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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER FAIR. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING EESUIZTS vol. xxxm, no. 2so. ASHEVILLE, N. (X, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1917. PRICE JTVE CENTS ) CONFEREES REACH DEADLOCK ON THE FOOD MEASURE Two Points in Dispute Will Be Referred to Presi dent Today. PINAL ENACTMENT THIS WEEK IS HOPED War Committee and Board Instead of One Official in Dispute. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 29 Conferees on the administration food control bill reached an impasss to night, after an all-day conference, and leaders decided to confr tomor row with President Wilson On the two points remaining in dispute the senate proposals to establish a con gressional committee to supervise war expeifditures and to create board of three food administrators instead of 'one official. Upon all other questions the con ference committee reached a complete agreement. Final enactmenc of the bill this week is hoped for by the conferees. Will Take Up Difference. Representative Lever, heading: the house conferees, and Senator Cham berlain, who handled the bill in the senate for the administration, will take up with President Wilson tomor row the two remaining; differences. The conferees will meet again after the white house conferences. The president has declared the war committee would be embarrassing1 and would Indicate lack of confidence In his conduct of the war. Should he Insist upon elimination of the pro posal, it appears probable that the senate conferees would yield the point tomorrow, leaving a disagree ment only on the food board question. Numerous other changes have been agreed to In the bill, with most of the principal senate amendments ac cepted. The conferees agreed that In addi tion to foods, feeds and fuels, the government shall control "fuel oil and natural gas, fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, imple ments and equipment, required for the actual production thereof" all denominated as necessaries. The so- : called control section of the house bill, much broader than the senate's was adopted, authorizing federal reg ulation affecting speculation, distrlbu- - - tio& mqrmj0MtMMlfjcMit4' necessaries. Prohibition Section. -The prohibition section, agreed to yesterday, prohibits manufacture or Importation of distilled beverages during the war, and authorizes the president to limit the alcoholic con tent of beer and wines and to com mandeer distilled beverages when necessary. This was a substitute for the house bone dry section and for the senate inhibition of distilled bev erages manufacture. The Smoot amendment, directing federal pur chase of all distilled spirit in bond, was stricken out The prohibition clause as agreed to, follows: "That from and after thirty days from the date of the approval of this act. no foods, fruits, food materials or feeds shall be used in the produc tion of distilled spirits for beverage purposes: (provides, that under such rules, regulations, and bonds as the president may prescribe, such materi als may be used In the nroductlon of distilled spirits exclusively if or other than' beverage -'irposes, or for "the fortification of pure sweet wines as defined by the revenne act of Sep tember 8. 1918. "Nor shall there be imported Into the United States any distilled spirits "Whenever th president shall find that limitation, regulation or prohibi tion of fhe'ifse of foods, fruits, food (Continued on Page Two.) T TROOPS TO FRANCE WILL BE WITHOUT News of Arrival of Troops in France Will Not Be Given Out. NO REASON GIVEN. WASHINGTON, July 29. -The movement of American troops tQ France will be carried on absolutely without publicity if the present policy of the war department remains un altered. w Secretary Baker and "some of his military advisers believe that no word should be published of the arrival of troops abroad, and it is probable that, this will be made clear to all newspapers and press associations in forthcoming regulations under the voluntary censorship to which the press of the country has subjected it self. Assurances have been given both by navy and army officials, that dis asters will not be hidden under the veil or tms censorship and presum- ably ,under the new regulations also iuo AJjisi ivn vvre win cxpeciea to understand that no news is good news tn this respect. No official explanation has been made of the reason underlying the decision to withhold from publica lion announcement of the arrival of troops. - It is understood, however, that Secretary Baker believes that with large troop movements In pros pect as the new army or the national guard is made ready for the front, it would be unwise to call the attention At the German authorities tojwhatis sTomr cm TEUTONIC OFFICIALS IN REPLY TO LLOYD-GEORGE PLACE BLAME ON ALLIES ALLIES SEEK ONLY