Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"* "*' Srt*blish?d in 1891. Illfpfs I ALU IOHK STRES8E8 ILLITERACY PROBLEM AS THE GREATEST HANDICAP OF THE STATE. WANTS MINISTERS TO HELP I i Welcomes Foreigners and Wants [ Them to Feel Attachment to Their Adopted "Country. Governor Cooper in an address to che ministers of Columbia appealed to the -clergy of the city to help stamp out the stigma of illiteracy now upon the city and State for a better Christion on ?? ? ? a a. - ..?u ?? nun as ponticai iuture Tor South Carolina. The governor Raid the illiteracy problem was the one great handicap of the State at present , and would continue 'to menace its welfare unless it was eradicated. The chief executive told the minis- I ters now was the time to mold the world Into a Christian unity for the good of Christ and the Christian countries of the world. He wanted to see all Christians united in one noble effort, all working for the name cause, and to do this the churches must throw aside petty differences and work in harmony. He was of the opinion that the church must go forward in teaching and less preaching if the best was to be obtained. He concluded his address by asking the ministers to help erase the stigma of illiteracy from the State and to call upon him when he could be of assistance. At the conclusion of the chief executive's talk a motion was unanimously passed thanking him for his address and assuring him of the hearty co-operation of the Ministerial Union. In his address to foreigners of Columbia at the Y. M. C. A.. Governor Cooper told his audience of over 65 ? of foreign birth that the United States and South Caro!#ia were glad to have them for citizens and appealed to them to become good citizens of the country. The governor said there was plenty of room for those of foreign birth and native Americans. What he wanted to see was a close attachment to the nauon ana state Tor all who were enjoying the privileges of the country. John E. Swearlngen, State superintendent of education, voiced a hearty second to the governor's appeal and spoke of the education necessary to become intelligent citizens of the United States. Cotton Corporation Increased. Endorsing the formation of a $200.000,000 cotton export corporation instead of the proposed $100,000,000 company and urging thut all banks in the State increase their capital stock by 50 per cent, members of the central committee of South Carolina Cotton Association met here witla South Carolina senators and members of the house of representatives. All of the members of the South Carolina delegation in Congress except Representatives Dominick and Nicholls, both of whom are out of the State, were here for a conference with a committee of 20 from the South Carolina Cotton Aaaociatlon, headed by Governor Robert A. Cooper. The cotton association is seeking to have changes made in the national banking laws so that national banks may lend money on cotton to the producer under the same terms that money Is now loaned on Liberty bonds. Book on Bolshevism. T. B. Alford. former student of the University of South Carolina, who has spent three years in Russia and the Scandinavian peninsular in the United States consular service, has returned and begun work on his new book on Bolshevism. Mr. Alford was in Russia during two years of strife and revolution and has a knowledge pe cuuariy nis own witn reference to ; Tlolshevlsm. While in the consular service in Russia he was captured by the Germans and held prisoner for some time, later escaping. Victory Loan Workers. Mrs. P. S. Munsell represented South Carolina at the Virginia Victory loan held in Richmond. There were present at this meeting delegates from a number of States who .were there specially to hear Carter Glass, secretary o fthe treasury. A very complimentary tribute was paid the Victory loan organization In South Carolina and the publicity methods employed by this State. Mrs. Munsell returned with .even more than her usual enthusiasm for putting South Carolina over the top In the drive. Harvard Offer Renewed. Dr. Reed Smith of the University of South Carolina is in receipt of a telegram from the Associated Harvard Clubs that the clubs' offer of a scholarship of $300 for a hoy from South Carolina will be renewed for next session, the winner to enter Harvard this coming fall. He must first