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FAOK SIX TERMS OF TREATY CLOSELY GUARDED Will Not Be Published Until They Are Laid Before the Germans / SECRET SESSION OF PLENARY COUNCIL At Which Terms Will Be Outlined Is Likely to Be Held Details of the procedure to be observed at the historic meeting of allied and German representatives at Versailles a week from Friday are being worked out by the allied delegations to the peace congress. It is improbable that the world will know the exact demands of the associated governments until after the Teutons have been formally appraised of the price of peace. It seems, however, that not only all the allied governments but the governments of those countries which severed relations with Germany but did not enter the war, will be informed as to the details of the proposed treaty. For this purpose it is likely that a secret plenary session of the peace conference will be held i before April 25. All England is waiting with intense interest the address which Premier Lloyd George will make in the House of Commons. Mr. Lloyd George has been under fire from political opponents for some time and the NorthclifTe publi cations have been especially vigorous in their attacks on his reported activities at Paris, and he is expected to reply to his critics. It is improbable, however, that he will do more than outline in most general terms the work that has been done by the peace conference, there being, it is said, a tacit understanding between Mr. Lloyd George, President "Wilson and Premiers Clemenceau and Orlando that no^ details are to be made public at present. The fact that the British premier has decided tc open the debate in the House of Commons, however, would appear ^o indicate his readiness to defend his work at Paris, and his defense may j bring out some significent state- i meats, The council of four, in which Arthur .1. Balfour. British foreign min inter, has temporarily taken the place of Premier Lloyd George, is at present devoting itself to efforts to settle the controversy between Italy and Jugo-Slavia relative to the eastern shore of the Adriatic. In addition it is declared in a semi-official French news agency dispatch that the Schleswig-Holstein problem, in which Denmark and Germany are it odds, has been adjusted by the arrangement of a referendum, to the people of the province. Anarchy in Munich. Violent fighting has occurred at Munich between German government soldiers and soviet troops, the lattei seeming to" have won at least a tern porary victory. It is. probable, how ever, that the battle will be renewed the government forces having beei reinforced. Anarchy is said to rcigi in the city. Labor troubles are stil prevalent throughout western Ger many. Rumanian forces in Bessarabii have been forced to retire befor Russian soviet troops and furthe north the army of Simon Petlur.) tin; peasant leader of the Ukraine has been westward a considerabl /liutnn/>n T ,1 fVinu/i wtflrinnc tho P.11S X'.IOUAIIVVi All viivnv a v^ivmu ? v ????M sians are making a desperate at tempt to cut a way through to Hun gary so that they may join thei comrades in Budapest. Czech's Cross Line. Czecho forces are reported in di.< patches from Warsaw to have crosi ed the line of demarcation fixed b the Allied mission in Silesia whet the Czechs and Poles claim territor; A clash along the Polish frontier said to have resulted in casualtie Meanwhile lliu first detachment * Gt n. Haller's Polish troops has star cd , from France on its way acroi Germany to Poland in accordant with the recent agreement with tl Germans for the forwarding of th force. o Ideal spring weather and gent rains have made conditions for t bacco planting most favorable. Spring gaidcns in and around C Himbia are now in the high tide < their popularity says the Columb &latc. W" . SOURER-FARM PUN MEANS MUCH TO S. C. Experts Find Abundant Acreage in Coastal Plain?Great Colony Planned. Washington.?What does the plan fc-r turning undeveloped lands into farmsteads for home-coming Ameri can soldiers mean to soutn varol:na ? As the lands most quickly reclaimed are along the coastal plain, the question might reasonably be narrowed to this: 'What does the soldier-farmer plan mean to coastal Carolina, to Carolina in the neighborhood of Charleston ? The answer is that if the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior are approved by Congress tne plan means a chance at a colony of from 1,200 to 1,600- soldier-farmel 8, with farmsteads of 60 to 80 acres each, making up a total of approximately 100,000 acres, or 12 1-2 square miles. 'Such a colony would entail for its establishment in South Carolina an expenditure of perhaps $10,000,000 by the government, for the revised project of Secretary Lane contemplates the erection of a house and barn on each farm, t besides such re- { clamation work as may bo required to get the land, or a considerable j portion of it, into condition suitable for its cultivation by the soldier. New Plan Quadruples Old. Recognizing that this movement ; must be put into efFect quickly if it is to be of use to returned soldiers set king employment, and also that the movement must proceed on both a generous and general scale "if it is to succeed, the Interior Department h: going to ask for the appropriation of about $400,000,000 for the pur- j chase, reclamation and equipment of cut-over, swamp or arid lands capable of profitable cultivation. This is four times as much as was carried by the bill which Secretary Lane asked Congress to pass at the last session. Congress failed to pass the bill, . i ? 