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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED flKMl-WKEKLT. l. m. grists son's, Publisher*. f % <^amilg Jfursjjajjfr: J;or the promotion of the political, Social, ggriinltnral and (fommerrial Jntfresls of th^ |fop4. J single copt. nra cum ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK. S. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1918. NO. 92 BIG WAR BOARDS They Go With the Establishment ot Peace TRADE COMPETITION TO BE RESTORED In the Case of Some of the Big Organizations There Is Doubt as to How Soon They Should Be Abolished: But It Is Not Probable That They Will Be Long Retained. I Washington, November 10.?Without new legislation a number of the : ?1 ; I rr. ?.. into being since the United States drew the sword for world freedom will go ~ "".mnnl neare is out or exwenvc i?v ?? ?.?. r !> I:* r-i. '!: I rid' r I'm- :iuthoril\ th:-1 created them their life is limited to the "duration of the war." and how many the president and his advisers shall deem necessary in at least the early da* v <.i I'c.n ?* is a ipe stion that is a-*i tating the capital as the end of the struggle draws near. Tens of thousands of war workers are directly affected, because they are cogs in the vast machinery, while citizens generally cannot fail to be interested in howit will he taken apart. Hut beyond the statement that the food administration I will be allowed to die there is no official word of Just what congress will be asked to do. oflicials generally up to now have been too busy keeping steadily at -the task of winning the war by arms, if necessary, to think about what will come with peace. Hut so widespread is the present belief that the problem lilii^ 1. .'il.it I <i at oiiif that tin- no of what will happen must now be gained. Already the president has a special committee considering the readjustment noiu war to |Hnee and lc ;isia tion making possible the functioning of some of the war bodies after the signing of the treaty is talked of in some quarters. It is feared chaos would develop if the government would relax iLb grip too suciueniy. Important Hoards Must Go. Among the government agencies that have been created as the direct result of the war and which under the present authority for their existence would die with the ratification of the peace treaty are several of the most important bureaus. The list includes the food administration, the fuel administration. the war trade board and the war industries board. The food administration, created under the Lever food and fuel control act. approved August 10, 1917, to establish control of food, feeds and their derivatives "during the war" will disappear immediately peace is declared, it was stated here tonight. Its own officials see no reason for its continuance in ix-ncc. except for the fulfillment of certain contractual obligations ondcrtaken by its grain corporation and sugar equalization board. This could be done without the existence of the food administration. it is held, and so far as is known there is no movement to induce congress to extend its life- Furthermore, Herbert Hoover, it is pointed out. will be fully occupied with his new task of feeding the (iterated people of Europe, assignment to which by the president was announced last night. The fuel administration is also in existence under the Lever act, and its functions also will end with the signing of peuce, unless an amendment to the law is asked to extend its life and thus avoid confusion in winding up its affairs. Dr. Garfield has not yet expressed himself on the matter, but it is understood he and his advisers believe several months will be required to relinquish government control of fuel, unless the lnter\al between the signing of the armistice and the ratification is greatly prolonged. Tnule Board's Value. The war trade board was creaieu d> an executive order signed by the president October 12, IS 17. to administer the trading with the enemy act and certain sections of the espionage act. Its existence would seem to end with the disappearance of "the enemy" through the conclusion of peace, but it is already recognized that the worldembracing organization built up by the board should prove of incalculable value in starting up the country's foreign commerce in peace. Accordingly, it is entirely possible that this body will be continued under a new name. If it is not, it is probable that its machinery would be taken over by the department of commerce or the shipping board. The war industries board is a child of the council of national defense, created by executive order, that grew larger than its parent in a short time through the vast Importance of its functions. Although some hold that the Overman act gives the president | power to continue the organization as an aid to the industries of the country' when they return to the work of peace. Chairman Baruch states that the president's committee now studying the problem of turning from war to peace with the least possible dislocation of industry may llnd it necessary to suggest legislation. The council of national defense, through the state councils, has been found a valuable assistant to the war industries board in carrying out its work in various parts of the country, and it is likely this organization will play an Important part in reconstruction, possibly under another name. Which Must Continue. Among the big war bodies whose work must continue even after peace are the office of the alien property