MONDAY. APRIL 7. 1919.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
PAGE FIVE.
ACGEPTS RE
PORT ON LAN
GUAGE BILL
TO INCREASE
FORCES NOW
IN RUSSIA
GERMANY IS
FACING NEW
DISORDERS
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OTr. COMPAQ-XT t
t.Viri rr mm mi mm i
LIFE OF BEL
Glui HANGS IN
THE BALANCE
INDEMNITY URGENTLY DE
MANDED BY KIEG
ALBERT.
NATION HAS SUFFERED MUCH
If Ei'pum Is to Live the Council
Must Act." Gist of King's Kcs
srge tc Allied Leaders.
Piris. April 4. Mart-hal Koch h
cxi.ci'tii! to arrive from Spa tomor
rmv. No tt tTil lias y t be. n re-ei ve 1 ie
Paris rc::! ruing the negotiation
with the .;. rii.riiis mcr the proposal
to 1:"id l'o'i'.-ii tro( j at Danzig.
' !l-;uih's cae lias bct-n laid h1
fere tti.' p-;ice coiifv re nee by th
n;i.-t dir-t ingui-h-d ad vi"a' e Bel
gium could have chosen. Kir.-; Al-b.-rt
lias ! en: in Paris for t lie pat
Ihree days and in nui.ieror.s con
r.M.c. s v. irh the representatives of
the ere;.? powers he has outlined th-?
reeds of liis coiitnry and to!J of the
steps that must he tnken Irnn.ediate
y if F.el ium is I1' b re.-torei.
Urges Quick Action.
Kinir Albert has had long con
versations v it b President Wi'.-on.
Tol. lMward M. House, ' Premier
Clein nr-au and David I.loyd-George.
Th'se conversations h-d up to his
-.ppe irance bt fore the council of
four today. "
A infi-ih-r of th Belgian peace
delegation told the press today tliat.
shorn of ;:11 its diplomatic niceties,
what Kirg Albert told the council
uiiiih be summarized thus:
"The -time of promises has passed.
If Belgium is to live the council
must act."
The press is able to state that
thre questions of vital immediate
importance to the re-e a bl i-hmeu t
f Belgium, financially, economical
ly ard o'it ieally. wcr" discussed.
The first c.nef ion was the immed
iate advance in Belgium of about
1 'i.octo.oiti'.ooo francs. the second
the ' xportatioii to Belgium from
Knland and th FnPcd States of
ra v.- material-, and the third the
c ssioti 'o Belgium of the left bank
fif th--; I, l'';i(it river and the Lem-
Avalanche of JTarks.
Th" first item represents the
vain" of ; nr-ati marks left in circu
li! fun ie P. liiim. After the de
parture 'f tfif (Jcrmans the ministry
of firanre ti-ut out an urgent call to
rudders T the marks to deposit
them in th" batiks. The amount was
e-.i;i ated to be about ?2. 000. 000. 000
arid it h'i le-en the government's
intention t.- red' em them at the par
value of one franc 2." centime1;. l!el
i m t i was not prepared for the
avalanche of m;irks that resulted.
':!. t bi'.'ion r.iurk.s passed tlirouh
th- banks windows into t lie vaults.
The banks were unable to- redeem
this amount of paper and depositors
v i re merely ?iven receipt?, statin?
tli't a certain amount of marks
tvpre h'-Id to their credit.
The p.-!yraent of an immediate in
demnity by Germany was relied on
Hi
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Hi
to cover payment for these deposits.
The indemnity thus far has failed
to materialize.
Much Money Idle.
Depoi.it.ors cannot draw against
these credits, with th result that
some lo.titHfOOii.oOo francs are
idle, as the brinks are paying no in
terest on such deposits.
The importation of raw materials
is said to be indispensable to the
retrieving of iJelj-'iiim from the
economic standpoint.
The correspondent has just re
turned from an extended trip in
I'rlirium. Everywhere lie found in
vestors complaining of the situation
arising from the fact that while the
Americans and I'ritish permit ex
portation into Heleium of manufac
tured articles they thus far have
failed to export into lblpium raw
materials which would permit of in
dustries resuming work.
UMCMJ CAUP.DC
IfSLOUii I Hf UNO
FREEDOM OF THE
FILIPINOS SOON
COMMISSION FROM ISLANDS EX
TENDS GEATITUDE FOR
STAND TAKEN.
President to Urge Release of Islands
from U. S. Sovereignty, It
is Declared.
Washington. April j.- Members
of the special mission of the Philip
pine legislature here . seeking im
mediate independence for the is
lands, were told today by Secretary
IJakT that he Fpcke President Wil
son's mind when he said lie believ
ed the time had come to grant the.
complete independence desired by
the Filipino people.
He read a letter left by President
Wilson when he went to Kurope,
expressing the hope that the mis
sion would result in "bringing alwmt
the desirable ends set forth in the
joint resolution of the legislature."
