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ana s on resses, oais s, Etc* In fact, on every Piece o You this Sale Now reat Stock We Give e TEUTONS FAR FROM _BEATEN Just Back From Eu rope Commissioner Pack of American : Forestry Associa tion Gives Synopsis of Situation In and Out of War Areas ?_ Syracuse, N. T., Dec. 7.?Ger / many's gigantic forest wealth was untouched by the world war and the Teutons "defeated but far i from beaten" are now developing their forest ..resources "in three shifts of eight hours each" accord ing to Arthur Newton Pack of Princeton, K: J., who spoke here today before? the 230 students and instructors c?1 the New York State College for Forestry. In Mr. Pack's opinidn Germany can easily meet forest reparation demands of the allies. This is the first synopsis of the findings of Mr. Pack who has just jreturned from a tour of Europe where ho had been sent- as the commissioner of the American For estry Association of Washington to enquire into the forestry situa tion in the allied countries - and in ^Germany. Mr. Pack drew a startl ring comparison between southern ^Germany where he found little or *no unemployment and the United States. e "The basis of all national 'wealth," said Mr. Pack, "is in a 'country's forest products. No * body seems to be less aware of that ^fact than the people of the United * States, Just last week you sent out ra bulletin showing how your own state is paying $11,000.000 a year . for New York grown lumber and $06,000,000,a. year for lumber im ported from ether states." Here are some of the findings P|i ?which Mr. Pack outlined today and ||Srl which he has reported in full to the American Forestry Association: y;,; - Almost, unscathed the famous * Black Forest of Germany passed through the world war; it*, Hardwood districts - famous in 'Bavaria show an increase, " Germany can easily meet forest u reparation demands on the part of *thc allies; n-. White Pine blister rust with I which New England is so familiar *has made some headway in Ger " many; ? ? Saw and paper mills are working ~in three eight-hour shifts; * In south Gc~^any I saw httle or -no unemployment; ? Nearly every factory in South ^Germany is working at capacity, x Water power of the Black Forest ^is being developed more rapidly 'than ever before. ~ I found no man who believed in '_German war guilt; - Industrial leaders pride them ?~ selves that in military defeat in dustry is better off than with the ?i victorious allies; One lumber manufacturer stated * another war with France was need ~_ed to adjust Germany's status quo: What I saw substantiates all that \ M. Briand .said at the arms confer ence in Washington in regard to watching Germany. Much has been said in connection with the reconstruction of France's battle areas concerning a probable reclassiftcatron of forest and agri cultural land." Mr. Pack pointed out. "It. was at one time thought that some of the acreage previously devoted to woodlands, which were so thoroughly demolished by the rain of shells, would be used for annual crops, while on the otlu-r j hand, a good deal of poorer agricul tural land might be made to pro duce a better income as forests. "The French government has been carrying on a very thought ful survey and sr.edy of this prob ?/ifs*l ?. ??????>? - . < j lern but as yet no final report has | 1 been made. Indications are, how- j j ever, that most of the former for- i (est area will be replanted for for (est. and in addition, especially inj the neighborhood of the famous i j Chemin des Dames, some of the . fields higher up the slopes which ; were always more difficult to cul j tivate. will be purchased by the ? state end incorporated as part of the state and communal forest do I mains. "Replanting of the war-destroy Sed forests with the 40,000,000 tree j seeds sent by the American Fores try Association is as yet progressing very slowly. The removal of mu nition dumps and the great as sortment of dangerous weapons j and barbed-wire entanglements is j a tedious process, and even after j all that is accomplished the old trunks must all be removed . to make ready for the seedlings. The j cutting of the old trees and con i version to any sort of useful timber I is in itself a gigantic task, inas much as thousands of-metal pieces from exploded shells must first be chopped out by hand before the log can go to the saw. At best, two ! men can hardly prepare more than J half a dozen oak or beech. logs in a single