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IP .. ^ t Si'" ' * . > + */% i V- . . *fc > v t > j '.&W. i * * - ?. VOLUME XXXin I Britain Will Work i: with us at paris i i England and President Wilson >* i Already Agree in Principle t Says Premier ' - : t > ( "HE AND BALFOUR J PICKED TO ATTEND t i 1" $ut, With Results of Elections ' Known, Organization of Del- < ogation Will Proceed t * < ^ London.?Premie^ Lloyd George, 1 J in receiving American newspaper ^ correspondents at his residoncee at 7 o'clock tonight, said that the confer- ( once with President Wilson had < brought about agreement on gen- t oral principle. t The Premier said he felt assured | that matters which had been agreed c upon between America and England t would prove of the greatest assist- j ance in the work of the Peace Con- r gross. 1 Practically an understanding has < already been roachqd between the > Pintente Powers vehrnr/Hnc* ilin o,i_ \ - - - - 'P~ F> ? ?%. ?? l I mission of various nations to tho . Peaco Conference itself, said tho Premier. In his conference in Paris , with tho Premiers of France ar.ri > Italy President Wilpon had become j fully acquainted with their views, j Had he had now also acquired a loir , lodge of the British standpoint. H.-iush and WilSun in Harmony. J "I feel assured tljat all these powers are in accord with the basic principles of the peace which come before the conference," cpntinucd the Premier. "At any rate it will be certain that America and England will he < found working in complete harmony j in the conference." 1 iAt the close of his address, ans- h wering a question as to when lie ex- j pected the British delegation to go ; to Paris, the Premier replied that t owing to the necessity of clearing ( up the general^ : election and other < pressing business* it could not be be- < fore the end of the first week in the , new year. The nwespapertnen were received t after a long conference the Premier ! and Secretary Biflfour had with Pros ] ident Wilson this afternoon, and j which will be continued at the Pre- 1 mier's dinner to Ithe President at his i official residency in Downing Street. 1 Details of the general plans discuss- ] ed this afternoon will be further con?Bide red. Gives Warm \Velconie to Writers. In an informal talk, the British i Prime Minister warmly welcomed the American newspapermen to Eng- < land. He expres$0tf gratification tJifit he had beep aide to meet them, ; and spoke unrestrainedly of the important role newspapermen had played in the promotion of the ends that nil had at hcapt and in furthering the intimate friendship between the y United States find Great Britain. The Premier said that owing to the election it had not been possible as yet to organize the British dcle' gntion to the Peace Congress, but ^F" he would proceed immediately, now that the rcsplt was known, to take VP the matter with his colleagues. At tnc present time, ho added, it could be stated th$t only two members of the delegation had been selected definitely?meaning himself and Foreign Secretary Balfour. Touching on the report coming from the United States that Andrew SLjf Ber.ar Low. Chancellor of the Exchequer, woqld be one of the delegates, the Premier pointed out that it was impossible, as the Chancellor was the Government leader in tho House of Commons and his .presence would be needed at home. . Stirred by Wilson SpcecKes. v President ; Wilson's speeches, that at Guildhall a formal oration, having as its text that the world is eager for a lasting peace of justice and right, and #iat at the Mansion House, of mellower tone, were not disapug Londoners. That is say: I ) 9 ' sy%?1 / ?to SPAIN WANTS TO GET GIBRALTAR AGAIN T . ' Paris.?Premier Romanones on lis return to Paris in the near fu,urc will confe^ with the Allied Preniers and the 'American representaives on questipns vitally concerning: Spain. He is Credited in some quarers with the broject of raising the jucstion of thd return of Gibraltar o Spain and laying it before the jeace Conference. Spain is willing to concede Ceuta, >n the Moroccan side fo the strait, o Great Britain in exchange for Gibraltar, according to some iourccs, on the -ground that if miliary reasons were held to interfere vith the transfer of Gibraltar to Spain, the possession of Ceuta by he British would afford equal strategic advantage in modern war'are. President Poinchrc has received a elegram from King Alfonsoo f Spain in which thp Spanish monarch ixpresscs his drej> thankfulness for he medal bestowed upon him by the bVenoh Government. The King de la red he wishes lie could have done nore "to relieve during the war the >ain so hcrocially suffered by the toblc nation of Franco," for which to has a feeling pf friendship. He said his msot sincere sentiments ,vore shared by his people and that to was happy the feeling of friendship was growing stronger. King Alfonso also thanked Presilent Poincare for the warm hearted velcome the Freqch Government ?ave to Count Romapones, the Spanish Prmeier, on his visit to Paris. AMERICAN ARMADA ANCHORSIN HUDSON New York, Dec. 2G??Riding at anchor in the Hudson tonight were 31 uiperdreaduaughts and ships of the ine which, with cruiser^, destroyers ind a host of smaller cr^ft made the nightiest American