VOL. 8
Elkin, N. C, Thursday, July 3, 1910
No. 20
TREATY signed in IM
PERIAL II ALL WHERE (IKK
MANS PIMPLED FRENCH
Versailles,' June 2S. (Py the
Associated 1 'ioss.) --W'oi lil peace
whs signed and sealed in the his
toric hall of mirrors at Versail
les this afternoon, but under cir
cumstances which somewhat
dimmed the expectations of
those who had worked and
fought during long years of war
and months of negotiations for
its achievement.
The absence of the Chinese
delegates, who at the last mo
ment were unable to reconcile
themselves to the Shantung set
tlement, and left the eastern em
pire outside the formal purviews
of peace, struck the first dis
cordant note in the assembly, A
written protest which General
Jan Christian Smuts lodged
with his signature was another
disappointment to the makers of
the treaty.
I'.ut, hulking larger, was the
attitude of (lermany and the
German plenipotentiaries, which
left them, as evident from the
official program of the day and
from the expression of M. Cle
menceau, still outside any for
mal reconciliation and made ac
tual restoration to regular rela
tion and intercourst? with the
allied nations dependent, not up
on the signature of the "prelim
inaries of peace" today, but up
on retification by the national
assembly.
To M. Clemenceau' stern
warning in his opening remaiks
that they would be expected,
and held, to observe the treaty
provisions legally and complete
ly, the (lerman delegates,
through Dr. 1 IanUl von Haim
hausen, replied alter returning
to the hotel that, had they
known they would le treated on
a different status after signing
than the allied representatives,
a shown by their sepal ate exit
Itefore the general IhmIv of the
conference, they never would
have sighed.
Under the circumstances the
geaeial tone of sentiment in the
histoiic setting was one rather
of relief at the uncontrovertible
end of hostilities than to com
plete and unalloyed satisfac
tion. The ceremony came to a dra
matic clo.se, in fact, reached its
highest dramatic pitch with
the wild enthusiastic reception
of President Wilson. M. Clemen
ceau and Mr. Lloyd George by
the crowd outside the palace,
who ignoicd or duicgaided the
minor discord of the day. They
tore the three statesmen from
their escorts and altno,t carried
them Imdily in their progress
through the chateau gionnd,
to watch the pi iv ing 'f the
fountains a pari ! the pro
gram which had been planned as
u dignified state processional of
ail the plenirMitfiitiai tes.
Versailles. June 'Jv Py the
Associated Press-Germany and
the Milieu nii'l a.ssox uli-ii piwcis
signed the peai e term here to
day in the same impel tal hall
where the Hainan humbled the
French so ignominious))- js
yearn ago.
This foimally end. si the woild
war, which la-ted just 'M davs
les than live yoal s. Today, the
day of peace, is the fifth anni
Vcrrary of the nunder of Arch
duke Fiahci Ferdinand at Sera
jevo.
The cciemoiiy of signing the
oearo tonus was bitef. Premier
Clemcnccau called the seion t
older in the ha!! of tr,iriTrs ot
the chateau of Versailles at I : 1 (
o'clock. The signing Lgan
when Dr. Hermann Muder n?i
Johannes I'.ell, the (lerman sign
m atone, alfixel their names,
Heir Mueller signed at P.:!.'
o'clock and Heir Pell at a:la
o'clock. Pi cedent Wilson, first
of the allied delegates, signed
minute later. At .1:t' o'clock
the momentous session was con
eluded.
In Conventional Clothon
All the diplomat and mem
I Hi of their pal tie-i wore con
veiuional civilian clothes. Theie
M a marked lark of gold lace
and pageantry. There w ere few
of the fanciful uniform of the
middle n go, vhoso tradition
and practice are so sternly con
downed in the great, seal-cover
cd document signed today.
a sikji oi coior was mane
i . t - . 1 ,. 1
against this soinme Rckgroun
y the French guards. A few
seiecieu jiicuiocrs 01 me gnam
i . i . . i r 1 1 i
wei'e resplendent in their red
lumcd silver helmets and red,
white and blue uniforms.
