The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1919, Image 1
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68TH YEAR. NO. 24. SEMI-WEEKLY
PEACE CONFERENCE ^mci
, A SECRET AFFAIR LAST
The TroubU
Agreement Has Been Made to i?jl
* Confine Information to
Daily Communique.
NPWUU A I)UI> HIP XT
A 1 Kansas, Cli
on the leagi
Mild Cyclone is Under Way contribution.
and Possibility is That Matter citTstar ap
Will Come Up Again Before pfir Monday.
Saturday. tated Fr,d?y.
retary exper
copy to him
Paris, Jan. 16.?The question of following Mo
whether the peace conference is to notified earl;
be secret or wholly open to the eyes death,
and ears of the world, the settlement T,,e article
of which has been long awaited was "It is a f
brought to a focus yesterday when It our people a
was announced an agreement had 'f'ea of wha
been made to confine the information other Bide,
given to the public to a daily official Point as to w
communique and that a gentleman's league of nj
agreement prevailed among the dele- earnestly des
gates nof to (Useu88 or In any way we w'eh to b
give information of the meetings In an(' n?t him
the foreign office. neace and Ji
No written official announcemen .voting man i
of this purpose waH issued, but word fought, or ar
was passed out to this effect, and it 'hose dear to
was followed by an explosion of pro- wiBh to mini
tests which quite drowned out the.turewardoings
of the peace commissioners. ! sense who d
The understanding is that th any such mr
American and Hiit'sh delegates op- attempted th
posed, this decision, hut that tho ure or worse
French, Italian and Japanese, voting] "The trou
together, prevailed. j utterances, a
The Hritish newspaper corres ported and t
pondents immediately Joined In a' '
memorial of protest, which they put | PADEREW
before Premier Lloyd Oeorge. The
American newspaper correspondents!
united In what is virtually a round!
robin to President Wilson, in which, Assassin Att
they protested in measured term
against the decision, and reminded I-eader's
the President that one of his 1
points which specifies "open cove
nants of poace openly arrived at."
The memorial was before the London,
President Inst night, and there Is ev- P?derewskl,
ery reason to believe that such bpen 8,,Khtly
storm has been raised as will force <,in *,U) ente
?ie question before the meeting iei ai vvursil
again before the actual session ,f >1,m- aceordir
the nor?ee eonferonce begins Sat\y | KraPh dlBpatc
day. ' porting advi.
The question of whether the meet- era' Bolshevi
ings are to be open or closed has ^ot ^
been smouldering here for several,
days. It is associated with condi- Pa(l?rc
tlors which have surrounded the.8aw ^or aovei
lack of method in making puhll Polish leader
what has nctunlly been going on in a K?vernnieT1
conference for the past month. The P?rfles. \N h
American newspaper correspondents. 7''K on vv
of whom there are about 100 here mana attem
to report the peace proceedings, have, om K?'nP '
been received in daily audience by at Pos<
the American commissioners unde j aa'eeP in a
the stipulated conditions that what manB fired ?
was developed was, solely for their w were m
guidance and not to be reported as Paderewski.
bearing the stamp of authority o were killed ai
coming from the mission.- window o
The President himself has rarely Pa(leresk
seen ai.y of the American correspondents
and the newspaper me? MOVIE ST.
