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ISSTXKP SKMI-WEEKLT. ' - . 1 l. m grist-s sons, publishers.} & Jfamitg Uncspagei;: 4or th? promotion o(f iftij golitiqa!, ?opl, ^rieultmal and (Commnsrial Interests a| lh< |)eopt$. J TERM3^f1CorrEJIRTiNc^*NCE ESTABLISHED 1855 YOEK, 8. C. TUESDAY. MARCH 11, 1919. 7 NO.20 . DISCUSSING THE LEAGUE ; What Took Place Between Senators i and Congressmen t CONFERENCE QUITE UNSATISFACTORY ! . ] Senator* and Representatives Asked 1 the President About Various Mat- J ters; But the Replies Served to j Leave Them Stifl in the Dark En-'( lightening Story of the White House < Dinner. 1 From the N'ew York Sun. Washignton, February 27 The rev- ( elations of today exhibited in high j lights the disappointment, the chagrin , and even the sympathetic embarrass- 1 ments suffered by the members of the foreign relations committee who at- ( tended the dinner at the White House j on Wednesday night. At midnight last night and early this morning senators and representatives j who had labored to penetrate Mr. Wil- j son's mind and to understand his poll- t cies, were themselves so weary and ^ mind muddled that they were unable to discuss coherently what had taken j place. This afternoon when they had opportunity to get together to compare notes and to check up one another's , recollection they were able to present j a clear account of the conversation. 5 the result of this symposium is indeed amazing. Senator Brandagee (Conn.), expresses it in a phrase: "I feel as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had had tea with the Mad Hatter. When I i awakened this morning I expected the White/Rabbit waiting to go to breakfast with me." 1 Senators and representatives who i went to the dinner and heard Mr. WU- i son deliver a prose poem eulogizing < the British-Wilson league of nations < plan, and who tried by persistent ques- ? ^ tioning to get detailed information i about the plan, declare they marvelled i at Mr. Wilson's apparent ignorance of the proposed league of nations con- i stitutlon. This astonished and embar- t rassed most of the men, who, pressing t question after question upon the presl- < dent, finally became aware of his lack t of his precise knowledge concerning t all of the 26 articles. t Felt Blushing Embarrassment. One senator said to the Sun corre- * spondent: 1 "Believe me, I felt the same blush- * ' wooamont that used to come 8 lllg CUiVMt?Mww...v... over me as a small boy when some boy s friend with a balky memory forgot the piece he was bidden to recite and broke down in the middle of it." * Touching on this matter the impres- v sions of several senators may be found interesting. t Senator Knox, (Pa), remarked to a 1 group of friends: * "XhflL president displayed ai azing c lack of familiarity with the proposed i league constitution.". a Senator Lodge, (Mass-), putting the thought another way, said: a "The president seemed actually be- j fuddled about many most important points." 1 Senator William Alden Smith, ; (Mich), confided: ' "The president's ignorance of the s terms of the covenant was amazing." i Senator Brandegee, (Conn.), said: c "With the wide open eyes of an ingenue the president met every legal, j constitutional or common sense question with glittering generalities." Even more interesting were totally ; unexpected admissions the president was induced to make. It is the opinion of a number of senators that unwit- t tlngly perhaps he has slain the infant < of his dreams by these confessions. 1 Scraps of Information. t T* j K man ociffor fnr seraDs of 1 rrcoocu wj uivu v??ev? a _ information, prominent among whom f were Senator Brandegee and Repre- ? sentative Henry W. Temple, (Pa.), and < of Willard Ragsdale, (S. C.), the president stated with finality that f 1. The league of nations will not i prevent war. 1 2. The United States must surrender vital points of sovereignty. 3. Ireland is to be left to the mer- 1 cies of England- ] 4. Chinese and Japanese exclusion , go out of American control into the hands of the league council. 1 5. That Monroe doctrine will be ex- * tended to the whole world. 6. The present constitution is British made, the French, American and ' Italian drafts having been rejected. ' 7. American troops could be com- \ pelled at need to participate in purely j ?juiupcaii r* ui 8. The United States could with- ' draw from the league at arty time. i Every senator Knox, Lodge, Bran- .? degee, McCumber, Hitchcock, to name t a few who discussed the dinner today i agreed that the president actually made these statements or admissions. < The Republicans naturally were elated, i The Democrats were correspondingly 1 downcast. Senator Lewis, (111.), paced ] the senate corridors this afternoon, ] muttering: ] "He made a great mistake; oh, dear, | I fear heh as made af earful error." ( Senators that know their constitu- ( ents predicted today that just as soon ( as the force and significance of Mr. Wilson's admission that the league will not stop war sinks into the com- , prehension of the plain people there will be a revulsion of feeling even among the most sentimental of Mr. ( Wilson's followers. Senator New, (Ind.), who is rated as one of the most level headed men in the United States senate, keeping always in closest touch with the feeling , in his home state, said to the Sun correspondent this evening: "Out in Indiana and throughout me west and middle west there are hundreds of thousands of people who have not had time or could not take the trouble to analyze this league of nations project, but in their hearts they knew they would be for anythink that would wipe out war. For that reason many of them have leaned tp the president's ideas. Now he comes along and says blandly that the league won't stop war. This alone is enough to kill the crazy project." Mr. Wilson's dinner guests scarcely believed that he would admit the ne-? cessity for surrendering vital points of American nationality, yet he admitted it instantly and lightly, as if, senators said, it was of no particular consequence. His