stand entrance examinations. Any young man wlihlng to try for the scholarship may write Dr. Smith in care of the University of South Carolina And he will furnish him with information as to what steps he should take. rI^TTT^ inti Better Outlook for 8tM. Thero has been a marked improvement is the cotton seed situation, according to a statement issued by the South Carolina Cotton Association, which has been working on the seed situation for some time. The statement urges the farmers not to make use of their seed for fertiliser purposes, as the miils will make direct purchases. The statement Issued by the association follows in full: "The South Carolina Cotton Association has had up the question of the cottonseed situation for quite some time. They have been trying to get -elief for the seed situation through every known source and are very much gratified to inform the public that the seed situation is being relieved to a marked extent. The federal reserve board has rendered every ansistanc possible in bringing relief to the seed situation. The federal reserve board has harkAfI nn tho mnwo. ment with the United Sta'es food administration and the division of collateral commodities of the United States food administration in every way possible. "While some oil has moved, still the mills have been badly blocked. Information now brings to light the fact that orders are being issued to mills to buy seed and the situation will be relieved as fast as possible. "Farmers are urged not to use their seed for fertilizer purposes, as the mills will make direct purchases. The proposition to store seed and the proposition to sell seed and accept a certain amount of hulls for the same are not in line with the straightout purchase of cotton seed which will certainly be made by the mills. This should be a great relief to the farmers as they have alrendy been caused a tremendous loss on account of not being able to dispose of their seed." Auto License Fees. The State highway commission announce that the total collections from automobile license fees for 1919 up to April 1 amounted to $300,656.76. Of this amount four-fifths or $240,525.40, will be returned to the counties in which the license fees were paid and tho remaining one-fifth will be used by the commission in paying for road and bridge surveys requested by the counties. The list of counties with the amount of automobile license fees going tc each of them foltows: Abbeville. J3.029.40; Aiken. $6,566; Anderson, $14.003.00; Bamberg, $4,270.40; Beaufort, $1,100.60; Berkeley. $913.60; Calhoun, $3,384.60; Charleston. $12,927.60; Cherokee. $3,389.40; Chester, $3,202.80; Chesterfield, $4, 293.20; Clarendon. $4,052.80; Colleton, $2,985.40; Darlington. $7,183.20; Dillon, $3,831; Dorchester. $2,557; Edgefield. $3,161.20; Fairfield. $2,118.80; Florence, $8,161.80; Georgetown, $1,615; Greenville. $15,226.80; Green nuuq, *D.atw.*u; Morry, $2,257.40; Jasper, $591.80; Kershaw, $3,346.20; Lnn-' caster, $2,046.40; Laurens, $6,676.40; Lee, $3 985.60; Lexington. $8,026.40; McCormick. $1,519.60; Marion. $2.675.60; Marlboro, $6.705 40; Newberry. $5,205.40; Oconee. $4,193.40; Orangeburg. $13,240.80; Pickens. $2,996.80; Richland. $16,486.20; Saluda. $3,484.80; Spartanburg. $15,091.40; Sumter. $6,544.80; Union. $2,608.40; Williamsburg. $3,499.60; York. $5.206.80. Inspector Commends Progress. The Inspector for the reserve officers' training corps in the Carolines and Virginia, Lieut. Col. W. T. Conway. visited the University of South Carolina April 9. 10 and 11 and made a careful inspection of the R. O. T. C. unit at the university, and highly commended its progress. This corps was organized in accordance with an act of congress, dated June 3, 1916, and is. therefore, a part of the permanent policy of the war department which is simply carrying out an act of congress, the primary object of which is "to qualify, by systematic and standiml methods of training, students of civil educational institutions for reserve officers." Two j hundred and ninety-two institutions I have reserve officers' training corps at present and there twe 100 or more on the waiting list. In maintaining an reserve officers' training corps unit at the university, therefore, this institution is simply in line with practically nil rtre leading colleges in the United States. Increase of Cotton Oil Shipments. That