armada'- ever assembled. Ten of the floating torn-esses steamed into the harbor tolay after 18 month's service overseas with Bcatty's grand fleet. The others are the flower of the North Atlantic fleet. Grim guardians of a great na'ion, hey ^ symbolized that the United States had become the second naval [>ower of the world. In the teeth of a northwester-, in the chill of a driving snowstorm, millions waited- hours until the ten battleships of the homecoming armada appeared. This was New York's and the nation's tribute to the ships, far more eloquent than the rjieat din of whistles, hells and human voices. The vocal welcome came later when the rugged weather beaten tars who manned the ships debarked and with Secretary Daniels and Admiral Mayo at their head', marched down Fifth Avenue in the country's first great victory parade. PRESIDENT'S STAY IN LONDON ENDS P ' London.?President Witson made his lnv:f. nnnonvnin T r>rvrln.i Doc. 28th. Officials af the city of London presented him with at address of welcome in the ancient Guildhall, whore other famous Americans, including General Grant an 1 Dormer President Roosevelt, have been rcceiveed. Afterward he wa? the guest at a luncheon in the Egyp< t?nn hall of Mansion House, where hover the ghosts of decades and o1 civic oratory and ^vhere many Amer icans have partaken of the famous turtle soup. , The drive from Buckingham Pal ice and return was witnessed by im mcn.se crowds. There was plenty o enthusiasm abroad, but it hardl; reached the same volume as tha which attended the persident's entr; inf a f aa/^am At% <uvv I_J vr? IUVII VII Aquioild^i in** much, as the president's pre?tig an -oratbr had awakened high ea Dictations. < t r ft I s. 5 /;> T j v p.ajrc CONWAY, S. P., THtTRSDA" WORLD PEACEBY CONCERT NATIONS f Wilson Reaffirms Attitude Against War in Guiidholl AHHpa oc imil nuui too London.?Speaking in the historic Guildhall at a ceremonious gathering of Great Britain's most distinguishev statesman, President Wilson reaf firmed his principle that there musi no longer be a balance of powei which might unsettle the peace of the r world, but that the future must pro duce a concert of power which woulc preserve it. The president's reception at the Guildhall was so spontaneous an< hcaily that it carried an unmistakable note of friendship and admira tion. When ho arose to speak there was prolonged outburst of handclap ping and cheering and his talk wa: frequently punctuated by applause At the conclusion of his address th< audience rose with one accord an< cheered and it kept up the applaus' and cheering as ho passed out. The president was given a notable ovation on rising to begin his speed and some of the points that won re ncwed applause were his tribute t< the armies of the associated govern ments and his declaration that poo pie throughout tile world wantei peace and wanted it immcdiatelynot, however, by conquest but b; agreement of min<|. The distinguished government an' other officials received by the lor; mayor before the president's arriva included Premier Lloyd George, Fieb Marshal Haig, Foreign Secretary Balfour, Admiral Sims, Former Pre micr Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law the chancellor of the exchequer; an; the ambassadors of the principal a! lied governments. After President "Wilson's arriva all were grouped on the dais, the lor mayor in the center and the prcsi dent on his right next to the Duke o Connaught, The royal artillery bam . in the gallery played American aiV ushering President Wilson in wit1 "'The Star Spangled Banner." "Unstable" Balance of Power. In the course of his speech th 'president declared the soldiers ha fought to do away \v|th the old orde and establish a now one. The oh order, he said, had for its center th "unstable thing" called the baTanc of power, determined by competi tive interests, jealous watchfulnes Mid an antagonism of interests." The men who liavo fought the wai he said, had been "men from fre nations who were determined- thn litis sort of thing should end noA and forever." The suggestion of * concert o \power to replace the balance o ipower, he remarked, was comin i from every quarter and from ever i sort of mind. The copcert to come, h declared, must not be a balance c power or one poweiful group of mi tions set off against another, but " single overwhelming powerful grou of nations which shall be the trustee of the peac6 of the world." The minds of the leaders of tfc British government,. the preside* said, were moving along the nam lines as hi.* owt, %nd their thougl had been that the key to the peat was the guarantee of it and not tl1 items of it. The items of it,, he ad< ' ed, would be worthless unless a coi cert of power stood back of them. BBLSHEVftURE ; CARPETBAGGER r J London. ? Th$ Bolshevik gover rnent in Russia is described by a mi - who recently returned from th - country as "a carpet bag erovcr f ment of the most flagrant sort y Theoretically, he says, the Bolshev t government is popular and suppos y to represent the will of the workii masses throughout Russia. In prs .. tice local Soviets1 have been bowl ? over whenever they failed to patis Moscow officials, and outsiders -ha been placed in control, f ' ' | \ > * | t i t W* JANUARY 2, 1919. 