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WILSON SPEAKS ON THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, 8 0. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE jX* EPITOME OP REASONS FOR THE PRESENT EXORBITANT PRICE OF NECESSITIES OF LIFE. ONE REMEDY IS RUM Energetic Enforcement of the Law It Recommended to Force Out Hiding Vaet Storee of Alt Kindt. Washington.—President Wilson laid aereral specific proposals before^Con gress for checking the high cost of living, but at the same time declared permanent results could not be ex pected until peace time bases were fully restored by ratification of the peace treaty. High prices, the President told Con gress, were not Justified by shortage of supply, either present of prospec tive. but were created in many cases ^artificially and deliberately" by **Yl- cloua practices " Retailers, he said, were responsible in large part for ex tortionate prices Strikes the President warned the labor world, would only make mvt«rs worse and thoee who sought to em ploy threats or coercion were only “preparing their owa destruction " Lender* of organised labor Ibe Freer deal eeid he was aura would present ly yield to eecoed sober tbowffc* "Illegal ‘ sad 'criminal" were the word* the President need In rheme Sensing the methods by wblrb tome WILLIAM 1. GRAHAM SUP DECKS DROUTHS AND PESTS IN MUCH OF THE GREAT PRODUCING AREAS CAUSED DECLINE. 's' ■ ■ ' WHEAT LOSS IS THEMENDOUS mnzES dices mice cisnc IC DECIDE DIRECTOR GENERAL IS GIVEN FREE HAND IN MATTER OF STRIKING SHOPMEN. SUPREME CHIEF JUSTICE t OF COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAIRMAN CONFERENCE. OBSmE IS SELF CRERTEO KEYS to P05IIIVE SOLUTION Cropa of 'Com, Oata, Barley and Po tatoes Also Show an Appreciable Loss in Almost Every Section. Chief Justice White of tho United States Supreme court has been sug gested as the American representative on.the court which will try the former kalaar In London. lUS NOT t SUPER MEMORY “Ask the President" la Reply When Pressed for Details on Shantung and League of Nations. Washington—Secretary Lenalng. be fore the ten ale foreign reintkma com mittee. expreeeed the opinion that tho than tang provision of the pence treaty did not eg ear* with President Wtl- • ennnrtnted principle of self So bol me in mined that the Washington. — With living costs soaring, the nation’s principal food crops showed sharp decreases during July, resulting from drouths and pests over much of the growing area. Wheat production fell off 221,000,- 000 bushels during the month, accord ing to the forecast of the department of agriculture; corn showed a reduc tion of 27 000,000 bushels; oats 137,- 000,000 bushels; barley 27,000.000 bushels and white potatoes 34,000.000 bushels. Rice alone of all the crops •bowed an Increase. Total production of wheat was fore cast at f40.000.000 bushels, but this | was an Increase of 22.000.000 bushels ! over the forecast last December 1 and I Uf.COO.OOO bushels over the five year average from IflS to Ifll. Winter when! showed tho greatest loos with 124.000.000 bushels, with spring when! prod net km showing n decline of 07.* ooo bushels Representative Graham Is chairman of the house committee investigating war department expenditures. PROFITEERS TO BE PUNISHER Government's Guarantee on Price of Wheat to Be Maintained as Guard Against Higher Price Later. PLUMB CALMLY TALKS OF A REVOLUTION A0 ALTBRNATIVB day price# have , r—— | tr^ty jg a laws be eeM. would be on ! # ®®53!P r Tl . 14 Washington —These decisions were reached by the government agencies working to reduce the coat of living and allay the country's anrest: President Wilson decided to ad dress n message to Congress recom mending additional legislation to aid la ruder tag the coot of 'll v lag Ageata of the departmeat of Jealtce were ordered to ferret set all board ere ef aereeaanse and prod leers threngbont the conn try they are to be proeereiod under tbe feed control net Until the Men Recognize Authority of Their . Leader# by Returning to Work No Action le Possible. American People Are Asked to Weigh Carefully and Without Prejudica All Phases of Plumb Plan. Washington.