THE TRYON NEWS, TRYON, N. C,
Depew and the
w flnAM ics iii'a
ifltom 9:30 o'clock until 4:30, doing my regular work.
"My diet, which is helping to carry me on the long road I am traveling,
:Sm very simple. Practically all my evenings I spend at home, save for an oc
aasknal visit to.a play. Years ago I used to be at a public dinner somewhere
ar other almost every night in the "week."
Edwards Made
Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards
r-was commander of the New England
national guard division the Twelity-
sixth and was removed from his
ooniraand while at the front and sent
Ssome. Much mystery surrounded the..
aSair and the war department careful-"
ij guarded the facts concerning it
!roni publicity. The treatment ac
onled General Edwards aroused wide
.spread indignation in New England,
-rhere, he was immensely popular, and
"one of the first acts of the Harding'
administration was to place his name
-at.the head of twelve brigadiers slated
v2br promotion. .. ..
Then the senate military affairs
vcommittee voted to recommend con
firmation of the promotion of Brigi
tGt&i. Clarence R. Edwards to be a
.major general. The action was taken
t&y a vote of 12 to 3. The negative
v&ates were cast by Democratic sena
t?rs, who questioned General Edwards'
fitness for the appointment.
Senator Weeks informed the committee that events which led to relief
ot General Edwards from command of the Twenty-sixth division on October
"22. 1918, had their inception during the previous July. The order came on the
-day before Edwards' division went into action. .The committee was told that
General ',Ed wards had criticized strategic decisions of general headquarters.
Burke, Friend
,...;...y.;.:.v..: avav.V.V.v,' .,l55 Jj. . 'f
sion which investigated the Yakima Indian reservation irrigation project of
Washington and the New Mexico Indian tubercular sanitarium.
James R. Mann of Illinois said: "He has saved to this government and to
tbe Indians many millions of dollars, and we could well afford to pay him a
pension for life in order that he might give his knowledge and his sound judg
ment of Indian affairs."
J. J. Esch, Expert on Railroads
John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin has
Tfcecu confirmed as an interstate com
. ziHrce commissioner by a senate vote
.f 32 to 3. The appointment was
wrin&lly made during reces His term
sxiires Iecember 31, 1927. Senator
JLa Toilette of Wisconsin printed lit
ilic Congressional Record a. report
Ivom tlie minority of the committee
.on interstate commerce.
John' J.' Esch first took his seat
"in the Fifty-sixth congress, in Decem-
ter, 1899. In December, 1903, at the
opening session of the . Fifty-eighth
congress. Mr. Esch was assigned to
KtlJe house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, and he served con
r tlruously on that committee until his
- retirement March 4, 1921. At the first
session of the Sixty-fourth congress,
t iu May, 1916, Mr. Esch became the
-tanking Republican member of the
j srtimmittee, and inJuly, 1919, the Re-
ptll leans having regained control of
vtlio congress, he succeeded to the chairmanship. He had a large share" in the
t framing and passage of the Esch-Cummins railroad act. The minority claimed
tbat .It was because of this he was defeated for re-election in the congressional
; -Election of 1920. . ,
1 The original act to regulate commerce, approved February 4 1887 Dro-
v Vera T w P , usisung or
JK. 1906, the number oS commissioners
fy the act of August 9, 1917. to nlnp
to It. U adm.n,struv.
,Mrv anil anon a f f ni-nn., ,
- ...w.u:jS amra,
Century Mark
It was one of his best birthdays,
according to Chauncey M. Depew,
eighty-seven, and he vowed he would
reach the century mark. Afer a day
at his offices as chairman of the New
York Central board of directors, Mr.
Depew had "the regular birthday din
ner," and there were a "few friends
about the table to help me make mer
ry." At his office, interrupted by a
rush of telegrams, telephone Calls and
personal visits of friends and associ
ates, Mr. Depew gave a few observa
tions on life and things in general,
and, in particular, explained how he
is going to live to be 100 years old.
"In the first place," he said, "if
I ever had any eccentricities I've shed
them. A man doesn't have eccentrici
ties when .he reaches my time of life.