PEAGETHATWOULD ENSLAVEGERMANY So Declares Dr. Michaelis, New Chancellor, in Inter view to Press. QUOTES CARSON'S SPEECH AT DUBLIN Says That Irish Leader Has Declared Peace Would Be Made Beyond Rhine. BERLIN, July. 29, (Via Copen hagen). Dr. Georg Michaelis, the Oerman imperial chancellor, on Sat urday, summoned a large number of. newspaper men to whom he declared: "The speech of Lavid Lloyd-George, the British premier, at Queen's hall, London, and the recent debate in the British house of commons again have proved with indisputable clearness that" Great Britain does not desire peace by agreement and understand ing, but only a conclusion of the war which means the enslavement of Ger-' many to the arbitrary violence of our enemies. Carson's Statement. "Proof of this may be seen' In the fact that Sir Edward Carson, (mem ber of the British war cabinet) re cently declared In Dublin that nego tiatlons with- Germany could begin only after the retirement .of German troops beyond the Rhine. In response to a question, put by Commoner Joseph King, A. Bonar Law, the spokesman of the British government in the house of commons, modified this declaration by fixing the standpoint of the Brit ish government as being that if Ger many wanted peace she first of all must declare herself willing to evacuate the occupied territories Wo possess clear proofs that the enen.jgjfoeg', goTrig even further than that im pudently made by Sir Edward Carson. You all know that detailed informa tion regarding the French plans of conquest, approved by Great Britain and Russia, has been circulated for weeks past in the neutral press and that it has not been denied up to the present. "It would be of the greatest im portance for the enlightenment of the whole world regarding the true rea sons for the continuation of the sanguinary massacre of nations for it to be known that written proofs of our enemies' greed for conquest have since fallen into our hands. I refer to reports of the secret debate on June 2 in the French chamber of deputies. Asks Questions. "I ask the French government this question: Does 1t deny that ex Premier Briand and Premier Ribot, In the course of that secret sitting, at (Continued on Page Two.) SCANTY DETAILS OF THE 1 RAID ON PARIS ARE Another Unsuccessful Raid on French Capital Satur day Night. AIRCRAFT ON GUARD. PARIS, July 29. The censor today permits the publication of scanty de tails of an air raid made on Paris Friday night, which the Associated Press was not allowed to send yester day and which the French news papers were not permitted to publish. According to this Information, bombs were dropped on three different suburban sections. In the first the bombardment caused absolutely no damage; in the other two localities five or six bombs were dropped, causing the slight injury of two women. One of the women was struck while in bed and was removed to hospital; the other was Injured by flying glass. One bomb of several that fell in a field Is believed to have contained asphyxi ating gas. Another raid on Paris Saturday night was even more unsuccessful than that on Friday, for the German aviators were not able to reach Paris at all. Their coming was anticipated and French protecting airplanes were circling above ana around Paris from early evening. The residents, however, did not look for a renewal of the fruitless attack of the previous night and most of them had retired when the sirens gave the warning. Crowds rushed to the streets, roofs and windows Instead of seeking shelter, but they saw noth ing. Less than an hour after the first warning reassuring bugles announced that the enemy aviators had been turned back. THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON, July 29. Forecast for North Carolina: Generally fair. ontinued warn Moadjuc ul XutsdAX-tLdar. AUSTRIA HUNGAR READY TO ACCEPT Foreign Minister Discourses at Length on Peace Possibilities. IS READY TO FIGHT TO LAST EXTREMITY Austria Wants Peace Terms Dictated by Ger man Chancellor. VIENNA, (Via Copenhagen, July 29.) Reiterating that Austria-Hungary was ready to accept an honor able peace but that the dual mon archy In conjunction with its allies, would fight to the last extremity if the entente powers declined to enter negotiations on the basis of a peace by understanding, as recently outlined by the German imperial chancellor and the reichstag, count Ottoker Csernin von ChudeniU, the Austro Hunjrarian foreign minister in an in terview today discussed at length peace possibilities. Replies to Lloyd-George. The Austrian statesman took occa sion to reply to the speech made by David Lloyd-George in London, July 21, when the British premier charac terized the address delivered in the relchstag by Dr. Michaelis, the Ger man chancellor as a sham. The count said Mr. Lloyd-George was mis taken when he represented the reich stag peace resolution to be a "piece of bluff." "The chancellor