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I I , i ~ w r u 1 The Lancaster News 68TH YEAR. NO. 58. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. ( .. FRIDAY MAY 1?, 1010. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR Rft! ni V nun ADCC PLAN FOR BIG COTTON IpTrnn TA mirnn/iB I .... yVLI/L 1 lSlArLftl\Ij J TREATY MURDEROUS Philip Scheidemann, German Chancellor, Says Wilson is Deceptive. ENSLAVE GERMAN PEOPLE Sixty Million Versons in Germany, He Says, Would Have to Labor For the Victors in the War. Philip Scheidemann. the German chancellor, has followed the lead taken by President Ebert. In a statement to the national assembly in Berlin couched in language more forcible than that of Ebert, Scheidemann declared that the peace terms are not acceptable to Germany. Cheering from all the factions in the chamber, excepting from the benches of the independent socialits, even from the press gallery greeted the chancellor as he characterized the treaty as "a dreadful and murderous" document which would make an enormous iall of Germany In which 60,000,000 persons would have to labor for the victors In the war. The speaker several times charged deception on the part of President Wilson and the abrogation of his promised 14 points for peace. % It is reported that Scheidemann has been informed bv the leaders of the two democrit'C parties and of the parties of tin- center that these factions will withdraw their repre sentativos from the government If the peace treaty is signed. Meantime, however, the German plenipotentiaries at Versailles are continuing their work of assimilating the terms of the treaty and formulating such protests ns they de sire to make while others of the delegation are in Berlin discussing the prospects with the government. Still another German note?the fifth?is to be delivered at the French foreign ofllce. As for the allied and associated representatives, they are leaving the Germans severely alone for the present. except for dealing with their communications. and are now engaged in settling up the peace terms which are to he handed Austria; endeavoring to disentangle the snarl in the skein of discord with Italy as regards Fiume and the Adriatic region. and discussing the Turkish problem. Optimism has been expressed in I'aris that the Italian situation is nearing settlement, the Italians evincing a disposition to make concessions. Premier Orlando again canea at tne res'Oence of Colonel House. of the American delegation, and wen* over the situation, while 1" the afternoon President Wilson had an engagement with Thomas Nelson Page, the American ambassador to Italy, with whom he doubtless we >t over the disputed ground. As for the Austrian treaty, ' is said to he nearly complete. While the details of it have not become' known. It is asserted that in some! respect it will follow tho German document. This is true especially ns regards trial hy court martial of persons responsible for violation of the ru'es of warfare during the period of hostilities. although it is said no demand is to be made for the trial nf former Kmne?or Charles hy an international civil tribunal, i The delimination of the boundaries of Austria will follow the lines laid down in the treaty of Ixindon. ' With the expected advent of the Austrian delegates at St. Germain En-Lave, the Ocrmans at Versailles are seeking pej-ni'ssfon to he allowed to communicate with them. Totint von Brockdorff-Rnntzau, head of the German contingent, is said to have rarrled his renuest to the point of desiring to send a German delef Ration to greet the Austr'ans on their arrival. The answer of the allied and the associated representatatives is problematical. GERMANS PRESENT A PLAN FOR A LEAGI'E OF NATIONS Paris. May 15.? The German del-j ogatlon has handed to the council of four the German plan for a league; of nations. This plan was drawn up by Professor Shuecklng. and 1ho| principal feature Is an international parliament composed of ten representatives from each nution. | CORPORATION DRAFTED LI ? CO Governor of l<oui.siana Drafts a Charter for $1 OO.OOO,<MH> Kxport Concern. Board Kei Now Orleans, May 15.?Governor Pleasant, of Louisiana, has submitted to the committee appointed by him to prepare a program for the or- EI' ^ I ganization of a $100,000,000 cotton export corporation, a tentative draft ? of the proposed charter for the new . oncern. which he announced has re- Att ceived the approval of Governor \V. I)ut P. Harding, of the federal reserve board, orignator of the plan. Ne\ voinrioem win tne meeting of the committee formal to prepare a pro- (.