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Consolidated Aug. 2,U WORLD PEACE NOT SECURE - Premier Clemenceau Warns Al lies That Flame of War May Flare Up. RUSSIA MAY SUPPLY MAN POWER FOR HUNS ^French Premier of Opinion That Prussia May Yet Draw Strong j Support From Russia. j ?_ Paris, Feb. 9 (By the Associated j .NPress):?"While I have said that the i "war has been won, it would perhaps he more accurate to say that there is j *-.a lull in the storm," said George '? - Clemenceau, the French premier, in j the course of an interview with the Associated Press today. "At least," ' he added, "it is as ? well to face ? squarely all the possibilities." Although Germany has been beat- j en militarily and had been largely i disarmed, there still remained, the j ?V-premier pointed out, "a chaotic but [ ^fruitful Russia from which great I > help may be drawn by the Teutons."i There would be danger, he thought, | of a "reopening of the military de- j ' bade if it were not for the assurance i President Wilson had voiced recently r that whenever France or any other free people v^re menaced the whole world would oe ready to vindicate its liberty." In the society of nations, said the premier, each nation must be willing! I to renounce its traditional aloofness, > and be willing to employ the national strength outside of its own country', both in war and in peace. Premier Clemenceau warmly prais ed the help the American troops Aad given in winning the war for de- j mbcracy and expressed disbelief that j ' there was not a man in the American j > army of occupation who regretted . that he had "fought on the side of freedom," because he had found more -? creature comforts in Germany than in France. "I lived in the United States in my j - young and formative days." said Pre- j - mier. Clemenceau, beginning. "Per- j - baps, therefore, I may-be indulged toj say a few words to our allies on the other side of the Atlantic. Not by way of. advice or ? propaganda, but frankly, as friend- to friend. ?Z'The friendship between our peo-j pies, which has subsisted for a cen- j tury and a half, is a very beautiful j th'ng. The like of it has never ex- i isted for the same length of time be- f tween any other two peoples. This! cordiality, cemented by our contact . during the war, must endure in clos- I er measure hereafter. To this end; our minds must meet. "The entrance of America into the j gre-'t war was full of dramatic in- i tqrest. The application of nationwide conscription without the slightest dis- j turbance. the- universal self-denial to > supply us with food and all our re- j cuirements, the unity , of purpose and j the amazing energy of 110,000.000 of! people of so varying and complex a ? character challenged our admiration I and gratitude in such fashion as no j one but ourselves can know. N "And the way the American soldiers | fought 1 Nothing could have been j finer. Inspired by the holiest ideals. I may say transfigured, they entered j upon their task with all the determ-! ination, all the fervor, all the spirit- j ual purpose of the old time crusaders. ? They did work! France might have: died; she would not have surrender-; ed. But do not mistake me. I do not j mean to minimize the importance of, the American military aid, nor of the American Red Cross, nor -the Salva-! tion Army, nor any of the helpful,' agencies. There never has been in all the world's history so perfect a coordi- i nation of the holy purpose of the; righteous minded inhabitants of the! earth. And now the war is won. The: world is made safe for democracy, j for life, liberty and the pursuit of j happiness, as Jefferson said in the i American declaration of independence. ; And the future is before us. What has it in store? "I am told that some of these gal- j lant American soldiers, who lived in, trenches, slept in dugouts and bur-; rowed in the mud in devastated and ! war torn France, when they crossed ! the Rhine and in an undevastated land, round clean beds and baths, rather regret that they fought on the side of freedom and would rather; have fought on the side of the mur dering Germans. I do not believe it.; I am sure there is no American sol dier who does not recognize that France, the battle field of the ? %var, could not give him the comforts that Germany, undevastated. was able to. I do not and will not believe so mean ly of a single one of the brilliant war riors who came from the States to our aid in the great struggle for civ ilization against savagery. It is in credible. It is- the tragedy of the war that devastated France could not give them the comforts that unbroken Germany could. "I believe there is some criticism that there have been unfair charges by the French for food and other things. Well, there are things to b? said about that. First, for many years; the Americans have been coming to ?Europe and with abundant means 'and great generosity have been spoil ing our people. They have paid for everything with a hounteous hand. As a result they have taught our people, who were willing pupils, that they were rich and very generous. It was but human that our people should ex-1 jjed April, 18S0. < "Br Job k 581. 