As a contra.-! with the Fran
co-German peace session of 1871
leld in the same hall, there were
rescnt today grizzled French
otcrans of the Franco-Prussian
war. 1 hey replaced the I'rus
sian guardsmen of the previous
ceremony and the Frenchmen to-
ay watched the ceremony with
giim satisfaction.
1 S7 1 Conditions Reversed
The conditions of 1X71 were
xactly reversed. Today the dis-
iples of Pis mat k sat in the seats
of the lowlv while the white
larble statue of Minerva, the
goddess of war, looked on.
Overhead on the frescoed ceil
ing, were scenes irom nances
indent wars.
Three incidents were empha
sized bv the smoothness with
which the ceremony was con
noted. The first of these was
the failure of the Chinese dele
gation to sign. The second w as
the protest submitted by Gener
al Jan Christian Smuts, who de
lated the peace unsatisfactory.
he third, unknown to the gen
era Ipublic, came from the Ger
mans. When the program for
the ceremony was shown to the
German delegation, Heir von
aimhaiison, of the German del-
gation. went to Colonel Henry,
rench liason officer, and pro
tested. He said:
New (lerman Protest.
We cannot admit that the
lerman delegates should enter
the hall by a different door than
the entente? delegates, iior that
military honors should be with-
teld. Had we know n there would
be such arrangements I k fore,
the delegates would not have
come.
After h conference with the
'rench foreign ministry, it was
ecided. as a compromise, to ren
er military honor a. the Ger
mans left. (Jtherwise, the pro
gram was hot changed.
An hour In-fore the signing of
the treaty, those assembled in
the hall had been urged to take
their .seats, but their eageliuvs
to see the historic ceremony was
so l.een that they refused to
keep their seats, and crowded
towaul the renter of the hall,
which i so long that a good
iew was impossible from the
istanrr. F.ven with opera
glase. the rorresHindent and
other were unable to observe
satisfactorily. The seat were
in no way elevated; consequent-
y theie was a general scramble
for standing nnn.
Secretary I.an.sing Arrives First
.N-cnuiy i.ansing wa-. me
first of the distinguished diplo
mats to arrive.
He w s followed shortly by M.
Clemenceaii ami General Piis.
Yw of the sectators lerogriiz
d any of the diplomat. a- they
ame in. and theie were no dem
onstration.
The delegates of the minor
powers made their way with dif
ficulty through the crowd to
their places at the table. Officers
ati 1 civilians lined the wall and
lill.il the aisle. President Wil
son's aiiival 10 minutes lteforo
the hour for signing wa greet
ed by a faint burst of applause
from the few person who were
aHe to fee him.
The German roriespondents
wi-ip usheieti into the nail shoit
ly before It o'clock and were
given standing room in a win
dow at the rear of thecoiiepon
dent's section.
Win n Picnitcr Lhnd George
aiuvci many ol the oeiogaios
.-ought autograph fnM the
mend NTs of the council of four,
ind they llfrsied themselves sign
ing copies of the official piogram
until the Germans entered the
im.
DUoider Surpi -.
At P. o'clock a luish fell over
the hall, and the ClXiwd shouteil
fur the official who weie stand
ing to sit down, so as not to
block the view. The delegates
showed some Miipiise jit the di
order, which did not coa-e until
all the spectator had cither
seated themselves or found
place against the wall.