day. Fire is here the greatest menace to restoration work, because once it gains any headway the attendant explosions of buried duds and unexploded grenades renders fire-fighting too dangerous to attempt. In this way several acres of new plantations were destroyed during the past summer. "The Black Forest of Germany, which has remained for centuries one of the world's most famous productive forest areas, passed through the period of the great . war practically unscathed. Here and there small cuttings were made for war purposes, but it is quite evident that the total volume of wood taken from most of the Ger man forests during the four years i of war did not exceed the growth during the same period. In the fa mous hardwood districts of Ba varia there has actually been a con j siderable increment in wood volume j due, no doubt, to the cessation I during the war of furniture man ufacture and similar industries re- | j quiring high grade woods, j "The German army got all its) j timber from the forests of north- i em France and Belgium, which in most cases it cut clean; and while, no doubt, hitherto unequalled de mands for pulp wood for the manu facture of cotton and linen substi tutes called forth an increased out put, the general principles of con servatism in forest treatment were not destroyed. "Germany can^readily meet the , demands of Franc- and the other j allies for lumber reparations. Some of her most broadminded foresters j whom I met not only admitted this j but actually stated that such a pol j icy might re-act to Germany's own I benefit. 'Some of the richest and i most productive soil in Germany.' ! they said, 'is contained within the j limits of her state and communal j forests, and in many instances a| policy of destructive deforestation, j which would permit the utilization of additional land for food pro- j duction. is actually desirable.' "Before the war Germany was; ! never able to produce more than | ! 60 per cent of the food consumed j j by her population, and as long as i l she is practically self-sustaining in I forest production any addition to j her food-srrowing capacity would \ , in view of her present inability to i buy from foreign nations, become i a real benefit. j "Since 1SU the white pine blis j ter rust which the American For i estry Association is combating in ! the United States has made some i headway in Germany. This dis I ease was of course known in Ger | many long before it came to the j United States, and it is probable [that it was introduced into Ameri ca from that source. (>n.- of Ger j many's best known foresters, who i nas charge of the famous Heidel { berg town forest, has mach- a sp?. [dal study of th<? blister rust. He observed that scatt' red white pines (seemed immune f "oiu the <lb:,-;iy. i and by successive processes of seed i regeneration he now claims to have ; developed a tree that can withstand Ii, I the attack. When he has progress ed a' little further with the work he hopes to put this special seed on i the market, and if his claims can I be substantiated it will indeed be; a valuable discovery'. It is quite fitting that the blister rust which | came to us from Germany should | be remedied from that source. '"Today, practically every factory! of the South German area is work- , ing at capacity. The paper and saw! mills in particular are operating I twenty-four hours a day, (three S- j hour shifts, for the 8-hour law has j here! too been an outgrowth of the! war). Cotton is still very scarce i because of the extremely unfavor- ? able exchange, but the hotels serve j excellent repasts on spotless table j cloths of heavy crepe paper. A re- j cent new secret process is being de- ! veloped for the manufacture of J wash clothing out of wood cellulose, j "There is little or no unemploy-! ment in south Germany because of i countless new state enterprises. The; water powers of the Black Forest j are being developed more rapidly j than ever before with the state ] as chief partner in each instance, yet generally under private man agement. Work is now progress- i ing on two tremendous reservoirs with actually miles of tunnels for the power flumes, and from which many thousands horsepower will be made available for the new fac tories already building in the valley of the Murg. "Do the Germans know that they arc beaten ? Defeated, yes, but far from being conquered. Not a man did I find who believed in German war guilt. The conviction seems prevalent now that war