custodian, the war risk insurance bureau and the war finance corporation. In the hands of A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, is the millions upon millions of dollars' worth of German and Austrian property in this country seized by virtue of the trading th# cnemv act. All moneys com lng into his hands is invested by the secretary of the treasury, while he Is holding other property as a common law trustee. Both will bo disposed of at the end of the war as congress shall direct, so this office will have completed but half its job when peace is declaredThe war risk insurance bureau, through which the fighting men of the country and their dependents are financially protected, la a part of the treasury department and employs an enormous force of men and women. Aj policies run for twenty years and then are millions of clients, this bureai will have to continue much along th> lines of the pension office, it Is stated Another treasury bureau created b) the war is the war fln?ince corporation which has advanced millions of dollar to contractors doing work for the gov ernment to take care of their overhead while awaiting payment for their pro duct. It is estimated that it will tak< months for this bureau to wind up it affairs. Government operation of the rail roads Is fixed by law to end twenty-one months after the conclusion of peace Accordingly the railroad administra tion will continue its existence fo nearly two years after peace, regard less of what comes of agitation foi | permanent government ownership. | The bill authorizing the taking ovri [ of the telephone and telegraph line: I ? that "nv-mnient control shnl end with the war, but there is a move ment for government ownership then I nlcn The war labor boanl was appointee bv President Wilson, and its funcMom will revert to the department of labor 't Is understood, as soon as emergency renditions are removed. Similarly th' rommlttre on public informnt'on. ere ated also by executive order? will doubt loss tro out of existence with the arriv II of noarr. Among the governmental bodies oft .. ? V>o'-o<! oper !>? o?^> nt'ft'l'" 0 W.trO', g.-inization is the United States ship ping board, but the faet is that thl! I body was created by congress month! before the nation entered the worle war. Its original function was to buih up an American merchant marine, am accordingly it is not one of the depart ments that will go out of existcnci with peace. Similarly, its subsidiary the emergency fleet corporation, wil remain in existence to supply the ship ping demands of peace that are ex M-cted to prove little less importan .han those of war. . RED RUIN IN RUSSIA. lapanese Consul General Describe! Conditions As He Left Them. Two Itritish lin? rs arrived at an At antic port with passengers and mail.' 'mm Knglnnd. but they did not burr .lo ir deck lights on approaching th< Xno riean roast or steer a direct coursi or port. (>n the contrary, aecordin; o the ofllcers the steamships at nigh retained their stiite of inky darkness ml zig-;:acgcd < < ntinuously until thej picked up the pilot at the entrance o the harbor. Among the lirst cabin passenger: was Kyo Kurnasaki. Japanese Consu Ceio ral to Moscow who, when he wa! ! leaving I'etrograd in September. ha< a narrow esca|>c for his life from th< .. . . -i..: i? whii'h had attackei I JOISII' X IIM I......... the British Km I cissy on the Xevsk I I'rosport and killed some of the of fleers. The conditions in Russia today, th< Consul General said, are impossible to imagine unless one has none throtiirh the experience of this Rroat st horror since the French Revolution. The Bolsheviki are crazy wit! vodka and fear that the former off! vers of the Russian Army will aid th? Allies in running them down and ex terminating them. Hence to avoii this risk the Rolsheviki guards arres I every man who looks like arj oftlcei and send him to Krondstadt.where In is promptly shot without any forn I-if trial. Grass grows in the street! of I'ctrograd and dead horses lie there " When the headipiarters of the Bob I dievikl Government was at I'etrcgrai | hat was the worst city in Russia | nit now that the headquarters has beet removed to Moscow the reputation foi I -vii has gone also. I Ytrograd is a mori ' mid city and the people are so wretched and east, down that I do not know ow they exist. The poor cannct Re ika. so they drink a mixture com po:w'd of benzine, kerosene, and demit ured alcohol. The effect of thii iquid is to make men hate themselves I vt the Consulate we could obtain rei i ..ines like claret for $100 a bottle hampaRtie at $J00 and brandy at $40i i bottle. Bread at $10 a pound. Moa s too cxj?cnsive for ordinary persons "aviar can be obtained in Moscow till, but no one thinks about it an; more. "The Russian ntujik, or peasant s powerless to help himself, as he ha io arms, no leaders, no organization ml does not know how to think. Hel| .rem outside alone can save the mujik ile is the awful example of centuries of oppression and tyranny and has ni spirit to resist the Bolsheviki. Then * "A" "n" in Russia vvhl must be saved from themselves, o Ise they will all die. It is pitiful t< see that great country in such a stat< of chaos. The C'zecho-Slovaks are not a larg. force to carry on such a great worl of reform. Many of them are in Sib ria and not in itussia proper. Th< peasants are angry at the Bolshevik aow because the latter sent men fron the factories in the big cities, like Pet ogrnd and Moscow, to steal the food it?iffs from the granaries and