and the relch stag," the foreign minister said, "de clared that Germany was conducting a defensive war and that the Ger man people only asked for an hon orable peace by means of an under standing and - an agreement offerliwr the basis, for - laetinff' reconciliation- the v reichstag solemnly replied that tne oerraan people desired no forced conquest and abhorred economic iso lation and incitement to enmity be tween nations after the war, "I must renly to "remler Lloyd George with the question: 'What are we finally to exnect from the en tente? What we desire is quite evi dent frorv the well-known declara tions made in Vienna and from the demonstrations by the German people showing that a-complete agreement exists to the very last detail between Vienna and Berlin. What the chan cellor and the reichsrna; declared is what I described months ago as an honorable peace which the Vienna government Is ready to accept and whereby It seeks a lasting reconcilia tion of the nations. But there also exists the complete agreement that we never shall accept a peace which 4s nit honorable for us. "Tf th wntente does not wish to (Continued on Paire Two ) E AT CHICAGO TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES Hold Unofficial Conference With Murdock, Conduct ing the Strike. NOTHING GIVEN OUT. strikers winning. CHICAGO, July 2. Fol lowing a meeting of the gen eral managers of the nineteen railroads affected by the strike of switchmen in the Chicago yards, a state ent was issued late tonight by Geo. Hanneur, chairman of the conference committee of general manag ers, to the effect that the strike was already won on most of the lines affected and that the strike will doubtless be set tled shortly. f CHICAGO. July 29. Officials of the four great railroad brotherhoods came to Chicago today to offer their aid in bringing to an end the strike of mem bers of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen employed as switchmen in the Chicago yards. It was understood they will undertake tomorrow to place their services at the disposal of both the striking switchmen and the rail roads, who are represented by the general managers' committee. They had an unofficial meeting with James Murdock. vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train, men. who U conducting the strike. Neither Mr. Murdock nor the visitors would say what was discussed. Mr. Murdock- said tonight that . ninety eight per cent of the members of his organization of 6,000 awitchemn were on strike. Tiis figure Is disputed by. the general managers' commUtS, which says not -more than 2,(00 men are out. - .- j No cases of violence, but several minor switching accidents in which no on was hurt, were reported, to- HONORABLE PEACE On I ' AX I V VU Sg?JZWM v-rs J C SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS . WILL CONVENE AT BLUE RIDGE FOR PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE TONIGHT Dsfffsiie(r ,To Be Held At Blue Ridge and AshevlileSectlonal In Name But National la Scope, Meeting Means Much To Asheville The Southern Sociological congress, whose open public meetings will be held in Asheville and Blue Ridge as soclation, near Black Mountain this week, will "assemble this evening at Blue Ridge for purposes of organiza tion and preliminary work. The for mal program will begin with ad dresses at Blue Ridge Tuesday morn ing, followed by an evening session In Central Methodist church, which has been chosen for the Asheville meetings. Sectional in name but national In scope, its membership representing' twenty-eix states and including sev-enty-flve citizens of New York city, the congress which was formed in May, 1912, is one of far reaching im portance, its record of practical achievement being summarized by the statement of former Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, that "No move ment organized In the South In fifty years has so powerfully influenced public opinion for good in the same length of time as the Southern Socio logical congress." Few conventions which have met here will rank with It In the attention It commands in the country at large Distinguished Delegates. Attended by distinguished men and women representing all southern states, and leaders of constructive PHYSICIANS ARE NEEDED FOR AMERICAN ARMIES Two Out of Every Nine in United States Are Needed at Front. WASHINGTON, July 29. -Fully 24,000 physicians or tv.'o out of every nine of military age in the country, will be needed by the new American armies, the war department an nounced today, in addition to 120,000 enlisted men who must be secured for the medical corps. Half of these physicians and enlist ed men will be needed by October 1. They already are going into training camps to fit them for service at the rate of 200 a day, at "ort Riley, Kansas; Fort Benjamin Harrison. In diana; Fort Oglethorr.. Ga.; Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Aiientown, fa.. Three