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?lu> Hantbrrg ibrralb (2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1920. Established in 1891 HOLLAND REFUSES i ALLIES' DEMAND DUTCH GOVERNMENT DECLARES | IT IS NOT PARTY TO TREATY. Tradition to Support Claims. Jteply Sets Forth That Country Has Always Been Ground of Refuge ' of Vanquished. > \ Paris, Jan. 23.?The demand of the entente powers that Holland deliver up to them Former Emperor William of Germany that he may be tried "for a supreme offense against interna tional morals and the sanctity of treaties" has been refused by Holland. In a note delivered this afternoon 1 to the foreign office by the Dutch minister, Holland takes the ground ; that the Dutch government is not a ' party to the peace treaty which condemned William Hohenzollern and that it can not recognize as an international duty the necessity to as- 1 sociate itself with "this act of high 1 l * international policy of the powers." ' It declares also that the constitu f ent law of the kingdom and the traw dition of the country, always a ground for refugee for the vanquished in international conflicts, will not permit the government to defer to the wishes of the entente by withw drawing from the former emperor the benefit of its laws and traditions, r The declaration is made that the people of the Netherlands can not betray the faith of those who have confided j themselves to Holland's free institutions. The text of the reply: "By verbal note, dated January 15, 1920, given to the envoy of the Queen at Paris, the powers referring to article 227 of the treaty of Versailles, demand that the government of Holland give into their hands William of Hohenzollern, former emperor of Ger^ many, so that he may be tried. w ^'Supporting this demand they obl j>: Qrmer emperor had | remained ^in Germany the German 1 ft government would, under the terms K article 228 of the treaty of peace, B have teen obliged to deliver him. V "In citing as premeditated violar t*ons of international treaties as well as a systematic disregard of the moft sacred rules of the rights of man a number of acts committed during the ^ war by German authority, the powers place the responsibility, at least morally, upon the former emperor, k "They express the opinion that Hol[ land would not fulfill her international duty if she refused to associate herslf with them within the limit or | * her ability, to pursue or at least not | to impede, the punishment of crimes J t* committed. 1 "They emphasize the special char- * acterof their demands, which contem- 1 plate not a judicial accusation hut an ? act of high international policy and 1 they make an appeal to Holland's re- t spect of law and love of justice not to 1 cover with her moral authority violation by Germany of the essential principles of the solidarity of nations. "The queen has the honor to ob- ] serve first, that obligations which for ^ Germany could have resulted from ^ article 228 of the treaty of peace can not serve to determine the duty of f Holland, which is not a party to the . treaty. "The government of the queen, moved by imprescriptible reasons, ^ can not view the question raised by & rlomartrl r?f thp DOWfirs PXCeDt I , m from the point of view of its duty. * It was absolutely unconnected with the origin of the war and has maintained, and not without difficulty, its neutrality to the end. It finds it| lfself then face to face with facts of ' the war in a position different from that of the powers. "It rejects with energy all suspicion of wishing to cover with its soveerign right and its moral authority violations of the essential principles of the solidarity of nations; but it can not recognize an international duty to associate itself with tlrs act of high international policy of the powers. "If in the future there should be instituted by the societv of nations * an Jnternat;onal jurisdiction competent to judge in case of war deeds, qualified as crimes and submitted to its jurisdiction by statute antedating the acts committed, it wpuld be fit for Holland to associate herself with the new regime. f "The government of the queen can \ ? not admit in the present case any of '< the duty than that imposed upon it t by the laws of the kingdom and na- j i I HOUSE REJECTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE PALMETTO REPRESENTATIVES REJET AMENDMENT. Only Weak Support. Matter Starts a Warm Floor Discussion?Killed By Vote of 93 to 21. Columbia, Jan. 22.?By a vote of 93 to 21 the South Carolina house of representatives today passed a concurrent resolution to reject the national suffrage amendment. The following members voted in favor of rejection of the suffrage: Speaker Cothran, Representatives Anderson, Ashley, Atkinson, J. B., and 