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Grace Seizes
Organization
Hyde Faction May Appeal to
Court, However
Charleston, May 5.?The city Demo
cratic convention was held today, with
good order prevailing. A Grace vote
of 160 against 133 for the Hyde fac
tion carried all elections, under pro
test, however, from the Hyde laction,
the protests on all votes taken being
filed by Arthur R. Young as spokes
man foe the Hyde following. It is
probable that court proceedings w.ll
be filed by the Hyde factions, seeking
to have the convention held today de
clared illegal. The convention did not
adjourn, but receded to meet again
upon call, as provided by the rules of
the party.
A. Marion Stone, a Grace man, was
elected president of the convention,
?both temporary and permanent, and
W. Turner Logan was elected chair
man of the new executive committee,
with H. F. Barkerding vice chain.>an,
this office being created by amend
ment to the constitution. The date of
the jSrinmary was fixed for August 12.
Resolutions were unanimously passed,
mdorsing President Wilson's course
during the war and at the peace con
ference, and other resolutions were
likewise unanimously passed favoring
an eight hour day for labor and dou
ble pay for overtime. The constitu
tion and rules were not much altered
from the preceding ones. Arrange-,
ments were' made for candidates to!
speak in school auditoriums, if this
could be done, otherwise in halls, j
The privacy of balloting at club meet-,
ings was provided for. Provision was!
made for enlisted men to cast their
ballots in primary elections.
Majority and minority reports were
submitted by the committee of creden
tials and the committee on constitu
tion and rules, the Grace faction in
each case carrying by vote the ma
jority reports, which as to one sus
tained the action of the executive com
mitee on protests and other other,
points, and as to the other adopted the
report of the majority in the commit
tee on constitution and rules.
Frank R. Frost, who opened the
meeting as executive committee chair
man, was given unanimous thanks for
his services, when he retired in favor
of A. Marion Stone, temporary presi
dent. C. M. Brinker was elected vice
president, W. F. Knapaux, secretary,
and N. Sottile, treasurer. Hyde candi
dates for these offices were. H. E.
Raines, A. J. Moorer, L. M. Shimel
and A. T. Smythe. W. Turner Logan,
elected city chairman, was opposed by
J. R. Owens, Jr.
At 2 o'clock the convention had just
arrived at the point of appointing a
credentials committee, temporary offi
,cers being elected a few minutes be
fore. There was only one vote by
roll call taken, that, on the election
of temporary president, and this was
rechecked, showing a voting strength
of Grace faction 160, Hyde faction
133, according to the prima facie roll
reported to the convention by the ex
ecutive committee.
, Mr. Young then filed a protest, tak
ing the ground that only un contested
delegates should vote. Voting there
after was admitted on the basis of 160
to 133, so far as totals were concerned,
and after each vote a protest was filed
by Mr. Young, excepting where unani
mous procedure occurred. The conven
tion receded about 4.15 o'clock.
Limbs for Greeks
Red Cross Establishes Artificial
Limb Factory at Athens
Athens, March 29 (Correspondence
of The Associated Press)?The Bal
kan Commission of the American Red
Cross has brought to Athens an Amer
ican superintendent and assistant
with supphe? in the rough for making
artificial limbs and are instructing
Greek workmen in the- art.
The American workmen have taken
temporary charge of the school for the
mutilated of the Greek army until a
Greek superintendent and Greek
workmen can be trained to take over
the plant. The artificial legs will be
fitted and given to Greek soldiers. It
he* he intention of the Greek govern
ment to see that every soldier who
needs one is provided with an Amer
ican artificial leg.
An artificial limb weighing only four
pounds are now being supplied to hun
dreds of mutilated soldiers who form
erly had crude peg legs and cumber
some twenty pound artificial limbs of
another pattern. The joy of these men
at being able ence more to ?r eve
around easily is daily expresses in the
Arr.eri^itn Red Cross workshops by
dancing about on their new limbs with
expressions o? gratitude which, )f it
w?-re not sc pitiful, would dj amus
ing.
