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Over The Top Now For War Sayings S tamps YADKIN VALLEY HE VOL. 9. NO. 12 $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1918. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. PRICE TWO CENTS. EMM PEKI ABBBSES Ready To CONGRESS HEARS T He Formally Tells Country of His Intention to Go to Peace Con ference in Europe. READY TO TURN RAILROADS BACK WHEN PLAN IS MADE His Trip to Europe is to Play His Full Part in Making: Good What the Soldiers Fought For. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 2. In an address to congress in joint session this aft ernoon President Wilson formally an nounced his intention to go to Paris for the peace conference, saying the allied governments had accepted the principles enunciated by him for peace and it is his paramount duty to lie present. The President said he would be in close touch by cable and wireless and that congress would know all he does on the other side. Referring to his announcement that the French and British governments have removed all cable restrictions oh the transmission of news of the con ference ty America the President said he had taken over the American cable systems on expert advice so as to make a unified system available. He expressed the hope that he would have the co-operation of the public and congress, saying thai through the cable and wireless constant counsel and advice would be possible. Railroad Problem Discussed Much of the address was devoted to the railroad oroblem for which the President said he had no solution to offer. He recommended a careful jtfrdv by congref s, saying it would be a dissservice to the.country and to the rn'lroado to permit a return to the old conditions under private nranage jti"t w'Mieu modification. The President declared he stood ready to release the railroads from pxwprrwnent control whenever a sat isfactory olan of readjustment could be worked 0"t. Pace Treaty By Spring Tie Pndnt said he hoped to see fowl declaration of peace by trety "hv the time sorngs corner." No defnite i)rorram for reconstruc ts can be outlined now Mr. Wilson pi'd. but a soon as the armistice was S'ened owrnment control of busi ness flM industry was released as far as "ossible He expressed the hope that con press would not object to con ferring uoon the war trade board or some other agency the right to fix ex port priority to insure shipment of food to fha starving peoples abroad. Taxation Is Discussed As to taxation the President en Horsed the plan for levying six billion cf dollars in 1919 and for notifying the public in advance that the 1920 lew will be four billion dollars. The new three year -naval building program was endorsed - because the President said it would be unwise to attempt to readjust the American "pro gram to a future world policy as yet undetermined. v Again Endorses Woman Suffrage .Paying tribute to the people con duct in the war, especially of the work of the worsen, he again appealed for woman suffrage by Federal amend ment. jVo Private Purpose in Going to gS-,- ' Europe. Or Deflarihcr that he had no "private thought tr purpose" in going to Eu rone but he regarded it as his highest di the President added: "Tt is now my duty to play my full j1 in makinr" good what they f,Vrw?-nn soldiers) offered their life's blood to obtain. democratic representatives arose d enplauded vociferously when the po;dfnt announced his Intention of going in person to the neace confer ep". The Republican side was silent r" so wre manv Senators on both sides of the chamber. The Priidnt concluded after peaV'nT 42 fintftes and left the .wVr nmHst enplanse limited to the Democratic aide. " Intermotion of his address for oom tiom which 'ed been threatened by FnoW!can members of the House did not materialise. W S S jowv, mm rop,M vr n v DISPATCHER DIED SUDDENLY - vi?m TV. 1. -ifnhn A. Mims, frie vf trn dispfr n Aslje v'le. rfied vestear t h? home 1n pvw!T. irK Mr. Mima wns one of t .VI Tflwsv met n the servW en ho leaves' many friends in this section who regret his death. PRESIDEN WILSON Turn Railroads Over When NO READY FOR 1920 RACE All He Needs Now is for Party to Say It Wants Him for the Pres idency. HIS RESIGNATION WILL HELP RATHER THAN HURT Next Two Years Expected to Be Rough Times for the Demo cratic Chiefs. By JUDSON C. WELLIVER. (Staff Correspondent of The Globe. Copyright, 1918, by C. Welliver) Washington, Nov. 29. Secretary McAdoo's resignation is not to be taken as eliminating him from the list of presidential possibilties ' for 1920. Quite the contrary. A close personal and political frend of the secrtary, who beyond question is in a position to know how Mr. McAdoo would wish his re signation to be construed, declares that the retirement does not all af fect the possibility of a presidential consideration. "Mr. McAdoo," he said, "has noth ing to d owith that. It is a matter for the party. If the party wants him, it can nominate him, and he will be f re to accept." Explaining the resignation lurcher he opined that the President is de termined not to run in 1920, and that if there ever was a chance of his doing so, it has been aided by the recent election and the outburst -of criticism called forth by the peace negotiations, the appeal for votes and the trip to Europe. 