He has habits and they ought to be
good ones. As for today, save for
the 'fart "that I am so surrounded by
oil tho others. T will be at my office
Major General
of the Indian
Charles H. Burke, recently ap
. pointed commissioner of Indian affairs
in the Department of the Interior, is
perhaps the best friend of the Amer
ican Indian tixlay. He is a personal
friend to the 25,000 Sioux living on
South Dakota reservationsfrom whom
mention of his name will bring forth
words of praise for the benefits they
have received through his efforts dur
ing the fourteen years he was a mem
ber of congress from South Dakota.
He was chairman of the commit
. tee on Indian affairs during the Sixty
first congress, succeeding Vice Presi
dent Sherman. During the Sixty-second
and Sixty-third congresses he
was ranking minority member of this
committee. He was a member of the
joint Indian commission during the
Sixty-third "congress, which had full
investigating powers of all general In
dian affairs. At the same time he
was a member of the special commis
nve memners. Under the act of June
was tncrM
mpmhor. tk
iniSS
. ' ""ai.uw Wf
special agenta, and clerks as are nee
1 K. Montgomery Reilly of Kansas City, appointed governor of Porto.Rico. 2 Train load of , bodies of Ameri
can soUUers. exhumed from Sedan cemetery; saluted at Stenay by French regiment. 3 Police along New York ,8
waterfront scattering pickets of strik-ing marine workers.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Germany, With a New Ministry,
Accepts Allies' Ultimatum
Unconditionally.
FRANCE IS STILL SKEPTICAL
Poles and German Civilians Fighting
in Upper Silesia Senate Passes
Emergency Tariff Bill House
Insists on Small Army
Slacker Lists Given
Out
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Germany has surrendered again. Un
conditionally and completely, she has
accepted the demands of the allies, su
preme council, and has promised to
carry out the terms of 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 Fehrenbach
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 is no possibility for us other
than acceptance or rejection. The vic
tors have decided. Acceptance means
that we declare our. readiness to bear
in voluntary labor the; heavy financial
burdens demanded year by year. 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 greatly weakened, and the
shackling of our entire industrial life."
Thereupon the reichstag, by the rath
er small majority of 221 to 175, voted
to accept the ultimatum. The German
government's reply to the ultimatum
was telegraphed at once to Premier
Lloyd George, who wired it to all the
governments concerned. He then an
nounced it to the house of commons,
which received the news with cheers.
In France Satisfaction over, the sur
render of Germany was lessened by
the smallness of the majority vote In
the reichstag and the feeling that the
Wirth ministry cannot last long. The
French are still skeptical of Berlin's
good faith, and propose to maintain
their forces on the Rhine at sufficient
strength to occupy theiliuhr until it
becomes evident that Germany will
carry out the terms of the ultimatum.5
Dr. Wlrth's reply commits the Ger
mans absolutely to this course. In it
he saidr ,
"The German ' government is fully
resolved, first, to carry out without re
serve or condition its obligations as de
fined by the reparations commission.
"Second, to accept and carry out
without reserve or condition the guar
antees In respect of those obligations
prescribed by the reparations commis
sion. "Third, to carry out without reserve
or delay th measures of. military,
naval and aerial disarmament notified
to the German government by the al
lied powers in their note of January
29, 1921, those overdue to be completed
at once and the remainder by the pre
scribed date.
"Fourth, to carry out without re
serve or delay the trial of war crim
inals and to execute the other unful
filled portions of the treaty referred to
In the first paragraph of the note of
the allied government's of May 5."
The chief stumbling block, hitherto,
In the process of disarmament of Ger
many has been the determination of
Bavaria to maintain Its clvil-mllltary
organization. It Is understood now
the Bavarian authorities have prom
ised that that body shall be disband
ed Immediately, though another report
has it that Bavaria is to negotiate di
rectly with France cocee ruing civilian
guards, offering to place these under
the control of 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 III 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
up 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 so far as they affect America,
at least This is in accord with the
policy adopted by President Harding,
a policy which probably will not be
changed by the attacks on It already
being made by certain elements in the
senate. The fight 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
Europeap alfalrs under the -Versailles
treaty, denouncing the pact and point
ing out that it has been repudiated by
the senate and the American people.
Ambassador Wallace in Parig 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.