can never bring permanent advantage to the ; victor, and the industrial leaders seem to pride themselves that in , military defeat German industry is better off than that of the victorious [allies One prominent lumber j manu fa sturer, however, stated that j another war with France would be I necessary to readjust Germany's : status quo, and while such opin ions are still openly given the ! allies must realize that the spirit i of militarism is not yet dead, j "My complete report to the ! American Forestry Association will j show toiling Germany is setting an I example to the world and we ^should emphasize the point of M. j Briand before the arms conference ! that Germany was defeated but not beaten and must be watched. It is understood in Washington that President Harding intends tak I ing up the question of reclamation j in a big way after the holidays. The date, January 9, has just been set for hearings on the Snell-Mc Cormick forestry bill. This meas ure is one of the big steps in any reclamation program. "The ball and chain on business today is idle acres in the East and ' Middle West that should be growing j trees. Had those been kept at j work the great manufacturing ! plants in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England to say nothing of Ohio, Indiana. I Michigan, would not be paying the ! high freight rates they have to ! pay to get forest products to tlvir factory doors. In the face of the j terms of the armistice and the ! treaty, Germany has gone to work in the utilization of her forest land she teaches a great lesson to Amer ica." ? ? ? Sea Took Heavy j Toll Last Year | Annual Report Shows Loss of I Two Hundred Twenty Two American Ships Washington. Dec. 8.?Two hun dred and twei.y-two American merchant crafts amounting to over j -->n-> hundred and twenty thousand I tons were lost in founderings, strandings. collisions, other causes in the year ending .lure- ibulu says the annual report of the coast j guard service. Coast guard cutters saved the lives or rescued from peril sixteen j hundred and twenty-one persons in :ii<- year ending June 30th, says the reporl of Captain W. E. Rey nolds, commandant. FOUR POWER ALLIANCE PROPOSED - -1 Great Nations Would: Get Together to Pre- j serve Peace in Pa cific Washington, Dec. 7.?A ?nu- | tunl pledge not to go to war over j j disputes in, -the Pacific without a j "cooling off period" of discussion is the basis of the new four-power 1 treaty proposed as a substitute for 1 the Anglo-Japanese alliance. I Discussions of the proposal! ' among the arms delegates have j 'reached a well advanced stage, air. [though none of the govern men is concerned ? the United States, I Great Britain. Japan and France?J ! has given its final approval. A sug- j j gestion that the Anglo-Japanese j I pact be revoked has gone to Lon- | j don and Tokio. Possible contro- j ! versies over the Pacific Islands j j alone, exclusive of the Hawaiian i group and Yap, would come un-} I der the provisions of the new agree- j ! mnet. Yap is to be the subject bf a separat.? treaty, negotiations for which are nearing completion | and Hawaii is to be considered fori jpurposes of.the agreement a* part! I of the American mainland. I The problems of China or other portions of the Asiatic mainland are , not to be touched by the propos ed treaty, nor will it contain pro- ; visions relating to Pacific fortifica tions or tbc naval reduction pro- ; gram. It is possible, however, that i all of these questions may come simultaneously to the point of a de cision. By the American delegates the project is regarded as establish- ! ing neither an alliance nor an on- ! tenie. but merely as applying to the j Pacific islands the principle of the thirty-odd Bryan peace treaties to: which the United States already is a party. A statement setting* forth that position probably will be j I made in the near future by Score- , i tary Hughes. I For the present the authorized (American spokesmen prefer to say nothing about th<-ir conversations I on the subject, which have been ? proceeding entirely behind the cur tain of "executive sessions." Apr parently the negotiations so far have been kept within a very nar row circle centering in the "big three"?Hughes, Balfour and Ka | to. ; j An evidence of the optimism] j with which American officials who i are in on the secret view the gener al situation in the amis conference! i was given today, however, by Pres ident Harding, who declared in a | public address that the negotiations promised to succeed "b.