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WAR AIMS OF AGAIN PL President Wilson Deter mi Shall Have Abundant . to Study Principles for tends-Still Hopes to German People-No G Washington, Jan. X. -Tho loxt of President Wilson's add ross to Con gress is as follows: "Gentlemen of Hie Congress: "Once more, as repeatedly before, tho spokesmen of tho Central Em pires have indicated their desire to .discus? the objects of tho war and tho possible bases of a general peace. Parleys have been in progress nt Hrest-Litovsk between Russian rep resentatives and representatives of die Central Powers to which the ut tontlOll of nil tho belligerents bas been invited for tho purpose of as certaining whether it niny bo poss! . hie to extend those parleys Into a general conference with regard to terms of peace and settlement. "Tho Russian representatives pre sented not only a perfectly dclliilto statement of Ibo principles on which they would bo willing to conclude peace, but also an equally definite program of tho concreto application * of those pi luciples, Tho representa tives of tho Central Powers on their part presented an outline of settle ment which, If much less delhi I to. seemed susceptible of liheral inter pretation until tholr specific program of practical tornis was added. Mudo No Concessions. "That program proposed no con cessions at all, either to tho sover eignty of Russia or to tho preferences of the populations with whoso for tunes it dealt, but meant, in a word, that tho Central Powers were to keep every foot of territory thei.' armed'forces had occupied-every province, every city, every point of vantage-as a permanent addition to their territories and their power. "It ls a reasonable conjecture that tho genoral principles of settlement which they at first suggested origi nated with the moro Ilhorn! states men of Germany and Austria, the mon who havo begun to feel tho force of their own peoplo's thought and purposes, whllo tho concrete torms of actual settlement carno from tho military lenders, who have no thou cht. but to keep what they have y o tv 'l.i- lego i bilious Ir.r <. beet', bfok'en r'?* Tho Ruglan ri.^fo.ssaif I.- liven \?.-.> sincere .1 ml In onrilest. They minno! entorta iii such proposals ol conquest and domiiialiun. Perplexing Problem. "Tho Russian representatives have inristed, very justly, very wisely and li. the true spirit of modern democ racy, that the conferences they have been holding with Ibo Teutonic and Turkish statesmen should bo held within opon, not closed, doors, and ?ll tho world has been audience, ns was desired. To whom have we been listening, then? To those who sp?ak tho spirit and intention of the reso lutions of the Cern?an Reichstag of the 9th of July last, the spirit ?iud intention of tho Liberal leaders ard parties of Germany, or to those who rosist and defy that spirit and Inten tion and insist on conquest and sub jugation? Or are we listening in fact, to both, unreconciled and in open and hopeless contradiction? These aro very serious and pregnant questions. Upon tho answer to them depends the peace of tho world. "But whatever tho results of tho parleys at 'Brest-Litovsk, whatever the confusions of counsel and of pur pose in tho utterances of the spokes men of tho Central Empires, they have again attempted to acquaint thc world with their objects in the war and have again challenged their adversaries to say what their ob jects aro and whftt sort of settle ment they would doom Just and sat isfactory. Challenge Accepted. "There is no good reason why that challenge should not bo responded to. and responded to with tho utmost candor, Wo did not wait for it. Not unco, but again and again wo have laid our whole thought and purpose before tho world, not in general ternis only, but each Hmo with suffi cient definition to make it clear what sort of definitive terms of settlement must necessarily spring out of thom. "Within tho last week Mr. Lloyd George has spoken with admirable candor and in adm I rabio spirit for tho poople and government of Great IBritain. There ls no confusion of counsel among tho adversaries of tho Central Powers, no uncertainty of principle, no vagueness of detail. Tho - only secrecy of counsel, tho only lack of foaiioss frankness, tho only failure to mako doflnlto statement of the objects of tho war Iles with ?V . Germany and hor aillos. "The issues of lifo and death hang upon these d?finitions. No states man who