only extenuation was that "to gain something something had to be given," and to this conclusion he attached the theory which the constitutional lawyer present declared amazing: that wherever the constitution of the United States would override the supercovenant. It was about here that Senator Brandegee admits he started 1 to walk with Alice 1 Irish Leaders White With Anger. ? But no one of his admissions has 1 produced sharper anger than his state- t nent in reply to a question by Repre- 1 jentatlve Ragsdale, (South Carolina), i that Ireland and the Irish question was ( to be left by the league solely to the ? ivlsdom and judgment of England, t Rearing that the president had made 1 this statement a committee of Irish ? Americans, all eager advocates of the 1 Irish republic and of Irish independ- ? snce, hurried to Washington to get the ^xact facts. This committee was head-*] sd by Daniel F. Cohalan, a Justice of the supreme court of New York. < Justice Cohalan promptly satisfied tiimself that the president had aban- t AW V?a + tho "Rrit 11 Claim, vi iabu?4 I.UMV %MV .. | sh-Wilson league had abandoned her. c This discovery made the Irish white with anger. The description is exact ind literal. As Justice Cohalan dis ;ussed the matter he was at times t lardly able to speak coherently. One "* )f his companions said: t "Wilson is not now for Ireland and t le has never been for Ireland. He has \ aeen hypocritical all along the line, 1 jut we have caught him In the act. i His championship of small nations is i sickening farce. Wait till the Irish " n America get the news of this." t Making all allowances it may not be s lifficult to understand the mood these s nen are in. The fact that Frank P. c EValsh, recently chairman of the war t abor board and an ardent Wil- r Ionian, has talked to Cohalan, and is low said to be against the league of t laiions plan, has its own meaning. r Pacific Coast Much Concerned. Western senators declare that Mr. * Wilson's admission that the league of 1 lations will take out of the hands of a ;he United States the right to say 1 whether there shall be restricted Chi- 1 lese and Japanese immigration is d mough to damn the project on the Pa- t rifle coast. It is said that several sen- c itors could hardly Deneve meir ea.r? vhen the president voiced this state- 8 nent. 6 It was hard to get him in a corner as ^ egards the Monroe doctrine. He met 11 ill Questions relative to the probability d hat the league would abrogate this d listlnctly American policy and safe- 1 ruard by replies which stated that here would be no abrogation, but that c he Monroe doctrine actually would be v extended to the whole world. When c Senator Brandegee sought to argue the 1 >oint by offering theoretical problems v he president waved him aside with * general statements in which the words n ind phrases "good of humanity," 'America's duty to mankind," "idealsni," "service" and "disinterested ser- fi rice" filled the ears of his hearers. The president admitted, it was said <1 hat the proposed constitution of the d eague is British made, saying there lad been four drafts offered at the ionference, and that after all of then) ? lad been examined the Brffish propos- tl il seemed best to cover the ground. The point as to whether American oldiers could be compelled to fight in t European quarrels or Asiatic quarrels t f the United States joined the league a vas settled by him squarely in the af- a irmatlve. The senators and repre- P lentatives pressed this question home 8 mtil Mr. Wilson could no longer inlulge in generalites. 1 * Finally he said membership in the 1 eague need not necessarily be perma- ? lent; that the United States could withdraw at any time it saw fit." t Discussion in the East Room. a The whole discussion took place in ^ he East room of the White House and c :overed nearly two hours. It would lave lasted longer except that some of j he guests say they felt embarrassed t >ecause of the president's apparent un- ^ 'amiliarity with the language and t neaning of a number of articles of the a :ovenant. t The discussion began with a short t iddress by the president, in which he t -enewed the appeals and the threats ^ :hat were contained in his Boston t speech the sentimental duty of the " *" * A VI Af Q unuea states, uic wuiuuuoouvoo wi ? peace treaty without a league of nations, the fear of European governments that there may be a crash all xround if the league falls. Then he asked his guests if they had questions to ask him. The response ivas immediate and pointed. Questions were asked by Senators Knox, Brandegee, Hitchcock, McCumber, Lodge, Pittman and others of the senxte foreign committee and by Representatives Ragsdale, Temple and others of the house foreign relations committee. Gradually Senator Brandegee, an exceptionally able cross-examiner, took charge of the inquisition, other senators finding their queries expressed in Brandegee's phrases. He asked the president how many drafts of a pro- j posed constitution for the league had Peen made and by whom. The president replied that there had been four, { pne by Great Britain, one by France, t one by the United States and one by f Italy. c "Which was accepted?" inquired ( Senator Brandegee. f "The British," replied the president. } "What was done with the rejected a drafts?" Brandegee asked. I "They were put aside," Mr. Wilson s explained. t "Well, Mr. President," said Senator t Brandegee slowly, "we would like to , be able to examine those other drafts { to compare them with the accepted draft so as to familiarize ourselves , with the differences." ( "1 see no objection to that," said < the president. i "Then," pursued the senator from i Connecticut, "will it not be possible to . have those rejected drafts printed for ] our information?" "I should think," agreed the presi dent, "that that would be possible." ] Representafive Ragsdale then asked Mr. Wilson if in his opinion the league of nations would not destroy the Mon- j roe doctrine. ] "Not at all," said the president "The , league would extend