Tl 68TH YEAR. NO. 89. SEMI-^ PRESIDENT WILSON so INTERPRETS LEAGUE m ? * * . I *4 1 II 1 lens ijOQge tommuiee morai Obligations Are More Binding Than Any Legal Promise. c spr< elec PRECEDENT IS SMASHED the _______ con wltl In Contradiction to Precedents eiec of 100 Years President and Put t tlO Senate Committee Holds of Round Table Discussion. win the Washington, Aug. 21.?President * Wilson, interpreting the league of na-t tions covenant for the senate foreign ' relations committee, declared it linpre posed no legal obligation for the use of American military forces in procur toctlng the territory or independence of any other nation. , . ^ . ., , , . nisi But he added that the covenant ern might involve, in certain circumero stances, "an absolutely compelling moral obligation" which might bo j even stronger than a legal promise. j Pressed for a more exact definition . teri by the committee members who insisted that the whole arrangement was "a rope of sand," he asserted plo that on the contrary he considered It t n ? as placing the nations In "an attitude of comradeship and protection," which would compel respect for the ^ principles of Justice and liberty. Meeting the committee in a round sou table discussion in the East room of ton the White House, in contradiction to stn 5 the precedents of more than a century, and with the whole nation lis- So" tening through the medium of a relay BUC of public stenographers, the president p,a went into many of the details of the ln Q re peace negotiations and touched on all the hotly debated questions which * e have divided the senate in its consld- ron eration of the peace treaty. Article 10 of the covenant, guar- 'ro anteeing the integrity of the league :l,s< members against aggression, he de- wn clared should leave to each nation atri "complete freedom of choice as to the ?ra application of force." Even if the American representative on the coun- TH ell Joined In a unanimous recommendation for military action the final decision for peace or war must _ Coi rest so far as concerned the United States with congress, he said. Japan's Written Promise. Whatever advice the council gave under its authority to take such action ? as is "deemed appropriate," must also wj, be deemed appropriate by the United HUj] States to bind this government, he jnt argued, though in the background jn would be such a potential moral forco an(j that he doubted if the nation would nff often decline to act. a c The president revealed that Japan's feri promise to return Shantung province af^ to China was reduced to written form \ in the minutes of the peace confer- nie ence. He asserted he had "every 25 confidence" that the promise would be carried out and told the senators tj,e it was "the best that could be got" 5y out of the negotiations, Japan having tra given notice she would withdraw rrom the conference if her demands were (JK refused. The American delegates, he said, had tried to keep the nation free j from obligations in European afTairs |(ai "so far as it was honorably possible spo to do so," but he assented that it Am might be necessary to keep some American troops in the Rhine district his under the treaty for the ne*t ir? ? time years. ( He declared the nation would be Its wo, own sole Judge whether Its obliga- )ft j tions had been fulfilled under the dis- the putcd withdrawal clause of the league ^he covenant; that purely domestic ques- Ar* tions were safe from the league's Interference, and that the Monroe doc- I*'lt trine was clearly preserved. The league, the president explained. 1 was built on the plan of General ney Smuts, of South Africa. froi Some (Questions Not Answered. 