The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 29, 1920, Image 1
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HOLLAND REFUSES i
ALLIES' DEMAND
DUTCH GOVERNMENT DECLARES
| IT IS NOT PARTY TO TREATY.
Tradition to Support Claims.
Jteply Sets Forth That Country Has
Always Been Ground of Refuge
' of Vanquished.
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Paris, Jan. 23.?The demand of the
entente powers that Holland deliver
up to them Former Emperor William
of Germany that he may be tried "for
a supreme offense against interna
tional morals and the sanctity of treaties"
has been refused by Holland.
In a note delivered this afternoon 1
to the foreign office by the Dutch
minister, Holland takes the ground ;
that the Dutch government is not a '
party to the peace treaty which condemned
William Hohenzollern and
that it can not recognize as an international
duty the necessity to as- 1
sociate itself with "this act of high 1
l * international policy of the powers." '
It declares also that the constitu
f ent law of the kingdom and the traw
dition of the country, always a
ground for refugee for the vanquished
in international conflicts, will not
permit the government to defer to
the wishes of the entente by withw
drawing from the former emperor
the benefit of its laws and traditions,
r The declaration is made that the people
of the Netherlands can not betray
the faith of those who have confided
j themselves to Holland's free institutions.
The text of the reply:
"By verbal note, dated January 15,
1920, given to the envoy of the Queen
at Paris, the powers referring to article
227 of the treaty of Versailles,
demand that the government of Holland
give into their hands William of
Hohenzollern, former emperor of Ger^
many, so that he may be tried.
w ^'Supporting this demand they obl
j>: Qrmer emperor had
| remained ^in Germany the German 1
ft government would, under the terms
K article 228 of the treaty of peace,
B have teen obliged to deliver him.
V "In citing as premeditated violar
t*ons of international treaties as well
as a systematic disregard of the moft
sacred rules of the rights of man a
number of acts committed during the
^ war by German authority, the powers
place the responsibility, at least morally,
upon the former emperor,
k "They express the opinion that Hol[
land would not fulfill her international
duty if she refused to associate
herslf with them within the limit or | *
her ability, to pursue or at least not |
to impede, the punishment of crimes J
t* committed. 1
"They emphasize the special char- *
acterof their demands, which contem- 1
plate not a judicial accusation hut an ?
act of high international policy and 1
they make an appeal to Holland's re- t
spect of law and love of justice not to 1
cover with her moral authority violation
by Germany of the essential
principles of the solidarity of nations.
"The queen has the honor to ob- ]
serve first, that obligations which for ^
Germany could have resulted from ^
article 228 of the treaty of peace can
not serve to determine the duty of f
Holland, which is not a party to the .
treaty.
"The government of the queen,
moved by imprescriptible reasons,
^ can not view the question raised by
& rlomartrl r?f thp DOWfirs PXCeDt I ,
m from the point of view of its duty.
* It was absolutely unconnected with
the origin of the war and has maintained,
and not without difficulty,
its neutrality to the end. It finds it|
lfself then face to face with facts of
' the war in a position different from
that of the powers.
"It rejects with energy all suspicion
of wishing to cover with its soveerign
right and its moral authority
violations of the essential principles
of the solidarity of nations; but it
can not recognize an international
duty to associate itself with tlrs act
of high international policy of the
powers.
"If in the future there should be
instituted by the societv of nations
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an Jnternat;onal jurisdiction competent
to judge in case of war deeds,
qualified as crimes and submitted to
its jurisdiction by statute antedating
the acts committed, it wpuld be fit for
Holland to associate herself with the
new regime. f
"The government of the queen can \ ?
not admit in the present case any of '<
the duty than that imposed upon it t
by the laws of the kingdom and na- j i
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HOUSE REJECTS
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PALMETTO REPRESENTATIVES
REJET AMENDMENT.
Only Weak Support.
Matter Starts a Warm Floor Discussion?Killed
By Vote of 93
to 21.
Columbia, Jan. 22.?By a vote of
93 to 21 the South Carolina house of
representatives today passed a concurrent
resolution to reject the national
suffrage amendment.
