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.''1 Volume XlJV LENOIR, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919 Price, Fire Cants tlv Copy No. 41 PEACE TREATY RATIFIED District Conference to be Held Here Next Week. R-M, SUPER-D1RIBIBLE IS by IS IN THE UNITED STATES Resolution Adopted by Vote of 20S to 115 To Lift Blockade Next; "To Enter Upon 40-Year March Through Deert" Completes Trip from Scotland to Mineola, N., After an Aerial Voyage of 108 Hours and Twehre Minute Arrired at Hoboken Pier Tuesday Pier Tueaday Afternoon and 1 Greeted by "Big Crowds; Full Text of Speech W O . The resolution ratifying the peace treaty was adopted by the German national assembly Wednesday by a vote of 208 to 115, says a dispatch from Weimar. The text of the ratification resolu tion as introduced in the national as sembly consisted of two clauses read ing as follows: "The peace treaty between Ger many and the allied and associated powers signed on June 28, 1919, and the protocol belonging thereto, as well as the agreement relative to the occupation of the Rhineland, signed the same day, are agreed to. "This law comes into force on the day of its promulgation." Most of the ministers were present at the meeting of the national assem bly and there was a full attendance of deputies. Dr. Hermann Mueller, foreign minister, in introducing the government bills, explained that the hastening of the ratification order would bring about the lifting of the blockade. "We are about to enter upon a 40 years' march through a desert," he said. "I can find no other term for the path of suffering fulfillment of the treaty prescribed for us." Dr. Peter Spahn, leader of the Catholic center party, said: "We agreed to the treaty under hard com pulsion, to save ourselves from anar chy and to preserve the fatherland from internal ruin." Herr Kreizig, socialist; Prof, that the day of Germany's liberation Seheucking, democrat; Dr. Traub, na tional party, and Herr Kahl, people's party, all violently protested the in justice of the treaty, and declared that the day of Germany's liberation would co.ne. These speeches were greeted with such turbulent applause and hand cvlapping that the president of the assembly, Herr Fehrenbach, called attention to the fact that handclap ping was against the rules and threat ened to have the galleries cleared. The debate, however, proceeded, with similar speeches by othr membrs and similar applause. The national party introduced an amendment in favor of ratifying with the express reserve that the sanction of international law experts of re pute should first be obtained con cerning articles 227 to 230 and that a neutral court should be created to investigate the responsibility for the war. Part 7 of the neace treaty, com prising articles 227 to 230, relates to penalties. Article 227 arraigns the former German emperor for a "su preme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treat- ties." The other article relates to the bringing before military tribunals of . persons accused of having commit- ted acts in violation of the laws and ! are 43 preachers, pastors and local, customs of war; to the handing over!nj 134 jav dewates, six of the lay of these persons by Germany and to an undertaking by the German gov ernment to furnish all documents and information of every kind bearing on these offenses and violations. In the course of the debate Presi dent Fehrenbach protested against Alsace-Lorraine being torn from Ger many. He said that the treaty of 1871 simply made good what had been taken from Germany 150 years before. He. hoped that the people of Alsace-Lorraine would preserve their German character, customs and civilization. Ludendorff Again Heard From Gen. Ludendorff haa given an in terview to a Milan newspaper in which he says: "It is above all, a foolish peace. De- cause it contains the germs of its own destruction. An attempt to sup press the German people will have the opposite effect. It will strength en its will to preserve itself. Ludendorff went on to say that the war was lost not only to Germany and Austria, but also by the entente, which was unable to work out a stable peace. ,. MEN URGED TO RETAIN THEIR WAR INSURANCE Men who "earned the right to gov ernment insurance" are urged by President Wilson to retain their poli cies permanently, converted into such forms as they personally desire. In a wireless message from the George Washington directed to the "nation's fighting forces" and made public by the war risk bureau, the President "If it were possible I should wel come the opportunity to speak to each of you who, by service in the great war, earned the right to gov ernment insurance, and urge the wis dom of continuing this unusual pro tection to your dependents and your selves. The government will trans form your policies, in whole or in part, from term insurance, arranged as a war measure, to such permanent forms as