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PRES. WILSON FOR WORLD PEACE ; Tells Great Crowd in New York That He Goes Back to Paris \ . to Battle for League of Nations. CAREFUL SELFISHNESS I ~ REJECTED BY AMERICA Woodrow Wilson Goes Back to ; x Paris to Tell Peace Confer enee That Overwhelming Ma jority of People Stand Behind S League of Nations to Put End [ ? to War. ' Kew York, March 4.?President /Wilson told the American people in a naddress here tonight on the eve of his return to Paris that he was go ing back to the peace conference to battle with renewed vigor for crea tion of a league of nations. , "The first thing I am going to 'ell * the people on the other side of the "water is that an overwhelming ma jority of the American people is in ".favor of the league of nations,' said ^the .president. Speaking after Former President - Tafi had expounded the main fea tures of the proposed covenant of na . tions, Mr. Wilson told the vast aud ience, which filled the Metropolitan ? .Opera House, his opinions of oppon ents of the league^ plan in America. * - ""No party has the right to appro priate, this issue and no party will in the long ran dare oppose it," he as ] serted. Asserting that the league of nations Is "meant *is notice to all outlaw na tions that the great peoples of the world will no longer tolerate inter national crimes," the president said that Europe is a "bit sick at heart at. this very moment, because it sees that statesmen have had no vision and that the only vision has been the vision of the people." ;**And I am amazed?not alarmed but amazed, that there should be in some quarters such a comprehensive ignorance of the state of the world," continued Mr. Wilson. "Those gen tlemen do not know what the mind ?f men is just now. Everybody else does..-' .. "I. dorr not know where they have been* closeted. I do not know by what influences they have been blinded; but-.\I.Cdo know, that they have been separated from the general currents Of*'the thought of mankind. And I want to utter this solemn warning, not in the way of a. threat; the forces Of-.the.1 .world do not threaten, they operate. The great tides of the world, do' not give notice that they are going to rise and run; they rise in their majesty and overwhelming might and those who stand in !he way are overwhelmed. ' -"Now the heart of the world i9 awake and the hearts of the wsrld must be., satisfied." ??America's.soldiers," he said, "went over seas feeling they were sacredly bound "to the realization of those ideals which their president had enunciated when the United States went into the war." "There is another thing," the presi dent said, "which critics of the league had not observed. "They not only have not observed the temper of the world but they have not even observed the temper of those splendid boys in khaki that they sent across the seas," he as serted. "And do you suppose," continued the president, "that having felt that crusading spirit of these youngsters, who went over there not to glorify America but to serve their feflow men, I am going to permit myself for one moment to slacken in my effort to be worthy of them and of their cause? I do not mean to come back until 'its over over there.' And it must not be over until the nations of the world are assured of the per manency of peace." " Opponents of the league in this country do not comprehend the tem per and desire of European states men," said the president, who added that 'there is not one of them with ? whom I have come in contact who does not feel that he cannot in con science return to his people from Paris unless he has done his utmost to do something more than attach his name to a treaty of peace." Asserting that "the structure of peace will not be vital without the league of nations," the president con tinued : "I must say that I have been puz zled by some of the criticisms. I can not imagine how these gentlemen canj live and not live in the atmosphere | of .the world. ... I particularly canj not imagine how they can be Amer icans, and set up a doctrine of careful selfishness, thought out to the last detail. *'I have heard no counsel of gene rosity in their criticisms. I have heard no constructive suggestion." j Of George Washington's warning of entangling alliances President Wil son said: "The thing that he longed for was just what we are now about j tp supply?an arrangement which will disentangle all the alliances in the world." The president said criticisms of th* league "do not make any impression on me" because "the sentiment of the country is proof against such nar rowness and such selfishness as that." In closing the president said Amer ica could look forward with confi-J dence to the future for he had heard j cheering news since he came to this| side of the