89ESiEE5?BH9SBK^HIB^5SS3^^^^^^ Have You ? l . 1 I 1 ( Jf"-- t t ? I It's a Medal < Victory Liberi i '# e It signifies a< of duty, fulfil ises, safety 1 -V 5" anrl flip ?npi y 'MUX* , J e ! / i .* is j Get yours to if tss :e 10 Victory Libertj is lo === This space i CONWAY LUM UMUMMMMaMMMMIMMMBMHniHMBaraMnAI 4 THE HORRY HERALD, CONV but provided instead for an examination and survey of the reclamable lands of the country, so that when the lawmakers met again they would have the best possible information at to the extent and location of the reclaimable areas and as to their availability for the returned soldier employment project. The reclamation bureau of the department went to work at once, divided the nation ir.to three parts for purpose of the survey, and is now prepared to report. Indeed, it may be said that the machinery of the department ;s ready to function on the plan of giving the returned soldiers good opportunities for productive farming and is waiting on Congress to say the word. President Wilson is on record as heartily approving of the idea. More than 30,000 letters have been received by the Secretary of the Interior from soldiers expressing a wish to operate such farms as the plan proposed. These letters continue to arrive by hundreds every day, and seem to refute the widespread original impression that there would not be enough soldiers desirous of farming to take up the offers. The Recent Surveys. The survey in the sixteen Southern States was conducted under tho direction of Mr. H. T. Gory, consulting engineer of the reclamation service. In Virginia -three opportunities were found within which areas it would be easily possible to secure suitable tracts of 100,000 acres each for a soldier-farm community. Two of these opportunities were along the coastal plan; one in the Piedmont.# In North Carolina, where tnere is much mo^e unreclaimed land along the coast than in Virginia, so many opportunities were found that the surveyors did not go into the Piedmont or into the mountains. They reported five opportunities in North Carolina in the coastal plain, and there are doubtless others elsewhere in the State. It is the tentative plan of the department to have only one colony in each State; therefore, the coastal region of Virginia and North Carolina can afford to have from two to five times as many opportunities as the government needs. Drainage of swamp lands, by the way, does not cost as much as clearing of cut-over lands and this is another reason why suveys have not been taken in the mountains or in the piedmont if a YOURS? ? >f Honor?this ty Loan button. :complishment lment of promof investment i of patriotism. day. ft r Loan Committee contributed by ~ 1 ?BIS 00. STORE I ! "Sm* PAY, 8. 0., APRIL 24, 1919 iji ;i ^ Not Fou But *' r i ~ * ",;\ \ ; jjf* * ? He's got a full and a clear cons* i than that, he h; ment that will p of cash and tl ness of dutv w< v*. Four loans hav Do your part to i v and final one a s will blaze its way Victory Liberty L in Basse ThtS SpOC COt HORRY DRUG "The Growii | State has a great surplus ?of avail- ^ able swamp lands on the coast. * Location, Appraisal, Repayment. Great care will be taken in working out the process of appraising the lands which the government is 1o i purchase for soldiers. It is the indention to insist upon official coop- [ 1 ei ation by the States in those proJjects somewhat along \the line of the | read-building movement, and it is considered likely that the following scheme of appraisal will be recommended by Secretary.. Lane: j Reclamation service and State com ; missions to agree upon the selection 1 o1' a location. Then they must agree i that the price to bo paid is fair, or r the service will refuse to go further. ^ When these agreements have been reached as to location and price the ^ federal farm loan bank of the dis- I trict must approve the price. Fi-(? nally, the Secretary of the Interior ; { must approve. j j Land will be purchased only where , it can be obtained in thousands of ^ acres at a time. Each farm when I the soldier takes it will have a house', and barn upon it, and will have one- !, fourth of its area prepared for plant! ing and one-fourth reclaimed suffi- | ciently for pasturing, but not for ( seeding. The other half of the farm the soldier must reclaim for himself if necessary. To gain full title the soldier will have to spend at least f.ve months of each year for five successive years on the farm, and at the end of that time must have repaid the government for the house and bam. Plan Tentative, But Dynamic. Remember, these are the tentative ideas of the department. They are yet to go to Congress in the shape of a bill, and when that happens Congress itself will doubtless have some changes to make, But the guess is that the movement has so much in it that it is bound to go, and go I i-i. A ? A:.... t|uiriviy, lo Cviiouiu;;;^'.:'.':!. v""i i? i alieady has a l(>0-acre farm scheme for returned soldiers in operation and Australia is beginning a similar one. o All most any hen wjll lay in the spring. It's the early bird that catches the high prices for winter eggs. William A Secgers has resigned as teller of the Bank of Columbia and will leave Columbia accompanied by iY.rs. Secgers for Washington. * I 571 Wj h y w M v MW iium Wf i* Loans FIVE i *.' i ' ? ? j cc hand now? V It if ^ ^ cience. More ?. r, as an invest- I be ay dividends !, le