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1?E. Montgomery Reiiiy of Kanate City, appointed governor of Porto Rico. 2?Train load of bodies of Ameri
can soldiers, exhumed from Sedan, cemetery, sainted at Stenay by Preach regiment 3?Police along New York*
waterfront scattering pickets at strik-ing marine workers.
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NEWS REVIEW OF
WENT EVENTS
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Germany, With a New Ministry,
Accepts Allies' Ultimatum
Unconditionally.
FRANCE IS SHU SKEPTICAL
Pole* and .German Civilian# Fighting
in Upper Silesia?Senate Passes .
Emergency Tariff Bill?House
Insists on Small Army?
Slacker Lists Given
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By SOWAltO W. PiCKARO.
a_^ anrt&H?e*d Ua
carry out the terms o< the ultimatum
without delay.
There had been little doubt of this
result, but the trouble was to find a
cabinet that would assume the respon
sibility and perhaps odium of yielding
to the inevitable. After several lead
ers had declined the Job, Dr. Wirth,
minister of finance in the Febrenbach
cabinet and leader of the Centrist par
ty. agreed to become chancellor and
foreign minister, selected the rest of
the cabinet and had it acquiesce in
the demands of the allies. Then he
went before the reichstag and said,
among other things:
"There la no possibility for as other ,
than acceptance or rejection. The vic
tors have decided. Acceptance means
that we declare oar readiness to bear
In voluntary labor the heavy financial
" burdens demanded year by yaar. Re
fusal would, however, mean surrend
ering the basis of our entire industrial
activities, and, as a consequence, dis
memberment of our economic body, al
ready so greattj weakened,! And the
shackling of oar entire industrial iifsi"
Thereupon the relchstag, by the rath
er small aiajei'ttj of 391 to 175, voted
to accept the ultimatum. The German
government's reply to the ultima laiu
was telegraphed at oaee to Premier
Lloyd Geocg* who wired It to all the
governments concerned. He then an- I
oounced It to the bqase of commons,
i render of Germany was lessened by
tiie smallneas of the majority vote la
the relchstag and the feeling that &e
Wlrth ministry cannot last long. The
French are still skeptical of Berlin's
VJ^gLcond. to xccept and crury oat
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TUW, to orry oat wtthoat wwrve
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guards, offering to place these under
the control ot French authorities.
As for the reparations, Germany can
pay, and she will pay if she Is com
pelled to pay. But if there is any
way of wriggling out of paying, Ger
many may be depended on to, try it
Only ill informed sentimentalists now
take any stock in the German wails of
poverty and threatened bankruptcy;
and mighty few people have any re
maining confidence in German good
faith.
Before the end of May, it is be
lieved, the allied supreme council will
meet again, either in Belgium or Italy,
to discuss- the modalities for securing
the reparations payments and to take
op the problems of Upper Silesia. At
that session of the council the United
States will be represented, probably by
Ambassador Harvey, who has arrived
in England with promises of the close
co-operation of this country in the
task of readjusting the affairs of
Europe ao far as they affect America,
at least. TUts is in accord with the -
aattrj e>M^a r?whW> TTanllny
being made by certain elements In the
senate. The fltfbt in that body was
opened by La Follette of Wisconsin,
who Introduced a resolution declaring
it to be the sense of the senate that the
United States should take no part in
European affairs under the Versailles
treaty, denouncing the pact and point
ing out that it has been repudiated by
the senate apd the American people.
Ambassador Wallace In Paris last
week resumed his place in the ambas
sadors' council, which Is trying to set
tle the Upper Silesia embroglio; and
Roland Boyden again took his old
place on the reparations commission,, .
under instructions from Washington.
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At this writing tbe situation In Up
per Silesia appears more serious than
ever, despite reports of an armistice
and statements by Korfanty, leader of
the Polish insurgents, that an agree
ment with the allies bad been reached.
The Germans in the region and near
by, forbidden by the French to make
actual war on tbe Poles* are making
foil use of their armed civilian forces
there and are rwported to have, defeat
ed the Poles in tbe Coeel district, east .
of the Oder rtvar At Batifcjr and
Rosenberg, also, there waa. severe
flghftay.. The Poles wars awng heavy
artillery and other guns they had cap
tured from the Italian plebiscite force,
and the Germane had batteries pro
vided by the Italians for defensive
use. It waa fairly evident that the i
French were at leasttacitly supporting
the Poles, and there was reasoa to be
tiers that if Gft British and Italians
could restrain the German civilian
forces a temporary truce could bear- ?,
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Polss'Mttwjr ku* bow -double i
axmed" bj tb. ,111a. lUwot Itocboo.
