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iAi & '“filial • Ti'I ‘it wa>iriWfw , THTrr •» • .* TTm* -V f THX PBOPLZ, BARMWZLL, 8. 0. NOTES jmmmmmmrnmd WHAT HAS OCCURRED OURINO WKKK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD » f yw EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE |Bath*r«d Rrem All Parts Of Ths Olobs And Told In Bhort Pangraph* "Domestic Secretary of War Baker opines that must give cities greater latitude dealing with local individual prob- L Jac k Coombs may manage the Phil lies neat year. •, "Ty cpbb, on his return from France f says that, while baseball still has a, fascination for him, he may tiave quit the game for good. The Atlanta city council has order ed a probe of the gas prices in that oiiy. > „ Charles D. Harris, probably the youngest captain in the United States Armjr, was killed in action. He was a nephyr of Senator-Elect William J. of Georgia. The jitney bus ordinance of the city of Atlanta has been repealed. The ordinance has been fought ttuough •11 the state courts and is now in the TTnited States Supreme court. The old ordinance made the jitney bus a common carrier, and subject to the restrictions of a common carrier. At lanta has now removed all restrictions. Atlanta has a new sensation or spec tacular event every day. Now it Is • strike of the gas men. The men want better hours and better pay. The •ompany declines to grant the re quest, and says it is training men t<y take the strikers' jobs. December 17 was a busy day in Jlenver, Colo. Bone dryness went into affect that-day, and there were thou sands of thirty souls who wanted to supply themselves for the days to come. Express officials worked to jthe "dropping" point. President Wilson has been present- ad a gold medal of the city of Paris, in™. Wilson was presented a diamond jbrooch, adorned with an enamel dove, i President Wilson is now a citlsen of Rome and Paris, as well as execu tive and citizen of the United States, i The Presbyterian church is taking )fhe lead in the movement for the pur pose of unifying a program for the pro jected united action of the churches •In a war reconstruction campaign. Four congresses will be held—one in Atlanta, one Philadelphia, one In Chi cago and one In Toronto, Canada. Thirty-six governors held a confer enoe in Annapolis, Md. Secretary of War Baker told them that the war proven the necessity of strong •tate governments in peace as well as In war. r. .European It la persistently stated that the Rus sian Bolahevlki is endeavoring to en list an army of three million men to put down conservatism. It is reported that food la so scarce In Russia that horse flesh sells for It rubles (|6) a pound, and black bread for 12 rubles ($6) a loaf, when It can be obtained at all. The Bolshevik! is a "progressive” berd, to say the least. They are hold ing former imperialists as hostages to ' be shot in case any member of the Bolshevik! government is assassinat ed. Recently when one of the Bol shevik! ministers was slain, the gov ernment proceeded to wreak ven geance on 512 hostages. The British steamship Corinthian, which stuck on Northwest ledge at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, a few hours after she left that port for Glas gow, with a valuable cargo, was re ported to be pounding to pieces in a heavy sea, but that the crew was saved to a man. Hugo Haase and Herr Barth, two of the three Independent Socialist mem bers of the committee of six which constituted the German government, have resigned, according to reports re ceived in Geneva. The council of people’s commission ers of Germany, according to a Berlin telegram, has authorized the forma tion of a volunteer national guard to maintain public ortfer and safety. The organization is to be under the com plete control of the commissioners and Will be pledged to support the Social ist Democratic republic. President Wilson df the United States spent his first Sunday in Paris by going twice to church, laying a <- wreath on the tomb of l^afayette, and having a brief conference with Pre mier Clemenceau and another with Col. E. M. House. The supreme military tribunal at Vienna announces that 11,400 persons were sentenced to deith by the Aus trian military tribunals during the war and executed. It Is stated that Germany is spend ing too much money on irrelevant de tails of state administration. The British government has decided tpon the attitude it will adopt at the peace conference regarding the free dom of the sests. It is stated that the British government is ready to con cede to the United ptates the freest of all free hands in naval develop- gsent, and it welcomes the idea of the extension of American sea power as of the best guarantees of the peace world and of seal freedom of the Italy, with • population of only 26.