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VOL. XSXX.-No. 43
WILSON TO SPEAK
AT NEW YORK MARCH
I THEN TAKE SHIP
Final League of Nations
Address in US. at
Metropolitan
MARCHES IN WAR PARADE
Washington Honors Ex
pfutive and Returning
Warriors Conference
With Democratic Com
mittee at White House
(By the United Press)
Washington, (Feb. 27.-P,lans are
practically complete for the Presi
dent to speak at New York March
4 it is stated at the White House
The address will probably be deliver
ed at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Immediately thereafter he will go
aboard the George Washington for
the return to France.
Parade at Washington.
Washington, F'b. 27.-JThe cap
ital is ready for a great demonstra
tion in honor of the President and
returning fighters. .Headed by Pres
ident Wilson, .soldiers, .sailoTS and
marines and war workers will march
up Pennsylvania Avenue past a re
viewing stand in front of the White
House. j K,f
Political Conference.
Washington, IFctb'. 27. President
Wilson has invited members of the
Democratic National Committee to
a luncheon at . the White House to
morrow, after wViich he will con
fer with them on party matters.
The President does notplan to do
liver any address to the committee
men but simply to confer with them
informally about the general situa
tion throughout the country."
League
of Nations
Congr
ess at Atlanta
Friday and Saturday
Atlanta, Feb. 27. Men and wom
en from e,very part of the South
have been invited to hear the fore
most statesmen of America discuss
the problems of the league of na
tions 'before the Southern Congress
of the League of Nations, which
meets here tomorrow and Saturday.
All sessions of the congress are
open to the public. It is predicted
that the Auditorium-lArmory, seat
ing G.500 people, will be crowded at
each session.
Lx-Bresident William Howard
Taft, president of the League to En
force Peace, will preside. The
speakers' list includes Dr. Henry van
Dyke, James W. Gerard, former am
bassador to Germany; Henry Mor
gnnthau, former ambassador to Tur
key, and others. '
NAVAL BILL IS
TO SEN.
(By the United Press)
Washington, fbt 27. The
naval appropiraions bill, car
rying about $900,000,000, mas
favorably Reported 'to the Sen
ate today.
REPORTED
OLD REGIME MEN STILL HOLD JOBS AT
BERLIN; THEY GREW
By Frank J. Taylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlm. Feb. 1 (By Iail). In Ber
lin one is surprised to find the large
""""r oi men of tlte old govern
ment who are still holding their po
Jtior.j under thrf socialist Tegime.
Tne foreign office and practically
H of the state dap1lgts have
about the same staffs k rheid office
curing the war.
Caus for Suspicion.
According to the former employes
and representatives of the new go
mment, the fact that men who
served the militaristic party are
now working with the socialists ia
ot to be looked upon with suspic
J0" by the" Allies.
Germany the departments of
ate are ra upon a system where
CLEMENCEAU GETS A
CROSS AND WEEPS
(By the United Press)
Paris, Feb. 27. An unnamed
poilu has sent Premier Clem
enceau his croix de guerre with
the following letter: "You have
riot been given the croix do
guere. Here is mine bearing
guerre. Here is mine bearing
palms." ' Clemenceau is report
ed to have wept when he read
the letter.
ANARCHISTS NOW IN
(By the United Press)
Berlin, Feb. 26 (Delayed). An
archists, charging that the Spur-
tacans are too conservative, have
started a counter revolt in Germany.
Reports from Dusseldorf state tuat
the anarchist? have overthrown the
Spartacans and have seized ntrol
of the city. Dusseldorf only recent
ly passed into the hands of the
Spartacans.
YOU MAY DATE LETTERS
YEAR ONE AFTER 1919
French Academy Wants Peace Con
ference to Rearrange Calendar-
Would Have 13 Months Extra
Day a Holiday
(By the United Press)
Paris.' Feb. 10 (By Mail). The
peace conference is to be called upon
to reform the calendar.
The request is to be filed by the
French Academy of Sciences with
the technical authority of N. Des-
landres. director of the French ob
servatory at Meudon.
If the academy plan is accepted,
next year probably wall be the year
1. ,..'...''
Time will be reckoned, not from
the birth of Christ, but from the
signing of the peace treaty creat
ing the new world.