the bulk of cotton oil meal and cake to be exported to Europe is to go .forward in greatly increased volume, thus bringing relief to cot tonseed crushers and farmers alike throughout the South, is the inference from a cablegram from former Cover nor Manning in Paris. received by Christie Benet. The cablegram read: "Mr. Hoover authorizes statement that situation as to producers and crushers has been relieved by export purchases. Court Overrule* Smith. District Attorney Weston received a telegram from Richmond telling him that the United States circuit court cl appeals had overruled the decision ot Judge H. A. M. Smith of the United States district court in the case of the United States army against Wil liam E. Mikell in which Judge Smith had held that Mikell should not he tried by court mnrtial on charges pre ferred against him but was subject only to the civil courts. The text of the decision of the cir > cult court of appeals is cot known ~~~ ~ rOKT MTT.T. MARY ARCHER GLASS l . ^g * >c HBfll a A new photograph of the youngest c daughter of Secretary of the Treaa- fc ury and Mrt. Carter Glass. ( LABOR TROUBLES INCREASE; r | <3 Grave Fears of Great Outbreaks in t Turkey, Accompanied by. Freeh Massacre* of Armenians. t With the return to Paris of the t British prime minister, David Lloyd '< Ueorge, accompanied by the Earl of ? Cursou and Ixml Milner. it is expect- t ed that there will be a speeding up of < the flnal preparations preliminary to the gathering of the representatives c of the associated powers with the Oor- l mun delegates at Versaille on April I 25th. j i According to the present purpose. I the covenant of the league of nations will be the first subject treated in de- t tail after the declaration of peace after i that the matter of military, naval and 1 aerial terms, reparations, responsibilities and frontiers will be taken in 1 hand. j 1 As It Isevldent that the question of 1 the possession of Flume and the Dal- < matian coast lias not yet been defl- t nitely settled, the Italian delegates 1 are working earnestly to secure a deci- i ion before the Italian chamber of 1 deputies meets on April 24. . 1 Labor troubles are brewing In the department of the Seine. France, of ' which Paris is the capital. A one-day strike has been called for May 1, by j the general federation of labor, 'to put , forward the federation's program, j which calls for an eight-hour day, political amnesty, non-intervention in Russia, lifting of the state of seige and the censorship and the return of con-' stitutional guarantees. I i Disorders of such magnitude are re-1 1 reported from both European and Asia-' < tic Turkey as to give rise to the fear ' that there will be great outbreaks at < various points and now massacres of Armenians. | 1 Germany will be forced either to t accept or reject the allied peace terms t by May 15. according to reports print- [ i ed in Paris. It is indicated that no i reply is expected before May 6. the 1 peace conference being disposed to give the German government what it I considers ample time in which to digest the terms and frame its reply. JAPANESE SEARCH HOUSES OF AMERICAN MISSIONARIES < < Seul.?The houses of the seven < American missionaries at Pyeng-Yang . i in northern Korea, were searched by (i the Japanese at the time of the ar-, t rest of Rev. Ell M. Mowry. a Presby-' r terian missionary, according to official ? advices. | f The official report says the Japan- < ese authorities obtained knowledge < that Koreans engaged in editing and circulating news of the independence t movement were hiding in Mr. Mowry's t residence and were issuing newspa- r pers and circulars from tho house, f More than 40 policemen were station- T ed around the house during the search 1 to prevent the escape of the suspects. * Eleven Koreans, including a girl, were t arrested, it is said, and three copying presses and documents relating to the , B independence wer seized. | r iNtAHLY 5,000 MORE TROOPS * ARE ON THEIR WAY HOME Washington.?Morn than 4,500 officers and men of the Forty-second / (Rainbow) division were included in / troops announced by the war depart- t ment as having sailed from France. 