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K VOLUME XXXIII. NUMBE R 46 HENDERSONVULE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1919. FIVE CENTS COPY. vv. f irsmiiNG to HENDERSONYILLE Hendersonviile. is to have an ab solutely first class military and naval academy whiph will run for at least nine months in every year, with a strong probability of a three months summer session in addition. The institution will be located at Highland Lake and will be run under the same management as the Georgia Military Academy. It will be owned by a new corporation, to be charter ed under the laws of North Carolina; jrV the list of stockholders will be almost identical with that of the corporation which owns the -G. M. A. The postoffice address of the new institution will be (Hendersonville, SN. C. It is expected that the new insti tution will open about May 1 of this year when a large number of the students of the G. M. A. will be brought here to complete the work of the session. After this year all G M. A. students will be required to spend the last six weeks of the ses sion at the Hendersonville institu tion. Arrangements are now being made to send photographers here at once to take photographs for the catalogue of the Hendersonville academy. Some idea of the large scale of the enter prise may be gathered from the fact that the printing of these catalogues will cost about $5,000. For some time past the Henderson ville Board of Trade has been work ing very hard to secure the location of this school here. The Osceola Lake property was at one time con sidered; but a recent enlargement in the scope of the school made it neces sary to find a more extensive prop erty. Then Highland Lake was con sidered; and last week Colonel Wood- v ward of the G. M. A. notified the Hendersonville Board of Trade that the school could be landed here on two conditions. 'One was that th Highland Lake property (including 300 acres) could be purchased for $85,000. The other was that Hen- dersonville people would make a donation of $10,000 towards , this sum. A committee. consisting of Clarence Latham, C. F. Bland, J Mack Rhodes, A. C. Tebeau and C E. Brooks, got busy and rounded up every dollar they could hear or think of. F. A. Ewbank went to Mont gomery and arranged for the pur chase of theproperty at the price stipulated. He then went to Atlanta where he -was joined by C. F. Bland, and the Atlanta end of the deal was fixed. The soliciting comtnittee in Hendersonville, after doing a vast amount of good work, report $9,500 already pledged and the remaining $500 in sight. The committee re quest The Times to state that they are gratified beyond measure at the wonderfully liberal response which Hendersonville business men have made. To secure donations. to the amount of $10,000 in so short a time was a remarkable performance. The TimS"congratulates the community and the committee upon this result. The men who are behind this school are the biggest business men of the South, railroad presidents, manufacturers, multi-r'Wonaires. Colone.1 Woodward's reputation and standing may be gathered from the fact that at a recent gathering, in Washington, D. C, of representatives of CC11 the military schools in the Uni ted States, he was elected chairman. TORPEDO FIRED FROM DIRIGI BLE The first attempt to fire a torpedo from a dirigible, made at the naval air 'station at Pensacola, Fla., was highly successful. The torpedo was suspended 40 feeh beneath the "Blimp" and was' set off by a fic tion clutch when th machine drop ped to the propei levetv U. sS. ARMY HAS 24,000 CON v i 'SUMPTIVES 1 "twenty-four thousand soldiers have x, bean discharged from the-' United : ' States army as consumptives since the! beginning of the war, the Senate ' Buildings committee has been inform ed by Dr. W. G. Stimpson,." of the . United States Health service." 4'T THREE BABIES SMOTHERED- : Three -infants iif , Birmingham, - All,. on s:aol,erad to dea'h by be 0 heavily during a cold CONVENTION AT GREENSBORO The Republican convention, which was held Saturday in Greensboro and was attended by 1,000 delegates, went on record emphatically for the Australian ballot and for fair pri mary and election law). W. ft. Hays, chairman of the na tional Republican executive commit tee, was the guest of honors and he made a very favorable impression. He was introduced to the convention as "the Marshal Foch of the Repub lican party.' Mr. Hays said that he had no patience with the man who was too busy to take part in politi cal affairs. There is, need of two great political parties. He maintained that the government must function eauallv for all free classes, for the rights of children, of labor and other divisions. In order to bring about this equality of privilege, according to the speaker, it is essential that Republicanism be come more generally transfused into the veins of American citizenship. "The ideals for which Roosevelt gave his life will not fail." Then he re ferred to his party as exercising Daramountcv in natriotism. Protec tive tjariff principles were lauded, Bolshevism was berated. McAdoo. according to Chairman Hays, seems to think railroads were built to keep men where they are in stead of taking them from place to place, and would make the "treasury, a self-operating machine." Refer ring to President Wilson's absence in France, the speaker said the latter was probably justified in "getting 3,- 000 miles away from Tumulty and Burleson." Mr. Hays flayed "peda- erntrin naforoflliam " find AlltnrrAP.V. v--..