1 wo Bad Years Ahead. "The administration." continued the speaker, "has -ahead of it two years of uncomfortable times, with Republican congress to make all the trouble possible. Certanily there a no reason why the President, with the wonderful record he has made, should take the chances invovled in a third-term candidacy. He will retire in 1921 with a record of achievement in both domestic and international fairs that insures his place in history. The two years of bitterness, bicker ings, and party strife ahead will be most disagreeable, but they will pass and be forgotten, while the enduring fame of the President's great work will tower as a -monument. Look at Cleveland's last term, and at the place he occupies now in the list of presidents. "For Mr. McAdoo to remain in the cabinet meant that he must carry the heaviest part of the burden in this trying time, with nothing to benefit by it. He would be part of an ad ministration that is certain to go out under fire. Already his resignation has called forth tributes to his abil ity, energy, and importance in the administration. These have strongly emphasized the realization that if the Presidents not to run again, McAdoo is the strong man of the party. v His geography is right, as a New Yorker, and if the party wants him it can draft him. He will look better and better, too, as the months pass." The speaker was one of the many Democrats who have been amazed at the recent turn of the political tide against their party. Without trying to explain it, he seemed to assume that the President has lost his grip on both party and country. Con vinced that it all represented a fear ful injustice to the President, he ac cepted it, seemingly, as irreparable. He is rather too dazed, even yet to attempt an anaylisis of factors that produce the sudden reverse. His "Popularity" Exploded. But opinion is settling down to something like conclusions about what the eleotion results meant. To the question, "What happened so suddenly to dissipate the President's immense popularity ? the common est answer is that "It never" exist ed." The explanation is interesting, running somewhat thus: The President, first of all, was not the choice of the convention that nominated him in 1912. There had ben a nation-wide contest for delga tes, as a result of . which Champ Clark attained a majority of votes in the convention on sevral ballots. The two-thirds rale beat him, and Bryan and other forces made the convention nominate a man who was not its real choice. It was aythlng but a proof of popularity within the Democratic party. Then - cams the Republican split, and ths election. -Wilson seemed cer tain to win, and therefor might have been expected to win heavily, thanks fact he received a fewer votes than Mr. Bryan ever received. Likewise, ( Continued on Page Six.) THE FIRST CITIZEN VWiA 1 if ' I The American President appeared before Congress today and to morrow he sails for Europe to lend his influence to a just and lasting peace. BOLSHEVISTS RAID NORWAY LEGATION Carry Off Valuable Public Documents Belonging to the Swiss Legation. Break in Relations Is Demanded. (By Associated Press.) iLondon, Dec. 2. Bolshevists have entered the Norwegian legation at Poetrograd and removed documents belonging to Switzerland whose inter ests are under the protection of Nor way, according to a Copenhagen dis patch to the Mail. The Norwegian minister protested in vain and. the newspapers of hat country are demanding that Norway break regions with the Soviets gov ernment. -W S S- HOLLENGA FALLS HEIR TO A LARGE FORTUNE. Former FayettevilleChamher f Com merce Secretary Inherits Three to Four Million Dollars. Fayetteville, Dec. 1. Dan Hollenga, former secretary of the Fayetteville chamber of commence, who enlisted in an American hoeniatl unit and is now overseas, has fallen heir to a fortune of three or four million ( dollars, ac cording to a letter from a member of the unit. The news conies from Miss Sue McNeill, of this