has tho least conception of his responsibility ought for a mo THE U. S. AINLY STATED. ned that German Autocrats Opportunity to Know and Which Our Country Con Get the Attention of the (uarrel with Them, mont to permit himself to continuo this tragical and appalling outpour ing of blood and treasure unless ho ls sure beyond a peradventure that the objects or the vital sacrifice aro part and parcel of tho very life of society, and that tho people for whom ho speaks think them right and imperative as be does. "There ls, moreover, a voice call ing for these definitions of principio ami of purposo which ls, lt seems to mo, more thrilling and more compell ing than any of tho moving voices with which the troubled air of the ! world ls filled, lt ls tho voice of tho Russian peoplo They aro prostrate and all but helpless, lt would seem, before tho -jrim power of Germany, which has hitherto known no relent ing and no pity. Their power, ap parently. ls shattered. And yet their soul Is not subservient. They will not yield either in principle or in ac tion. Admiration Challenged. "Their conception of what ls right, of what it is humano and honorable for them to nceept. has been stated with a frankness, a largeness of view, a generosity of spirit, and a univer sal human sympathy which must challenge tho admiration of every friend of mankind; and they have refused to compound their ideals or desert others that they themselves may bo safe. "They call to us to say what it if that wo desire, In what, if in any thing, our purpose and our spirit dif fer from theirs; and I bolleve thai the peoplo of tho United Statei would wish me to respond, with uttei slmpllicty and frankness. Whethoi their present leaders believe it 01 not, lt ls our heartfelt desire am hope that some way may be openec whereby wo may be privileged to as sist the peoplo of Russia to attaii their utmost hope of liberty and or tiered peace. "It will bo our wish and purposi that the processes of peace, whei they are begun, shall bo absolutel; open, and that they shall Involve am perm!I henceforth no secret uudei landings of ntl) kind rho day 6 ca in t?t ind aggrandizement gon by .> U asia the (?cy n, MM re.- cm-, aunts entered into m ibu interest u particular governments and likely a some unlooked-for moment to upse the peace of the world. Hes ta tea War Alms. "It ls this happy fact, now clon to tho' view of every public ma whose thoughts do not still linger i an age that is dead and gone, whic makes lt possible for every nat io whoso purposes are consistent wit justice and the peace of the worl to avow now or at any other Hm the objects it has In view. "We entered this war because vir lat lons of right had occurred whic touched us to the quick and mad the Ufo of our own people impossibl unless they woro corrected and th world secured once for all agalm their recurrence. What we doman In this war, therefore, is nothln peculiar to ourselves, lt ls that th world be made flt and safe to live In and particularly that it bo made saf for every peace loving nation, whlcl like our own, wishes to live its ow life, determine Its own Institution! bo assured of justice and fair doa lugs by the other peoples of th world as against force and sellls aggression. "AM the peoples of the world ar in effect partners In this Interest, an for our own part we soe very clearl that unless justice bo done to other lt will not be done, to us. The prc gram of tho world's peace, theft fore, ls our program and that prc gram tho only possible program, fi we see it, is this; Why America l'ight??. "1. Open covenants of peao< openly arrived at. afler which thoi shall bo no private international ul destandings of any kind, but di pb macy shall always proceed frankly I the public view. "2. Absolute freedom of navigi Hon upon the seas, outside terrltori waters alike in peaco and in war, o oopt as the seas may bo closed whole, or In part by international a Hon of tho enforcement of Intern tional covenants. "?>. The removal so far as possit) of all economic barriers and tho c tahllshment of an equality of tra conditions among all tho nntlons co seating to tho peaco and associr lng themselves for Hs maintenant "4. Adequato guarantees glv< and taken that national armameti will bo reduced to the lowest poi consistent with domestic safety. ? free, open-minded and i soin tel y impartial adjustment of ja)l colonial claims, based upon a stvlct observance of the principle that \u determining all such questions of sovereignty tho interests of the pop ulations concerned must have equ?l weight with the equitable cia!nu. o tho government whoso title in to be determined. Alms aa ' to Kassia. "G. Tho evacuation of all R?fi' to territory and snell a settlement o al; questions affecting Russia as will cure the best and freest co-opera i ?