1 The Rainbow division men are aboard n four warships, the battleships Minne- r sota and South Caroiiua, due ut >iexv- n port News April 27. and the criAers d North Carolina and Montana, due .at t New York on the same day. ^ f BODY OF EDITH CAVELL TO *" C BE REMOVED TO OLD HOME London.?The body of Edith Oavell, the English nurse who waa executed C by the Germans in 1915 at Brussels, n will be brought from England to Bel- tr glum on May 15 and taken to West- li minster Abbey, where ceremonies will r be held. The body will be brought to Dover on a warship and will be trans- A ported on a gun carriage with military * escort to Victoria station and thence S >o Westminster Abbey. Interment will * be at Norwich. t n HVTT L 1T11 , S. O., THURSDAY, APRIL IALMN ISSUE IS AT ACUTE STA6E JECISION CANNOT LONGER BE DELAYED WHICH EITHER WAY 18 FRAUGHT WITH PERIL. HE ARMY BEHIND ORLANDO )etermination la Firm to Secure For Italy Adequate Protection Along the Adriatic Coaet. Paris.?The Italian issue over the tdriatic has reached an acute stage, rhere a decision one way or the other annot longer be deferred, and a deislon either way is fraught with selous consequences. i Despite the Easter calm, which wrought vast crowds to the churches I ind boulevards, the council of four I continued its sessions at the "white louse." The Itulian premier, Vitorio Jrlando and the Italian foreign minster Baron Sonnlno, were both pros>nt. and made it known that the open-1 ng of the Italian parliament has lecessitated their leaving Paris with lefinite knowledge of what is going to >e done. Baron Sonnino continued to occupy i he extreme position, insisting upon! he integral fulfillment of the secret reaty of Isjndon, giving to Italy the >ntire Dalmation coast and islands, tnd also claiming the city of Flume vithout internatloualiation or diviszon vith the Jugo slavs, Premier Orlando was rather more -oncili&ting, though a telegram which le had received from the heads of the talian army declared that the entire irmy was behind him in upholding taly's aspirations. President Wilson's position was said o be equally determined against any ecognition of the secret treaty of London. Reports of a compromise on the >asis of the Italians getting the Italan quarters of Fiume and the Jugoslavs getting their districts were not !onflrmed, as it was said that this was he plan put forward to the Italians iut not accepted. But early reports ndieated that the sesson might be >roloaged through the day in an effort to reach a middle ground. \EMRICAN DELEGATION DOES NOT FAVOR ALLIANCE IDEA The talk of the formation of an illiance to protect France from furirought forth the statement from a sigh source in the American peace lelegation that the United States will inter into no alliance which would be int-onsiBieni wwi the spirit of tho eaguo of nations. President Wilson jonferred with Premier Clemenceau, jut the nature of their talk was not lisclosed. Chaotic conditons still prevail at Munich, where the government troops ire declared to have been augmented ind a battle for supremacy to be in mmedWtte prospect. Sporadic fighting s reported to be in progress in the 3avarian capital. RECOGNITION OF MOROCCAN TITLE IS AWARDED FRANCE Paris.?A subject which hag been >f great Interest to the French is the ate of Morocco. In spite of all the hogging conditions of international ;ontrol forced upon France as a remit of the German blackmail methods shich led to the Algeciras convenion. France, mainlv throuch the magliflcent administrative ability of General Lyautey, has mpre than made ;ood her title, and of having her spe lal position in Morocco recognized in svery way bv the peace treaty. The French government proposed at he meetng of tho supreme council of he allies that all servitudes of intertational character, to which Morocco vas subjected as the results of Gernan action, be abolished and tinderonk to maintain full economic, indusrial and commercial equality of all he allied Rations in Morocco. This proposal was agreed to by the upreme councl and tho matter was eferred to a special committee. AMERICAN CASUALTIES ON ARCHANGEL FRONT ARE 528 Archangel.?Since landing on the Lrchangel front last September, the tmcricans havo suffered 528 casual ?oj?. v#i ineso ist? were fatalities, ["he losses of the Americans on the lorth Russian front during the past nonth have been extremely light as nost of the recent lighting has been lone either by newly formed Russian roops, who are campaigning bravely, or the British. IERMANY SENDS THREE ENVOYS TO VERSAILLES