city, a nurse in base hospital No. 69, who writes to her mother, Mrs. John R. McNeill, ot this city, of Corporal Hollenra's good fortune. The bequest, which is said Fayettevilel man. Mr. Hollenga enlisted here last spring when a letter informed him of his aged mother's death in Holland, who was lost on a submarine ship. Whenever the Fayetteville contin gent in unit 65 feel lonely, says Miss McNeill, they sand for ''Dand," and the "amiable Dutchman's wit and rood humor soon .dispel ths blues. "Dan" still refers to "we" Fayetteville people, , ' - : Frost Predicted Tenlajht V , By the Associated Press) Washington, Dec 2 -Frest tonight in some districts, probably heavy, are indicated for the East Gulf and South Atkntic states tn ths weather bu reau's forecast today. W S 8 . Wise merchants pat their show win dows in the newspapers. . of OF THE WORLD PRESIDENT WILSON muss tstecntroi Senenty-Five Counties Driving to Reach Quota Slate's .Honor at Stake. The great Victory- War SavingS Drice7the purpose of which is to wind up the War Savings Campaign in North Carolina, has right-of-way this week. As many as seventy-five coun ties have put on this inenstive drive to secure, first, the amount needed to compete the counties' quota in pledges and, Becond, to get all outstanding War Savings pledges redeemed. There are three classes of people that the workers of this campaign are endeavoring to reach this week through a house-to-house canvass. The first is the men and women who arc able to buy, but who have not bought, $1000 in their own name, or in the ntrre of eah member of their family, o in the name of their corporations. The scconci class is those who have fiRn.-a pledge to by Savings Stamps hut who are able to double their pledges. The third class is those who have never pledged, and who want a record of what they have bought and are willing to but to put the state over. I he two appeals made by tno won it are tne necesity 'w raising the tte'& War Sav.iijjs allot rtut tc pay 4 no M&we's debt of minor, juu the sec ti-1 A" make the Vur Savsrv cMm puiftr a success and ih"'.uy r .x .i.e "ate a ii'v per cent War recorl 1 W S S VON HLNDENHLTRG HAS ISSUED PROCLAMATION Amsterdam, Dec. 1. Field Marshal von Hindenburg has issued a procla mation, according to fie Cologne Volks Zeitung, declaring that conflicts with 'the soldiers' and workman's councils will be avoided. He request ed at the same time that ths central government instruct ths councils to abstain from interfering with ' ths army (commanders. . No offense will be taken to the dis Hay of the red flag "if it is displayed in a worthy manner." sav ths Held marshal, and the same attends most be exoected froni the soldiers snd workmen's councils toward troops em blems." , , VICTORY MS. DRIVE THIS WEEK OHTSBSNH'C Readjustment Plan SALISBURY ELKS i HONOR MIR DEAD Annual Lodge of Sorrow Held in the Lodge Rooms and Exerciaea Car ried Out in Full To Honor Elks Who Have Joined the Colors. The members of Salisbury Lodge, No. 699, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, held its annual lodge of sorrow or memorial service Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. On account of the influenza no arrangements had been made in time for the holding of public service and the memorial was a private one and was held in the lodge Tooms. Exalted Ruler J. M. Miller presided nnd the services as prescribed by the errand lodge were carried out in full the roll call ot denarted tiki was read by Mr. W. C. Maupin, appropri ate odes wile sung and Mr. D. L. Ary made a talk and favored setting iside a day each year to honor the members of the local lodge who had ?nwred the call to the colors in the wold wide war. The exalted ruler an nointed a committee consisting of Messrs. R. A. Kohloss, J. II. Robert son and J. V. Wallace to take this matter up and also to have written on behalf of the lodge a letter to each local Elk who. has answered the call of his country and joined the colors. The lodge rooms were beautifully but appropriately decorated for the memorial service, this being done by Mrs. James Wreen, while Mrs. T. M. fgey had splendidly arranged the electrical effects. ' , .