who have expressed themselves, at PRl
meetings of the organization they
have formed, as considering them
scives trustees onitgated to Inform Mary Plokfor
public opinion at home of the moves ,,
... . . . . , _ . Chaplin
which are being made here In Paris
have been chafing at what they have recharacterized
as being kept out of
touch with the fountainheads of official
Information, hnvlng been con- ''oa
flfied to Information dianemlnated by Mapy 1 Ickfoi
an official publicity agent. I w'",Rm S. H
Meanwhile the French newspa- an<*
po"* and the British newspapers *-r,,,hRr Rn<'
having Paria editions have been ap- w"* hereaftei
rearing each day with Inside Infor- P,rtures acco
mat'on of the conferences and In nient ntade
some cases have actually quoted banka. Thi
American officials in a manner from w,,? ,s P^0,',,
which the American correspondents ment* WRS nr
were requested* to refrain. Wr- Fairbai
soclates plant
I'tf V> I IVI Va ? l
nnii linn pi'ji -,:.inni i'kt). | own pinunn
PT,F IN ATTACK IV PltKZFMVSlJ n'?o operate
(leneva. Jan. 16.?Two thousand corporation h
persona have been killed at Pre- their Inreptlo
zemvsl. flalacla. by the Ukrainians, the exhlbltora
rcpo?-dln6r to a despatch to the Neue The rtiotlor
Frlele Urease of Vienna, a oopy of Fairbanks aa'
which hps been received here. "with keen 1
The Ukrainians have been bom prehension" r
bardlng Preremvsl for several day producers wh
pa ^ hv land and bv a'r nnd condf-j press here fo
tlone Irr the town are described as s*?ld certain
terrible. ! ina and If the
The gas and electric plants have they would he
been destroyed and there Is no light tire future of
In the town. Water and food also the exhibitors
re lacking. ^ sufferers.
E LANC
LANCASTER, S.
E ON LEAGUE
WRITTEN BY COLONEL ROOSE
? With Mr. Wilson's Utterances, the Colonel V
>y Are Still in the Stage of Rhetoric?Strong
That the Monroe Doctrine Be Strictly Maintained
by United States.
ty, Jan. 16.?An article eacence in hiin by Europe;
le of nations, the last men, Is that they are still !
that Colonel Theodore in the stage of rhetoric,
epared for the Kansas like the 14 points. Some
peared in that newspa- points will probably have t
The editorial was die- strued as having a mlschic
January 3 and his sec- tence, a smaller number
ted to take the typed Construed as being harm
for correction on the one or two even as bene
nday. Instead she was nnhnHv un.. ...s . *?- ?
n?JU?0 n 1IUL mi. 1
V that morning of his ally means hy them, and s
of adopting them as hi
i follows: j peace or league is nonsem
lerious misfortune that the talk is intelligent, it is
.re not getting a clear nonsense to hoot. Mr. W
t is happening on the cent utterances give us
For the moment the no clew as to whether he
hich we are foggy is the tends that at this moment
itions. We, all of us admit Russia. Clermany, w
ire such a league, only incidentally, we are sti
e sure that it will help war, Turkey, China and M
ler the cause of world l the league on a fullequr
istice. There is not a ourselves. Mr. Taft has re
n this country who hasi fined the purposes of the 1<
i old man who has seen the limitations under which
iiiin iiKiu, wno noes not i act, in a way that enables t
mize the chance of fu-|to say we very heartily
ut there is not a man of i principle with his theory
loes not know that ini without doubt, come to
ivement if too much is| ment on specific details.
ip result is either fail-1 "Would it not he well
than failure. i with the league which w<
ble with Mr. Wilson's have in existence? The
io far as they are re
he utterances of acqui- (Continued on Page E
SKI SHOT THREE Y. M. C. A. MB
f WARSAW HOTEL UNDER ARREST II
empts to Take Polish Charged With Stealing #
Life?Wound Only Association's Funds \
Slight. ? Working Oversea*
Jan. 13.?Ipnace Jan Paris. Jan. 16.?It hai
the Polish leader, has known that three Youi
wounded by an assas- Christian Association we
red the room of his ho- under arrest in Paris cha
vv and fired one shot at defalcation of funds of
ig to an Exchange Teie- elation.
'h from Copenhagen re- The men are George Scl
les from t ienna. Sev- nier secretary of the cl
ki impllcaated in the| commerce of Rochester, IS
im have been arrested. , n,>v. R. Atkins, of Eagle I
' and Mansfield, said
>wski has been in War- been a former secretary of
*al days conferring with ors' union, of New York c
s in an attempt to form Thp tQta, amounf
it representative of all hpon ml8npproprlated ftp,
en he arrived in Dan- t., 0 4nn . ? ... -
or wmcn hat
av to Warsaw the Ger . T ,
covered. In connection wl
pted to prevent him , , . . , .. ? _
v * leged defalcation E. C. Ci
o Posen. After he ar- . , .. .