8UI El TROOPS GUARD MI L W. W. Pickets Are Sent About j Their Business at Butte. MINERS WO WANT TO WORK MAY DO SO; - j I Strong Arm Methods of Intimi- j dating Labor by Strikers Not! Allowed. j BWte, Feb. 10.?Strikers in thej mines at Butte who object to the re cent reduction of a dollar a day in wages and who are insisting on the j abolition of "rustling" card system, were halted on their way to picket the mines by guards of United States sol- j diers. Those who decided to go to work were permitted to pass. ? pect much from the Americans. "It is only fair to say that in every case where the attention of the French government has been brought to a case of extortion, earnest and, 11 think, effective effort has been made to stop it. Compared with the United States France is a small country and limited in her resources. Necessarily, she is provident, perhaps unpleasant ly careful, I would say; not miserly, nor certainly not intentionally extor tionate. But also you must know that all the time our own French people have paid the same prices for what they bought that our American friends have. / "Throughout the war our relations with the American army have been cordial, and your treasury officials will assure you, I am sure, that there has always been a spirit of generosity on both sides. Any suggestion that | we have asked payment for trenches or the burial places of your brave sol diers is atrocious. For all futures ages, the graves of American sb.diers wii*. be in the tender and sacred keeping of our grateful people. "I have said that the war is won. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that there is a lull in the storm. At least it is as well to face squarely all of the possibilities. "Recent disclosures have enabled us j to look deeper into the purposes ofj the enemy than1 we could heretofore, j It was not purely a dream of-mili tary domination on the part of Prus sia. It was a definite, calculated con spiracy to exterminate France as well industrially and commercialy as in a military sense. In these efforts the Cerman bankers and manufacturers joined their general staff. The ex posures of Dr. Muehlon of the Krupp works and of Kurt Eisner, at the Berne Socialist Conference, made this clear. "And this fact- explains many of the activities of the German army which we were unable to understand. We can now see why they stele the machinery from our factories, why they destroyed the coal mines of Lens, why there was all the wanton devas tation of French territory even while they were in retreat. It was thought to be a part of their tactics of mili tary frightfulness. Instead we can see new that it was a part of their deliberate commercial design. "And in this phase of their war making effort they have not been altogether unsuccessful. The industrial life of France has been so wrecked that its resuscitation is most difficult, while by reason of. her military sur render Germany has been able to save her factories intact and ready for im mediate efficient operation. Indus trially and commercially, as between France and Prussia, for the present the victory is with the Htm. "And financially, by reason of the blockade (the value of which as a military factor no one will question) the German war debt is almost whol ly a debt to her own people, easily re pudiated, while the debt of France is one which must be paid. H^re aprain the war has proved something like a pyrrhic victory for Fra.nce. 4'The French fortune invested abroad before the war was large, some 50.000.000.000 or 60,000.^00. 000 (francs) of French stocks. What has become of that fortune? The best we can hope for is that payments on about two-thirds of it may be con-' sidered as simply deferred; that the immense sum accumulated by French thrift and loaned abroad will be col lectible eventually. "France has something like 20, 000.000.0*00 francs invested in Russia; ; two-thirds of that sum in Russian government securities and the re mainder in industrial enterprises. The. French people had other billions in Balkan and Turkish obligations. Then just before the war. the disorders in Mexico deprived us of any revenues from about 2,500,000,000 francs in vested there, and we are having the same experience with several other billions in South America, notably in the immense French investments in railroads. "I mention some of these financial details to show how the French for tune has shrunk so that our people can no longer derive a large income from abroad. "The paying investments abroad are relatively inconsiderable compar ed to the debts that France has con tracted abroad durinpr the war. par ticularly in America and in England. Th?