the Monroe doctrine to the entire world." i "With your permission, Mr. President," said Senator Brandegee, "let us examine that proposition. Suppose i this case: Suppose that Brazil should at some time in the future desire to resume her former relations with Por- j tugal; suppose that she agreed to accept a Junior prince of Portugal, If i Portugal happers to be a monarchy, as ler ruler; would the United States as i member of the league of nations still etaln her right to interfere with this irrangement? Apply that argument ;o any other Latin American country vhich in times past.was under Spanish lomination and which might through i peculiar turn of circumstances be led ;o resume the ancient arrangement iVould the United States still have the Luchority to prevent an extension of European authority in this hemiiphere?" "That is inconceivable," said the )resident 'It might happen," persisted Branlegee. "Well, then, it would be very dis ressing," declared the president. "Most distressing," said Brandegee, Iryly. Could Withdraw From League. The conversation shi'ted and twistid In accordance with the questions hat occurred to various senators. It vas Brandegee again who requested he president to make clear whether he United States was privileged to vithdraw from the league if it saw fit. rhe president said that was his inter>retation. "You will recall," said the senator, 'that a similar proposition arose In his country some years ago after the tates had entered a league without pecifying the right of any to withIraw and that it took four years of dtter warfare to settle the point that lo state could withdraw?" The president replies that the cases vere not the same at all; that this arangement was wholly voluntary; that t was based upon mutual understandng and good will; that It was in the nterests of humanity; that in all probbility It would hold together indeflntely. He would not deny, however, hat the possibility of the United States lesiring to withdraw might arise. In hat case he was sure the United States ould exercise that right. "Rut." said Brandeeee. "we would ;o into this league as the sponsor and ;uarantors and protectors of Poland, irmenia and perhaps other small, and telpless nations. Could we then withIraw and leave them helpless and unlefended, deserted by the very nation hat had promised to defend them?" Mr. Wilson's reply was so generally ouched that not all of the senators trho sought to recall it this evening ould agree on its phraseology. He re eated, though, that such an event rould be very distressing, and again Jrandegee agreed that it would be tiosf interesting. League Ignores Irish Question. Representative Ragsdale, (S. C.), red the Irish shot. "Mr. President," he inquired, "what oes the league of nations purpose to o as regards Ireland?" "It was decided," said the president, to leave the case of Ireland to Great trltain as a domestic matter outside ho'"proVihc<! Jot fhe*Te~agtofc*of natftfisT* The topic was not pressed. Representative Temple (Penn.), reurned to the topic of how and why he British draft for a constitution of league of nations was adopted. Here s reported by various senators the ^resident became elusive, though very uave. All they extracted from him n the renewal of the topic was that he British made draft was virtually he idea put forward by Gen. Smuts of louth Africa. Senator Knox pressed home the uestion of probable surrender of Lmerican sovereignty. The president greed that surrender on some points he did not specify them) was to be xpected, asserting that no gain could e had unless something was given up. Jr. Knox, one of the great constituional lawyers of America, wanted to ;now what would happen if the constiution of the United States conflicted ,t some vital point with the constitutor of the league of nations. It was hen that the president made the posiively startling rejoinder that the American constitution would override he league constitution. Even some of the Democrats who lad remained silent, glanced at each ither doubtfully or perhaps amazedly. lere was the president saying with one oice that the constitution of the su>erstate must be final and in the next >reath asserting that whenever a pinch ame an article which conflicted with he constitution or tne unuea outiea could be disregarded. Senator Branlegee was reminded of that saying of dacaulay's about John Stewart Mill, hat often he essayed to prove a thing vas because the facts were against it. The foregoing embodies the princi>al facts of the celebrated dinner. They re offered directly from the fresh recillection of half a dozen most eminent icnators, all of whom agree on the escentials. It may be guesses, therefore, vhat a turmoil of opinion Washington s now In. Wilson Opposes Amendments. This afternoon when he visited the iresident's room in the senate wing of he Capitol Mr. Wilson was at pains urther to expound certain ideas concerning the league. One of his most niphatic conclusions was that no imendments should be made. It was lis idea that after one had spent nights ind days with the representatives of 14 ;overnments it would not be easy to itart the machinery up again, and ' " ' ' aK nat 11 wouia oe very uuiauu ?.u wain amendments unless they dealt vith matters of the utmost importmce. Delegates with different points of ,iew, ho said, had already agreed on conflicting matters and to open the case for amendments would be to incite further complications. He thought [hat only one amendment was feasible ind that would deal merely with the phraseology of one of the c'.auses. This was a clause Mr. Wilson's hearers were aware of which not even the British authors knew the meaning- The president again asserted to a company which did not expect the honor of an audience that the constitution of the league does not violate the Monroe doctrine. It was his belief that the superconstitution strengthened the Monroe doctrine to the extent of applying it to the whole world. He thought that any ambiguity in the league constitution existed only in the minds of people