- which he defined as 'fthe form of gov ernment a republic will stand for when it sets out to make the world safe for democracy." Before clos ing, the speaker said Ameriican sol diers should be brought home ftota France as quickly as possible. "There can be no divided loyalty," he said. "We will accept no internationalism as a substitute for American nation alism." At 11 o'clock State Chairman Frank A. Linney, of Boone, called the con vention to order. The visitors were warmly welcomed by H. R. Bush, president of the Greensboro chamber of commerce, and C. M. Vanstory, who heads the Elks club of that city. Response was made by A. H. Price, of Salisbury. H. S. Williams was elected chair man of the convention and Gillian Iprissom secretary. Frank Linney made a vigorous de mand for election reforms. Not only must the primary laws be purified, but the general election laws, too, must be amended so as to assure fair ness. "The worst form of anarchy that can be imagined," said he, "is lawlessness based upon law." Plan Remedial Measures As t6 remedial measures Mr. Lin ney referred to three" methods. Vio lators might be prosecuted in the courts, an appeal might be made to the Legislature for equitable elec tion statutes, or an appeal might oe carried to Congress for relief through federal agencies. Regis trars must be watched in order to prevent fraudulent practices. Those who are injured as a result ot tne unfair election methods should have the right of appeal "to the highest court in the. State." Continuing the meaker asserted that "It has been judicially determined for years that the State was Democratic." Pleading for the Australian ballots and other measures of election reform, Mr. Lin aid the Republicans have. .ample evidence of fraud, "but we haven't time to take it up, so let's have an election on it." Dead men were per mitted to cast their ballots under Democratic administration, he held, but the live ones would . oust the Democrats. "The people of North Carolina," he shouted, "and not om cal Democracy must give us this fair and honest" election law." Solicitor George M. Pritchard, of Marshall,, moved suspension of the remainder of the speech-making pro tvram Ann 'thia was done, -r: Major George Butler of -Clinton, then sub mlfted the; report 'jot the resolutions MmmitfeeA whicbSras unanimously adopted. The resolutions cite 39; waya in which tne uemocraw charged with unfair electionjrnethods, induing f' tifflng ballot $ boxes, ctarsea of absentee voters1 tickets, sick men voted aa absentee!, Non resident participation in elections, cl r 3 na 031 men ana i r-t r-'i r'i t LEGISLATURE There is little news of importance coming from our law makers at Ral eigh this week. Few bills of general interest have been passed since the publication of last week's issue of this paper. Last Saturday all the Republican members of the Legislature were in attendance upon the big Republican convention at Greensboro, and very little work was done on that day as the Democratic members had agreed with the Republican members that no bills in whieh they were inter ested in would be considered in their absence. . x Monday, however, the Republican members had returned from Greens boro and were occupying their seats in the Legislative halls of the State capitol, And when the bill to allow judges and registrars of elections $3 per day came, up for consideration in the House, the minority members in the lower branch of the Assembly lined up against it, and enough Democrats voted with them to defeat the measure. On the following day, however, the Democrats, after sleep ing over the matter one night, carried a motion to reconsider the vote by which the measure was sent to the junk heap, and passed the bill over the solid opposition of the Republi can members. It will now cost the taxpayers nearly two-thirds more to hold elections than it has cost there tofore. There has been no State-wide road law enacted, and none worth anything will be. Democratic mem bers of the law-making body have fallen out with each other over the road law matter, and are spending much valuable time explaining how conscientious they have acted on all questions pertaining to the road law proposition. The State-wide dog law has passed both Houses, but the Senate amend ed the House bill so as to require all dogs