- French government has also loan ed considerable sums to her small al lies, just as America has done with her associates. "We look forward, therefore, to an' od Fear not?Let an the ends Thon AJ IITER, S: 0., WEDNES] Southern Business Men Threat ened With Bankruptcy By Freight Rates. DISCRIMINATION IN FREIGHT RATES CAUSE Wholesale Grocers in Favor of Prompt 'Return of Railroads to Private Ownership. Washington, Feb 10.?Charles E. Cottrell, of Atlanta, representing the Southern Traffic League, told the in terstate commerce committee today that many Southern business men will be farced into bankruptcy'" if the wholesale revision of freight rates initiated under the arbitrary power of the director general is continued." He said it is now proposed to establish mileage rates on eighty Southern com modities, for which, he declared, there is no justification. He declared he was authorized to announce that 95 per cent of the twenty-one hun dred members of the Southern Whole sale Grocers* Association desired the prompt return of the railroads to pri vate management, because of the 'poverty of service.' Car Jumps Trestle Four Are Killed and Sixteen In jured. Greenville. Feb. 8.?Four persons are dead and six are seriously injured, two probably fatally, and 14 others are suffering from minor injuries, as I the result of a wreck on the Pied I mont & Northern near Chick Springs j this morning, when the rear coach of ; a northbound train jumped the high est trestle cn the road and plunged to the ground. 90 feet below. .The car was almost completely demolished by the fall, and virtually all of the pas {sengers received injuries. The for i ward coach remained on the trestle ! after ooth trucks had jumped the rails and carried the car to within a few feet of a point at which it would have toppled over. ! Tacoma Strike Over Tacoma, Feb. 10.?Following the decision of the central labor council \ast' night the general strike is off in Tacoma today. Members of the un ion went back to work this morning. I. 1 . 11 ?'. p ! immediate future in which we must ! regularly meet great interest charges I in America and elsewhere abroad, to ! provide which wc'will have only the j resources at home. j "If our national debts were due ! only to our own people the problem j would not be so difficult, because we j would not then have to consider the i sending out of the country of great Jsums at disadvantageous rates of ex j change. The money collected from jthe French people for interest on the jnatior.al loans would be distributed \ among the French people, unequally j perhaps, but nevertheless the interest I payments would remain in the coun i try. to be used p.artly for reconstruc ! tion and as capital for the develop jment of our industrial life, j "Even as to the military triumphs ! over Germany there is a situation not ? altogether without disouieting fea ! tares for France. It is quite true that j the allies have taken the German navy '? and in large measure have disarmed I the enemy. But there remains a chaotic yet fruitful Russia from ? which great help may be drawn by ? the Teutons. "With the British army demobiliz j ed. The American army back home [and France isolated there might be a : danger Of a reopening of the military debacle by Germany which might ; embarrass us were it not for the as surance which President Wilson gave ' us ill the chamber of deputies the ; other day that under the* operation of j the league of nations 'whenever ; France or any other free people is threatened, the whole world will be ! ready to vindicate its liberty' so that "there never shall be any doubt or j waiting or surmis-e ' This has given 'us great solace. ! "And so we bid the departing American soldiers God-speed and a happy return to their peaceful fire sides. "Of course a society of nations in which America and France enter must be supported profoundly by the conviction of the peoples and by a determination entering into the agree ment to be willing to renounce their traditional aloofness from other peo ples and willing to employ the na tional strength outside their own country both in time of peace as well as under the pressure of war. "We shall have problems, but France will face them, as she has dune, with courage and with an abiding faith in the triumph of risrht and justice. As was said of OhovaJier Bayard, so must it be said of France ?she will continue 'sans pour et sans r'-prooho.' "All of our plans are based on lhrt splendid platform laid down by Pres ident Wilson. In perfect harmony with the principb-s which he h;is enunciated we are striving for higher and holier idealism in the conduct of the affairs of the world. Divested of all mercenary aspirations we join heartily and unreservedly in the ef fort to make a heiter world and one of simple ;in:.uie?.