Copenhagen. ? Foreign Minister !ount von Brlckdorff-Rantxau. of Geraany, has announced that three en- ' oys will be sent to Versailles authorled to receive tne text of the peace rellmlnarles. The delegation will ITe headed by ftnlster von Haniei, whose associates rill be Herren von Keiler and Krnst lebmttt. legation counselors. They rill be attended by two officials and wo chancery servants | Rtar Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, 1 ; U. 8. N., was the commander of the ' American naval railway batteries that 1 did such fine work in France in the cloelnn w??Ws nf the war i SCORES DISSENSION SOWERS; I 1 A Peace Wanted That Is Just But Not Vindictive?A Stem Peace 1 Because Occasion Demands It. , ??? j London.?No Intervention in Rua- | sin; no recognition of bolshevism, | ! and the fullUlment of his election | i promises, including those relating to , I indemnity from the enemy powers | and punishmeut of the former Ger- | man emperor, were the outstanding | features of the report which Premier j 1 Lloyd George brought ffroin Paris , and delivered to the house of commons. The premier made a vigorous attack upon those who had "attempted to sow dissension, distrust and suspicion" between the nations whose ( , "cordiality and good will toward each i other was essential." He could not conceive of a worse crime, he de; elared, at a time when nothing could ; suve the world but keepins the na' tions together. "I am here to say that every pledge we have given is incorporated in the ; demands put forward by the allies." ' ho asserted. "We stand by them bej cause we believe they are Just. "We want a peace that is Just, nol ! vindictive. We want a stern peace, j 1 I because the occasion demands it. but it must be designed not to gratifvt i vengeance, but to vindicate justice. ; Bvery clause and every term in the i j conditions must be justified. Above ! all, we want to protect the future j against a repetition of the horrors of this war." The delegates, said Mr. Lloyd George, had never forgotten what France had gone through and they had not forgotten to what she was 1 entitled?not merely security against a repetition of the German attack, but ; to feel a sense of security against it. j < The conference had come to a unani- | { mous conclusion on all the questions ! before it. including a decision that to j ' I publish the peace terms before they I i were discussed with the enemy would i | be a flrsLclass blunder. Their pre- j ' j mature publication, he contended, could only serve to encourage the resistance of the enemy. CONTROL IN COURT-MARTIALS SHOULD REMAIN AS IT 18 I Washington.?Three major generals i j of the regular army. Leonard Wood ( and Hugh L. Scott (retired), former I chiefs of the general staff, and each of t whom trained and commanded divl- < I sions during the war. and John L. < Chamberlain, inspector general, op- 1 posed before the American Bar Asso- ! < elation committee Inquiring into the ! subject of military justice, anv plan < of taking from the President and the < commanding generals the control now , i exercised over courts-martial. The i present controversy as to war time i sentences began with the proposal of I LieuL Col. Samuel T. Ansell. then ; acting judge advocate general final 1 j jurisdiction of these cases. < I VALUE OF GOOD ROADS IS 1 I | THEME AT MINERAL SPRINGS Mineral Wells. Texas.?Advantages of improved highways and their eco- i nomical benefits were discussed at [ i session of the TTnited States Good i Roads Association, in annual conveo- ' tlon here, the speakers including Sen- i ator Morris Sheopard. of Texas; Gov- I ernor Pleasant of Louisiana, and form- 1 er Governor Donaghey. of Arkansas. | The convention exnects to select the i route after receiving reports of the I pathfinders. j ] NEEDED RAILROAD RIIPPI ir? ' i BEING STEADILY PURCHASED Chicago.?Walker D. Hines, directod : reneral of . nilroads, addressing tho 1 National Lumber Manufacturers' As- < soaiation. said he wantod to make it I clearly understood that, although ho f had refused to accept the schedule of ( steel prices, after conferences of the ' federal industrial hoard and repre- i rentativea of the steel industry, the t railroad administration was going * ahead making Its necessary purchases < in every line of industry. [ I "i r _ ' v LL Tl 24, 1919 REAR ADMIRAL PLUNKETT