Otter* took on her action at ttia time
as another example of the Impetuous
S52^S^^ P?Su5^ been
lop^i^ts in iAsiit flfisor. Dlsputcjies
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EQirals' tfiere have decided to proclaim'
Boeportu and ^iie moll# ?',
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By a vote of 63 to 28 the senate last
week passed the emergency tariff bilL
Only one Republican?Moses of New ,
Hampshire?stood fast with the oppo
sition, and seven Democrats were'
found with the majority^ The senate
and bouse conferees at once began -?
their efforts to reach agreement, the
only radical difference being over the
antl-ddmping and currency revaluation
sections, which were rewritten by the
senate committee, which also made
provision for continuing the war time
restrictions on Imports of dyestuffs.
The house passed the army appro
priation bill, but it refused, to recede
from its. determination to make the
army smalL J*he measure provides for
an army of only 150,000 men. and an
amendment was adopted which author
ises the secretary of war to discharge
enlisted men upon their application
until that Umlt has been reached. It
is likely there will be a prolonged con
teat with the senate over the size of <
the army, and possibly a veto by the
extent nae^ its judgment in appointing '
postmasters. He has issued an order
affecting about 13,000 postofflces of the '
first second and third classes, author
izing the selection of any one of the
first three applicants on the eligible
list as determined by open competitive
examinations. Under an order of '
President Wilson the one at the head
of the list had to be appointed. Presi
dent Harding said the new arrange
ment was made to permit business '
training and experience to be consid
ered, and so that the choice would not
be based merely on "a cloistered,
scbdfastic examination which might re
sult in a high grade in theory, but not
a guaranty of efficiency in fact"
Publication of the slacker lists has
been began In various parts of the
coontry, bat some newspapers already
have discontinued it #because It was
found the lists as supplied by the war
department were woefully faulty, in- j
eluding the names of many men who
served their country patriotically In <
the war. Such names, according to :
a ruling of the department, cannot '
be removed from the lists without the
authorization of the department af
ter the injured persons have piovod
their cases at Washington. ,
As for the moiit offensive ^f all the ,
stackers, G. C. Bergdoll, the war do- ]
partment Intends to keep after him on- ,
remittingly teittt It brings hto back 'j
from Germany and punishes him.
Such, is the statement of General
March, chief of staff, to the bongo
committee investigating the escape of
the draft dodger. The Inquiry, which 1
has brought ont many acrimonious ae- j
cusatlons. seems to be narrowing down
so that the blame for the escape of j
torneys, sine? u68Ci, ebci tiio two
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Another crisis drew near in the
to the miners and tatting up the mat
er with the ^ ^ ^
MC WANTS TO CARRY OUT THE
PROJECTED PHOOKFO.
EXTENSION OF t^ADE.
TO ENUBE WORKfeS FORCE
Secretary Expects, to Recall Foreign
Trade Commissioners In Order, to
I ' Utilize Their information.
Washington.?Cotton ipinufacturers
throughout the. South will be inter-'
ested-j' in the faet th? Secretary
Hoover will be given rout ail the
money he requested tee.his depart
ment to carry oht- an Jpborate pro
gram for the extension foreign
trade. . C&
Mr. Hoover Is to get-Vhat he de
sired in the way of supplemental es
The total was 5618,728.34 and the
new work to be imdertmi cans lip;
the additioijL^f 176 or Jkiqre regular
house appropriations committee. ^ ^ ?
The appropriations wpl enable the
secretary of commeiTeJiO carry out
at once his ideas for making the de
partment of commerce more naeful.
Mr. Hoover said he wetted to recall
trade commissioners ftfun foreign
fields to the Washington oClce that
their Information may hip utilized.
New Orleans.?Accepting s ent in
wages from 4 to 13 cents an hour,
more than 4,000 gtembers of the street
car men's union agree^ with J. D.
O'Keefe, federal recelve|&f.tbft New
Orleans Railway and luting com
pany, that the time' we^; not ripe tor
any more street car ;] strikes.; Mr.
O'Keefe had asked the-4en to accent
a wage cut of $30 a monthJ^ey com
promised on a cut of $U and he ac
potential credit tor fiu&ticln* the legit
imate demands of business?a tower 1
of financial strength??so huge that its
dimensions stir the imagination to be
wildermeat?be^WHlt up ttirough
thrift, eocpomy and sound policjrby
the b&nke of the federal reserve sys
^||gtg 0x0 1081 twelve months.