-yond mir fondest hopes." Without making! direct reference to the proposed four-power agreement, he predict ! ed that tin- Washington conference i would usher in a new day in inter- : j national amity. All the outward indications 'point' to a merging of the Pacific qucs- j j tions with the naval ratio problem 1 j so far as the final decisions of j some of the foreign nations are j concerned. No reply from Tokio i regard in the naval reduction ? plan now is expected until the Jap anese government also is ready to] ? make some "expression on the] j four-power proposal. It is pos ; sible that in the linal analysis tin j questions of Shantung and China ' generally may .also become inter woven in the general scheme before a specific and definite settlement . of anv of these elements ia reach ;cd. I : Thus it would not surprise close observers here if the whole range of controvtvrsi.-s under consideration were gathered in tie- end under one blanket understanding, to be trans lated then into several formal in struments of agreement. Both Japanese and Chinese re flected optimism over the Shan ' lung negotiations tonight after tin other meeting in which Japan of-j L'ercd *0 give up the public prop-' erty i"i the leased territory of Kiao- | Chow us another step toward i meeting the Chinese position. In the committee of the whole of the nine nations a resolution was j adopted during I he day pledging respect for China's neutrality in I future wars, and another restrict ing the us^s of foreign radio fa cilities c:\ Chinese soil. There is a general fueling that i all of these subjects?the Chinese j questions. Shantung, the naval ra tio and the new "cooling-off" treaty ?may all move along concurrent ly so that none of them reaches definite settlement until all are ready to be lumped into a fina-1 pro gram of accomplishment. Japan in Favor of Alliance. Honolulu, Dec. 7.?The Japa nese diplomatic council formally approved the proposed four-pow er treaty for settlement of Pacific differences this evening at a meet ing at Premier Takahashi's offi cial residence, according to a To kio cablegram to the Nippu Jiji. a Japanese language newspaper here. . Mob Law in Tennessee Militia Called Out to Prevent Lynching of Five Negroes Dyersburg. Tenn.. Dec. 7.?A mob of over 500 r.n-n from this city and Newborn gathered around the jail here tonight with the an nounced intention of taking five metroes held here in connection with the death Monday night of R. L. Burkoti. a Newborn .stock raiser. Sherif-' II. P. Bryant and a number of citizens addressed the mob und urged them to disperse, promising a spee-'y trial for the negroes. A part of the mob scattered to their homer., but a crowd of about 150 ---till remained near the jail at a late hour. Nashville. Feb. 7. ? Governor Taylor announced tonight that he had requested Adjutant General Brumit to dispatch national guard troops to Dyersburg after he had talked with Mayor "arr of that place, who asked for help, fearing an attempt would be made to take five negroes, arrested in connection with the killing of R. L. Burkett, a farmer of Oyer county, fron: the authorities. Major General Brumit .announc ed later he had ordered Company I of the national guard quartered at Jackson to proceed at once to Dyersburg. Due to inadequate train connec tions, however, it was believed the troops would not be able to reach tiie seen*- until early tomorrow. Fifty infantrymen composed the unit ordered out and additional troops will be sent from Mem phis, if found necessary. Major Brumit said. Burkett was found dead in his barn last Monday night after a search, by neighbors. who hail heard a sho; fired on his farm. Death had been caused by a load of buckshot fired at close range. Several negroes, one of whom had been a share crop fanner on Bur kett's land, were arrested and brought to * Dyersburg for safe keeping, as threats of lynching were made by Burkett's neighbors. Three other negroes were arrested today. According to Burkett's parents, the stock raiser haul heard a noise at th.e barn and went to investi gate and he was shot. Memphis, Dee. 7.?Maj. !>. B. Sweeney, commander of the Mem phis infantry company of the nat ional guard, tonight received orders by long distance telephone to take 5u or more men of the local com pany to Dyersburg. The men will entrain early in the morning. -.