-- While the services were private they wets exceedingly appropriate ni itotenan, and impressive and were attended by a large part of the mem bership. The Salisbury lodge is fortunate in 'hut. it has not lost a member since 1916. W 9 S AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE OVERCHARGED BY DEALERS I.uxemburgers Takt Vengeane on Mer chants, Mostly Germans, Who Force Yanks to Pay High Prices. With American Army of Occupa tion, Dec. 1. Four American soldiers lispersed a mob of thousands at Esch ifter it had wrecked 28 shops in re venge for overcharging of Ameri ans. Most of these establishments were conducted by Germans. The 'oss is estimated at between four mil ion and seven million francs. The trouble began when a soldier vas charged two fane for a sake of chocolate and the same amount for an ipple. The Luxemburgers. who long ive protested against high prices, re puted the overcharging of their "de iverers." They entered the shop, de itroying its contents. Some one arised the cry to wipe out ill German establisments and the mob won grew to thousands, who began jystemtic destruction. A department store owned by a Hollander was wrecked and he re ported his loss to his government, lie was the only foreigner, other than Germans, whose property was attack ad. The anti-German spirit was su erseded by ordinary mob enthusiasm and the destruction finally was ex pended to the shops of Luxemburgers themselves. Two American lieutenants who ar ived while the campaigns of destruc tion was at its height, called upon four enlisted men to arm themselves with broken boards and disperse t crowd. The sildiers shouted to the excited men and women to go to their homes and they dispersed quickly, ac cepting -the command without ques tion. W S S E Skupshtina, or National Assembly, Votes Deposition and Favors Union With SerbiaKing's Family Includ ed in Deposition Act. ' (B Associated Press.) (London, Dec 2. King Nicholas of Montengro hss been deposed by the Skupshtina, the Montenegrin National Assembly, according to a message re ceived here from Prague today, The dispatch was sent from Prague by ths Czecho-Slovak press bureau by way of Copenhagen. It says the Skupshtina voted the deposition of the Vng last Friday and declared for a nnion of Montenegro with Serbia un der King Peter. The family of King Nicholas was is eluded in ths tf deposition, , . W 5 S t Women potato nickers in Mains earned from six to oirht dolars a day during the past season. - - MONTENEGRIN KING HAS BEEN D ED CONGRESS BEGINS CLOSING SESSION Framing of Legislative Program Held in Abeyance Awaiting the Appearance of the President. CUMMINGS WANTS COMM. SENT TO PEACE MEETING Rodenberg Presents Resolution Calling On Marshall to Ast as President in Wilson s Absence. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 2. -Problems of peace and reconstruction promise to occupy fully the third and last ses sion of the 65th congress which open ed today at noon to continue until it ands by limitation March 3. After a 10-day holiday following the long second war session most of the members of the Senate and House were on hand today to start the work of the winter. . Framing of the legislative program is held in abeyance to await the ad dress of President Wilson an hour after the opening. This program must cover an extraordinary congestion of busines, including many annual ap propriation measures, revenue legisla tion, investigations and miscellaneous bills. The usual formalities of the open ing of ths new session were hurried through because of ths tact that Pres ident Wilson is about to sail for Eu rope and desired to deliver his address on ths first instead of 4he second day of the session. " Co mm In gs Wants' Senate Committee Washington, Dec. 2. Senator Cum mings, of Iowa, Republican, intro duced in the Senate today a resolu tion proposing that a Senate commit tee of four Democrats and four Re publicans he sent to Francs for ths neace conference to keep the Senate 'nformed on questions arising there. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, de--lared he would onoose the resolution nd hoped H would he sent to the for ln relations committee and there killed. Wnnta Marshal to Act Am President Washington. Dec. 2. A ioint reso 'ution iodsv bv nVnresentative Roden berg at Illinois. Republican, propos ing that congress declare that the President's trin to Europe "consti tutes an inability to discharge the nowers and dutiesf the office , f.f President and that so long as he is way from the oonntrv the vice-presi-ieit act as President." The resolution was drooned into the hill knx withont discussion on the floor. It was referred to the judiciary committee. W R S Son of Salisbury Attorney Employed on New York Times Resigns to bo With Commission to Investigate Conditions in the Nar East Well Fquipped and Populsr Salisburian Wins Laurels. New York." Dec. 1. Thomas C T.fnn, of Salisbury, and a brother of former State Senator Stahle Linn, of Rowan county, has resigned his posi tion oi the editorial staff of the New York Times, where he has been en gaged since he graduated at Colura Ma University School of Journalism, n order to accompany a commission of American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief on an extensive tour of the Near East Mr. linn will go to write special articles for the commis sion on the conditons thst are found during the eight months' tour. The American and Syrian Relief commit tee will send two commissions to Tur key, the first to investigate condi tions and 'prepare the way for ths second commission of 200 special re lief workers, physicians, nurses, sani tary engineers and agricultural ex perts. . . . . Mr. Linn is a graduate of tne Uni versity of North Carolina, where he received the degree of A.