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';V ^ . - , III|| 11 111IIII ML ^ ^ , f '' Issued semi-weekly. ' ^^ L. M. GRIST'S SONS, Publishers. % ?$|inUg g?rs>a|tK <#r <hc promotion af<h^ goIilii[al, ?<r<tiat, 3gricuUui[at and (Ttmimtrtiai Jnfmste ef fh^ TER"^^5p^EmiN?m*5?*Nce ?? ESTABLISHED 1835 I YORK. S. C., FPIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. ' N"Q. 71 ~ IT MORE PAY FOB CLERKS Salary Commission Is Considering Important Changes. / POSTAL EMPLOYES GET TOO LITTLE Significant Discussion of Wage Conditions Before The National Federation Of Postal Employes?Represenitative From Louisiana Cautions Against Strike. Drastic changes in the civil service system to benefit federal civilian em ployes a: 3 under consideration oy me federal salary classification commission, Edward Keating, secretary of the . commission, and former representative from Colorado, told the convention of the National Federation of Postal employes assembled in Washington last Monday. "Women who do the same work as men should receive the same pay as men," Mr. Keating said. "We believe in a system of promotion which will lead from the lowest end of the ladder to the highest [, "We are also convinced that civil I service employes should not be placed a, at the mercy o^any bureaucratic tyWL rant, no matter what his position might be. The civilian employe is enD titled to a fair hearing before an imW partial court if he has grievance." Warns Against Striking. Representative O'Conner, of Louisiana, warned the postal employes against striking "unless it is a last resort and that the way to win recog? nition is by the power of the federation at the polls. "* ? -1 " ?T) ArtKAOAVtfO f {l'ft 1 HI II a. UCIIIUtiai, O'Conner continued. "Eut if the democratic party should manifest hostility toward you and your cause, 1 say bc?t the party from the head down." Representative Xolan, of California, speaking of the high cost of living, said that "if the president can't do * the things he promised to do in rei ductl^n of the cost of living-then the x ' government, as an employer, must bring up the wages to meet'the cost of living." Demands Are Outlined. Representat^ Madden, of Illinois, champion of the resolution to increase tfyc pay of postal employes ?d50 a year, told tho delegates that "it was best tJ^at ^\ve^ at the ^ t Service betterments sought by the 9 organisation as outliobd by Thomas ri\ Flasherty, secretary-^j*Ta.surer, include a higher standard, a punitlv/ rate of time and a half for work in excess of eight hours, double time for Sunday and holiday work, unnefee*sary night work eliminated, Saturday half holidays, thirty days nick leave annually with full pay and indefinite sick leave on half pay, longer vacations, retirement of aged postal workers creation of a court of appeal for employes and recognition of the postal organizations. THE EVIL OF LAZINESS Marshall Thinks That Pooplo Can End % Trouble by Work. / R "I have never lived within my salary and have often thought of striking Tor a higher one," said Vice President Marshall last Monday in the course of * a discussion of the cost of living. siriKts, ciu wmi me v* i-ui" * respondent of the Chicago Tribune. Vice? Presideht Marshall is further quoted as saying: "How I spend my salary is nobody's t business save my wife's. Ii I should strike for more money upon the theory that my services are worth more than ? 1 am receiving, how 1 spend my salary is nobody's business, but should I f } strike on the ground of the high cost of living, then justice would demand that I show how I have spent my salary in order that the arbiters may de^ termine whether it is the high cost of living or the high cost of high living that ails mee. "One of the old idcasvef the Repub-' lie was that the limit of striving for success was the limit of capacity and endurance. The real evil which we are confroting today is the high cost or; leisure- I speak in a censorious way, because I myself am the laziest of the lazy. "I only beg the thoughtful considerAf IIAIIMAAH V-V-* A %-* KAVA tllA tllJVU VI JVU1I5C1 114CII VY IIV 1KUC ilic good of the Republic at heart seriously to consider the problem as to whether the only way In which to meet the increasing difficulties of American life is not by additional striving to produce /j| more, to earn more, to economize more and to save more. "I lost all confidence in a man in Indiana whose family was starving and for whom I found a job at $1.50 a day during the panic of 1873. when he told me that he believed he would not take a job until he was certain what congress was going to do about the money question. "All of us are for lees hours of labor, better labor conditions, safeguards for > women and children and men who laa fairer distribution of the r>ro^ * d^Qts of lnbor; all of us hope that j / these can be accomplished and that all r? * of the necessaries and many of the ^ luxuries of life will be given to every one under the flag and that