that have discussed it. He could nol see that there was a spot or point in the superlaw which conflicted with the constitution of the United States, be i cause In the peace conference dlscusi sion whenever there was a possibility I that such conflict might result every i care was taken to see that likelihood _ ; of qonflict was eliminated. ? The president made It known that he believes it is very necessary for him to return to Paris at once so as tQ take part in the settlement of pressing ter- ? ritorial questions. He said he did not i know when he could return, but he hoped it would be before August or g September. j * r ? AMERICANS MARRY FRENCH, i j ' |Subject is Interestingly Discussed l|y an Army Nur?e. . -jp An American navy nurse, who admits, she's slightly jealous, furnishes per-' * haps the first really thoroughgoing and a expert opinion on the Franco-Ameri- ? can marriage situation in France." ^ After a year and a half in France thin J n American girl finds French femininity| "delightful," with a knowledge of cap-'i & tivating masculine hearts that would A put most American girls completely h out of the running. She suggests the 0 advisability of presenting President T Wilson with a petition to send all. a American troops home at once, "inj w the name of American debutantes." ^ Her letter written to a relativo in New y York, appears in the New York Even-. 'a lng Sun: . * you seem rather incredulous about 01 so many of our American boys having married Frenchwomen. Why, I won-,' w der? I don't see any reason why they 01 should not. The Frenchwoman is a D1 delightful creature. Even we Ameri- ^ can and English nurses can see that, ^ much as we should like at times to see otherwise, for we're still human and ** still feminine, and it goes rather hard ^ with us to see some of the finest of our 01 soldier lads marrying pretty little ? Alines, Maries, and Nineties. ^ We think we could find "better mates -,s for them, and some of us think that a few could be found without even going y out3ide of France. But still they are be- w ing captivated we call it "captured 01 when we talk among ourselves by the B? Frenchwomen. Louise told me last tl night that she had It on positive authority that in the neighborhood of tl 100,000 American soldiers and sailors tl had married Frenchwomen over herer tt No wonder we are jealous only do|}*t to tell anybody that we are, for maybe * I'm the only one of us who is ready t* d' admit it even to herself. * w Still as I've just said, I don't blam'e ^ the boys. These girls are really almost *1 irresistible, and they understand the art of flirtation better when they are tl born than the average American wo- y man understands if after, her fourth ,w divorce. They know how to dress, too, ,E to bring out the very littlest as well as la the greatest of ' their charms. And r< they know how to talk to our soldiers with their eyes and hands and shguld- 01 ers better than we Americans can talk c< to them in their own United States. V They pan V a AinivsnsakiftDgUMaftarfl^ language of appeal and they never ei fall to make themselves understood. K Besides this more or less superfl- T clal charm, the Frenchwoman is truly E a woman. They make wonderful wives it and mothers. I've been hero long si enough to see that. They make even A better wives and mothers than they do ci sweethearts. They're wonderful house- bi keepers, although, except among the ct upper classes, they do run to too tl - - - - - b much furnuure in men (?uii?o too much garlic In their kitchen, to nl suit my plain tastes. But how they ^ do understand food-conservation and economy. Mr. Hoover could learn quite A' a few lessons from them If he cared to study them. F And on top of all this femininity they s< are fighters. They are the bravest wo- bi men as a class, I believe I have ever a known, and the most consistently patriotic. Their patriotism is so deep, so F much a part of them, that they never think of saying anything about it. If m "ou separate a Frenchwoman from her love of France and her desire to serve to France, you would have to tear her n< liinh from limb and pick her to pieces. S1 it goes all through her, and enters u! subconsciously into everything she has *1 done since she has been a Frenchwo- T man. You know something of what r< they've done since the summer of 1914 ** from your reading of the papers and w magazines, but that full history can d; never be written. 'c So, why shouldn't our boys love bi them, and marry them ? Anyway, whether they should or should not, ai they're doing it. Can't you do something to persuade the government to w have them all brought home? We're e< thinking about presenting a petition n' to Mr. Wilson while in France, begging s( him, in the name of American debutantes, to send our boys home. s< THE LAW OF CONTRACTS. Ji McLaurin Says New York Exchange Is Not Acting Fairly. At the request of J. Skattowe Wani Tntin T. McLaU narnciKer, cA*ocuaiui wv**** ^ rin has made a statement relative to gj the amendment preventing the delivery of low grade cotton on contracts q upon the New York exchange. Mr. Wannamaker told Senator McLaurin Q1 that he understood Mr. Brand had said T that all outstanding contracts must be Q, closed by May 1. Senator McLaurin j thinks there must be some mistake ^ about that, as neither congress nor ' Mr. Brand can pass any law or make any ruling impairing the obligation of I a contract. T "This is the situation," said Senator jf McLaurin, "as I understand it: There is a lot of low grade cotton in New " York warehouses that is undesirable. It has been used for 30 years for de- a livery on contract. That is all that it 1- at (ho amendment DaSS lb 111 1U1 TfliVII VUV . ed the exchange closed and they made u a new contract and are now trying to si make those holding old contracts pay tj a premium to get a new contract. As a matter of fact it has always been a e 1 violation of law to deliver this unmer- o chantable cotton on contracts and I , think it is Mr. Brand's duty.to consider , the jSmith amendment as a legislative