'Atkinson, R. O.. Becham, Bellemy, Berry, Boyd, Bradford, Brown, W. F., and Brown, W. R., Buckingham, Busby, Cade, Carv, Clinkscales, Clyburn, Coney, Cooper, R. M., Jr., Crews, Daniels, Davis, J. H., Derrick, /bickson, Dreher, Dukes, Eadiy, Ellerbee, A. C. Etherridge, Evans, Fairey, Folk, Fumer, Gallman, Gtston, Gibson, Gray, Gresham, Hall, Hampton, Hanshan, Haxmon, Hart, Hughes, Hutson, Jackson, Johnson, M. M., and Johnson, W. W., Keenan, Kelley, Kinard, Lancaster, Langdale, Leopard, Long, Mann, McAdams, DcDavid, Macdonald, McElveen, McLaurin, Miley, McMillan, McSweeney, Meares, Mischos, Moise, Moore, Mor ison, Moss, Orr, Owens, Pasley, Peurifoy, Pegues, Preacher, Purslev, tlawlinson, Riley, Rivers, Russ, Russell, Seagars, Signious, Smoks, Stone, rurner, Walker, Wingard, Winter ind Woods. % Those who voted ajainst rejection ind in favor of suffrage were Representatives Barnwell, Belser, Bramett, Brockington, Burguson, Butler, Uarrigan, Cooper, M. R., Ellerbee, E., ?., Hamblin, Hamer, Hamilton, Horon, Lide, Mims, Nunn, Oliver, Richirdson, Sprott, Stringer and Welch. Several efforts were made to post)one debate on the question but these vere all in vain. Representative Hamilton made such an effort and ipoke in favor of the suffrage. Representative Belser, of Sumter, urged :onsideration for the amendment, not hat he felt that it had any chance i )ut that South Carolina might not )ass lightly on such an important 1 natter, which has been endorsed'by he Democratic party. He said he iid not know whether he was wholly or suffrage and he thought the majority of the people are opposed to it, >ut "we gain nothing," he said, "by )assing this rejection resolution." When the concurrent suffrage reection resolution came up in the louse Thursday, Representative deares moved that the resolution be % eferred to the judiciary committee, is a matter of legal precaution. Mr. iraarora moved to taDie tms auu here was a loud vote of "noes," ouder the "ayes." Attention, Veterans. The annual meeting of Camp Jentins, No. 627, United Confederate Veterans, will be held at the court .ouse on Thursday, February 5, 1920. Ml veterans are urged to be present, rhe election of officers for the ensung year will be held, and a sponsor vill be elected to attend the general eunion of the U. C. V. < i?i ? Coming?"The Miracle Man." La-rictorie Theatre, Bamberg, S. C.?ad. ional tradition. "Now, neither, the constituent laws if the kingdom, which are based upon he principles of law universally rec)gnized, nor a respectable secular radition which has made this country ilways a ground of refuge for the vanished in international conflicts, )ermit the government of Holland to lefer to the desire of the powers by vithdrawing from the former em)eror the benefits of its laws and its radition. "Justice and national honor of vhieh respect is a sacred duty oppose his. The Netherland people, moved )y the sentiments to which in history he world has done justice, could not )etray the faith of those who have i onfided themselves to their free institutions. j "The government of the queen is )leased to believe that the powers vill recognize the good grounds of hese considerations, which rise above my consideration of personalities tnd which seem to it so peremptory hat they could not reasonably give < ise to wrong interpretations." Is Perpetual Mot\ Youth May H i Seattle Youth May Have voirs of Nature's Energ zled But Inclined SomewhereHas Alfred M. Hubbard, 19 yea old Seattle boy, tapped the inexhausi ible reservoirs of nature's energy an harnessed to the use of man th illimitable power that permeates th universe? Hubbard has announced the pei fection of an invention he terms a "atmospheric power generator," an made claims that caused Seattle' leading electrical engineers to dout the evidence of their senses and t pause before they condemned as foil the assertions of the youth. With the apparatus, in appearanc o email nrvll nf wirp nhnnf cix inehp in diameter, surrounding a perma nentlv magnetic core eight inche long, the entire contrivance easil carried on a man's hand, Hubbar gave a demonstration several mile from his laboratory that, regardles of the principles involved, severa Seattle engineers declared withou parallel in electrical hist Dry. Marvelous Machine Anyway. An ordinary incandescent electri light connected wth the two termi nals of the "atmospheric power gen erator" glowed to a cherry red fo nearly an hour, and Hubbard volun teered to permit the lamp to bur: for as many hours as was necessar; to satisfy the most skeptical. The young inventor says there ar no moving parts connected with hi generator, that there are no hiddei batteries, storage or primary, ant those who witnessed the demonstra tion made sure that there was nt outside