peace, plenty and prosperity may continue to be the part of the American citizen. "I have tried to case my own con science in holding a position which ha* so little labor connected with it by say-i ing that tho numberless nights of Id-' bor which I have performed in tnV;, past entitle me to a breathing spelK "i "I am not sure, however, that tfhis is true, and not being sure of it I have no wo/d of criticism for those who, like myself, prefer to play rather than to labor." PRESIDENT URGES ECONOMY Sound Advice as to How to Restore Normal Economic Conditions. Here is President Wilson's Labor. Day message: Tom pnpouraeed and gratified by tin* progress which is bjeipg made in controlling the cost of living. The Support of the movement is widespread and I confidently look for substantial results, although I must counsel patience as well as vigilance, because such results will not come instantly or without team work. Let me again emphasize my appeal to every citizen of the country to continue to give his personal support in the matter and to make it as active as possible. Lget ^him not only refr^n from doing anything which at the moment will tend to increase the cost pf living, but let him do all in his po\wito increase the production; and, further than that, let him at the same time himself carefully economize' in the matter of consumption. By common action in this direction wc shall overcome a danger greater than the danger of war. We will hold steady a situation which is fraught with possibilities of hardship and suffering tp a large part of our population; we tyi.i enable the processes of production^ overtake the processes of consunu>tion; and we will speed the restoratfci, of an adequate purchasing pdwer foe wages. I am particularly gratified at thw support which the government's policy has received from the represetatives of organized labor, and I earnestly hope that the workers generally* wiji emphatically indorse the position of their leaders and thereby move with the government instead of against it in the solution of this greatest domestic problem. * I am calling for as early a date a? practicable a conference in which the authoritative representatives of labor and of those who direct labor will discuss fundamental means o{ bettering the whole relationship of capital and Jc?>9ifand putting the whole question or wagfes \hp?o,another footing, THE TOMB OF PETERSON Tragedy of a Man Who' Died Alone Among Snowdrifts. Emanuel Peterson, a Hudson Bay company trapper, fell asleep in hps lonely cabin in the northern wildeh ness near Fond du Lac, twelve months ago, says a Katoon letter. He lies today just as he fell asleep, in hia bunk with his blankets tucked arouncl him. The wolves that howl about his shack and the roaring blizzarcA that pile the winter snows to the clapboard roof 4vill never awaken him from his slumber. There he will continue to sleep, possibly forever. His old log cabin, which he built himself, has become his mausoleum. A sheet of paper tacked on trie door bears his epitaph, written in English, French, Cree and Chipeyn: "This is the grave of Emanuel Peterson. Let no man disturb it."* Constable M. Chappins of the Royai Northwest mounted police traveled 2,000 miles through snow and storm to write that epitaph. His return to Saskatoon after a three months' journey, is the last chapter of the tale. News that a man lay dead in a cabin somewhere north of Lake Athabasca, trickled down out cf the frozen north to Edmonton last February. The man had been dead nine months. There was a suspicion that he might have been murdered. Chappins was assigned to make an investigation. It is such work as this that has built the heroic conditions of Canada's corps of scai'iet riders. He set out from Prince Albert. A branch line of one of the transcontinental railways took him bey'ond the rich regions of farms to the northern end of the steel highway at Big RivferHe outfitted with a sled and dog team at Isle a la Crosse and with an Indian guide struck into the wilderness. The thermometer registered 30 degrees below zero. The snow was two feet deep. At Crcc lake the snow was four feet deep and the mercury stood above 5U degrees below. Packs of gray wolves hung on his trail. They killed two o* his dogs in an attack on his camp. He killed them every day by the dozen. This. Chappins believes, saved his life, for the half-starved, desperate brutes feasted on the carcasses of their dead companions. A little farther on, his Indian guide turned back. Tho frozen desolation that lay ahead struck him with panic terror. Chappinfc went on alone. He drove ahead two days in the teeth of a blizzard- His previsions ran low. Re lived on short rations of pcmmican and tea. At the silver camp at Darnier, he obtained fresh supplies and a new guide and pressed on to the Hudson llay post at Fond du Lac. lie found Peterson's body perfectly preserved in the cold, dry air. There were no signs of violence. Peterson's diary