water about the progress that is being made in Paris. Governor Smith of New York pre sided at the meeting and introduced both President Wilson and Mr. Taft. Long before the president, coming here, tonight from Washington to sail from; Hoboken tomorrow on the steamer George Washington, reached I A BIG ROW IN THE CONFERENCE Western Delegates Eaving Be cause Congress Failed to Remedy Labor Troubles. SEC. HOUSTON LEFT HALL DURING WRANGLE Mayor Rolph, of San Francisco, j Started Disturbance by De manding Extra Session of Congress. "Washington. March 5.?Dissatisfac tion of the Western delegates over the failure of the conference of gov ernors and mayors to take definite action* toward relieving unemploy ment culminated today in a row dur ing which Secretary Houston left the hall. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, who criticised congress yesterday, pre cipitated the trouble by submitting a resolution demanding that President Wilson immediately reconvene con gress and in his message demand the passage of important legislation which failed with adjournment of the 65th congress yesterday. " _ ' the opera house, great crowds had collected along Eroadway and Seventh avenue while hundreds of policemen, the strongest guard ever provided in this city, was stationed at every > few i paces around the building. One hour before the doors were thrown open to the few thousands who had been able to obtain tickets, 20 inspectors from police headquar ters searched the opera house from cellar to uppermost gallery; show ing evidence of precautions taken to protect America's chief executive. Roofs of buildings near by were also searched. Police lines were drawn two blocks from all sides from the opera house. Seatholders arriving in automobiles were forced to de scend .one block from the building and walk to the main entrance. At least 15 uniformed policemen vized each - ticket l>efore as holder could teach the main entrance of the build ing and almost as many more men scanned the tickets before a person reached his seat., I The doors were opened shortly af ! ter 7 o'clock and as fashionably dressed men ,and women, with many representatives of the army, navy and marines filed down the aisles to their seats, the port of embarkation band played patriotic airs. The house presented a democratic appearance with hundreds of men and women in evening clothes mingling with others in plain , business dress, American and allied flags draped over the balconies were the only deco rations. The president's route' from the sta tion to the opera house was changed : at the last moment, the party driving in automobiles up Seventh avenue to .Thirty-fourth street, thence up ? Broadway. Large crowds greeted the president at the station and he ackowledged the cheers by tipping his hat and smiling. President Wilson arrived at the : opera house at #.25 o'clock accom panied by Mrs. Wilson. The president went to a cloak room where he met Mr. Taft who arrived at 8.30. Mrs. Wilson was escorted to a box in the first balcony. The president was smiling as he entered the door. It was announced he would meet after the meeting, a delegation of Irishmen who wished to present a petition asking self determ ination for their country. In the opera house seats were pro vided in the front row on the plat form for President Wilson, Mr. Taft, Gov. Smith, Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state, Abram I Elkus, former ambassador to Turkey, Cleve land H. Dodge and Alfred E. Marlind. president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. A military appearance was given the meeting by the presence on the j platform of Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks and Maj. Gen. Thomas Barry and their staffs, and Vice Admiral Al bert E. Gleayes and Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher and their staffs. Others on the platform included Jo seph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president; former Gov. Charles Whit man, former Ambassador Henry Mor ganthau, and other distinguished men. Half an hour before president ar rived hardly a seat was vacant. At that hour the audience joined whole heartedly in the singing of patriotic and popular songs, as it was an-! nounced no speeches would be deliv ered until the president entered. After Gov. Smith and members of j the committee on arrangements had i taken their places on the stage a military touch was added by the I color guard of overseas veterans who [marched to the center and presented colors. The ores-dent and Mr. Taft came on the stag*' arm in arm. They were applauded for several minutes. The audience remained standing until the president took his seat. A wave of cheers swept over the house as the president and Mr. Taft i took the center of the