Most of the world' now accepts
he Gregorian calendar, but much in
ternational confusion arises from
the fact that Russia and the Balk
ans use the Julian calendar, in which
the year differs from the Gregori
an year by about 10 days. J. ne
peace conference will be asked to
inroke one calendar Icomipulsory or
official throughout the world.
The French (Academy plan pro
poses a year of 13 months, each
month having 28 days. The "Goth
day in ordinary years and 3C5th and
36Gth days in leap years would be
holidays, not included in any momh.
Under this plan a given day of
the month always would fall on the
same day of the week,
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF
ISLANDS ON FURLOUGH.
(Special to The Free Press)
New York; F'oty 27. Francis
Burton Harrison, governor-general
of, the Philippine Islands, has ar
rived in New York after a 58-day
trip of 11,000 miles. He is here on
a six months' furlough, the first af
ter six years spent in the Philippines.
Governor-General . Harrison reports
that the islands are more .prosper
ous in every way than they have ev
er been before. "The people of the
Philippines are loyal and devoted to
the United States. They oversub
scribed all the liberty loans and do
nated to the government . one de
stroyer and one submarine."
UP IN THE PLACES
by a man starts in one as a young
ster and grows up with the depart
ment. His views will not keep him
out of office.
Efficiency.
Though the radicals would throw
all these men out, because they are
democrats rather than socialists,
the majority socialists have taken a
broader view in the interest of keep
ing the government machinery func
tioning. Numerous idepartmenta operate
now without active heads practically
as well as they did tinder the old
regime. A large part of the effic
iency is due to good organization,
but the men trained by the old gov
ernment are to be
credited chiefly 1 24
for department operation under the
present trying circumstances. ,.
KINSTON, N. G.
PALMER APPOINTED
ATTORNEY - GENERAL
OF UNITED STATES
Enemy Property Custodi
an Will Succeed Thom
as Gregory
AN ALL-WOOL DEMOCRAT
New Cabinet Member Penn-
sylvanian Norman Hap
tfood Nominated for Di
plomatic Post at Copen
hagenIs Journalist
Was'r'iington; Feb. 27. President
Wilson has .nominated A. .Mitchell
Palmer, present alien property cus
todian, as attorney-general sue-
ceeding Thomas Gregory, whose re
sanation takes effect March 4.
Palmer's home is at Stroudsburg,
Pa. He has been prominent in Dem
ocratic politics many years.
tlapgood Minister to Denmark.
Washington, Feb. 27. .President
Wilson today nominated Norman E.
Hapgood, former editor of Colliers'
Weekly, American minister to Dim
mark.
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COTTON GOES UP.
Ne" York, Feb. 27. With the
opening firm, (he outlook for re
duced acreage on late planting
cotton was responsible for an ad-'
yance today of $1.25 a bale in
October. It is being realized
that the next crop is most likely
to be a short one.'
ANOTHER STRIKE
THREATENED.
New York, Feb. 27. That
New Y6rk harbor may again be
tied up by a strike of marine
workers is the threat of boat"
men who are dissatisfied with
the award of V. E. Macy, um
pire of the National War Labor
Board in the harbor dispute.
AVIATOR KILLED.
London, Feb. 27. Lieutenant
Lee, an American aviator, was
killed today, when his 'plane fell ,
800 feet as he was flying along
the Eastern Scottish coast.
Princess Patricia is
Bride of Officer and
a Princess No Longer
(By the United Press)
London, Feb. 27. Princess Patric
ia, grand-daughter or ijueen vie
:or-iav was married here today to
Commander Alexander .Ramsay, of
the British navy. . Coincident' with
her marr'airo. Princess Pat, as she
is known in A:nrica, voluntarily re
nounced her title as princess and
hereafter will be known as Lady
Ramsay.
Ram?av wooed the princess des
pite- .objections of her father, tne
Duke of Connaught, brother of the
'ate King Edward and uncle of the
present king of England.
The wedding ce-remony was car
ried out with' as little pomp as pos
sible, -because . of the death last
month of Prinee John, youngest son
of the King and Queen.
Besides the King and Queen, those
present included the crown princess
of Sweden, the ex-king of Portugal,
ambassadors and diplomatic repre
sentatives and the leading nobility
of Great Britain.
The bridesmaids were: Princess
Mary, Princess Ingrid of Sweden,
Princess Maud of Fife, Lady Mary
Cambridge, Lady Helen Cambridge,
Lady May Cambridge, Lady Ida
Ramsay and Lady Jean Ramsay.
