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CHARGE SINISTER MOTIVE
WILSON WARNS AGAINST THK
UNSCRUPULOUS.
Certain Agents Trying to Force War
Between United Slates and Mex*
ico.?Alarmist Reports.
Washington, March 25.?President
Wilson tonight issued warning
that "sinister and unscrupulous influences"
are spreading alarmist reports
about the Mexican situation
with the object of forcing inter'
% vention by the United States "in the
interest of certain American owners
& of Mexican properties."
In a formal statement the president
told the people to be on their
guard and not to credit such stories.
He called attention again to the goverment's
announcement that the sole
object of the punitive expedition
was to punish Villa and his followers.
The news services had been asked,
the president said, to assist in keeping
this view constantly before the
Mexican and American people. The
T warning was issued after the
consideration of many official reports
from throughout the United States
and Mexico saying that aHrmists'
stories of the intentions of the Washin
frtnn government were having an
undesirable effect upon the Mexican I
people and the American residents in
Mexico. j
The possibility that Gen. Carranza's
hand might be weakened to a perilous
extent should the Mexican pubI
lie misunderstand the American expedition
has been a prevailing factor
in the entire operations against Villa.
The president's statement follows:
"As has already been announced,
k the expedition into Mexico was ordered
under an agreement of Mexico
for the single purpose of taking the
bandit Villa, whose forces had acI
m tually invaded the territory of the
United States, and is in no sense
intended as an invasion of
HW that republic or as an inWB
fringement of its sovereignty. I
have therefore asked the several news I
PP services to be good enough to assist
the administration in keeping this
view of the expedition constantly before
both the people of this country
and the distressed and sensitive people
of Mexico, who are very susceptible
indeed to impressions received
from the American press not only but
also very ready to believe that "those
impressions proceed from the views
and objects of our government u-i
self. Such conclusions, it must bel
said, are not unnatural because the
main if not the only source of in-l
formation for the pepple on both
sides of the border is the public press
of the United States.
"In order to avoid the creation of
erroneous and dangerous impressions
in this way, I have called upon the
several news agents to use the ?utmost
care not to give news stories regarding
this expedition the color of
war, to withhold stories of troop
movements and military preparations
which might be given that interpre^
tation, and to refrain from publishjl
ing unverified rumors of unrest in
Mexico.
"I feel that it is most desirable to
* impress upon both our own people
and the people of Mexico the fact that
the expedition is simply a necessary
/ punitive measure, aimed solely at the
elimination of the marauders who
raided Columbus and who infest an
unprotected district near the border
whiVh thev use as a base in making |
attacks upon the lives of and property
of our citizens within our own territory.
It is the purpose of our commanders
to cooperate in every possible
way with the forces of Gen. Carranza
in removing this cause of irritation
to both governments and to retire
from Mexican territory as soon
as that object is accomplished.
"It is my duty to warn the people
of the United States that there are
persons all along the border who are
actively engaged in originating and
giving as wide currency as they can
to rumors of the most sensational
and disturbing sort which are wholly
unjustified by the facts. The object
of this traffic in falsehood is obvious.
It is to create intolerable friction between
the government of the United
States and the de facto government
of Mexico for the purpose of bringing
^ about intervention in the interest of
i
certain American owners of Mexican
properties. This object cannot be at'
ftained so long as sane and honorable
men are in control of this government,
but very serious conditions
may be created, unnecessary bloodshed
may result and the relations between
the two republics may be very
much embarrassed.
"The people of the United States j
should know the sinister and un-j
scrupulous influences that are afoot
j and should be on their guard against
V crediting any story coming from the
j border, and those who disseminate
the news should make it a matter of
t*o+ tic on/1 rkf r?nnsripnCPi to test
pau ivsnoixj. uuu v* . ?
the source and authenticity bf every
report they receive from that quarter.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON."
,
WAS BORN IN SLAVERY.
Aged Negro Woman Now Lays Claim
to 110 Years.
|
Born in slavery, the mother of
eight children who came into the
j world as slaves, the oldest of whom
is now eighty-seven, with apparently
almost complete possession of all her
| senses, is the unusual record of
I
I "Grandma" Hattie Hall, who claims
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119 years. She lives at 2120 Elmwood
avenue, in one of the shantiesdesignated
as a part of the Old
Women's home, and is probably the '
oldest colored woman in this State,
if not in the entire South.