The following members voted in
favor of rejection of the suffrage:
Speaker Cothran, Representatives
Anderson, Ashley, Atkinson, J. B.,
and 'Atkinson, R. O.. Becham, Bellemy,
Berry, Boyd, Bradford, Brown,
W. F., and Brown, W. R., Buckingham,
Busby, Cade, Carv, Clinkscales,
Clyburn, Coney, Cooper, R. M., Jr.,
Crews, Daniels, Davis, J. H., Derrick,
/bickson, Dreher, Dukes, Eadiy,
Ellerbee, A. C. Etherridge, Evans,
Fairey, Folk, Fumer, Gallman, Gtston,
Gibson, Gray, Gresham, Hall,
Hampton, Hanshan, Haxmon, Hart,
Hughes, Hutson, Jackson, Johnson,
M. M., and Johnson, W. W., Keenan,
Kelley, Kinard, Lancaster, Langdale,
Leopard, Long, Mann, McAdams,
DcDavid, Macdonald, McElveen, McLaurin,
Miley, McMillan, McSweeney,
Meares, Mischos, Moise, Moore, Mor ison,
Moss, Orr, Owens, Pasley,
Peurifoy, Pegues, Preacher, Purslev,
tlawlinson, Riley, Rivers, Russ, Russell,
Seagars, Signious, Smoks, Stone,
rurner, Walker, Wingard, Winter
ind Woods. %
Those who voted ajainst rejection
ind in favor of suffrage were Representatives
Barnwell, Belser, Bramett,
Brockington, Burguson, Butler,
Uarrigan, Cooper, M. R., Ellerbee, E.,
?., Hamblin, Hamer, Hamilton, Horon,
Lide, Mims, Nunn, Oliver, Richirdson,
Sprott, Stringer and Welch.
Several efforts were made to post)one
debate on the question but these
vere all in vain. Representative
Hamilton made such an effort and
ipoke in favor of the suffrage. Representative
Belser, of Sumter, urged
:onsideration for the amendment, not
hat he felt that it had any chance i
)ut that South Carolina might not
)ass lightly on such an important 1
natter, which has been endorsed'by
he Democratic party. He said he
iid not know whether he was wholly
or suffrage and he thought the majority
of the people are opposed to it,
>ut "we gain nothing," he said, "by
)assing this rejection resolution."
When the concurrent suffrage reection
resolution came up in the
louse Thursday, Representative
deares moved that the resolution be
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eferred to the judiciary committee,
is a matter of legal precaution. Mr.
iraarora moved to taDie tms auu
here was a loud vote of "noes,"
ouder the "ayes."
Attention, Veterans.
The annual meeting of Camp Jentins,
No. 627, United Confederate
Veterans, will be held at the court
.ouse on Thursday, February 5, 1920.
Ml veterans are urged to be present,
rhe election of officers for the ensung
year will be held, and a sponsor
vill be elected to attend the general
eunion of the U. C. V.
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Coming?"The Miracle Man." La-rictorie
Theatre, Bamberg, S. C.?ad.
ional tradition.
"Now, neither, the constituent laws
if the kingdom, which are based upon
he principles of law universally rec)gnized,
nor a respectable secular
radition which has made this country
ilways a ground of refuge for the
vanished in international conflicts,
)ermit the government of Holland to
lefer to the desire of the powers by
vithdrawing from the former em)eror
the benefits of its laws and its
radition.
"Justice and national honor of
vhieh respect is a sacred duty oppose
his. The Netherland people, moved
)y the sentiments to which in history
he world has done justice, could not
)etray the faith of those who have i
onfided themselves to their free institutions.
j
"The government of the queen is
)leased to believe that the powers
vill recognize the good grounds of
hese considerations, which rise above
my consideration of personalities
tnd which seem to it so peremptory
hat they could not reasonably give <
ise to wrong interpretations."
Is Perpetual Mot\
Youth May H
i
Seattle Youth May Have
voirs of Nature's Energ
zled But Inclined
SomewhereHas
Alfred M. Hubbard, 19 yea
old Seattle boy, tapped the inexhausi
ible reservoirs of nature's energy an
harnessed to the use of man th
illimitable power that permeates th
universe?
Hubbard has announced the pei
fection of an invention he terms a
"atmospheric power generator," an
made claims that caused Seattle'
leading electrical engineers to dout
the evidence of their senses and t
pause before they condemned as foil
the assertions of the youth.
With the apparatus, in appearanc
o email nrvll nf wirp nhnnf cix inehp
in diameter, surrounding a perma
nentlv magnetic core eight inche
long, the entire contrivance easil
carried on a man's hand, Hubbar
gave a demonstration several mile
from his laboratory that, regardles
of the principles involved, severa
Seattle engineers declared withou
parallel in electrical hist Dry.
Marvelous Machine Anyway.