COTTON
Futures
quotations Thursday
Open. Close.
22.G9. 22.90
22.00 22.01
22.00 21.32
,. ' 21.35 20.20
were:
March
May . .'
Jury
October ,.
Local receipts to
3 o'clock were
about 20 bales, prices ranging from
1-4 downward. .
(Buy . War-Savings Stamps)
SATURDAY MORNING,
Despair Will Grip the World
If America Fails to Do Duty
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 27. This i
what the President at his White
House dinner last night told the
congressmen about the league of na
tions: Serious complications will occur
in the near future unless (he league
is formed.
Despair will grip the world if
America goes back on the league
plan.
The league will extend and,
SEVERAL SOUTHERN
GOVERNORS GOING
(By the United Press)
Atlanta, Ca., Feb. 27. The gov
ernors of several Southern States
announce that they will attend thejing accepted the President's invita
emifercnce of governors with the jtion to come to Washington next
President on March .'! and 4. Dorsey Monday and Tuesday for u eonfer
of Georgia, Cooper of South Caro- lence on the unemployment situation.
Una, Catts of Florida and A. II. J Other acceptances are. exported. Gov-
Roberts of Tennessee have already
made their intentions public.
Twenty-eight Cheese
Factories Running in
Western Carolina Soon
(Special to The Free Press)
West Raleigh, Feb. 27. The farm
ers' cooperative cheese factories of
Western Carolina are now facing
one oi ineir most prosperous sea-
sons. Twenty-eight are ready to be-
gin operation in the spring, 24 of
hese having been in operation and
four having been organized and.
constructed during the past winter,
Most of the output will be sold in the
Southern Slates, as one of the lead- .
mg packing concerns has contracted :
for the entire output of nine-tenths j
of the factories, the cheese to be';
delivered at, Salisbujx .
According to R. Farnham,
cheese specialist of the ' Agricultur-
al Extension Service, who works in
this section, the quality of cheese
made and the price received is about
the same as for the leading Wis
con-sin brands.
DQNTLET UP NOW, IS
WARNING TO FARMERS
Should Follow Up 1918's Good
Start Need for Tobacco and Cot
ton Curtailment , and Production
of More Food and Livestock
(Special to The Free Press)
Raleigh, .Feb. 2G.-vBecause the
war is practically over, many peo
ple think that they can let down on
the high standard of proficiency at-
ained on the farms last year, and
the year previous. This is a mis
take. Simply because things Were
'got going" last year is no reason
why they should be left to them
selves thi year. The present con
dition of the cotton market and the
vital need for planting otier crop'-'
this year is a real problem that needs
the best , thought. The. fact that
many other states are goinrr in i p
!he business of growing tobacro, ar.,1
that the trusts have on band a boun
tiful supply, should Warn farmers
that too much tobaccon can be grown
this year, says the Agricultural Ex
tension Service in a statement to
farmers. ;
There is still need for food, how
ever. The farm family will need
food all the year around. All the
families in the towns and cities, and
in other countries, will need food.
North Carolina needs to use fer
tilizer more intelligently. Lands
need more lime. Livestock in the
3hapo of pure bred pigs, blooded
dairy cows, pure bred beef cattle,
sheep, and draft horses can all be
raised in North Carolina. There are
a number of problems that now re
quire careful, earnest attention.
"Don't let up, but keep up the jsame
spirit that helped to win the war
and make a winning on the farm."
BIG ADVANCE MADE
BEFORE ARCHANGEL
(By the United Press)
London,, Feb. 27. An official dis
patch from Archangel reports that
the Aliied forces advanced 26 miles
on the Murman front Sunday, in
flicting heavy casualties on the
bolsheviki.
MARCH 1, 1919
strengthen and not destroy the Mun
roe Doctrine.
Disarmament depends largely upon
the good faith of nations.
The United States would be re
luctant lo become mandatory over any
nation.
Great Britain will have five votes
in Ihe full league, only one in the
executive council.
Ireland will not be represented as
a separate nation
24 GOVERNORS HAVE
ACCEPTED THE BID
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 27. Sixty may
ors and 24 governors had this morn-
emor Davis of Virginia is among
those promising to attend.