you may desire, and I urge your acceptance of the government's protection which the generous terms of these policies afforded. You have an exclusive right to this insurance because you served your country in its great crisis, and I am sure that in the years to come you will consider your government insurance policy aa a physical reminder that in the war .r, V. - witn uermany you wore me unuorm of your country." i m ; ill Si j l iriliii 1 ; -, - First The Statesville District Conference will convene in the First Methodist church of Lenoir next Monday, the 4th, at noon, and continue until Wednesday at noon. There will be sessions of the conference each morn ing and afternoon, and preaching services at 11 a.m. and at 8:30 p.m. The public generally is invited to all of these services. Rev. W. A. Newell, the wide-awake i and able presiding elder of the did- trict, will preside, which fact assures ' a lively and interesting session throughout. The territory embraced by the con ference js from Moorejville to Li jnojr embracing the counties of Ire dell. Catawba and (. aldvvell, with a membership of more than 13,000. Numerically this is the largest dis trict of the Western North Carolina Conference, except one the Win ston. There are twenty-five pastoral charges in the bounds of the district. In the Centenary drive the appor tionment for this district was $194, 000, and the final round-up amounted to about $240,000. Mr. Horace Sisk j j of Lenoir, was the district director 'in this campaign, and to his energy Und .rirMti iv i n ir ubilitv mllph CTPllit ja ,jue Rplnmrirn?- to this conference there delegates being women. A number THE STATE'S HIDDEN WEALTH ( Charlotte Observer) The Lenoir News-Topic brings in formation of the possible revival of silver mining in Caldwell county, where in years past that industry flourished, but which had been of so long a period of abandonment that all traces of former activities were obliterated. It appears that an Ohio silver mining expert who had been prospecting in Alabama there learned of the possible better prospects in tne once-productive fields of Caldwell county and was wise enough to make investigation. I he Lenoir paper says this prospector has notonly uncover- ed the original mine, but has "struck" 15 paying veins within a radius of five miles. The prospect appears so good as to give encourageemnt to the organization of a company to work the mines. The hopes of the Observer are revived. So long as the State has to depend upon the perfunctory "investigations" of government "ex perts" sent out at intervals to make search for gold and silver, tin, copper and coal and oil in North Caro lina, just so long will nothing be done. The latest report carried back to Washington by governmental tin "experts" showed on its face that the investigators were prejudiced an ad vance against this section and did not want to make a favorable report, dis counting whatever of evidence of tin ores that might have been brought to their attention. It has been the same way with the gems and minerals in general. Tiffany of New York has found an abiding source of supply in the western sections of the State of the finest gems and he makes contin ual draft on these gem fields, taking particular pride in showing . visitors to his establishment the array tf gems which come from this State. With the minerals of various kinds, some of which were in painful de mand by the government in war days, it is the same way. Individual par ties find abundant supplies here, where the government-appears to overlook the opportunity. It actually favors importation of minerals from foreign countries that are here in greater quantities and of infinitely better quality and variety. The counties contiguous tOvMecl lenburg could furnish mineral sand 1 and pottery clays to supply the na- Methodist Church, Lenoir, of prominent visitor? from our schools and connectional work are expected to be present also. The Lenoir people are looking for ward with pleasure to the gathering and entertainment of these religious from workers. The char; s of Caldwell county, with their pastors and delegates, are as follows: Dudley Shoals Rev. R. C. Reavis, J. W. Looper. G. F. Sherrill, A. C. Flowers, W. K. Poovey, D. C. Flow- ers. I Granite Falls Rev. G. II. Allen, D. H. Warlick. D. W. Yount, D. V. 1 Drum, P. S. Moore, H. C. Forbes. W. H. Nelson. Lenoir Station Rev. R. D. P'i.t rill. K. C. Ivev, J. P. Blackwell. G. M. Gi forth, K. L. Steele, J. L. Nelson. Lenoir Circuit Rev. Klmer Simn s!,:i. G. T. lVrkins, K. C. Ilouck. J. i G. Under, II. C. Sudderth, G. A. , Ti:;tle. j .South I.enoir-Whitnel Rev. D. A. i Lewis. U. W. Shell, N. M. Hilton, A. L. Mallard, N. E. Johnston, G. II. I Cra - Rhodhiss Rev. John H. Green, II. B. Huss, E. A. Rockett, T. C. Leonard. L. 1. Costlier, L. P. Killian, R. L. Sullivan. North Lenoir Rev. J. M. Price, ; H. II. D. Hoover, M. A. Williams, J. ! R. Steele, G. C. Bush, J. R. Parker, i