the; would take charge of the country a once if they had arms and a leader In the cities it is wonderful that thi musses can exist on what they are abl< o obtain for the support of themselvc and their families. The Germans an in Moscow looking after their businesi affairs, but they do not mingle In loca ( clitics as they are afraid to make to< much noise. The only newspaper that can be obtained in Kussia are th< sheets, about notepapcr size. fron the Bolshevik! agencies and the Gcr man newspapers sent in by train fron Berlin." Gonsul General Kumasnki said tha Me nan nearu 01 ine nurning u> ovau of the former Empress and her dan ghter at Ekaterinburg from j>erson; who had asserted they had seen thei ashes, but did not know it of hi own personal knowledge. He believe* that Russia would turn again to nu tocntcy. It was a big country, he said and needed governing with a firm ham until discipline was restored. The British admiralty announce; the output of Allies' tonnage in th hist quarter exceeded the losses fron nil causes nearly half a million gros tons. The United Kingdom built nev shipping to the amount of 411.395 tons the other Allies and neutrals 972.73 tons. The tonnage of merchant ves sels completed in the United Kingdon and entered Into service In Octobei was 136.100. CHRISTIANS AND THE WAR. 8 ? i Teaching of the Nazarene Does Not e Make Cowards. Pacifist arguments against war were P riddled by Rev. Dr. Francis Ll Patton, 1 ' president emeritus of Princeton semi- J 8 nary, in a lecture {^titled "The War " land Christianity" last Tuesday evening ^in Philadelphia, in Calvary Presbyte" irian church. Doctor Patton took variolous texts advanced by the pacifists and s. showed that they could not be applied I to the situation created by German brutalities. p "Whatever else is true of Ohristianl' ty, it has not made men too cowardly to fight," declared the veteran theolor gian. He added: "With all deference to the pacifists. I think the trend of r Scripture is in favor of war under certain circumstances." r War was forced upon the world by ^ Germany, he declared, and the large audience applauded as he continued: "We know the name of the man upon whose shoulders rests the guilt of this j colossal crime." The war. Dr. Patton said, must go <^r> u^f'l the r'?htenus en?'? for whi"'| the Allies are striving are attained. He ^ called attention to the spirit of nationalism that his sprung up in central Europe among the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs. necessitating, he said, "a reconstruction of the map of Europe, which makes the removal of the French m *WKinn a mattpr of mi i I UIIIJ I" I LU UIO ? nor importance." "Are Christians cowards?" asked Dr K Putton. "Let England, Scotland, Italy, , France and Belgium speak. It is not j . only true that Christianity has not , I weakened courage; it is pretty safe to < say it has given courage. The men j p, who have gone forth from this country j to tight the battle of liberty, I think, ^ j will testify that their Christianity is j . the very inspiration of bravery. "Some have gone forth out of love of , adventure, but these men do not con- r stitute the rank and file of the soldiers j of the Allied nations. Men with wives ( and children do not risk their lives for ( love of adventure. The real inspiration 5 is to be found in the wave of indigna- t . tion that swept the civilized world be- { < cause of the gross cruelty that has i been enacted in the name of warfare. It has been their Christianity that made them go. ; Answers for I'aclfists. { I "Still there are those who do not ap prove of war; men who think we have 1 > violated our charter as Christians. We ; I call them pacifists. Some are in sym- J pathy with the Teutons, but they wise* ly disguise their sympathy by pro- ?. I claiming against war. There are pa> cilists who are worried because of the 1 taxes, which grow heavier as the war t "" is prolonged. There are some of these 1 in Great Britain. * "Others feel that this war has pre cipitated against the terminus of the i present social order, and they are im- 1 * patient to seer the war end in order to f ? launch their social revolution. There ( ' are. however, pacifists, good, honest, * God-fearing men, with whom we can , sympathize. j 1 "They have taken their arguments from the Book of Books. They refoi J us to the text, 'If thine enemy hunger, " * * * ' M '?* ofta V*Im reed mm, ana u ne umoi, ? >? ) drink.' That doesn't trouble me. Put t him in the right place and I will feed | r him and Rive him drink. Place him where he has not a bayonet in his hand i or a bomb concealed i^ his uniform ' ' and I will see that he is well taken . 'are of and gets three meals a day. "1 think it is greatly to the credit of i the British, trench and Americans . . that they have under great provocai lion taken such excellent care of the i German prisoners. Many of these Uer- , mans would rather be taken prisoner than continue to light. < I "1 might be a member of the Society I to Protect Animals Prom Cruelty, but - it would be the height of folly tor me ' to go into an open held to feed a beast o< fitj. .vn, but u he is properly . caged, I will see that he is well cared > for. An urmy of noncombatants would ' accomplish little against an army that J was deaf to reason. An army armea I ,t,i liiiiluos bottles uoululil aceoiili. plish much against the hosts of Ger> many. 