As a corollary part of this work, the
American Red Cross also is support
ing a school for the reeducation of
the mutilated. At this school the dis
abled are being taught useful trades ct
all kinds including tailoring, shoe
making, carpentering, metal working,
basketry, and stenography and typing
For this latter work, a large number
of American typewriters with Greek
characters are needed.
Burned in Apartments
Disastrous and Fatal Fire in
Columbus, 0.
Columbus. Ohio. May 6.?There an
seven known dead, with a probabilitj
that the number will reach ten oi
twelve, and a score injured, some fa
tally, a sthe result of a fire in apart
ment buildings here last night. Sev
eral persons are missing who are be
lieved to be in the ruins of the build
ing.
Paris. May 6.?Xo actual com pro
mise of the Adriatic problem has bee:
arranged with the Italian delegates t
the peace conference, now returnim
to Paris as far as was known her
last night. The fact that they are re ;
turning, however, is regarded as en j
couraging,
Down With Royalty
Busts of Kaiser and Crown
Prince Removed from Ger
man Schools
Coblenz, April 6?According to
German newspapers published in the
unoccupied districts beyond the
American bridgehead many school
masters during the revolution remov
ed the busts of the Emp?rer and the
Crown Prince which decorated thier
class rooms. Some time afterward
the busts were restored to their places
but recently the Ministry of Educa
tion has ordered them down again.
There was also a proposal to change
the names of all streets in Germany
named in honor of royalties. This
has been met by the press with some
hilarity and sugestions that there
were more important topics for dis
cussion just now than that of the
names of the streets.
Rate Question in Court
Railroad and Telephone Cases
Up For Judicial Decision
Washing.on. May 5.?Authority of
the director general of railroads and
the postmaster general to increase in
tra-state railroad, telegraph and tele
phone rates throughout the country
was argued today in the supre:.ie
court in connection with appeals fr jm
proceedings originating in a number
of States. . Hearings on the railroad
case was finished today but argu
ments in the wire rate cases will not
be concluded until tomorrow.
The appeal in the railroad case
came from North Dakota while the
telegraph and telephone rate cases
arose from aroceedings in South Da
kota, Kansas, Massachusetts and Il
linois.
Briefs as amici curiae were filed in
the.two cases on behalf of the Nation
al Association of Railroad and Public
Utilities commissioners representing
about 35 States and separately by
the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Wisconsin, the city of Detroit and the
Protective Telephone Association of
Baltimore.
The proceedings attracted wide at- |
tention and attorney generals from
many States were in the court room. J
Arguments for the railroad adminis
istration were made in the railroad
case by John Barton Payne and
Charles Donnelly while Frank E.
Packard of Bismarck, N. D., and W.
V. Tanner of Olympia. Wash., former
attorney general of Washington, ap
peared for the North Dakota authori
ties. In the telephone cases arguments
were opened by Socilitor General
King, who was followed by W. H.
Hitchcock of Boston, assistant attorn
ey general of Massachusetts.
Arguments in both cases today cen
tered principally on the contention of
the States that the government's ac
tion in fixing intrastate rates was an
interference with the State police
powers. Solicitor General King and
Mr. Payne denied this contention but
asserted that Section 10 of the rail
road control act. as well as the joint
resolution by which the government
took over 'supervision of the wires
clearfly gave the president this au
thority.
The solicitor general argued that in
increasing telephone and telegraph
rates the postmaster general was act
ing on behalf of the public as the cor
porations which own the wires
through government control had ceas
ed to operate them, and acted solely
as the government's agents. He ac
cused the States bringing the pro
ceedings with attempting to inter
fere with government operations of
these facilities and asked for the dis- j
missal of the wire cases on the ground J
that they were suits brought against!
the government without its consent. 1
"If the government did not fix the
rates, who would?" asked Justice Mc
Reynolds during the course of Solici
tor General King's argument.
"I suppose thm States would," th"
solicitor general replied.