Obstacles Cleaned Away.
Francis Hurton Harrison, gover
nor general of the Philippines, fol
lowed Mr. Maker with the state
ment, that his experience in the
islands had convinced him that the
obttatc-les to Independence that ap
peared to exist a few years ago had
been cleared away.
The mission, including 40 prom
inent Filipinos and headed by
Manuel Quezon, president of the
senate, upon being received in Sec
retary IJakcr's office today, present
ed a formal memorial askinc inde
pendence and pointing particularly
to the record of the Philippines in
the great war.
RETURNS TO HOME IN NORTH.
From Thursday's Iily.
Mrs. Ij. ( Cowlos, of Brainard.
Minn., who has been visiting in this
city for some time past, coming to
attend the funeral of her si;ter-in-law,
Mrs. John Lewis, who tlied at
her home in Colorado, and remaining
for an extended visit at the home of
her parents, Charles II. Lewis and
wife of this city, departed yesterday
for her home in the north.
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77 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE
FAVOR THE STAMPING OF
FOREIGN TONGUE.
WANT 100 PER CENT CITIZENS
Proposal to Permit the Teaching of
Religion in Other Than the
English After School Has
Small Following.
Seventy-seven members of the
house went on record Friday as
favoring the majority report of the
conference committee on S. F. 24,
the language bill. Fifteen voted
against the report. Of those absent
and not voting, all were accounted
for but Trace-well. The house wait
ed under call while the sergeant-at-arms
and three deputized assistants
searched the capitol without result.
After the call had been raised, the
member from Cherry returned. The
report as adopted is substantially in
the language of the amended bill
as it left the house. The house com
mittee on education ft ruck out the
words "church" and "denomination
al" from the senate bill. In the ma
jority report, denominational reap
pears. The bill as accepted by the house
does not permit the use of any lan
guage other than t tie English in
grades below the eighth.
It provides that above the eighth
grade, other than the English lan
guage may he taught as a language
cnly. The majority report sub:
niitted by Kepresentat ive Reynolds
contained in addition to the report
by the majority, a clause providing
that; "No provisions of this act
tball be construed to forbid the use
of a foreign language in any Sun
day school or in any private, paro
chial or denominational school on
Saturdays or after the usual school
hours for the religious instruction
of pupils able to speak and under
stand such foreign language."
The main objections raised to the
minority report were that since it
presented matter entirely foreign to
the bill a it passed the senate and
as amended in the house, the report
if adopted, might defeat the entire
measure; that since no time is fixed
in the parochial school bill as the
hour for dismissal of school, the pro
vision as embraced in this renort
might be construed as giving per
mission for the introduction of for
eign language at any time during
the afternoon and finally: that since
the senate is to pass the majority
report, should the house reject such
report in favor of the minority, such
action would require that another
conference be held.
GERMANS RE
CEIVE DECISION
OF THE ALLIES
ERZBERGER. HEAD OF ARMIS
TICE COMMISSION. DEEPLY
MOVED AFTER CONFERENCE
WITH F0CH AT SPA.
Spa, April o. Marshal Foch ar
rived in Spa at &:'2 o'clock this
morning and immediately informed
Mat.hias Erzberger, head of the Ger
man armistice commission, that he
would confer with him in his pri
vate car at U:30 o'clock.
The conference took place at the
appointed time in the presence of
.Major General Weygand. assistant
to Marshal Foch, and a French in
terpreter and lasted 40 minutes.
Marshal Foch laid before Herr
Erzberger the decisions of the en
tente. Erzberger, after the confer
ence, hurriedly returned to his
train. He appeared deeply moved.
Alter a conference of one hour
with (Jen. l'aron Von Hammerstein,
a member of the German armistice
commission, and hU technical ad-vis-ers.
Erzberger returned no the ho
tel where the German members of
the armistice commission are
lodged.
The populace acclaimed Marshal
Foch on his arrival in Spa. During
the day the marshal visited General
Nudant, his representative in Spa.
Before leaving Uerlin Erzberger
j had a final consultation with repre
sentatives of all partial, at which an
! agreement was reached as to the at
titude to he adoptcdin the negotia
tions with allied " representatives
there. It seems that the sentiment
j of the Germans is favorable to a set
i tleinent of the Danzig controversy.
ALLIES ARE IN DANGER ON
FRONTS IN FAR
NORTH.
THE SITUATION IS PRECARIOUS
British Reinforcements Will Follow
American Troops Already on
Way to Murmansk.
Loudon. April 3. The situation
in the Murmansk region of northern
Russia is giving the British mili
tary authorities considerable anx
iety. Announcement was made to
day that British reinforcements will
follow immediately the American
troops now on the way to north
Russia.