interpretation act and not allow any a i difference whatever between the old i > and the new contracts. "The only legitimate function of a cotton exchange is to enable actual v consumers of cotton to purchase their e future supply against sales of goods, y, When it degenerates into using low grade cotton to depress prices the time : has come for an investigation of both ' Washington and New York methods t i used to depress the price of cotton. I j, , hope Senator Hoke Smith will see to it that effect of his valuable amendi ment is not frittered away by such le- c i gedermain. Those with contracts a should stand pat and demand cotton . that is fit for ordinary commercial use; '' anything else is a fraud." P WINNERS OF THE WAR , i plrlt of the American Soldiers Did the Trick ] XPER1ENCES OF PASTOR MCMILLAN lennettsville Preacher Who Resigned His Place and Went to the War, Tells of the Things He Saw at the Front Says the Fighting Spirit Did 1 More Than Generalship. 'ee-Dee Advocate. i Rev. J. A. McMillan, of McColl, made . n interesting talk in the crowded 1 unday scnooi room or tne Thomas lemorial Baptist church last Wedesday night. He has recently reiirned from France where he was enaged in Y. M. C. A. work among the .merican soldiers. He said that there ad been in the papers a great deal f criticism of the Y. M. C. A. work, 'here were Y. M. C. A. secretaries, mong the many sent, who were not rhat they should be, but the great ma)rity were good and true men, and our money was well spent. There i a definite movement to discredit the M. C. A. because it is a protestant rganization. The Y. M. C. A. has done a great rork, but nothing can take the place f the church as a teacher of the gosel of Jesus Christ. The boys over there are the same mt they are over here, deep down ii leir hearts, although removed from le influence of mother and sister and ome and church. I did not see but tie white man from Marlboro in ranee young Stanton from Wesley, [e was clean and manly there, as he i at home. Only one man in five who went to ranee saw service, though they all ere eager to get into the fight. Most f those from around here were In irvice, for the 30th division was in le thick of it. Did you know, said Mr. McMlllian, that le Thirtieth had 110 per cent casuales? Out of every hundred there were ;n more killed or wounded than they ad in the division. Mr. McMillan explained this "paraDxlcal statement by saying that it as on account of men being rcplac1. The division was made over as icy were wounded and killed. The most disappointed of all were lose who were almost at the front hen the war stopped. Mr. McMillan as with one such crowd, who were l sight of the battle when the armtlce was signed; and they did not 'strain their profanity. The people over there are not like ar people. They do not like us, exipt in a general way, and we don't ke them. The British and America aoldlera can't; alogj togeth without fighting with their fists. is because they both brag so much, he Americans make fun of little ngland, and say they can walk across in half a day. When the British low them the River Thames the merlcans says, "Why we call that a eek." When shown their biggest jildlngs, five stories high, the Ameri- I in makes fun of it, and tells about ic skyscrapers at home. Then the ritish soldier says something not Ice about America, and the American Its him in the face. The American and French get along ne. Although the Americans make in of the little Seine and other things rench the Frenchman does not rernt. He just lets the American go on ragging, and they lock arms and have good time together. Mr. McMillan said he thought Gen. och's ability as a strategist had been rerestimated. They say Hindenburg a lade nowerful massed drives, but had > stop; that when Foch started, he ept hitting one lick after another, and ever stopped. This was not French :rategy. He had to keep on to keep p with the American soldiers. When ley started, they couldn't be stopped, hey disobeyed all orders to halt or itreat or dig in. Foch had to move le rest of the army up to keep in f ith them. It was the hardheauea, are-devil foolhardiness of the Afneran soldiers that drove the Germans ack. Mr. McMillan discussed camouflage, a art with which women were familiar, ut which men just got into in this ar. The ships and trucks were paint3 so as to fool the enemy. Great canon were hidden by bushes. You could ;op in the midst of a great army and link you were alone in a forest. The ildiers were hid. Bennettsville Negro Got Two. In Paris, said Mr McMillan, I met Dhn Cook, a coiorea dock unison om Bonnettsvllle, and we had a lorious time. "John, what are you Ding here?" He said, "I'm wounded," and told ith great glee about the bullet In his c loulder. I asked, "John, have you killed a 1 erman ?" { He said. "Yes, I killed two, I was nt in the Argonne with my lieuten- r nt and a bullet came out of a bunch f bushes and killed the lieutenant. r jumped behind a tree and commenced lootin' at them bushes. The man in * le bushes, he soon quit shootln' but kep' on nnd shot a hundred times. ( hen we went up to the bushes, and It >ok like every one of them bullets had ' it him. He sho wuz dead. "And then one day, I was walking ? mong the bushes in the Argonne, nd me and a groat big German met 1 p right face to face. I sho wuz { keercd. He was skeored too, for he firow up his hands ana nouer \i\tun- rad." Then I joog him with my baynet." The boys over there have learned to espise camouflage, said Mr. McMillan, i nd to tear it away and seek the truth. ] 'hey will be the same way when they 1 et home. They will have no patience 1 nth hypocrisy. They are trained to i xpose camouflage, and they can't i elp but tear the false face, from a so- < ailed Christian. ! They are coming back searching for , ruth. The church will get them if it ) i true. j The church has no rival. I used to j riticlso picture shows and Sunday ] utomobiling for keeping people away i rom church. Now I know better. The icture show has its place. It cannot j give that which the church alone can give. The church does not have to go into the entertaining business. It can feed the souls of men, and if It , breaks the bread of life before them, they will come and eat. They are hungry. I can't blame men for staying on the outside when we are only playing at what ought to be serious. If wc had been no more loyal to our country than we were to our God, the ' Germans would be in Paris tonight. Suppose, when the roll was called at th<? front, a soldier had sent word to Gen. Pershing, "the weather is too inclement for me to be there this morning!" Yet we send word to our Lord on Sundays and Wednesdays that the weather is not. suitable for us to be i there. 