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rrn Record MAM VOL. XL NO. 2 ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, J 878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. AUGUST 14, 1919 WOULD EXTEND WAR CONTROL OF ALL FOOD That, and Provision of Penalties for Profiteering, Advocated by the President. ro pay capital or put her restless, distracted peoples to work until she knows exact ly where she stands in respect to peace: and what we will do Is for her the chief question upon which her qui etude of mind and confidence of pur pose depends. While there is any pos ability that the peace terms may be changed or may be held long In abey ance, or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion among the pow ers associated against Germany, it Is idle to look for permanent relief. Immediate Relief Measures. By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing In the hands of the government will be sold and of course sold at prices at which there is no profit. And by way of a more per manent correction of prices surplus stocks In private hands will be drawn out CHRHE SALE OF SUKrLUo tunately under the terms of the food-con w I trnl ho hn. f ,,,,,.,,.. be checked and prevented, and they will be, with the greatest energy. Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by legal action which the department of justice will institute wherever necessary; Dut as soon as the situation is systemati cally dealt with It is not likely that the courts will often have to be resorted to. Much of the accumulating of stocks has no doubt been due to the sort of specu lation which always results from uncer tainty Would Have Prices Plainly Marked, ' I would also recommend that It be required that all goods destined for in terstate commerce should in every case where their form or package makes it possible be plainly marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. Such a requirement would bear a close analogy to certain provisions of the pure food act, by which it is required that certain detailed in formation be given on the labels of packages of foods and drugs, And it does mot seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this kind, if it is indeed our purpose to assume national control of the processes of distribution. I take it for granted that that is our purpose and our duty. Nothing less will suffice. We need not hesitate to nanaie a national question in a na l Acidre&s to Congress the Chief Ex ecutive Makes Assertion That We Are Dealing With Very Criti cal and Difficult Matters." yas;iington. Addressing congress mil proposing remedies to check the hieh'eosr of liTing, President Wilson decKlreil existing laws were inade quate and high prices were not justi fej by shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but were created in many cases "artificially and deliber ate!'' by '"vicious practices." He spoke practically as follows: GerIenien of the Congress: I have sought this opportunity to ad dress vou because it is clearly my duty to call" your attention to the present cost of living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which I am capable legislative measures which would be men effective in controlling it and bring tiz it down. The rrices the people of this country are yir.g for everymmg mai iv m uvrao, use In order to live are not thisni in ,..fifip,i bv a shortage in supply, either present or" prospective, and are in many Uonal way We ahould go beyond the measures I have suggested. W e should the period of the war and booomes In operative upon the formal proclamation of peace. But 1 should judge that it was clearly within the constitutional power of the congress to make similar permanent provisions and regulations with regard to all goods destined for interstate com merce and to exclude them from inter state shipment if the requirements of the law are not complied with. Some such regulation is imperatively necessary. It would materially add to the serv iceability of the law, for the purpose we now have in view, if it were also pre scribed that all goods released from stor age for interstate shipment should have plainly marked upon each package the selling or market price at which tney went into, storage. By this means the purchaser would always be able to learn what profits stood between him and tne producer or the wholesale dealer. The world must pay for the appalling destruction wrought by the great war, and we are part of the world. We must pay our share. For five years now the in dustry of all Europe has been slack and disordered. The normal crops have not been produced; the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned out. Not until there are the usual crops and the usual production of manufactured goods on the other side of the Atlantic can Europe return to the former condi tions; and It was upon the former condi tions, not the present, that our economic relations with Europe were built up. We must face the fact that unless we help Europe to get back to her normal life and production a chaos will ensue there which will inevitably be communi cated to this country. For the present, it is manifest, we must quicken, not slacken, our own production. U. S. Must Hold World Steady. We, and we almost alone, now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and self-possession depend the affairs of na tions everywhere. It is in this supreme crisis this crisis for all mankind that American must prove her mettle. In the presence of a world confused, dis tracted, she must show herself self-possessed, self-contained, capable of sober and effective action. She saved Europe by her action in arms; she must now save it by her action in peace. In saving Europe she will save herself. DEW IE HE ENTERS INTO REST aREAT PHILANTHROPIST DIES QUIETLY AT HIS HOME IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. SUOw HIS BENEFACTIONS ISHHSE Peace, Charity and Education Are the Chief Beneficiaries of the Dead Multi-millionaire. FOOD CROPS SHARP DECREASES DROUTHS AND PESTS IN MUCH OF THE GREAT PRODUCING AREAS CAUSED DECLINE. WHEAT LOSS IS TREMENDOUS Crops of Corn, Oats, Barley and Po tatoes Also Show an Appreciable Loss in Almost Every Section. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WjjRLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIt AND OTHER NATIONS FOR 8EVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS jOFJHE SOUTH What la Taking Place In The South. land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Lenox, Mass. Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthropist, died in his great mansion overlooking a lake in the beautiful Berkshire hills, where he sought seclusion when bodily" Tn firmity overtook him and his mind was saddened by the entrance of his country into the world war. Although he had been in feeble health for more than two years, his final illness was brief a matter of days. A severe cold developed quickly into bronchial pneumonia, the aged patient lapsed into uncon sciousness and the end came as though it were but the beginning of a deeper sleep. When Mr. Carnegie returned to his summer home last spring, it was evident to his intimates that the Domestic Walter Dent, asisstant attorney gen eral of Mississippi, knocked Theodore Bilbo dowa in a fist fight in tLe of fice of the secretary of state, .Joseph Power, who, with other officers, sepa- .Washington. With living costs soaring:, the nation's principal food crops showed sharp decreases during rated the men. The governor July, resulting from drouths and pesta over much of the growing area. Wheat production fell off 221,000, 000 bushels during the month, accord ing to the forecast of the department of agriculture; corn showed a reduc tion of 27 000,000 bushels; oats 137,- 000,000. bushels; barley 27,000,000 bushels and white potatoes 34,000,000 bushels. Rice alone of all the crops showed an increase. Total production of wheat was fore cast at 940,000,000 bushels, but this was an increase of 23,000,000 bushels over the forecast last December 1 and 149,000,000 bushels over the five-year average from 1913 to 1918. Winter wheat showed the greatest loss with President . Wilson recommends that goods released from storage for inter state commerce bear the selling price at which they went into storage and requiring that all goods destined for Interstate commerce bear the price at which they left the hands of the pro ducer. Says President Wilson: "We and we almost alona now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and self-possesesion depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It is in this su preme crisis the crisis for all man kind that America must prove her mettle." The project to build the St. Mary's river canal from the port of St. Mary's Ga., across the base of the state of Florida to the ' Gulf of Mexico, took on new interest in Washington when Senator William J. Harris of Georgia introduced a resolution which directs the secretary of commerce and - the inland waterways officials of the rail raod administration to submit all JUSTICE CLARK PRINCIPLES CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAIRMAN CONFERENCE. KEYS TO POSITIVE SOLUTION American People Are Asked to Weigh Carefully and Without Prejudice All Phases of Plumb Plan. Washington. A national conference to consider all plans submitted to '., .a i available data and facts on the Bcheme Congress f0r solution of the railroad No ar- was struck without warning. rests were made. Atlanta has approriated one hundred thousand dollars to purchase food sup plies pending settlement of the rail road strike. State troops have been ordered re moved from the scenes of the Chica go riots and the stock yards after a general strike of union workers had badly crippled the packing companies and live stock dealers had notified producers to suspend shipments to Chi cago temporarily. New Orleans sold ten thousand pounds of bacon to consumers at cost. The Brooklyn stj-eet car strike will be settled by mediation. Charles H. McGwire, assistant en caces ariiiit litiij aim bv vicious practices which ought imme diately to be checked by law. Profiteers Lawbreakers, "ir.e of the methods by which these prices are produced are already illegal, soir.e of them criminal, and those who emrlov them will be energetically pro ceeded asainst. But others have not yet been brought under the law. and should be dealt with at once by legislation. With the increase in the prices of the necessaries of life come demands for in creases in wages demands which are justified if there be no other means of enabiine men to live. rpon the increase of wages there fol lows close an increase in the price of the products whose producers have been ac corded the increase not a proportionate increase, for the manufacturer does not content himself with that, but an in crease considerably greater than the added wage cost and for which the added wage cost is oftentimes hardly more than an excuse. The laborers who do not get an increase in pay when they demand it are likely to strike, and the strike only makes mat ters worse. It checks production; if it affects the railways