJ The supreme council of the peace conference has decided to appoint a committee of four members to inquire into Norway's claims to Spitzbergen. The allies have not yet made any of ficial representation to the Dutch gov ernment regarding the extradition of the former German emperor, but nec essary steps are being taken in the matter, it is declared in the British house of commons. King Victor of Italy has issued a decree that profiteers will be in fu ture fined ten thousand lire or sen tenced to from three months to three years in prison, and will, in addition, suffer confiscation of the goods. The proposed Austrian peace treaty is ready for presentation to the Aus trian delegation. The full text of the document now is in the hands of the printer. The presentation of the terms to the Austrians probably will not be accompanied Dy impressive ceremonies. Ten days or two weeks will probably be given the Austrian deleajatiea to study the nc v articles. SENATOR SWANSDN ARGUES ON CRISIS VIRGINIAN ASSERTS THAT Nl SACRIICE OF SOVEREIGNTY BY US IS INVOLVED. PATHWAY OF DUTY 15 PLAIN Paramount Obligation to Prevent the World From Return to Rule of Bar Barism and Brute Force. Washington. Praising the league of nations covenant as "one of the world's greatest documents," Senator Swanson, of Virginia, a democratic member of the foreign relations com raittee, told the senate that if the United States rejected the league it "would mean that she skulk in the greatest world crisis that ever oc curred." The speaker defended the league against the objections that it would sacrifice sovereignty and American traditions and asserted that on the contrary it would result in immense material gain in protecting American integrity and preventing war. He de clared it would not create a super government, involve objectionable ob ligations nor "invalidate the Monroe doctrine. "The pathway of our duty is plain, said Senator Swanson. "Let us not be frightened by our own prodigious shadow as it projects itself Into world affairs. Let us not be deterred from our manifest duty and destiny by a craven fear of becoming great in giv ing service and direction to a world in a direst hour of its needs and distress, Pointing out that the war has sha ken the social order to its foundation, the Virginia senator said it was the paramount obligation of responsible statesmen to prevent another such conflagration, which would return the world "to the rule of brute force and barbarism of the dark ages." DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW IS TO CONTINUE FOR THE PRESENT, Washington. The daylight saving nlan. under which the clocks of the country are turned forward an hour in March and moved back In October, will be continued indefinitely. This was assured when, following President Wilson's veto of the $33,- oon 000 agricultural appropriation bill because of its rider repealing the day light saving act, the house remsea Dy a vote of 247 to 135 to pass the meas ure over the President's veto. Strength mustered by the repeal advocates was eight votes less than the necessary two thirds of the members present. Party lines were disregarded in the voting, members from agricultural dis tricts the source of most of the op position favoring passage of the bill as originally enacted. WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY TO STAND, Montgomery, Ala. The first white house of the Confederacy located in Montgomery, will not be destroyed. This announcement was made by Mrs. Belle Allen Ross, secretary of the White House association, after she had returned from LaGrange, where she closed a deal for the purchase of the house from the Danby estate. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ABROAD NOW 337,000. Washington. Amsrican overseas forces aggregated 337,339 officers and men on July 8, according to an offi cial announcement On the same date 100,000 troops were at sea enroute to the United States and 389,000 were in this country. COLONEL ANSELL OF NORTH CAROLINA WILL SOON RETIRE Washington. Lieut. Col. Samuel T. Ansell, the North Carolinian around whom the fight over military justice of the army has been centered for several months past, will resign from the army within the next few days. 3,000 GAL1CIAN JEWS ARE ARESTED IN BUDAPEST. Vienna. Three thousand Galician Jpw have been arrested in the streets of Budanest, according to advices. Bela Kun, head of the Hungarian soviet government, replying to a Pol ish protest against the arrests, de clared: Pogroms are bound to eome here but we do not want Hungarian Jews to suffer for the acts of the Galician Jewish speculators wh.o infest this country." LICENSES ISSUED FOR TRADING WITH GERMANY Washington. General licenses cov ering import and exDort trading with Germany were issued by the war trade division of the state department with the approval of Acting Secretary Paly. Except in certain limited cases provided under