'INTEREST GROWS ; IN GOOD ROADS ! Movement to Ask Legislature to Authorize an Election For Bonds J ; Columbia, S. C.?Officials of the t South Carolina Automobile Associa1 lion and of the good roads conven. tion recently held in Columbia dot cla^o that reports from every sectiofi of South Carolina indicate mark1 ed enthusiasm for the proposition 2 launched at the convention for a - system of permanent highways. The 1 movement is gaining in momentum as it sweeps over the state and great ? interest is being awakened in it 1 everywhere. Petitions arc to be placed in circu lation at on<jo among the automobile 3 owners of the state, who are the - most vitally interested because it b * their poeketbooks that will bo touch . cd, asking the General Assembly of 3 the State of South Carolina to au1 thorizo an eb^tion on the question of issuing $25,000,000 worth of bondfor the purpose of building a system 3 of concrete roads connecting every l couidy seat in the state. Men who - are in a position to judge say that "> the sentiment among the automobib: - owners is very strong in favor of the - bqgd issue and it is believed that ar 1 overwhelming majority of them will u sign the petitions. 7 The plan for the bond issue was suggested at the recent good road.1 i convention by R. Goodwin Rhett, ol 1 Charleston, one of the ablest finan 1 f A 1 . _ . * ? ? i ciuih ui me sui^e alter no had made i a close study of' the various method: y of financing road building that ha: - be$n adopted in other states. This pla^n has met with more general ap I piqval than any other plan that ha> - be$n offered. In order to finance the scherm :I there will have to be an issue of stat? d bonds, but it is proposed to hav< - placed in the act authorizing th< f bond issue a provision stipulating d that the interest and sinking fun< h for the bon&twill be taken care of b\ h a special autbmobi|e tax. Some people may think it rather i large undertaking to float a $25,000. e 000 bond issue solely upon an auto 1 mobile tax. A little figuring, how r ever, will convince any one that d can be done. There are now in th< o state 55,000 automobiles, an increas* e of 30 per cent in two years. It i: - certain that there will be another in s crease in the next two years. Auto mobiles now pay an average tax o , $5.20 per annum. It is proposed t< e increase this to an average tax of $21 t per annum, quite a small sum whei >v one considers the benefit that wil accrue to the average auto owne f fiom the good rpads that will b* f built. He will more than save th g difference in tires and gasoline, y Officials of the auto associatioi c claim that it has never require* >f nadre than a very little talk to con vince an automobile owner that th a pdin is a good one and every automo p,bib'st who has studied it is enthusi statically for it. 1 * 4>~ : BERLIN GOVERNMENT \ THOUGHT INSEGUR! 10 Berlin.?Political leaders in Berlif including many who arc not identifi o< 1 with the present government, wer disposed to believe that the Eberl Haase government was no longer ir tact as the result of the happening of Tuesday. The independent Socia v ists hold that Projmicr Ebert \fra 'responsible for the predicament ir to which the government was force( n- They declare their representatives i m the government wePe not aware thi at he had called on tho troops in Pot: n- dam under Lieutenant General L< quls to oppose the sailors with arnic ik forces. ed Other circles opposed to the go^ ag ernment allege that the cabinet ic- compromise with the sailors amoun ed ed to an abject capitulation and w; fy a victory for the radical elejnen ve and those opposing the e*Utag of tl national aasombly. raid. PLANS BEING LAID FOR SOLDIER FARMS | Washington.?An important announcement by the United States department of labor with reference to providing farms for returning American soldiers in the States of South Carolina and Georgia was made here by Ethelbert Stewart, director of the investigation and inspection service of the bureau. It is raid that there are 9,000,000 acres cf land in the State of South Carolina and 20,000.000 acres in Georgia which may he put to excellent use in making farms for the soldiers. It is proposed to take the lumber ftom the various cantonments and semi to such locations as may he agreed upon for the farms. This 'umber, it is said, could not be well put to a better purpose. It is proposed to divide up the tracts to be 1 Si-cured into farms of 100 acres each, ' winch it is believed would he large ; enough to meet all necessary demands. The matter of . using the building materials at Camp Jackson, Wadsworth, Wheeler and other Carolina and Georgia camps that is now > tied up in or contracted for by the i cantonment construction service of ' the war department would be used 1 upon these newly settled lands by > the returned soldiers. On December* 7 the department of 1 labor was ordered to begin this work 1 and already much of the preliminary 1 i labor has been undertaken. As rapid lv as possible lists by counties in ; I South (Carolina :intl (lonririji r?f laiwls - "j " ; on such lists will be made by the government authorities and as soon as this is in hand here the actual ' work of laying out the new colonies > will be begun in earnest. Other 5 States in the South will follow. 