'nK Mr. Wilson revealed that he had ^e' suggested that the United States take P?r no part of the German reparation but GXpl had asked that the conference reserve dlsposlion of the German Pacific Is- 8?n land of Yap on a suggestion that It ^an was needed for an American naval ^ atation. Some of the senators' questions the to 8 president declined to answer on the P?? ground of International policy. How n,e< the American delegates voted on mnJ Japan's proposal for a racial equality clause in the league covenant he said tlc8 r see (Continued on Page Two.) bee ffi Lan< WEEKLY. LANCASTE1 UTHERN POWER CO. |? YPFf T fipfl CAN KEEP POWER ON EAlLl/I t\LL( ? INFLUENZA F ort? of Contemplated Strike Move LULllLH L President to Declare Plants Will Bun. Experts Are Look ease Breaking C lharlotte, Aug. 21.?Current wide- i \ri?i?a uvan t 11 mem sad report# to the effect that the trleal workers In the employ of Southern Power company were COOPERATION I templatlng a Btrike In sympathy h the striking street car men and itrical workers of the Southern State Health Offic< >iic utilities company, called forth Hayne, Stresses I statement by W. S. Lee, president ? ? the power company, that "there Promptly Report 1 be no cessation of power from Authorities. Southern Power company." 'resident Lee further said that he Cqlumbia S C I I received no notice from the em- thero w,u bQ rec*ru< yes that they contemplate a strike. influenza pan(iemIc explained that the company was the world ,a8t faH an pared to continue the operation of op(nlon vo,ced by R system even should a walkout oc- They dQ nQt believe recurrence of the ma ^he Southern Power company fur- guch vlrulence a8 ,t8 ties electric current to the South- . ???? Deaths may be expe Public Utilities company, to num- ... . ., . 1 " but in not as high a us municipalities and hundreds of ustrial plants in the Piedmont sec? of North and South Carolina. The Prevalence o ). L. Goble. organizer for the In- South Carolina Is no. national Brotherhood of Electrical to tll? rocor^H al rkers, said that he knew of no re- 8tate board of heillth" sat having been made of the em- 1Iayne* health of yes of the power company that tbat ,liert* weie onl; y strike in sympathy with those of P?rtP(1 during the mor utilities company. Profiting by the ex ..... .... . . epidemic last year, the iVhlle not publicly announced, it .. , .. TT .. . , . K ties of the United Stat i learned from an authoritative ... a cooperative uniflec rce that the utilities company con- . .. , . keep the spread of th< iplates resuming operation of its , , .. ... ^ f . hounds if possible. T set cars within the next few days. ? . . . . ,. . . Acuity now being expi 5. V. Taylor. president of the ... , , , w. . .. .. ... . medical profession is ithern Public Utilities company, is- ... . ... . , pert information abo d an ultimatum to the striking ... , .. . ..... which makes it hard t tform men and electrical workers this city, Winston-Salem and Dr HaVne and r8 lenvllle, S. C., that at the close of Akin-- M- PaRat*d day Tuesday all men now on the geon? United States pi lpany's roll not maklne aDollcatlon v'ce. who is in charge < work would hereafter be debarred cal W(>r n OUt 1 aT m the employ of the company. He ing arranK*n,entH t'> > stated the new men being trained Bituation s lou ( n 1 uld be placed In the Jobs of the headway in the ata 1 > * i#1 ka authorities will be bet king men and cars would be op- . . . . .. .. ... with the malady than ted in the three cities. , , there was a dearth of nurses because of the IE TRACTION STRIKE of them are out of 1 IN NEW YORK SETTLED can be called upon t light. nprom'se Kntls Trouble That Par At a recent meet in , , u ? , ... ?. . officers at Atlantic Ci alyzcd Subway and Elevated states were represent! Lines for Two Pays. committee of nine wi make a study of infliu s'ew York, Aug. 21.?The strike mt a campaign to flg ich for two days "has paralyzed 'ho which could be adop iway and elevated system of tin states. A subcommltt erborough Rapid Transit company Dr. James A. Hayne, Manhattan, the Bronx. Brookly i ffcer of South Carolini I Queens, has been formally called Rankin, state health by a vote of the strikers to accept Carolina, and Dr. Enn ompromise offered them at a con- state health com ml? ence of city and state officials this glnia. was appointed t ernoon. ommendations to th< Jnder the terms of settlement the nine. This subcomo n will receive a wage increase of making a study of the per cent and it is provided that the manner in which a u stion of whether they shall receive should be made again additional 25 per cent demanded meet at Raleigh shor them shall be submitted to arbi- jt.g report. l'on* Dr. Hayne, in disci ^ I earis. Aug. 21.?Before leaving for lows it whIch makPS ly General Pershing told eorre- ?p also ala(ps fhat u ndents that he expected to nail for of prove(, Vft,up jn (f erica about September 1. and pruMimonla