Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 12, 1918, Image 1
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HOW NEW YORK CELEBRATED ,
Tbe Peace Report Set tbe Great <
buy Wild
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bhtAUST MliHlLVtK KNOWN IHtKt
eopic Killed the bt-ect:,, the Theaties <
<aiiu tn? Danowrtia; bjt tne e-huicner,
woe fined Ai&o?Mreets ot the j \
City covtieu Vwith "beraps ot Ha-'<
fKi ?i he Wtiniita Dew anu i-iuy^ (
Wavea. i
N? v? ioi\? World. K'nuay. }
Never was there a day like it?iiev- ,
er, in all probability, will there he one j
?tiie November i j? wnich New Vork t
heard tnat envoys ot Germany bearing *
the white hag ol surrender nad signed t
the arnnsiice oiler ed by uie auks. c
At noon, when newspapers told it In ^
type inai ini?iu ix ?..?u ^ium m. t
street, awe held the city tor a breath
less moment. u
Then awe watt swept on u tide ol c
hysteria. It w.is as it' the table hau t
come true ot the whole world gathered
(o^t ifii-r u# iii iiiii.'iuu. i iiv I
(K> ?* hoi-u Willi a rusu 01 jutuiiu- t
tion. The hells and whistles and sirens y
ami horns and rattles and hanus una \
pans and guns that took up the roar (
were puny tilings beside it. Mechani- t
ft cal contrivances were not elemental v
enough to express the joy that seized [
and tore people out ot dignity, sorrow,
abstraction?everything but the glori- i
ous factI'roinisc
of u Second >liul Day.
Twelve hours after the beginning of \
the celebration, in spite of the absence t
of official confirmation, it was under "
a head that showed 110 diminution. It
had spread to every conn r of tin |
community, into every home. It seem- c
cd at midnight to be galvanizing into ,
new life those who from sheer weari- t
ncss had fallen from the rioting ranks, y
For all that any one could tell then a
second day as mad as the iirst was in t
prospect. t
To describe the celebration is like r
trying to describe all the New Year's t
eves and election nights of tin past t
r generation made into one. It was just r
that even by day, and when night a
came it was inure than that. t
If roadway from 34th to fifth street, J
was swept clear of everything but r
merrymakers from s o'clock on. An c
automobile that attempted to get
through would have been crushed to s
" ? rairs could not force a
SI'IIUIVIO.
their way beyond either cross street. I;
The poliee sought for a little time to s
regulate affairs, then gave up and from
building line to building line Broadway |
belonged to the two slow, surging cur- ?
rents of humanity.
Big .Nights for French Sailors.
Hotels and restaurants never did v
such a business. The price of a war- a
time meul would not so much as gain j
one the seventh right to a place at the t
least desirable of all the tables. Ta- f
bles overflowed tho dining rooms and d
tilled the corridors, the ante rooms and s
the cloak rooms. For no better than n
these bonuses that went beyond 11
Broadway's record were asked and s
eagerly paid. s
In Times Square there was a meal- 1<
strom of humanity. In its centre was
a circle of French sailors who lirst f
gathered about a girl wrapped in the c
Tricolor and wearing a Liberty cap- c
When she had been serenaded and t
kissed by each of the sailors in turn, J
they formed their circle and kissed r
every girl who found her way inside, tj
And the girls did not piotest a bit a
against finding themselves inside the t
circle. a
Xo ,\'ew Yorker will need to be told t
that the night was wet. But us a matter
of news record it may be added e
that it was wetter than any night the ti
city has ever seen. There was no such a
thing as " the wagon" anywhere. It did f
not even exist for those in American t
and British uniforms, against whom ?
the bar of government regulation has t
long since been raised. The mere sight
of such as these was the signal for
' their kidnapping and imprisonment in <1
the nearest cafe. c
Theatre Jummcd and Joyful. v
Not even the hotels and restaurants
did a bigger business than the thea- f
tres. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon ev- c
ery house in the city had been sold a
out. By S o'clock they could have f
been sold out three times over. At c
nearly every one of them the anthems c
of the Allies were played in place of n
overtures, and at the Cohan & Harris. <
to cite but one instance of many like
it. a woman sprang to her feet when t
Belgium's song was reached in the 1
potpourri and sang it c
And Broadway was once more the 1
Great White Way. By the book it was t
a lightless night, but theatre munn r
gers early sought and got dispensation a
from the state fuel administrator, ti
Washington said later there was no of- f
^ tieial approval of the lifting of the ban
B on the lights, and would be none until i
formal announcement of the armistice r
came, but Washington did not speak \
until after it was too late to make any r
difference. t
It must not be supposed that noise
and skylarking were even the chief
ways in which New York received the \
news. As a fact, it was one of the {
noteworthy aspects of the day that so t
many persons devoutly returned f
thanks for the definite approach of n
peace. All day. all evening, the church- c
es were filled with those who offered c
up prayers of gratitude. St- Patrick's s
was a particular haven, and many c
knelt upon its steps while the avenue s
resounded with jubilation.