When Sherman and his army in- 1
vaded Columbia and burned it, Hat- 1
tie Hall, then owned by Col. Turkett, *
of Blythewood plantation, ran with ]
| scores of other slaves for the shelter '
I of their cabins, thoroughly frighten- 1
ed by the sounds of the cannon and
the great columns of dense black '
smoke arising in the heavens. Her
eight children were then upon tiie !
plantation with her she says, for 1
Massa Turkett made it a rule never 1
to separate members of the different ^
families in the slave quarters. J
Born Many Years Ago.
Grandma Hall was born, according 1
to her best recollection, "yars and ]
yars befoh de wall" somewhere this 1
side of Georgetown on a big planta- 1
tion where there were hundreds of (
pIovqo Vmt hor minri is riot es- *
UlllCl oia> vo, uui, ??v? ?? ? ?
pecially clear on those earlier days
and though repeatedly questioned
concerning ante-bellum days responded
vaguely and with hesitation. j
The old woman lives, the object of ^
charity, bestowed upon her and oth- (
ers by Rev. Jaggers and his friends. ,
Some days she is almost helpless {
with rheumatism. Aches and pains ,
she calls them, but every hour in the ,
day she thanks the Good Lord for let- J
ting her live so long. "De Lawd hab (
sure bin good ter dis po ole critter," .
she declared, to a Record reporter.
She was converted and baptized
ten years before her freedom from
slavery, by the Rev. Durham, a white .
Baptist minister near Bly the wood. It .
was a joyous epoch in her long and
! interestng span of life. The woman .
is failing constantly. But every hour i
in the day she repeats: "The Lord is
my shepard, I shall not want. He
leadeth me beside the still waters
and into the green pastures. Good
Lord I thank thee."
There is something touching in
her simple earnest devotion to her
T .nrH on/1 Moofar Tn Uim cVi ^ m'-tr/io
U u*uu 1UUUV\/A JL V/ 1UU1 gatall
thanks because He has permitted
her to live beyond the three score
and ten years supposed to be the (
termination of the human span of
life. And yet it is way beyond the
law of averages. But Grandma keeps
right on enjoying her daily existence,
with now and then a tingfe of pain
that sends her to bed for a little
while. '
The Negro of Former Days. i
Martha Agerberger, her caretaker <
and also a former slave, is 71 and ;
Nancy Gant, another inmate of the
cabin, is nearly that, all three having
been born in slavery. Martha
delights in having Grandma brag ;
about her strength when a young
woman. "Yas sus," said she, "I done ,
split and cut mebbe two or free cord
wood jes lak de bestest man what ;
j ebber cum on de ole plantation. I
i never done tuk no lessons wid de
j axe. Nobody showed dis yeah nigger
nufiin, but Lorda Me white folks,
j how dis critter done sloughed dat
axe through de cord wood. Jes as
easy lak de sap runnin. Twant no
| frills dem days. Nuffin but hard ;
I work fo de wimmin jes same de big
bucks. No sir. Dey neber haf no
big bucks loafin roun de cabins dem
days. De men folks work heap sight
harder den de wimmin I spect. Look
I T rtnl* Q f HoV HA
CUI uun . JJUUr\ C1U, 11 Itui/ uv; UU)
huh? What dey do? Jes natchally
nuffin cept sleep. Dem days you nebber
see no no-account niggers. Eberbody
was happy all de tam, eberbody
kind ter dis yeah critter. Now dey
all gone. My chillen gone. Dey
leave me, de Lawd knowTs whar. En
dey doan care no how. I spects de
find me too much bodder. Well, I
say de Lord, He sure bin good ter
dis chile."
Then Marty, her caretaker, spoke i
up. "She am a care, but Lawd we
do jes de bes we kin fer her and days
when she rattles on we doan say nuffin
to her, but jess let her go on til
she git through."
The cold has been felt very severely
of late by this trio of ex-slaves in
the little cabin and if it had not been
for Rev. Jaggers they would have
frozen or starved. He brought them i
wood and things to eat, but they need
*
warm stockings and Grandma Hall
needs shoes, a pair of No. 7 that will
keep her ankles warm.
Descendants Plentiful.