An ordinary incandescent electri
light connected wth the two termi
nals of the "atmospheric power gen
erator" glowed to a cherry red fo
nearly an hour, and Hubbard volun
teered to permit the lamp to bur:
for as many hours as was necessar;
to satisfy the most skeptical.
The young inventor says there ar
no moving parts connected with hi
generator, that there are no hiddei
batteries, storage or primary, ant
those who witnessed the demonstra
tion made sure that there was nt
outside connection with any soure
of power.
Hubbard's explanation of the phe
nomenon is that he has succeeded u
transforming the earth lines of mag
netic force into electrical energ:
available for use.
While electrical engineers wer<
highly skeptical and held to the pos
sibility of fraud, still as Georg*
Quinnan, superintendent of the elec
trical operations of the Puget Soun<
Traction, Power and Light company
said, "whatever the lad has done i
is a marvelous demonstration."
All the experts agreed that, if a;
Hubbard declares, there are no mov
ing parts and no concealed battery
the invention is revolutionary. The;
had no explanation to offer for it
operation.
J. D. Ross, superintendent of th<
municipal lighting department an<
an authority on experimental elec
tricity, declared it possible that Hub
bard had stumbled on the answe
to the question of the ages?can th<
power of the atmosphere be utilized'
Idea Still Possible.
Carl Edward Magnusson, actinj
dean of the University of Washing
ton college of Engineering, decline<
even to hazard a guess as to the prin
ciple involved in the device.
"It sounds like trickery to me an<
I can hardly believe that the experi
ment as described to me actually tool
place," he said. "I will not ventun
an opinion until I have seen it."
C. F. Uhden, special engineer o
the city in charge of the Skagit rive
power development, declared himsel
intensely interested in the inventioi
and after canvassing the posslbilitie
of chicanery admitted that h<
wouldn't dare form an opinion unti
he had seen the apparatus in opera
tion.
"It's always possible," he sai<
"though there have been many t<
make the claim and no one to sub
ctnntiatp it in thft Oast."
But Hubbard, because his devici
has not been patented, owing to com
plications arising with his financia
backers, it is said, has refused to al
low technical men more than ?
glimpse at the apparatus.
All that could be learned from bin
regarding the construction of th<
instrument follows:
The machine, he said, is composec
of several layers of wire about ?
steel core, which is magnetized aftei
the construction is complete. One*
magnetized, the core needs no furthe:
attention, he said and the entire
device will deliver enrgv unremit
tingly for an indefinite length o:
time.
"I place a maximum of 50 year;
on the life of the generator," said
Hubbard, "simply because one musi
fix some maximum. I know no reas
(on Here At Last?
ave Solved Problem
Tapped Inexhaustible Resery?Electrical
Experts Puz.
to Believe Trickery
-Not Impossible
irf on why it should not last until time
t- rots the insulation away from the
d wires."
e Hubbard denies that his device is
e a perpetual motion machine. He
maintains that it taps the vast store -
houses of cosmic energy and that the
n apparatus is founded upon sound
d scientific principles,
s Got Idea From Spark.
?t "I have hitched up my wires to the
o tail of the universe, you might say,"
y f he said*
Hubbard nas a high school educae
tion. His father is an electrical en
:s | gineer, he said, and the family forml
j erly lived in Spokane. It was while
is j he was in charge of an air compressor
y I at the Hercules mine near Coeui
d j d'Alene, Idaho, that he first became
s interested in the problem.
s "I watched a great belt fly by me
l1 day after day," he related, "and I
t noted, as thousands before me had,
that I could draw an electric spark
from the belt with my finger. 1 had
c always been interested in electricity
i-; and had studied a great deal from
-| books s'nce I was a small boy. One
r | night I conceived the Idea that devel1
oped later into the> generator. I will
a j not say that it utilizes in any way the
y i current derived by friction as from
the belt. That is not accurate. I am
e not prepared to divulge the nature
s of the actual translation of energy."
a Hubbard says he can obtain four
3 kilowatts, equivalent to more than
five horse power, from a contrivance
*
o weighing less than 12 pounds, and
e that he can build a generator less
than 18 feet in length to develop 18,H
000 horse power, or sufficient electri
11 cal energy to drive the new battleship
-1 New Mexico.
7 Hubbard offered to build for $50 a
generator large enough to drive a
e motor car, but much smaller than the
- present engines. The Hubbard gener6
ator, according to its inventor, would
- give the airplane unlimited flying
i range.
The young man says he worked 18
t i hours a day for two years before he
!
came to Seattle, and during the year
s since perfecting the apparatus. His
- first model was built a year and a
half ago, he said.