lay open on a table. The last entry. made March 29 191S, read: "1 am very sick. It would be hell if I should die out here among tlie snowdrifts all alone." i I xJLOVER NEWS NOTES ~ ?,+ 5 i j^acuify. for Clover Graded Sciiaol Is ' Announced * ' * * * POLOTN ARE TO GET INCREASE * % ?.V % ' 'V # School Opens Next Monday?La^-ge Number Of Young People Go To College?'Great Scarcity Of Houses? Other Matters. Correcpondence of The Yorkville Enquirer. Clover, Sept. 4.?Superintendent W. R. Koon of thfe Clover Graded schools said today that the school^ would open here next Monday. With one exception, teachers for the ensuing year en/1 Ax-nri'tincr Vina nave uccu ciclicu auu vtwj vi*?id been put in readiness for the approaching session, the enrollment of which will be the largest ever had here. An enrollment of considerably over 400 is expected. Because of inadequate housing facilities the question of accommodating all the pupils is one which is causing people generally much concern but the branch schools to be conducted at the Hawthorn and Clover Mills with teachers employed J?y the school district will solve the problem to some extent- The faculty for the school-is as follows:, W. R. Koon, superintendent; Miss Lottie Belle Simrill, Yorkvllle, high school; Miss Annie Lee Adams, Clover, seventh grade; Miss Addie Nlell, Clover, sixth grade; Miss Edith Alexander, Matthews, N. C., fifth grade; Miss Mildred Parrott, Clover, fourth grade; Miss Pearl Williams, Clover, third grade; Miss Jr.nie Robinson, Clover, seconfi grade; Miss Lila Jackson, Clover, first grade. Miss Annie Lipford of Leeds, S.-C., has been elected to teach at the Harthorn mill. A teacher for the Clover Mill school has not yet been secured. Each of the mill teachers will have three grades?first, second and third. Superintendent Koon who has recently completed a census of Clover school district under the provisions of the state compulsory attendance law finds that there are 253 white children between the ages of 8 and 14 in the Clover school district proper and 27 in the Miller school territory recently annexed to Clover district, There are 168 negro children of school age in the district. Mr. Koon found that there were 35 children of school ag* in Clover district proper who had either neVer been to ^school or whose I ImniiirTiiiil been so irregular that It nouproveif of noTTcncflt of them. Salaries of Officers Increased. At a recent meeting of the towncouncil, it was decided to increase the salary of Chief of Police John A. Jackson to 3100 a month and the sal-1 ary of night Policeman J. R. Robinson to 385 a month. In addition to the salary the town is to furnish each of its officers with two uniforms annually. The winter uniforms .for the officers were ordered this week. Increase in the salary of the officers here, people say, is one that they well deserve. There are no t?ore vigilant officers anywhere than the two Clover policetnen. Their duties consist not only in policing the town but in taking care of the Clover water plant, the electric plant, street work and all other work pertaining to the municipality. Both orcicers nave naa positions ottered them at larger salaries than they have befen securing here and the town considers Itself fortunate In being able to retain their services% York County Church Census. Mr. Jas. A. Barrett of Clover has issued a circular letter to leading ministers and laymen over the country calling for a meeting to be held in the First Presbyterian church of Yorkville on September 17, for the purpose of Effecting an organization looking forward to the taking of a complete church census in York county It is proposed to hold the meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning when the plan for taking the census and a discussion of the benefits that will accrue through the promotion of church work as a result thereof will be discussed. Many Young People To College. Like a deserted village will Clover be within a couple of weeks when the young people of the town and vicinity go back to college. People generally will miss the social galties to which these young people have contributed so much during the summer just coming to a close. The number who will attend college this fall-from Clover is the largest ever. James Sifford will return to the University of South Carolina to obtain his Master of Arts degree: Macon Sifford, Ted Sifford and William Knox also expect to enter the university: Neil Sllfford and Justin Smith expect to enter Trinity Park Prep at Durham, X. C-; Odus Robinson and Herbert Smith will enter Trinity College at Durham, X. C.; James Page goes to Erskine Collegc;Connan Pursley will also go to Erskine and Blanton Stacy expects to enter the Atlanta Medical College for the study of pharmacy. Misses Margaret ? Parrott and \inrthn Smith will enter G. W. C. at Greenville; Misses Christine and Louise Smith go to Coker College at Hartsville; Misses Alice Ford, Rachel Jones, Margaret Adams, Allein