-.MI. of the other nations of the world kb Obtaining for her unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for tho Independent determination ol' ber own political development and- na tional policy and assure her ot a sincere welcome into tho society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, moro than a welcome, assistance also of v<* vy kind that she may need and u ay herself desire. The -trcatnien' ac corded Russia by her sister n&UOnS In tho months to come will be the acid test of their good will, ot their comprehension of her needs, na dis tinguished from their own interests, and of their Intelligent and unselfish sympathy, "7. Belgium, tho whole world will agree, must be evacuated and re stored, without any attempt to limit tho sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nation.: No other single act will serve na this will servo to restore confidence among nations in tho laws they them selves set and determined for the government of their relation* with ono another. Without this noa Ung act tho whole structure and validity of International law is forever lm tnt paired. Alms UN to 1'YuiH'O. "8. All French territory should be freed and tho invaded portions re stored and the wrong done Crane* by Prussia In 1871 in the matter ol Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of tho world for nenrl;y IjC years, should be righted, In onie* that peace may once more be med?, secure in tho interest of all. "A. A readjustment of the. fron tiers of Italy should bo effected aloiu clearly recognizable lines of nation ality. "10. The peoples of Austria-Hun gary, whose place among the ntvti?ni we wish to see safeguarded and us sured, should be accorded the free.0, opportunity to autonomous develop ment. "1). Roumanie, Serbia ana Mon tenegro should bo evacuated; Qcj?u pied territories restorer.^ oorl.iiT^) cord? vi i ron and secure access to th1 soft npd thc rotations of the pavera Raikan States to one another deter uincd by friendly counsel alon*, his torlcally established lines of aller.? ance and nationality; and interna tioaal guarantees of the plan un economic independence and ten i to rial integrity of tho several Baikal States should be entered Into. "12. The Turkish portions o' th presont Ottoman Empire should b assured a secure sovereignty, bu? ih other nationalities which are now un der Turkish rule, should ?be assuroi an undoubted security of lifo and li absolutely unmolested opportunit of autonomous development, and th Dardanelles should bo permanent!, opened as a free passage to the ship ard com merco of all nations und? International guarantees. "13. An independent Polish Sm I should bo erected which should ?a elude the territories Inhabited by in disputably Polish populations wbic should bo assured a free and semi access to tho sea and whose plan an< economic independenco and territ< rial integrity should be guarani' . by international covenant. I?euguo of Nations. "l t. A general association of UP lions must be formed under spec i lt covenants for tho purpose of afford ing mutual guarantees of politico Independence and territorial Iniei rity to great and small States alike "In regard to these essential reet tlcations of wrong and assertions . right wo feel ourselves to bo Int mate partners of all tho government ind peoples associated togetlw igainst the imperialists. Wo cane i>o separated in interest or divide n purpose. Wo stand together uni tho end. "For such arrangements and cov< nant.s we uro willing to light and I continue to fight until they nt tch le ved; but only because wo wi^ ?.ho right to prevail and deslro a ju ?md stable place such ns can ho is cured only hy removing tho cb it provocations to war, which this pr gram does romovo. "Wo have no jealousy of Germ; greatness and thorn ls nothing In >h program that impairs lt. Wo gru.l; her no achievement or distinction learning or of pacific enterprise su< ns have made her record very brig and vory enviable. No Wish to Injure. "Wo do not wish to injure h ov to block In any way her legitima influence or power. Wo do not Wi to flfcht hor either with arms or iv i hostllo arrangements of^-trade if s ?if t, ft^yV^?