"Well, if the States fix the rates so
that there should be a loss who would
pay it?" the justice asked.
"The government would." Mr. King
j replied.
"That's what I have been trying to
find out." Justice McReynolds said.
Mr. Hitchcock argued that the po
lice powers provided for in the wire
resolution applied to the States in a
broad sense as congress intended to
' include the right of the States to regu
! late intrastate rates. He accused the
l postmaster general of exceeding his
powers in interfering with telephone
'rates and with unlawfully invading the
I State powers. The Massachusetts at
torney denied that the States were at
tempting to interfere with the gov
ernment's operations of the telephone
system.
Union Labor Stronger
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Marked Increase in Membership j
in Canada
Ottawa. Ont.. May 4?Statistics)
collected by the Federal Department
of Labor in its quest for reconstruc
tion information show a marked in
crease dui the past year in the
strength ol . ..iu>n labor in Canada, ac
cording to an official announcement.
The labor-census in 1917 showed
1,974 local branches with a member
ship of 204.630. Totals for 191S are
2.274 branch unions with a member- i
ship of 24S.8S7.
It was announced also that 2A1.432
members of Canadian locals are alli
liated with 1.S97 branches of interna-J
tional organizations.
Treaty With Austria j
This Matter Will Be Considered;
During Next Two Weeks
Paris. May fi.?An order has been I
issued to the specialists on Austro-1
Hungarian subjects to rush their re-1
ports so that the treaty with .Austria j
can be considered during the fifteen
days allowed the Germans for discuss
ing the terms of peace to be submitted !
10 thc.ru, J
Big War Caused
By Imagination
Von Jagow Gives Explanation
in Book
Paris, May 5 (French Wirelcss
Service).?The imaginary invasion of
German territory by the French was
the pretext for the declaration of war
on France, says Gottleit) von Jagow,
.former German foreign minister, in a
j book which he has just published en
titled ''The Universal War, Its Causes
and Beginning." The alleged French
incursions were reported to the Ger
man staff by subordinate officers, von
Jagow says, and the staff com
municated the information to the gov
ernment without attempting to ascer
tain the facts.
The former foreign minister asserts
that before the war he was convinced
of the necessity of an accord with
Great Britain and expresses regret
that Germany unfavorably received
offers of an alliance made in 1S90.
When the Austro-Hungarian am
bassador in Berlin communicated to
him the text of the ultimatum to
Serbia, von Jagow says he thought its
terms were too rigorous. He declares
he expressed some astonishment that
Berlin I ad not been informed earlier
of the s*eps taken at Vienna
Theodore Wolff, in The Tageblatt,
commenting von Jagow's version of
the interview he had with the Aus
trian ambassador, concerning the ul
timatum to Serbia, says that, after
reading it. he is more at loss than
ever to understand why the proposal
made by Sir Edward Grey to call a
conference of ambassadors to exa tine
the conditions to be enforced on ,or
bia was rejected so categorically ry
Germany.
Modern Health Crusade
Three Million School Children
Enlisted in Movement
New York. May 5.?With, their lives
pledged to the pursuit of good health,
more than 3,000,000 school children
throughout America have been en
rolled in the Modern Health Crusade,
a disease-prevention movement which
is being developed in the public
schools of the country under the aus
pices of the National Tuberculosis As
sociation and the Junior Red Cross,
it was announced today by Charles
M. DeForest, crusader executive at
the former organization's headquar
ters here.
"There are new crusaders in every
State in the union," Mr. DeForest
said. "The health creed of the cru
sade has become a part of the school
program in thousands of schools, both
rural and urban. It has also caused
innovations in the curricula of paro
I chial and private schools."
I ' Among the larger cities where the
' movement has been adopted in all or
part of the elementary schools, he
said, are Baltimore, Birmingham.
Cleveland, pallas, Indianapolis. Kan
sas City, Minneapolis, , Newark. New
Orleans. New York, Philadelphia,
Providence. Portland (Ore), Seattle
and Washington, D. C. While primar
ily intended for elementary grades the
crusade has been taken up by a num
ber of high schools and in some
State the system is being taught also
to student teachers in normal schools.