'PLANS MOST BE MADE ; FOR NATIONAL GUARD Washington.?If congress determines to continue the National 1 Guard as the army reserve of the t nation, Secretary Baker said today, the guard service will have to be re* constituted from the ground up. Fcd eralization of the guard for wan ser vice, the war department has held, - on the opinion of Biig. Gen. Samuel t T. Ansell, acting judge advocate gen^ j oral, will wipe out of existence the ^ federalized regiments. When the s men are discharged th.ey will return - to civilian life without any obliga lion to the federal or State govomf nients to continue in National Guard > so)*vice. 3 Mr. Baker expressed a belief that 1 the problem of the National Guard 1 i - hound up closely with the question r of what congress may do later :n o framing legislation to establish a permaneent pq&cy. Existing law provides for th.? regulars ami the 1 National Guard', Should some sysl tern of universal military training - be worked out, however, some, of fic eers said, it rs possible that the Na tional Guard would cease to exist. - The war department has not as yet made any recommendations on the subject, having contented itself thus far with seeking appropriations only for the regular army in the coming ? fiscal year. : CONFERENCE ON GOOD : ROADS 80ND ISSUE > There will bo a conference of reprrsentative men from over the State s at the Jefferson Hotel in Columbia I- at 3 o'clock on they?rternoon of Jans nary 3 at which plans for an active ?- campaign to have the Legislature 1. nnthoriv.e an election on the $25,000,n 000 good rendg bond issue will bo d discussed. This meeting was called at a conference of the ways and means committee of the . South Caro d lina State Automobile Assocaition in Greenville Mopday. The ways am y- means committee is composed of C *-s W. Cofield of Greenville, secretary t- of the State Automobile Association ic T> A t A f i ' ' * - ^ j i\ wiiHon, proprietor 01 tne Dav ts olina Hotel at Rock Hill, and R. E do Grabel, secretary, of the Andersoi Chamber of Commerce. // * y WORLD SEEKS RETURN TO OLD PATHS OF DUTY Wilson So A nnnnnnAP Ch/mv. " ..-w.. vw niiiiUUIIUCO I I Ul 11 Grandfather's Pulpit at Carlisle, England FORCE OF WORDS CUT AS DEEP AS SWORDS Eloquent Tribute to Mother, Memories of Whom Come Back With Force. Carlisle, Englan 1.?President Wilson, accompanied t>y Mrs. Wilson, came to Carlisle today in rain and a cold penetrating mist to visit the girlhood home of his mother. But the warmth of the greeting of the people of the town and of the thousands of strangers from the surrounding country more than offset the dreariness of the weather. Large crowns lined tho streets and cheered the presidential party lustily as it drove from the station, where the president was received by Mayor Ber tram Carr and local notables, to the Crown and Mitre Hotel, where the president signed the Freeman's roll. They visited Annetwell Street, where the site of his late grandfathers chapel was pointed out to him and the house in Cavendish Place that was built by his grandfather. During the services, the Rev. Edward Booth, the pastor, requested the president to come into the pulpit and address the assemblage. This the president did, delivering a short speech, in which he touched simply but eloquently on his mother. The president spoke as follows: Lqs&ons Grandfather Taught. "It is with unaffected reluctance that I inject myself into this service, I remember my grandfather very well, and remembering himr I can see how ho would not approve. 1 remember what he required of rae and remember the stem lesson of duty he spoke. Ami I remc-mbeer painfully about things he expected me to know that I did not know. "There has come a change of times when laymen like myself are permitted to speak in a congregation. There is another reason why X was reluctant to speak. "The feelings fixed in me today arc really too intimate and too deep to permit of public expression. The memories that have come of the mother who was bom hero are very affecting. Her qufet character, hei sense of duty, ana her dislike of '6S~r u'Miauon nas comp duck to me wltn increasing force as those years of duty have accumpdatfed. Yet, perhaps, it is appropriate that in a place of worship I should acknowledge my indebtedness to her and her remarkable father, because all that the world is now seeking to do is to return to the paths of duty, to turn from the savagery of interests to the dignity of the performance of right. "I believe as this war has drawn, nations temporarily together in a combination of physical force wc shall he drawn together in a combination of moral force that is irresistable. It is moral force as much as physical force that has defeated the effort to subdue the world. Words have cut as deep as swords. NEWYEAR'S DAY TRIP TO ITALY - Paris.?President Wilson plans to I spend New Year's day in Paris and " leave for Itnlv "N'f>vj Vmi>'0 ^ XV * VM1 n 1 will return froih It^ly aboutJanuary I 10, when the inter-tollied conferences will assemble. ' ) 7 It is generally unirjerstood now that ; the' president will remain in Europe for about a month after his return v from Italy and that he will take 1 passage for America about February 1?. I ' !" \ | 3 \?