the treaty of peace, trading between the United States and Germany may be commenced at once. The war trade division's action was in line with the order of the council. AMBASSADOR PAGE HAS ARRIVED AT NEW YORK New York. Thomas Nelson Page, United States ambassador to Italy, ar riving here from Liverpool on the steamer- Carmania, announced that he had returned for the purpose of resigning his post. Mr. Page cleared up . reports con cern'ug his resignation by stating he had not yet resigned but had writ ten to Washington several months ago asking permission to come home and tender his resignation is person. SYNOPSIS WILSON'S SPFEGH President Entertains the Congress With Address on His' Labor at i j-?C-,-'.ne. Peace Conference. Washington. The following is a brief synopsis of the address of Pres ident Wilson before the Congress In which he gave an account at consid erable length of his stewardship over our interests as one of-the leading del egates to the peace conference at Ver sailles. ; Addressing the senate directly the President said: - The treaty of peace with Germany was signed at Versailles on the 28th of June, and I avail myself of the first opportunity to lay that treaty be fore you for ratification and to inform you with regard to the work of the conference by which that treaty was formulated. The treaty constitutes nothing less than a world settlement It would not be possible for me either tOsmiraar ize or to construe its manifold pro visions in an address which must of necessity be something less than a treatise. My services and all the in formation I possess will be at your disposal and at the disposal of your committee on foreign relations at any time, either Informally or in person as you prefer, and I hope you will not hes'tate to make use of them. I shall at this time, prior to your own study of the document attempt only a gen eral characterization of its scope and purpose. Continuing, the President dwelt at some length on the problems met and overcome during 4the progress of the deliberations of the conference, our own part in them, and the manner in which it seemed Necessary for him self and colleagues to act in them. As was natural to expect the army and league of nations occupied the larger part of the address; especially the latter. Of the army he said in part: "The hopes of the nations allied against the central powers were at a very low ebb when our soldiers began to pour across the sea. The war ended in November, eight months ago but you have only to remember what was feared In midsummer last, four short months before the armistice, to real ize what It was that our timely aid ac complished alike for their morale and their physical safety. "Our redoubtable soldiers and ma rines had already closed the gap the enemy had succeeded in opening in their advance towards Paris and had begun the rout of the enemy that was to save Europe and the world. The mere sight of our men of their vigor, of the confidence that showed itself in every movement of their stal wart figures begot a feeling of confi dence that increased with each pass ing day. "They were recognized as crusaders, and as their thousands swelled to millions their strength was seen to mean salvation. And they were fit men to carry such a hope and make good the assurance it forecast After devoting many minutes mon to praise of the army and its officers, the speaker took up the subject of the league of nations, saying in part: "It had been our privilege to formu late the principles which were ac cepted as the basis of the peace, but they had been accepted, not because we had 'come in-to hasten and assure the victory and insisted upon them, but because they' were readily acceded to as the principles to which honora ble and enlightened minds everywhere had been bred. The atmosphere in which the confer ence worked seemed created, not by the ambitions of strong governments, but by the hopes and aspirations of small nations and of peoples hitherto under bondage to the power that vic tory had shattered and destroyed. Two great empires had been forced Into political bankruptcy, and we were the receivers. Our task was not only to make peace with the central em pires and remedy the wrongs their armies had done. "And out of the execution of these great enterprises of liberty sprang op portunities of attempt what statesmen had never found the way before to do; an opportunity to throw safeguards about the rights of racial, national and religious minorities by solemn in ternational covenant; an opportunity to limit and regulate military estab lishments where they were most like ly to be mischievious." Mr. Wilson concluded his address with the following beautiful senti ment: "The stage is set the destiny dis closed. It has come about by no plan of our conceiving, but by the hand of God who led us into this war. We cannot turn back. We can only go forward, with lifted eyes and fresh ened