Wall Street's celebration was among >
the maddest of all. And Wall Street's i
celebration began with prayer. The t
Rev. William Williamson, long known f
as the "bishop" of the street, was just 1
starting his noon day meeting when he <
heard the news. He ran to the steps 1
of the sub-treasury, and from that pul- f
pit lead the thousands who gathered
in the Lord's Prayer. Then he intoned <
the words of "The Star Spangled Ban- <
ner." and the financial district threw 1
off all restraint. i
Within fifteen minutes after the i
news tickers had sent out the first re- t
port the great office buildings down
, town had bee it emptied of their oecu- <
pants and the narrow by-ways of the i
financial district were choked. t
Prom the windows of the hie sky- <
scrapers streams of tape and great, i
masses of paper scraps filled the air as j
with a mid-winter snow storm. The)
wind carried the floating tape high
ibove the roofs and scattered it far.
Much of it landed on Trinity's steeple
jntil the spire was festooned from the
:ross to the belfry. The paper storm
-outiiiueil till nightfall. It> that timehe
streets were littered inches deep,
flag* Waved Everywhere.
By the time that the police sirens
lad started their prolonged blasts at 1
j'clock thousands of flags had been
listributed among the crowds and
iVall street became one waving mass
>f bunting. The crowd that had gath,-red
at noon in front of the sub-treasiry
had been augmented until Wall
Street. from William street to Broadvay,
and Broad street, from the subreasury
steps to Beaver street, were
ilmost impassable. Speech after
speech was delivered from the subreasury
steps, and every speaker was
sheered with consistent impartiality,
ilthough their identities were never
lisclosed to the crowd.
Many soldiers and sailors were
imong the speakers and they were revived
with the greatest acclaim- May?r
Hyland was another speaker.
Shortly after 1 o'clock President Node
of the Stock Exchange, announced
hat it would close ahead of time. The
vorkers draped with a silk flag the
var map that has stood on an easel
icside the rostrum for four years. Soon
his was surmounted by a victory
vreath, made of magnolia leaves and
?alms.
The Consolidated Exchange Bot a
?and and business tvas suspended.
Curb Had a Hand Organ.
The best the curb market could do
vas to commandeer a hurdy-gurdy,
he only patriotic tune of which was
'I.a Marseillaise."
My "1 o'clock half a dozen bands were
arading the financial district, follow>d
by many processions. Many offices
>f various kinds closed for the day. so
hat for the entire afternoon "rush
lour" conditions ruled down town.
The City Hall became the goal of
housands. The "victory bell" in its
ower began to toll soon after the first
lewspaper extras appeared. It coninued
for half an hour, in which time
he police spread the news, and the siens
and whistles, linked together for
ir raid purposes, raised their chorus
hroughout the city. The bell in the
iletropolitan tower was rung and the
nusic spread until not a spire that
ontained a bell was mute.
And as the clanging of the bells
pread so did the paper snowstorm
bout the city hall, especially, until the
iwns there were carpeted with the
craps of paper.
"The war started over a scrap of pa er.'"
said some one. "and it sure is
nding in a storm of them."
Like a Storm Crom tin* Sky.
The streets were filled with the
whirling clouds. There was one well
uthenticated instance of the men in a
ob printing office who caught the conaglon
so violently that they threw
rom the windows a Just completed orler
of stationery. Gargoyles held
treamers of tape in their jaws- Corlices
were draped with them. To look
ip was to get the impression that tin
torm came from the heavens them
elves, not from the windows far beow.
Mayor Hylan made two speeches
rom the steps of the City Hall. He delared
a holiday at 2 o'clock, and the
ity employes swelled the crowds. The
and of the office of the president of
lanhattan marched and played the
est of the afternoon. Scores of other
ands appeared magically. Boy Scouts
tided their bugles, and girls, no less
han boys, seized pans and buckets and
ny piece of resonant metal that could
ie found and pounded Joyfully away.
Flags by tens of thousands appear(1
no less magically than did the
ands. Battles, carnival caps, cockrles,
rosettes beyond counting came
rom the hawkers' stores on upper
Jark Row until the crowds were as
;ay in their aspect as they were in
heir mood.
Anti-Booze Regulations Defied.
Soldiers were carried on the shoullers
of admiring crowds, and tears and
heers?besides fears that the news
vas too good to be true.
New York was drunk from Joy and
rom other causes too. The bars were
irowded. Soldiers who had service
tripes on their arms were kidnapped
rom the streets and carried into the
Irinking places, stood on the bars and
ommanded to tell what they personilly
had done to bury Germany in the
lust of humility.
Clrcumsi>ect commuters determined
o get home early in order to make Jolification
within the precincts of their
wn homes, were lured into brightly
ighted cafes and besought time and
ime again to "have anozzer." And
nany of said commuters were sorry
ifter It was all over that they did not
innounce soon enough. "Gimme a cirar
this time."
The East Side had a celebration all
ts own. A holiday having been declar>d
in practically all the industries
vhere men from that quarter are emstayed.
thousands trooped home to |
ake part in the patriotic festivities. J
Women Fainted With JoyHere
and there a mother, whose son
vas on the firing line with the Metrosolitan
Division, was overcome after
ho unexpected announcement that the
lghting was over. And the fire engines
ind hook and ladders were drawn out
>f their houses on the East Side and
>ach became the centre of a maelitrom
of joy. The schools were "let
>ut" and the children rushed home
ihrieking their delight.
Prayers, in which the crowds joined,
vere said in the streets by the inmates
>f the Home of the Daughters of Ja ob.
Xo. 302 East Broadway. Boys and
tirls of the Jewish National Orphan
louse grouped themselves before the
sntrance of the building at Xo. 58 St.
dark's Place and sang "The Star Spanfled
Banner" and other patriotic airs.