which car rtly after his arrival would visit tjveiy old home in Missouri and would * , . The state health nffl j ko to Cheyenne, Wyo. , , _ , * , . , . in an influenza epid< leneral Pershing said that he ,, , _ ., other epidemics, an i jld recommend that a monument , ? . , is the prompt report >laced at Romagne, where occurred . ... . _ . , . . the county health boa bitterest fighting encountered by , A . mediate transmissal to American armiea In the Meuse- . , ... , .. , of health. Without tt tonne battle. ^ health authorities are IGHTKXKD DEALERS SAID TO the,r nKht There is BE SHIPPING POOD TO CUBA *ta,u,p books requirir Tampa, Aug. 21.?District Attor- r?P?rt contagious disi H. S. Phillips received a telegram disregarded more ofte in Attorney General Palmer stat- Bprvpd. I nless these r< that since food libels had been if ,s almost impossibl d In Tampa recently it was re- health officer to kno ted 2,000 tons of perishables in oase ^Ra reached e] eaa of normal shipments had been "onB anf' *? ut But in To Be Kept Apart From Form. Ratification. Ne eff< NECESSARY BUT REPUBLICANS OBJECT Ve em ert er. Dr. J. A McNary Group Insist on Reser- bIe mportance of vations Being Part of Ratifl- r,? ing Cases to cation Instrument?Borah Op- a. poses Article X. "n ^ o be tug. 21.?Thu Washington, Aug. 21.?The first po iescence of the open move for a compromise in the nij which ravaged league of nations fight came from ad- pr< d winter is the ministration quarters embraced in a ledlcal experts, proposal that the senate adopt inter- Ch however, that protative reservations, but that they nil lady will be of be kept apart from the actual ratifies- ro original stage tion of the treaty. lr< icted, they say, The overture met with no immedi- tie i volume as in ate success on the Republican side of Mt the chamber, senators of the Republi- Mi f Influenza in ca1> reservation group declaring they roi rmal, according could not recede from their position "b e office of th that 1? be effective the reservations an I)r. James A must go into the ratification itself. ha fleer, said today Senator Pittman, of Nevada, a otl y 19 cases re Democratic member of the foreign reith of June. lations committee, presented a com- en perience of the promise proposal in the form of a res- tei health authori- olution embodying in effect that foutf sei es are planning reservations agreed upon by seven let 1 campaign to Republican senators and declaring ; malady within them to constitute the senate's undel tn he greatest dif- standing of disputed points in t>?,th; erienced by the r<>vftnant. wa the meager ex tbe Republican draft, however, ut the disease 's expressly provided that the reser- dif o combat. vations "be made a part of the treaty pr< ipt Charles V by instrument of ratification," a fet assistant sur Prov,8? which Senator McNary. of'ni iblic health ser- ?reK?n' and others of the group of to of epidemtologi- sevt;n Republicans said they consid- bo olina. are mak ered absolu,ely necessary if enough 1 Ar cope with the Republican votes are to be gained mi to secure ratification of the treaty. Pa tenza gain anv le The health To ove,come this objection, Senater able to cope lof R?*tinan proposed in a speech jin th last year, when the 8enate that the r*8?*ul,<>n b* Fr physicians and adoPted at once and submitted to the in war Now many othor Powers who win be represented the service and on lhe leaKUe coun(il A funeral de- th o assist in the ba,e developed during which Senator, a' Borah, Republican. Idaho, and others 1? took exception to President Wilson's, g of the health . , , , , distinction between moral and legal ty, at which 43 ,. , .. I ogligations under the covenant as ex:d, an executive , . , .. pressed in yesterday s W htte House Ti *s appointed to oonferencft between the President and n< inza and to map , , . 4. ... i the foreign relations committee. ( ht the epidemic ited by all the Embodies President's Views, ee consisting of Although Senator Pittman said he ,b state health of- bad not submitted his resolution for FO i; Dr. Wilson S. tbe President's approval, he asserted officer of North ,hat 11 carried into effect Mr. Wil-. n< Ion O. Williams, | son's views on the subject of reserva-l *>! 