connection with any soure of power. Hubbard's explanation of the phe nomenon is that he has succeeded u transforming the earth lines of mag netic force into electrical energ: available for use. While electrical engineers wer< highly skeptical and held to the pos sibility of fraud, still as Georg* Quinnan, superintendent of the elec trical operations of the Puget Soun< Traction, Power and Light company said, "whatever the lad has done i is a marvelous demonstration." All the experts agreed that, if a; Hubbard declares, there are no mov ing parts and no concealed battery the invention is revolutionary. The; had no explanation to offer for it operation. J. D. Ross, superintendent of th< municipal lighting department an< an authority on experimental elec tricity, declared it possible that Hub bard had stumbled on the answe to the question of the ages?can th< power of the atmosphere be utilized' Idea Still Possible. Carl Edward Magnusson, actinj dean of the University of Washing ton college of Engineering, decline< even to hazard a guess as to the prin ciple involved in the device. "It sounds like trickery to me an< I can hardly believe that the experi ment as described to me actually tool place," he said. "I will not ventun an opinion until I have seen it." C. F. Uhden, special engineer o the city in charge of the Skagit rive power development, declared himsel intensely interested in the inventioi and after canvassing the posslbilitie of chicanery admitted that h< wouldn't dare form an opinion unti he had seen the apparatus in opera tion. "It's always possible," he sai< "though there have been many t< make the claim and no one to sub ctnntiatp it in thft Oast." But Hubbard, because his devici has not been patented, owing to com plications arising with his financia backers, it is said, has refused to al low technical men more than ? glimpse at the apparatus. All that could be learned from bin regarding the construction of th< instrument follows: The machine, he said, is composec of several layers of wire about ? steel core, which is magnetized aftei the construction is complete. One* magnetized, the core needs no furthe: attention, he said and the entire device will deliver enrgv unremit tingly for an indefinite length o: time. "I place a maximum of 50 year; on the life of the generator," said Hubbard, "simply because one musi fix some maximum. I know no reas (on Here At Last? ave Solved Problem Tapped Inexhaustible Resery?Electrical Experts Puz. to Believe Trickery -Not Impossible irf on why it should not last until time t- rots the insulation away from the d wires." e Hubbard denies that his device is e a perpetual motion machine. He maintains that it taps the vast store - houses of cosmic energy and that the n apparatus is founded upon sound d scientific principles, s Got Idea From Spark. ?t "I have hitched up my wires to the o tail of the universe, you might say," y f he said* Hubbard nas a high school educae tion. His father is an electrical en :s | gineer, he said, and the family forml j erly lived in Spokane. It was while is j he was in charge of an air compressor y I at the Hercules mine near Coeui d j d'Alene, Idaho, that he first became s interested in the problem. s "I watched a great belt fly by me l1 day after day," he related, "and I t noted, as thousands before me had, that I could draw an electric spark from the belt with my finger. 1 had c always been interested in electricity i-; and had studied a great deal from -| books s'nce I was a small boy. One r | night I conceived the Idea that devel1 oped later into the> generator. I will a j not say that it utilizes in any way the y i current derived by friction as from the belt. That is not accurate. I am e not prepared to divulge the nature s of the actual translation of energy." a Hubbard says he can obtain four 3 kilowatts, equivalent to more than five horse power, from a contrivance * o weighing less than 12 pounds, and e that he can build a generator less than 18 feet in length to develop 18,H 000 horse power, or sufficient electri 11 cal energy to drive the new battleship -1 New Mexico. 