_^"'.L>' .-.-.^L.'.. J.'"..?! ' " ls willing to associate herself with us and the other peace-loving nations of the world in covenants of Justice ?md law and iair dealing. We wish her only to accept a place of equality among the peoples of the world-tho new world lu which we now live instead of a place of mastery. "Neither do we presume to sug y.\ rt to her any alteration or niodill ealion of her Institutions. Hut lt is .Necessary, we must frankly say, and necessary as a preliminary to any ?::ielJigeut dealings with her on our part, that we should know whom her spokesmen speak for when they speak to us, whether for the Reichs tag majority or for the military par ts ind the men whose creed ls tm pe rlal domination. i "AVe have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete to admit of any further doubt or question. An evi dent principle runs through the whole program 1 have 'outlined, lt ls he principle of justice to all peo nies and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of lib erty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak. Unless this principle bo mado Ks foundation no part of the structure of international justice can stand. Pho people of the United States could act upon no other principle; and to tim 'vindication of this principle they are ready to dovote their lives, their honor and everything they possess, 'ibo moral climax of this, the culmi nating and final war for human lib erty has come, and they are ready to put, their own strength, their own highest purpose, their own Integrity and devotion to, the test." Tho Quinine That Does Not Affect tho Head ilecauae of ita tonic and laxative effect, I.AX/ Tl VB BROMO QUININR ls better than ordinary Quinine and doc* ?ot cauae nervousness nor , i iinr in henel. Remember the full name and toole for the signature ot it. w. GKOVI;, 30c. Federal Iioans to Fanners. Up to December 1, $29,824,655 had been paid out to farmers on 5 per cent long time loans, according to a report covering the operations or the J 2 Federal land banks. Tho t >tal of loaiig approved, including those closed and those awaiting veri fication of title and other formali ties, is $105,136,529. The interest rate under the farm loan system has been increased from 5 to 5 % per cent, to apply to all apr plications which have not yet been approved. , ! Borrowing is done through co-op- j ei Hive farm loan associations organ d? hv fni'iuorn oaoh associa Hon ber .m.-'>seu'.>i' . 11 or more I ?rmere rowers end . a-)? g t'oit p borrowing le'as'i $20, )00; l iii r0 Dw-mber 1 i .?..ni loan .,o.?.u .i.,*, charternd l.?.'?ft such co-operative associations British Hot Many Prisoners. London, Jan. 9.-The war offlce ha ; issued a summary of the English captures and losses in the war dur ing 1917. The total captures on all fronts numbered 114,514 prisoners and 781 guns. The losses numbered 2S?7 ?9 prisoners and 166 guns. The Items include: Western theatre: 7 3,131 prison er?; 531 guns captured, and 27.200 prisoners and 166 guns lost. Palestine: 17,646 prisoners and I Os ijuns captured. Mesopotamia: 15,944 prisoners and 124 guns captured. S'o guns wore lost in any theatro except tho western. Prof, .Morrison Under Operation. Clemson Collogo, Jan. 10.-Prof. W. S. Morrison was taken sick sud denly a few days ago and was carried lo a hospital In Spartanburg, whore on Sunday morning he underwent an operation^ The operation was seri ous, nut very successful, and the lat est reports are that ho ls doing well. Prof. Morrison's friends, and especll ly old Clemson students, will be glad Lo hour that he will likely bo back at hi; post of duty In two or three week?, I CW CF,NTS DKSTRQYS YOUR DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR Save Your Hair! Make lt Thick, Wavy and Beautiful-Try This! Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy Mir ls mute evidence of a .neglected tcalp; of dandruff-that awful ?on rf, There is nothing so destructive to ho hair ls dandruff. It robs tho hair )f its lustre, its strength and its very lifo; eventually producing a fever slfness and itching of tho scalp, which If not remedied causos tho mir roots to shrink, loosen and die Ibra tho hair falls out fast. A' little benderine to-night-now-any timo-<9yit\ surely save your hair. Cet a small bottle of Knowlton's Dani'orine from any drug store or oller counter, and after tho flrV ap Hiontlon your hair will take on that Ufo, lustro, and luxuriance which IS so beautiful. It will become wavy md Huffy and havo tho appearance i abundance* an Incomparable gloss n i softness: but. what will please ?rou nost will bo aftor just a ?few ?vicksj* uso, when you will actually 40o a lot of Uno, downy hair-new Hair -growing all over the scalp, ad. TWKNTY-FIVK VESSELS SUNK. Htghtccn Wera Over 1,000 Tons Hospital ship Lost. London, Jan. 9.