At 7 minute past U o'clock
Dr. Hermann M jel'er, the Ger
man secretary for foreign nf
faiis, and Dr. P.ell. the colonial
scactAry, were shown into the
hall, and quietly tik their seuts
CHINA TRYING TO STAMP OUT THE
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It 4 reiorlt"l llint tlie Cliln pxprcsx fitir tlmt tlit Lmikiih of Niillmm will not lit) dtroiu eniMiuh to flifuri-c
tin lliiiiio fijiluni eoiivi-nlion nf 1 f 1 2. Our I'lmti'irrnpli ene of Chlnn' im-s hrvln of wlflnK out IIiIh evil. Tlicjr
ire liuniluir purt of SJ5.uuo.iHX) vsortfi of oiiltmi w hiiel from tit opium trust.
at the left end of the U-Shaped
table. They showed composure,
and manifested none of the un
easiness which Count von Ilrock-dorff-Kantzau,
head of the Ger
man peace delegation, displayed
when handed the treaty at Ver
vailles. M. Clemenceau, as president
of the conference, made a brief
speech inviting the Germans to
sign the treaty and there was a
tense pause. William Martin,
master of ceremonies, after a
moment's delay, escorted the
German plenipotentiaries to the
signatory table, where they
signed the treaty, the protocol
and the Polish undertaking. Lo
calise of the confusion and the
crowd, the signing lost much of
its expected dignity.
Wilson Signs.
After the German had signed
Piesidtnt Wilson, followed by
the other American delegates,!
made hi way to the table and
he and the others seodily affix
ed their signature. Premiei
Lloyd George came next with
the Iinglish delegation. The
Pritish dominion followed
Canada, Australia, New Zea
land, South Afiica and India, in
the oider named.
A murmur of suiprise passed
around the hall when it locame
known that General Smuts, re
presenting South Africa, signed
under piotest and lih-d a docu
ment declaring that the peace
wa unsatisfactory.
M. Clemenceau and the French
delegate wtc the nixt in line
for Cr" signing, and Farvn Son
niiso Mel th other Japanese del-
egaic. j ne ii.oi.tiis ra;r,e aiu'i
the Japanese, and they, in turn,
were followed by the repie.sentn
ties of the umaller Mwer.
Dining the attaching of the
signatures of the great powers
and the Germans a battery of
nfoving picture machine and
cameras clicked awav o audibly
that they could be heard aliove
the general disorder.
Cannon Pxon.
At .T:t" the Nxmung of can
non in ccli-hration of the peace
broke the moi vtony in the hall
of mirrors, where the crowd
had tired of the almost endless
signing.
China's faiiuie to send her
delegates to the ceremony creat
ed much comment. The vacant
seat of the Chine-e were noted
em lv in the piin eeduii:. but it
was oleclel ine iieieiraic
woul.l arrive later. Then the re
pnit ;i rirculated officially
that the Chinese wuu'i.t hot sign
without reservation on Shan
tung, and would issue a state
ment thi evening on their po
sition. M. Clemenceau'. an
r.ouurcmcnt that the ceiemony
was at an end made it clear that
China intended to have no part
in the dav's ci i nionie.- and that
she must be dealt with by IctU.
if the signatories arc willing to
grant her the privilege of ma's
ing the reservation.
London, July l -Anti HoUhe
tiki force are ad vara ing acinM
Kursk, LT0 ttiilen outli of Men
Cow, and Voronezh, boning to
fir.d a way to Moscow, according
to a Hul,vn wireless message
quoting the ofV.cial lla'sheviW or
gin livcitis.
PUPS. WILSON PLEADS
TO ACCEPT THE TERMS
Washington, June 2rt. Presi
dent Wilson in an address to the
American people, on the occasion
of the signing of the peace
treaty and the covenant of the
league of nations without
change or reservation.
Hi message, given out here
by Secretary Tumulty, aid:
"My fellow countrymen:
"The treaty of peace has been
signed. If it is ratified and act
ed upon in full and sincere exec
ution of its terms, it will fur
nish the charter for a new order
of affairs in the world. It is a
severe treattmnt iti the duties
and penalties it intjxses u)Kn
Germany, but it is severe only
localise great wrongs done by
Germany are to be righted and
repaired; it imposes nothing
that Germany cannot do; and
he can regain her rightful
standing in the world bv the
Tompt and hot.orable fulfill
ment of it ten. is.
And it i much more than a
treaty of peace with Germany.