()ll pram Tor the organisation of new jnjtlaj export concern, another committee m,,n( , meeting with a view to laying wj plana for the formation of a perma- county rent southern cotton aaaoc.ation. weok " The work of hoth will he placed be- ance n fore the cotton conference. county Kxpresslons of optinvistimism over nanu, , the results of a cotton acreage re- supprj, duct ion campaign in the south, and jg A prospects for the organisation of the ^ ^ new exports corporation were made. ion "Many details remain to be work- n ed." Governor Pleasants declared. "but th's movement is surpassing all ortj expectations. It means the salva- ,f,n(jiin tion of the southern cotton grower." )ri). J. S. Wannamnker, president of ,nPn the South Carolina Cotton associa- s,.rvjrp tion. declaring the export corpora- SP,|irtR tion will be consummated, said: r|ties "The reduction or cotton acreage or moi is already a provided success. 1 <? 1 o t "My | el of is that the figures will . ^ h show over 2.r> per cent reduction for (llsfrjo1 the entire belt. There has been a re srhoolt duct ion of over !?n per cent In fer- (jon t'Pzers Thot is a pretty good ba- lvven(v rometer of condit'ons " places A party of South Carolina ilele- *|>h ( gates arrived here tonight and an- (ni,,sto, other party headed by Governor ^ j)R Cooper, of South Carolina, and 0jp,.R|. I'nited States Senator K. 1). Smith. in expected nere tomorrow. Dele gates from Mississippi and many ' n' ''' other cotton states, also are ex- f oii.it > pected. for th m fore M GRADUATING EXERCISES 'T^!' srnnol! AT WINTHROP COLLEGE under attend Invitat'oiis Are lirini; Issiiol This 51 quired Week?Exercises lie-in June t jJy .,ji iiikI Continue Through June :<. county _____ I est on snnerii Invitations are being issued this a week to the graduating exercises , lected which will he held at Winthrop college June 1-3. There are 192 students who will receive the degree of The Bachelor of Arts, seven upon whom that t the degree of Bachelor of Music will county be conferred and one who will re- 'nB a ceive the degree of Master of Arts, tend t i ne inerary anuress nerore the oul graduating class will he delivered a nee < by Hon. P. P. Claxton. United Pa' States Commissioner of education. ?' 'he of Washington. D. C. Following is The the commencement program: allotte -Sunday, June 1. 11 a m.?Ser- large mon before the Young Women's ville, Christian Association by Rev. Mark Orang D. Carlisle, D. D.. of Anderson. At Lexint 8:30 p. m.?Baccalaureate sermo/ ment by llev. W. W. Moore. D. D.. presi- consid dent of the Union Theological Sent- the ni inary. Richmond, Va. culties Monday, June 2. 10 a. m.?In- the sa spectlon of buildings and apart- will h ments. At 0 p. m. Class day exer- June 1 cises. At 8:30 p m.?Joint cele- The hratlnn of the literary societies. officer Tuesday. June 3, 10 a m.-~ fully i Alumnae reunion. At 6 p. m.?- tory. Daisy chain procession. At 8 p. m. lutelv ?Graduating exercises. Address correc by Hon. P. P. Claxton. betwe< ? aire d1 ?FMto|?tVO FOR \\ KHCAPKD Inly n BOGUS 1.1 Rl'TKX. %XT C'OliONFI. he tal Baltimore, Mny Ifi.?Military in meets telligence officers and local detee- trict a tives are engaged In the search for hoard "Lieut. Col." Frank Mdward Spel- bound: *-iier, dokuh army omrer wno escapeq markei Saturday from Governor's island. Hod p Now York, in female attire Spel- eonfus eher resided for a time at a leading rlably Baltimore hotel and used thia rltv' Biar as a haso for his extensive opera- rl>nsU4 t'ons, and together with a New statfl York attorney, was alleged to have fjpr nf swindled autoniohi.e dealers out of These thousands of dollars While here he printer srr od Itro amounts of money, ; intir> sometimes as murh as $20,000, ae | ,jPi<ve cording to frequenters of the ho'el \ lobby. He na'd <1.000 for a tourlnv, | Th<? ear. The authorities h.ave several requirt charges against h;m for passing ho i gas cheeks on hotels. | (C n iu tMUKlE fflUtH UP MPULSORY LAWS PENROSE Is of Education (jetting Progressives I idy to Enforce Attend- Make Them 1 ance Regulations. norlani ICTIVE ON JUNE FIRST SENATORS 1)1 y Hoards Must Appoint Republicans I*r< endance OHicer Whose Country Soi ties Are Defined By the Tilts and v Law. Wrangles. inibia, S. ('., May 15.?Tho Washington, Mi steps looking to the enforce- can senators con >f the Compulsory Attendance plans for organiz 11 be taken by the several senate preparatory boards of education this the party caucus. In each county the attend- of which there we Hirer must be selected by the ing tho day. rente board of