- MO.MM uB wit* MM,MM mea called approximately to fee war. During the war HUlve spies wert •hot In the flower of London. Among the condemned were two women, but they were reprieved and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Copenhagen hears that the intente governments Intend td refuse to send foodstuffs tp Germany until a demand they are said to have made for the dissolution of the soldiers’,and work men’s council is carried out. The allies may reserve the right to march into Germany. With the arrival of the Americans at the Rhine, a company of engineers prepared to throw a temporary bridge across the stream. There were, how ever, already four fridges spanning the stream, two here and one in the north and another to the south, over which the American army was ordered to corss December 13 in a thirty-mile arc. ^ A voice Interrupted the British pre mier when ge was speaking in Bristol the other day anent the stiperfortty of the British navy: "Then watch Wil son!!* "Well, I hope to meet him ln~m fortnight. I will tell him what you say,” instantly shouted the premier. The German finance minister says that if the war had ended in the fall the amount of money required from im perial taxation would have reached fourteen billion marks. These calcu lations have been upset by recen{ events. . ' David Lloyd-George says that Great Britain’s navy must remain supreme, no matter what the action of the peace conference. - - X HE fUlS... SUM MM PRESIDENT SATISFIED THAT THE FRENCH AND BRITISH ARE . IN ACCORD WITH HIM. ^» > i AMERICAN^ PEACE DELEGATES WILl/RESIST ANY PROJECT FOR DISTRIBUTION m ms ISHTPHM SETTLEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN QUESTION ONE OF FIRST TQ 'BE ARRANGED. V i»KIN6 PEICrra FIRST IAS* EIMD ' MflEES T0 PLMI GOVERNMENT BADLY SPLIT UP Neutral Nations Will No^Come Into General Diacuasione NW Going on Among Peace/ Delegates. Entente Nations Have Not Yet Lost Hope That Stable Regime May Be Established. .—Deft Elite plans for the peaoe free wre no Washington Signs point to the conclusion that the present pope will refuse, ere long, to consider himself a "prisoner of Rome." Some foreign papers say he, may attend the peace conference. President Wilson will take Christ mas dinner with the American troops in France. He will make a speech, which, it is declared, will deal krith international questions, and will place the United States' position clearly be fore the world. Church unity may not be so far away as it may seem. - It Js hinted that the pope may request President Wilson Peris.- conferefres are not shaping as rapidly as some of the American commission ers expected. „ Meanwhile President Wilson is taking advantage of oppor tunity to assess public opinion in France and incidentally in Great Brit ain. His advisers say that he is en tirety satsifled that these peoples are largely in accord with the principles he has announced as necessary to dur able peace. ^ The members of the American mis sion are employing their time before countries actually assemble, in a se ries of informal conferences, which eventually will ^include a representa tive of each of the entente belliger ents. Neutral states will not come into these discussions. The feeling among all the entente conferees is that the making of ppace should be their first task, so that they may determine upon the broad outlines of a league of nations, which, later, representatives of neu tral countries will assist in com pleting. While the American commission ers are holding, these informal ex changes. which are designated to clear up divergencies of opinion, the presi Great Idea In the Proposition It the Avoidance of Dlssenaion Among the Several Nations. Paris.—The American delegates to the peace congress have resolved' tp advocate the sinkingjof tihe surrender ed enemy warships and resist any proposition to distribute them on the basis of naval losses. This announce ment is made by those in close touch with the American representatives, who, it is added, feel that such a po sition would result in avoiding dissen- _ sion and materially support President be adopted by the victorious associ- Wilson’s declaration, that the war was ated nations is recognized as one of not based on aggression or the acquisi- the most serious problems of the con- tion of property. • I Terence. Every proposed solution so England .through Sir Eric TTSfides, hav ® been blocked by first lord of the admiralty, had pre- the unanswered question of who is viously acquiesced in the American qualified to speak for the Russian plan to destroy the captured or sur rendered warships, and it is declared will continue to support the United States, ** SENATOR OVERMAN FIGHTS ! r CHILD LABOR AMENDMENTS , Washington.—Senator Overman at tacked t^ child labor amendment'to the revemie bill in the senate. .He em phasized the argument that the amend ment is not to raise revenue, but to use to act an mediator between the f dffnt C on«tantly Hiving the cloaeat nal and the Vatican. The pope as head of the Roman Christians represents the taxing power "to nullify an opinion of the supreme court in which it states that the act (the Child Labor attention to Immediate problems. He j aw j was unconstitutional." nOKYIME WT EUSIIT RECOSNIZft Applicants for Insursncc Often Rejected An examining physician for one ol the prominent life insurance companies, m a interview of the subject, made tonishing statement that one reasoil W2y so many applicants for insurance arere- jected u b«cau« kiduy trouble