platform. The president stepped forward and bowed to all sides of the house. Mr. Taft then stepped forward and acknowl edged the cheers. Cleveland H. Dodge called for three cheers for President Wilson and three cheers for Mr. Taft. They were given with a will. Then some' one in the house called for three cheers for the president and the audience burst forth into another! wave of applause. Enrico Caruso, introduced by Gov. Smith, sang 'The Star Spangled Ban ner." Gov. Smith opened his speech by paying a tribute to the part the I New York soldiers h~d played in the! war. I; "The war is not yet won," he said,! WARNING NOT TO SELL COTTON Chairman Wannamaker of Cot ton Holders Advised Not to Unload Too Rapidly. ! PRICES EXPECTED TO ADVANCE BEFORE LONG __t? Wall Street is Beginning to Real ize the True Significance of the Acreage Reduction Fight. Columbia. March <5.?In the event that a special session of the legisla ture is called.. J. Skottowe Wannamak er, chairman of the State Cotton As sociation, may ask the governor to include in the call the purposes of this association. It is the intention of the committee to make this a per manent organization, and Mr. Wan namaker has in mind certain legisla tion which he would like to see en* acted, but he has net yet decided what he will do about joining in a re quest for a call for an extra session. Me has had appeals from a number of persons in the State, and he has the. matter under advisement, but at present he thinks that he will go no further than to ask the governor to include cotton needs as well as other needs in any call for an extra session. The reports coming to State cen : tral headquarters from all over the State indicate that the cotton farm ers are organizing and pushing their organization into every community. It is evident that Wall Street is be ginning to realize the significance of the fight and that orices will com mence to turn before long. Mr. Wannamaker sees then a dan ger of the farmers unloading too rapidly. He declares that it is as essential to success for them to keep on holding as it is for them to reduce the acreage. The flush of success is not The full fruits of victory. Jack Frost Peeved Maj. John D. Frost Thinks Cita del Should Have Held Po sition for Him. Columbia, March 5.?Major Johr D. Frost in announcing today his ac ceptance of the position of Assistanl Adjutant General, says that the au thorities of the Citadel, at Charles ton, of which he was elected quar termaster last August, had not h'elc his position for him while he was ir the army. The major says that wher he-was called into the service lasi ! August he wrote asking for leave ol absence. He never received a repb to his letter, but presumed that tht place was being" held for him. Upor getting his discharge he reported tc tho Citadel and was told the plao* 3iad been filled. He says other insti tutions hfdd places for - members o) the faculty called into the service. Berlin, Tuesday, March 4.?Govern ment troops at police headquarter.5 ' fired on rioters this afternoon. Sever i al casualties are reported. Stockholm, March 5.?The soviel government in Russia hopes to -ar range a big loan in America and is prepared to offer in exchange im portant mining and railroad conces sions, according to Petrograd ad vices. Berlin, Wednesday, March 5.?The volunteer marine division and a por tion of the republican militia, which has been supporting the govern ment, have gone over to the Spar ta cans. Saloniki, Wednesday, March 5.? An anti-Semitic movement of serious proportions in Bulgaria is reported in the Jewish newspaper El Liberal. A bomb was found in a Jewish syna gogue in Sofia. February 15th. "and v.'ill not be until the golden rule is written into the international law of the world." He introduced Mr. Taft as thp man "who had worn the purple of the president of the United States and with grace and honor." As president Wilson and former President Taft emerged from the room in which they conferred and walked through the thronged wings into the stage. Mr. Taft said: "1 don't know on which side of you I should be, Mr. President." He was on the left and the president smiled and nodded. Mr. Taft was greeted with loud handclapping. j A detail of police stationed at the stage, entrance failed to recognize j Joseph P. Tumulty, the president's secretary, when the latter appeared with a dozen members of the presi dential party, for whom seats had been reserved on the stage. Mr. Tumulty was held up by sever al patrolmen, who crowded back the party. Eventually a police captain who recognized him appeared and the party was permitted to pass. The president smiled broadly when Mr. Taft in his speech referred to the resolution introduced in The senate last night by Senator Lodge propos ing rejection of the league of nations constitution as now drawn. "If the president insists. :is I hope he will," said Mr. Taft, "fh.it the league be incorporated in the peace treaty and brings it back, then the responsibility for postponing peace is with the body that refuses to ratify it." The president began speaking at 9.50. Mr. Taft ended his speech at| 9.45. Gov. Smith th?