education, and his position of the Pr< must he reported to the state senators to the sel itendent of education by May Penrose, of Ponns; bout one-fourth of the roun ren, of Wyoming, t tve already reported their se- finance and appro to Superintendent Swearin tees, respectively. Leaders of both state hoard of education has tjie progressive gr 1 that in every county the at nation apparently re officer shall he ready to on- except as to the nil on his dut'es June 1. Moth uroup willing to id women are eligible for this sjtjon? i? ^nninru . Several romity boards have ren (o fho flnor of (1 women for the work. In . Several senators having a nonlation of 2.000 , longing to the reg p. according to tin- ren us of , . , . , .. o?l that but two he local hoard of district trus- , , sives would carry is the option of appointing a . .. ' . Iloor, while the t attendance officer for the A. ... . , , . , . . they did not km s of the citv in their discrethem would go t I here are in the state sonic ,, ... . , Horah. leader of t! -eight such incorporated . Senators Penrose riie school authorities of , . he would never i if these cities have been re- , ...... . , . but added that lie 1 to make their choice pronip- . .. .. speak for the othei tween the county attendance , . sav whether thev and the district attendance , the partv conferen The decision of the local is should he reported to the Th" Progressive hoards of education in tltnr have admitted tti I decision to be acted upon he sl,PPoit Senatot S lay 15 Wherever no city at the WProprtatloni ce officer is appointed the refused to favor hi < of the municipality will be ,,,,M 1 ,M> ' ,i,') S( the jurisdiction of the county s,no(' among hoth unci* omoer. rcvory anccfat ,,f'1 lw ttendance officer will hp re 'MO Senator to perform In his municipal- fornirt- !,,1(1 Lonrf 1 thp duties required of the were l? attendance officer. In Char- as acceptahle to t the city trustees and the city pro tem" ne,t! ntendent prefer a special dis willingness to see (tendance officer and have se Formal notice a woman for this work. 'he Progressive g Without Delay. Senator Lodge. < Republican leader state superintendent hopes , ... , . . rah and Johnson, he school authorities of every stood that thev and every municipality hav- . . . . . ? * ... party leader that population of 2,000 will at- , , . , ... solelv one for co 0 this important matter with . conference. Late lav. The salaries of attend_ . ... . niet to canvass thi rfflcers for city districts must , , . , . , , . , , journed after a h Id from the special tax funds ., . , , out reaching any district. could he learned, attendance officers have been v,,w Hampshire, <1 to each of the following %,r n0(jKP Inet counties: Anderson. C.reen- slvoH. hut he refn Spartanburg. York. Aiken, m|sajon eburg, Florence, llorry and - (ton. In making the allot- gixnV PRfKlHFS the state hoard of education . jM>| ered area school population. imber of schools and the diffl- Mount ( leinens 1 of travel. In every county prelminary r ilary of the attendance officer ,,r!l' nicmbers of e $100 per month, beginning sf>1 '?' ,,H* P'a,n" I day's progress in first duty of each attendance sU" (>1 "''nr> will he to acquaint himself ' hicago I rihune. and accurately with his terri- Had it not beer This knowledge will be nhso- it to* court by fh necessary to the taking of a the opening day o t school census of all children trial would hav >n s'x and fourteen years of prose, but his ad iir'ng the calendar months of by his secretary i nd August. This census must produced the onl ten by 'school districts. The Mr. Ford, finding and hounds Of each school riia- was not nei.-ssnn ire determined by the county few minutes and of education. Wherever these his home iries have not been definitely " il out the limits should be set IMKK?lllhK Tlt.\ romptly If this is not done FLMJIIT IS N Ion and controversy will inva- Washington, ] result. announcement wa ik forms for the taking of the navy department will he sent out from the come of the prop superintendent's office by or 'he new navy diri the state hoard of education "aval air station forms will require a mass of York, to St. .foh I material, bur the legislative would "depend tl g committee will secure the regard to the po a v i f the blanks on time. 