A small jubilee was started in front
>f the Oliver street home of Oovemor?lect
Smith. Americans of Italian
)lood. from Cherry and Catherine
streets, took part In this, lustily singng
the anthem of their mother country.
An orchestra appeared upon the balcony
at 183 East Broadway. Immediately
2,000 men and women in the
street began to waltz. The East Side's
celebration continued until late at
night
Tl?e Harbor Was a Babel.
New York's river and harbor craft
strained their whistle-voices when the
news became known. No such noise
ever was heard in the harbor. Whistles
were tied down and for a full hour
?from 1 to 2?they screeched. Fog
horns on sailing vessels were brought
into use. Every passenger-carrying
vessel in the harbor was peopled with
wildly shouting hordes. The great
transports and liners tied up at piers
on the New York and Jersey shores
were cheered. There were hearty responses
from the thousands of longshoremen
and others engaged in loading
these overseas cargo carriers.
CHANCE FOR MR. COOPER.
If He Realizes riis Responsibility As a
Repiescnvative He Will Make Good.
Greenville Piedmont.
Elsewhere on this page is u very interesting
tentorial from the YorkviiKEnquirer,
one of the very best small
town papers in this country. Head it. |
You may not agree in whole or even in |
part with what Editor Grist says, but
it is interesting and will inspire thinking.
One who frankly considered herself
a female aristocrat, discussing Please
nay, asserted it was unsjicuUuhk
that he would hold high ofiice in South
Carolina, with emphasis on the .South
Carolina, because he was "so common."
When she said "so common,"
she was referring to what she considered
the social status of Please and his
forebears. She was not by her lonesome
self by any manner of means in
that thought. Put, such t a looked at it
as she did were incapable of seeing
that what they thought should have
kept Please a private citizen was really
one of his greatest elements of
>tr? ngtli in a stale where a considerable
majority of the voters know that they
themselves are regarded as 'so common"
by those who wanted Please defeated
on that score.
No governor since Tillman has received
any honor from the voters of
this state, other than the customary
second term. What's the reason? The
majority of South Carolina voters
probably want something that they
have not received from the leadership
of any governor since Tillman?constructive
leadership.
The distinguishing quality of Tillman's
leadership was its destruction of
the power of those who had politically
controlled South Carolina prior to his
ail vent as a power in politics, but he
could and did point to Clemson, Winthrop
and the primary?and the dispensary
until it became too great a
stench as evidence of his constructive
statesmanship.
Blcase had four years as governor,
largely because he was "so common,"
and then suffered defeat as a candidate
for senator and for a third term
as governor because his two administrations
had left no monuments to his
leadership in the laws or institutions
of South Carolina.
ft will pay Governor-Elect Cooper to
ponder those things. No small part of
the credit of his success in getting to
be governor after two unsuccessful attempts
Is due to the knowledge that
he sprang from the loins of the common
people. But if he wants more than
a perfunctory, because customary reelection
as governor, he must deeply
study the desires of the predominating
common people and give them a
leadership which achieves results that
outlast his administration.
We have problems?two of the chief
of which the Piedmont recently pointed
out?but they will not solve themselves.
Leadership Is required. The
Piedmont hopes Cooper will give that
leadership and pledges him its support
?but he must evidence the leadership
by results or he may follow his predecessors
into the political discard pile.
KRUPPS MUST ANSWER.
dip Gun Shop Had Much to Do With
Instigating War.
The directing heads of the Krupp
works in Germany will have to answer
before a high court of Justice for their
responsibility in the mutter of this war,
according to an Entente diplomatic
dispatch received in Wasnington,
which seems to indorse the proposal by
the British attorney general for an international
tribunal to try individuals
guilty of crimes against humanity committed
by enemy nationals.
The dispatch reproduces charges
against General Keim, the tirst presl
dent of the German Military league
and former president of the German
Naval league, who made himself notorious
by conducting a violent PanGerman
campaign. He is charged
with receiving regular subsidies from
the Krupp llrm. Deputy Kdwurd Hernstein
has brought before the reichstag
proof that General Keim has received
since 1901 a tixed allowance "from one
of the important war material firms."
Bernstein, who is declared by the
dispatch to have authentic documents
to substantiate his charges, alleges that
one of these papers is a private report,
dated 1901, stating that General Keim
organized the press bureau under (Japrivi,
that he had many acquaintances
among the press and that owing to his
antecedents there was none qualified
better than he to modify the feelings
of the people toward the Krupp firm
and winning sympathy for it.
Bernstein proved that ever since
1901 the Krupp books have contained
an account of which the principal
treasurer had only an incomplete
knowledge, as he remitted the amount
regularly, not to General Keim himself,
but to one of the firm's managers.
The dispatch declares that the offenses
of the Krupp firm against the
German people are worse than those
of General Keim, and that "the directors
of the enterprise will be made to
answer some day to a high court of
justice for their systematic pr eparation
made with the assistance of military
commanders, for the universal carnage
which has brought about the defeat of
Germany."
The Mannheim Social Democrat paper.
Volksfreund discussing: Bernstein's
charges, recalls also that Emperor
William himself made frequent
visits to Krupps, Germany's principal
manufacturer of war materials, insinuating
that the kaiser shares the responsibility
for the misdeeds of the
great war plant
In the election of last Tuesday the
"drys" wort in Ohio. Florida, Washington.
Wyoming. Minnesota and Nebraska,
and lost In Colorado and California.