At this writfhg the 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 had been reached.
The Germans in the region and near
by, forbidden by the French to make
actual war on the Poles, are making
full use of their armed civilian ..forces
there and are reported to have defeat
ed the Poles in the Cosel district east
of 'the Oder river. At Ratibor and
Rosenberg, also, there was severe
fighting. The Poles were using heavy
artillery and other guns they had cap
tured from the Italian plebiscite force,
and the Germans had batteries pro
vided by the Italians for defensive
use. It was fairly evident that the
French were at least tacitly supporting
the Poles, and there was reason to be
lieve that If the British and Italians
could restrain the German civilian
forces a temporary truce could be ar
ranged pending the settlement of the
entire controversy by the supreme
council or the League of Nations. The
Poles feel they have been "double
crossed" by the allies, about Teschen,
about the Ukraine, about Danzig, and
now about Upper Silesia; and their
patience was exhausted. Those who
are informed concerning the treatment
Poland has received are inclined to
sympathize withher in this Instance.
Others look on her action at this time
as another example of the Impetuous
and unruly behavior that has been
characteristic of Poland in the past.
The allies are about, to emphasize
their aloofness from the struggle be
tween the Greeks and ,the Turkish Na
tionalists In Asia Minor. Dispatches
from Constantinople say the allied
high commissioners, generals and ad
mirals there have decided to proclaim
the neutrality of that city and of the
Bosporus and the Dardanelles while
the warfare between the Greeks and
Turks continues. Greece will ,be asked
to remove her warships from territorial
waters and will not longer be able to
use the city as a base. Her forces on
the- Brusa and Ismld fronts must be
supplied by way of Rodosto.
The difficulty in understanding the
situation in the Near East is illustrat
ed by the news that the Russian soviet
authorities, who were supposed to be
supporting Kemal Pasha leader of the
Turkish Nationalists, have been plot
ting against him with the object of
establishing a soviet republic in An
gora. The scheme was uncovered in
time and many arrests of Bolshevikl
wern made.'
By a votexof 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 house conferees at once began
their efforts to reach agreement the
only radical difference being over the
anti-dumping 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. The measure provides for
an army of only 150,000 men, and an
amendment was adopted which author
izes the secretary of war to discharge
enlisted men upon their application
until that limit has been reached. It
is likely there" will be a prolonged con
test with the senate over the size of
the army, and possibly a veto by the
President if the house wins.
President Harding has fixed things
so the administration can to a certain
extent use its judgment in appointing
postmasters. He has issued an order
affecting about 13,000 postoffices 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,
scholastic examination which might re
sult In a high grade In trieory, but not
a guaranty of efficiency in fact."
Publication of the slacker lists has
been begun in various parts of the
country, but some newspapers already
have discontinued it because it was
found the lists as supplied by the war
department were woefully faulty, in
cluding 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 proved
their cases at Washington.
As for the most offensive of all the
slackers, G. C. Bergdoll, the war de
partment intends to keep after him un
remittingly until it brings him back
from Germany v and punishes him.
Such Ls the statement of General
March, chief of staff, to the house
committee investigating the escape of
the draft dodger. The Inquiry, which
has brought out many acrimonious ac
cusations, seems to be narrowing down
so that the blame for the escape of
Bergdoll will be placed, on larence
Gibbaney, one of the- slacker's at
torneys, since dead, and the two ser
geants from whose custody Bergdoll
got away.
Another crisis drew near in the
British coal strike last week. The
transport workers decided that no for
eign coal should be unloaded In the
United Kingdom, promising aid in this
to the miners and taking up the mat
ter with the railway workers. The
government was determined that , the
entry of foreign coal for vital pur
poses should not be prevented, and
began concentrating soldiers and sail
ors In the areas where trouble might
be expected. Robert Williams, lead
er oT the transport workers, said:
"The embargo will be maintained even
if disease results. The remedy Is to
stop the Importation of coal." .
According to foreign correspondents,
the British government has offered
the Sinn Fein leaders a new peace
proposition which the , latter seem
willing to accept. Ireland Is offered
all the rights possessed by any self
governing member of the empire, in
cluding full fiscal autonomy and full
control of its judiciary and police,
and thex annual tribute of f 18,000,000
will be abandoned. Arrangements' or
defense by the army and navy are left
open for discussion. A condition to
the offer is that both north and south
Ireland must accept it as a final set
tlement and must work together as
b uiuieu ireiana.