Enlistment in the movement in
jvolves something like passing a phy
sical examination, as the recruit must
for at least two weeks follow a dail>
health program. The child who lives
up to 75 per cent of the crusader's
health rules for two, live, ten and
fifteen weeks becomes successively a
page, squire, knight and knight ban
neret in health chivalry. In health
tournaments participated in by whole
classes and schools the crusaders go
"a' jousting for germs."
The health "chores." performance
? of which each child is put on his hon
or to record on a special card over his
own signature, are as follows:
"1 washed my hands before each
meal today; I washed not only my fact
but my ears and neck and I cleaned
my finger nails today; I tried today to
keep fingers, pencils and everything
that might be unclean out of mj
mouth and nose; T drank a glass of
water before each meal and before
going to bed, and drank no tea, coffer
or other injurious drinks today: 1
brushed my teeth thoroughly in the
morning- and in the evening today; I
took ten or more slow deep breaths of
fresh air today: I played outdoors, or
with windows open, more than thirty
minutes today; I was in bed ten hours
or more last night and kept my win
dows open: I tried today to sit up and
stand up straight, to eat slowly, and
to attend to toilet and each need of
my body at its regular time: I tried
today to keep neat and cheerful con
stantly and to be helpful to others: 1
took a full bath on each day of the
week that is checked."
The success of the movement, ac-1
cording tc is leaders, is due to the in
terest > health aroused in the chil
dren ay introducing the elements of {
nl: and romance in the practice of j
hygiene, and by definite program with
tangible rewards. So eagerly have the
children in certain sections of the
country taken to the daily "chore"
idea that a toothbrush shortage is re-'
ported in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Oklahoma.
Growth of the movement is indicat
ed by membership figures from States
I leading in the crusade movement, as
follows: Texas. 3,10.000: Minnesota.!
[250.000; Iowa. 220,000: Oklahoma.!
175.000: Oregon. 55.000: Tdaho. 24.-1
557: l*t;ih. 32.000: Kansas. 100,000:
Arkansas 28.000: Alabama, 56.000: i
Wisconsin. ?'7.000; Pennsylvania.
150,000: Maryland. "4::."00: South;
?Carolina. 27.600: District of Columbia.
15,000: Rhode Island. 2S.0?0; and
New Hampshire. f..n(>o.
The Health Crusade Movement is
not confined to America alone; not
withstanding the war the idea has'
spread to foreign countries and enlist-j
nients have been reported from China.!
Corea. Canada. Cuba and France, Mr. j
i >e Forest said. j
The oat crop will be short this year.
The acreage is less than last year and!
the yield per acre will not be heavy.
Cotton Market
Advance
Opens Steady at Net Decline of
One to Eleven Points
New York. May 5.?The cotton
market was comparatively quiet to
day. Fresh business was probably re
stricted by the. fact that tomorrow
will be a holiday in the American fu
tures markets. It seemed also that
scattering accounts had been pretty
well evened up before the close last
week, fluctuations were narrower for
some time with further realizing ab
sorbed by covering and trade buying.
The general list closed steady at a
net advance of 9 to 19 points.
The market opened steady at a
decline of 1 to 11 points and sold
off slightly right after the call in
response to somewhat disappointing
Liverpool cables and a favorable
weather map. Houses with Liverpool
connections were good buyers here,
however, while there was a consider
able from domestic trade sources ac
companied by reports of continued
firmness in the goods market. This
demand soon took care of the early
offerings and active months sold
some 1 a to 24 points net higher dur
ing the early afternoon.
The close was 10 or 12 points off
from the best, under realizations. The
trade seemed to be looking for a
more favorable weekly report from
the weather bureau on Wednesday,
but the more optimistic view of new
crop possibilities was modified to
some extent by the report of a south
ern authority indicating a reduction of
14.6 per cent, in acreage compared
with the reports of between 11 and 12
per cent, published late last week.