I rotary of the American t
sn and while he was . , ?
ary forces of the Y. M. C,
hotel, a crowd of Ger- .. . ?
the following statement:
n a parade of children,
arching in honor of "During the six month
Two of the children 'he Y. M. C. /
id several bullets struck bu8'ne88 approximated $1
,f the room occupied by Tl,e American expedltlona
j tance business aggregated
000 for the year 1918. T1
can Y. M. C. A. in France i
ARS JOIN TO jn course of Its Invest!;
DDUCE PICTURES to the present misapprop
i the amount of $38,940.
"Along with the excelle
<1, Fairbanks, llart and . , .. . . Al
* ' of 78 workers cited by tl
in Company With I States and French military
W Griffith ties. 30 workers have been
died in the service. Out i
staff of more than 6.000 w
?s. Cel.. Jan. 16 Miss date three have been chai
rd, Douglas Fairbanks, defalcation.
art, Charles S. Chaplin "Reported Irregularities
. Ifflth have banded to- )?>d the legal department i
le actress and actors M. C. A to make an inv<
r produce their own with the regnlt that when
rriing to an announce- was arrested he made a <
here by Douglas Fair- n"d ndm'tted having In h
? part of Mr. Griffith, slon Y. M. C. A. money, i
leer, in the new align-l which was in n trunk he h
?t definitely announced in Paris. Some of this m
riks sa'd he and his as been Invested In French " b
led to produce their some had been secreted pe
and that they would "Another worker at Pr
their .own releasing fessed taking small sums
andllng the films from The third and most fine
n until they reached was that of a worker aeons
preprinting 87.000 francs,
i picture actors. M> Is charred he secreted and
!d. had been watching various packages. which
Interest and some ap- posited with the American
t meeting of picture company.
itch has heen In pro- "Fortunately the greater
r several days. Ho all the moT%ev stolen hes
Interests were combln covered. The Y. M. C. A 1
y perfected their plans the armv to prosecute these
able to dictate the en- the limit and to Impose the
the film business and altv on anv workers proving
would be the greatest to the truat of the Amerl
pie."
ASTER I
C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1919.
'AS DRV'AMENDMENT ARMI
VEiT IS ALL BUT CARRIED FUf
ifrote, Is
Flea Thirty-five Legislatures Have Drive
Ratified and Others Are Pre
Expected to Act Soon.
an states 0NE MORE STATE NEEDED DISTR1
absolutely
precisely Amendment Becomes Ef- AH C<
of the 14
o be cor.- fective One Year From the trict
ivous sen !"?.? ? ?c n- ei?i *>-*:? ? * -_
vi lis i' lllill XitlllKTilllOn, ill \
."Tand Probably July 1. Quot;
flclal. but
Vilson re- WashlnRton, Jan. lf>.?Legisla The d
o all talk tures 35 states, one less.than the and Syr
isis for a ret|utrej<J three-Tourths have ratified' I-ancastt
0 an('- the prohibition constitutional amend-' good foi
' insinrere nient. Several state assemblies now lotted, 1
i^nn 'K **f?
are in session and are expected to chairmai
absolutely take action with a probable race be- tributior
really in- tween Nebraska, Missouri and Mln- enough,
we shall nesota as to which will be the .16th goal wil
ith whicn n??
on the list. county \
11 watting Ratification was completed yester- Indicn
exico into (jay ]eK|sjaturpH Gf pVe states fi*th dis
llit> With Iowa. Colorado Oregon Vow
<entl> de Hampshire and Utah?making a to j of Kock
\igue and (nj j 2 jn two days. Of the 3H gcnizatii
i it would st;itoR that have taken action. 14 each cot
nost of us have certified their action to the fed-lave do
ngtee in oraj 8jate department. They, are county v
and can Virginia. Kentucky. North Dakota. | day, hut
an agiee pol,th Carolina, Maryland. Dakota i he postj
Texas. Montana. Delaware. Massa fluenza
to terin chusetts. Arizona. Georela, Louis'- tounties
actually ana an(^ Michigan. satlsfact
league of T}ip amendment, under its pmvis- The v
ions, becomes effective one year from this dist
^ the date of its final ratification. Ad- Lanca
dlttonal legislation by congress is'ter. W.