-Tho British ad miralty reports the sinking In the past week, of 18 merchantmen of l,~ 600 tons or over by mine or sabina- ! rino, as well as three merchantmen , under that tonnage. Four fishing vessels also were sunk. The admiralty statonient follows: Arrivals, 2,085; sailings. 2,244. j British merchantmen unsuccessful ly attacked, Including two previous ly attacked, eleven. / British fishing vesseis sunk, four. Hospital Ship Sunk. Tho hospital ship Rewa has been torpedoed and sunk. The announce ment follows: "Ills majesty's hospital ship Re wa was torpedoed and sunk In the Bristol channel at about midnight on ; .January I on her way home from I Gibraltar. Tho wounded wore safely ' transferred to patrol vessels. There ] were only -three casualties among tho i crew, throe Lascars being missing. "She was displaying all the lights j and markings required by The Hague I Convention. She was not and bad not been within the so-called barred zone as delimited in a statement is sued by the German government on : January 19, 1917." .Most of the survivors of tho Rewa were landed at Swansea. Many of them were without clothing of any kind. The wounded wore removed immediately to a hospital. The torpedo which sank the Rewa went directly through the red cross painted pu her side: Nitrates for the Fanners. (Constitution, 11th.) The United States government will Bave the farmers of the South from $25 to $50 per ton on fertilizers for their 1918 crops. . Tho price asked by tho government will be $75 per ton, which is $25 to $50 lower than Hie price now asked by private deal ers. This arrangement comes ns the re I suit of the government's purchase of ; 100,000 tons of Chilean nitrates for j direct distribution to farmers, as an I nounccd Wednesday from Washing ton. Tho first two cargoes, containing about 18,000 tons, will arrive short ly in Savannah and Jacksonville for distribution to Southern farmers un der supervision of Mell R. Wilkinson, of ibo Ashcraft-WHklrinon Company, v>! Atlanta. Mr. Wilkinson iui!\ given j ? ii jj h ja business nfVAtrs t?mpprji^ily' . in ardor fid t'w g< \ i . union! in this work j Tho bureau of markets, it is un ? nottnced, will communicate directly , with the farmers to ascertain their nitrate requirements for lu! 8, and 1 distribution will follow accordingly. j GRliBN'S AUGUST FLOWER oas been a household remedy all over ! thc civilized world for more than half a century for constipation, in testinal troubles, torpid liver and the generally depressed feeling that ac companies such disorders. It is a most valuable remedy for indigestion or nervous dyspepsia and liver trou ble, bringing on headache, coming np of food, palpitation of heart, and many other symptoms. A few doses of August Flower will relieve you. It is a gentle laxative. Sold by Bell's Drug Store in 30 and 90-cent bottles. -Adv._ Got Ready for Big Feed Crops, v (Progressive Farmer.) Notwithstanding all our boasting about our increased production of feeding stuffs in the South during 1917, there ls not enough feed In the Cotton Belt, east of? the Mississippi river, to feed the livestock on hand. Of all the failures of the Southern farmers In live Btock production, and there have been many of them, none has beon so general or so fatal as this one/of failure to provide suffi cient feeds. No farmer can afford to feed live stock who does not produce an abundance of good roughage for them. He can afford to buy a cheap concentrate like cotton seed meal, but ho cannot afford to buy rough ago. The year 1918 should bo marked In the South by the production of more silage, hays and other rough ago than over before in our history. The reasons aro so sound and all compelling that there can bo no ar gument in thc case, and to fall in this duty will bo fatal. Savannah River Solid Ice. (Lincoln, Ga., Journal.) Owing to tho fact that Jack Frost tied up tho Savannah river to a depth suQlcidnt to carry tho woight of (a man and successfully blocking tho ferry boat from making trips, Lin colnton has been without mall from McCormick and points on tho Sea bonrd for three days this week. A force of men went to work- Mon day cutting a path through tho ice for tho ferry, but the severe cold kept forming leo almost as fast as tho men worked. 