7 Hubbard asserts that his four kilos
watt machine has continuously ex-.
cited the equivalent of 120 ordinary
b 25 watt house lamps to full brilliancy
i for three months. The device during
- this time, he says he is ready to take
- oath, did not receive outward stimur
lus and, at the time the test was
b completed the lights were burning at
? the same brilliancy.
Many Fiascos Recalled.
I The apparatus, should it prove to
- have the merit its inventor asserts
1 for it, engineers said, will revolu
tion. All steam and gas engines will
be junked, experts say. The most
i ponderous and complicated electrical
- generating devices, steam and water
t turbine generators and all the mechb
anism of transmission wires and
transformers will be obsolete. Elec
i tricai transportation can enter a new
r era. Air transportation will be adf
vanced hundreds of years. Subi
marine practice will be changed, and
s most important of all cheap, almost
3 inexpensive power, placed at the dis1
posal of every man and woman.
The announcement of Hubbard recalled
to the minds of many the fui
rore created in July, 1918, by the
3 request of Garabad Ghiragossian to
- congress for a special patent protecting
his rights as the inventor of a
3 "free energy" machine.
The patent was granted after nuI
merous members of congress had
- seen the machine in operation and
i testified to its apparent powers. For
some reason, not fully explained, the
i engine failed to render the service its
3 inventor asserted for it, and nothing
has been heard of the device since.
II
i I Mrs. Johns Entertains.
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5 Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johns delight[*
fully entertained about 10 couples of
J the younger set one evening last week
in honor of the Rev. R. E. Hardaway
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and their guests. A very enjoyable
, evening, including delicious refreshI
ments and entertaining games, kept
t the guests until after 11 p. m.? 1
- Allendale Citizen.
G.O.P.TOLD TO ACT
ON THE IRISH BILL
"WHY DON'T YOU PASS IT, OR DO
YOUR DUTY AND KILL IT"
Says House Democrat.
Declares I>e Valera's Presence "Places
Us in Embarrassing
Position."
Waohintrtnn Ton 9 5 Ronnhli(>9nc
in Congress were accused today by
Representative Connally, Democrat,
Texas, of playing politics in the consideration
of a bill proposing diplomatic
recognition of the provisional
Irish republic.
"Why don't you report the bill and
pass it, or do your duty and kill it,
so the Irish people will know where
you stand?" asked the Democratic
member, addressing the Republican
side of the house.
Declaring the measure had been
pending before a committee controlled
by the Republicans since last May,
Mr. Connally said "serious consideration"
was not being given it, but that
the committee did not act finally because
it would "disillusion" American
voters sympathetic to the Irish cause.
Embarrassing Position.
Mr. Connally accused Edward De
Valera, who he described as the "advertised
president of the Irish republish'
of being hostile to the success
of Great Britain in the world war,
and added that his presence and actions
in this country "place us in an
embarrassing position."
The British, Mr. Connally added,
will never permit Ireland's separation
from the British/empire because
to do so would let the island ".located
on the very flank of the British empire,
become the prey of every scheming
nation in Europe."
Methodist W. M. S.
The first meeting of the Methodist
Woman's Missionary society for the
new year was held at the church. A
right good number <?f the members
wras present. The president conducted
all of the meeting this time. It
was more of a business meeting than
any other kind. The treasurer made
a good report of $4 60.60 sent to our
conference treasurer and $107.48
spent on local work. This last was
spent for an organ and song books
and a stove for the mill chapel. This
financial report does not include money
spent for local charity. The men's
Bible class contributed some money
for the mill work.
Since-our last meeting we have
lost by death *ne of our members,
Mrs. G. A. Rice. A floral wreath was
sent by the society.
Mrs. Cantey and Mrs. James Burch
were added to the roll. We are glad
to have these ladies join us.
Mesdames Simmons and Padgett
were appointed by the chair a membership
committee. We are very desirous
of securing newcomers and ladies
who are members of the Methodist
church here to join in with us and
work with us to extend our Lord's
work to the ends of the earth.
Some parting words were spoken
by the president concerning two of
our members, Mesdames Field and
Carter. Our freewill pledges were
taken, and amounted to $183. Quite
a number of our members who will
make pledges were absent. We hope
to swell this amount considerably.
The nominating committee made
its report which was accepted. The
following are elected for this year:
President, Mrs. Glenn Cope; first vice
president. Mrs. C. R. Brabham, Jr.;
Supt. young people, Mrs. Padgett;
Supt. juniors, Mrs. B. W. Simmons;
Supt. social service, Mrs. G. Frank
Bamberg; recording secretary, Miss
Bessie Lee Black; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. E. O. Kirsch; treasurer,
Miss Llewellyn Cleckley; assistant
treasurer and agent for Voice, Mrs.