'ng later a trans A'h.it the l,u\\ I'equlros. I'" ii1 The ! eomnulsorv attendan-e law la> d. a distance s that all children betwo. ' ' "(> miles it \v ? made "whenever ontlnued on Page Four.) favorable." PfVsITIftN SAYS HEST COUKSE rujiiiuii ls TO SIGN tke - WARREN Maximilian Harden Declares Oilier Suicide and Says Allii ' ight Plan t? Can Force It. Heads of Im >mmittees. Berlin, via London, May Maximilian Harden, editor of Berlin Die Zukunft, writ.ng on s( I SS PLANS peace treaty, says: "The peace conditions are ... harder than I expected. They imisc o ?l\t tltlpleasant to the greater part r, ne Interesting people But could one have i Household l'xPe<,0'! t!,pni otherwise? "The Hermans have not ( very convincing mental guura during the the six months sine revolution that they have cha iv 1 :>.? Itepuhltlieir system; on the contrary itinue to discuss .. present government and the at ion oi the new .. . , have useci the same methods ti to the meeting of Tli?> mniornn,...! cltement, the same, tricks of hli re a number "lur- under the 01,1 ru,e of the ^ red about the op W'l>igressive proup o! "The Rovernmenfn proolama ection or Senators aml "Peeches are only bad copi vlvania. and Wat a campaign of incitement agt ts chairman of the ,h" allios- couched in violent priationa commit- KUa*e- 11 is "Keating for refus sign the treaty, and to what All must know that the allies i the regular and . . , . . , keeping up the blockade and oups said the sit- .. , , pving the coal districts, can was unchanged ,, . . , Germany to sgn whatever imher of the latter want. carry their oppo ... . . ? .. . . , , J W mild lie suicidal. Penrose and War ... . . rhn allies have been threat tin senate that Germany would join the considered as he shev.ki. Hut that would be sub ular group assert- -phe only way to rescue the cm or three Progres js pv openness and honesty. 'heir attack to the revolution ha< been a great d i ...... ' , s.m. pointnil'Mt. >\v how many of "Germany should hnve sent he limit. Senator who would have laid their card to forces opposi: p ,]|0 tai,|4. an,j got the allies to and Warren, sad doi-stand that some of the ootid I'ote for Penrose. were unacceptable. It (!ert ? was unable t <jn)wed its pood will to <lo wh s, who declined t<'. n ps p()VV,,r |() comply with th would ko beyond |requests. the allies would ce- that conditions were chanped ii s were said to vor of Germany because they 1 elr wiliinpness to there must be a Germany and moot, ot Utah, for ,t is impossible to destroy the ? committee, hut man people." ni as president p' o ? enator was und.r- MILL TEAM WIN* proups as will 11c nn_vivr on as president ENIN(? C ONTE, T Johnson, of Gall lot. of Wiscons n .. , .... ,,, Price Pitches t lever (tame .\p v the Propiessivehem for president Anderson Motor her has sipnitied a Keprcsentatives. k the office. of the attitude of roup was plven to Fort Mill, S. ( May 1 ii .ouasaenuseiiH :: im game (II nasenaii to ti?? p . by Senators Ho <>n the local diamond this s< and it was under was witnessed Saturday after were told by the ' 'lien the local team went up an their fight was he team of the Anderson ) nsideration at the impany, of Hock Mil', both t r the Progress ves etng members of the recently I n situation, but ad- d Catawba league. Owing tc rief meeting with- * ent heavy rains the ground decision so fat as ither heavy hut the teams put Senator Moses, of; nappy in inning came whirl after falki> g with suited in a s<oie of to 4 in fat with the Progres '<> lore s The jiitching of ised to discuss his the lo-als, eoustitu'ed the ..lure "f the l*hme The gann ii d by Captain Sam W I S OI< HiltON I,. It Crouch is manager o I.A It blRKI, win local team w ith It. K. McKibh . Mich., May IT. ? assistant manager A captain xamination of sev- Pointed each Saturday to handl the party by conn- men- The lineup at the pr rr marked the first Mmo ,s as follows; 0 X the $1,000,000 1.- Pitcher; YV L. Ferguson, cat Ford against the M Hradford, shortstop. . Archey, first base; Andrew I . for a fleeting vis- s,,n' 8orond has<>: r E- K" e plaintiff himself. ,h,rd bas,>: A R Ferguson f the long-heralded flp,d : T ? K, br?4" center e been the veriest Royd right field. Ivent, accompanied m hlu ... ? ! < (IVTIU II ftVSCIf VIIII<I<IV< I y stir of the day IjAMT .