Robifison and Marie Shcrer will enter Limestone at Gaffney. Miss Annie Sifford goes tp ; Flora Macdonald at Red Springs, NT. jC.; Miss Ethel Adams to Greensboro : Normal at Greensboro, N. C. and Mis's Claude Smith to Fassifern at Hcnderjsonville, X. C. , t Cotton Coming Slowly. While there Is considerable cotton picking going on in the surrounding , community people seem .to be in no 1 hurry to bring it to the ginneries and' the local plants aire quietly awaiting their pleasure. Thus far only one bale of the new crop has been ginned and sold on this market} that fact having ocen mentioned in ljuesuay s inquirer. Cotton picking in most communities hereabouts is starting out at $1 per hundr d, pounds and th farmers are going to keep the price at that If possible. ' , Wanted?Houses For Rent. Mr. and Mrs. V. Q. Hambright and child and Mr. Fed Hambright of King's Mountain, werishere thle week looking for Rouses in which to yve. It is the intention of both the Messrs. Hambrjght who are connected with the new bank, to move here as soon as they can secure suitable residences. But there are none available at the present time. The need for more houses was never greater in Clover than it is at the present time. Several local capitalists are considering the idea of building a few houses for rent; but the matter has taken no definite shape. Miscellaneous Matters. Mayor I. J. Campbell and Senator Jr. E. Beamguard went to Columbia Thursday to consult with the state highway commission in regard to^.he matter of securing Federal aid on the North road, from the York township line to the North Carolina line. They went to tuiumuia tux wits pu^yuoc ui securing Federal aid in building a cement roadway through the town of Clover, Main street property owners and the town having already agreed to pay their half of the cost providing this Federal aid may bo secured. Deaver Quinn of the Bethany section has secured a position with the Clover Drug Store. He takes the place of Blanton Stacy, who leaves within a few days to enter the Atlanta Medical College. A party of Bethel township people went to Banner Elk, N'. C., and the mountains of Westci^i North Carolina on a summer outinfe last wcok, tho trip being mado by automobile. Among thise in the party Were Mr. H. G. Stanton And family; i Mr. T. H. Riddle and family; Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Riddle; Rev. G. _W- Nickell, 1*. John Nicholls, Miss Glady Nicholls, Miss Emily Dulin, Mr. Blair Dulin and Mr. James Pursley, Miss Hester Jackson. R. S. Dickson of Cherokee Falls was a recent visitor hoto ' , . R. E. Love spent (Sunday in Columbia. - * ' .. ? Miss Elsie. Proesly of Greenville, is visiting Miss Margaret Parrott here. Mrs. Fannio Chitty of Olar, ,S. C? is visiting the family of her father, Mr. T. H. Allen here. Miss Willie L.111K -or AODevine, is visiting Miss Mary Jackson. Prof, and Mrs. T. L- Wilson who haVe been spending the summer with the family of Mr. J. J. Wilson here, have returned to Raleigh, N.^., where Prof. Wilson is a member of the faculty of A. & M. College- They were accompanied home by Miss Cora Wilson. Miss Mary Beamguard who has been spending the summer with relatives and friends in Georgia and Florida, has returned to her home here. Miss Emily Dantzler of Orangeburg, is visiting Miss Bleeka Beamguard in Clover. i CARRANZA YIELDS TO SENSE. Mexican President Now Ready To Recognize Foreign Demands. Important concessions have been made by President Carranza in issuing a decree amending the law on claims. Briefly they are as follows: Claims for damages may be presented not only for losses during the recent two revolutions ending with the installation of the present government on May 1, 1917, but for those sustained since then in various regions where revolts arc still smoldering. Damages by rebels or outlaws to person or property subject to claims when such damage is found to be the result of negligence on the part of constituted authority. A commission on indemnification will admit any means of proof "humanly reasonable." The claims commission can consider all cases, but the president has the right to arrange conventions with any foreign power for a mixed commission to handle claims of citizens of that power. Claims by railroad companies and other public utilities taken over by the government may be arranged either by the Federal claims commission or by agreement between the companies and the secretary of the treasury. The claims resulting' from death or injury will be paid Immediately upon approval by the president. The Federal Claims commission will cease'receiving claims when at the end of three months no claim has been presented, being dissolved when it finishes consideration of cases already filed. Claims not acted upon may be presented to the treasury deparment if the claimant chooses the administrative instead of the diplomatic method. The most important amendment it is considered.'ls that relative to the president's