IN necessary to make it operative and Merchan
^ PARIS Kroun<* work for this already has son: Ch<
been laid. This legislation will ore- Kershaw
scribe penalties for violation of the York. \\
3H.040 o amendment and determine how and I York. D
..... bv whnt agencies the law shall be The r
Anile
enforced. cause?t
' If ratification is completed this put th(
month, many officials here believe starving
' the country will become permanent- niust be
' beconii , jy ,.fjry.. neX( July 1, the date on If yo
en<| which the special war time nrnhibi
I
>rKPrs at tjon recently enacted by congress^ the seen
rged with poP8 [n(0 effect. This law preventsI the stret
the asso manufacture and sale of Intox1-] want of
cants for beverage purposes and *e- hies brei
tofTel, for- mains In force until the demoblliza- about h
tamber of f|on nf the nation's war armies isicold air
I. Y.; th? completed. j to your
'ass. Tex., Court action to prevent the ynu star
to have amendment becoming operative al-j Your
the Sail- ready has been started in Callforn?a>t j ?dose to
Ity. where an order temporary restrain-, it is to i
d to have ing flovernor Stephens from signing j You giv
iroximate ratification of the amendment has the ship!
s been re- been obta'ned. It has been intlmat- succor d
th the al- ed that similar action may be taken You I
irter, sec in other states in which it is stated, you "di
sxpedition state laws reouire that federal con- cry of
, A. made stitutional amendments must he sub- starve
mitted to a referendum. j |);,Vr nlc
is ending The prohibition amendment reso ? itter u
l. canteen l"tion passed by roneress provide | and you
6,000 000. that ratification by t>10 "legislatures bitter d<
rv remit- the several states as provided by And y
$14,900, the constitution." close to
he Ameri- The resolution follows: the cabb
vas found "Resolved by the senate and sens frei
rations up house of representatives of th who pas
riation to United States of America in congress ?
assembled (two-thirds of each house i'omi
nt record concurring therein), That the fol The (
he United lowing amendment to the constitu- South U
r author!- tion. be, and hereby is. proposed to men's c
killed or the states, to become valid as a parr tor ??? 1
of a total nf 'he constitution when ratified by; winter <
rorkers to the legislatures of the several states Kllerbe.
rged with as provided by tho constitution: Moss, of
"Article. ' Sootti ol
at Toul "Section 1. After one year from can, of
of the Y ,ho ratification of this article the Cuthcart
stigntion, Bnle. or transports- Drake c
one man ,,on ?' intoxicating lhpiors within. ('. Featti
-onfession the importation thereof, into or the Springs
is posses- oxPor,?l'r'n thereof from the United comp'etp
a part of nnd n" territory subject to the'tive boai
ad stored | Jur'R(iiction thereof for beverage
oney had j Purr?ORcR is hereby prohibited F
a I MOnatl O mt. _ ^ TO VI .