REPUBLICANS TO CONK
Democrats Have Lost Both Horns
ot Congress I
THE SENATE IS CLOSELY DIYIIEl
In the Houre the Opposition Majority
is Quite Large?All Committeei ill
Be Re-organized After March W),
and the Republicans Will Get ftfce
Important Chairmanships.
A Republican majority in the n?zt
congress of at least two in the senate
and of not less than 43 in the bouse Is
issured from returns from the scattering
doubtful districts of last Tuesdays
election, writes an Associated Press
correspondent from Washington. Word
from Detroit of election in Michigan 1
upon almost complete unofficial J*- 1
turns, of Truman H. Newberry, |te- <
publican candidate for the senate, over
Henry Ford, democrat, increased the .
Republican senate roll to 49, a bare I
majority. The Democrats have 46 I
with the Idaho contest between Sana- i
tor Nugent, Democrat, and Former I
Governor Gooding still In doubt on the 1
face of almost complete unofficial returns.
Nugent has a majority of near- I
ly 50, but Gooding has demanded an i
official count which will be made No- i
vember 15. 1
Returns from the last missing house 1
district, the Second Montana, where a i
Republican was elected to the seat now <
held by Representative Jeannette Ran- 1
kin, unsuccessful Independent candidate
for the senate, were received Ito- i
day. f I
On the face of now complete unqffl- I
cial returns the political line up of bhe 1
next house is as follows: Republicans I
239, Democrats 194, Independent 1, I
Socialist 1, '
Prospect of holding not less than 49 <
seats in the senate, regardless of the ?
outcome of the Idaho contest, place I
the Republicans in a position to take i
control of the senate from the Demo- <
crats and reorganize it With 49 votes '<
necessary to control, however, Rep'ub-*
lican leaders realize that organization <
will depend upon unbroken partisan 1
alignment. They recall that even be- '
fore the Democrats went into control 1
of the senate with President Wilson's t
inaug mtion in 1913, they had a ma- 1
Jority of the senate but were unable
because of Republican factional defec- <
tion, to elect Senator Gallinger presi- <
dent pro tempore. ?
When the new senate convenes on '
March 4, next, however, such difflcul- (
ties, according to Republican leaders, 1
are not to be expected. (
Republican control both of the sen- 1
ate and house and harmony of action '
between the Republicans of both bodies
are expected to have much effect on 1
legislative policies. 1
T II.. .1- -l.nll.n a? I Vi a lute 1
LilKC HIU I CVi gauiiiauuii xjl uiv wmbj
Republican organization of
principally affects chairmanship arid '
majority control of committees besides }
legislation. Seniority of service is the '
almost unbroken precedent In the sen- 1
ate as in the house, of electing com- 1
mittec chairmen. 1
With the Republicans intact their
majority to organize the senate Sena- 1
tor Lodge of Massachusetts under the '
seniority rule would succeed Senator '
Hitchcock of Nebraska, as chairman of 1
the foreign relations committee. Although
the belief now is that the peace
treaty will be ratified before Demo- '
critic control ends, this committee will 1
have many important after-the-war '
problems- '
Heading the powerful senate finance
committee, with its Jurisdiction over '
bond and tax legislation, would be Sen- 1
ator Penrose of Pennsylvania in place 1
of Senator Simmons of North Carolina. 1
Senator Warren of Wyoming, is ex- 1
pected to head the appropriations '
committee of which Senator Martin of
Virginia, now Democratic leader, is the
chairman. Mr. Warren is senior mem- i
ber of the military and agriculture
committees, but is expected to prefer
the appropriations committee chairmanship.
1
The military affairs committee of
which Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, ,
is chairman, is expected to go to Senator
Wadsworth of New York, next in
line after Senator Warren to secure the
chairmanship. i
The naval committee chairmanship,
held by Senator Swanson of Virginia, ,
is regarded in doubt. Ranking Republican
members are in order. Senators
Penrose, Lodge, Smith of Michigan:
Page of Vermont and Poindexter.
With Senators Penrose ana uoase
heading the finance and foreign relations
committees and Senator Smith
retiring, Senator Page is next in line
for the chairmanship, but is expected
to prefer the agriculture committee
chairmanship, leaving Senator Poindcxter
to take the naval affairs.
The Judiciary and commerce committee
chairmanships also rest upon
preferences finally made by ranking
Republicans. Senator Nelson of Minnesota
is senior on both. If he should
choose the latter of which he was once
chairman, Senator Dillingham of Vermont,
who once headed the Immigration
committee, would be in line for
the judiciary body and if Senator Dillingham
should prefer his old committee,
Senator Brandagee of Connecticut,
ranks next for the Judiciary leadership.
Preferment by Senator Nelson for the
Judiciary committee would leave Senator
Jones of Washington, in line to
take the commerce committee.
The Interstate commerce committee
with its jurisdiction over legislation af-A1
?a ?1 V? A Mil.
lecung Kuvernuicut cuiurui m iuv .
roads and telerraph and telephone
wires, falls to Senator Cummlngs of
Iowa, as successor to Senator Smith of
South Carolina.
Besides these preeminent committee
chairmanships, prospective chairmen ,
of other Important committees follow:
Banking and currency, Senator McLean
of Connecticut, rice Senator
Owen of Oklahoma.
Privileges and election. Senator Kenyon
of Iowa, vice Senator Pomerene of
Ohio.