to wear collars. When the MHwas' returned to the House for concurrence on the part of that body, in the Senate amendment, the House promptly refused to concur in the amendment, and the bill is now hung up in the hands of a conference com mittee or elsewhere, and after all that has been said and done, our great" law-making body may fail to enact a dog law of any sort. The bill amending the Henderson county road law, was put through the House last week, but is now hung up in some Senate committee, and there is no telling what its fate will be. It may yet have to be referred to the peace commission. LARGEST VICTORY LOAN Secretary of the Treasury Glass has asked Congress to increase the amount of Liberty Bonds authorized but unissued to approximately $10, 000,000,000, and to give him broad powers to determine the interest rate and other terms of the Victory Liberty Loan, to be floated in April. He also has sought permission to is sue not more than $10,000,000,000 of treasury notes maturing within five years, and asked that the War Finance corporation be authorized for one year after the declaration of peace to make commercial loans on exports to facilitate foreign trade. Secretary Glass outlined the broad policies which the Treasury Depart ment hopes to follow in dealing with national financial subjects of the readjustment period, and called at tention to the fact that a bill grant ing the authority sought must be passed by the present Congress. Secretary Glass submitted a draft of a bill that would carry out the Treas ury ji Department's recommendations. Jn the bill outlined by the Secre tary of the Treasury, authority is sought to increase the Victory Lib erty Loan from $5,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 and to permit the Treasury Department to determine the . rate of interest, together with other features regarding the Bale of bonds. Wide authority is asked in the matter of extending credits to our allies in an effort to re-establish normal commercial relations. i ' ' ' challenges f ignored, . intimidation practiced and votes bought. The 'efforts of Morehead and Lin ney.. in the conduct ' of the last cam paign were praised. Resolutions de ploring: the death of Roosevelt and Tom Settle were adopted, -glowing tributes being paid both to the man from Oyster Bay and the jnaa from Asheville. It waiagreed that100, C?0 copies of the resolution! pertain ? 'ir,'-"-if-a;sT?T:,.llrrint. j: NEWS NOTES The University of Texas Ex Student's association is raising a fund of $1,000,000 with which to educate every Texas soldier who was wounded while serving with the colors in prance, and is without the finan cial: means required. SON IN GERMAN NAVY DEAD " Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the prima donna, received a letter in Kansas City, Mo., inf orming, her "of the death of her oldest sonj August Schumann-Heink, who died two months ago of wounds received in the German naval service. The noted singer, who "has four sons in the American service, did not cancel any of her engagements when she received the message from over seas. AIM REDUCE COTTON ACREAGE Cotton growers, merchants and bankers from Southern States have agreed to reduce the cotton acreage of the South to 25,000,000 acres dur ing 1919. They propose to produce food crops instead and thus maintain the price of cotton. ENEMY SANK 3,045 SHIPS At the outbreak of the war Great Britain had 20,000 merchant vessels, aggregating 21,000,000 tons. Of these 9,000,000 tons have been sunk by German submarines and mines. Allowing for replacements, there is a deficit of 3,500,000 tons. In all, 2,475- merchant ships were sunk by enemy action and an ad ditional 570 fishing vessels, making a total of 3,045 crews cast adrift. Merchant seamen who lost their lives in action total 14,700. RIGID DISCIPLINE ON RHINE Three thousand German citizens have been arrested by the British forces during their two months' oc cupation .of Cologne. The most com- rmtBfefchaTge is that oi-atealing..gox? ernment property. The British find little difficulty in enforcing the rule that all Germans must salute British officers and troops on the march. CAMP SHERIDAN MAY BE RE TAINED Alabama citizens who visited Sec retary of War Baker in f ashington to discuss the future of Camp Sheri dan were assured that the camp will not be dismantled for some time to come and it may be retained as a permanent army location. . ARMY OF 538,488 PLANNED A temporary army of 28,579 offi cers and 509,909 enlisted men is pro vided for in the annual appropriation bill reported to the House by the House Military committee. The measure carries a total of $1,117, 289,400. The committee said an army of the size recommended would be necessary during the period of de mobilization. ' WORKERS SEEK SIX-HOUR DAY British miners, railway men and transport workers, numbermg 1,500, 000, have begun a campaign for re forms. A committee of the miners' federation has demanded of govern ment leaders a six-hour day, a 30 per cent increase in wages and full pay to demobilized miners during un employment. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT'S SLAYER KILLED BY FALL IN GERMANY Christian Donhauser," the German aviator who shot down Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt over the German lines on the West front, was killed January 13 in Germany. This is the word sent to this country by Ben Braker, who was stationed at a flying jield in Germany and claims to have wit nessed the death of the German. He says Donhauser's plane became un controllable and plunged to the ground. 300,000 RUSSIAN NOBLES SLAIN IN YEAR BY REDS Three hundred thousand Russians of noble birth have been slaughtered by the Bolshevik regime.. In one month 'the reds have sentenced to death more Russians than .were exe cuted in 24 years under the rule of the czar. : 'These facto have been disclosed by Gen.: Count Spiridovitch, the Slav leader how in London. He added: "Lenlne is printing $25,000,000 in bank notes daily and is giving them out with both hands to his home and f : c!gn emiaaarie! to spread Bo " &&.$&P'&f$"tf.3 SLOW PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE A tentative ' plan of organization for a league of nations has been drafted and presented to the peace conference. Of course, it has not yet been adopted. The treaty-making department of the governments of the various allied nations must first consider it in detail; and various changes are likely to be suggested before any action can be taken. President Wilson is on his way to America. He expects to arrive at Boston next week, and the day after his arrival he will give a dinner at the White House to the members of the Foreign Relations committee of the Senate and will discuss the whole matter with them in detail on that occasion. He has requested that dis cussion of the proposed plan of organ ization of the league be postponed until then. In some countries the treaty-making power is vested in the executive department; but, in the case of the United State, our Constitution vests that power in the President and the Senate jointly. A treaty, to be binding on us, must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Some constitutional lawyers, who have studied the proposed draft, are of opinion that several amendments to our Constitution must be made before the plan can be adopted by us. The idea back of the plan is an excellent one, if it can be made to work. But that is a big "If." War worn Europe is desperately anxious for peace, and millions of people are eager to try out any scheme which seems to hold out any promise of preventing future wars. But in the minds of some of the ablest leaders there is a strong belief that simpler and more direct methods give surer promise. One view, which is held strongly in France and has attracted much support in the United States and England, &that, thejp-ecessairy and sufficient guarantee of peace woula be to hog-tie Germany. This view is clearly expressed by Prof. Ferdinand Larnande in a recent Associated Press dispatch from Paris. The dis patch is as follows: "There never has been any dis agreement on the fundamental prin ciples of a league of nations between the French delegates and the dele gates for other powers," said Prof. Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the Paris law faculty, and one of the French delegates on the league of nations commission today. "The only differences of opinion were those expressed by Leon Bour geois, with whom I am completely in accord. We do not seek an interna tional army for the purpose of mak ing war, but for the purpose of pre venting it. God knows we are a peaceful people and we have proved it during 44 years of mental anguish in the face of the military prepara tions going on east of us. "Further disturbances of the world's peace will come from Ger many alone. Germany's unsatisfied greedy appetite, her lust for pewer and domination, will return as soon as she feels strong enough to renew her aggressions. Inasmuch as Ger many some day will be admitted to the league of nations, what M. Bour geois and myself objected to was the necessity of being placed in the posi tion of taking Germany's word for anything. The German people have not progressed along the lines of' sincerity. "We have every confidence in the undertakings of the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and all other members of a league of nations. We are willing to accept their word, but we desired in the future to avoid the possibility of having no other guarantee than Germany's engage ment for our safety. "Henceforth Germany will strive to develop her recent chemical discov eries and devise new ones and new means of destruction in which gun powder, cannon and rifles will not en ter. The Germans will seek to profit by their development along the lines of