1 I have seen a truck train a mile long i moving to the front on a rainy, pitch- . rlark night, without, lights. Men lay ' on the front fenders for hours so as 1 to spy a few feet ahead of the wheels and direct the drivers. When we have that kind of devotion in the church 1 we can bring in the men from over there and over here, and win the victory. ] . m , 1 DISPOSITION OF GERMAN FLEET. Important Question that has Several ] Sides to It. -- i Some months ago, when the question as to the final disposal of the sur- t endered German fleet was much under , iiscussion, and the wildest guesses ( were everywhere being put forward as 'inside information," this paper "was < tble to give the facts of the case as it ( then stood. Briefly, those facts were ( that the British ministry had not even \ :onsidered the matter, and that, as a jonsequence, it was impossible N for j President Wilson to have supported ( is was confidently asserted he had t lone, "the British view that they ought , ? ho mink " Tt was Dointed out. how- ? jver, that certain British admiralty of- ^ icials undoubtedly held the view that f o sink the fleet "would be the easiest t vay of settling the matter." t Now the position of the question to- , lay is greatly altered. No decision has ( ret been actually reached, but the 3rltlsh and American naval authorities ( lave reported in favor of the "destruc- j ion of the larger German warships," f ind it is quite evident, to those in | ouch with the situation, that the ^ 'sinking situation" Is gaining ground. Vlany considerations, some of them t he result of information not available t wo months, tend to favor such a setlement. In the first place, it is esti- j. nated that it would take nearly three ( rears to break up the ships, and that ong before that time the world's sup- 2 )ly of raw material would be so ade- j tuate as to render the supply obtained ( rom this source of no special imporance. Then it is pointed out that if he ships were divided between the r V.llies on the basis of losses in the war, j >r on. any other basis, they might prove hemselves an expensive and, ultimatey indeed a valueless acquisition. The ^ luestlon of spare parts alone presents j ilmost insuperable difficulties. Many j >f the ships, moreover, are really obidete as war vessels, whilst their ( normous coal consumption and the ^ lifficulty of adapting them for carryng cargo, makes it almost impossible o use them as merchant vessels. t Sven the possibility of sinking them ? or breakwater purposes has been deinltely proved impracticable by ex- j jeriments at Sc^pa Flow. In the light of these facts, the sugrestion that the vessels shall be taken >ut of the high seas and there "in- _ ? :ontlnently sunk," does not appear so 1 ( sxtravagant as it did at one time,"when j he German high seas fleet was hought to be, what It had often been uoorihorf as heine. namely, "the last vord in invention and efficiency." Such 1 . solution, moreover, has one other thing o be said in its favor. The German fleet n a peculiar way, typified the German letermlnatlon to dominate the world. 'Our future," .declared the former Raiser, on a memorable occasion, "is >n the sea." The last four and a half rears, if they have demonstrated any,hing, have demonstrated that the vorld was saved by the Allied control >f the seas, and that nowhere was this nore certainly dreaded before the war, ind more clearly understood during the var than in Germany. Germany's uture, as William Hohenzollern unierstood it, was on the sea, because a :ontrol of the seas by a German fleet neant the German domination of the vorld. To take, therefore, this sorry ollection of "fallen greatness" so ypical of the whole German idea, out ;o sea, and there sink it in a convenent place, would be a valuable obect lesson. It would be the curtest f ind most forcible intimation possible hat the world had done with such meth* - /-ii i-Hab c.-.iz>nr>/> Monitor. HIS. v^iinsnau i^viviiw ' ' i More Dangerous Than Them All. 'I have destroyed more lives than all j >f the wars of the world. ] "I destroy more than six hundred housand lives In the United States j .-ach year. { "I steal In the United States alone ( nore than a billion dollars each year. "I am cruel. I snatch babes from ( nother's breasts. . "I am more powerful than the com- ( >ined navies of the world. { "I have burdened mankind since the j lawn of history. , "I spread misery and desolation. . Innocent children are my special prey. s "I bring pain and death; yet few , ieck to escape me. < "I am relentless; the rich and poor dike I seek. Weak and strong, old j ind young are my victims. ? "I cause commerce to stand still: I lepopulate cities and destroy nations, j "I am preventable disease." j 1 Removal of pork and pork pro- ( ducts from the export conservation list was announced Wednesday night < ay the war trade board, effective to- I < morrow. At the same time the board < -escinded the regulation by which all , implications for licenses to export these ( :ommodlties to European destinations ', were required to bear a certificate from i ;he food administration showing the | idministration had approved the sale 1 price. The food administration, in an i announcement issued simultaneously, j said this action would destroy its ability to further stabilize the price of ' live hogs, and that it would probably i result in the