'Ihey would reap death, noth- , f nig more. "but the pacifists quote the text . about loving your enemies. O, yes, but s there are many kinds of love. There . are essentially two kinds?the love of i? benevolence and the love of compla. cency. What kind are we to exercise s toward our enemies? I think the Briti ish, French and Americans are illus...t.iiig pretty well consiuering all . > they have to deal with, a love of ber nevolence toward their enemies. > "Does it seem rational that Chrls. tianity should require us to abandon the principle of self-defense? Should ? . ou iuiow a run tan to p.liuge your nousi i and take your property, while you sit . idly looking on? This may be the case r with nations, as well as with individi uals. An army advances to destroy i you. It is deaf to every argument You 1 Kainir prnch oH ffi - SlUHU ill lut' way v* vcme vi ? . there any logic to meet the situation y other than the rifle, the bayonet, the t itomb and the cannon? , C. S. Good Samaritan. , e Dr. Patton said that while many pa- , clflsts concede the propriety of waging s war in self-defense, they persist against P engaging In a war 3,000 miles away. , s He asked what we would have thought 1 of the Good Samaritan had he arrived " 5 on the scene while the robbers were ft beating their victim and refused to p help the unfortunate man. , "I would think he was a better . Christian If he jumped in at the start , and drove the robbers away," he continued. "Thank God, the United States t played the part of the Good Samaritan, u supplying not only the money and the food but also the men to win the vie s tory. If you are glad that the United r States did this, then you must give up s the idea that it is wrong to fight The j thing that has stirred the blood of the . American people was not their kinship I to Great Britain, nor their debt of j gratitude to France. It is that a great injustice was perpetrated by Germany and they were ready to do their part ? in a righteous cause, r "If you are going to fight, you must & fight well. Tou must diminish the * strength of the enemy, which means , that you must put as many of the ene5 my out of the world as possible, not - cruelly, but in accordance with your ? righteous purpose. I make no apologies for my feelings in this war. When I WORK OF THE RE towns and villages they are forced to! streets In Bethune as the Germans lfl UUC* v * ymn, ??? l think of L.ou\uin and Kneuns, the U? >oat campaign, the murder of Mln Javell and CapL Fryatt and of "spurous vcrsank' 1 thank Uod we have an nspired liturgy of execration. I tell rou in these days the Old Testament las its application in a good many daces. In conclusion, Doctor Patton comnended President Wilson's plan for a eague of nations to preserve the peace >f the world, but he warned his hcaf;rs that nothing devised by man will ircvail unless man has "an antitoxin hat will cure the deep-seated malady >f sin." "It is Christianity," he saidCLOVER CULLINGS. iorretpondenoa of The Yorkville Enquirer Clover, November 9.?Mr. and Mrs. LTiomas T. B. Williams, of Lincolnon, N. C., and Miss Summers, of New fork, Visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jack-, ion hero this week. Mr. Sam Jackson visited his brothr Harry at Camp Jackson this week. Mrs. Sam Jackson spent the week nil with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. B. Williams, at Lincolnon. Mesdames H. P. Jackson, Joe Curv and W. F. Wood were visitors to took Hill Thursday. Miss Kathleen Ritch, of Charlotte, s visiting her parents, Mr. and tfrjk' A", F. Rich, here. ^7% Mr. lifcClnln Ford, of rocn, has taken a position with tnF Clover Drug Store. Among the visitors in Oastonia Frilay were Mrs. W. E. Adams, Misses Cthel Adams, unnsimi; cuuuu, uimuu mcl Jennie Cnrrence. Mm. C. H. Ferguson, is visiting her lister, Mrs. John McLean, near Gason in. Mr. and Mrs. J. \V. Jaclcson, :n<l Misses Bertha and Hester Jackon, of ltcthel end Mr. and Mrs. 'rank Jackson of Clover No. 2 spent Friday here with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. laekson. Friends of Rev. James Wilson, who vas reared ahout two miles southast of Clover, will be interested to .now that he is spending the week nd with the fnniily of Mr. W. D. Iloore, here, and will preach in the 'iTshyterian church here Sunday naming. Clover school will resume work tfnnday morning, after having been losed nearly five weeks on account of he influenza epidemic. Messrs. Campbell and Wallace Caroll. of Route 1 left Friday afternoon o engage in construction work at "amp Jackson. Mrs. Horry Robinson of Route 1. eft Friday afternoon for Camp Jackon to visit her husband who is in raining there. Bethany school will begin on Mon'ay morning about a month later han usual, on account of the influenza epidemic. Miss Anna Stevenson, f Winnsboro. is princina' and Miss ' ena Howell and Mr. W. Lee Gottys >re fcor assistants. Misc. M"|j Xell will resume her ork in the i/owryvillc school on 'a?unlay. Mrs. J. W. Cnmnbell returned Sat'rday from Greenville, whsre she os been vsitlng her hushand, who ome back with her. Messrs. Walter McClain and Roy M^Cnrter. are spending the week end er? from Ashcvl'lo. Messrs. Borne Faulkner and W. B. ' Us spent the week end at Camp 'ackson. Mrs. Mattle Bovd, of Yorkville. 