Manufactures, Senator LeFollette of
Wisconsin, vice Senator Reed of Missouri.
Poetofftces, Senator Townsend of
Michigan, vice Senator Bankhead of
Alabama.
Education and labor. Senator Borah
of Idaho, vice Senator Smith of Georgia
Selection by the Republicans of a
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president pro tempore to succeed senator
Saulsbury, Democrat, who failed J
of re-election, is a matter of some
peculation. Senator Lodge is sched- u
uled to remain leader of the Republicans,
with Senator Brandagee mentioned
for the honorary presiding position.
||
Senator Martin of Virginia, now majority
leader, Is expected to head the
Democrats again in the new congress
with Senator Gerry of Rhode Island,
mentioned for the place of Democratic
whip now held by Senator Lewis of
Illinois, who was defeated.
AUSTRIANS CAME CRAWLING.
When Captain Failed a General Was
if
Sent.
The Austrian application for an ar- a<
mlstice was made under the following 01
conditions, writes a correspondent of a
the London Times from Italian head- H
quarters: n'
Toward evening on October 29 an ^
Austrian officer was seen coming from m
the enemy trenches close to Serravalle w
In the Adige valley and when It be- w
came evident at once that his white 'l
fla| was genuine, Italian officers went ' 1
forward to meet him.
The officer, a captain, declared that ^
he had come to discuss conditions for
in armistice. Taken to a neighboring
command and questioned he was found
rtot to have authoritative papers and ^
was sent back with the message that a
more representative and duly accredit- p
?d mission should be sent if the matter ^
was to be pursued. ri
On Wednesday evening n white flag j
igain was hoisted, the Austrians havw
Ing evidently determined to make due j
sacrifice to pride, and this time more w
fitting personalities appeared. At the ^
head of a small group which ap- )a
proached the Italian trenches was the bj
Austrian general. Von Weber, a corps
commander. The party consisted of h(
sight persons and included another A|
general, naval and military officers. v,
ilso civilians, either diplomatic or govirnment
representatives, secretaries ta
ind typists. ^
They were treated with every court- |>0
\sy. When Von Welter formally stated jj,
lis mission and had shown he was the
icarer of proper credentials he and his cl.
party were driven the next day in mo- c0
:orcars to a villa close to General
Diaz's headquarters.
On Sunday at 9 a. m.. General Ba- tj,
loglio, chief of staff, drove with an es- ar
:ort of cavalry to the villa and on his (j,
irrival all the troops saluted and bu- p(
ties sounded. Entering the villa. af
Joncral Badoglio found all the Aus- g,
rian mission standing in line In the ex
Irawing room awulting him. General
iron Weber was in full uniform, wear- th
ng the stars and ribbons of his order. ar
General Badoglio saluted him and ht
without seating himself asked his er- cr
and. General Von Weber replied he
tad come to ask under what conditions
armistice would be granted. Ba- pi
loglliwinswedcd that within an hour he ge
would let him know the general lines Ca
>f such an armistice contained in a vii
written message. He then left the ac
oom and the written message in ques- Ui
tion was at once sent to the villa. h<
Meanwhile telegrams were exchanged er
with Versailles. In the afternoon pre- or
:isc details of the armistice were re- fit
telved from Premier Orlando and p?
igain in written form handed to Von m
SVeber. m
In the evening one of the Austrian m
snvoys left in a motor car for Serra- to
t'alle with a draft of the conditions to th
tommunlcate them to the Austrian ?a
fovernment. m
The Austrian plenipotentiaries, much d<
Jepressed, did not show themselves
outside the villa nor walk in the gar- d(
Jen. Even they, men of position who re
might be supposed to have avoided the in
worst straits of their compatriots, be- th
trayed the need of food. P<
th
FOUGHT TMfcivl IN UkOVES. m
Wonderful Feat of Britieh Major In ^
.. n<
I-ranee.
Perry Robinson writing for the
.vi'na no.,i lne no.u ui rrutin, ^
tells an extraordinary story of gallan
ttt 111 llblllilie hntaliwl MaWI I >> .1 dliljui w
of the lioyal Air I orco.
"The major being out nil alone,"
he writes, "sa\? mi eiuiny plane above .
al
nirn. So he went up, attucKcu a..-, |
shot It down. At the moment he ,j
found himself attacked, and before he h
could do anything was wounded In the
right thigh.
"Momentarily dazed, he lost control
of his machine and when he manugeu tj
to drive it discovered he was surround- A
ed by fifteen Kokkers. He fought desperately
till again he was wounded, ,y
this bullet this time shattering his b]
other thigh. He fainted and his ma- ,y
chine began to spin down out of control.
"He came to himself again before b
he reached the ground but only to find
he was surrounded by an entire newpack
of a dozen enemies. He was Ql
faint and dizzy but made up his mind
to die gloriously and so charged y(
straight for the nearest enemy ma chine
In an attempt to ram it. A third ^
bullet hit him. breaking his left elbow. f(
"Then he turned and tried to escape
but between him and safety there were 0
eight new enemy machines. Two of
these he sent down helpless before he y
dived for the ground. fj
'He could not properly control his h
machine but landed at great speed, g
nroohiricr into a hedge. Then he faint- jj
ed. b
"He had fought sixty enemy ma- h
chines and sent down eight or ten tl
though himself so wounded and man- a
gled that to fly at all was a consider- o
able feat." si
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American prisoners in Germany are
being badly mistreated, in spite of the
protests of -the American Red Cross,
Americans arriving at the prison e
camps at Limburg, Darmstadt and t<
Glessen have -their clothes stolen and j{
their boots replaced with wooden sa- .
bots. The American Red Cross has
shipped clothing to replace that which "
was stolen. A protest was made to h
Major General Friedrich, inspector of v
prisoners, but he replied that the .
equipment of soldiers in captivity is
considered booty. C
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A correspondent writing from the h
Allied front, quotes Marshal Foch as ^
saying some weeks ago: "I have not ..
yet had my battle." The operations 11
now in progress Justify the belief that
the marshal's hour has come at last, t
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Michigan and South Dakota last -]
week voted in favor of woman suffrage.