price of hogs and pork j increasing be/ond the stabilized prices . which the administration had desired to continue to March 31. |< NEW STATE GAME LAWS There Has Been a Complete Revision of Hunting Regulations LICENSES ARE NOW REQUIRED Open Season for Partidge Shooting is from November 15 to February 15 of Each Hunting Season, and No Individual is Allowed to Kill More Than Fifteen Patridges in a Day. Among the statewide laws of farreaching consequences passed at the recent session of the general assembly is that for the protection of game and fish and to fix hunters' license fee. A county resident's license fee is $1.10, which allows residents of the state to hunt in any county on his own land. Non-residents pay a county fee of $3 10. A non-resident's state hunting license is $15.25. Non-residents must pay a fee of $3-25 to fish In the state. The law Axes the open season for partridge hunting from November 15 to February 15, and the bag limit to 15 a day. The open season for turkeys is from November 15 to April 1. The bag limit i day is two. and for the season 20. The open season for doves Is from August 16 to December 31. A five yearclosed season for pheasants is prescribed by the law. Violations of the act shall be a misdemeanor and will be punishable by i fine of not less than $10 nor more than $25, or Imprisonment not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days. The game laws on the statute books lave been declared to be unconstitutional by Claude N. Sapp, former aslistant attorney general. This opinion was also concurred in by 8. M. Wolfe, the present attorney general. The bill vhich has just been passed by the gen;ral assembly is due largely to the untiring energy of H. L. Oliver, represenative from Greorgetown county. The lew act, which has not yet been signid by Governor Cooper, reads: Sec. 1. That all wild birds, wild fame and flsh (except fish in strictly >onas ana laaes enureiy segregaiea rom other waters)' shall be, and are lereby declared to be, the property of he state. Sec. 2. For the purpose of this act lie following classification shall be -ecognized: (a). Domestic game birds: Black >irds, pheasants, doves, partridges, [quail) and wild turkeys. (b). Destructive birds: Eagles, buz:ards, crows, cooper's hawk, duck law, English sparrows, great horned >wl, jay birds, loggerheads and sharp iklnned hawks. (c). Qame animals: Bear, deer, fox, nlnk, musk rats, opossum, otter, rabilts, raccoons, skunk and squirrels. (d). Game-fish: Jackflsh or plcker;1, pike, black bass or pond trout, strl>ed bass or rock fish, warmouth, red jelly, bream, copper face or ball faced iream, banded bream, yellow belly, lerch, sunperch, red fin, trout, speckl>d trout, flyer, crapple, rock bagg gogfle eye and white perch. (e). The open session for quail or lartridges shall be from November 15 o February 15 of each hunting season, ind the bag limit shall be 15 per day o the hunter, and trapping or snarng of quail is absolutely prohibited ixcept as provided for scientific or )ropagating purposes. The open season for wild turkeys iha.ll be from November 15 to April 1 >f each hunting season with a bag 11mt of two per day and a total of 20 >er season, but wild turkey hen nust not at any time be shot from any natural or artificial bind or hiding )lace whether lured by call or bait or >therwise. The provision against snaring quail >r partridges shall apply to wild turceys. The open season for doves shall be [rom August 15 to December 31 of :ach year. The open season for blackbirds shall )e from October 1 to March 15 of each teason. There shall be a closed season for Pheasants for five years after the tfassige of this act (f). Destructive animals, foxes and vild cats may be killed by owners and >fflcers of the law upon their holdings ind without license, at any time. (g). All domestic birds not named ibove are non-game birds, and shall iot b? destroyed in any way at sny Jme. (h). The open season for hunting jame animals shall be from October 1 .0 March 15, of each year, except ;hat deer may be hunted from Sepember 1 to December 31 only. The bag limit for squirrels shall be 15 per day. Provided, That the open season for lunting foxes shall be from September L to February 15 of each year. (i). The catching of game fish shall ie with hook and line only in all the :lear water streams and waters of the itate. (J). Gill nets (not to extend more ;han half way across a stream, lake or ?ond, traps, seines, trot lines or other ievice which does not block the passige of fish in streams, may be used in :he muddy streams of the state: Provided, They be not used within 100 vards of the mouth of clear water itreams emptying into the same. Seines nay be used between the 1st day of September and the 1st day of May. No traps, nets or other devices shall ie used at the mouth of or inside of my rice field ditches. (b). The tickling, pegging or catchng of game fish by any means except od and line or hand line, or single set ine, outside of beds, is strictly forbidlen. Sec. 3. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be a misdemean)r, and, upon conviction thereof, the )ffender shall suffer penalty of fine of lot less than $10 nor more than $25, jr imprisonment of not less than 10 lor more than 30 days. Sec. 4. It is unlawful to poison the streams or water of the state in any manner whatsoever for the purpose of making fish. The muddying of streams jr ponds or the introduction of any substance which results in making the fish sick, so that they may be caught, is hereby declared to be poisoning in the sense of this act. No sawdust or acid, or other Injurious substance, shall be discharged into any of the streams of the state where fish breed . or abound. It shall be unlawful to I throw, place or put any dynamite or any other explosive in any lake, stream or water in the state for the purpose of taking fish. For the violation of this section, the person or per* sons so violating shall be fined $66 or imprisoned one year. C T* nU n 11 K. ...In ... ocv. u. xi ouau uc uuia'viui ivi ou/ transportation company to receive for shipment of the game birds or animal* of the state, except in season, and unless the package containing them shall be so labeled as to show the consignor or consignee, and the number and kind of birds and animals. Sec. 6. There shall be no nifht hunting in this state except for raccoons and opossums and foxes, and the penalty for hunting deer with torches or artificial lights of any kind Shall be $100 fine or 30 days' Imprisonment. * . Sec. 7. When not otherwise specified, the penalty for violation of any part of the game, bird or fish laws of this state shall be a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, the offender shall suffer penalty of fine of not less than $10 nor more than $2$ or imprisonment of not less than 10 or more than 30 days. Sec. 8. It shall be the positive duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, rural policemen and special officers to actively co-operate with the -i game department and game wardens in the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the state. Sec. 9. The destruction of birds' nests shall be punishable In the same way as the destruction of the birds. ' Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for anyone to hunt within this state without first procuring a license to do so from the clerk of the court in the county m wnicn ne may propose to hunt or an adjoining county or state. A resident of any county shall pay for a county license, a license fee of $1.10. A non-resident shall pay a license fee to hunt in any county of $8.10 except land owners and lease holders and members of their families hunting or Ashing on their own lands or in water on their lands, leised by them. Every non-resident of the state shall pay a hunter's license fee of $11.25 during any one season. That the clerk of the court of each county may place licenses in the hands ef responsible parties for sale at convenient places in the county, and account for the same as if handled by him directly; and: Provided, further, That no game warden, sheriff, constable, policeman or other officer except as herein provided shall be allowed to sell or handle any hunters' licenseskor receive any funds therefor or in connection therewith. Sec.. 11. All nan-residents of this state, before fishing for game or other fish in any manner in the inland streams or waters of this state, shall first procure a non-resident fishing license, the fee for which shall be $8.2$. Sec- 12. Provided, That the provision of this act shall not prevent realdentil of this stat? from huntine with out license on their own lands In any county in the state. - Sec. 13. That the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty regulations, being the supreme law of the land under Article VI of the constitution of the United States, are hereby declared to be the law of this state, and the penalty for their violation shall be punishment of not less than 310 nor more than f26. or 30 days' imprisonment Sec. 14. This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the governor. BUSINESS OF THE FARMER. Cannot Pay Good Wages Because It Does Not Control Product Prices. "An employment agency in one of the largest cities in Texas states that out of 1,000 applicants for employment, not one asked to be sent to work on a farm," B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture says in an interview just given out. What does that mean? Merely that farm life is not remunerative enough and not attractive enough for the young men cf our country. Why should not our young men on the farm be paid as much as cotton mill operatives or the man at the forge? i he only answer that I can see Is that the man on the farm Is not allowed to tlx the price of what he produces. "We are now engaged in a fight to the finish, a fight which means that ??-- .i- ...? ..iki.it ?a an. U1U auuin UlUOk lUlCTOl ouuiutb vv m~~ cept with the submisslOQ of beggars the price that mi j be fixed by Individuals that have never worked, or the south will now emerge master of the situation and able to place upon its own commodity the price which the south sees fit The coal miners of England and the diamond mines of Africa do not say that they will accept any price that may be offered them they tell the world what it must give. "Now, with regard to the cotton, I wish to call attention to some singular facts. The largest cotton crop erer grown in the United States yielded less to the producer than one of the smallest. That doesn't appear reasonable, but it is a fact. The great crop of 1912 which was 16,184,930 bales brought in cash to the producers but $810,000,000, while the small crop of two years ago, 11,302,376 bales brought in cash to the producer 11,667,00,000. In other words we grew in 1912 for nothing 4,832,555 bales. "This should be the very strongest evidence possible to convince the farmer that the right thing and the best thing for him to do is to take warning and to do what the best informed people are urging him to do curtail the acreage and the fertilizer 33 1-8 per cent. "The farmer should not raise a large crop this year and thereby should sell it for a profit and not merely for tha cost of production or less. It is much better to raise five bales to the horse and make a profit on them than it Is to raise ten bales at a loss to the farmer. As surely as the cotton farmers grow a big crop this year, just that surely they will grow it at a loss. "What will the farmers gain ' by growing a 14,000,000 bale crop this year that will cost them at least zo cents per pound with high priced fertilizer and high priced labor? Now, just stop and think and remember that you farmers can make the crop profitable or unprofitable. Which shall It be?" Commissioner Harris Is no convert to the new idea of mixed farming, for he has been trying it for 37 years. The first year that he began to farm, he failed because he planted all cotton. But since that time he has been en- . gaged In what is now known as diversified fanning, and he Is a living example that It pays. . -