'oent Thursdnv here with her sister, Mrs. John Stewart. >'r. Fred RndinUi of the navy, 'o'ted his s's'er Mrs. James A. "\ohoj./> this week. Farms for the Soldiers.?The N'atonal Government is studying plans to >rovide farms for returned soldiers >n long tenn payments. The Federal arm loan work may be extended to rive further support to this producive enterprise. The plan?which Is iescrihed In full by Dr. Elwood Mead, n the November World's Work?has vlready been fully tried out by the Mate of California. The basic idea is that under the old plan many a setjlcr kvas unable to secure capital -ffiough to take a wide piece of land, build a iouse on it, and support/ his family until his land becamey^roductlve, but that under the new/plan the farmer THIS IS WHAT ONE f While General Mangln was boo Westers front his artillery disco rare meter gun mounted upon a truck. X (Joan amidships and cut it la tm... . TREATING GERMANS mating Huns continue to devastate the evacuate. Here Is one of the principal eft It, the once beautiful buildings now ii.;; t.iwi Ins house tiuilt and his :ds already broken and tamed, and us very soon has an income. "Secretary Lane." says the World's 'ork. "states that every thoughtful an must realize, that it will be toe ate* to plan for farms when the wa> i over; that an urgent and immedi */? ns.sist tu *\ ni-Acram nrnnfpil hv men 'f thought, experience and vision un "r which it would be possible to saj o the returned soldier: "If you wlsl o no upon a farm, here are a variet' >f farms of which you may take your ick, which the povernment has prepared against the time of your rcturn'np.' " GIPSY SMITH SAYS. People Who Are Unwilling to Give Should Be Moved to Germany. Turning to the Rev. Ren Cox. who is ^pastor of the Central Raptist church and who conducts the noonday prayer meetinp, the evenpclist asked, "When you serve your free coffee to men in need, you don't ask a man who is hungry to what church he belongs, do you?" As the minister shook his head. Gipsy said, "Of course not! Or if he Was a Catholic, you wouldn't say that you couldn't give him food. Certainly not! You would not be a Christian if - "Tou have doubtless heard people say, 'My church is the church,' " and the emphasis that Olpsy placed on the words, "the church," brought laugiiter. "Ifou might as well say, 'Kill your oain-tub with water una call it the ocean.' "Who among you thank the brave men who are waring an tor the worms liberty?" When the hands raised in response to his question had been lowered, he said, "The majority of these soldiers are Roman Catholics. What ?..u u.e bit ii 01 l-i uueo. ual are tin men of Italy? What arc the men 01 Belgium? Roman Catholics. i it-11 w hen boinc oik- in tiie campaign asks you to contribute to the organizations that are serving these men, give! If you won't contribute, move to Germany!" ..... .iinnknr referred to the Jews, I ? IIV "I and said that in addressing a meeting of Jews recently he told his hearers that all that was sweetest and best In his life he owed to a Jew, and the luune 01 llic jew was Jesus, lie tlieii reminded the audience that the Bible v-unie nom the Jews ana tuai tne Mosaic law was given to the Jews. He stated that in the work among the soldiers "need was creed,' and that when the war was over he was confident that religious barriers would be broken down Just as the obstructions which prevented the friendship of the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy in other years from developing as rapidly as it should, woule. be found to have been entirely destroyed. "When the kaiser goes, let us hope that religious bigotry will dlsappoai with him."?Memphis Appeal. Army Uniform Costly.?It is said that it costs Uncle Sam $101 for the clothing of every soldier sent to France, in spite of the standardization and the universal employment oi machinery. This amount does not include eating utensils and fighting equipment. The change in method since the days of the American Revolution is striking. The uniforms of that tim< were cut up and sewed by hand in the homes of the people, who also wove much of the cloth. To-day speculation has gone so far that a coat must he made in New York to go with trousers made in Philadelphia. One firm may do the buttonholes and another sew on the buttons. ?Christian Science Monitor. Rritish prisoners returning from aov thnt tprrihle tortures were practiced by the Bulgarian soldiers upon prisoners, some of whom have been driven insane. Serb'an and Roumanian prisoners were badly mistreated, and in one instance a Greek was hung up by the feet and burned. Many harrowing: reports are told by men who have been for some time inside the Bulgarian lines. : FRENCH SHELL DID nbardiiif the German positions on the d the location of this German 88-mtilths flat abot almafl at the pa atrock II . <s2tv.. KAISER WILLIAM II. Bis Ambition to Dominate Lost Him Bis Tttrooe Af ANTED TO CONQUER TBE WORLD Nursed Single Terrible Idea for Thirty Years?Under German Constitution His Title Goes to His Grandson, However, Liable to Change William II. might have said of Ger- j many quite as aptly as Louis XIV. said of France: "I am the state," for his rule of thirty years was a continual assertion, almost to the end, that by Dime anointment he embodied the soul of his people and through his personality Germany was destined for world dominion. lie will be remembered as one of the strangest characters of history, for the military conceptions which he cherish ed were applied to every pnase 01 me, and the greatest industrial and commercial expansion Germany had ever known was coincident witli the diciplinary policy of his reign. When on occasion he flashed his sword in international movements the people came to believe in that method of progress and to support itThe rule of William I., first Gorman mpcror, which lasted from 1871, until his death in March, 1888, was