I. Hm Ordered No WaIlc<Mlg?^\i^
? Charlotte, N. C.?"No walkout ol
cotton mill operatives in the Soath
has been ordered and >rill not be. at
least until I have visited several other
North Carolina lax tile centers and
have conferred with President ^ohn
Golden," said Frank T. McMahoh, vice
president of the International Textile
Workers' union.
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No Hope for Public Building*.
Washington. ? Efforts to write a
public building bill this session has
been dropped at th<i request of P^'eei
dent Harding, He does not think it
would be pjflpropriate tor the repuhli
can party now, having Just come Into
poorer on a :plaa of economy, to vote
million* for pork.
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Hit hy Aurora Boreails.
Nesr f ork.?Telepraph service was \
?erioujUy affected by a recurrence at
the auroraboreails, or "northern I
tights." as it is generally called. News
igeoeies, using thousands of miles of
telegraph Jiaefu were the hardest Ilk ji
? m*:og,e o^>
?is the newest- teea. r lt. made its i
Initial ^appearance at a Broad street
:'V,.-dUiardt. Ordered to Kentucky, i
^Fi^Mort, ^-Two^mpanies^ot
? , CollapM Of W l* ; *?*?!#. !
Berlin?CollapsePolish %; ,
rolt in Upper Silesia to Wpecte| in
authoritative quarters there, accord-^
g ^eivoi here
^^r3^am,natlon of Jap^J,po'
M^jbject nwfqnMtOTia^ to.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TO MAKE ANOTHER EFFORT
Iff"#* ETAMP <&?>E8T;-;
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T?*?l Delfli^tlon Excuses F.llur. to
^?*operafi by D*ol?rlna ^st-the;-^
Question It s Natlcnal One.
Washington,?A new campaign to
stamps "?ut the pinh bo?U boil worm
menace in the cotton growing states
is to be launched by the Department
of Agriculture: A special committee
to recommend measures'to be adopted
was appointed after a conference be
tweed representatives of the .potton.
' Lates and officials, of the Department
of Agriculture, v il
Chairman Marlatt, of the Federal
Horticultural Board, told the confer
euce that establishment of non-cotton
zones in places of infestation was the
only means of getting" rid of. the pink
bool worm. Charges that' failures of
Tex*#'-to provide adequate measures
of control and failure to co-operate
Were met with declarations from its
delegates that the question was a' na
tional one. * i
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Tobacco Planters are Warned
Danville, Va.?The enormous over
production by the tobacco farmers in
the Bright Belt is accentuated in the
annual report on local market condi
tions made by W. Crews Wood, presi
dent of tbe Danville Tobacco associa
tion. Unless the 1921 crop is cut very
materially, Mr. Wooding declares* j>e
neit season will bd disastrous. -
tpP;
m f ^ West Ptint Row Settled.
Washington.?The appointment of
General Perilling to be chief of staff
setUeda^w^^srmy^^remjj
VWrt ftftmrlOftWO YiHl'fltd 8,Ild fffUSJut DIB
way up.: ?."5*5$; ^
Sale of *200,000 Feet Lumber.
Mobile, Ala.?One of the largest
lumber -deals concluded ~in many
months was closed when tho B. D.
Flynn Export company sold 8,200,000
feet to Cuban interests.
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Winter Wheat Acreage Reduced.
Washington.?Winter w?eat acre
age for the 17 countries in th.6 North
ern hemisphere growing the crop was
placed at 99,400.000 acres as- compar
ed with 103,200,000 last year. ,
Newberry Sees Harding.
Washington. ? Senator Newberry,
republican, of Michigan, who recently
resnmed hlB official duties?After re
versal by the supreme court of hie
conviction for violation of the corrupt
practices act, made his . first call on
President Harding.
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Dili Bill Is Dslaytd.
?j^tTashington.?'The Disl bill, to .pre-'
rant Judge Landis, of Chicago, from
holdlpg. bis $42,500 a yeaijob as na,
tional baseball arbiter, came up In the
senate momentarily, but was deferred.
i 181,000,000 to be Called For. ;,
Washington.?Uncle Sam has $83,
000.000 of some people* mosey waiting
in the treasury for them to cobae and
get It, according to' the latest official
temws of outstanding temporary lib
erty tionds. % : ? * . I
Government DFIhs Contention. "
Washington?The government.won
in the supreme court its contention
that 1ncrea?e<?*alue of-any capital as
set must be considered in a corpora
tion's profits when taxes were com
Turk 8ays Hh Age Is 147.