-n introduced! Charles Hackett, tenor, who sang! "America." Mr. Wilson was cheered for three! minutes while the band played "I Won't Come Back Till It's Over Over There." j President Wilson said: I "My fellow citizens, 1 accept the in- < timation of the air just played. 'I wiljU ] not come back 'til its over oveH 1 there* and yet 1 pray God. in the,< interests of peace and of the world, that that may be soon." < MEMORIAL PLAN Building Should be Erected at Citadel Instead of Univer sity of South Carolina. WAR MEMORIAL AT MILITARY COLLEGE Some Aftermath of The Legisla tive Session?Governor Has 243 Bills to Sign But Few of Any Importance. Columbia, March. 4.?There has been some talk over the State re garding the action of the general as sembly in voting to ecntribute $100, 000 to the erection of a memorial Building at the University of South Carolina to the South Carolina sol diers who offered their lives in the war with Germany. The position is taken by many that the 'building should have been located at the Cita del in Charleston, which is the soldier factory of the State. The point has been raised that as a new Citadel is going to be erected it would have been the . part of economy for the State to have erect ed this memorial building at that in stitution. Many insist that it would have been much more appropriate than to have erected it at the Uni versity which never had a military feature until- the outbreak of the wa r. The bill passed by the general as sembly provides for the appropriation of $100,000 when a sum that is deemed sufficient has been raised by popular subscription. The governor of the State is to appoint a commis sion that is to have charge of the fund. ' The rush at the end of the s.-?ssior of thd general assembly proved cost ly this year. Six bills which had i been passed by both houses and en rolled for ratification were not rati fied. In the rush ami excitement in cident to the close of the sessior they were laid in the desk of the gen eral desk assistant of the house anc stayed there until yesterday, 24 hour after the adjournment sine die of th< general assembly. There was only one hill of State wide interest in the batch. That was the one to exempt from taxation n< more than 27> per cent of the amoun of capital stock and surplus of an3 bank invested in Liberty Ponds. A lo cal banker is quoted as saying thai the failure to ratify this act will eosl the banks of the State approximate i ly $2*5.000. The bill around which greatest in terest had centered was the Char leston street railway bill. This bill had been one of the storm center* of the session. Lieut. Gov. Junius T. Liles, presi dent of the senate, won the high .j praise* of the members of the upper I house of the general assembb' dur I ing the session just closed. Sunday . j morning a short while before ad ~ [ journment sine die was reached the , j members of the senate adopted reso lutions praising him for the splendid manner in which he had presided over the deliberations of the body. Senator Alan Johnstone, one of the veterans of the senate, spoke to the resolutions and declared that he had never voted for resolutions of that sort with better satisfaction than he did this time. Ke was warm in his praise of Mr. Liles. Preparations are being made for the annual meeting of the State Bar Association at Tybee near Savannah the last of May Or the first of June. A justice of the United States Su preme Court, ,the chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and the chief justice of the Georgia Su preme Court are to be invited to de liver addresses. The Georgia Bar As sociation will be in session at the same time and a joint meeting of the associations is planned. Governor Cooper has 24.1 nets pars ed by the recent general assembly awaiting Iiis signature or veto. It is understood that there will be prac tically no vetoes, except where the governor is convinced of the uncon stitutionality of the bills. The central committee of the South Carolina Cotton Association held a session here today for the purpose of discussing the further Work of the new organization. Soldiers are Called Out Columbus, Ga., March ?,.?Soldiers from (.'amp Penning here were on patrol duty tonight in ^Phoenix City and Girard, Alabama towns just across the Chattahooche river, at the request of the local authorities. A strike of textile workers, involving S.OOo persons, has been on in the mi l sections for