spirit to follow the vision. It was of this that we dreamed at our birth. America shall in truth show the way. The light streams upon the path ahead, and nowhere else." SAW SUNSET AT 10 P. M. TEMPERATURE 27 DESREE8. Washington. Temperature five de grees below freezing was encountered. and sunset was observed at 10 p. m. over Arcadia, Fla., by LWutenant Charles C. Chauncey and Sergeant Thomas Cook, two aviators who took an army plane 20,000 feet up from Carlstrom field at that hour. An 85- minute flight was made as aa experi ment in seeking high altitudes after darkness, the aid service announced. LI QUOR TRAFFIC LIKENED TO CONVICTED CRIMINAL. Washington. In the course of a five hour debate In the house on the prohibition bill, the liquor traffic was likened to a convicted criminal, a pealing for a reprieve, while some of t ie more drastic provisions of the measure were denounced as an inva sion of the liberty, hospitality and. habits of the home. - f It probably was the last great day l prohibits oratory to tb aouse. PRESIDENT VETOES AGRICULTURAL ACT DAYLIGHT SAVING CLAUSE IN LAW. WAS CHIEF CAUSE OF WILSON'S DISAPPROVAL. MUCH GOOD IN EARLY RISING Observation of Happy and Beneficent Results In This and Other Countries Impelled Use of Executive Axe. Washington. The daylight saving law was rescued from repeal by Pres ident Wilson's veto of the agricultu ral appropriation bill. .In regard, to returning the agricul tural bill without his signature, the president said: "I realize, of course, the grave in convenience which may arise from the postponement of the legislation at this time but feel obliged to withhold my sgnlature because of the clause wheh provdes that 'at and after two o'clock a. m., Sunday, October 26, 1919, next, the act enttled an act to save daylight and to provide same hereby is repealed." "I believe that the repeal of the act referred to would be of very great inconvenience to the country and think that I am justified in say ing that it would constitute some thing more than an inconvenience. It would involve a serious economic loss. The act of March 19, 1918, to 'save daylight' resulted not only from a careful study of industrial activities by competent men famllar with the business operations of the country but also from observations of the happy and beneficial consequences of simi lar legislation in other countries where legislation of this character lias been in operation." "It moreover served the dally con venience of the many communities of the country i na way which gave all but universal satisfaction and the overwhelming testimony of its value which has come to me convinces me that I should not be justified in ac quiescence in its repeal. ANTI-SUFRAGISTS GO AFTER WILLIAM J. BRYAN Washington. The Itewnal Assoc! ation Opposed to WarfiT" Suffrage ut tered a blast against North Carolina's foremost visitor, William J. Bryan The "anti-suffs" took Mr. Bryan to task for saying that "the forces of evil were lined up against the ballot for women." They emphatically deny the charee and demand a retraction. "When you say," the organization states, "tht the forces of evil are lined up against the ballot for wo men, we challenge not only the statement itself, but your sincerity In making it. You know that some of the noblest and most respected wo men in America are conducting the campaign against woman suffrage. You would not dare get up before any audi ence In America and declare that Mrs. Grover Cleveland Preston (vice pres ident of the National Association Op posed to Woman Suffrage) who, while in the white house, did more iomem- i,ran(-n in oublic life than any woman has done since, is associated with either liquor interests or any other evil Interests." R-34 COMPLETS ROUND TRIP TO UNITED STATES AND BACK. Pulham, Norfolk, Eng. Great Brit ain's mammoth trans-Atlantic air pioneer, the dirigible R-34, arrived here at 6:K o'clock, Greenwich mean time, completing her round trip from the British Isles to the United States and return. The R-34 poked her nose out of the clouds northeast of the village and, after circling the flying field three times, glided gently to the ground and ten minutes later was housed in the dirigible shed. The i oyage from Long Island was without particular inci dent and was completed in approxi mately 75 hours. MASS MEETING PLANNED IN PROTEST OF LEAGUE. Washington. A mass meeting in protest against the league of nations has been arranged "in nearly erery targe city" said an announcement by the league for the preservation of American independence. Speakers include Senators Reed, Missouri, a democrat, and Borah, Idaho, Johnson, California, Poindexter, Washington and former Senator Beverage of India na, all republicans. MAJOR GEERAL LEWIS IN, COMMAND AT CAMP GORDON. Atlanta. Major General Edward Mann Lewis, who Ammanded the "Old H'kory" division, comprizing the Hindenburg line breaking units, has been placed in