months' training Is given the officers and men. About 13,500 offi cers and men are now under training at these camps. Th riAmanrl tnr nhvsiclana 1m nrnh- ably the heaviest made by. the war on any profession, and tho department says the medical men of the country are meeting It readily. There are ap proximately 90,oo physicians or mili tary age, twenty-two , to, flrty-five years. In the country. By a system of selection these will be mobilized and drawn from each community In proportion to the number available so as not to leave any community without adequate protection. After their three months' training a detachment of the medical officers for each regiment will be sent to each national army, national guard ' and regular, army-camp ahead of the truuos to supervise preparations. ua I . na. M.H,.)lntf hMHk " mm niTS'yli 1 m Counting The Hatch the Meetings, Which Are thought In the nation, the congress will consider problems through the medium of applied sociology Instead of from the philosophic standpoint of pure sociology, concerning itself with origins and causes only so far as an understanding of them serves as a diagnosis leading to practical treat ment. The end- In view is the rem edying of undesirable conditions af fecting society and the Individuals composing It. The declared purpose of the con gress is to study and improve the so cial, civic and moral conditions of the South, and Its objective health, Justice and co-operation for abundant nation al life. Such practical alms find ex pression in considerations of such subjects as health, education, morals, civil government and the relations between the races. In the last few years special attention has been di rected to the negro problems, war, and church and social service. Health Is a dominant consideration, the watchword being "To double the aver age of human life In the 8outh this generation." Illiteracy, poverty, crime and disease are the enemies the con gress combats. Prominent Speakers. Among the speakers whose ad dressee indicate the nature of the meetings will be Assistant Surgeon General John W. Trask, who will speak on the work of the United States Public Health service, and the SUBMARINES WILL NOT T Commander of Fleet Does Not U-Boats Alone. Austrian Rely on AMSTERDAM, July 29. Vice Ad miral Maximilian NJegovan, com mander of the Austrian fleet. In an interview giverf to the Neu Fre Presse declared he did not believe that submarines would bring a'iout a de cision In the war. He si'd: "At present the U-boats are much spoken of as making England,' Aus tria's principal enemy, uncomfortable, but they merely are a means toward victory. It would be a mistake to be lieve from the experiences of this war that big ships are useless, but for us the essential type Is that of light cruisers. "If we had a great fleet, tjje war with Italy would have 'been flplshed long ago. Indeed, the war would never have been "possible." NEGROES FINED. PHDjADBLPHIA, July 29. Seventy-two negroes arrested on the technical charge of corner ' lounging but who, the police allege, were about to leave for Chester to participate in the race riots, were fined SIS. 60 each and given jail sentences ranging from five to thirty days after a hearing before a magistrate here today. The prisoners were taken into custody late last night to the souther sectloa of Atha city. necessity of greater activity tn the promotion of publlo health. Dr. w. A.' Evans, of Chicago, late president of the American Medical association, and one of the greatest of American physicians will seek to show that the Former President William H. Taft was to have discussed the "Problem of War and the Program of the League to Enforce Peace," but in hit absence the subject will be presented by Dr. Frank J. Kllnrtmrge. of Los Angeles, Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, of Virginia, one of the great orators of the South, will address himself to the subject of patriotism through education, The offloers of the congress are as follows: President, Governor C. H. Brough, of Arkansas; vice-president, Dr. Oscar Dowllng, New Orleans; sec ond vice-president, Dr. C. 8. Gardner, Louisville; secretary. Dr. J. B. McCul loch, Washington; treasurer, James H. Dlllard, Nashville. Members of executive committee: Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, North Carolina; White ford R. Cole, Tennessee; Judge J. A., McCullough, South Carolina; Prof. Jackson Davis, Virginia; Miss Eliza beth Oilman, Maryland; Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddle, Washington; J. P. Faulkner. Georgia; Prof. J. M. Fair, Florida; Dr. W. H. Oates. Alabama; Dr. W. 8. Leathers, Mississippi; W. (Continued on Page Two.) OF Drafting of Entire National Guard Into Federal Service Ends Usefulness. WASHINGTON, July 29. With the drafting of the entire national guard Into the army of the United States, August 5, the functions