- to ali mankind." mit at be thy ConnrryV Tay God-K a )AY, FEBETJARY 12 li BEFORESENATE I Final Effort To-Day to Bring' I Constitutional Amendment i j to a Vote. . I i : i i BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT OF A BIG VICTORY j i Great Crowd Filled the Galleries! and Nearly All of the Sena- i i tors Were Present. i i ! - I ? Washington, ? Fob. 10.?Before, j crowded galleries and with most of j i the senators in their seats, the house j resolution proposing the submission j j of the equal suffrage amendment of j I the federal constitution" was called up j j in the senate today at 12.40. Both ; j Lides are prepared for the final test, j j confident of a decision before adjourn unent. Before the debate opened pe j ti.ions in behalf of resolutons from i Kansas, "Michigan. Nevada, Maine j I and Missouri legislatures were pre-^ i seated by senators from tbcse States, j j Because the resolution is up for pas- j } sage on the third reading it is not sub J ject to amendment, except by unapi- j \ mous consent. ' Washington, Feb. 10.?Another ef I fort to pass the equal suffrage i amendment resolution was made to day in the senate. When the senate j convened the galleries were crowded. I Admission was by card only because j of the great demand. Advoctaes of the measure are hopeful of winning J ?vor the one vote necessary to give I them the required two-thirds ma j jority. I Fire in Spartanburg jPerry Burnett and Daughter Die in Building?Big Prop erty Loss. Spartanburg. Feb. 9.?Fire here ! early today destroyed a three-story j brick building on South Liberty street : owned by T. B. Ross, resulting in a j heavy property loss and the death of i two persons. Perry Burnett and his I daughter. Miss Lila Burnett, who oc i^upTed rooms on the second"Slory of j the building. The first floor of the ; building was occupied by the T. B. :. Ross wood-working plant and by Bur | nett & Garlington. who had stored in j their portion of the building a number j of automobiles. Mr. Ross' loss is said I to be $30,000 with insurance of less j than $10.000. Burnett & Garlington's j loss of .$20,000 is said to have been I practically covered by insurance. Mr. Burnett and his daughter, who j occupied rooms on the second story of I the buiding, were awakened by other : roomers in the house and until the j building was completely enveloped in ! flames it was thought they had left tthe structure. The charred bodies I were found in the ruins today. Mr. 'Burnett was 64 years of ago and his daughter 20. He was a brother of ; Judge J. J. Burnett of this city and of E. Bell Burnett of Columbia. Seattle Strike Over I Conservative Leaders in Favor of Calling Off Strike. Seattle. Feb. 10.?Conservative leaders of the labor union met at 9.30 this morning with general strike con ference in an effort to induco the com mittee to recommend that the gener al sympathetic strike in progress here be e.-illed off. Labor Unions Disagree j San Francisco Union Leaders; Say Seattle Strike is Unfair, j Sen Francisco. Feb. S.?The local; |7.?bor council, it was announced today. , has refused to adopt a resolution un- i der which the local trade unionists j [would refuse to work on any job! j transferred here from points where a j i strike is in progress. Frank Miller,-! secretar yof the Frisco Iron "Trades: Council, declared the Seattle strike is : ; unfair and not sanctioned by th.