is com- mon to the American people, and the large majority of those whose a PP 1 ‘ c ^ 10 . n8 ,^ declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. Judging from reports from druggists who are constantly in direct touch vntb the public, there is one preparation that has been very successful in’ overcoming these conditions. The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarkable, record of success. We find that Swamp-Root is an herbal compound and we would •<*• , wse our readers who feel in need of such a remedy to give it a trial. It is on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. - However, if you ‘ wish first to test thie great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a •ample bottle When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Adv. . After the Raid. ‘The Parisians extracted fun^ even out of the German got hi/ raids,” said senator In a Washington interview. "Two young Frenchmen met In the Tuileries gardens the morning after a raid. “'Any damage down your way?’ tfre- first asked. "‘Damage? Rather!* the second an swered. ‘Father and mother were blown clean out of the window’. The the great. question of how they can I neighbors say It’s the first time they’ve be # aided In setting up a stable govern- , been seen to leave the house together t ment and in preventing famine, for In seventeen years.’** j the benefit of Russia herself, and in the interest of the peace of the world. ' Cutlcura for Sore Hand* The government at Omsk, of which Soak hands on retiring in'the hot suda the United States and other govern- j °t Cutlcura Soap, dry and rub in Cu tlcura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with soft tissue paper. For free samples address. “Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. Washington.—The Russian situation already has been taken up by Presi dent Wilson with French statesmen. It was learned here, and the deterr minatkm of a, definite policy on which all the allied countries and the United States may agree will be one of the first things undertaken at the prelim inary meetings which are to precede the peace conference. Russia’s plight and the attitudfe to people. Even when a set of leaders is rec ognized as Russian spokesmen, the United States and the allies must face ments has expected much, is now in the hands of a dictator and split into ; factions. The entente nations have not given up hope that the Omsk au thorities may yet evolve a stable form of government for Russia. the theocratic idea of government in church; while President Wilson, who is a rigid Presbyterian, whose Prot estant orthodoxy cannot be question ed, represents the democratic idea of church government. We may be liv ing in more wonderful times than we appreciate. It is perfectly apparent that if Wilson should be successful In umpiring a dispute as long standing as that between the qulrinal and the Vatican that r theologians could dis pense with some of their hobbles and get closer together. In a report to the war department General Pershing reports the unre ported casualties as follows: Killed in action. 390; died of wounds, 275; .died of disease. 353; accidentally killed, 51; severely wounded in action, 39,731. To tal 40,440 unreported. Dr. Sldonlo Paes, president of Por tugal, was shot and killed by an as sassin shortly before midnight Decem ber 15. while he in a railway station at Lisbon waiting for a train to Opor to. Advices from Lisbon reporting the assassination say that be was struck by three bullets, and died within a few minutes after he was shot.- According to a Havas dispatch the assassin was lynched by the crowd. The assassinated president of Portu gal, Doctor Paes, was a professor of mathematics in the University of Coin- bra when he entered the Portuguese cabinet in 1911 as minister of public work. . At the outbreak of the war he was Portuguese minister to Ber lin and remained In Berlin until early In 1916, when he returned to Lisbon. One of his first acts after being prd- claimed president was to take active steps for great participation in the war by Portugal. In a clash on November 28 between the army navy guard o! the American steamship Monterey and Mexican cus toms guards at Tampico, one Mexican, said to have been captured, was killed; a Mexican soldier mortally w’ounded, and a chief gunner’s mate, named Ber ry, in charge of the American guard, less seriously hurt. This was learned with the steamer’s arrival in New York from Havana and Nassau, where she touched after leaving Tampico. Is receiving reports from the United States, from Amercain diplomatic agencies throughout the world and from the group of investigators brought here for the purpose of study- i ing the many special problems which | will arrive.. Theae. investigators are continuing their studies with the ad 1 vantage now of being on the ground. •4442 CASUALTIES ARE YET TO BE PUBLISHED Washington. — Casualties of the ! American expeditionary forces, which have not been published, but which have been announced officially by General Pershing, had been reduced at noon, December 18. to a total of 64,892. These, the war department announced, were claeifled as follows: Major casualties. Including killed > in action, died of wounds, died of dis ease and died of other causes, 1.680; wounded. 