—President Wilson has notified Director General Hines that he was authorized to take up the de mands of railroad shop employees for higher wages and decide them on their merits. The President said that the letter sent him by Senator Cummins, chair man of the committee on interstate commerce, "had set me free to deal n I think best with the difficult ques tion of wages of certain classes of the railroad employes." but added: "The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men them aelves. "They have gone out oo strike and repudiated the authority of their offl cere at the very moment when they were urging action la regard to their latereota '* The President • decision was an nounced from tbe wblte bouse In the form ef a totter seat by bun to Mg. Htnen The Pres (dent sold that "an id the emptoyeee return to worh sad •gala recognise the authority of thesr Washington.—A national conference to consider all plans submitted to Congress for solution of the railroad problem will be held here October 6. under auspices of the Plumb organiza tion bureau. In making public announcement of the meeting. Chief Justice Walter Clark, of the North Carolina supreme court, and chairman of the Plumb plan preliminary conference, said special- committees would be appointed to an alyze the different proposals. The American people were urged by Judge Clark to consider all the propo sal# "without prejudice and without putt ion, and to examine thoee which have been outlined ia the light of the principles which we have enunciated Declaring that efficiency and scon- f omy In transportation are the keys to I the solution of the problem ef tbe btgb coot of living. Judge Cleft added tbat any plan for eotutkm ef tbe re- r> **<t j problem “mutt moot the toot tb*t it will provide tfnneportotkm at actnol tend? amglsjed le the out feed beards sad n ae fur •• puoeiNe bo t the eeM fens etetesee iR hm • •- treaty ly of Me hart plan fur rsflrunda taming fr mnaoo •a Ml Osnsafi the heaso inter Glees E the raBmed broth r of irguuieet le ff Mm grain corpora t km derided In mem bo 01 n stand el *tt tain the government s gonrnntao ea | wheal at 12 it a bnahet no a 'ro serve pmneeusa affutaef n higher price Many * ANNUAL COST OF ARMY AB RROPOBtO IB m r re eery ., ^ M ken ef tho tood control ##* a# md tho aggRRRMn iff no egotuoi hourdmg *o foot end echo# aoveo»t;ioo *d • to I # ad anti ’ « t# PtBR OWN gag ARO LtBBff 9ff W _ B . BARNCRBO gavngMg FROFlTB dcpenmuai meet*mm eager re*wod i aalimnaea n et*admg poaro nrnay *t * _ . 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Earti ret idee t log v( the pnact. tgtnly no ibst lbs free prT»os*oe of euppii and dvmsnd * css opvrsU Immsttete htrpe Pco^.est Itnmsd.st* ctrpc by visruttve r.gvn CISC of the goveramrnl pmm erd by the Precldrot lacludrd: The limiting end contro’',ur of wheat shipments and rreditr to facili tate the purchase of wheal In su.’rb s way as not to raise, but rather to lower the price of flour at home Sale of surplus stocks of ''kxI and clothing In the hands of the govern ment. The forced withdrawal from rtorape and sale of surplua stocks in private hands. General Recommendations. General recommendations included: Increase of production. * Careful buying by housewives. Fail dealing with the people on the part of producers, middlemen and merchants... That there be no threats and undue Insistence upon the interests of a sin gle class. Correction of "many things" in the relation between capital and labor in respect to wages and conditions of la bor. 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FOOD CORPORATION BUYS “FLOCK" OF COMPANIES. Great Britain, and the Tree company, oLGreat Britain. VALUABLE EVIDENCE FOUND 1 AGAINST SUGAR PROFITEERS 72 articles offered,for public sale. SOLUTION'OF THRACIAN PROBLEM IS REACHED. Pittsbwrg—Valuable evidence has been found of alleged profiteering, Special Agent Edgar K. Speer, of the. department of Justice said, following the arrest today of three officials of the Central Sugar Company's branch office here for alleged sugar profiteer ing The men are charged with conspi racy to violate Section 4 of the food j act of Congress jrhich holds It unlaw ful to charge unreasonable prices for the necessaries of life THE SENATE HAS ANOTHER DAY OF BITTER DISPUTES. ness. British Commercial At taebo j Adams has Just com* oat and le sup porting tbe reprvsvnUtlvos of British firms by his first hand knowledge of the country. __ Thus with conditions which favor Washington.