command of Camp Gordon. General Lewis commanded the 30th Division from July, 1918. un- ti Hast March, when the division returned to the states. General Lewis then was called to duty at American general headquarters where he re mained until returning to the States. WAGE INCREASE GRANTED TO EMPLOYES OF VESSEL8. Washington. Wago increases ap proximating 10 per cent, were grant ed to employes of vsels operating from Atlantic and Gulf ports by the shipping board. Tha -advance is ex pected to end the strike of marine en gineers, firemen and oilers. ' , Deck officers and seamen are af fected by the increase as well as wa- r tenders, oilers, engineers, flre nen, stewards, cooto ad other mini employes. FIGHT TO BEGIN Oil RAT FIGAT10N PRESIDENT HAS TEMPORARILY PUT MATTER OF TREATY QUITE OUT OF MIND. COMMITTEE TO MEET OPENLY Japan Will Derive No Permanent Ben . efita ' f ronr the Shantung Matter During Reconstruction Period. Washington. Senate leaders in the league of nations controversy con tinued their conferences in prepara tion for the ratification fight which will begin when the senate reconvenes. While it was said the exact lines of division might not be drawn for some days, further progress in solidifying -heir forces was claimed by both sides. President Wilson, having delivered the treaty to the senate and offered to supplement it with all the informa tion in bis possession, apparently put the matter temporarily out of his mind. He saw none of the senators who have been active in the fight and, while ' he conferred with Acting Sec retary Polk at the state department, it was understood other subjects furn ished the basis of their discussion. Whether the President's offer is to be accepted by the foreign relations committee remained an open ques tion. Some of the opposition leaden are known to oppose inviting him be fore the committee, but his support ers believe they can secure his ap pearance should he request that thej do so. There were increasing indica tions that the sessions will be open to the public. It developed that in his con vers a tlons with senators at the capitol, Mr. Wilson went into great detail regard ing the Shantung agreement. He was quoted as saying that the under standing that Shantung would be re turned to China after a reconstruc tion period was of a very definite na ture, and that the only gain to Japan would be such benefit as she might derive from tempoarry use of the Ger man railroads and other German property in the territory- TO ACT JOINTLY FOR BETTER MAIL SERVICE Washington. Joint action by the postoffice department and the cham ber of commerce of the United States to extend and improve mail facilities and eliminate delays ws announced. Following a conference at the de partment here of postmasters of the 50 largest mail centers, handling ap proximately half of the mail business of the country, it was agreed that the national chamber would undertake to have each chamber in those centers organize a committee on postal facil ities to study existing conditions and then confer with the local postmaster who will be instructed by the depart ment to co-operate to the fullest ex tent. These committees in most cses already have been framed. CHARGES ARE FALSE SAYS JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS Washington. In a' statement John Skelton Williams said he would make no specific reply to the "charges and insinuations" made against his admin istraton of the office of comptroller until allowed to testify before the sen ate in his own behalf. "When that opportunity comes," Mr. Williams said, "I shall rely on written evidence and official court records to prove directly and square ly that the allegatons of unjust dis crimination, of use of my position as comptroller to reward friends or pun ish enemies, political or personal, or of undue harshness in erquirements from banks are false and unequivo cally false." BELA KUN MOVEMENT 18 DISCUSSED BY COUNCIL Paris. Marshall Foch and repre sentatives of Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo slavia were before the supreme coun cil of the peace conference for a dis cussion of the movement of the par tisans of Bela Kun, Hungarian com munist foreign minister. . The different representatives were asked , to confer wit htheir govern ments to find out to what extent they are ready to participate in military operations against Bela Kun's forces. BAKER QUESTIONED ON CAMPS BY COMMITTEE Washington Questioned by a house war investigating sub-committee about the location of most of the army train ing camps in the South, Secretary Baker declared that the camps wera placed in the South rather than in ithe North solely because better weath er conditions obtained there and he added that no influence that he knew of was exerted to send the men to the South. SENDING ARMY SUPPLIES INTO GERMAN INTERIOR Coblenz. Tie American army has unearthed an ..extensive plan for send ing