It liU'iate great peoples who
have never before loon aide to
find the way to hU'ity. It ends,
once for ail. an old and intoler
able order under which small
giotip of selfish men could use
the ivople of great empires to
serve their ambition for jwer
ind dominion. It associate the
free governments of the world
in a permanent league in which
they are pledged to ue their
united powers to maintain peace
by maintaining right and justice
It make.s international law a
realty Mippoitcd by imperative
sanctions. It doe away with the
light of conquest and I eject the
policy of wtiiexation and sul-
titutes a new order under which
backwatd nations - opti'ation
which have not yet conu to jm
ht teal coiwiousnes and people
w ho are ivady for independence
but not yet quite prepared totlis-K-n-e
with pioteetioii and guid
ance . hall no more Ih subject
ed t the domination and exploi
tation of a stronger nation, but
shall le put miller the friendly
diiection and afToid.d the help
ful assistance of government
which undertake to U i sponsi
ble to the opinion of mankind
in the execution of their task by
accepting the direction of the
league oi loiuou.s. u usuiimn s
the inalienable light of nation
ality; the rights of minouties
and the sanctity of leligious U
lief and practice. It lays the
b;isis for convention w hirh shall
free tlie rommeicial intercourse
of the world from unjust and
vexatious restiirtion and for
every soil of international co
operation that will serve to
cleanse the life of the woild and
facilitate its common action hi
beneficent service of every kind.
It furnishes guarantees such a
were never given or even con
templated for the fair treatment
tf all who hi!T at the daily
ta-k of the woild.
"It i for this reason that I
have Kikeii of it a a charter
for a hew onler of affairs. There
i ground here for deep satisfac
lion, universal tea. su ranee and
confident hope.
(Signed) Woodrow Wilson,
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DR. WALTER K. WILKIN'S
HANGS HIMSELF IN JAIL
Miueola, N. Y., June 29.
leaving behind him a long let
ter protesting his innocence and
declaring his belief that he had
not received a fair trial, Dr.
Walter Keene Wilkin., who was
convicted Friday of the murder
of his wife, Julia, committed
suicide by hanging in the Nas
sau county jail tonight.
The aged physician was still
alive when cut down by atten
dants, and physician worked
over him for a half hour before
the death he had sought came
to him. His neck was broken.
The doctor had spent the en
tire afternoon writing his letter
of .self-vindication and two
other letters giving directions
for the disposal of his IkhIv and
the care of several pets to which
he was greatly attached.
"Rather than Ik- driven across
the state of New York by Car
men Plant (Nassau county, de
tective) and delivered up to Sing
Sing prison,' he wrote in the
first letter. "I prefer to be my
own executioner. Reside. it will
save Justice Manning from hik
ing into my Lice when he tell
me I have had a fair trial.
"I am absolutely innocent of
this ciime which the indu tint lit
charges me with."
This letter wa addressed to
J. P. Healey, of Prooklv ti, an ac
quaintance. The svond was ad
dieted to Mrs. lilizaln-th Muller
of Monticello. N. Y., formerly
his Imiiseke. i , Icipie-ling her
to see that his jnt weie well
cared for.
The third letter, addressed to
Shci i'r Phineas Seaman rcquest
til that hi IihIv le cu inated.
Although tlse aged physician'.
I w,u still benting when he
was cut down, and every effort
was mule by the jail physical!
to save hi life, he died n few
minute after S o'clock. Dr.
Wilkin' nock wa broken, it was
announced.
Jail officials were unable to
explain how the doctor obtained
the rojH with which he ended
hi life. During the afternoon
he had lecn busy wiiting in hi
cell. When he had finished
writing he expressed a wish to
go to the bathroom. Hi two
iruards. John .Mills ami William
jlendeiMm. allowed him to en
ter the room, when? he -liniled
o.M.n i!...;r. a,j;u.s:ct tr.c trc
ami leaped off.