onns and o?tvih?h ?.. i n?? rnnRrass and tnel " " ""
rsonallv wveral states shall have roncurranf ford enl
est con P?wer to enforce this article by ap- noon He
regularly Pr?Pri?to legislation. ,h'' <'!" >
rant case "Section This article shall be *'"p 'n
ed of ap- Inoperative unless it shall have been Son,h (
which I ratified as an amendment to the eon- Tnf>n K (
placftd In sfitution by the legislatures of the *
Thp appfi
were de- several states, as provided in the
i Kxpres constitution, within seven years froni|'^f 11,1
the date of the submission hereof to * * < our
Dirt of I thft efafes by congress." ,h'' pass
. . cation b
been re-1 The resolution was passed bv the
las asked | senate 65 to 20. August 1. 1917. .I?tn
t cases to I
full pen- H'r nwrlm Wyndhnm I>? < <!. vice of
: recreant Londpn, Jan. 16.?Sir Oharlea at the
lean pen- Wyndharr, the actor, died in London ni>.'ht in
Monday morning. Jan P.eMf
NlEWSu
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A
ENIAN RELIEF THIRTIETH D
ID IS GROWING LAND AT HOI
Well Under Way and Charleston Has Ileei
aspects Cood for Lan- as Port of
caster County. C arolina Tr
1CT IS DOING WELL DATE IS NOT Y
junties in Fifth Dis- Secretary linker T
Organized and Hard Pollock Those T
York in Raising TheL* This State Will
as. j Camp Sevier.
rive for funds for Armenian Washington, Jan. 1*
ian relief is going well in ports recently sent ou
r county, and prospects arel'ngton to papers in t
overstepping the (|uotn al-'the men of the Thi
Waddy It. Thomson, county'would not debark at
n, tells The News. The con matter was definitely
is are coming in slowly when Secretary Ha
but indications are that the Senator Pollock that (
1 be reached and Lancaster been designated for
vlll go "over th> top." This puts all doubt as
fions !ir?? In f > 0...1 _ vr.. i
? ...<<, <iiu< i in- umc H?is yei ue
triot will raise Its quota, ar- return of tlie men, bu
to advices from K. C. Hurts, he made known to Si
Hill, district chairman. () - in a few days,
uis have been perfected in The Tennessee tro<
inty in the district and thev Fort Oglethorpe for i
inir good work. Fairfield' those from South fan
vent "over the top" the first ' and those from North
in Cherokee the drive w-'l! ' likely to Camp Clrei
toned on account of the jn- lotte.
epidemic. In all the other': This information s!
the work is going ahead \ news to those persons
orlly. | linn who have relativ
arions chairmen appointed ' I In the Thirtieth Divis
riet are: will doubtless be mat
ster, \V U. Thomson: Ches- tlves of the men in t
C. Miller: Chesterfield. S. A the information giver
t; Fairfield Or Oliver John- lock becomes known.
?rokee. Or. Lee Davis Lodge: It is understood hei
\ T. J. Kirkland; Westei a soon as the sailing da
T. T. Hcnmguard; {Eastern upon which the South
r. F. W. Gregg. leave is learned, prepa
teople must rally to thi made for their foi
the committeemen canno home either in rhnrin
e county "over"?and th^ bia, and that they wii
people across the water some form of recoghit
saved. reach firoenville.
u, looking from your office Senator Pollock a
were made aware that on he will address the send
floor of the house across 1 present week repardlr
t was a woman perishing for' nations and a little tp
food and warmth, with ha- give his views on won
ithing away their life live- Representative Ryr
er. denied everything but' up with Secretary R
, would you glue your eves I of immediately relea
ledger and?forget? Could service farm laborers
id ' '? I Mr. Rvrnes contend
cherk for $100 or $5 is as are now making art
the woman in Asia Minor as the tnnkivg of another
the woman across the ^tr-e* unless laborers a*o ?
e it and the telegraph and will be difficult for t
* that plow the seas earrvinr employment after the
o the rest. j made their arrangemr
forget?and others forget
g yourself in" against th COT,#. ROOSEYEI/I
the starving and?they . ... .... =
Yott, the people who vet
nfv. voti who never felt the
lain of the famishing, you Kstnte of About tS't
alone can save them from!