1 or isioner of Vir- H?ns ?8 expressed to the committee ^ o make the rec- yesterday. Me indicated his firm be; committee of ,Pat l',e administration would go to littee has been no'further toward a compromise be- ,u disease and the cause >l feared that inclusion of the! m nifled campaign reservations into the ratification I')f st it. and it will w?uld reopen the negotiations with ,i( tly and compile Germany. Leaders of the MeNary group. nev -i i. ertheless, insisted that thev had inussing the situ ^ , . .u . formation that in the end their plan to the fact that not cause large WO!,!d have 1)pnior'?'ip *?PPports are madeLhould not he Incorporated in the rat- rh le for the state iflcatjon itself. Senator f'ittman de- ^ w when a dis- cjared Germany was awaiting an op- 80 pidemlc propor pnrtunity to attach "hundreds of res- ? ures to counter- ervations" and that to reopen the subject would submit the Unltei c last year, ac- States to a needless risk. His resc1 report of the lution went over without action there were be Borah Again Object*. 70.000.caM. of Question, by Senator Borah turne.1 | the debate to a discussion of the, rolina, with ap- mora, and lppal obligations assume,: itli8 from pneu under article X of the. covenant, by table to the dis- which the members agree to preserve if the state was one another's territorial integrity less virulence, against external aggression. The arore than half a ? 1 United States. (Continued on I'age tngut.) I L_ 0 news SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR ENE CASTLE MARRIED, MCYirO A^K\ THAT VT PICKENS, S. C., MAYBE! "?lAIIU AuAj itlAl nugh She iiiul Her Husband Say TROOPS WITHDRAW Not and Don't Know Whore . Pit-kens is. Protest of Carranza Government Received in WashingGreenville, S. (., Aug. 21.?The w York Herald's new article to the ton. ect that Irene Castle, widow of rnon Castle, was married at Pick- NQ REpj y IS YET MADE i on May 21, 1918, to Lieut, ltobE. Treman, has caused considera : interest here, it being alleged in Fm,r i>an(ijts Have Been Killed ? New York story that the marge was performed by Rev. Frank American 11 oops After Julian of this city. Lieut. Treman Desperate Fight in Adobe d Mrs. Castle were married in New , .. . . .? .. Block House, rk only a few months ago. it will remembered, and at that time, rerts were current that they had been Marfa, Texas, Aug. 21.?Four >rrled in Greenville several months Mexican bandits were killed by PViOUS. A m prion n t f.w.r.c fr, --?* 1 ... .. in ..icAico veoieruay, Kev. Frank A Julian, rector of Capt. Leonard Matlack. who arrived rist Episcopal church, refused to- here by airplane tonight, reported, ilit, as on previous occasions, to They were surrounded in an adob? 11 fir in or deny that he married Mrs. block house that the Mexicans hail ?ne Castle, widow of Vernon ('as- constructed in a mountain pass, i, to Lieut. Robert E. Treman in The bandits fought desperately ly, 1918. On former occasions Rev. when they found they were trapped . Julian when questioned about this ami two escaped. When the Anieriport, declared that he felt bound t?an troops approached the blockhouse v promises to the parties involved" with the intention of searching it. the d that any announcement would Mexicans opened lire from port holes. ve to come from them or from some tier source. Washington, Aug. 21.?Immediate I have received telegrams from sev- withdrawal of the American troops il New York papers about the mat' novv on the trail of bandits in north r," he said tonight, "and I have orn Mexico, was asked today by Mexiit them all to Mr. Treman. I will jean Ambassador llonillas, who called liini do all the talking." at the state department to present Mr Julian, however, went further a formal protest from the Carranza. an on previous occasions and said government. The text of the protest at he could say that the marriage was not made public and officials, is not performed at Pickens. would not discuss it further than tr? Information secured over the long say that no reply had been made, dance telephone from the judge of At the war department it was said ooate in Pickens county is to the ef- that no additional reports on the op;t that there appears on his books erutions of the American forces had record of a marriage license issued been received from Major General "Irene Blythe and R E. Freeman, Dick