64.862; missing and prison ers. 350. A large proportion of the 64.842 , | names listed as wounded are minor cases. It was said, many patients hav ing long since recovered and return ed to duty. Officials explained that the total Is really less, due to the fact that General Pershing’e total in cluded marine casualties of 1.202 kill ed and more than 4,000 wounded, which already have been published by the marine headquarters here. GLASS MAKES REQUEST OF CHARITABLE AGENCIES ADMIRAL CASTRO IS NEW* PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL As a Pledge. ‘rilmt messenger boy came back In a hurry.” "I held his dime novel." Washington—Secretary of Treasury Glass in a statement requested chari table organizations seeking funds by public subscription to refrain from York.—Santos Fernandez, rep resentative of the Portuguese ship ping board here, declared that the new president of Portugal, Admiral Canto E. Castro, undoubtedly had been chosen by parliament "to conciliate all factions.” Lacking complete in making any suggestion to the public _ _ th * t W . l ^‘!^^h i . bert .L b0 ?-. 8 -°, r I he uld — 1 11 fllJT was now provincial head of the re- war savings stamps unless they intend to use those securivles as endowment funds to be held for permanent in vestment. Mr. Glass said that in appealing for Liberty bonds and war savings stamps the organisations seemed to overlok the fact that so long as the government must .tell additional se curities the taking of bonds of pre vious Issues by cl aritable organisa tions and the subsequent resale of such bonds on the open market has a tendency to depress the price. public and subject to a future popular election. \ PROMPT ACTION ON REVENUE BILL URGED BY PENROSE GERMANY WILL NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO EXPAND ON London.-*-"Gerinany. ia mined for generations politically, industrpilly and economically." Dr. Walter R^thenau, president of the German Electric Co., ia quoted as declaring to the Berlin correspondent of The Daily Express. "It is the greatest calamity that has happened to any country in two thous and years.” added Dr. Rathenau, who is one of the largest employers of la bor in Germany. "If the Indemntiies are high we 'shall have nothing wdth which to expand our industries and there will be a great tide Of emigra The "United States stands ready to . tion, probably to South America, the tender alone, or in conjunction with other countries of their, hemisphere, all possible assistance” to bring about an equitable solution of the difficul ties presented in the Chile-Peru sit uation, says Acting Secretary of State Polk. All South ^American countries have been asked by the United States to join in the suggestion to Chile and Peiu that the interests of pan-Anief- lean unity demaad an amicable settle ment of their (coh^roversy oyer the provinces of Tacna and Arica. Acting Secretary Polk of the state depart ment announced this, explaining that it had been erroneously reported that Argentine alone had been approached on the subject. Cablegrams announce that President Wilson reached the harbor of Brest on board the steamer George Washington and stepped on shore—the first time an American executive had ever trod den European soil. The arrival was the culmination of an imposing naval spectacle which began as the presi dential fleet rounded the outer capes, then passed >the entrance forts and moved majestically into the harbor, whew the George Washington anchor ed at the bead of a long double column of American dreadnaoghts and de stroyers and the units of a French era!- far east and certainly to Russia. The • result will be the Balkanization of Europe." SENATOR SIMMONS RECEIVES COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES Washington.—Washington Star car ries a highly complimentary editorial for the work of Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate finance com mittee, and his work on the revenue bill.| The Star says, in part: . !"Mr. Simmons is probably feeling good, and certadnly 'is entitled to such, a feeling. Steering two revenue meas ures through the senate in one con? greas is a notable performance. ’ OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE Parix: —, During President Wilson’s Inspection (tofhe American peace mik- •ion headquffiers in the Hotel De Crtf Ion, an official photograph was made of the president and the other dele gates by army photogrgphers. The photograph was taken in the confer- ereace room of the American head quarters. ' President Wilson continues to re ceive exhaustive reports of what it go ing on in Washington. LANE EXPOUNDS MEANING OF —* PRESIDENT S VISIT ABROAD Annapolis.