f^Sy^ilB1 | *>J E^wiun Nm|ia^TjJi^a>BflMB|M4^J| * H. IMES * :? SUMMARY GIVEN OF PBESENTJUTLOQK PRESIDENT MAY BE ABLE TO SAIL WITH SIGNED TREATY IN HIS POCKET. SMALL OPPOSITION TO TERMS Brigadier General Richardson Is at Archangel In Command of American Fores hi That Region. With Darid Lloyd George, British prime minister, again in his seat after Iris visit to London, where he defended his action at the peace conference before the house of commons, the council of four renewed its hearing of the claims of the Italians to the important Adriatic seaport of Flume and slso had under discussion the question jf ftbe Polish claims to Dianziz on the Baltic. The council met at the "white bouse." the residence in Paris of President Wilson. The opinion prevails in Paris that with the Italian demands now the remaining obstacle to a full agreeemnt, the vaituation is such that President Wilson will be able to sail homeward in mid-May with a signed copy of the peace treaty tor submission to Congress, which in some quarters in Paris It is believed will be called in extra session not later than June 1. Little opposition to the peace terms is expected from the Germans, according to the latest reports in circulation in Paris as they are declared to be nnxious for a return to peace conditions at the earliest moment possible, it is asserted that there is to be no German text of the treaty?-the document to be issued only in the French And English languages. Although a general strike has been proclaimed in Bremen and the assertion has been mnde that it has been impossible to unload foodstuffs, taken there on an American steamship, a German wireless communication asserts that the unloading of the vessel is assured. Employees of department stores and 'specialty shops in Berlin have joined the bank employes' strike. In Bavaria the situation still remains acute, but few details are available. In Vienna there also has been disturbances. The bolsheviki attempted to storm the parliament building but were defeated. Brigadier General Richardson has arrived on an ice-brenker at Archangel to take command of the American forces fighting in that region. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE VICTORY LOAN QUOTA Richmond. Va.?Apportionment of Victory loan in the fifth reserve district was announced officially as follows: Maryland. >58.653.000; District of Columbia. >20.307.000; Virginia. >51.366.000; West Virginia. >23.625.000; North Carolina. >31,101,000; South Carolina 124 9X8 rtnn Allotments by cities include: Washington, $20 307.000; Richmond. I15.563.6fi0; Roanoke. $2,101,000; Alexandria. $554 800; Norfolk. $7,535,100; Rnleigh, $1,733,000; Charlotte. $2,658.400; Columbin. $3,494,800; Charleston, S. C.. $4,891,400. FIVE CENTS A MILE ONLY TO MUSTERING-IN POINT Washington.?Travel allowances of five cents a mile to discharged soldiers authorized by a recently enacted law ran be paid only to cover expenses from the point where the soldier was discharged to the place where he was originally mustered into the service Comptroller of the Treasury VV. W. Warwick transmitted a ruling to this street to the war department. If the soldiers home is a greater distance from the demobilization camp than the place from which be antered the service, the comptroller ruled, it will be necessary for him to present a claim to the war department for the difference between the amount actually spent by him in reaching his home and that paid to him upon his discharge. DRUG STORE GOODS ARE TO ADVANCE IN PRICE Washington.?Products of the drug gist's shelf will go up in price one sent on each 25 cents of cost May 1 *s a result of the imposition on thai lav of the new war tax. The internil I --? 1 1 - J > icfruun umrau lutinr IKIIUIiaPU that this levy will be made by the ise of revenue stamps. A like tax is imposed on proprietary medicines "as to which the manufacturer or producer claims to have any private formula. LAWRENCE STRIKERS DENY BOLSHEVIST CONNECTION Boston.?Representatives of the Lawrence textile strikers who appeared before the state board of concilia tion and arbitration which is investigating the trouble at the reouest of Jovernor Ooolidge denied that the itrike was a part of a bolshovist move nent or was due to any other cause han the desire of the operatives to ?arn a living wage. Speakers estimat >d that 15.000 workers were