man, commanding the southern th of New York on May 21, 1918." department. The troops now are well cording to this official's records the |nto Mexico and army officers hop? irriage was performed by "Rev. that before returning they will clean nil A. Juhan." out bandits from the stretch of terrlWhen the information in regard to tory 20 miles south of the border is record was communicated to Kev. where they are operating. ank A. Juhan, he said he had nhth- Whether a reply to the Mexican g to sav In retard to ti ? ? ... protest will be sent has not been anAccording to the World Almanac pounced. Such protests have been e real name of Vernon Castle, avi- raarte heretofore without drawing a or, who was killed February 15. response, officials regarding them as 18, was Blythe. having been submitted largely for the . record. Treinan Denies Deport. Went on "Hot Troll." Ithaca. N. Y., Aug. 21. Robert I' The American forces went into email denied a report published in Mexico on a "hot trail" seeking the 5w York city that he and Mrs. Irene bandits who held the American army istle were married at Pickens, S. (V. aviators. Lieutenants Davis and PeterMay. 1918. He says that at that son, for ransom, and it was indicated me he was near Detroit in army today that the Mexican protest would rvlce. not hasten their withdrawal, Mr. Tremnn said that neither In- Daily advices to state department >r Mrs. Treman ever had been in aro keeping officials here informed as ickens, S. C., nor "do we know to tjie state of public opinion in Mexhere it is " jco as reflected in the newspapers of "The article undoubtedly was g ven Mexico City. Reports received today paper by some one who wished to show a general belief in the capital irt us," she- said. "Mr. Treman and tj,at fanure to solve the petroleum yself are divinely happy and cannot problem is an important factor in the affected by such a misrepresenta present strained relations between an of facts and we know our friends Mexico and the United States, ill not believe it." The Universal is quoted as saying that official opinion in Mexico deCastle License Produced. mamls a complete change in the cabGreenville. S. C., Aug. 21.?The inet. arringe license records of judge of "Undoubtedly the key of our difffobate at Pickens. S C.. clears up oulties lie3 in Article 27 of the conistle story showing that license was stltution as it affects petroleum." tho sued to Irene Blythe (Vernon Cas- paper says. "This fact must he faced a's real name) and R. E. Tremalne. squarely and and patriotically." id that they were married at Green- Tho pap?.r then expresses dissatislle May 21, 1!?18. The third party, faction because the house is wasting sning name E. C. Mercer, secured li- tiim. discussing the labor law "which nse. must and will he vetoed because of " the wild radicalism it contains" and Faith Justified by Two Soldiers. oldsWashington. Aug. 21.--One of the "Kxoelsior comments on Atnbassaro American soldiers sentenced to (lor pitcher's extended stay in Wash ath for sleeping on outpost duty in (ngton and finds a connection between ance and subsequently pardoned by (his an(J ^or(l Harmsworth s recont esident Wilson was killed in the announcement that Great Britain eat Aisne offensive in July, 1918. Would not send any diplomatic repid the other was twice wounded and ........... ,v> .iicjicu 11 ii111 me latter tally honorably discharged. country changes its policy toward forThis was disclosed today l?y an o\ oign capital or, as Excelsior puts it, ange of correspondence hot ween u nt i 1 our government has seen tit to cretary Baker and President Wil n. (Continued or. Page Eight.1 | Hyde Has Majority of One \ole Charleston, S. ('., Aug. ?At Nito o'clock tonight the city Democratic executive ronimittcc will meet in tlie Hibernian Hull for the purpose of considering tlie returns from the city IViiiik ratir primiiry e'ection held Tuesday. On the fa< e of the returns as announced through the executive romm flee, Tristram T. Hyde, incumbent candidate for mayor, has a lead of one vote over John P. (tniee. their respective totals l?eing :t,42! to H.420. Each side presented petitions to the city Democratic executive committee instituting proceedings before that committee, a recount hc'ng requested both by Mr. (trace ami by Mr. Hyde.