—Comnenting on Presi dent Wilson’s trip Secretary Lane •aid: "I have seen criticisms of the president, and so have you. for going across the water at this time. The spirit which animates him in going is the spirit of the new day. It ia the spirit of giving youh andto your neighbor. "It is the spirit that would make this war the end of wars. "The r man who stands* as the rep resentative of the. foremost democracy pf the world goes to Europe not that he may march down the Champs-Ely- see, not that he may receive the plaudtis of the French multitudes. But he goes to Europe as the champion of American ideals because he wants to see that out of this war comes some thing worth while. He would havs been derelict, he would havfc been neg ligent, he would have been false to his own conscience and false to our idea of him If he had not stood in Pa^is in person as the champion of that prin ciple which we love and those Institu tions which we hope to see spread around the world. Washington.—Rapid progress on the war revenue bill Was made by the senate with leaders apparently uniting to hasten its passage by late this week or at least before the holidays. After Senator Penrose, senior re publican of the finance committee, had delivered a prepared address urging prompt passage of the bill, but disapproving Its provisions to fix 1920 tax rates, the senate, with only a handful of members present and with perfunctory discussion, adopted many Important amendments and ap proved pages of minor provisions. Consideration of all 1920 rates, how ever, was postponed. The war excess profits rates for 1919, ranging from 30 to 80 per cent as revised by the finance committee and estimated to raise $2,400,000,000 as compared with $3,200,000,000 under the house bill. Rates of $6.40 ahd $2.20 a gallon, respectively, on distilled spirits for beverage and non-^everage purposes* as reduced from the respective $8 Many of our American women were en able to take up the duties of nursing si ths front, but they should know how to take cars of their own at home, and for this purpose no better book was ever printed than the Medical Advisor—a book containing 1,006 page*, and bound in cloth, with chapters on First Aid, Bandaging and cars of Fractures, Taking cars of ths Sick, Physiology, Hygiene, Sex Problems, Mother and Babe, which can be had at most drug stores, or tend 50 cents to ths publishers, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. The^.women at home, who are worn out, who sufTef from pain at regular or irregular intervals, who are nervous or dizzy at times, should take that reliable, temperance, her;*) tonic which a doctor in active practice prescribed many years ago. Now sold by druggists, in tablets and liq uid. as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Send 10c to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel^ Buffalo, N. Y., for trial package. Lindtidt, W. Va.—"Dunn* middle Ufa 1 be came very much rundown in health. I suffered and 14.40 gallon rates of the house bill and estimated to raise 454.000.- 000 as against $760,000,000 under the AMBASSADOR DAVIS PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS TO KING London.—John W. Davis, the hew American ambassador to Great Brit ain, presented his credentials to King George at Buckingham palace. Mr. Davis was accompanied to the palace by Naval Attache Louchlin and Mili tary Attache Wright. The ambassador and his staff drove to the palace In royal carriages sent fry King George. The ambassador was attended by Sir Arthur Walsh, master of ceremonies to the king.* POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL 18 PASSED BY HOUSE Washington.—The annual postoffice appropriation bill, carrying a total of $267420,000, was passed by the house wtth an amendment requiring the post* ■mrter general to use army aviators tor mall airplanes instead of organiz- «ag a separate flytig corps. Supporters of tka amendment pro- firing that airmail planet shall bo "op- mted tad mantained by. the - per Manl of too army air house draft ; Taxes on freight, passenger, ex press, Pullman and oil . pipe line transportation, as proposed in the finance committee’s revision and esti mated to yield $229,000,000; and, Repeal on July 1, next, of the law increasing first class mail rates from 2 to 3 cents an ounce, and providing for restoration of the old pre-war rates involving a revenue reduction of about $50,000,000. s / of medicine, but still I was sick. At last I de cided to try‘Favorite Prescription.’ In all I took six bottles and was greatly benefited, my stomach is well and my nerves are much better^.-J ad visa ‘ * to ©Y •very- woman suffering as I did ve Dr. ifferinc aa Pierce’s medidns a trial; it will do you good." » y<H _ —Mrs. Lena B. SKatir COMMONWEALTH OF JEWS IB PROPOSED Philadelphia.—The American Jew ish congress declared for a Jewish ’commonwealth in Palestine under the trusteeship of Great Britain, acting on behalf of such-teague of nations as may be formed. ' The declaration, in the form of a resolution, was adopted amid wild en thusiasm. The 400 delegates repre senting more than 3,000,000 members of their race in the United States, rose and sang the Hatikvoh. * CAMP BRAGG MAY BE DISCONTINUED Washington.—It looks as If the Fay etteville camp may be doomed.. The debate In the house, over the adver tisement for 12,000 workmen after the armistice was signed, has made the war department timid about Camp Bragg. 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