- B. in1916, nd theo was the editor of ths col lege mgsife. Joining the staff of the New York Times on the completion f his cours at Columbia school of lovrnalwrn he mads : sroid en th iTtK)Iitn re. as V nsht of Southerners. On the sta of the Tin Wrf I. inn d'd oe of ths notable pies of work of the oast year.. v W H g -in - Vrs wow-n, were 'ctM to office in Kansas this year than in any pre vious year. . - ' TOM LINN GOES TO EUROPE SOON BBSS ' BSCS' ' '''''' gHMMH Is Plan Hatched Up to This End and Finally Result in the Return of the Former Emprojf, ; ''. MANY ARRESTS MADE AND OTHERS SUSPECTED Army Leaden Behind the Schema , , and They Instructed Prussian Officers Corps to Do Work. a (By the Associated Press) London, Dec. 2. A plot to restore Imperialism and 'secure the return of Emperor William has been discovered in Berlin, according to a dispatch from . Amsterdam to the Express. I According to the dispatch which was filed at Amsterdaf Friday the chief men behind the plot were Field Marshal von Mackensen, General von Bern and General Count Sixt von Arnim. It is said they instructed thv Prussian officers corps to carry on a pro-emperor agitation to begin im mediately after the demobilisation of the troops was completed. Large sums of money are said to have been placed at the disposal of the leadorsb by munition makers. -K The plot collapsed owing to the fact that a secret service agent over heard a telephone convehsation. Many, arests have been made in Berlin and other places,, while the government has long lists of suspects who planned to siecv memoer oi ne preami gov enment.i'lH:?'l-.fe:?:;;'r There la no direct evidence of Wit liam .Hoheniollern's connection with the nlot but it Js believed the outfine -. of the plan was brought to Berlin by two of nis suite who recently went to ' the Gorman capital for the ostensible purpose of taken the wife of the for mer emperor to Amerongen, Holland. BURlESONflRES ;.:..- General Manager of the Postal and Superintendent of Pacific Division J Dismissed for Insubordination. " s (By Associated Press.) f-' ' New York, Dec. 2.- Postmaster General Burleyson has dismissed from the government service Edward Reynolds, vice-president and general manager of tho Postal Telegraph and ' tame company, ana a. jj. riicnara son, general superintendent of the company's Pacific Coast division, for alleged insubordination against the government's plans to amalgamate ; the Postal and Western Union, ' ' , w s s . Hoy Lee Fisher of This County Has Arm Amputated Following Wounds ' Received in Action ht (Europe Do- fog Well. Ho Writes. moy Lee r isner, son or nr. and . Mrs. John L. FishejL of Rockwell, has been wounded in Francs and is now in the hospital recuperating following : the amputation of an arm. Young Fisher is with Co. K, of the 11th in fantry and has been in the great drive since July having landed in May. He was wounded on 20th of Oc- . tober. - - ' In a letter to his mother Young Fisher says: r ! , "I was wounded Oct. . 20 and my right arm had to be amputated Just above the elbow. I am sitting up Writ- . in this letter but they will not allow me to get up yet. Have American doc. tors and nurses waiting on me. My wound is beginning to heal, and I am getting along well. Now dear mother don't worry about me for I am well cared for. WiU be back to ths States . by Christmas or soon after." , , W ,8 S . A Farewelr. Reception. ; This evening at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. J- D. Norwood a re. ceotion WiU be given to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lambeth by their friends. No formel invitations have been issued . but their friends of the Methodist ehurh and tho city are cordially in- -vited to attend. - : WSS For. receiving nearly drowned per sons a doctor in Europe has invented a table to which a patient can t strapped and swung head dowr.w i to empty his lungs. . 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