of the militia bureau of the war department are ox pected to come to an end. There will remain no force of national guard for the bureau to supervise and the officers of the regular army attached to the division will probably be as signed to other duty. Under the plan of the national de fense act, which calls upon the states to maintain recruit battalions for each guard regiment tn active service, the bureau would continue as it is It Is regarded as probable, howeve", that a general reserve system will be substituted for the regimental depot plan to fill gaps In the rank. In that event new men. whether volunteers, those called under the se lective draft or wounded men who have recovered sufficiently to return, to the front, would be gathered in general recruit depots In America which would supply a rennl -iepot in France. Preliminary training of the recruits would be given in the heme depots, to be supplemented by Intensive training In trench warfare at the depot In France.- The con valescent soldiers, returning to the front, would form a valuable training force to break La the sw men at the. depots. " ' . THREE RIG ISSUES BEFORE CONGRESS DURING THE WEEK Food Control, Revenue and Prohibition Bills to Be Considered. PROHIBITION HAS " THE RIGHT OF WAY Sheppard's Resolution Will Come Up in Senate for Action Wednesday. WASHINGTON. July 29. All three of the big issues before congress, food' control, revenue, and prohibition, are. on the congressional calendar this 1 week, with minor question coming, up In such numbers that the leaders are about resigned to Indefinite pro longation of the session. The Immediate work to be done ea food and revenue legislation must be done in committee, but before the week is over the food conferees and the senate finance committee, revis ing the war tax bill, hope to report out their measures. ' fmhthHinn l TmA Meantime, prohibition ' has 'the right of way in the senate, which will take up tomorrow for a vote Wednes. A n r V. a M CI . 1 - n 1 ;' pard proposing submission of a na tional prohibition amendment to. the -constitution. .;. - .s . . x . Senator Stieppard plana to open the prohibition discussion which promises a lively contest touchln many war question!. The vote, both 1 sides admit, will be extremely close. Dry leaders hope for about sixty-five votes, or just about the necessary two. ' thirds for adoption. The resolution still would have to pass the house. wnicn in lSli rejected a similar.- miiinra ; Other Bills VP. During the week, the senate com merce committee expects to report the trading- with the enemy bill. Chairman Chamberlain, of the mili tary committee, will bring In his bill. " for drafting; subjects of the Euro pean allies In thl country, and Bena- tor MoCumiber's resolution authoris- ' Ing the president to negotiate treaty unanges 10 permit suco oraning :wiu,; be reported from the foreign rela. tlons committee. (.. ' The house is In recess waiting; for the conference report on t the food -bill, but there is growing sentiment that if the extra session is to con- i tlnue indefinitely, - the channels of a general 1 understanding to consider only urgent administration matters, " should be opened np. Veteran mem bers are pessimistic about any early; a djournment and a large proportion of the home membership Is away. Hearings on the $5,000,000,000 es-. timates for the army as a basis for a record-breaking general deficiency bill will begin In the house appropri ations committee tomorrow, and on Tuesday the house military committee will take up an alien drafting bill similar to that to be reported to the senate. " " " , TAX BURDENS OF POOR i Tl LEADER KITCHIN SAYS Taxes Now Place All Burden on Poor Man That He Can Carry. WOULD TAX THE RICH. W1AOHINOTON. July 19. Tax bur dens of the poor must not be ma terially Increased, declares Majority Leader Kttchtn, chairman of the house ' ways and means committee, in raising me additional 15,000,000,000 required to carry on the war until July 1, 1S18.5 Ability to pay, should be the only standard urion which the tax should; be assessed, Mr. Kitchin will Inslct, and he believes the taxes on neces saries ' already contemplated place about as large a burden on the poor man as he can stand. The first and largest advances, he insists, should be made therefore In normal income ana 'excess profits taxes. If the tax bill now pending will ! provide sufficient funds to meet ex penses until 4 some time early next year, as administration leaders say. Mr. Kitchin believes ccngresa should not draft a new tax measure before 1 next season. He will- confer on that point with Secretary McAdoo. before he takes up. the situation formally with his committee. : THE SUNDAY CITIZEN Circulation Yesterday City Suburban Country , , 5,079 2,743 1,104 Net paid . .. ; 8,926 Service . . . . 223 Unpaid .... .105 Total .' 9,254
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