chemical discoveries at the expense of other nations which are somewhat belated or are unwilling to search for new methods of destruction. "These means of destruction may be easily concealed ,and therefore it is not possible for us to accept the declaration of an interested nation in such matters when such an inter ested nation is Germany." Professor Larnaude added that with new developments in aerial war fare Germany might prepare secretly sufficient air forces ip destroy Paris in one day. "Surely when Germany enters a league of nations," Professor Lar naude continues, 'she will agree to sign every undertaking we desire; but we know what undertakings mean to the Germans. Did they not sign a treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium?" , Referring to the international army which the French desired formed, Professor Larnaude says: . "What we ask for was not an in ternational army in the strict sense of the word. ' We are too erateful for what America did for us in the pres ent war, to expect that aha would I rnln send her men by hundreds of TRIED TO KILL CLEMENGEAU Georges Clemenceau, the aged French Premier was struck three times by bullets in an attempt to as sassinate him Wednesday. One bul let entered the right shoulder and lodged under the left sVinnlrloi. mico. 'ing the spinal cord and the lungs. The other two bullets caused scarce ly more than abrasious of the skin on the right arm and right hand. The would-be assassin, Emile. Cot tin, is known as a dangerous an archist. He fired seven shots in all. In adition to three bullets which struck the Premier, two others passed through his clothing. The shooting took place on a public street while the Premier was riding in his auto mobile. Clemenceau was cool and fearless in the face of danger. While the shots were being fired at him, he got out of his automobile and started to walkHowards his house. Leaning on" the shoulder of an attendant, he walked up one flight of stairs to his bedroom, sat down in an armchair and began to joke with the servants who were in tears. Clemenceau is said to be doing well, and a speedy recovery is ex pected. Cottin and another man have had arrested. INCOME RETURNS DUE Returns on incomes and first pay ments must be made by March 15, according to instructions sent out by Daniel Roper, commissioner of the Internal Revenue bureau. While March 15 has been set as the date for the initial payment, it will not be necessary to pay more than a quarter of the tax, although the government has expressed the hope that all who are able will make full payment on that date in order that the work of eOecijraJnay be simplified as ' much as 'possible. The blanks! will be ready between February 15 and March 1. The rate or incomes up to $5,000 is six per cent, increasing on incomes above $5,000. Married men are al lowed an exemption of $2,000 and additional exemption of $200 for each child under the age of 18 years. Single men are granted an exemp tion of $1,000. An unmarried man whose income for 1918 was $1,500 will pay a six per cent tax on the excess over the $1,000 exemption al lowed him, or on $500, amounting to $30. ARMY OF 400,000 YANKS Marshal Foch has estimated that 400,000 American troops will be re quired to keep the "watch on the Rhine" until peace is signed. The French army in the occupation regions of Germany will consist of 800,000 men, while the British army, considering the continuance of its service elsewhere, will be let off with 200,000. Belgium has been asked to keep 100,000 men mobilized along the Rhine. Maintenance of an allied-American army of occupation of 1,500,000 men has been considered necessary to fore stall any Germany attempts to refuse to subscribe to the peace terms to be imposed by the allied and as sociated governments. PRESIDENT BURNED IN EFFIGY Sixtv-five members of the Nation al Woman's party were arrested in Washington after they had burned President Wilson in effigy in front of the White House as a protest against the threatened defeat of the equal, suffrage resolution. Several thou sand persons watched the demonstra tion, but there was little disorder. The Asheville Board of Trade has adopted resolutions asking that poachers on the government reserva tion, upon conviction, be punished until they feel it. thousands to future wars. But per haps we meant the protection of America'! great neet. we tnougnu it unfair that France should have to keep a huge standing army to pro tect herseli from uermany a attacKs. "It will be hard financially. It will be the harder because of our de pleted young manhood after losing a. million and a nail men aunng tne war." -T- Asked if the matter of the forma tion of an international army would be brouglrtkup again. Professor Lar naude replied that he waa unable to - ''But," he added, "the covenant baa not yet been signed. It baa merer? been presented and it is hs?rl to tc.I what d:3eu'"''.oni msy yrt f '?."