It is pointed out that while the
allied troops are isolated by the ice,
the bolsheviki are likely to attempt
to drive them into the sea. The
bolsheviki have superior forces and
r,s their section of the Dvina river
thaws sooner than the part occupied
by the allies, they have an impor
tant advantage.
Reinforcements Necessary.
The allies, therefore, believe it is
essential that the troops be rein
forced or relieved the earliest pos
sible moment.
The curtain was raised for the
British public on the position of the
allied armies in north Russia for the
lirst time this afternoon. when
l.'.uidoii afternoon papers circulated
posters through the streets with
ftartling phrases of which "the Brit
ish army imperiled" was typical.
The public bought the papers ea
gerly, having no idea which army
was referred to. Some of the papers
declared that another Kut surrender
or Khartum tragedy threatened.
Both Fronts in Danger.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explor
er, who has just returned from Rus
sia, where he superintended the
winter outfitting and feeding of the
expedition, confirmed the danger to
the allied position and armies. He
is credited with stirring British of
ficials into a keener realization of
the serousness of - the position in
Russia.
He declared in an interview that
both fronts are in danger, and that
the bolshevist peril is a very real
one because- the entente forces are
outnumbered by disciplined and well
armed and well equ:pped troops in
close touch with the allies' extended
but by no means strong, front.
"We must avoid the possibility
f another Khartum." says Sir Er
nest. He urges the need of sending
reinforcements immediately. These
he asserts can reach Murmansk from
England in less than a week.
Bolsheviki in Retreat.
Dispatches from Omsk report that
during the last few days the bol
sheviki have been retiring on the
Orenburg front so rapidly that the
Siberian armies in pursuit are un
ahle to keep in touch. Bolsheviki de
sertions continue. As ap example
T.o miles south of Ufa. a whole reg
iment of bolsheviki cavalry joined
Kolchak's forces and turned their
weapons on their former comrades.
The bolsheviki had accumulated
at Orenburg over three million hun
dred weight of grain, which they
had seized in the Cossack villages.
They are trying, under the greatest
difficulties, to transport this- grain
to Samara,, and are evacuating Oren
burg. RETURNED FROM FALLS CITY.
From Thursday's Daily.
A. K. Eddie who has been at Falls
City for the past four weeks, re
turned this morning, and says
things at our neighbor town are
moving along in excellent condi
tion. There are being constructed
some new buildings, the farmers are
busy and a number of business
changes have been effected just late
ly. Some old firms being superced
ed by new ones.
ANTI-NEPOTISM MEASURE
NOW GOES TO GOVERNOR
Lincoln, Neb., April 4. The anti
nepotism bill introduced in the
house by Representative Foster, pro
hibiting the appointment by office
holders of any person related by ties
of blood or kin to airy subordinate
position or office where the yearly
compensation is greater than $800,
passed the senate today.
The measure had the emergency
clause attached and now- only re
quires the signature of the governor
to be the law of the state. It prac
tically passes in the same form as it
came from the house and by a
unanimous vote.
SPIRIT OF UNREST STILL RAM
PANT IN THAT
COUNTRY.
RECENT LULL BUT TEMPORARY
Lack of Food and High Prices Sup
plying a Fertile Field lor bparta
can Propaganda, and
Having Effect.
Paris, April 3. The latest ad
vices concerning the fighting at
Frankfort and the renewal of the
strike in Berlin confirm the impres
sion prevailing in Germany when
the former Berlin correspondent of
the press left there a week ago that
the then comparative lull in the
manifestations of the industrial dis
order and revolutionary violence
and pillage by the rabble was only
temporary. Germany was at that
time fairly quiet, the only import
ant exception being a strike in the
surrounding region. The March in
surrection in Berlin and the disturb
ances in central Germany and in
East Prussia had been suppressed;
the flame of disorder was only flick
ering in the Silesia coal fields,
while order was being maintained
in Bremen, Essen and other cities,
formerly scenes of Spartacan upris
ings and the socialist proletariat of
Bavaria, altho running affairs in
that state without regard to the
central government, were not seek
ing any occasion of conflict with
the central authorities.
Spartacan Emissaries Active.
Beneath the surface there were
abundant possibilities of trouble.
The majority of the German work
ing men. particularly the married
men. wish to work, altho higher
wages are being constantly demand
ed, to meet the rising cost of food.
An energetic Spartacan minority
and the younger irrepressibles, how
ever, are constantly causing trouble
and preaching bolshevist doctrines
of political strikes to disposess fac
tory owners and overthrow the pres
ent government. On earlier occa
sions, as at Berlin and in the Ruhr
region, these minorities had been
able to inveigle or persuade others
into joining the strike movement,
promising high wages in cases of
success and holding out the bait of
abundant food shipments from Rus
sia if the government were over
thrown and an alliance concluded
with bolshevist Russia.