Will Lead His
Great Band at
Redpath Chautauqua
Bohumir Kryl, one of the world's
greatest bandmasters and widely rec
ognized as the world's greatest cornet
V
BOHUMIR KRYL.
1st, will personally direct his grw. j
band on the fifth day, afternoon andj
night, rh* Redpath Chaulauqua.
San Juan Harbor
Government Engineers Endorse
Program of Improvement
San Juan. Porto Rico, April 12.?
Work will be commenced within a
few months to make San Juan harbor
the most important, port in the Carri
bean in the opinion of Governor Yagci
who has recently returned from Wash- j
ington. Governor Yager obtained the
promise of the government engineers
to proceed with the dredging as soon
as possible.
Assurance hvs already been obtain
ed from leaders in the Insular Legisla
ture that the-necessary legislation will
be passed whereby the Insular gov
ernment will agree to refund to the
federal government $15,100,000 at the
rate of 5100.000 a year after the har
bor improvements are completed.
Gold for Belgium
Train Carries 220 Million
Marks to Brussels.
Brussels. April 4.?The official train
from Germany which transported to
Brussels 220 million marks in gold,
carried also 100 million marks in
thousand-mark banknotes. Most of]
these are to be exchanged agains:
their equivalent in banknotes of GO
20, 5. 2 and 1 mark denominations
out of the seven milliards of mark of!
German money stored in the vaults of
the Belgian National Hank.
The exchange is made in response
to a demand from the Reichsbank, i
which lacks banknotes of small ;
amounts. !
Tin- train which arrived with ther
German gold was escorted by 100 sol- j ;
diers. and a machine gun was pos1 d!1
on each wagon til! the train reached;]
the Belgian frontier. ; j
-j,
Berlin Grows Impatient |.
May Recall Delegates if Delay!;1
Continues
1 i
London. May .". (By the Associated j <
Press)?A German wireless dispatch|1
received here ihis evening says: j:
" it lie- delay continues ;it Versail-j<
Ies ii is contemplated that Berlin willh
recall tin- German delegates inj<
which case they would only be sent J
o Versailles again when the allied i
Governments arc readv to negotiate." M
Greece's Debt to
America
Red Cros^ Accomplishes Great
Good by Relief Work
Xanthi. Greece. March 30 (Corre
spondence of The Associated Press)
?Greece is indebted to the United
States for many things, but she prob
ably vv'ill remember longest the aid
given by the American Red Cross to
the 30.000 or more refugees who have
been coming back from Bulgaria and
Asia Minor over every road and moun
tain ;pass. Unable through its own
agencies to care for this immense
number of of homeless and destitute
people, the Greek government left the
task to America's big relief organiza
tion. King Alexander, Premier Vene
zelos and the Greek government have
already testified their gratitude for
this assistance which was made pos
sible through the generosity of the
American people.
Twenty-four hours after the sign
ing of the armistice, the Red Cross
established relief stations at every
point in Bulgaria, Turkey and Mace
donia over which these innocent vic
tims of the war were likely to come.
It dispatched trainload after trainload
of supplies to the areas in which suf
fering was known to be worst.
The stream of refugees has not yet
ceased, and the work of the Red Cross
continues. There has been a serious
development of typhus among the
refugees quartered in- Kavalla, Drama
and this city.
Edward Walker, of Luray, Ya., a
young officer in the American Red
Cross, gave his life in fighting the dis
ease. Three American nurses have
also been stricken but are recover
ing in Greek hospitals.
Some of the experiences of the
Americans in relieving the great mis
ery among the refuv -s have been
tragic. A woman Red Cross worker
thus descrioes a typical day spent by
Lieutenant Abner Cobb. of Denver,
Colo., at his lonely Red Cross relief
station at Xanthi:
"With the assistance of two Greek
boys he fed from 800 to 1,000 people,
administered to the sick, and gave
out rations of bread and soup and
rice, and that day had been able to
add 'bully beef to his rations,
"There were 48 cars on the side
tracks loaded to the limit, forty to
sixty persons to the car. These refu
gees carried with them in the cars
their donkeys, pigs, chickens, sheep,
goats and personal effects. From a
few of the cars, cows poked their
heads. In this environment one baby
has been born.