supplies' Into the interior of Ger many. Railway wagons laden with bacon, -cigarettes, tinned' goods and motor car tires .and accessories mark ed "empty" have for some time been passing into the neutral zone. They were received at small sta tions where the contents were re moved and sent to Tassel and ethei large towns la th tatertar VARIED COMMENT ON WILSON SPEECH OPPOSITION NATURALLY FIND CAUSE FOR CRITICISM OF SEVERAL POINTS MADE. ANSWERS HIS OWN ARGUMENT According to Borah, the President's Argument for a League of Nations Is One for Alliance of War. Washington. President Wilson's address to. the senate transmitting the peace treaty was praised by dem ocratic leaders as one of his best state papers, but republican senators gen erally were inclined to criticise it Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, de clined to comment Senator Borah, Idaho, one of the leading opponents in the senate of the league of nations, also declined to comment except to say that Presi dent Wilson "completely answered" his own argument that the league of nations is a league for peace by his statement that it is "formed as an al liance of war." Senator Smoot, Utah, characterized the address as "another Wilsonian essay, but not quite up to the stand ard. "It was a fine comprehensive pres entation of the case," said Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska. "It was a dis passionate and convincing statement of the reasons that led the represen tations of 1,000,000,000 people to agree on its re-organization of the world." Senator Mc Cumber, North Dakota, a supporter of the league of nations, said the address was "very impres sive." "The address," said Senator Swan son, Virginia, is "magnificent, able, eloquent and inspiring. The reasons presented for the ratification of the treaty, including the league of na tions, were strong, cogent and unan swerable." "I think," said Senator Williams, Mississippi, "that in breadth of vision, in height of humanitarianism, in fun damental word, statesmanship, and in delicacy of dovetailed English, it is the greatest thing he has ever sug gested. His words are a fitting close to his magnificent and unselfish and upon the whole effective work at Paris." AMERICAN PROHIBITION WORKERS ARE IN LONDON. London. American prohibition workers have arrived in London. The vanguard is led by William E. John son, who says he first made Okla homa dry, then Kansas and after wards largely the United States. Johnson is established in a fine office on Fleet street. He said to a reporter for The Daily Mail: "Your British organizations havs been at us for over a year to come over here. The whole thing has been in response to their asking. We are going to teach them how to get this country dry. I have reported to my headquarters that the position here is entirely different to that way back home, but it is far from being as hopelss as appears on the surface." MUST HAVE WILL AND POWER TO FULFILL OBLIGATIONS. Paris. Austria will be admitted to membership in the league of nations as soon as the allied and associated powers consider that she possesses a responsible government with both the will and the power to fulfill its inter national obligations. The Austrian peace- delegation has been so informed in a reply by the supreme council of the peace conference to an Austrian plea for immediate admission to the league. The Austrian note, embodying the plea was sent by Dr. Karl Renner, the Austrian chancellor and head of the Austrian peace delegation, to Pre mier Clemenceau, as president of th peace conference, on June 23. CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR THE BUILDING OF BATTLESHIPS. Wshington. Contract for the con struction of battleship No. 63 was let by the navy dopartment to the New port News Shipbuilding A Drydock Co. The contract price for the vessel, the next to the last cf th six dread naughts authorized in the ItH build ing program to be contracted for, was not announced by the department The battleship probably will be named the Massachusetts or Iowa. ATTITUDE OF 8IMMON8 ON SITUATION IN HIS STATE. Washington. I'f there has been any doubt as to where Senator Simmons stood in the gubernatorial race, it was cleared. Mr. Simmons is for Cameron Morrison, and will do his very best to aomlnato him. It has been reported here recently that Mr. Simmons and Mr. Morrison had become estranged. Whn this re port was- brought to the attention of the senator he asserted that there was no truth in It THE PRE8IDENT ACCEPTS THE ' RESIGNATION OF HURLEY. Washington. President Wilson ae copted the 'resignation of Edward N. Hurley as chairman of the shipping board. Mr. Hurley will be succeeded by John Barton Payne, of Chicago, general counsel of the railroad ad ministration, whose nomination as a member of the shipping board was sent to the senate. Both Mr. Hurley's letter of resigna tion, and the President's letter of ac cepting U