... Family Plate. Is Il?
ath!
cm and all of us are just as For tl?e Wi
them, with the banks and,
ps onen and the lanes of the|
p again, as was?the Revitej Cys'er Ray. Jan. 1
sen ny on the other side. ivuuseveii s win.
wns reiul to members
ncr to Federal ion Meeting. bagamore Hill and
ollowing members of th """oRate of Nassau r
arolina Federation of Wo- Although the value
lubs Will arrive in Bancas- estate *
iev Thursday for the mid. known il was l,n,,,,rs,
ounoll meeting: Mrs. J. K j to not more ,h:in $50(
of Marlon; Mrs. Adam ,nB t? Attorney Oeorg
' Orangeburg; Mrs. Winfred'NVw York' who n'ad
r Florenee; Mrs B. O. Mor-'docun,ent P vldes th
Greenville; Mrs. James A.j estate with ,he eXl
. of Columbia; Mrs. John fam,,y 8i,ver and
,f Bennettsville. and Mrs C i in ,n,at for ,h" w,dr
,erstone. of Greenwood. Mr* ; ,,fe- and *Mv,'a hor P?
and Miss Margaret Moore'of U by wil1 as sh'" s"
the personnel of the exeeu- "v,>n, sho ,oavft8 no w
r(j is to be divided in etjui
the children.
:nfer?:?in- Hook Club. The silver and fair
ondo ?> T.? Cl ? PaKKa or. 1/1 " m/v * ~ *
imiii.ii uni ,?u>. .111 [ 111 I r:iW-l ' "?iu, air: in lie
(ertalncd the Friday After ' 'he f'h 1 <1 r*-n. as is a
>ok club. At this mooting '""<1 l*ft to Colonel U<
, which is one of the three father. ^
the eltv belonging to the The will named as
'arolina Federation of Wo ',fd Theodore Rooseve
lube. heartily endorsed the '''??1 i* Roosevelt, a
the federation for the year colonel.
Rtary was Instructed to write
tor and representatives fron School Meeting
ity urging their supj?>rt in A meeting will 1
age of thr compulsory edu- Methodist church In t
ill In the state legislature Sunday afternoon at 3
! ? Interest of the adult
t Service Sunday Night. Mrs. K. U. Riddle, cha
will be a Joint or union ser- caster county, will he
all the Lancaster churches the meeting and add
Methodist church Sunday made hy Mrs. Leroy
the interest of the Armen Riddle. Miss Culp. Mis
f fund. Stewart and perhaps i
i
iN TODAY
AT
CENTS
^ YEAR
1V1SI0N
DEPORT
it Designated
tation for
oops.
ET FIXED
ells Senator
roops From
Sent to
? ?Despite ret
from Washhe
south that
rtieth Division
Charleston, the
settled here
ker informed
'harleston had
this purpose,
dde.
en set for the
t this will also
enator Pollock
>ps will ?o to
demobilization,
olina to Sevier
Carol !na most
one at Charlould
he good
in South ('aroes
and friends
ion and there
ly happy relahe
state when
i Senator Polre
that just as
te of the ship
Carolina men
rations will be
mal welcome
(ton or Colutni
also be given
ion when they
nnounced that
'ate during tho
g a league of
'er on he will
ian suffrage,
lies has taken
er the matter
sing from the
of the south,
that farmers
angements for
crop and that
>w released it
hem to secure
farmers have
' 'tS.
"S WILL
I S FAMILY
>o,ooo, Kxcopt
lil in Trust
ll"W.
'* ?rol Theomade
in 1912,
of the -family
filed with the
ounty.
of the former
as not made
ood to amount
?.ooo. Aecorde
O. Cobb<\ of
the will, the
lat the entire
[ option of the
, shall be held
'\v during her
wer to dispose
es fit. In the
ill, the estate
Ft 1 parts among
lily plate, Mr.
divided among
$60,000 trust
oosevelt by his
trustees Lieut,
It. Jr.. and W.
cousin of the
Sunday.
e held at tho
h o mill t'il In or*
,,w ? ?
o'clock in the
night schools.
Irman for Lan
in charge of
rasses will be
Springs. Mrs.
is Shell, Mayor
ethers.