power to arrange conventions for mixed commissions with foreign powers. ? A folding wire head rest which can be attached to the back of a cap has been invented for the coinfort 'of men who have to lie on their backs under automobiles. BIG MEETING AT TiHZAH /York County Sunday School Breaks '!? ( Record. NEARLY 1,000 DELEGATES PRESENT Good Talks By Prominent Leaders-? Collections Made Good Showing? Officers Elected For Next Year and 1920 Meeting To Be Held At Beersheba. vviin sou delegates representing imysix Sunday Schools of the county .in altendance, yie annual meeting of the Yoik County Sunday School Assoclation was held In the handsome Presbyterian church at Tirzah last Tuesday. The convention was in session from 10 o'clock in the morping until 6 o'clock in the afternoon and the programme for every mirtute of the time included something/ of interest and benefit to the second largest crowd that ever attended an annual,convention of the county Sunday school association. While 860 ' delegates were registered, it is estimated that there were well nigh on to 1,000 people at Tirzah Tuesday ^on account of the convention. It was a crowd representative of every section of York county. There were babies and children and young people and those of middle age and those whose hair has turned ira>. That person who has the idea of a theory that Sunday Schools are for the young folks and that only young folks have interest In them would have had his theories all exploded had he* visited T|rzah Tuesday for there were scores of aged people both men and women in the audience which was too large for the handsome little Presby lenan unurun lu owv aiiu muvu muuo itself comfortable in the shade of the trees around Ollve^ Methodist church and Tirzah school house. With Mr. J. A. Marion of Yorkvllle, president presiding, and Mr. Jas. A. Barrett of'Clover, secretary attending the functions of his office the convention was opened promptly at 10 o'clock with a song service, directed by Rev. F. H. Wardlaw, pastor of Bethosda. The seating capacity of the church was filled long before the sei vice opened and the ushers placed numerous chairs and extra benches In tfc aisles and other vacant places In a vain effort to accommodate all.' "Preparation for Victory," was the subject of a brilliant address by Rev. W. P- Grier, of Clqver. ' ' * "Our Wants or* Their Needs," was the subject of an ' address delivered . by Miss Cora Holland of the staff of the South Carolina Sunday School Association which was followed with an address, "Challenge to Victory," delivered by Mr. R. D. Webb of Sp&rtahburg, secretary of the state aesbclttion Following the transaction of miscellaneous business, including the appointment of various committees and the solicitation of subscriptions to the work of the state association, adjournment was taken for dinner. It was a typical York county jricnlc dinner, served by the ladies un<fer the shade of the trees around Tirza"h school house. There was a plenty for the hundreds of people present: since most of the gbod ladies had brought well filled baskets. Reports were received from the county and district officers on the work of the past year throughout the county. It. D. Webb delivered an fcddress "Why Ten Boys Left Sunday k4<^c0l" in which he made it plain to his hearers that in order to hold th? Interest of the young people in Sunday School work and religious matters generally the teaching and story of the Scriptures must be made interesting^ to them. Rev. J. B. Talbert of Rock Hill delivered an address "A Teachers' Preparation for His Work," Rev. Talbert substituting for Prof. R. C. Burts of Rock Hill, who was unable td be present. Tabulations by Secretary Barrett showed that fifty-six schools in the county were represented by a total of 360 delegates. The Sunday School of Clover Presbyterian church had the largest representation, forty members of that organization ^eing in attendance. Tirzah Presbyterian church came second with thirty-three. The sum of $173.87 was subscribed in. cash for the work of the state Sunday School Association and in addition to this pledges totaling the sum of $76.25 were secured. A total of 128 subscriptions to the Sunday School Promoter, the official organ of the South Carolina Sunday School Association were sectyed at a subscription price of twenty-five cents, several young ladies having been appointed, while the convention was in session, to solicit subscriptions among the vast audience. It was ascertained by Secretary Webb that there were nine pastom in attendance upon the convention; thirty Sunday school superintendents and as' * a Psn.i,. Cnn/lov iihhftnl sisianis anu cigiu;-iuui uunun; ..? teachers. The number of tenclicra present he said, was the largest upon a county Sunday school convention held anywhere in South Carolina this year. " Let everybody in this liousa who ever attends Sunday school oncu in a while, stand up" requested Secretary Webb, The entire