May Have Assailant
of Duplin Youlh on
Roads of Mecklenburg
Pcwell Quinn, 20, shot and badly
wounded by one of four men who
'waylaid him in the, .Beulaville sec-
tion of Duplin County several weeks
a)r0i ,s still living, with his chances
for reCoverv slirht. Quinn was shot
m the back, a bullet lodging in the
vicinity of vital organs.
Meekler.bursr Oountv authorities
believe they have in custody Arthur
Sewcll, charged with the . actual
shooting, a couin of the victim, and
another of the party. Two of the
men surrendered after the attack.
sCWoll and the fourth man fled in
'an automobile. - They are said to bo
serving on the roads in Mecklen-
burg Ah officer" will be sent up-
state to look over the prisoners.
Quinn und Sewell, the latter a dis
charged sailor, were rivals for a
young woman's favor.
Name Scimds Nice Rut
May Net Get Society's
Members a Great Deal
(By the United Press)
London," Feb. 12 (By Mail).
Womwi engineers here are putting
up a fi.'rht to keep their jobs.
During the war hundreds of Brit
;sh women took a course of intensive
training to equip themselves for the
new work of munition-making. The
men's unions did not welcome the
women's invasion, but owing to the
.shortage of war material and labor
they were forced to submit to it.
The g overnment . training schools
now have closed their doors to wom
"ti and they are in danger of being
ousted from this ' branch altogether.
Tim women are determined to enter
the competition and have organized
hehwelves ' into the Women'i En
gineering . Society.
An Over Supply of
Clerical Labor is
Noted by Government
, (Special to. The Free' Press).
Wla ihi ngto rijr&ibaW7. lAcc 3rd i ng
to Captain Felton, who is handling
the discharged soldiers, the Employ
ment Service is having little diffi
culty placing in employment men
witn trades, uut Uitiiculty is being
experienced in placing. thoe who
merely have clerical ability and
training.
There must be more vocational
education. More people must be
taught to do creative things. For
such, there is a ready welcome by
mployers. The Federal Board for
Vocational Education here is teach
ing disabled soldiers to oo creative
tilings, to work despite their handi-
aps, in the skilled trades, which af
ford steady employment at good
wage.-,, and is having no difficulty
whatever in placing men. who are
taking courses in creative work. The
really skilled and able artisan is
rarely affected by slack times, and
is always sure of a job.
ENEMY"
PROPERTY
IN PHILIPPINES SOLD.
Manila, P. I., .Feb. 2. The last of ,
the enemy-owned property in , the
BOLSHEVIK! ARE TO
STRIKE AT ALLIES
ON ALL BIG FRONTS
Preparing: for Decisive Ac
tion -Attack Will Be
Started in Archangel
Country Orders Captur
ed by Troops
(By the United Press)
London, ,Vehl 27.- Captured ord
ers of their supreme military com
mission today revealed that the bol-
sheviki are planning a combined of
fensive on practically all fronts.
The attack will be started in the
Archangel region and bo extended
rapidly to the western, southern and
eastern fronts.
Only the Murmansk and Finnish
fronts will bo excluded from the
loffensive. Prostrations are being
male for decisive fighting.
YANKEES COUNTER A
NASTY HUN TRICK
Officers
Coblcnz Possess Them
German Artillery Book
selves
and Are Able to Prove Age of
Ordnance Turned Over
By Webb Miller
(United Press Stuff Correspondent)
With the Americans on the
Rhine, Feb. 4 (By Mail). tfn hand
ing over the heavy artillery to the
American authorities under (the
terms of the armistice, the Germans
attempted to work a Teuton trick
or two by tendering guns of anti
quated models. The German officers
were frankly surprised and discon
certed by the intimate knowledge of
-jGerman gun models displayed by
certain American artillery officers.
When the ; Third " Army " first en
tered Coblenz the artillery experts
found a young (German lieutenant
remaining behind to' turn over cer
tain guns abandoned by the German
army. A lieirtervant-colonel of
tho Ordnance Department engag
ed the young officer in an argument
over the models of guns, and insisted
that the German must produce an
artillery handbook to iprove that the
guns were of recent model. The
lieutenant hied himself .away to Ber-
lib and returned with the hand-
book and proved his point easily,
But the handbook remained in
American hands. The valuable 'n -
formation it contained concerning
German guns was translated and,
studied. .