> ?n- i t er national union. ! Fighting in Berlin Spartacans Again Raise Stan dard of Revolution. Zurich. Feb. 1?.?Spartacan disor ders of a grave nature broke out in Berlin Saturday evening, according to advices received here. Soldiers and sailors, commanded by Former Chief of Police Eichhorn, are reported to have occupied Alexander Platz and government troops fired on them, killing six and wounding forty. The German censorship is withholding de tails. Big Strike Threatened Men Engaged in Building Trades May Quit Work. X"\v York. Feb. 10.?Up to noon ' no order had been issued fo ra strike of the hoisting engineers and brick layers employed by the building trades. Employees of the association i in one hundred and twelve cities, it was reported, would strike ibis morn-] ius in sympathy with the carpenters.1' s? ybs ran )19. GEORGIA SUES I SOUTH CAROLINA Courts Will Be Asked to Settle j Boundry Lines Between States. ! GEORGIA CLAIMS ALL OF SAVANNAH RIVER! Title to Several Islands and; Big Power Development Also) Involved. -.? i Columbia, Feb. 10.?The State of | Georgia is planning to bring suit to i test the boundary line between that j State and South Carolina. A letter j from the Georgia attorney general j says the line is in dispute from the ] momh of the Savannah River to the j North Carolina line. It is understood i that Georgia claims the line extends I to the South Carolina bank of the Savannah River. The suit will involve I several islands and a power develop ment. j _- I j Changes in High i School Law I - I jSwearingen Says Three Im [ provements Needed?Would Increase Pay. Columbia, Feb. 10.?X number of (measures having to do with public [ education have been brought before j the general assembly. John E. Swear jingen, State superintendent of educa tion, has recently drawn up a bill to i establish and maintain high schools j and to repeal an act of the statutes of j 1916. ! Mr. Swearinger. is asking for three i improvements in the high school law. !ln a statement given out by Mr. jSwearingen, the improvements needed are briefly outlined. The changes sug ! gested are: "First. An increase from $55 to i $75 per month in the salary of the h:gh school assistant. "Second. Extra "State aid for the 'maintenance of centralized high (schools in rural districts where three f or more districts cooperate to estab lish such a high school. L ''Third; Air-allowance of $3 per [month to pay the tuition of any high j school pupii living outside the- dis j trict. ' "The strain of the year has proved i the necessity of a better salary for phigh school teachers. Unless this raise is authorized, it will be impossi ble to hold competent teachers at the present price of $55 per month. "Xot a few country communities i have developed marvelously under the [rural graded school law. Such dis | tricts ought to be still further aided ! to develop efficient centralized high } schools. Owing to low tax values in 1 the country, a double amount of State laid must be provided before these j schools can be successfully operated, i "Charleston, Columbia. Spartanburg, ! Greenville. Aiken, Cheraw and Beau j fort refused last year to open the i doors of the high schools to pupils fliving outside their district, j "Beiton. Laurens, Pickens, West ; minster, Marion, Darlington. Sumter, i Orangeburg and a number of other j towns admitted all the country boys I and girls applying for high school in | struction. Xot a few o fthese towns !are spending more money from local punds to maintain their high schools I than the districts now receive from ! State aid. The admission of outside j pupils is proving a burden on these i communities. Unless relief is prompt ; ly provided, some of these towns will ; be compelled to return to the per ! m'cious practice of charging tuition. I Such a policy will rob country boys j and girls of adequate high school ad vantages and will drive these chil dren back to their local country schools. The rum schools in turn will thus be forced to undertake tenth and eleventh grade instruction, which will tax the time of teachers and will deprive the lower grades of needed instruction. < "The State Board of Education is, also authorized to pay the salary and traveling expenses of a high school, inspector, in his discretion. High] school inspection now is done by the j professor of secondary education in i the University. "The State board is authorized to j raise the salaries of the normal high' school teachers from $1.000 to $1. 200. Successful classes are maintain- j ed in Conway. Orangeburg and Wal-! ha!la. The instructors are employed 1 for 1 2 months in the year and receive j $82.33 a month." In all other respects the proposed bill is identical with the revised high school act of 1916. Monarchist Leader Is Wounded Disorder in Portugal Not Yet Suppressed. Lisbon. Feb. lrt.?It is reported < from Aveiro that Captain Henrique DePniva Oouceire, the royalist lead? er, has been wounded, probably in the lighting at Lam ego or Vizieu which were taken by the republican forces. i London. Feb. S.?The government * is quietly arresting and deporting ail < undesirables who they believe to be < holsheviki propagandists, according; t 10 the Daily Sketch. I ] [ 8G?THBOS. EtiMbUxlK* Jam, Xfe> Vol. XLVII. No. 63. TROTZKY MAY MADE EMPERO Leader of Reds Aping; Royal Wearing Uniform and Travel ing in Emperor's Car. FATE OF BOLSHEVISM HANGS IN BALANCE Troops Are Tired of Aimless Fighting and Demand an Im mediate Change. Wi j Warsaw, Friday, Feb. 7 (By the Associated Press)?That Bolshevism , is in its critical stage, either turning to imperialism, with perhaps Leon I Trotzky, minister of war and marine^ I as the new emperor, or slipping back j to the id?