The factory-owners feared that
the radical minority might again
dominate their fellows if a new
strike was called under propitious
circumstances, particularly as there
were a number of big establish
ments, known colloquilly as "Lieb
knecht plants," where the workmen
were largely Spartacan, who could
he counted on to give a most satis
factory impetus to a general strike
by going out in a body at a given
signal.
Food Will Help Situation.
Factory owners and others in
close touch with industrial condi
tions regard the distribution of
American food supplies at reason
able prices as the only possibility of
mastering the strike movement, re
establishing industrial order and
stimulating production. With the.
workmen able to buy with their
wages the necessary food they may
be able to shake off the influence
of the radicals. Without this pos
sibility all must inevitably drift
completely into the domination of
the extremists.
The industrial situation is com
plicated by a shortage of coal and
raw materials. Factories are run
ning only five days a week on a
short schedule of hours. Should the
coal production be increased and
transportation improved there would
be a far better outlook for industry.
Leading German manufacturers,
particularly in the electrical and
machinery lines, assured the corre
spondent that they would have no
difficulty in doing a profitable busi
nes seven under the present wage
scale if the food and fuel difficulties
were solved.
The situation was rapidly becom
ing critical when the food shipping
agreement was signed. But the
speedy arrival of American food
ships with food on board had al
rady had an imposing effect on gen
eral sentiment, the distribution had
not begun a week ago.
Advertising is the heart of trade.
Everybody uses it in some form or
other to advance their business. But
newspaper advertising is the cheap
est and best. Try it. -
Flags at the Jour&al Office.
ORDER YOUR ALFALFA SEED NOW!
SULK GARDEN SEED
IS OUR SPECIALTY!
iestor
WHAT ABOUT THAT BAND.
We all enjoyed the city band last
year and all the years we had one,
the concerts were splendid and were
a source of much enjoyment to all
the citizens. We had gotten to
think that this music came like that
of the birds, without any cost or
any effort. True the birds have to
make a living, and support their
families, but you cannot expect, be
cause a person is a member of the
band to go practice night after night
and then prepare the program for
your enjoyedment for the sake of
pleasing you. They would like to
do it, but they have to pay out their
good money for music, for instru
ments and other things necessary.
Nor we do not want them to do
that and are and should be willing
to pay for what we get. We should
be pleased to bear our part of those
things that are for the good of the
community. Now this band is not
for the purpose of making money
for its members, but they should not
be expected to do the work and bear
the expense as well.
FORMER MEMBER OF
LEGISLATURE IS SUED
By His Wife for Divorce Alleges
Husband Cruel to Her Lives
in Omaha at Present.
Omaha. April 4. -Treniuore Cone,
prominent in the sand business at
several points in Nebraska, was sued
for a divorce yesterday in district
court, by his wife, Ora M. Cone. She
charges cruelty.
Mrs. Cone was Mrs. Ora M. Cald
well, a widow, before their marriage,
November 1, 1917. Mr. Cone had
also been married before. He was a
member of the legislature for several
terms, having been elected from
Saunders county.
Mrs. Cone says he has property
worth $25,000, and she asks ali
mony. Mr. Cone is engaged in the
business of dredging and marketing
sand, with his principal headquart
ers at Central City, Neb.
Their Omaha home is at 4 656
Douglas street.
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.Bank of
Plattsmouth
!to hold left
BANK OF RHINE
FOR A WHILE
LONG OCCUPATION OF GERMAN
TERRITORY REPORTED DECID
ED ON AS GUARANTEE.
FRENCH AND BELGIANS' JOB
Pichon Thinks the Peace Preliminary
May Be Ready by
Easter Day.
Paris, April o. The council of
four has virtually decided, accord
ing to information from French
sources, that the left bank of the
Rhine will be neutralized until
Germany has paid the indemnities
fixed by the peace conference. It is
understood that French and Belgi.in
troops will hold this territory.
"I have always thought and think
more than ever today, that the peace
preliminaries to be imposed upon
Germany will '.ie ready before Fast
er unless something unexpected
arises." said Stephen Pichon, for
eign minister, yesterday, in reply to
questioners at a banquet given bv
French republican journalists, ac
cording to the Matin.
An appeal for the independence
of Korea will be submitted to the
peace conference before the end of
the present week by a dclgation
headed by Kinsic Kimo, represent
ing the new Korean young men's
society. The appeal is declared to
represeut the vehement desire of al
most the entire Korean nation, as
manifested by the present wide
spread passive resistance- nioemcnt.
The document is accompanied by
a long memorandum reciting the Al
leged injustice and unpopularity of
Japanese rule and the harshness of
the measures with which Jap;in i
declared to be endeavoring to sup
press the national movement for lib
eration. Farming Implements For Sale.
Having. just quit farming. I have
a number of implements for sale,
that the price will be made right
on. if taken soon. See me for par-
Cass County
Nebraska