it prevents distribution and strips the markets; so that there Is pres ently nothing to buy. and there is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity. Conditions Not "Natural." These are facts and forces with which we have become only too familiar; but we are not justified because of our famil iarity with them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are natural" and inevitable, in sitting inac tively by and letting them work their fa tal results if there is anything that we can do to check, correct or reverse them. We must, I think, frankly admit that there is no complete immediate remedy to be had from legislation and executive action. The free processes of supply and demand will not operate of themselves, and no legislative or executive action can force them into full and natural operation until there is peace. Must Know Terms of Peace. There can be no confidence in indus try, no calculable basis for credits, no confident buying of systematic selling, no certain prospect of employment, no normal restoration of business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a proper reassembling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has been established, and, so far as may be, guaranteed. Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more di rectly affected, with all its terrible ravaging and destructive force, but it has been nevertheless profoundly af fected and disarranged, and our indus tries, our credits, our productive ca pacity, our economic processes are In extricably interwoven with those of other nations and peoples most Inti mately of all with the nations and peo pies upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who are now roost dependent upon the co operative action of the world. Exports Greatest In History. We are just now shipping ore goods out of our norts to foreign markets than we ever shipped before not foodstuffs merely, but stuffs and materials of every sort: but this is no index of what our foreign sales will continue to be or of the effect the volume of our exports will have on supplies and prices. It is impossible yet to predict how far or how long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to pay for or sustain such purchases on ?uch a scale; how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers can resume their former production, foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own fields; foreign mines resume their former output, foreign merchants set up again their old machinery of trade with the ends of the earth. All these things must remain uncertain until peace is estab lished and the nations of the world have concerted the methods by which normal life and industry are to be restored. All that we shall do In the mean time to restrain profiteering and put the life of our people upon a tolerable footine will be makeshift and provi sional. There can be no settled condi tion here or slsewhere until the treaty of peace is out of the way and the work of liquidating' the war has be come the chief concern of our govern ment and of the other grovernments of the world. "Europe will not, cannot recoup her formulate a law requiring a federal license of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce and embodying In the license, or in the conditions under which It is to be issued, specific regu lations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profits in the method of marketing. Law Would Do Much. Such a law would afford a welcome op portunity to effect other much-needed re forms in the business of interstate ship ment and in the methods of corporations which are engaged in it; but for the mo ment I confine my recommendations to the object immediately in hand, which is to lower the cost of living. We are dealing, gentlemen of the con gress, I need hardly say, with very critical and very difficult matters. We should go forward with confidence along the road we see, but we should also seek to com prehend the whole of the scene amidst which we act. There is no ground for some of the fearful forecasts I hear ut tered about me. but the condition of the world is unquestionably very grave and we shonld face it comprehendingly. The situation of our own country is excep tionately fortunate. We of all peoples can afford to keep our heads and to de termine upon moderate and sensible courses of action which will insure us against the passions and distempers which are working such deep unhappiness for some of the distressed nations on the other side of the sea. But we raay be involved In their dis tresses unless we help, and help with en ergy and intelligence. Disregarding the surplus stock in the hands of the government, there was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this coun try on June 1 of this year than at the same date last year. In the combined to tal of a number of the most important foods in dry and cold storage the excess is quite 19 per cent. And yet prices have risen. Law Department Active. The attorney general has been making a careful study of the situation as a whole and of the laws that can be ap plied to better it and is convinced that. under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations once great inausiriai leaner was a , nl nnn nrtA voKola uh enrina-wheat . r " ". "71. . j 1 te as she did upon the battlefields of the broken man and that any slight in- '. ' cnmffinir a det.lme of 97.. " lu .f- iected to a systematized plundering I. 1 , . , UL " - 1 I I I 1 I I I 1 1 . . w Ml " 111, 1JU111I111I.LCU OlA.Vf'UW war. The calmness and capacity wltn which she deals with and masters the problems of peace will be the final test and proof of her place among the peoples of the world. And, If only In our own Interest, we must help the people overseas. Europe is our biggest customer. We must keep her going or thousands of our shops and scores1 of our mines must close. There is no such thing as letting her go to ruin without ourselves sharing in the disaster. In such circumstances, face to face with such tests, passion must be discard ed. Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place In the counsels of a free people. We need light. disposition might have a fatal end. However, the air of the Berkshires and the seclusion afforded ni his beautiful estate appeared to benefit him and he exhibited occasional flashes of the old exuberance that had made him a cheerful companion for so many years. Peace, charity and education are the three institutions that have bene fited most from the vast donations production showing 000,000 bushels. to the senate. vm ha held here October 6, Increased rates on cotton and cot- under auspices of the Plumb organixa- ton from points in southern territory tion bureau. to various destinations In: the United in making - public-announcement of States and Canada, asked by south- the meeting, Chief Justice Walter eastern railroads in connection with ciark, of the North Carolina supreme carriers not under federal control, COurt, and chairman of the PlumD pian have been approved by the interstate preliminary conference, said special commerce commission with ut formal committees would be appointed to an- hearing. alyze the different proposals. Glenn E. Plumb, author of organized The American people were urged by labor's bill for public ownership of Judge Clark to consider all the propo- the railroads, who was formerly a cor- sala wjthout prejudice and without poration lawyer, much in the employ pasajoa( and to examine those which of the railroads of the West, and is haTe be'en outlined in the light of the now in the employ of the railroad bro- princlpie8 which we have enunciated." therhoods, took the stand before the Declaring that efficiency and econ- house interstate commerce committee, tranannrtation are the keys to and declared that every railroad sys- solutIon 0f the problem of the high tem In the United States was sub- . C1 k added tnat PLUMB CALMLY TALKS OF A REVOLUTION AS ALTERNATIVE "Washington. All day long from a witness chair before the house inter state commerce committee. Glenn E. Plumb, counsel for the railroad broth erhoods and author of organized la of Andrew Carnegie. He erected his bor's plan for tri-partite control of the own memorials in the 3.000 libraries railroads, responded to sharp ques- not heat in these solemn times of self- ttat perpetuate his name throuhgout tioning from the semi-circle of com Aram nflt nn nnn savlnr action I x r 1 . , 1 , i i, M Everyone who is in real touch with the the world, in the $1,500,000 temple of silent masses of our great people knows peace at The Hague, Holland, in his that the old strong nber ana steaay Ben- v.-- rjeace and educational funds. control are still there, firm against vio lence or any distempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves, no matter what the circumstances, and that they will ad dress themselves to the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the same stalwart preference for what is right that THE PRESIDENT DECLINES TO GRANT REQUEST OF SENATE mittee members who called on him to explain every phase of the labor bill. Gravely, Plumb talked of revolu tion as an alternative in case the adop tion of "some such plan" was not ob- Washington. President Wilson sent to the foreign relations commit- they displayed to the admiration of the tee a copy of the original American tained by political action through Congress, and said that was the de- storm vtii. swept at Los Angeles by leaping from the office of Distict Attorney Thomas L. Woolwine on the eleventh floor of the hall of records, was held responsible by public officials fo rthe dynamiting of the home of Oscar Lawler, a prom inent attorney. Will N. Harben, native Georgian, one of the most famous American writers and well known as an editor, is dead at his home in New York. He was the author of "Pole Baker" and a large number of other stories, most of them dealing with characters of the South. Four persons known to be dead, probably six seriously wounded, prop erty and crop damage estimated at more than two million dollars and two hundred families driven from their homes, was the toll of the electrical northern Ohio. whole world in the midst of war. Sinister Influences at Work. And I enter another confident hope. I have spoken today chiefly of measures of imperative regulation and legal com pulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes; and these no doubt are necessary, draft of a league of nations covenant but declined to furnish other papers relating to the peace negotiations ask ed for in the senate resolutions. To another resolution askfSrg for a copy of the letter written by General termination of the masses 01 men Three of the deaths occurred m whom he represented, "though I hope J youngsotwn, where two persons were never to live to see the aay. killed instantly by lightning and an The income of the Plumb plan other electrocuted by coming into con- league, organized to forward the la- tact witn a iive wire. hnr bill's nassaEe. he said, was "in Efforts to anticipate the results of the neighborhood of $100,000 or $125,- any quick switch in the government 