"Lieutenant .Cobb numb. u* cars
when they come in and cou ..a te in
mates, chalking their number up on
the outside of the cars. Kis kitchen
is on the tracks. He selects four per
sons from each car to-come after the
food, bringing with them their own
receptacles. In that way they are
cared for swiftly and without confus
ion. After everything is served, he
goes through the train to see that nc
one has been overlooked.
"On this train was the Governor o1
Zichni and his wife, both pitifulh
wasted. He had been deported eight
een months before to Bulgaria, to
gether with 97 others from his town
Thirty-seven of his party died of ill
treatment in Bulgaria." The same
observer, writing regarding a visit tc
the American Red Cross station at
Kavalla. says:
"Today there are fewer than 10.000
inhabitants in Kavalla. When the
Bulgars evacuated the town they loot
ed it systematically, stripped the
stores and banks, took all the food
and swept the homes bare, taking not
. onl\ all the furnishings but all the
window glass, door and window fix
tures, electric light wires, door knobs,
etc.
"In the Struma valley, noted for
more than 2,000 years as the home of
j a peculiarly deadly form of malarial
fever, the road runs to Drama where
the American Red Cross has another
relief station. The plague is raging
throughout the valley. There has
been an unusual number of deaths as
there is a lack not only of doctors but
of medicines."
German Sugar Famine
Beet Sugar Factories Shut
Down by Disorders
Berlin. April 4.?The sugar famine
from which Germany is now suffering
is a mystery pe> lexing German
housewives, as su owing to the
teet-root industry, " ; been a com
mon staple even during the war. Be
cause of the sugar shortage, the na
tion's supply of marmalade seems to
be completely exhausted.
Political and industrial disturbances
are blamed for the restricted output
of beet sugar. The factories have
been shut down altogether or are
running on short hours.
Large Quantities of sugar are said
to have disappeared mysteriously or
to have been confiscated by local sol- j
diiers and workmen's councils.
Memorial Day Services.
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Memorial Day services will be held!
by Dick Anderson Chapter, I nited
Daughters of the Confederacy. Sun
day. May 11 at Trinity Methodist
Church at 5.30 o'clock. The Confeder
ate Veterans, the Sumter Light In-j
fantry Reservesand the High School!
Battalion have been invited to at-j
tend. Seats will also lie reserved fori
veterans of the world war and the
public is hereby cordially invited and
is expected to attend. The address of
:b<- afternoon will be delivered by Dr.
Rice and a special choir with an at
tractive musical programme has been
provided. The programme will be
mnounced later.
At 4.45 the graves of Confederate
>oldiers in the Confederate plot at the;
cemetery will be decorated. All mem-j
>ers of the local chapter XJ. I). C. and!
my other U. 1 >. C. members in the
?it; are requested to be present with
hovers and laurel wreathes. The
*h Idren of the Confederacy are also
isked to attend and any one who de
dres may be present ai this part of
he ceremony, j
Two Airmen Killed
Ensign Hugh J. Adams and
Chief Machinist's Mate Harold *
Correy Meet Death
New York, May 5?Ensign Hugh JF.
Adams of Pittsburgh and Chief
Machinist's Mate Harold Correy of
Scranton, Pa., were instantly killed at
the Rockaway Beach Navy air sta
tion to-day when the machine in
which they were flying dived into
a big hydrogen, gas tank. The two men
were crushed to death beneath the
engine of the plane which crashed
through the cockpit in which they
were sitting.
The flight, part of the regular daily
I maneuvers at the air ^station had been
j in progress only five minutes when
the accident occurred. The machine,
the HS 1. a small navy hydroplane,
rose from the water and circled
over the land at' a height of about
400 feet. When it was over the hydro
gen tank the engine went dead and
the plane started to nose dive. Ensign
Adams attempted to right it but ht-d
not sufficient altitude, and the ma
chine crashed into the roof of the
tank bursting through the steel stop.