not greatly different from that of the same personage as king of Prussia, before the federated states had constituted themselves an empire. He was ninety when he died and when invested with iixiial |K)wer. seventeen years previously, he had passed the age of restless ambition and his aim was to unite his country and try and preside over it benignly. Too Headstrong for Bismarck. Had his son Frederick, who succeeded him, lived, the militaristic element might have been relegated. All apprehensions of such a tendency vanished with the accession of William | II. His education had been military. At tho beginning of his rule he declared that the strength of the government lay in the army, rather than in the statesmen. Bismarck remarked of him that he would soon become his own chancellor, a prediction that was soon verified, when, in 1890, ho "dropped the pilot" who had been his grandfather's mainstay. Grave fears were then expressed that tho impetuosity of the young ruler might embroil Germany In a general European war. The people outgrew that when William II., in spite of his clanging: sword and poses of theatric hraomilnrln envn them tWentV-flve years of peace and prosperity, but in international politics the prospect of a general European war always stalked as a spectre; and surprising and unexpected as was the outbreak when it came, statesmen of all countries could say they had predicted it While always the advocate of German domination and of the rule of might, the young emperor sought in the early years of his reign to ingratiate himself with other governments. He made frequent visits to foreign courts, where his affability and bearing won for him generous and cordial reception. In his early years also, while expressing abhorrence of social democracy, he showed himself sufficiently adroit in politics to placate the Social st following by promising the speedy redress of grievance, which he never intended to appease. He would be all things to all men so long as he was recognized as supreme. On June 25, 1914, the emperor, in his honorary capacity as a British admiral, commanded for an hour a British squadron at Kiel. He was then posing as the greatest peace maker in the world. Within a month he was speeding back to the same port In response to rumblings of the storm that was to engulf the world in war. Upon the arrival of his yacht a special train carried him to Berlin, where he presided over a meeting of his war cabinet on July 30. Instantly following the cabinet meeting a wire censorship was ordered in Berlin, and the rumor spread that the military forces of the empire were at once to be mobilized. Claimed Support of God. From the window of the palace the emperor delivered an address in which he said: "The sword has been forced into Germany's hands. If my efforts at the last hour do not succeed in Inducing our opponents to see eye to eye with us and in maintaining peace, we shall, with God's help, so wield the sword that we shall restore it to its sheath again with honor." The cables told of a gathering of 60,000 persons before the palace, singing the national songs and cheering the emperor as he urged them to enter the combat as German brothers, ignoring all factional strife. He made the same appeal before the relchstag. Throughout the war the emperor made frequent visits to every zone of activity, encouraging the soldiers and promising to them certain victory. At the same time he kept close eye on the diplomatic situation. Those who saw him in Berlin remarked that he had grown old, wrinkled and white, but he kept moving as if all depended upon bis energies. In all his speeches to the army and to civilians he was always confident that "God is with us." The diplomatic exchanges between Germany and the United States and other neutrals were Inspired by the emperor, if not actually phrased by him. He certainly felt himself to be the state. Emperor William held his title by virtue of a provision in the German constitution which made the king of Prussia president of the federation of German states and thereby German emperor, and the laws of Prussia provided succession by primo-genlture. By }. these provisions the king of Prussia might abdicate, thereby ceasing to be emperor; but his eldest son would auj tomatically become emperor on the score of kingship. If he were to renounce the kingly title, the succession would fall to his son and wltli it the I title of emperor. | So abdication of the kingship by j William II. and renunciation by the crown prince would carry the kingship and the Imperial title to the crown i prince's sonI Edward Joseph Fay, a world-notorious crook and bank robber, known as Eddie Flay, was found shot to death In an alley In Chicago. Thursday. S There was a bullet wound In his head Just above the right ear. The police q believe he was slain by a member of his own gang, following an argument over the division of loot. Fay's career of crime extends all over America yj and parts of Europe. He became In- . ternationally known fifteen years ago " when lie was arrested in Paris with tr Mickey" Gleason, also of Chicago, for b< the robbery of a Paris bank. They were sentenced to Devil's Island, the French penal settlement, off the coast 'c of South America, where Dreyfus was pi imprisoned. Fay escaped. He was the first criminal to make a successful break for freedom from the island. The police records show that Fay ? stole more than $2,000,000 from banks t! throughout the country. m c< CONDITIONS OF THE ARMISTICE ol vl No Chance for Germany to Resume a| Hostilities. 