000 annually now." though, only or- poijcy for disposal of the 1919 aomes But there are other forces that we may Bliss regarding the Shantung prob- count on besides those resident in the em Mr. Wilson replied that he re department of justice. We have just d d the letter as confidential since fullv awakened to what has been going f .... - .v. .,n- anv of them it contained certain references to OH B.UU LU lilt? IHMUVHVVB, w I very selfish and sinister, that have been other governments, producing high prices ana imposing intolerable burden on the mass of our people. To have brought It all Into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we seek. I appeal with entire confidence to our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal rainy wnu me ganized in July. any plan for solution of the railroad problem "must meet the test that it will provide transportation at actual cosf COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS WILL PROBE INTO MEXICAN MATTER. "THE COMEBACK" ISSUES WARNING TO THE PUBLIC. Wasington. Blanket authority to bring out all the facts about Mexican tic crop of wheat knocked the bottom out of values on the board of trade at Chicago. The Choccolocco valley of Calhoun county, Alabama, lays claim to having the champion rattlesnake killer of the season. Adair Hill killed 21 rattle snakes. Hill says he came upon one under private ownership. The permanent military r.olicy rec ommended by the war department, in volving under revised estimates, a Htnnrline neace army of 576,000 and mllitarv trainine for youtns JAPANESE EDITORS OAUiw .. 4. it. I . ....vnm nnrATInN of 19 years of age, wouia cost mo on si-mwiunw -"- county nine hundred million dollars . annually. Gen. Peyton C. Marcn, cniei Tokio. The newspapers of staff told the senate military sub- are treating calmly in their editorial committee, considering army legisia- comment the various pbases oi we no tion, bate in the United States senate on General March asserts that the pres- the question of Shantung, ine opiu ent time is the most appropriate for ,on most widely advanced Is that the inaugurating a system of military repubHcan senators who are opposing training inasmuch as military camps the proviBion in the peace treaty re are in readinecs over the country latng to Shantung are using their ar and also the necessary equipment. euments against Japan mostly for President Wilson has issued a lor- politIcai purposes, mal statement saying that the "frank Ajter pointing out that It Is Japan's statement" made by Viscount Uchida Intention to restore Shantung to as to Japan's policy regarding Shan- Chlna and to conduct economic under tung "ought to remove many of the gg in shantung Jointly with the misunderstandings which have begun chmese The Hochl Shimbun inter to accumulate about this question. attitude of the republican Viscount Uchida says: "The policy senat0rs as being based on America's of Japan is to hand back the Shan- dealre to achieve a world economic tung peninsula in full eovereignty to conquet Including China, from which China, retaining only the economic gne desireB to oust Japan economV- privileges granted to Germany ana iu cally right to establish a setuemeui uuu . r J A wt ntlie outrages on remedial big diamond rattler which immediate nronertv. and to formulate a remeaiai . i,!iiwi op program, was given to the foreign re lations committee by the senate. Without debate and by unanimous of nrodueers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of sup- the public interest sincerely at heart. plies and of prices which are clearly in restraint of trade, and against these pros ecutions, will be promptly instituted and actively pushed which will in all likeli hood have a prompt corrective effect. There is reason to believe that the prices of leather, of coal, of lumber and of tex tiles have been materially affected by forms of concert and co-operation among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which it will be possible to redress. No watchful or energetic effort will be 8 pared to accomplish this necessary re sult. I trust that there will not be many cases in which prosecution will be neces sary. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them promptly and of their own motion. The department of commerce, the department of agriculture, the depart ment of labor and the federal trade commission can do a great deal toward supplying the public systematically and at short intervals, with informa tion regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that is in ex istence and available with regard to supplies which are in existence but not with regard to the methods of price fix ing which are being used by dealers in certain foodstuffs and other necessities. Retailers in Part to Blame. There can be little doubt that retail ers are in part sometimes in large part responsible for exorbitant prices; and It is quite practicable for the gov ernment through the agencies I have mentioned, to supply the public with full information as to ' the prices at which retailers buy and as to the costs of transportation they pay in order that It may be known Just what mar gin of profit they are demanding. Opin ion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest. Let me urge, in the first place, that the present foodstuff control act should be extended both as to the period of time during which It shall remain in operation and as to the commodities to which it shall apply. Its provision against hoarding should be made to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fuel, to