\ITFR PKA( K t t that his presence Washington. May 15 The r, remained oniv a '11;ed maritime council will n then returned to dissolved when peace is signed while necessity exists for retu ^ the present control over passi XS-:\TIj;\XT1< vessels Officials of the shi| OW COVS1DKR.KI) t?oard said it was probable May 15. -Official council would operate for sc s made by tin months longer, that upon the out- The shipping situation. it osed test flight cf said, will he greatly relieved gible 5 from the the vessels now being used foj i, Monttauk. New rope relief at ereleased. whir ns, Newfoundland, w is explained, probably won m* future plans tn during July At present apt dbility of attempt mutely a m'llion and a quarter \tlanlic *1'crbt by a nre now being used for relief light to Newfound- ml the number constantly of approximately added to. When these ships .it as said, would l?? eased officialh said it was pro weather conditions many would tie diverted to J I A met ican routes. - - - , ry DOLLAR MARK NOT IDEAL OF AMERICA C8 President Wilson. Speaking to I Tench Academy Disclaims 1 ' Monev Worship. the, these JUSTICE NEVER DIMMED not were if the I'nderlying Wealth and Suceessful Enterprise is ComP;v,?,i n,on <?' Humanity and ntoos Sympathy. p the inged . t)lP Paris, .May 1 V President Wilpress so,i. in his address to tho French f in- academy of moral and political iff as sciences, entered a strong disclaim/ no er f'c idea that the American. people were largely materialistic or tions dollar worshippers es ()f "I have had in recent months one linst very deep sense of privilege," tho lan- President said. "I have been keenly al to aware that there have been times use? when the people of Kurope have not ; f,y understood the people of the United ?cc u- States. We have been too often supforce posed to have been devoted chiefly, they '' n?t entirely, to material enterprises. We have been supposed, in j'h?* common phrase, to worship tho ened alnPirhty dollar. Hoi- "We have accumulated wealth, anisi mm' i 'mi n mi fit in t1 inn) inn world rotlsi'rrated to liberty, were ready to east in tlieir lot in common with the lot of those whose liberty theratened whenever the rause of l.herty was seen t obe imperiled. ' 1"Tills is the spirit of the people of the I'nited States." he continued, "and they have been privileged to 1101111 send J.nnn.nnn men over here to tell you so. It has been the great priv' '1ur liege not merely to tell you so in ' ams words, hut to tell you so in men 111 and material the pouring out of ' their wealth and the offering of a their blood." up a t, ro President \\ llson alluded to his r studies in the field of political Price ^'1 ?f attempts he had , made **to nut into the words of tna; ii ^ ^ learning the thoughts of a nation, ?.trk^ the attitude of a people toward public affairs." He continued: f the on is great many of my colleagues ^ 'in American university life got their -iriiti. I slr> have devoted ourselves to intrj ' material enterprises with extraordiThe nary success, hut there iius umlerisap lain all of that, all the t in???. a common sense of humanity and a comin,.,, mon sympathy with the high prins on I pi of justice, which has never nn grown dint in the field, even of entious terprise. and it has been my very nan.v frreat joy in these recent months to at is interpret the people of the United a|- States to the people of the world. I see "I have not done more, sir. I n fa- have not uttered in my public catnow parity my own private thoughts. I 'hat have uttered what I have known to tier- he the thoughts of the great people whom 1 represent. I have uttered the things that have been stored up ^ j in their hearts ami purposes from _ j|the time ol our birth as a nation." It was at this point that the President made his declaration that the ( ( 11 <i i iii < i;, I'vfii in pouuoai science, as so many men in civil circles (lid, esent ,, in German universit.es. I have been Price. . obliged at various times to rpad a chcr. m , great deal of bad German, difficult ianies German, awkward German, and I (MRU have been aware that the thought nnett, , ,. was as awkward as the phase, that . left field 'bought was rooted in a fundamental misconception of the state and of the political life of peoples. And it has been a portion of my effort to disengage the thought of . Ilvs j<.an nnivers tv teachers from inter- misguided instruction which ot be (hpy had received on this side of the no' sea. Their American spirit anticirning pated most of them, as a matter of pnget eourse, but the form of the thought pping some time misled them. They speak that ton pftcn of the state as a thing verai ? ?, I ........ itlii.l f llie llllUVUIUiil has a thine which was pmiieged to was! dominate the fortune of men by a when | sort of inherent and sacred author Ku- j ity. j "Now tis an utter democrat, I Id be I have never been able to accept that >roxi-|vjpw nf (he state. My view of the tons state ;s that it must stop and listen work frt what I have to say. no matter I einr how umble I am. and that each '' r'' man has the riylit to have his voice babb- heard and his counsel heeded, in so South ? (Continue | on Page 4.) J