audience arose. Officers to serve for the ensuing year were elected as follows: YV. T. Beamguard, president. Clover; vice president, I. P. Boyd, York No. 7; secre tary-ticanui^r, W". B. WUkcrsyf, Hickory Grove; division superintendents, Mrs. T. F. Bell, Rock Hill; R. E. McFarland. Yorkvllie; J. ,C. Cook, 1 Prof. J. W. Thomson, Rock Hill. The committee on resolutions consisting; of Mr. J. C. Cook, Rev. Dr. E. E. Gillespie and Mrs. T. F. Bell submitted a report tendering the thanks of the convention to Tlrzah Presbyterian church and the community generally for Its generous hospitality and to all those who had contributed to the success of the convention, the best perhaps from all standpoints ever held in York county. .The committee's report was adopted by a rising vote of the house. The auditing committee consisting of Messrs. W. S. Gordon, J. L. Stacy, and E. M. Williams made their report before adjournment, having found all records and property of the association in excellent condition. Beersheba was selected as the place ?or Holding the 1920 convention of the county association, the Invitation of Bocrsheba be 1 rig pressed by Rev. J. L. Yandcll and many members of the Beersheba Sunday schqol who wve present i GREATEST OF THE GREEKS Premier^ Venixelos Thoroughly UnderViands Balkan Question. I Not so conspicuous at the peace conference \yhile the treaty with Germany focused tho world's attention, but^ emerging into the lii?ellght now that Balkan problems ore in the forefront, is Premier Venlselos of Greece. ,The career ot this "Greek' Clemen ceau," reckoned among the foremost statesmen of Europe, is/described in a bulletin from the Natloijal Geographic Society, based on a communication from George Higgins Moses, as follows: _" "Eleutherols Venizelos, is a Greek of the Greeks/%lth a long line of distinguished Hellenic ancestry. Educated at the University of Athens and in Switzerland, he established himself as an attorney in Crete, and was ac-' nye in tut; levuijunvu utu?ciucuva wmvu brought on the Greco-Turkiah war of 1897. , ' "Upon the establishment of the high commissioner's regimelnGrete, Venizelos and Prince George were not in accord, and the prince's withdrawal from the island followed?on Incident which led the court party in Athens to regard . Venlaeloa is an arch-revolutionary and to render his task the more difficult, i "Tb^ Gr^i people, however, have never wavered la their aapaort of fck*. Re la ttalr idol?and he justified their idolatry. Summoned to the prime ministry much earlier than l?e had believed himself ready for such power, and knowing full well that dife owned tils preferment in a large measure to th? wishes of the old political leaders, who had conceived the notion of choking him to death with power, he confounded his enemies, amazed his friends, and justified all the fond, hopes of the people, who regarded him as their future and who have neve* ceased to hall him as the savior of Hellenism. , "His ministry was forced to appeal to the electorate?onc^ by his own wish to test Greek public opinion and once because the constitutional limit had run against his government. In .each case he was swept back into office with a majority of cumbersome proportions?and he has rightly counted himself as a man with a mandate to reorganize Greece. "Under his guidance the conotitution has been revised, the chamber ' has been liberated and sefc in the way of constructive legislation, while the electorate has been given a wider privilege of choice of their representatives. The courts have been given ,tcnure and removed from political control. "The ministries have been re-organised and purged and the civil service has'been set upon a merit basis. Agriculture and commerce have been taken under the charge of a new ministry. Municipalities have been grant- ' ed new rights and charged with new duties, and a general quickening and efficiency have been infused into all branches of the administration." ' MENTALITY DIFFERENT '' , j German Professor Writes Plain Truths in the Tageblatt. "The reason why the whole world rose up against Prussia and Germany and not against England is plain to everyone who has observed the Prussian policy in Poland and the Prussian administration in Alsace," asserts Pressor F. W. Foerster, qf the University of Munich, writing in the Tageblatt. ? "England practiced much might to be sure, but it has also given /the world freedom and justice/' he added. "She succeeded in roconciling the Boers whereas we were unable in forty years to regain the sympathies of the Alsatians who are German to the core. That speaks volumes. "The isolation of Germany from Hague conferences is irrefutable proof in dominating circles that Germany is possessed of different mentality than the rest of the world." He charges Germany with having in the exchange of the Versailles notes on the question of guilt and states that many one-sided accusations might have been combated more effectively if Germany