clothing, and to many other commodities which are in disputably necessaries of life. As it stands now it is limited in operation to Washington. Publishrs of The Comeback, the official soldiers' news- ants to aeai iw, a , rfiHnT th innuirv pie. It is their opportunity 10 snow i pajiei, uucu a. naimus 6lual i vote a icaumuuu u ...o - . that thev comprehend, that they in- iftrs SQidiers uniforms who have was adonted after its provisions had tend to act Justly, and that they have been collecting thousands of dollars been stiffened in committee so as to ahor Must Consider. through the southern states represent- make subject to investigation any ana I believe, too. that the more ex- ing themselves as solicitors for sub treme leaders of organized labor will scriptions to the newspaper, presently yield to sober second romeback. an official announce ment says has no solicitors in the southern country. all acts of the governments of Mexico ly gave battle and was killed after a struggle. It is renorted that German agents are trying to force the raising of the embargo on potash, so they may be gin shipments to this country immedi ately, although their stock at present is said to be email. German agents, in their effort to re- the usual conditions at Tsing-Tao.' VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE TO PROBE INTO PROFITEERING. vimnnd. va. Governor West moreland Davis announced that h nnd its citizens in derogation oi tne nt th nntaah industry in rights of the United States or of Its thig country are reported to be sup- citizens. TWO MILLION BLANKETS TO BE SOLD BY WAR DEPARTMENT. WAR DEPARTMENT ISSUES PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES. ported by the fertilizer trust of the United States. Washington Hich nrices. President Wilson says, are not justified by shortage of eup- thought, and like the great mass oi their associates, think and act like true Americans. They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical time are certain to make matters worse, not better worse for them and for everybody else. The worst thing, the most fatal thing that can be done now is to stop or interrupt production, or to interfere with the distribution of goods by the railways and the shipping of the country. There are many things that ought in ti relations be- .n oonitai and labor, in respect raneements having been completed t, mvlrnmenL the department said r2,- and conditions of labor and liatrlhntinn throueh nostof- m , Afa-arrioi entirelv in fix- n,nnAoalo Vpfnrn p.oneress for check- other things even faZe f)Ce and municipal channels on the tne pricea of sale which are ma- ing the high cost of living, but at the an,s. ?5 Jl ' matt.-r with Uarne i lan as that adopted for food- tar.,av inwer than prevailing market Rame time declared permanent results pnnrereiiuo auu" - iciimhj - . . any group of my fellow countrymen Etuffgi , rates cannot be expected until peace unw who know what tney are m. T ".Z For individual puTChasehs, prices Th ices quoted are f. o. D. ana basig ia fully restorea uy and are willing to remeay , blankets, and r,ninta in each of the 13 nf the neace treaty, Will T " I IrUIIl BlUl fco . I Mrinnrarl O JK for reclaimed wool; $5 for new cot- ,,atH,tB mto which the country is di- The country's corn crop snowea a j a q Kn fnr reclaimed: 'S3 . . - .nortment subsistence I rWrpase of 27.052,000 bushels, as a re LUIl lUJkCU, nuu V"'"" ' I VinPlI llir wai ucw.i". I i -i No remedy is possible while men are f new cotton, and $1.25 for reclaim- urDOgeB. The department now is re- euit of weather ana otner conamuu in a temper, and .were can o. , ontrnn. the reclaimed, it Is ex- the food supplies in the during July. nalinerl, are blankets used less than in order that each may have The average age of all United States Fnreio-n The Spanish parliament has approv ed the proposal that Spain join tne league of nations. , . v. t v-nig offered in the Nicholas Misu. of e Roumanian " of the legislature, dl- peace delegation, was called for the J1 profiteering In food, second time before the supreme conn- rected to euro ui v ell on account of the Roumanian re On of the bm. c fnsal to comply with tne aemanus ui v -- - ramnTt at the peace conference. f?.L, intervals the amount of The attitude of tne Koumanuu. """"; ."" to A license also causing great embarrassment to "J, rnv HatA nf storage oidv US Afc w cantrat Kaiser, has been demanded the date of its removal. by the allies as the ursi oi uie officials to be tried for violation of international law. The Belgian chamber or aepuues tinii v a nnafA treaty unanimously iu! with Germany. Wasineton. The war department made nublic a complete price list on either nresent or prospective, but Washington. Offering to the public n subsistence stores available for created in many cases artificially of 2.000,000 surplus all wool, cotton , t tbe nubile through the parcels d deliberately by vicious practices. and wool, and cotton blankets was an- r pQst or through municipal selling Retailers are responsible in large part nounced by the war department, ar- nB.Pncie9. Costs of the commodities to f extortionate prices. . - a. x I . , iJl . i tai President Wilson nas iaia specmc conditions by frank counsel ram, than by violent contest. General Interest First. tlement which does not have as its motive and standard the general In terest. Must All Work Together. Threats and undue insistence upon the interest of a single class, make set tlement impossible. I helieve. as I have hitherto had occasion to say to the congress, that the industry and life or- neonle and of the world will suffer irreparable damage if employers council. . . -rr i i Tha darn oi ws The Riirrender OI Uenerai rvruona, Daun. , , . A rmaXr of the German prison must be .tamped on he product and the date or its removal. CONFEDERATE VETERAN8 IN ATLANTA IN OCTOBER. Mobile, Ala. General William E. .