Oklahoma and Louisiana defeated
the suffrage proposition. 1
AS IHt tUIIUKS SAW II
eiwpaper Men Return From Visit
to War'Front
(PRESSED BY ENGLAND AND FRANCE
Ing or England Quite a Democrat-Worrten
Workers In Munition Plants
?Tremendous Activity in shipbuilding?American
Soldiers Have Captivated
Everybody?Visit to the
Fighting Lines.
"I was amazed at what I saw. In
>ur years Great Britain has done what
took Germany forty years to
thieve," said F. W. Kellogg, publisher
f the San Francisco Call, member of
party of editors, publishers and
rlt? rs who had just returned front a
ine weeks' trip to Europe as the
jests of the British bureau of inforatlon.
On their trip they saw the
ar not only on the fighting line, but
ar in the making- They talked with
king in his own home, with prefers.
ministers, generals and soldiers
id with what are generally referred
i as "the common people." They saw
i<>?< -ill 11J their work.
"The United States has done marvelasly
well In the brief time since we
itered the war, but England and
,'otland have done better." said Pubther
Kellogg, in an interview in the
ditor and Puldlisher, New York, upon!
le party's return there. "On the
lyde, where the great shipbuilding
ants are located, there is as much
ork going on as in all the shipyards
the United States. We saw 300
ays there, all occupied by shij s in the
jilding, and being turned out and
unched at a rate almost unbelievae.
"In the munitions plants there is a
istle that vies with the fastest of our
merican factories, which opens the
sitor's eyes to the vigor and efflcien'
of British women and which cerinly
places on their heads the derved
crown of patriotism. How on
'W of American machinery are estabihed
In the great batteries, and at
em, as well as at British-made malines.
900,000 of the women of that
mntry daily take their places in or>r
that their men may risk and lose
eir lives in battle. We saw some of
ese devoted women, wives, mothers,
id sweethearts, many of them of geni
blood, handling enormous 1,500>und
shells. It will be something,
ter the war is over, to have been a
ritish munition worker. Danger of
plosions has not terrified them and
?avy manual labor has not deterred
em. Their spirit is hot for victory.
ul the part that America is taking
ls added to their strength and ineased
their determination.
Same In the Palace.
"Between their spirit and that of the
klace there is nothing to chooee. To ther
with another group of Afnerln
newspaper m<*n, we were taken to
sit King George at Sandringham pale,
about 80 miles out of London. The
ng received us in his office in Yorkc
>use, hisyesidence, with as little cernony
as one would expect from an
dinary business man. Indeed, his of:e
there is Just what might be exited
in the workroom of a business
an, only perhaps a little more inflate
Its walls arc adorned with
ore pictures than we are accustomed
use. At the same time. I noticed
lat two of them were exactly the
me as two that are on the walls of
y own office at the ranch at Alta>na.
"This was at the time when Presi;nt
Wilson had asked the Germans in
iply to their request for an armistice,
effect, 'With whom are we dealing:
le German emperor or the German
iople?' King George was convinced
tat the situation thus created was
ore embarrassing to Germany than to
ngland, France or America, and did
>t hesitate to make his attitude
nown to us.
"We were agreeably surprised to
id that King George was much like
:her people, and not at all impressed
ith his own dignity and importance,
e is very human, and has a keen
>nse of humor. He told us a story
bout himself of which Lord Xorthiffe,
who was with our party, said:
f you don't tell that when you get
ome, I'll tell It for you.' So here goes:
"Who's That Bug?"
"The king had been talking with
eneral Pershing and General Bliss in
le open at American headquarters,
s he turned to go away he heard an
merican soldier say to another:
Vho's that bug?' 'Why,' replied his
unkey, 'that's the king of England.'
Veil,' was the response, 'Where's his
rown, then?'
"The king told the story with droll
umor and evident glee. Mr. Bok, as
jr chuckles subsided, said:
" 'You know, your majesty, many of
ur boys think you spend most of your
me wearing your crown and carrying
Dur scepter.'
" 'Don't forget my ermine robe,' the
ing came back with a laugh. 'Don't
)rget my ermine robe.'
"After we had chatted a while in his
fflce, King George said he would get
is hat and show us his grounds,
orke house was given to him by his
ither when he married, and has been
is home ever since?Just a plain
ritish dwelling, where he has always
ved and where his children were
orn. He is very fond of it. He got
is hat, and with his queen, and all
le remainder of his family that were
t home, took us about Just like the
wner of any other country place,
bowed us his flower gardens, his hotouses.
his dairy, and his horses.
Confidence In WUson.