Rev. Ivey Hickman. THE CROWN PRINCE SAYS "CAN HAVE MY DEAD BODY" "The allies can have my dead body; I will myself decide on my life Samuel T. Ansell of the judge advo or death," the former German crown cate general's department that the princ eis quoted as having said in din- ,case of every military prisoner now cussing a possible demand for extra- under sentence be sent to the board dition, according to a dispatch from of review, of which he is head, for a Amsterdam. This statement was said re-examination, has been disapproved to have been made to a Dutch official by Secretary Baker. Certain specific who talked daily with the former cases will, however, be examined ,CF.W" P1"100 According to this om-1 cial Frederick Hohenzollern is in ex cellent health. He takes motorcycle trips daily and frequently visits both the rich and the poor on the island of Wieringen. tion, but the production of this sand is killed by the tariff-tinkerers. The government could draw upon North Carolina for an appreciable quantity of copper, iron, coal and tin, to say nothing of goid and silver, if it would only take the trouble to come for it, abandoning reliance upon the reports of official agents, for it is a fact es tablished by experience that private investors following upon the heels of the "expert" investigators have found what the experts have reported does not exist. The mica deposits in the western part of the State could be developed into a commercial supply that would make the country inde pendent of any other source, and yet what the experts have seen is not the possibilities under ground, but the surface scrap heaps. In some sections of Jackson county the public roads are in natural macadam of mica. It is in that section) too, that the public highways are top-soiled in the hard est of abrasive material, being the outcropping of the garnet beds. The government has made calls .for feld spar, and yet private corporations are the only agencies taking advan tage of the enormous supplies which are to be had in Mitchell and sur rounding counties' for the loading. But some day these vast resources of western North Carolina in min erals, precious metal and gems are going to be developed. Private ini tiative, however, must for a time, it seems, be the reliance, and through tehse private agencies the develop mn tis likely to become of so pro nounced a character as to at last re- 1 ceive recognition by the government. N. C. CALDWELL ROAD BONDS CAN BE SOLD The recent election, in which the citizens of Caldwell county voted by an overwhelming major ity for a bond issue of $250,000 for good roads, was held under the 1917 law. The technicality which made it illegal to sell the bonds under the 1919 law does not interfere with the legality of the election under the 1917 act The county commissioners have ! assurance that they will secure a I buyer for the bonds at 5 per cent, which is the limit of the law. This being the case, the bonds are advertised for elsewhere in ! this issue of the News-Topic. The rale cf the Lond sunder the '. 1917 act, with interest not ex : ceeding 5 per cent, meets the ap i proval of the State attorney gen- eral, with whom Chairman F. H. ! Coffey of the board of county i commissioners has had full corre i spondence. j Indications now are that the bonds will be sold after 30 days' I notice, and some definite work toward securing good roads for j Caldwell county will be done in j the near future, MR. BAKER REFUSES TO RE- VIEW ALL SENTENCES Recommendation by Lieut.-Col. again with the object ot determining whether further clemency should be allowed. Secretory Baker said that the 11,- 000 mi itarv prisoners returnine from France under arrest would be given the same opportunity for hav 1 ing their cases reviewed. It was orig inally intended, he said, to have this done by officers of Gen. Pershing's staff. Rapid withdrawal, however, of the American expeditionary force caused a change of plans and the same board which reviewed cases in this country wil lact 0 nthose from J overseas. I TOTAL FRENCH LOSSES, BOTH KILLED AND MISSING The total French losses in killed and missing on land and sea, as offi cially established up to the day of the armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, amounted to 1,366,235. These figures were given to the chamber of deputies by Deputy Louis Morin in a report on the disposal of the effects of missing men. The losses of the French army were 1,089,700 killed and 265,800 missing, or 16.2 per cent of the total mobilized force of 8,410,000. The losses of the navy totaled 10,735, of which 5,521 were killed and 5,214 arc missing. The losses in the navy were 4.19 per cent of the comple ment. FRENCH AND ITALIANS IN A ' PITCHED BATTLE Tension between the French and Italians in Fiume exploded Tuesday, when, unfortunately, there was a real battle in the street between soldiers and marines