^>??? A < aii'-er dn railroad company Is e: tering into competition with it self by running ant ??mobile busses on roads that parallel its line. Some of the trains were operated at a h>:s and the auto busses will take tin- place of these trains. PARTY LEADER OPPOSES NO PARTSAN BLOCS iSecretary of War Criticises Present System of Organiza tion in Interest of! Public I _ j New York. Dec. 8.?The present system of organization in congress [ ! whereby control is divided between : [ numerous committees may, "if: i carried to its logical conclusion" ' divide the United States into "hos- : j tile factions," and leave the coun-j : try "powerlcs^ to defend or main ' t^in its interests," Secretary of War ' Weeks told the convention of the | Association of Life Insurance pres- i idents. He criticized the blocs in j j congress. -O? i Railroad Legislation _ ! State Commission Makes Eec-; i ommendations To Senator LaFoUette I Columbia. Dec. 7.?The South j j Carolina Railroad commission in a 'letter written today to United] j States Senator Robert M. Da Fol- ; ' lette, at Washington, urges passage \ of pending amendments to the j transportation act. repealing the : authority of the Interstate Com merce Commission to regulate in- ' , tra-state rates and fares. The sen- i ! ator, who is chairman of the com- I ? mitten on interstate commercial re- ! { latio. s, wrote to the railroad com j mission, asking for its views re- ? ' garding the pending amendments. . i The commission is in hearty sym- 1 j pathy with the amendments, as are j I all other railroad commissions of j the country. ; One of the pending amendments would eliminate short lino roads ; from the grouping effected by the j j transportation act. whereby several ' short lines are grouped with trunk : . lines, so that the longer systems j support the smaller. The railroad ! commission takes the position that ; each short line within a state 1 should finance itself. The most im- j portant amendment is that talcing } from the interstate commission its authority to regulate in tra-state j railroad affairs, which the state i commissions contend is a function i for the state body. ! The railroad commission issued a > statement today to the effect that i ! only a few of the bus lines of the state have complied with the law , in filing with it information rc : garding schedules, terminals, busses ! operated, etc., and that unless this information is filed promptly, legal' action will be taken against :his: class of carriers. A new law puts bus lines under the supervision of the railroad com mission. I ? o?o--? Death. Oswcgo. Dec. 7.?Mrs. W. W. Fraser died at her home here this I afternoon at 3.: 1.5 O'clock. Mrs. fr'rasor became ill with, pneumonia last Friday. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at S:$0 o'clock a i I lehren Presbyterian church here. Mrs. Fr?ser was S-l years old. She is survived by five children. They are: Miss M. Fraser and Miss Hanttah 1>. Fra ser and H. B. Fraser of Oswego. Mis. J. M. Fraser of Sumter and Mrs. J. W. Montgomerv of Harts ville. Chicago, Dec. S.--Forty men were cut and bruised when strike sympathizers stormed an elevated train carrying packer employes to the stock yards. All tin- windows were broken by missiles. Fifteen hundred policemen were s: n; to the yards. Special Committee Starts Investigation of Senator Watson's Charges That Sol-, diers Were Hanged J Washington, Dec. 8.?At the - beginning of the investigation of ^ Senator Watson's charges that pri vate soldiers- were hanged during i the war without courtmartial i Chairman Brandegee, of the special senate committee, announced that j the proceeding was not to he an ! investigation of the Georgia sena- 1 tor, but to ascertain whether! "officers of the United States army were murderers." Senator Watson, j who appeared before the commit teei declared he was prepared to prove the charges. Senator Watson read a story from a Waco, Texas paper and presented affidavits supporting his charges. Senator Brandegee as- j sured him of "carte blanc" to call witnesses. Colonel Walter Bethel, i assistant judge advocate general, I testified that eleven soldiers were hanged ir France, after conviction. ! Eighteen Lives Lost Terrific Storm Sweeps New foundland Coast St John?'