The tank which is part of the nayy
balloon equipment was empty.
Ensign Adams was one of the old
est fliers in the navy and Correy,
although he did not hold a licence,
was rated as a pilot.
Not Seeking
Independence
Porto Rico Not Prepared for
Self-Government
San Juan, Porto Rico. April 12 {Cor
respondence of The Associated Press)
?That Porto Rico is not prepared for
either statehood or independence was
the opinion expressed by Senators
Barbosa and Giorgetti in the course
of a debate in the senate yesterday;
Senator Barbosa said also that the is
land is unprepared for immediate self
government.
The debate was opened by an invi
tation of Senator Gorgetti to Senatoi*
Barbosa to dissolve both political par
ties in the island.
"I invite Dr. Barbosa to dissolve
the Republican party," said Senator
Giorgetti. "and I will do all I can to
dissolve the Unionist Party because we
are wasting time. It must be under
stood that both statehood and inde
pendence are a long way off. Do you
think we are prepared for either state
1 hood or independence," he asked.
"We are not, replied Dr. Barbosa.
"A country which has the number of
illiterates Porto Rico has, whose
masses are without means, of edufca
? tion and whose economic condition is
1 deplorable, is not prepared to be eith
1 er a republic or a State. We have
? to prepare our country and provide
- the means for its being politically, eco
? nomically and educationally in a con
dition to enjoy its sovereignty^.v^We.are
f in the position today of a student of
medicine who has had two years of
? his course, who is diligent and am
? bitious and who wants to graduate as
? soon as he can, but whose professor
? has to say, 'continue your studies, you
' are r.ot yet ready: when you get in
1 your fourth or fifth years your labor.
: will be rewarded.' Gentlemen, you
know perfectly well that we are not
economically prepared to be either a
State or a republic."
"In this I agree with Dr. Barbosa,"
said Senator Giorgetti, "we' are not
prepared economically for statehood
or to be an independent republic."
Senator Giorgetti asked Dr. Barbosa
if he thought Porto Rico was prepar
ed to govern itself. Dr. Barbosa re
plied that at the present moment : it
was not. because self-government
signified government of and by the
people and for the people, while to
day it would result in government by
a part of the people only, because
without preparation the people would
be governed by the fortunate few.
Strike of Unemployed
Idle Belgium Workmen Hold
Demonstration
Brussels, April 1.?During the Ger
man occupation a \certain amount was
doled out by the Comite National td
the unemployed Belgians to keep
from starvation and incidentally to
prevent them from working for the
Germans. Since the armistice it has
been cominued because there is no
I work available.
Today a long parade formed near
the Place Rogier and proceeded utf
and down the most important boule
vards. They were some of the unem
ployed. They were striking for more
pay. It has become a most expensive
luxury to be idle in Belgium and so
this morning there took place ih Brus
sels a "strike of the unemployed."
There are seven hundred and fifty
thousand unemployed in Belgium.
Transfer Owners and Drivers.
According to the Internal Revenue
Uaw passed February 23th, 1919.
there is assessed a war tax of $10 a
year on all passenger automobiles run
for hire. Five dollars of this amount
is now past due.
There will be a deputy collector of
United States Internal Revenue at the
law office of George Shore, Jr.. corner
haw 1 hinge and Main Street this
week Friday and Saturday, May 9th
and 10th. to collect this tax.
AH persons running a transfer for .
hire, no matter how little, is subject
to this tax. and any person so oper
ating a transfer failing to pay this
tax on the days stated, subjects his
property liable to seizure and sale at
public auction to pay the tax.
Herbert A. Horn,
Deputy Collector United States Inter
nal Revenue.
The fisherman who regard catch
ing fish as a sport are complaining
that the use of senes. nets and traps
is rapidly depleting the streams and
unless the laws are enforced there
will soon be an end of fishing as a