of the two countries, ac cording to a special cable from Milan to tho Greensboro News. Civilians participated and assisted the French. There were ten killed and many wounded, the situation is consid ered very grave. Great Britain's supr-dirigible, the R-34, first lighter-than-air machine to cross the Atlantic, anchored at Mineola, N. Y.f at Roosevelt field at 9:54 Sunday, 1:54 Greenwich mean time, after an aerial voyage of 108 hours and 12 minutes, which covered 3,310 knots or approximately 3,600 land miles. Passing through dence banks of cloud, with the sun and sea visible only at rare intervals, the R-34 was ! forced to cruise 2,050 knots to reach Trinity Bay, N. F., from East For tune, Scotland, and 1,080 knots from there to Mineola. When the super-dirigible arrived at Mineola she had left only enough petrol to keep her moving 90 minutes longer. Her crew, almost sleepless for four and a half days, were weary almost to the point of exhaustion, but happy at the successful comple tion of their epoch-making trip. Haggard, unshaven, their eyes bloodshot from the long vigil and lines of care bitten deep into their faces, Maj. G. H. Scott, the com mander, and his officers showed plain ly the effects of the anxious hours through which they lived Saturday while they were cruising over the far reaches of Canada and the bay of Fundy, beset by fog, heavy winds and terrific electrical storms. "It seemed as though the atmos phere was haunted by 5,000 devils," said Lieut. Guy Harris, the meteoro logical officer. With the R-34 long overdue at its destination, petrol supply running low, and buffeted by strong head winds, Maj. Scott decided Saturday while over the bay of Fundy to send a wireless call to the American navy department to be prepared to give assistance if it were needed. This was merely a measure of precaution and did not indicate discouragement. While destroyers and submarine chasers were racing to her assistance th eR-34 was plugging steadily ahead on the way to Mineola. Once clear of the bay of Fundy the atmosphere hoodoo which had beset the craft 1 from the time it took the air was j gradually left in its wake and the ' landing was safely made at Mineola. I Not in the mere record of miles 1 covered is to be found the real ro I manee of the R-34's aerial vovaire to '.America. The full story of this great adventure, this gamble against the elements, is revealed only througn the human incidents of the trip, chronicled in the form of a log by , Brig. -Gen. Edward M. Maitland, of , ficial observer for the British air ministry. j This stuy -a Jule Verne tale j come true was written while the I giant dirigible was leaving the ground at East Fortune, while il was j passing out of sight of land, while it , was battling its way across the At ', lantic and eluding electrical storms ' in the northland, while it was slip I ping safely down the shore line of Long Island to its anchorage at Mineola. It i3 an intensely human story, set down in simple, unaffected style. In it is described the feelings of men starting on a great adventure cheerfully confident in the face of a hundred dangers. In it is described the courage of red-blooded men fight ing their way through oceans of clouds and fog. In it is described the resolute daring of men calcalat ing coolly just how much fuel, al ready greatly shortened, they could expend in dodging tempests which might dash them to destruction. In it is described the fighting spirit of unii avant,iro onrnhntintr tr, tho I w situation which mitrht force " them to call for assistance. But nothing is to be. found in the log of tua nn-ont iwv, t wrQ cr,rQ up in every man's breast when they the end of a 3,000-mile voyage. "When flying at night there is al ways a feeling of loneliness on leav ing the ground, reads an entry made after the airship hardly had taken the air, but it is followed al most immediately by a description of 1 the first breakfast in the air, which I ends: "In the adjoining compart- ment the graphophone was entertain- ing tne crew wim uie iatc01, ja, tunes." Then comes an account of sleeping' in nammocKs aooard a service air ship, with a word of caution for the unwary sleeper. "There is only a thin outer cover of fabric on the un der side of the keel on each side of the walking way, and the luckless in dividual who tpis out of this ham mock would in all probability break right through this and soon find him self in the Atlantic." There follows a series of word pic tures of cloud formations, showing that, as in the case of Alcock and Brown, the R-34 wsa at times floating between two layers; of wireless mes sages breaking through these cloud banks to bring cheer to the adventur ers; of meals cooked over exhaust pipes, and engine repairs made with chewing gum; of the discovery of a feline stowaway aboard by a super stitious member of the crew and then the sighting of the ice fields and Newfoundland, with