10,150,101 HA MON GINNED. Bureau Gives Estimate on Cotton Htuullcil Prior to January 1. Washington Jan. 9.-Cotton gin ned to January 1 amounted to 10, 450,401 > anning bales, counting round a? Half bales and exclusive of linters, the Cens?a Bureau to-day an noun? ed. Bound bales included were 181,510, and sea island 80,813 bales. Last year to January 1 glnnlngs amounted to 11,039,491 bales, In cluding, 188,052 round bales, and 1 13,343 bales of sea island. Clonings by States this year wore: Alabama. 4 83,016 Arizona. 13,748 Arkansas. 858,445 California . 37,265 Florida. 46,353 Georgia. 1,768,280 Louisiana. 605,937 Mississippi. 809,712 Missouri. 44,73? North Carolina. 543,523 Oklahoma. 884,828 South Carolina . . . . 1,140,22* Tennessee . . T. 200,320 Texas. 2,987,947 Virginia. 16,273 All Other States .... 3,788 Sea Island. Florida.36,1 I'S Georgia.44,738 South Carolina.5,946 PEACE AS TALKED ABROAD. Reported lluss-Hulgniiaii Term? Reached-Turkey's Rejected. 'Berne, Switzerland, Jan. "10.-A. separate peace agreement has been signed by Russia and Bulgaria, the. Bund reports. The Bulgarian correspondent ot the Bund says that Premier Radosla voff read the following dispatch fromi Brest-Lltovsk in Parliament: "War between Russia and Bulga ria ceases. The diplomatic and eco nomic relations between Russia and/ Bulgaria "are resumed. Russia rec ognizes the right of Bulgaria to nom inate delegates to the international Danube commission. The first peace is thus concluded with tho consent of Bulgaria's allies." The Bund says that "Bulgaria has appointed a minister to Petrograd and a consul general will be station ed at Odessa and has ordered re sumption of navigation to Odessa. Turk l*ropoeals Rejected. Petrograd, Jan. 10.-'The separate ripio? pro p?sala ma tc bj Turkey, ir appears, liav been refused hy the Bolshevik I. }- . vcf!.??n>ni add Turk'p'V has r<V<iuc tc to |>(.rlM-ip.'.-c fa ivt. general con! l'ohc? bot. vern Cu *.*-in and ike Ce ai Powers. Want Another Meeting Place. . London, Jan. lOv-'At the first sit ting of the resumed negotiations at Brest-Lltovsk Tjiesday, says a dis patch sent out by tho official Rus sian news agency, discussion center ed on the selection of a city in some neutral country to continue the de liberations. There is every proba bility, it is added, of satisfactory ar rangements being reached. Army Morals Good. With the American Army In France, Jan. 8.-Chaplains of both Protestant and Catholic faiths have Just issued reports to the govern ment, in which lt is maintained that the morals of tho men of the expe ditionary force aro most excellent, "In performing our priestly func tions," tho reports say, "it has been our privilege, to travel considerably among the troops, and it pleases us Immensely to be able to state that we Und the moral conditions very satis factory.) The military authorities are vigilant In removing temptation, and the result is thus far we have a clean army. "We are honestly convinced that the men on duty in these towns in France are ly. less danger morally than they would bo in the service in their own country." ' HaSf Your Living Without Rffl?Biey Cost Wo aro all at a danger point. On tho uso of good common sense in our 1918 farm and gardon operations de pends prosperity or our "going broke." Even nt present high prlcos no one can plant all or nearly all cotton, buy food and grain at prosont prices froni Supply merchant on credit and rnalto money. Food and grain ls higher in. proportion than r.ro prosent cot'.v.l. prices. - . It's a time abovo all others to play b?ifo; to produce all posslhlo fond, plain and forage supplies on your own (tores') to cut down tho storo bill. A good picco cf garden ground, rightly planted, rightly tended a;..I kept planted tho year round, can b*> made to pay nearly half your living, lt will savo you moro money thou you mndo on tho bei>t threo acres of cotton . :>'.t c.vor grew! Hastings' 1918 Seed Dobie tel!:i all r.bout tho right kind of a money say) lng gardon and tho vegetables to put lu it. It tells about tho farm crops ai well and shows you tho elear road tn real and regular farm prosperity. It'o Freo. Send for it today to H. i\ HASTINGS CO., Atlanta? Gen- A&vt.