more than a month ana while there has been no serious dis turbance officials in the two towns asked for the troops as a precaution, they said. The matter was first taken up with Gov. Kilby of Alabama, it was reported here, and then the Unit-j ed Stales troops were asked for and placed on duty. The soldiers sen! to do guard duty late today were tank corps troops and i mefi from the infantry school of arms j at Camp Benning. New York, March 4.?Stocks broke j i sharply when it became known on I Wall Street that congress had ad-! I journed without acting on the rail- i ' road revolving . fund. Investment J : railroad stocks lost one to three ? points . i -i Paris, Tuesday, March 1.?Charles [Barrett, of Union City. Georgia, head- U ing the delegation of the National 1 Board of Farm Organizations. dis-,|3 cussed the restriction on cotton im- 1 portation with Premier Clejnenceau 11 today. Mr. Barrett later quoted M. 1 r'le.menceau as saying that the world ? needed cotton and it should go ev-jl :-rywhere. ' L BEAVER BOARD? m ?? - / For walls and ceilings, old ond new. BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc. SENATE KILLS NECESSARY BILLS All Night Filibuster Continued To-Day By the Repub licans. INTEREST OF COUNTRY TOTALLY DISREGARDED Traitor LaFollette Speakers for Several Hours in the Service of Lodge. ! Washington, March 4.?The Re publicans in the senate today contin ued a general filibuster which lasted " throughout ihe night. In the house, 1 Chairman Flood of the foreign af fairs comir.ittee finally succeeded in 1 bringing up a resolution requesting ' the American peace delegates to urge ' the freedom of Ireland. Crowded " galleries followed the proceedings of * both houses until' after midnight. ' Hundreds of spectators were in their I seats this morning. The general de " ficiency bill was the measure against II which the filibuster was aimed, but 5 Republican leaders admitted it tc ! be passed finally, as their purpose was to prevent action on other leg ' islation. Senator Lafollete spoke 5 several hours, beginning at 1 o'clock. y The all-night session in the house 1 i was enlivened by a hot exchange be ' tween Representative Flood of Vir " ginia and Representative Walsh of t j Massachusettes, which threatened a t! personal encounter. Mr. Flood inter " rupted Mr. Walsh while the latter was reading the report of the investi gation of the National Security League, Flood making" the point of 1 order that Walsh had digressed from the report to make a speech. Walsh retorted that if Flood said he was making a speech, he told what was 1 false. Flood rushed across the chamber but was stopped by the doorkeeper and several members, j After order was restored Walsh I apologized. Washington, March r.?Congress adjourned at noon in the midst of a Republican filibuster in the senate that killed a long list of important j measures. j Among the bills that failed of pas [ sage was the one appropriating seven ! hundred and fifty jnillion dollars for I the railroad administration, without which some administration leaders say the railroads must be returned to ! their owners before the middle of: April. Just before adjournment the pres- j ident authorized final notice to the I Republicans that their efforts to force j an immediate extra session had fail ! ed. that he was unshaken in his de j termination not to call congress until j his work was done at the peace con- j fere nee. Big bills that failed included both j the army and navy appropriation; measures. Washington, March 4.?Upon ad-I journment of congress with import ant legislation killed by the Republi can senate filibuster. President Wil- { son issued a statement declaring "A group of men in the senate have de- j liberately chosen to embarrass thej administration of the government j and to imperil the financial inter-! est of the railway systems of the | country. j Sunday School Work AH Sunday Schools to Be Offi- i daily Visited This Month. ; Every Sunday School in South Car- 1 olina of all denominations, is to be ] personally visited during the month j { of March by an ollicial representative j t of the Organized Sunday School Work | j of South Carolina. Th is is the first; ( lime that a whole month has been j. set apart for official School Visitation t in this State. \s Organization for the visitation hasJa already begun. Each of the two! hundred district presidents in thej State has been asked to appoint an j official visitor for each school in the i 1 district. This will mean a force of I*' about twenty-five hundred visitors. ? 