still otr n Lawrence. .S $1.26 Per Year. MORE TROUBLE IN PEACE CONFERENCE KSPI RATIONS OF ITALY SEEM IM SURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLE TO FURTHER PROGRE8S. OELAY MAY BE OF BENEFIT Marshall Foch Reports That German] is to send to Versailles Six Fully Accredited Representatives. Paris.?The oapirntions of Italy aa regards the Adriatic sea coast still appear to he the insurmountable ques nvn oeiore me council or Tour at the Paris peace conference. Disrussiou of the Italian claims wal followed by two additional confer* ences, but as yet there apparently has been no breach in the deadlock over the demands which the Italians consider irreducible and the compromise offer of the other participants in the negotiations ? Premier Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and President Wilson. A delay of three days is in prospect for the mooting at Versailles between the representatives of the allied and associated powers and the German delegates for the delivery to the Ger mans of the allied peace torms. Tho German delegation. Marshal Foch haa been informed, cannot reach Versailles until April 28. Originally they were Invited to be there April 25. The three days' delay nossiblv mnv be of benefit to the allies in completing the draft of the lengthy document. whtich is said to approximate 100,000 -words. Some doubt has been expressed Uiat the allies would be able to give the Germans more than a summary of their peace conditions at the first meeting at Versailles owing to the length of the document. Talk of Oho German government sending merely "messengers" to Vorsialles to receive the peace treaty is discounted hv official information received by Marshal Foch that the Gorman delegation will consist of six high personages, headed by Count von Brockdorff Rantzau, the foreign minister. FOCH READY TO ACT IF HUNS REFUSE TO SIGN THE TREATY Paris.?The fact that Marshal Foch and the allied commanders have agreed upon the military and naval steps which will be taken in the event the Germane refuse to sign the treaty has made a good impression upon the country and the tendencies which ar" becoming daily manifest In favor of Arm alliance, at any rate, until the peace terms have been executed, are greeted with great satisfaction. The position of America in a matter of this sort Is specially delicate, but there seeme to be some ground for thinking President Wilson will not be unfavorable to some form of alliance until the league of nations Is got in working order. Rightly or wrongly, the impression has been encouraged that only the financial clauses of the peace treaty are open to discussion by the Germans and that this discussion wou'd be limited. The Germans, it was believed, would be heard as to the best means of enabling them to carry out the financial obligations placed upon them by the treaty. It is clear from the German attitude that the enemy counts still upon inter-allied dissension. MORE THAN TWO MILLION ARE WORKING IN VICTORY DRIVE. Washington. ? Uncounted millions of subscriptions to Victory Liberty notes poured into banks and soliciting committees throughout the United States, but no official reports had reached national headquarters here to give any comprehensive idea of the harvest on the opening day of the three weeks' campaign. Subscriptions probably will not be shown fully in reports to the trenam-t/ until l??.~ ! the week. More than 2,000,000 volunteer*! were at work in the hie concerted movement to '"finish the job". SOVIET TROOPS HAVEN'T OCCUPIED SEBASTOL Paris.?The naval port of Sobastopol. In the Chimea, has not been occupied by Russian sovet troops, according to a dispatch to The Journal Dea Debats dated Sunday at Salonik. The dispatch says that fighting appeals to have stopped for the time heing in the southern Crimea. The bolsheviki are said to be slackening their advance in the face of allied artillery fire. DETROIT FIRST LARGE CITY TO OVERSUBSCRIBE QUOTA Detroit, Mich.?Detroit raised her Victory banner over the citv ball. claiming the honor of being the first large city in the country to over-subscribe its quota in the Victory liberty loan. The city has not "finished the lob" yet. for the drive continues and loan workers predict the total subscription will near the $100,000,000 nark. Today's subscriptions exceed'd $60,000,000. The city's quota was