-n. ,-hief of staff. United Confed- ."ermrAtforthe-saleof Amer- erate Veterans, has announced that lean army stocks in France for $400,- tte next Confederate reunion wm u 00? wT signed by the French, says held in AtlanU. October 7 8, and 10. Marcel Hutin, in Ecno ae rana. annual me - "7fln. KuS George conferred upon Premier ate Southern Memorial ",t" Da d Lioyd George the Order of Merit the Sons of Confederate veteran, as a sign of the appreciation of the wU1 be held ln Atlanta on the .am. English people of Mr. George's war dates, General Mlckle announced. 8er,?enant Oodefroy. a French avi- cv.CUATON BY RUMANIAN ator performed the feat of passing - ARMY BODE8 NO REAL GOOD. under the Arc de Triomphe at Paris in an airplane fngnt. Berlin. The retirement from Buda- a year wnicn laundered. are renovated and its proportion per population of the meil mied in the war was 23. This 72 articles offered for public sale. emphasizes the youth of the American INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONFERENCE OCTOBER 29. SOLUTION OF THRACIAN PROBLEM IS REACHED. Washington. The international la- and workmen are to go on in a perpet- bor conference, provided for in the neace treaty, has been called by ual contest, as aniajsoinsa. xuj must, on one plan or another, be effec tively associated. Have we not stead io, onrt self-Dossession and business sense enough to work out that result? President Wilson to meet in Washing ton, October 29. meantime-now and in the aHr,nS members of the inter- ;he u " .... Rtate under the Agents of the department of justice " : ....tmPnt and recuoeration ... . n. unopie - . - t ..t all hoarders oi neces- Ui-ri:yy nrt national lapor orgciui. " i.a,e of nations ALL TAKE EXCESSIVE PROFITS Federal Trade Commission Make. Public Facts Concerning Present High Prices of Shoes. Washington. The federal trade com n -issicn, which recently conducted an. Investigation into the leather industry. Inquiring especially Into the prices of shoes, made public a summary of Its report to congress. In Its Introduction to the summary the Emission says: "The federal trade commission has found that the high price of shoes cannot be justified by underlying eco nomic conditions. The commission after exhaustive inquiry into the price of hides, leather and shoes, is report ing to congress that the larger packers control the hide supply and have taken excessive profits and passed in creased costs to subsequent steps in manufacture and distribution ; that the tanner has taken exceptional profits ; that the manufacturer of shoes has taken unusual margins, and the prices that are aheaa oi us . u- . treaty more and more to rrann ana inumiw eu m aiu-. ' . counsel and make ourselves a great those which probably will become and triumphal, nation, making our- members prior to the conference, have 'JUS r"fn no Then have : looked to been invited to send delegates v. " - ... Uarirshfn in vain. IAO S. v v.-v-.- r- 1 FLYING BOAT FALLS imu SEA; PASSENGERS KILLED. army. President Wilson has decided to ad dress a message to congress recom mendinK additiona legislation to aid p.Ha The peace conference reach- in reducing the cost of living. ! a solution, of the Thracian proDiem Department commu -----According to The Intransigeant, by inatructed by the war department to afvTdfnggThrace. some going to Greece l-J and others being aesignaieu io win ODLaui i"-"". the future free state state or uonsian- in sioena.. ferret out all hoarders saries and profiteers throughout the country, who will be prosecuted under the food control act. American reports say that Rouma nians entering Budapest, the Hungari an capital, are demanding hostages and threatened to Kill live uuB- The solution arrived at, according to The Intransigeant, provides for divid ing Thrace Into eastern and western Thrace. charged by the retailer are not justi fiable, each factor In the industry ad ding to the burden he had to bear be fore he passed it on to the next." Means for reducing the present high prices are recommended by the com mission In this paragraph: "Some relief from the Intolerable STRIKING CHICAGO SHOPMEN - RETURNING TO THEIR JOBS. Roumanian soldier injured in Bu London. It is reported that a flying boat, one of the largest of its type vet fcuilt. fell into the sea, 500 yards off shore, near an English summer re sort. The nlane crumpled under the im pact with the water and it is reported rnipnen. A break came in the strike ' hlindred and fifty-six Of the of railway shopmen when several united States soldiers killed in action thousand strikers returned to work in numbeT o national response to President Wilsons re- heJnly was the greatest of any qnest and the appeal oi iDwniduuuo. month in recent years ..osontativei of the six crafts in- nn Britain has s representatives of the Great Britain has settled her obli- prlces paid by consumers for shoes ' pas8enger3 were killed. Director R. H. Aishton, of the tQ American government may be had by (1) a JJ Lieutenant MacLeod, who was pilot- nrtnwestern region, and Hae Holden, 6 munition3 negotiated for during the v' 1 i i ,- mochino was iuuuu uiunusu, i - nrostern mud S. B&1U 111 CI c lllfe mc luuv." , i q j '' 1 ' . I nam. A dispatch from Vienna by way of of Rumanian army, owing to ronenhaten says tnai we B8ure from tne enieni, States has sent an ultimatum to Ron- PBU m be a 8Uen withdrawal. manS demanding withdrawal of the QjJJ' good for the future, accord Severe armistic terms presented to fndlJf dlspatCQeB from the Hungarian Hungary on pain of cessation of the shipment of food to Roumania. Herbert Hoover, head of the inter- ft TAKEN TO CONFISCATE alUed reVief commission, has stopped JAR UNLAWFULLY HOARDED. a relief supplies on their way to Bu- JapSi taking the position that he Richmond, Va.