Efforts to find out how many
grandchildren and great grandchildren
Grandma Hall boasted of proved
useless, her replies being mostly "By
de hundreds, chile, by de hundred."
When she speaks of those other days .
when masters were kind, good
clothes and nice things to eat were
plentiful, her eyes light up and she J.
UXDYKI) HATS THK LATEST.
Manufacturers Have Had to Create
Vogue Through Necessity.
Necessity is the mother and the
manufacturers the father of a new
style in hats.
Owing to the great shortage in
German dyes, several of the hat factories
are getting out samples of undyed
hats for spring wear. Several
of these hats are being worn about
the streets of Danbury by hatters and
are about as smart in appearance
as any headgear designed and produced
in the local factories in a long
time. The undyed hats have been
"* * T- - A T. rtm A A ff TT O _
made in DOIII um suu emu suu ??.
r^eties and they are trimmed with
neatly contrasting bands. Salesmen
Df local concerns have taken samples
of some of them on recent trips
md indications are that orders will
be plentiful.
Local manufacturers are interest3d
to see how the hats go on Broadway.
They will appear in New York
stores in a few days. If well-dressed
men along the best known street in
the big city tatye kindly to the undyed
bat, it is almost certain to become
popular everywhere. If the hat does
nnd popular favor, the worry of lo3al
manufacturers regarding their
inability to get dyes will be ended
for the present, and so far as the hatting
industry is concerned the war
?an continue indefinitely.?Danbury,
2onn., dispatch to New York Times.
Railroads and Public.
It is commonly said that the American
people manifest an altered spirit
L 3 TVll'o l'o trilO
toward me canicio. nno ig
enough, but it is equally true that
the carriers manifest an altered
spirit toward the American people,
says the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
William H. Vanderbilt profanely
stated that prevailing method
of his era in the familiar words,
"The public be damned." If demagogues
and their dupes too often put
the railways where Mr. Vanderbilt
put the public, they may plead, after
all, that imitation is the sincerest
flattery. But this sinister mood
seems to be passing on both sides.
Railway magnates understand that
they must win the public, and the
public # understands?if, indeed, it
ever doubted?that the country cannot
prosper if the railroads are unprosperous
and inefficient. Laws
and commissions, wise or unwise,
may make this truth plain.er, but the
truth itself is unassailable as a
theorem of Euclid. Rates must be
fair to both parties, but rates cannot
be fair to the public if operating
costs are excessive or revenue is lost
through rebates and preferentials.
, Our railway system, as a whole, is
undergoing a decisive test. The advocates
of government ownership
point to evils which will disappear
with clear-visioned and thrifty management.
But the graft must be
completely cut out, else government
ownership will inevitably come. The
average American perceives the perils
of government ownership, but is
resolved to have done with the
methods which explain certain overgrown
fortunes. Private ownership
cannot endure, except on the basis
of a real community of interest between
the roads and their patrons.
Such a community is the vainest of
dreams if a few patrons grow rich
while the masses stand in the cold?
along with the stockholders.
When Greek Mtet Greek.
Henry Ford has very rarely voted,
according to the Philadelphia Record,
and at dinner in his native Dearborn
he once' said:
"I have taken, perhaps, less interest
in politics than I should have
.Inno Rut nnlitins has alwavs seem
ed to me a confused and quarrelsome
business. When I think of politics
1 think of the political meeting anecdote:
"A candidate at a political meeting
was heckled by a fat man. This
heckling after awhile got on the
nerves of another member of the
audience, and he roared at the fat
man:
" 'Shut up, you ass!'
"At this a third member of the
audience snoutea:
" 'Ah, you shut up, too! The pair
of you are asses!'
"The candidate on the platform
took a sip of water. Then he said:
" 'There seems to be a lot of asses
on hand here tonight; but, gents, for
the love of Mike, let's hear one at a
time.'
" 'Well, you go on, th.en,' yelled a
chap in the gallery."
Must Have Them.
Crawford?You seem to think
your wife the most unreasonable woman
in the world.
Crabshaw?You see I mortgaged
the house to buy her an auto, and
now she wants me to raise money on
the car to purchase Christmas pres
ents.?Judge.
smiles as if therein, at least, were
one radiant spot in her fading memory.?Columbia
Record.
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Mrs. A. D. Jordan, Bridge St., Ban
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