had net again endeavored to delend untenable positions with rank sophistries. / t if AGAINST RAILROAD STRIKES Senator Robinson Would Pass A Prohibitory Law. TO PROTECT PUBLIC FROM TIE-UPS 9 ' "'"ff . ; Th? Right Of Any Employ* To Quit Work If Ho Want< To lo Rocogiiiiod; But Thoro Must Bo No Organiz* iotifln Thai Uau r>iiu I flit Of , Life Or Public Suffering. A law to prohibit strikes or lockouts of railroad employes, and tfthp tp protect the publid from transportation t tie-ups, was advocated by Senator Robinson, democrat, of Arkansas, 'in an address /today In the senate. "The time has come," heta-'sMo; "when congress must protect the public against loss of life ana pfoperty and widespread suffering, which will Inevitably result if the railroads should be tied up by a general strike. . "The right to strike has heretofore been recognized in our laws,' particularly in certain provisions of the Clayton act. Those l*w* should be. modified and strikes of employes on railroads engaged In interstate cttfnmerce forbidden. Senator Robinson's address was An analysis and commondatlon of the bill ? by Senator Cummins, republican of Iowa, drafted by the senais interstato commerce sub-committee proposing a permanent railroad policy of private ownership and operation of railroad?, nnHpr strict envprn mnnt antuiMltilnh ^nd \ylth 4 committee on wages and wording conditions composed'equilfy of principle# and employers whose recommendations would be select''to final decision of the interstate commerce commission. ** The Cummins bill, according. t</ : Senator Robinson, who was eiineqnber of the drafting sub-committee, amply protects the rights of the employes, employers and the public. "While the right of the labofeprto quit employment for any reason Is recognized and reserved (in the bill)" said senator Robinson 'combinations or agreements to hinder, restrain or prevent the movement of commedkifee, or persons in interstate commerce, or agreements which have that affect* are likewise penalised,--A*. A "The provision by law. of a fair tribunal to settle disputes between jailroad and their employee .Is, of copras, a prerequisite in ai>y plan fairly calculated to relieve the country from the commerce It Is indl^^a^^d^e comfort and life of . our pebple (hat commerce be continued, and no system which leaves commerce stlhiact k> the will of individuals or . organizations among them can be justified, . "In the Interests of the. laborers themselves and. more particularly In . the interests 'of the general public,' congress should dekl with this subject comprehensively and courageously. "It is desirable, if poSelhli, to de- ' vise a plan that will meet with the approval of the laborers ahd at the same time fairly safeguard the public inter- ^ est. But it might as well be understood in the beginning that the question is one in which the public. inter- ^ est Is equal to that of the railroads and the laborers, if not cohtroillhg,... JUUl. that under^our system.of government, , while no man should be compelled .to perform involuntary servitude, except, as a punishment for citme. and while the full freedom and right of employed ' as individuals to quit work at will must * be preserved, the dangers of a general strike or lockout which wbuld suspend commerce are; so apparent and' fir-1! . J reaching that disputes likely to in strikes or lockouts on raliroadpf must be determined in an orderly manner." 10 1 r ' V ~r ~ . f s The Surrender of Jerusalem.?The city of Jerusalem was really surrendered to the British by an American photographer, acting for - the Arab mayor, according to an account of the . affair told t>y Capt Wendell Cleveland, a former resident of New Wilmington, who recently returned from Egypt, where he had Served as a Red Cross Worker. After weeks of bombardment^ Captain Cleveland saJ&.the Turks had decided to :.urrender. The mayor hitched a sorry looking team of dphkeys to a carriage, raised the white flag and started out of the city gates to And the British. On the way he eneousr tared this American photographer and asked him to ride with him, Followed by many of the citys* people, the procession continued until two British soldiers baited them, whereupon the American informed the "Tommies'* \ that he had the honor of surrendering the keys of the city to the British government and asked the sctttiry<vfta lead the way to the British general's camp. "\fiir \ vj Tho nearest British general rode . into the city and posted* a notice, that it was under the protection of the ?-' h government. Two days later 'General Allenhy rode triumphantly into Jerusalem and the news of the surrender was given to the world. Herbert Hoover, appearing before fhe French war expenditures committee in Paris, Tuesday, said that he lie- fjj Iieved it imperative for the United States to extend to Europe credits of from throe to four billion dollars in order to provide a market for the American surplus and to save Europe from disaster.