-United State. Dia S be unwarranted in letting sup- CAttorney Hiram Smith received W Hnnearv while, Roumanians "i Attorney General A. "Z7r the neople of food- t take immediate are now ubp'o - Miicneu n"" . ,,.(. stuffs. .. mt a nota steps for confiscation o t all The supreme -7-L-toB found to h.Ve to the Roumamau u-. "... " ed Advices Have rescue em to conform to .the condUions of Ad the entente ana noi to belng hoarded here ana nvLus decisions the work of the are bei Two department interallied A j- TOiirlsi'nPftl.. sem. iu - telegrams ease, A Paris spatcn " " 8EVEN SHmefrtrSa2 Montreal. - Seven person, were ians were killed by tne ft m oQ a scenk t1 BrS purposesestablishing railway at Dominion park, an amuse- Vtrai authority to deal witn prom.- ment reson ne a central autnom.? bodiea of three men. three wo- eering. 41lati aues- - , a hov were recovered from The sett lement " " :,y before midnlght. It tion, attecuus T :'a .ee.l more persons lost is imminent. . . th . de. " . . th 1-- wm be The amen ! ------ fnrmar ,a rB!IUmed. It hold tne irm . 1 recovered wu . control of commodities, (2) legislation forbidding producers of hides engag ing in the tanning business." tha wreck- strappea in ms - ed craft was towed ashore. How Food Prices Have Risen. a.shin8ton.-.iamiHes of 25 cities or the country paid '16 per cent more in June for 22 standard articles of food than the avras. in 1918, according to ngures inn,le IJU()i(. by fte department of labor. The average cost of the same foods per family in 1913 was 67 per cent more than In 1913. The cost per family in tlties fop 1913 ,s gIven as irZt' e' 1919- 't had risen to 5(5-3, an increase of a nttle more than 93 per cent. ginrc then prlce8 hart fone vpp boynni tbnM figartg, CITY TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD Volunteer Worker. In Boston Will Por tion Out Surplus Army Supplies in the Near Future. Boston. Mass.Information ob tained at the mayor's office Is to the effect that the city's organization of volunteer workers to distribute sur plus army food supplies is now nearly ready for work, and that as a. result of the discovery ty Francis Ford, fai Mir. tat '1T5,,W0 rcB3Bla" ttm the city's appropriation to buy coal last winter, no time need be lost in getting an order for the purchase of food through the city council. The widespread interest in reducing INSTRUCTIONS TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS TO GET IN TOUCH. . ,ar In thA Sltn- was mucn encuuiascuicuw - ation. SIMMONS INTRODUCES BILL AFFECTING DISABLED MEN. Washington. Attorney General Pal , 3 i4.i.,.oiaaHf" asserit mor receivea uuiuoi.- July 31, the total missing in action in the Utnied States army was at 241. oH,-,o etena wQl be taken by the grain corporation to sell standard export flour in every community of Washington. Senator Simmons has the country in carload lots at a price a a nil tn eliminate aiscrimi- not axeater man axu -ii-tnallv all state food adrainis- henefit3 conferred by the rirertnr Barnes of the grain cor- the cost of living that has swept the trators of whom he asked co-opeTa- federal government upon disabled sol- poration predicts a shrinking of four country within the past week has led tion in the efforts to reduce the hign offlcers and men of the reserve hundred million bushels in the wneat to an attempt by the state of New coat Qf living. At the same time he nati0nal armies and national production of North Amenea. Hampshire to discover why prices are sent instructions to an guards. The senator has had wis mm- A great Bhrinkage ine us" au high and what can be done to lower them, it was learned here on Monday. The governor ha. asked the attornty general of that itut to b1n ! . ... x....v un tha fnnd ftd neys to get in io"-u anit to act at once on any evidence ot law violation which might come to light in tte work et tae latr pric eeamitWM. ter up with the war risk insurant feu- broauetion of wheat and, rye 11 Jreaict- reau and the war aepanmeni u j py those in poiww k found that Congress is at iau. mm 9nnit,u et wo sre bill, h tnlM, wm rr investigation - TlZIn were placed on the lSran emperor in London. b been lmpossible so far to identify Marshal Foch, .commanuei-."-" Qeaa. Mars ... Murine the war. eLerfnvUed to visit the United HUNGRY MOB ATTACKS TROOPS States. .M,m07lt will create The Briusn u VT J t,, inrf AND FIFTY DEATHS RESULT. vMd Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and Berlm.FIfty persona were killed Admiral Sir David Beatty earls in rec- fl dl8tttrbances near Chemnits. a ognUiou of their war service Btatlon 3g mIle8 southwest of gGen. Sir Albert Plummer. Sir Henry Kawlinson, but -Troop, were overpoworou . m Ko iriven baronet- I "v K . u t.nnea v S. tiorno w " . 1 armed by a moD. 1 ne uium " ' l-To mnlish government. arm:a.,:t. a on the flesh dis- e8 ?' Roumanian troop, were - - wflund. Thirty """"" r hi. triDUtea 10 me wv wiSS!LAS p.. .r. to a. eb.n, k Additieaal troops r tl wl M tet tbs dUoritri. s. Henry cies lsry, entered SndPt trumpawi
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