0! Here are the principal things Ger- Jn many must do, or. powerless before the T victorious Allied armies, she will have tt them done for hvr: tt Immediate evacuation of Alsace- id I/Orrnine, Belgium. Luxumhurg, Russia and Rumania and without further w destruction or harm to inhabitants. o< Then, occupation by American and It; Allied troops of all the countries on the el west bank of the Rhine. pi Creation of a neutral zone in a pi trip of territory on the east bank of B he Rhine. T1 Meanwhile, as a guaranty of good kl faith, the occupation by American u< and Allied troops of Mayence, Co- th end Ailed troops of Mayence, Coblen- B M< nz and Cologne the principal cross- It ngs of the Rhine. W On the eastern front all German w roops are to be withdrawn from tor- fr ritory which before the war belonged OC o Russia, Rumania or Turkey, at Then, the German war machine M Must disarm. at American and Allied prisoners are g' to at once be repatriated, without Kc reciprocal action, by the associated ui -overnments and civilians dragged he iff into slavery from the Invaded ter- fo ritories are to be returned. T1 The provision for compensation the d? occupied territories for the havoc kl wrought by the invaders is contained T1 in a simple sentence?"reparation for ro the damage done." rii As n step to restoring the map lines, or the treaties of Brest-Lltovsk which re laid Russia prone, and tho Bucharest which plundered Rumania, must be ly ulandoned. Money, securities, pre ious metals and other valuables loot- Hi od from the invaded countres must be *P returned in trust to the Allies until the bi onclusion of peace. Pe In tho west, the railways of AlsaceLorraine, the valuable stores of Iron 81 and coal, stores of supplies in Bel- re jium with arms and armaments must f? be handed over. ha In the east, the Black sea ports re must be evacuated, the warships taken by Germany from the Russians must ^ be surrendered; in the Baltic, ^forts I*1 and defenses barred the way at the i Categnt must be delivered, and there must bo free access to the sea for the of Allies. At I no Allien niocKaae is 10 remain nn- ? changed. Meanwhile German mer- e<j chant ships are to be delivered for mis- w' sions of mercy in carrying food to the m starving; Germany is to notify the neutrals they are free to trade without th molestation. . , . Pi SCENE ON THE BATTLE LINES 01 b? Almost Immediate Change From War to Peace. Paris, November 11, Monday.?When dawn came this morning there was no A hint of the cessation of hostilities. tr Kast of the Mouse, regardless of the situation, the American Second army attacked in force at 8 o'clock. The ? onslaught was preceded by a tremen- ^ dous barrage, which was returned in w kind by the enemy. For three long 81 hours the Americans swept forward. 81 hurling themselves against the wire entanglements. The German gunfire was devastat- n j ng. Then at exactly one minute of a 11, like a final thunder crash at the 'r clearing of the storm, the guns on both n lides abruptly ceased. The silence was mote startling than * the defeanlng roar of the barrage. A For a brief minute intermittent rifle 'r fire followed; then came a pause, G punctuated by ripping cheers from 84 the trenches on both sides of the line. What followed on one sector was 11 perhaps one of the most singular vents of the war. Against the sky line figures were suddenly silhouetted. 0 They appeared cautiously at first, but 0 soon, growing bolder all alon? the line, * the stood upright They were Ger- ^ mans. . TKrt Amarlnona Vlfhrn r\f\t OA riO lit ioilR Ajb the barrage died ending in a flnaJ ? 'lusky rumble in the distance from the ^ big guns runners went springing along 'he fire line. Instantly comprehending. the whole line of doughboys leap- p cd from trenches, fox holes and shell craters, splitting the unaccustomed & 'lence with a shrill cheer. The roar of voices was very like an outburst at some great college contest in America when a contestant scores a classic 81 play. tc At one minute before 11 it would n have meant death to show one's self E above shelter. Not more than a mlnutc after the hour the rolling plain was u al've with cheering, shouting men. 8' friend and enemy alike. Not many w minutes later Germans and Americans G were coming along the narrow stretch 01 of ground so fiercely fought over, some C( shyly and awkwardly, like embarras- sl sed school bovs. The first advances followed by of- Vl 'ers from the Americans of cigarettes, 1)1 chocolate and chewing gum. The Ger- 04 mans In some places reciprocated with 1 offers of hot coffee, bread and sau- ' sage. 2 The orders forbidding fratornlzing 11 were strict but the novelty of the situation at times overcame prudence and doughboys surreptitiously visited near enemy dugouts. Tonight the Germans are celebrating peace along the line? by firing flares, rockets and signals. The night is uproarious with their cheering. ^ The victorious Americans are taking it more camly. Along the front the ^ majority of them are getting a good ? night's restful sleep. e c "Oh, yes, my child,'' said the doctor, t as he cautiously reached for his hat, 1 "don't forget that your bones are knitting." i " - ' - . . f : ' A.