terse observa tions of aerial navigation. Instead of finding expressed at this exuberance of captain and crew, it is President Wilson returned to the United States Tuesday, and, in his first speech delivered on American soil since the peace treaty was signed, declared that the peace concluded at Paris was "a just peace, which, if it can be preserved, will safeguard the world from unnecessary bloodshed." The only reference the President made to his political opponents was when, in referring to tne negotiations at Paris, he said: "I am afraid some people, some persons, do not under stand that vision. They do not see it. They have looked too much upon the ground. They have thought too much of the interests that were near them, and they have now listened to the voices of their neighbors. I have never had a moment's doubt as to where the heart and purpose of this people lay." The President arrived at the Hobo ken army pier shortly before 3 o'clock. The army transport George Washington, on which he sailed from Brest, was escorted up the boy by the battleship Pensylvania and more than a score of destroyers and small er naval craft. On the New Jersey shore, the state which first honored Mr. Wilson with a political office, were massed 10,000 school ehildren who welcomed the chief executive of the nation with the strains, of the national anthem. Through the lines of the children, all dressed in white, the President passed to the ferry which carried him to the Manhattan side of the river. He arrived in New York at 4:15 p.m., where he was greeted by the official reception committee, headed by Gov. Smith and Mayor Hylan. From the feryr terminal to Carnegie Hall, a distance of about three miles, the presidential party passed through streets lined with cheering thousands of men, women and children who thronged the sidewalks and filled ev ery available window -and roof top. From the upper windows of the business skyscrapers great showers of confetti rained upon the President and Mrs. Wilson, literally millions of scraps of paper floating through the ai rcarrying this motto: "Every body's business. To stand by our government. To help the soldier get a job. To help crush bolshevism." When Mr. Wilson stepped to the front of the stage in Carnegie Hall the band began playing the national anthem, but was drowned in the cheers of the several thousand men an. I women in the audience, who re-fu-cl to resume their seats until the President had signalled several times for silence. M.r Wilson was obvious ly under the strain of deep emotion when he began to speak, and his voice was noticeably hoarse. The full text of the President's speech follows: "Fellow countrymen : I am not go ing to try this afternoon to make you a real speech. I am a bit alarmed to find how many speeches I have in my system undelivered, but they are all speeches that come from the mind", and I want to say to you this after noon only a few words from the heart. "You have made me deeply happy by the generous welcome you have extended to me, but I do not believe that the welcome you extend to me is half as great as that which I extend to you. Why, Jerseyman though I am, this is the first time I ever thought that Hoboken was beautiful. "I have really, though I have tried on the other side of the water to con ceal it, been the most homesick man in the American expeditionary force. anu 11 13 w and it is with feelings that it would ' be'" forme to try to express that . 1 "l.'u u"uvtc" !m: do MJ that because I , lack in admiration of other countries. 1 Knri rnnlf h r. Kn "ThT havt been many thinF tha softened my homesickness. One or the chief things that softened it was the very generous welcome that they extended to me as your representa- itive on the other side of the water. (Continued on page eight)- remarked that the airmen thinV ttov 1 would like to ston at Newfoundland I and Nova Scotia some time for shoot ana nsning, as the forests and lakes viewed from the air hold prom- Mse of much, game and fish Then comes a more anxious entry: "The petrol question is becoming de cidedly serious." And again: "For some little Whil past there has been distinct evidence of electrical disturbances." Then comes a description of two thunderstorms successfully evaded "set down quite simply as they oc curred and more or less in the form of a diary," as Gen. Maitland prom ised at the head of his log,, A dispatch from MineolV jsays the British dirigible R-34 left,'(fcoo8evelt field shortly before midnight Wednes day on her return cruise to Scotland. The great ship, held in least by 1,000 American balloon men, was released at 11:55 o'clock and floated leisurely up to a height of 200 feet with her motors silent. The motors then be gan to whirr and the craft, nosing: upward, headed for New York. Trhee great searchlights playing on the ship made her clearly discernible to the thousands who had gathered to bid her bon voyage.