"I should not leave this brief refernce
to our visit to the king without
lllng you his attitude towards Preslent
Wilson. I cannot quote the king
i this, of course, but I assure you that
e believes that the way Mr. Wilson
as conducted America's part in the
rar has been all that could be hoped
or or desired by Great Britain. King
ieorge has the utmost confidence In
ir. Wilson and Is certain that he will
andle his difficult task with credit to
kmerlca and to the benefit of the Alles.
"Indeed, let me say right now that
his Is the sentiment that pervades all
Sngland and the whole of France.
The leaders and the people of both
ountries feel perfectly secure with
ir. Wilson occupying the chief plac?
natural if the French should hesitate
about leaving the principal part In the
settlement that is to come to the English:
and equally natural that the British
should feel the same reluctance by
having their affairs settled by the
French; but it is a fact which made us
all proud of our nationality that both
England and France are willing for the
chief part in the settlement to be taken
by America. It is this common sentiment
that emphasizes, to me, the
I words of President Wilson when he
asked the American people to support
him with a Democratic congress at
next Tuesday's election. America
might understand a divided sentiment,
and, perhaps, value it; but the French
and British would take it as a repudiation
of Mr. Wilson?and the Germans
as much more in its fancied meaning.
Met Lloyd George.
"The day after our visit to the king
we met Lloyd George at a luncheon
given for us in London. The premier
impressed me as most active and alert
mentally. He has a charming manner
and a magnetic personality. He answered
easily and freely every question
we asked, and with a most open and
frank manner. He Is confident that
the end of the war is in sight, and ne
assured us that any attempt by Germany
to break the entente of England
and France would fall- He also has
the utmost and Implicit confidence in
President Wilson's integrity and ablli- ,
ty. At the same time, he assured us
that Mr. Wilson never took a step
without previously communicating ,
with both French and English, but
that the president's answers to Germany
had been so cleverly prepared
and his use of the English language
so able, that neither French nor British
had found it necessary to suggest ]
the change of a single word.
"Of course we went to the battlefront
in France. We were about three
miles behind the extreme front, but
that is only a short distance in this
war. We were actually under fire for
ten days. We met Oeneral Pershing
and General Bliss, and saw our big
guns fired at the enemy, who was Invisible
to us, of course. We saw a
great deal of the American soldiers
there, too. and a more cheerful, deter- '
mined lot of fighters it would be difficult
to imagine. We saw a terrain of 1
160 square miles over which battle
raged continuously for months. Before
the war there were 60 towns and vil- j
lagcs in this section. N'ow not only is |
there no village there, but every vestige |
of every village has been destroyed by i
shell fire; so much so that even the i
paving stones of the streets have been i
torn up and scattered, and not a single t
tree remains in the whole vast ex- i
J panse. I
Want American* to Stay.
"Speaking of the American troops j I
brings to mind a problem that our 1
American women will have to face after
the war. High and low in Great '
! Britain and Franc# are Wngtng the '
praises of our soldiers, not only as 1
fighters, but as men. Our boys have 1
' ~ fnr thomHPlvPK '
I Illuue u naiui ... .....
among: the peoples of both countries,
and nothing fair will be lacking In an
effort to keep a goodly number of them ,
there after the war is over. I
"Think. England has lost 1,900,000 ,
men In the war and France has sacri- (
flced 2,000,000. Their women have
lived on- What are they to do for (
husbunds, these women who are of
marriageable age now? It Is concern- ,
ing even the nobility of both countries
not a little. A French countess talked .
with me about it with the utmost
frankness, saying that before the war
France had 2,000,000 more women
than she had men, and now there were
twice as many as that. She was concerned
about the perpetuation of her
race, and said she hoped that hundreds
of thousands of our soldiers
would determine to make their homes
in France after the war was over.
'They are the finest men God ever produced/
she declared, ' and our women
need them for husbands.'
"In England it is the same. Lady
Sybil Grey, daughter of Earl Grey,
with many others of her class, Is Interesting
herself in preparing for the
care of American soldiers after the
war, hoping: that they may take up
their homes in England and marry
English women. Many of our boys
will be educated in England, under the
plan authorized by congress. They
will be accepted in the best homes of
England and will find no barriers of
caste prohibiting them from access to
the best British families. Some of
them will remain there and marry.
The war has changed many things and
this is one of them. It is not longer
? -I l^nnva^ahinv British
a qUCBUUIl Ul impv.v.
and French noblemen coming to
America to marry our wealthy girls,
but of keeping our American boys over
there to marry rich British and French
girls."
^ Newspapers Prosperous.
Naturally, Mr. Kellogg paid considerable
attention to the newspaper situation
In England. He brought back
with him a file of newspapers covering
the full period of the party's stay in
Great Britain.
"The British newspaper is smaller
now than it was before the war," he
said, as he showed some. "Paper is
scarce and very dear, advertising rates
have been trebled and the papers are
selling more space than ever before.
Everybody has an unusual supply of
money to spend because of war work,
* - ? Amathlnir tn
and tne peopie wno im<o ?
sell are getting rich- Those who have
names that they wish to keep before
the public are advertising freely, even
though they can produce none of the
goods they keep speaking of. They
and their names?their good willwill
be more firmly Impressed upon the
people than ever, and they will be
more firmly entrenched in the public
knowledge than they were before the
war.
"Selfridge, the great London department
store merchant, told me he was
buying all the space the papers would
sell him, and that his store did double
the businees in 1918 that it did last
year. He is building an addition to his
establishment twice as large as his old
place, with a tower on it that will be
the highest point In London."