TEST EGGS AT LEAST
Make Inspection on Sevi.
teenth Days for Those .
or With Dead QeV
(Prepared by the United s,ato
Tt is of litflo e)
oatientlv for 21 ,io,-.. lei
v. c yium I()r ,
, to Sit
which she fluffs te- fathers
fertile or if the
died. Neither does it Pay ' m hae
Incubator for three week ,,uJU
. j
rpndant fnro onvi ix-.
,ith its
in it are not fertile. ' e
, -M,en.se, ifth
All poultry owners whn ri...
should be thoroughly familiar
chick,
method of testing Pr,' lUtte
whether it is fertile nr ?Z,' Q Ml
grayish spot, known as tii
spot, on the surface of ti,.
soon as a fertile egg is 1)hlCwl
a hen or in an incubator the dev 'i
ment of the germ beirins op"
should be 'tested at least twice dur
the incubation period, say poultry
cialists of the United States Lw!
ment of Agriculture. This is
preferably on the seventh and f0?
teenth days.- The infertile eggs a
t ss, , ' ' J
Testing Egg by Use of Metal Chimney
i Tester.
those with dead germs, should then
be removed. White-shell eggs can be
tested on the fourth or fifth day,
whereas the .development of eggs hav
ing brown shells often can not be seen
by the use of the ordinary egg tester
until the seventh day.
"A satisfactory home-made egg tester
or candler can be made with' a shoe
box or any other box large enough to
uoiu me xuuiy. vut u uoie a miie
larger than a 25-cent piece in the side
of the box, so that wnen the lamp is
placed inside the box the hole in the
side will-be opposite the flame. Make
a hole also in the top of the bos large
enough to prevent the top from catch
ing fire from the heat of -the lamp.
When the chimney is long enough, al
low it to extend through the top of
the box. This permits the heat to es
cape and avoids the risk of fire, Spe
cial care should 'always be exercised
in using kerosene lamps in candling
to prevent fire. To prevent further
possibility of fire, a wooden box may
be used In place of a pasteboard one,
and, if desired, the opening through
which the chimney extends may be
lined with tin or asbestos.
Electric or gas lamps may be used
in a box with a hole in the same way
that the kerosene lamp is used. The
hole which is in the side of the box
should be on' the same level as the
light. The eggs may also be tested by
sunlight or daylight, using a shade or
curtain with a hole in it for the light
to shine through.
Testing with a; tester or candler
should be done in a dark room. Hold
each egg with the large end up, so that
the size of the air cell may be seen,
as well as the condition of the embryo
or germ. An infertile egg when can
dled looks perfectly clear, the same
as a fresh one ; while a fertile egg
shows a dark spot known as the em
bryo, with a mass of little blood veins
radiating in all directions. When the
germ is dead, and' the egg has been
Incubated for at least 48 hours, the
blood settles away from the embryo
toward the edges of tb yolk, forming
In some cases an irregular circle of
blood, .known as a blood ring. Egg9
vary in' this respect some showing
nly a streak of blood.
All Infertile eggs, and those with
dead germs, should be removed at the
end of the first test. Eggs with dead
germs soon decay and give off a had
odor If allowed' to remain. The infer
tile eggs make good feed for young
chickens.
At the second test, on the fourteenth
day, the eggs containing strong, livinjj
embryos will be dark and well filled
up, showing a clear, sharp, distmc
line between the alf cell and the grow
ing embryo, while eggs with dead
germs will show only partial develop
ment and lack .this clear, distinct out
line. V The period of Incubation for hens
eggs is 21 days, but usually some or
the eggs'hatch the evening of the twen
tieth day. Sometimes it happens, how
ever, that the 'hatch will run over tn
twenty-first day, especially during co
weather.
Water ! Essential.
One dozen eggs contain about o
pint of water. Clean, fresh, pure w
ter should be kept constantly her
the hens and should be renewed
least once daily, say Specialists or
United States Department of Agrio
tare. ..."
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