The rope Dr. W ok in used was
new. Ib had Iwen thoroughly
searched on Saturday, jail offi
rial said and it would have .een
impossible for him to have con
ceded the rope nliout hi person.
He had no visitors thi alter
noon except the chaplain.
Twenty aeven Surry bnygm-e
their lived for freedom In the
urcitworld war. Of thi mini
tier nine were killed in battle,
one was killed by Occident, three
lied fioui wound, and fourteen
die t from disease Dobson town
Up wd the greatcdt aufTerer,
having !ot eltiht of bor si ns
Mount Airy Ins nine to hrrred
IU but some of these were from
other townahlpa, being meinberd
of tho National Guard that went
out from that town.
URGES WORKERS AND EM
PLOYERS GET TOGETHER
Raleigh, June 28. "I urge la
bor and capital in North Caro
lina to establish in every indus
trial enterprise an organization
composed of all the men who
have an interest in the perma
nent success of that enteiprise.
Let labor and capital be repre
sented in the adjustment of
every question and if there
should develop after a frank and
friendly investigation and dis
cussion, an irreconcilable differ
- nee, then let that difference be
iibmitled to an impartial tribu
nal enjoying the confidence of all
the men interested in that parti
cular enterprise."
Thus write Governor Pickett
in calling upon the mangcniont
of the Tallassee Power company,
P. idin, N. C, and on the labor
leaders there to adjust their dif
ferences and for the manage
ment to withdraw its posted rul
ing that no employe shall be tol
erated w ho joins the union of
electrical workers there.
The letters by the governor
were made public this afternoon
following premature publica
tions as to conditions at Padin
and we're addressed to Supt. J.
E. S. Thorpe, of the Iladin plant,
and I). P. Goble,, representing
the lalior union interests there.
The governor tells these Padin
)ctp!e that such an adjust
ment as he suggests will "make
for friendship, for happiness, for
economy, for efficiency, for the
ictterment of every human be
ing, while the present system of
ock-outs and walk-outs makes
for hostility, for unhappincss,
for w aste, for war, and for ulti
mate ruin, first of society and
then of the individual.'
Chailotte Statement. '
In his letter the governor calls
iittcntion to hi statement of
May r.O, dealing with the lalxu
doubles in the textile plants of
Chnrlotte and vicinity as app'y-
ing to the Padin situation and he
reiterates that position a be
ing, lioiled down, as the gover
norr expresses it. "That no em
ployer has a moral right to dis
charge any man Urnuse he sees
fit to join a labor union, and no
ilmrcr has a moral right to quit
work localise there works by
his side a man who does not U-
ong to a lator union." Contin
uing the governor says:
"There is no written law to
prevent an employer from dis
charging a man Ufause he join
a union, but sum a discharge
cannot stand the acid test of ju-
tice, and injustice can never
coie a permanent success. Cap
ita! may win a single battle by
uch methods but it can never
win a war. lhi l a lice coun
try and cveiy man imi.sl.liO !
lowed to exercise his own fiee
will without ctvrcion of intimi
dation in joining or refusing to
join any law ful organization.
Public Opinion Suprrme
"The supreme law in this land
is public opinion and that public
opinion condemn and ought to
condemn the employer who ie-
fuse to give n mm n job lo
calise he belong to a union an I
the same public opinion con
demns and ought to condemn the
man w ho quits or I e fuses to take
a job Urause of the presence of
some man who doe not Udong
to a union.
"Put, so long ns neither side
resorts to violence, I am without
legal power to inteifere. If
either an employer or a laUurr
reports to vio'oe, then it lo
comcs nv dutv to call out the
entire military and police force
of the state to protect the life
and property of our citizens and
preserve peace and order. Ihn
duty I shall most certainly per
foini without fear and without
favor, whether violence le used
bv capital or by I.uht.