7 Hubbard offered to build for $50 a generator large enough to drive a e motor car, but much smaller than the - present engines. The Hubbard gener6 ator, according to its inventor, would - give the airplane unlimited flying i range. The young man says he worked 18 t i hours a day for two years before he ! came to Seattle, and during the year s since perfecting the apparatus. His - first model was built a year and a half ago, he said. 7 Hubbard asserts that his four kilos watt machine has continuously ex-. cited the equivalent of 120 ordinary b 25 watt house lamps to full brilliancy i for three months. The device during - this time, he says he is ready to take - oath, did not receive outward stimur lus and, at the time the test was b completed the lights were burning at ? the same brilliancy. Many Fiascos Recalled. I The apparatus, should it prove to - have the merit its inventor asserts 1 for it, engineers said, will revolu tion. All steam and gas engines will be junked, experts say. The most i ponderous and complicated electrical - generating devices, steam and water t turbine generators and all the mechb anism of transmission wires and transformers will be obsolete. Elec i tricai transportation can enter a new r era. Air transportation will be adf vanced hundreds of years. Subi marine practice will be changed, and s most important of all cheap, almost 3 inexpensive power, placed at the dis1 posal of every man and woman. The announcement of Hubbard recalled to the minds of many the fui rore created in July, 1918, by the 3 request of Garabad Ghiragossian to - congress for a special patent protecting his rights as the inventor of a 3 "free energy" machine. The patent was granted after nuI merous members of congress had - seen the machine in operation and i testified to its apparent powers. For some reason, not fully explained, the i engine failed to render the service its 3 inventor asserted for it, and nothing has been heard of the device since. II i I Mrs. Johns Entertains. r 5 Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johns delight[* fully entertained about 10 couples of J the younger set one evening last week in honor of the Rev. R. E. Hardaway E and their guests. A very enjoyable , evening, including delicious refreshI ments and entertaining games, kept t the guests until after 11 p. m.? 1 - Allendale Citizen. G.O.P.TOLD TO ACT ON THE IRISH BILL "WHY DON'T YOU PASS IT, OR DO YOUR DUTY AND KILL IT" Says House Democrat. Declares I>e Valera's Presence "Places Us in Embarrassing Position." Waohintrtnn Ton 9 5 Ronnhli(>9nc in Congress were accused today by Representative Connally, Democrat, Texas, of playing politics in the consideration of a bill proposing diplomatic recognition of the provisional Irish republic. "Why don't you report the bill and pass it, or do your duty and kill it, so the Irish people will know where you stand?" asked the Democratic member, addressing the Republican side of the house. Declaring the measure had been pending before a committee controlled by the Republicans since last May, Mr. Connally said "serious consideration" was not being given it, but that the committee did not act finally because it would "disillusion" American voters sympathetic to the Irish cause. Embarrassing Position. Mr. Connally accused Edward De Valera, who he described as the "advertised president of the Irish republish' of being hostile to the success of Great Britain in the world war, and added that his presence and actions in this country "place us in an embarrassing position." The British, Mr. Connally added, will never permit Ireland's separation from the British/empire because to do so would let the island ".located on the very flank of the British empire, become the prey of every scheming nation in Europe." Methodist W. M. S. The first meeting of the Methodist Woman's Missionary society for the new year was held at the church. A right good number <?f the members wras present. The president conducted all of the meeting this time. It was more of a business meeting than any other kind. The treasurer made a good report of $4 60.60 sent to our conference treasurer and $107.48 spent on local work. This last was spent for an organ and song books and a stove for the mill chapel. This financial report does not include money spent for local charity. The men's Bible class contributed some money for the mill work. Since-our last meeting we have lost by death *ne of our members, Mrs. G. A. Rice. A floral wreath was sent by the society. Mrs. Cantey and Mrs. James Burch were added to the roll. We are glad to have these ladies join us. Mesdames Simmons and Padgett were appointed by the chair a membership committee. We are very desirous of securing newcomers and ladies who are members of the Methodist church here to join in with us and work with us to extend our Lord's work to the ends of the earth. Some parting words were spoken by the president concerning two of our members, Mesdames Field and Carter. Our freewill pledges were taken, and amounted to $183. Quite a number of our members who will make pledges were absent. We hope to swell this amount considerably. The nominating committee made its report which was accepted. The following are elected for this year: President, Mrs. Glenn Cope; first vice president. Mrs. C. R. Brabham, Jr.; Supt. young people, Mrs. Padgett; Supt. juniors, Mrs. B. W. Simmons; Supt. social service, Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg; recording secretary, Miss Bessie Lee Black; corresponding secretary, Mrs. E. O. Kirsch; treasurer, Miss Llewellyn Cleckley; assistant treasurer and agent for Voice, Mrs. John Barr; treasurer parsonage aid, Mrs. Dan Delk. Before we adjourned we were fa- j vored with a vocal solo by Mrs. Lau-! rie Smoak.?One Present. ^ <s> ^ The Ai?ollo Music Club. The Apollo Music club was attract lveiy entertained on r naay aneruouu ; by Mrs. Tillman Felder. The pro-' gramme for the afternoon was on! Spanish music. After a short busi- j ness meeting the club was invited, into the dining room which was beau- { tiful in pink and white. The hos-' tess, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Paul j Zeigler, served delightful salad and1 sweet courses in which the color scheme was beautifully carried out. Svery one thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon. RECENT WAR COST HEAPS OF MONEY UNITED STATES SPENT $22,000,000,000 OR MORE. Some Figures Given. Government Has to Buy Great Quantities of Stuff to Care for Soldiers and Sailors. Washington, January 25.?If the $22,000,000,000 that the war cost the United States were counted in silver dollars, it would take a man counting 72 a minute, working eight hours a day, 1744 years to count them. This is one of the odd items referred to by ' Representative Clarence McGregor of New York in a statement of "Interesting Facts Concerning the War," presented in the house of represents- * tlves. These dollars, if laid side by side, he said, would stretch 520,833 miles; their weight would be 687,500 short tons, and loaded on box cars of 40 tons capacity, they would make a \ train of 17,187 cars of 130 miles in length. * > There were delivered to the war department up to May 31, 1918, 131,800,000 pairs of wool socks, 85,000,000 undershirts, 83,000,000 underdrawers, 30,700,000 pairs of shoes, 21,700,000 blankets, 21,700,000 wool trousers, 12,900,000 coats, 8,300,000 overcoats. Army supplies and property that the United States had in France cost $1,426,000,000 and were sold to France for $400,000,000. Some of the items, with cost price to the United States, were: Flour, $15,500,000; bacon, $41,300,000; beef, $58,900,000; coffee,-$6,500,000; sugar, $3,200,000; flannel shirts, $17,200,000; underwear, $25,551,000; shoes, $36,880,000; socks, $9,000,000; blankets, $12,400,000. Included in the sale to France were 89,199 motor ve hides costing the United States $310,799,694. Seventy-five per cent, of the entire leather production of the country was used during the war. With 391,000 horses in the army, orders were given to the procurement division to contract for 845,000 saddles and 1,000,000 sets of harness. If all the orders had been filled it would have taken 300,000 more hides than the entire takeoff of the United States for a year. The total cost of the war to all nations was about $186,000,000,000. The expenditures of the United States were about $22,000,000,000. The expenditures of the United States were v about equal to those of Austria-Hungary. During the first three months we spent at the rate of $2,000,000 per day; during the next year the average was more than $22,000,000 per day. For the final ten months the average was over $44,000,000 per day. The total expenditures of the army itself was $14,214,061,000. This about equals the value of all the gold produced in the world from the (discovery of America up to the outbreak of tbe war. Tne item or pay for the army is larger than the combined salaries of all the public school principals and teachers in the United States for the five years from 1912 to 1916. The number of men serving in the armed forces of the United States duing the war was 4,800,000, of whom 4,000,000 served in the army. In the United States there were 54.000,000 males, and of these 26,000.000 were registered in the draft or were already in the service. Two out of every three American soldiers who reached France took part in battle. The battle losses were 50,000 killed and 236,000 wounded. Five out of every six men sent to hospitals on accoimt of wounds were returned to duty. The death loss from all causes among American forces was 122,500 of which about 10,000 came from the navy. Pneumonia killed more soldiers than were killed in battle. Wanted to See Him. A house hunter saw an advertisement in the paper describing a charming house "within a stone's throw of the station." He made an appointement and in due course was escorted to the house in question, two miles away. When they reached the threshold he turned to the agent, suavely, "Would you mind introducing me," he whispered, "to the per- 4 son who threw that stone?" ? < ? ? Coming?"The Miracle Man." LaVictorie Theatre, Bamberg, S. C.?ad*