-Constantinople.?Zora, the human
pack" horse, who claims to be X47
years o|.d and 8tlU can carry 200
pounds with ease, attributes hi? long
life and health to hard work an- prop
? aiet.\
*o?a ? . /-.f.w i Off % v.- >9 ?
iftjm
men wias decided on by the senate
fegSST H33:
D00 men. :,, j
Estate Tex HeW Valid. ,
^asiington.?Tbe estate^ tnx^ pro
_?ii? . m?f? Se6iD6d to give me I
tj ill to a uttie consideration. j
<?y^ st^e was trying to flgnro on I
Foreign Nations Should Be Invited to Cede" t ""
West Indies to America. fe
.Bjr SENATOR FRANK B. WILLIS, of Ohio.
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I make this suggestion: That as a means of part
payment of their debts to the United States, foreign
nations be invited to cede, with the consent and ap
proval of the inhabitants, their island possessions in
the West Indies.
About the validity of the debts owing our country
there can be no question. There is much talk of can
celing the debt. The American people will not tolerate
the adoption of such a policy; the government has no
way of getting money except by taxation, and the can
cellation of the foreign debt means added burden for
T -i-... 'j.. 1..1 i i_i? _-.IL L\.-'lit:?a '
me taxpayer, mere is no disposition to aeai nanjmy wiui uue olusu nur
tionswho are our debtors, but they must recognize the binding foflce of
their obligations.
Their West Indian possessions would be of greater value to this coun
try then to any other. We have no disposition t<5 be aggressive or to take
any territory contrary to the wishes of its inhabitants. Our course in Cuba
is the best proof of this, but these islands which are the natural protectors
of the Panama canal route geographically belong to the United States
rather than to European powers. From all reports, the*vast majority of
their inhabitants would welcome such control over their affairs as is exer
cised by the United States over Porto Rico.'
The cession of these islands would enable debt ridden oountries of
Europe to discharge their obligations in part and at the same time would
guarantee the security of the Panama canal, and be snch an impetus for
tfie industrial life of the South as not heretofore has been dreamed of.
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Supermen, Millions of Yearsprom Now, |
Confronting Extinction & Cold.
By JOSEPH. McCABE, in "The End of the World."
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One is tempted to imagine this race of supermen, of some millions
of years hence, grimly confronting the issue of extinction. Probably long
before that time science will have perfectly mastered the problem of the
sun's heat and will be able to state precisely at what period the radiation
One conceives that our supermen will face the end philosophically.
Death is losing its terrors. The race will genially say, as we individuals
i do today, that it has had a long run. But it will none the less make a
i grim fight Life will be worth living, for everybody, long before that con
summation is in sight
The hovering demon7 of cold and darkness will be combated by scien
tific means of which we have not the germ, of a conception. Flammarion
has imagined the last men lived in glorified glasshouses, conserving the
pale warmth of the dying sun. Mr. Wells put his men in the moon under
ground; with luminous streams. These are vague ideas of what might do
a hundred ytare hence, not four million, or fourteen million years. It is
absolutely useless Jto conjecture! ]
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Wealth of America Well Demonstrated
by Number of Automobile Owners.
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. By HENRY T. AGNEW, Philadelphia. , I
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The wealth of this country is well demonstrated by the number df '
automobile owners and the fad; that more than half of the buyers last year
paid cash % their ipachines.
Statistics show that only 46.7 per cent of the cars sold in 1920 ware
disposed of on deferred payment plans. This information was collected
by a concern interested in the sale of motor cars from 10,000 dealers in all
parts of the country, who reported that slightly less than 160,000 dara
ware sold in that period. Of that number, Pearly 80,000 were sold for cash
and ,70,000 on. credit
These figures showed that farmers bought about 40,000 cars on credit
and paid cash for about 18,000 and city dwellers paid cash for 61,000 * 1
out of 110,000 machines. They also showed that people did not take a
lifetime to pay for their cars, either. The average time allowed a city
dweller to pay for his car was nine months and the farmer had an average
of eleven mofiths.
It is said that an effort will be made to increase the credit business,
sonte claiming that there will be nothing unsound m the trade if 76 per
[ cent of foe cars are marketed on deferred payment plans. '* 1
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