—The league of nations the Introduction of British merchan- snd the Shantung settlement both dise. a broad vista of activity opens came In for more bitter criticism in the senate’s consideration of the treaty with Germany. At a public hearing of the foreign relations committee. Issues of the league controversy started a dispute which bordered on an uproar, and in the senate chamber an attack on the Shangtung provisioft by Senator Wat son, republican. Indiana, developed a series of sharp exchanges. The committee’s clash over the league grew out of the examination of Norman Davis, a financial adviser to the Versailles ptace conference. WILD FLURRY IN CORN ON CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Paris.—The peace conference reach ed a solution of the Thracian problem according to The Ifitransigeant, by dividing Thrace, some going to (Jreece and others being designated to form the future free state state of Constan- j tinople and a new free state under the league of nations. Thu solution arrived at. according to The Intransigeant, provides for divid ing Thrace into eastern and weetern Thrace. Chicago—Efforts to anticipate the results of- any quick switch in th© out before us. Large deals have been transacted Just lately. UNITED STATES SENDS ULTIMATUM TO RUMANIA. London.—A dispatch from Vienna by way of Copenhagen to the Ex change Telegraph company says that the United States has sent an ultima tum to Rumania demanding with drawal of the severe armistice terms presented to Hungary, on pain of a cessation of the shipment of food to Rumania. HOOVER STOPS ALL FOOD EN ROUTE TO BUDAPEST. Paris.—Herbert Hoover, head of the interallied relief commission, has eovernment policy for disposal of the stopped all relief supplies ou th«flr way- g . # . , ; t0 Budapest, taking the position that 1919 domestic crop of w ea ^ would be unwarranted in letting the bottom out of values on the board : BU pp|j e8 reach Hungary while the Ru- of trade Downward plunges in the manians are now depriving the peo- prices of corn the chief trading com- pi e of foodstuffs, raodlty, did not stop until the market Members of the American peace a as 32 cenU a bushel lower than delegation said that there are • no when the campaign against the high American troops now in Budapest, and NEGROES DRIVEN FROM STRIKING CHICAGO SHOPMEN LINCOLN. NIB, BY WHITIB. RETURNING TO THEIR JOBS. cost of living began a week ago. DENIAL MADE THAT ARMOUR IB USING UNFAIR METHODS Waahiagtoa —F K White vtco B Co. fare a that none will be sent there. COTTON MARKET BREAKS $7 A BALE AT NEW YORK. Now Tort | evil tag is the sad STEPS TAKEN TO CONFISCATE SUGAR UNLAWFULLY MQAftDED. Mobile. Alt—General William F Mirkle. chief of stiff. United Confed erate veterans, has announced that the next Confederate reunion will be held In Atlanta. October 7. 2. 9 and 10. Tbe annual meeting of the Confeder ate Southern Memorial associations and the Sons of Confederate veterans will be held In Atlanta on the same dates. General Mickle announced. EVACUATION BY RUMANIAN ARMY BODES NO REAL GOOD. Berlin.—The retirement from Buda pest of the Rumanian army, owing to pressure from the entente, is proba ble, but it will be a sullen withdrawal, boding no good for the future, accord ing to dispatches from the Hungarian capital. Richmond, Va.—United States Dis trict Attorney Hiram Smith received instructions from Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to take immediate steps for confiscation of all foodstuffs found to have been unlawfully hoard ed.. Advices have reached Attorney Smith that large quantities of sugar ore being hoarded here and active search has begun. Two department of Jqatice men were placed on tho case. SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH . ON A "SCENIC RAILWAY' % ' m • trv m a