"LhIkt. capital, and executive
ability aie each a vital necessity
to every industrial enterprise
and these must work in har
mony with and not in hostility to
each other, if the business is to
W conducted on a lais of econ
omy and efficiency, unless the
business be so conducted as to
reduce wa.4e to a minimum and
to secure the largest outcome
possible fiom a given amount of
lalior and of capital, then the
business is doomed to failure and
will soon b? UHclcr.s to Ixjth laW
And capital."
TREATY SIGNED RY THE
HI NS NOT WORTH THE
PAPER IT'S WRITTEN ON
Danville, Va., July 29. Fred
crick William Wile, who for 13
years represented the North
clifl'e press in Perlin, today ac
corded the representative of the
Greensboro Daily News an in
terview relative to the signing of
tho peace treaty. Mr. Wile spent
the week-end here, and with his
deep knowledge of schools of
German thought acquired by his
long residence in the Teutm
capital, his views may bo accept
ed as counting for something.
It is not an optimistic view that
this newspaper writer reflects on
yesterday's epochal event, but
one which gives rise to serious
misgivings. Mr. Wiles, aged
perhaps -la, is an Indianian, who
is going Lack shortly to England
to continue his writing for
American papers. To him, the
signatures of Dr. Mueller and
Johannes Pell are not worth the
paper on which they are written.
They were, he said, brought out
of political obscurity to go thru
the form of affixing a German
sibnature to the treaty, while
Scheidemann, Melchiors, Gies
berts and Count Rantzau remain
the true leaders of Germany
men who publicly stated that
Germany could never accept
uch terms as were imposed by
he allied. Eternal vigilance, he
stated, w ill be the price of allied
security in the future, and he
lelieves that the Hun will lose
no time in reasserting their ne
farious national life, scheming,
intriguing and preparing for a
w ar of revenge which may break
far sooner than those who feel
relieved by the passage of the
European war into history care
o believe.
Mr. Wile was at Kiel on June
2S. five year. ago, and he point
ed out German'. love for anni
versaries by signing the treaty
five years to the day after the
Serajevo calamity, which un-
eiLshed the dogs of war, on
which occasion n Pritish naval
squadron whs visiting the Ger
man fleet in Kiel. lie was
standing by a Prussian officer
when the news came of Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand'. assas
sination, and the junker, charac
teristic of hi caste, giimly re
marked. "It i a good thing."
Germany, according to ho In
dianian. (list not. a is popularly
elieved, piopare for war by
dealth. To a newspaper man in
Pel lin it was perfectly obvious.
and he did not have ncaily a
much Double in getting hi dis
patches to the Daily Mail a he
lid in nwakenyig the Lnth
people to the iryrending cMncly-
m. They simply would not
lieve that an thing like a war
wa U'ing prepared, with his im
perial Ceimati majesty making
honey-tongued utterances alu'.
Germany' love for England. 0 l
the night that England declared
war on Germany, Mr. Wile'a
room in a hole! wa invaded and
thiee Gorman officer. attested
him. saving that his inflamnu
toiv articles had caused the war.
He was cat into jail. Ambas
sador Get ai d. piesidihg over a
meeting of stmnded American
tourist, heaid of the seizure,
left the meeting and made such
uigcnt lepreseiitation.i at oil
hclmstrassc that Mr. Wile wa
released in less' than 2 1 hours,
and he whs given a safe conduct
to the Dutch frontier from
which point he leached England.
"Hermann Mueller and Jo
hannes Pell." he said, "are no
bodies; they h present ncljody.
and their signature i not worth
the paper on which it is written.
I Micve that they are worthless,
bee use I do not trust unrepent
ant, unrogencrale, psue do-democratic
Germany. Germany ha
made peace in form only. Tha
real Gomiany the Germany
which gloried in sinking the fleet
in Scapa How and burning thi
French battle Tags in perlin-
will obey the tieaty in letUr, but
will mentally lend it in L.ttci...
defile it in niiit, and by every
act of subterfuge and deception
of which Hun mentality h ca
pable .and that i saying quite a
lot, I feel certin that the Gcr
meii nation of today has but one
regret al-out the war, and that is
that they lost it,