were dated July 10. OVER THE LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE SHOHT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Kinston. James C. Dail has resign- , ed. as city treasurer of Kinston after serving less than two months. M. M. Happer, a former treasurer, will suc ceed him. Washington. The correspondent was informed that the Webb appoint ment to tfte judgeship of the western district will be recommended by th department of justice. Raleigh. St Matthews township. Wake county, claims the oldest color ed man in Wake county, if not the oldest in North Carolina, and citizens of that township who know Lea Smith, 105, point; with pride to hi . life in the community. Raleigh. Prof. J. A. Lockhart was re-elected superintendent of the Wake county public schools for a term of two years by the Wake Board of Edu cation at its regular monthly meet ing. Charlotte. -Fifty dairymen furnish ing Charlotte with milk have employ ed attorneys and announced that they will fight any effort on the part of the city authorities to make them pay li cense for delivering milk here. Smithfleld. The initial steps for th erection of a quarter million dollar court house and jail were taken here by the board of commisioners, who asked for bids for sketches and plans to be presented at their next meeting in August It is proposed to erect a thoroughly modern building in every respect Raleigh. The American Trust Co. of Charlotte, amends Its charter to in crease the capital from one million dollars to one million five hundred thousand. High Point High Point dropped the final game of the series with Meb- , ane by a score of S to 2, numerous boots and battery mlscues eliminat ing any local chance to continue th winning streak started two weeks ago. Lexington. The quarterly confer ence of the Winston district held In the First 'Methodist church here, cam . to a close last night More than 100 delegates, representing the various churches of the district were in at tendance. Burke Culpepper, the evan- , gelist addressed the conference. Charlotte. C. M. 'Edwards, a grad uate in the Bertlllon system of fin ger print identification, expects to lo cate in Charlotte to practice his pro fession. In explaining the nature off his work, Mr. Edwards said that only by finger prints could positive identi fication be assured, for many peopl show similar characteristics of fac and figure. Ashevllle. The Ashevllle-Hender-sonville highway is now a reality, th concrete on the last stretch of th road having been laid, although it will be two weeks longer before th completed highway can be used for travel, it taking this long for th con crete to set. Franklm. One of the largest crowds ever asembled In Macon coun ty met in Franklin Friday to celebrate the Fourth of July. O Max Gardner was the speaker of the occasion. A , program was prepared for the entire day and wound up with a play by local talent in the evening. After a drill and other exercises a dinner for the soldiers was served on the court house grounds. Ashevllle. That for purposes of ecoaomy as well as of efficiency th United States government Is likely to become an extensive advertiser was brought out here this week in reports made to the convention of advertising agencies and newspaper publishers. Charlotte. Superintendent J. M. Matthews of the Mecklenburg county schools, left for Raleigh to attend a conference at the A. K. College of school superintendents and high school principals and teachers regard ing high school work next term. Monroe. The Union county board of education has elected Prof. Rat Fuaderburk county superintendent of public Instruction to sueceed Prof. R. N. Nesblt who has held th position for the past 12 years. Winston-Salem. The local tobacco market will reopen August 26. This decision was reached at the annual meeting of the tobacco association. Reports received here iadlcate that this year's leaf crop will be later than last year no mention is made of Its quality. Oreensboro. -A solid pullman car was utilized to accommodate the Greensboro Elks who . left for Atlan tic City to attend the annual session of the national convention, which will be held the coming week. Boone. -No man In some time has made a more favorable Impression on both students and teachers of the training 'school thaa O. B. Eaton, ex mayor of Winston-Salem, who was with them and spoke to the school On "Thrift In Education." (From th University News Letter,) Under the rough, electric shock of war the people of North Carolina salted down 222 million dollars In savings In liberty bonds, war stamps, and interest-bearing bank deposits. Morgaaton. Pronounced by every on as MorganUn's greatest day. th Fourth, was celebrated here - on a scale that eclipsed every other cele bration occosloa ever attempted la Burke county. Estimates of th orowd vary, there were at least li MO people,
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