consciousill done. ? c< e gone over. c make the fifth n i success that r |p ' thro' history. ei i n I h o&n Committee t< u a I Sl itribtiled by - SB COMPANY > [ig Store" < h UAiiPia ill" a mm ah VUMtN HtAKU UN ; LEAGUE OF NATIONS V V Jelegations Ask That Equal ' l Suffrage Be Declared an 1 International Principle. t c c Paris.?The session last night of < he League of Nations commission, ( it which the new section of the cove- 1 o.nt was adopted providing that the { VIonroe Doctrine was not to be af- ^ 'tcted by the covenant's provisions, < >egan at 8:30 and did not end until ! lfter midnight. The French repre- i1 ?entatives urged that the covenant', 3e printed in French, but decision ivas reached by the commission on ' this point. The women's deputation which was received by the commission and \vl ich asked that the principle of suffrage for women be recognized in the covenant of the league as one to U applied throughout the world, as soon as the civilization and democratic development of each country might permit, was headed by the Marchioness of Aberdeen. She assured the commission of the sympathy with the League of Nations by their organization, the international council of women suffragists of the Allied nations, and she urged the commission to consider the recognition of the equal right of women to sit in the league. The further requests of the women were for the suppression of traffic in women and children, the establishment of a bureau of cducati/tn an/l a/ on i ntfivm otinnal Knwaan VM/II MltVl VI Mil 111 Wl 11(4 VI VIIMi VU1 V?U of hygiene. Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews represented the United States. Madame Bratiano, wife of the Rumanian prime minister, attended the plenary session. Members of the commission said there had been no discussion as to the date of the probable first meeting of the League of Nations organization. o ' Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Day s Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to euro Itching, Bund, Bleeding or Protrcdiiii Plies. 'antly relievos Itchinl Piles, nr.*. yon enn get .csti'ul sleep after the first application. Price 60c. J SOLDIERS'TERMS ourt-Martial Sentences Reduced to Minimum by New Scheme \ /ILL RESTORE MEN TO THEIR COMMANDS: ' J * I uthorities Working Out New System of Penal Treatment in Army. New York.?Heavy courtmartial; f ntences of life imprisonmei^or 'ch terms as twenty and tlmty ?ars are reduced to a minimum of onths by a plan permitted under my regulations which has been troducod into the disciplinary bar\cks at Governor's Island by theyj mimandant, Colonel John E. Huntr^-\ The plan involves a far-reaching \ :heme by which the soldier prisoner ay not only return to civil life free om the stigma of imprisonment but :tter equipped physically and eduilionallv to take up the bat/lo of fe- S To explain the working oW the heme and of the care of prisoners party of newspapermen were invit1 to visit the island under the audioes of the National War Work ouncil of the Y. M. C. A. The ouncil is cooperating with the miliuy authorities in the educational erk being carried on among the i isoners. There are between six hundred nd seven hundred prisoners at presiit in the barracks. Some of the cn arc from overseas and about alf arr servinir sonfnnnos fni> mili 0 ?w" * V* wy offenses, including one life . ?rm, several of 20-year terms, and few for less period. What these rntences really mean was explained y Colonel Hunt. "In practice," he said, "men sei*vg ten, twenty, thirty-year or life entences arc really sentenced to ineterminate terms. When a man omes here we make a careful inves- fl .Ration of his whole life from boyiood. All the circumstances involv- it' r?g his offense are reviewed and ?f ic general conduct is and has been :ood he can apply for 'restoration* ifter three months. Such applicaion is rarely, if ever, refused and vithin six months from the time he :as convicted he may rejoin his regr.ient to complete his service and eceive an honorable discharge." The extraordinary small proporirn of men convicted of serious offenses in the American army was m.phasizcd by Colonel Hunt. "Out >f about four million men who joinid the colors," he said, "there are >nly about five thousand in the three nilitarv orisons at Leavenworth, AJcatraz and here. Under the draft system we got into the army a great lumber of men with criminal records in civil life. We know five thousand of these by name and half of that number are included in the five thousand now in the three military prisons." *> f TO KEEP WELL A Teatpoonful of PERUNA " Three Timet Day ; j Has Naver Been Down 1 Sick Since Taking M. PERUNA L Read this letter from Mr. Robt. Minniok, Grass Range, Montana, f "In 1900 T was out In Kansas running a (hreahliiR fnglse and the threshing crew had to sleep out of doors. One of the crew brought a Per mm Almanac to the fengine one day and I was feeilllK Vwi'.v It um Nif c v! out. I decided to give Pernna a trial and sent for a bottle of Ps- w runa and a box of Peruna Tablets, which straightened me out in a hurry. "I have never been donn sick since that time. I do not take any other medicines except Peruna. I always keep it on hand. If I get my feet wet, get a cold, feel chilly, or a little bad, I always take Pernnn. People should not wait until they are dflR'n sick and then take ft, hut shu Id keep it on hand like V do V-M when they feel bud, they should use It.*' Recommended for Catarrhal inflammation of every description.