0 These official visitors, upon invita-j? tion of the superintendent, will speak' 11 briefly to the Sunday School, ex- c tending the fraternal greetings of thej" international. State. County and Dis trict Sunday School Associations. They will also speak of. the coming! P State Convention at Florence, June ft! >, -i, 5, and make other announce-! A nents that will be of interest to ev-j T ?ry member of the Sunday School, i o The officials at the head of the or- j p auiization in this county are*: P. C.; Jowman, Sumter, President; Mrs. W. j d. PeLorme. Sumter, Secretary- j ta 7reastirer, and the following District la 'residents: W. E. Moore, Tindal; W.^ W 1. Freeman, Rembert; R. J. Koib, qi Sumter': William Davis, Concord; J. B> 1. Wilson. Mayesville; William Mc- fij jcod, Mayesville. tu ULEORRUI LODGE'S POLICY Republican Leader Goes to Ex tremes in Effort to Block Wilson's Peace Plans. THREAT TO DEFEAT PEACE TREATY Republican Leader Introduces Resolution Proposing That Senate Record Opposition to Constitution of League of Na j tions and Reads List of Mem I bers Who Will Support Him.*. j Washington, March 3.?Senator ! Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republi i can leader, introduced a resolution : late. tonight proposing the approval ! of the constitution of the league of : nations as now drawn and favoring the immcditae conclusion of peace [with Germany without waiting the .working out of the league plan. .:-, j Senator Lodge requested uham> j mous consent for immediate consid eration of the resolution but Senator j Martin, Democratic leader and Sen jator Swanson, both, of Virginia, join ; ed in simultaneous objection and the i resolution went over under the rules, j Unable to obtain consideration of I his measure, Senator Lodge read the j names of 37 members of the next ! senate, which will consider the p$ace jtreaty, who, the minority leader said, ! favor his resolution, j There was no further discussion of j the matter and debate on the $750, 000,000 railroad administration re> volving fund was resumed. The move iby the Republican leader came as a I surprise to many of the Democratic j senators, but a few of them had. been i advised of it in advance. ? On the list read by Mr. Lodge were ; the names of several Republican sen ! ators-eleet. The total of 37 is more than one-third of the membership or I enough to defeat ratification of the I peace treaty for which a two-thirds j vote is required. A few senators i whcse names were not on the list, Mr. Lodge said, also had advised him of their support of his resolution* Senator Lodge's resolution follows! "Whereas, under the constitution it is a function of the senate to advise and consent to, or dissent from, the ratification of any treaty of the Unit ed States, and no such treaty can .be come operative without the consent of the senate expressed by the af firmative vote of two-thirds of the senators present; and, "Whereas, owing to the victory of the arms of the United States and of the nations with whom it is associat ed, a peace conference was convened, and is now in session, at Paris for the purpose of setting the terms of pea<-e; and "Whereas, a committee of the con ference has proposed a constitution for a league of nations and the pro posal is- now before the peace con ference for its consideration, now, therefore, be it resolved by the senate of the United States in the discharge of its constitutional duty of advice in regard to treaties that it is the sense of the senate that while it is their de sire that the nations of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament, the constitu tion of the league of nations in the Torm now proposed to the peace con ference should not be accepted by :he United States: ? .And be it resolved further, that it s the sense of the senate that the tegotiations on the part of the Unit ed States should immediately be di rected to the utmost expedition of he urgent business of negotiating >eace terms with Germany satisfac ory to the United States and the na ions with whom the United States s associated in the war against the rerman government, and the propos l1 for a league of nations to insure he permanent peace of the world hould be then taken up for careful nd serious consideration." Pai is. March G.?The report of the eace conference commission to de ?rmine the responsibility of authors f the war, it is understood, will be ompleted tonight and presented: at n early meeting of the supreme (Hindi. Secretary Lansing is chair ian of this commission. Archangel. Monday, March 3?The olsheviki army continues to press le offensive against the allied and merican troops south of Archangel, he allies have evacuated the village l Vevsievkawa. according to a re :>ri received here. Copenhagen, March 6.?Both Spar cans and government forces lost a rge number of killed in the fighting ednesday before the police head larters in Berlin, according to a ?rlin dispatch to the Politiken. The rhting was finally ended bv nefiro Ltion, iAJl:.aLJBJ??