John Barr; treasurer parsonage aid,
Mrs. Dan Delk.
Before we adjourned we were fa- j
vored with a vocal solo by Mrs. Lau-!
rie Smoak.?One Present.
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The Ai?ollo Music Club.
The Apollo Music club was attract
lveiy entertained on r naay aneruouu ;
by Mrs. Tillman Felder. The pro-'
gramme for the afternoon was on!
Spanish music. After a short busi- j
ness meeting the club was invited,
into the dining room which was beau- {
tiful in pink and white. The hos-'
tess, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Paul j
Zeigler, served delightful salad and1
sweet courses in which the color
scheme was beautifully carried out.
Svery one thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.
RECENT WAR COST
HEAPS OF MONEY
UNITED STATES SPENT $22,000,000,000
OR MORE.
Some Figures Given.
Government Has to Buy Great Quantities
of Stuff to Care for Soldiers
and Sailors.
Washington, January 25.?If the
$22,000,000,000 that the war cost the
United States were counted in silver
dollars, it would take a man counting
72 a minute, working eight hours a
day, 1744 years to count them. This
is one of the odd items referred to by '
Representative Clarence McGregor of
New York in a statement of "Interesting
Facts Concerning the War," presented
in the house of represents- *
tlves.
These dollars, if laid side by side,
he said, would stretch 520,833 miles;
their weight would be 687,500 short
tons, and loaded on box cars of 40
tons capacity, they would make a \
train of 17,187 cars of 130 miles in
length.
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There were delivered to the war
department up to May 31, 1918, 131,800,000
pairs of wool socks, 85,000,000
undershirts, 83,000,000 underdrawers,
30,700,000 pairs of shoes,
21,700,000 blankets, 21,700,000 wool
trousers, 12,900,000 coats, 8,300,000
overcoats.
Army supplies and property that
the United States had in France cost
$1,426,000,000 and were sold to
France for $400,000,000. Some of
the items, with cost price to the United
States, were: Flour, $15,500,000;
bacon, $41,300,000; beef, $58,900,000;
coffee,-$6,500,000; sugar, $3,200,000;
flannel shirts, $17,200,000;
underwear, $25,551,000; shoes, $36,880,000;
socks, $9,000,000; blankets,
$12,400,000. Included in the
sale to France were 89,199 motor ve
hides costing the United States $310,799,694.
Seventy-five per cent, of the entire
leather production of the country was
used during the war. With 391,000
horses in the army, orders were given
to the procurement division to
contract for 845,000 saddles and 1,000,000
sets of harness. If all the
orders had been filled it would have
taken 300,000 more hides than the
entire takeoff of the United States for
a year.
The total cost of the war to all
nations was about $186,000,000,000.
The expenditures of the United States
were about $22,000,000,000. The expenditures
of the United States were v
about equal to those of Austria-Hungary.
During the first three months
we spent at the rate of $2,000,000
per day; during the next year the
average was more than $22,000,000
per day. For the final ten months
the average was over $44,000,000
per day. The total expenditures of
the army itself was $14,214,061,000.
This about equals the value of all
the gold produced in the world from
the (discovery of America up to the
outbreak of tbe war. Tne item or pay
for the army is larger than the combined
salaries of all the public school
principals and teachers in the United
States for the five years from 1912
to 1916.
The number of men serving in the
armed forces of the United States duing
the war was 4,800,000, of whom
4,000,000 served in the army. In the
United States there were 54.000,000
males, and of these 26,000.000 were
registered in the draft or were already
in the service. Two out of every
three American soldiers who reached
France took part in battle. The battle
losses were 50,000 killed and 236,000
wounded. Five out of every six
men sent to hospitals on accoimt of
wounds were returned to duty. The
death loss from all causes among
American forces was 122,500 of
which about 10,000 came from the
navy. Pneumonia killed more soldiers
than were killed in battle.
Wanted to See Him.
A house hunter saw an advertisement
in the paper describing a
charming house "within a stone's
throw of the station." He made an
appointement and in due course was
escorted to the house in question,
two miles away. When they reached
the threshold he turned to the agent,
suavely, "Would you mind introducing
me," he whispered, "to the per- 4
son who threw that stone?"
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Coming?"The Miracle Man." LaVictorie
Theatre, Bamberg, S. C.?ad*