>a of Nihilism, with a sort of. j orderly disorder, is the impression given by many refugees of all nation alities who have arrived here from Russia. The correspondent has talk ed to a number of these people as to j what might happen in Russia itthere I is no outside interference. One of I them was a Bolshevist soldier Who.de j serted while his contingent was. en ! gaged in raiding the country west of Minsk. "Our chief characteristic," he said, I "is that we are tired?tired of fool ting, tired of killing, tired of fighting land tired of wandering from pillarto j post.. There is no doubt that Leon ? I Trotzky is attempting to obtain order and to whip the troops into shape. He is known to be terribly ambitious and pos3ibly he is dreaming of becoming czar, knowing that Bolshevism has failed." Recent rumors that the soviet gov ernment troops have evacuated Petro-r gracf are unconfirmed. Tltere was a general belief in Petrograd during January that the allies were about to occupy the city. It was even stated": that the entente powers had issued a proclamation to that effect and many persons claimed to be able to cite quo tations from the document. Bolshe vist chiefs have been so alarmed that a train load of supplies was recently turned back while on the road frphV Moscow to Petrograd in the that the allies were in the latter." Trotzky is reported to -have chang ed from his flashy clothes and .red. neckties to a uniform. He~1s said to be riding here and there on., the train formerly at the disposal ot^S" emperor and to be using the formed imperial automobile, j One evidence that the long expected j abandonment of Petrograd may bo ! under way is the removal to Moscow j of the few pictures remaining at the j Hermitage. The galleries which have } always been open to the public at;the Hermitage have been closed. \ The ! building itself is dismantled and is ! being occupied by workmen.. The J deaths at Berlin of Dr. Liebknechfrand ? Rosa Luxemburg, the German Spar j tacan leaders, apparently made a deep j impression on the Bolshevist chief ' tains. Trotzky ordered public mourn i ing at Petrograd and street car traf- r j *".c was stopped, but when officers tried j to close the theatres, the sailors, who j seemed to do as they pleased in Pe- . j trograd, are reported to have declar j cd they wore going to dance and en joy themselves as, usual. . Creat demonstrations were held be ? fore the winter palace and the red j flag was everywhere at half mast. ! There were violent speeches in which I Philipp Schiedemann, a member' of 'the Ebert cabinet in Berlin, was-bit i terly attacked. His effigy made of I cotton wool, was solemnly hanged and j burned. The "Nardovni Dom" or j "Peoples House" was rcchristened j "The House of Rosa and Liebknecht* i There was also organized a mourn j ing demonstration at Moscow, it being j said that it was for "the oppressed i nations." Among those who partici i pated were a few Chinese coolies and some Pengalese who were wrapped in furs adjudged to have been confiscat ed by the Bolshevists. One speaker i said: "We Bolshevists are the legendary titans who will break from our soul : ders all the chains of the world." It is said that Feodor Chaliapine, a favorite opera singer during the lat ter days of the imperial regime, was singing at the opera at Moscow at an enormous salary. Reports have been received that executions are being hurried so that jailers may have a holiday during celebrations, there be ing an avernge of from six to eight persons put to death each day at Pe trograd and Moscow. Arrivals from Petrograd are now very rare. One lad came to the Pol ish frontier recently and said he had traveled in a sleeping car, the cur tains of which had been cut. the win dows broken and the walls plastered wi a Bolshevist placards. In his com partment was a woman who journey ed nearly 300 miles to buy some su gar near the frontier. The car was so crowded, he said, that men slept in the baggage racks which were roomy ' and strong. Denver Schools Close Strike of Engineers Close Half of City Schools. _ Denver. Feb. 1'V?Twenty-five of the 85 public schools here were clos ed today as the result of the strike.of stationary engineers, which started at * o'clock this morning in consequence the mi hi re of the school board o meet their demand for an increase u Wag&&