. X. F., Dec. 7.? | Eighteen lives arc known to have been lost in the terrific northwest j storm off the Newfoundland coast 1 that swept a score of vessels from the sea Monday and Tuesday. De tails of the disaster were slowly filtering in to this port tonight, due to the demoralization of commu nication service, but a checkup of the facts at hand showed that the property damage along the coast would reach at least $275.000. Nine men. a woman and a child are reported to have gone down with the schooner Passiport at Mayverde. The schooner Jean and Mary parted from her tug. the D. P. Ingraham, near Pen guin Island, and was lost with her crew of seven men. The tug, which was a United States gun boat in the civil war, was driven j on the island near the lighthouse and became a total wreck, but her crew was saved. The schooner Vicola. out of Luenburg. N. S., which left North Sydn< y. N. S.. several days ago in company with the Alcala. has not been heard from. She carries a crew of seven. The Alcala is safe at this port. Ku Klux in Court Former Grand Goblins Sue Imperial Kieagle Atlanta, Dec. 7.?Two more dam age suits of $50.000 each wer-- filed here today against E. Y. t'larke. imperial kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, by A. a. Padon. Jr.. and Lloyd I B. Hooper, growing out of the dis- ? missal of the men when they came to Atlanta last week to make i barges against the imperial kleagle; P. W. Akin already had riled a I suit for $50.000 against Clarke. All three men. former grand goblins of j the organization, charge that j 'larke took cur criminal warrants, against them alleging larceny of klan funds. Harr} i:- Perrell. another depos- | ?d grand goblin, also has riled a 533."Md suit against the imperial: ileagle, alleging slander and libel. papers in the suits are expected i>e served Friday. The Newly-Weds arc not as fool-, sb as the Nearly-Weds. SUBMARINE STUCK ON SEA BOTTOM Crew of Submarine4 S-48 Made Narrow Escape From Terrk ble Death New York, Dec. 8.?Fifty-one members of the crew of the sub marine S-48, who escaped through the torpedo tubes after the craft made nose dive off Bridgeport, Conn., yesterday and stuck to the bottom, told a remarkable rtory at the New York navy ya ds. After the dive, the commandant related; the crew lightened until one end> appeared above the surface an<| perched there over ten hours, until picked up by a tanker. Several suffered from chlorine gas. The. submarine which was nearly corn plcted, was on a test trip. One Man Killed; Another Injured Greenwood Farmer is Dea<J and Neighbor Is in Hospital ? Greenwood, Dec. 7.?As a re sult of a row at the home of WHf>, liam A. Mcllwaine, near Salak, in this county, Mcllwain is dead, alleged to have been shot "eath by Con Malone, and Mal. him self injured, is at a local hospital.' The cause of the row which pre cipitated the tragedy is unknown. The two men, who were neighbors, had been hunting and became in volved in a dispute after return ing to Mcllwaine's house, it is re ported, according to a statement made to Sheriff E. M. White by Joe R. Jones, who was at the house at the time of the alleged shooting. Ke declared he heard the shot and when he reached the yard Mcllwaine was dying and Ma- ? lone was lying in the yard with a fractured cheekbone and a stab in the chest. Mcllwaine lived alone with his, brother, John Mcllwaine. He was about 40 years of age and was re garded as a hard working farmer. Farm Land in South Carolina Columbia. Dec. 7.?There is an average of 3.7 acres of improved farm land to every man. woman and child in South Carolina, ac cording to census figures just re ceived in Columbia. There are in, the state 6.184,159 acres of improv ed farm lands. During the last half century the number of improved acres in the state has been on the increase. : hough the per capita acreage has decreased. A half century ago there were three million acres of improved land in the state, an aver-, age of 4.3 acres per capita. The per capita average of im proved farm land throughout the United States is 4.8. In North Da; kota there are 3S acres per capita* in South Dakota 28. in Montana 20. In many New England states there is less than an acre of improved farm land per capita. Washington, Dec. S.?Represen tative Henry D. Flood, aged 5tl. Democrat, of Virginia, died her^ of heart trouble. He was ill several weeks. The house adjourned as a mark of respect. -0 ? ?? The officers of the Sumtej| County Fair Association will pre sent, at the annual meeting of the stockholders, to be held on Be>> cember 13ih. a plan to secur%... about thirty acres of land for a new* site for the fair, so as to permit the fair to expand and to also af ford room for a half-mile track for horse shows and racing.