Then, when the party of Gjrman
artillery officers from Essen blithe
ly showed up and tried to palm off
all their junk guns upon the .Ameri
can army, they ran into a surpris
ing array of knowledge about gun
model 1. They leouldn't understand
it, because they never 'had credited
le Americans with ," any great
amount of thoroughness.
Tho . handbooks also . contained a
t on about the manufacture of b 2
guns and steel processes used by the
Essen plant.
Philippine Islands has been sold, the
sales amounting approximately to
$4,000,000. A
EAST CAROLINA COUNTIES TO GET ON
PAR WITH WEST IN RAISING OF PORK
During the next faw years the
eastern third of North Carolina will
, . . ,. ,
become one of the great meat-pro--
, '
ducng sections of the country, ac-
cording to Dr. Frank D. Owen, Fed-
eral animal expert in charge of
production work in the State. Mid-
die Western districts having five
pigs to one in this territory' will lose
.their lead rapidly now that cholera ;
i3 being vigorously combatted in
Eastern Carolina, until within a
(comparatively short time this sec-
tion will have as many porkers to
the area as any in the United States.
There is untold wealth in the-indus-'stock
try, and local farmers are beginning
to realize He possibilities.
Surprises Coming.
Lenoir is the farthest advanced
county in the business in this re-
g'ion. Greene County is to be
jciearoa.oi cnoiera Beginning marcn
11. By the first of next January, Dr.
I ' 1 w , 1.
Owen is confident, the results of
Inderal eradication (work in these
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BILL IS
PASSED BY SENATE
ON FINAL
Goes to House for Adoption
of Amendments, Which
Are Few
WAREHOUSE DILL PASSED
Measure Imposes Tax of
25 Cents Bale on Cotton.
Department of Agricul
ture to Supervise Storage
System
(By W. J. Martin)
LENOIR COUNTY BILLS.
Raleigh, Feb. 27. Bills were in
troduced by Representative Daw-
son today to amend tne cnarter oi
the City of Kinston; authorize Le
noir County to issue bonds and to
provide for the payment 'therefor;
relating to the salaries of the coun
ty officers of Lenoir County; re
quire custodians ot money arising;
from the sale of real estate and to
be held subject to the orders of
court to give bond for an accounting
for such money, and to authorize
and empower the County of Lenoir
to issue bonds to construct and build
public roads of the county.
Raleigh, Feb. 27. The .revenue .
bill was passed on final reading by
the Senate today and sent to the
House for concurrence in amend
ments, of which there are very few.
The Senate voted down an amend
ment offered to imipose a 15-cent
fee on notaries public and magis
trate. One of the very few im
portant amendments made by the
Senate was reduction of the tax on
dealers in revolvers from $100 to
$25.
The Senate passed the statewide
cotton warehouse (bill that came
from committee as a substrtute for
the Cooper bill. It provides for
self-sustaining warehouses under the
patronage of the State Department
of Agriculture. A tax of 25 cents
per bale is provided to create - a
guarantee fund and take care of ths
cost of buildings, the State being
free from any liability.
J Special tax and other local bills
requiring a separate day of roll calls
to ' pass poured in today, especially
lin the House, this being the last day
Ion which members can Ibe certain
that such bills can get through both
bouses. The (GOMlay limitation of
the Assembly expires Saturday,
March 8.
SOVIETS ESTABLISH
A SAXON REPUBLIC
"c
Amsterdam, ovies
return. .. viu.u.n
dispatches -from Berlin. Railway
traffic has been halted in that state,
A general strike is reported at
Leipzig.
two counties will have made such
an impression on farmers through-
'out the section that there will be a
, , , , ,
general demand for Federal assist-
a)lce Work gomewbat aimilar wa3
conducted in three widely separated
hog-'counties in the Middle West five
! years ago. Experts reported that
; while the mortality rate decreased
from 30 to less than three per cent.
in the counties cleaned up, it in-
creased in surrounding areas. About
j.30 free range countiee in this' State
j are (ineligible for Government aid.
'Many of these are in the eastern
Isection. Dr. Owen believes that the
law counties are going to sur-
prise the meat industry by their
gains during the next decade. . ,
Serum (Refrigerator.
A refrigerator feeing installed at
the Courthouse here will keep cool
anti-cholera ' serum enough to vacci
nate thousands of pigs. First vac
cinations in the Government's new
campaign in Greene will be made
immediately.
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