-' i u-. -.L-. . - ;_/> TORY OF THE CZECH-SLOVAKS rava Slav People Who Hsve Established Thair Independence. Who are the Czecbo-Slovaks who axe irtuaJIy leaders ot the new movement >r the liberty and Independence of ilddle Europe? The question has ?en admirably and succinctly answer1 by George W. Douglas In the foliwing terse description of these peolea: The Csechs and the Slovaks are hpth lav racea The Slovaks live on the >uthern slopes of the western Carpallans and extend southward Into the reat Hungarian plain. The Crechs jusuiuiu a. majoruy vi iuv ^^u?mivu f Bohemia and Moravia, two proncea In northwestern Austria- There re about 6,500,000 Czechs and 2,000.)0 Slovaks living in a district approxnately the site of Pennsylvania, here are about 3,300,000 Germans in le same territory. If we should call le Czechs Bohemians their racial (entity would be clearer. There was a time when Bohemia as an independent kingdom with its tvn native rulers. When the line of s kings ran out a Hapsburg king was ected to the throne in 1526 and he (edged himself to maintain the indesndence of the Bohemian kingdom, ut the Hapsburgs broke their pledgea hey refrained from being crowned ngs of Bohemia in Prague and gradilly destroyed the independence of le kingdom. It was a revolt of the ohemians against the Hapsburgs in 118 that started the Thirty Tears' rar. The population of the country as reduced by this bloody conflict om 2,000,000 when it began to 700,10 when it ended. The Czech leaders tended the Pan-Slavic congress in oscow in 1868, and the demand for itonomy, if not for independence, ew in spite of conoeasions by the ?vernment in Vienna. From this date ttil the opening of the war the Czechs ive fought in the Austrian parliament r recognition of their national rights, le extremists demanded complete inpendence. The moderates wanted a ng of their own crowned in Prague, ley were willing to accept the eraper of Austria as king, as the Hungains have accepted him, but they were le with the extremists in demanding cognition of their national rights. As those rights had been persistentdenied they entered the war in 1914 Ith a real grievance against the apsburg dynasty and the Germaneaking Austrians. It was the possllity of realizing their national indemdence through the ossistanoe of the itente Allies that lead the Czechoovak soldiers in Russia to refuse to turn home and flght Austria's battles r her It is the same feeling that is been leading the Czecho-tHovak glments on the Italian front to dert and hide themselves In the mounin forests and prey on the surroundg countryrleal value of recognizing the claixAs these disaffected Slavs within the ustro-Hungarian empire. Their In pendence aa a nation was recognixL by Italy, France and Oreat Britaip eeks before the American movement recognized It It Is true that we lued a statement expressing sympaiy with their national aspiration* here Oreat Britain followed the exame of France and Italy in recognizing ie de facto government which has >en organized under the style of the techo-Slovak National Council. Before August 1, 1914, tho recognion of the autonomy of Bohemia by ustrla and the consent of the Altaian emperor to be crowned as king ! Bohemia In Prague would doubtless ave satisfied a majority of the Czechs, ut events have moved rapidly since ie momentous date, and few Czechs ill be content now with anything lort of complete national lndependice. It should be noted at this point that n autonomous Bohemian kingdom iled over by a German prince, preferbly one of the sons of the kaiser, was icluded in the plans of the pan-Gerlanists as early as March, 1914, when ie arrangements were making for the ar which began four months later, ustrla-Hungary was to be separated ito a lot of little kingdoms tied to ermany as vassals. An Independent Czecho-Slovak state, it up under the patronage of the Eninte Allies, would frustrate the plans f Germany. It would separate the ermans of Austria from the Germans f Saxony and Bavaria by the creation f a new Slav kingdom or republic. It ould place a barrier in the way of ermanic control of commercial routes etween Berlin and Bagdad. It would :rengthen the Slavic races in the south f Austria-Hungary and Justify their emand for Independence and hasten ie day of dismemberment of Austria[ungary In the interest of the little ations, a dismemberment which the an-German lata planned in the inter t nt German domination of the orld. Since the Allied convoy ayatem was jccea8fully adopted aome 26,000,000 >ns of food and 15,000,000 tons of muItlona have been taken In convoy to gland and the food abipa lost have sen reduced from nearly 10 per cent > 1 per cent Thla poet summer 107 hips of a tonnage of 1,4(6,000 came ith the Argentine wheat crop for reat Britain, France and Italy, and nly one ship waa loat Thla may be >mpared with the worst period for nklnga, the week ending April 29, >17, when 11# ships were lost Conoys between July 26, 1917, and Octoer 19, 1918, were 1,027 in number, jntaining 14,968 ships, of which only 18 were lost. The gross tonnage waa 7,057,231, The ton nag* lost was 664,88. One convoy of United States oops on British ships carried 30,000. American troops who occupied St lartln-Rivterre during the advance outh of La Cateau recently discover 1 In the belfry of the village church formidable charge of explosives. By leans of wires the charge was collected with the monstrance on the lgh altar in such a way that if the lonstrance was moved aa explosion hat would have brought the church lows upon the heads of the worshiprs would have taken place. The offler commanding the American deachment made official mention of the natter In bis report. The monstrance s the vessel or shrine, usually at gold, a which the sacred host te exposed tor veneration in Catholic churches.