The citizens of Nancy, France, have
dedicated a monument at Bathlemont
to Thomas F. Enright of Pittsburg,
Pa.; James B. Gresham of Evansville,
i Ind., and Merle D. Hay of Glidden, la.,
! who died Just a year ago. the first
Americans to fall in action under the
1 American flag I
unuaainu iul iwujl
How Americans Passed River Under
Terrible Fire
SPLENDID DIMTNTREAL COURAGE
First Men Swam Across River and
Then Pulled Others Across With
Ropes ? All Make Long Plunge
Through Mud?Germans Driven Off
While Engineers Built Bridges.
With the American forces on the Sedan
front, Nov. 6 (Associated lTes?>.
?The crossing; of the river Mouse and
the capture of the town of Dun by the
Americans will lie claimed as one of
the most gallant feats o! the operations
above Vurdun.
The troops who accomplished it will
rank as heroes. Their work was a
strategic move of magnificent daring.
It involved forcing a way over 160
feet of water, a half a mile stretch of
mud and a 60-foot canal In the face
of frightful enemy lire.
Some Swam Across.
It also involved swimming by those
who knew how and the pulling of others
over on ropes. Grappling Irons
were used to scale the sheer walls of
the ranal along which ( nomv machine
gunners ha?i been i>osted. ami all under
the fire of scores oAJgitt erics from the
hills adjoining.
When the order to cross the canal
came the men knew almost as well a*
their commanders how well nigh impossible
the task would be. Yet they
never hesitated.
The orders were to send over one
brigade first and If it failed to send
uiother and others one after the other.
Theoretically they had the choice of
crossings anywhere for five miles. Actually
they were limited to one point,
where two-thirds of a mile of mud
lay between the river Itself and the
ranal that roughly parallels the river.
The Cermans were too firmly InIrenrht^l
at all other spots. They hail
not protected themselves with trenches
here only because they never dreamt d
that the Americans would be so daring
is to try to negotiate the passage. This
was a short distance north of Hripulles.
Use Ropes to Advance.
All the swimmers of the 1st Hriwuie
wi re tlrst singled out and put
in the van. It was intended to attack
In this way on the theory that the
swimmers were* less likely to be hit by
the <iernutnfl owing to the fact that
Ihew would he nearly submerged. On
the other hand they could carry with
Ihcm ro|H-s and other j>arapherntilla
for assisting non-swimmers across,
rhc building of jiontoon bridges waa
l?ut off until at least some American
dements h.-ul crossed the river.
Notwithstanding some losses and
the fact-ttot^the swimmers could not
reached the east bank of the
river with lines, which were drawn
unit across the stream.
Some Float on Raftt.
Others lloated on rafts and collapsible
canvass boats. These men had
loss success than the swimmers, bemuse
they were better marked for the
nemy's rifle and the boats could easily
be sunk by bullets even If their
X'cupunts were not hit.
Close to where the swimmers crossi.l
the engineers began to throw over
l>ontoon boats and a tiny foot bridge.
The |iontoons weiv destroyed by the
enemy, but the bridge remained intact
and added materially to the constantly
increasing numbers of men
arrived on the west bank of
the river. Soon after dark the 1st
Brigade was across the first barrier
and more men were ready to make
the journey.
Plunge Through Mud.
The second phase of the prrilous undertaking
then began?the crossing of
the two-thirds of a mile of mud stretching
between the river and the canal.
under tremendous enemy Are. The
Americans stumbled across through
the withering Are. Their feet sank
into the mud and soon the pace of the
men whs slowed down to a laborious
walk. Nevertheless they got through,
even If the task caused some depletion
in their numbers.
The next phase constituted the
crossing of the narrower but deeper
' anal, with Its sheer sides ^id the
Germans almost at the very top of
the eastern edge. The swimmers agaIn
got Into action and plunged through,
notwithstanding the enemy Are, and
scrambled to the top. Here the men
divided their attention in driving off
the enemy and helping non-swimmers
across by the same method used at the
river. Two bridges were Anally laid
down by the engineers, greatly facilitating
crossing.
Two Bridges Hold.
These two bridges withstood attempts
of the enemy to destroy them
and contributed largely to the speed
of getting the American troops over.
When the swimmers reached the
edge of the canal they could not land
without the aid of the grappling hooks,
which had to be caught on top of the
wall edging the canal so that the
swimmers could pull themselves up
by means of ropes. It would have
been a hard enough task for men undisturbed
by the enemy's guns, but
Its accomplishment was aimtmi inconceivably
dlfrlcult under the violent
Ancmy Are.
With two water ways and twothirds
of a mile of mud land successfully
negotiated. the Americans had
only the customary Aghtln? and went
to it with no delay and In ever-Increasing
number*.
The Hermans, who apparently had
assumed that It was Impossible to
cross the Meuso. grave way without
jjrcat resistance before men who could
brave their Are, swim two rivers and
cross a swamp with almost charmed
live* and attack them without
pausing: for even a moment.
The Mouse has now been spanned by
several temporary bridges, which were ?
put down Immediately on the heels of
the Herman withdrawal. The American
advance has been rapidly sustained
since the moment the Americans
touched foot on the east bank of the
canal. The troops, thougrh tired by
their exertions found the Aghtin* there
easy as compared with their
previous experiences when they were
unable respond to the xalllnjr Art.