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P.' H. CWONIN. Pubilihor.
O'NEILL, NEBRASKA
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"AO rain—no sun It <»•- fine:1' So raid
the servant or the Sudanese chief w ho pre
sented the sword of submission to -the
I--,- g. "In Sudan—all sun;" he continued
“And Sudanese run to shadow. No work —
Sit tn shadow England—land of shadows.
Work ull day. Strikes? Ah strikes: per
haps because too much work No sun to
atop work—etrlkea Instead. lxtndon?
There la so much of it. 1 do not know.
But the weather is flee I would not
live here because f would lose tny destina
tion. But I would takeaway the weather
with m«—the soft rain and the cool siiud
•»«. Then our corn would grow as high
as sycamores You would like me to lake
It away? Your beuutlful rain? The shad
ows that do Dot hurn? Truly the Eng
Flrst division veteran engineers want to
■how ’'heir prowess In construction and
have offered thoir services to put tip
bleachers for 100,000 people on Fifth avot
i*U9 for the Porahing and First division
parade. September 10, if the city will fi|i
slab the lumber. Bleachers for If/KlO are
being constructed for the welcoming com
mittees. The division wants bleachers for
relatives who hate come to sec their sons
tn the victory march down the avenue.
The engineers boast they can pnt up the
bleachers overnight arid as evidence of
their Hired etted the instance of throwing
a pontoon bridge across the Khlne. at
Honningen hi S minutes and 11 seconds
Forest fires in the United Btatee tills
pear have been the worst In 30 years.
Captain Pack, of the forestry association,
aaya the nation has only about one fourth
of Ha original forests, and what It has is
disappearing threa times faster than tt
is being replaced. Two hundred Blackfeet
Indians are entitled to a large share of the
credit for preventing the iprewd of forest
Ores In the Glacier National park, where
for many days It seemed as If some of
the finest scenery would be ruined, accord
ing to Maj A. K. McFatrldge, who has re
turned from a visit to the park.
Governor Cornwell, of West Virginia,
who was once a laboring man and worked
Car tl a day. has written a letter to rail
road brotherhood officials, declining to
support the Plumb plan for natlomiUnn
tkai of the railroads and declaring that
he la "an American, not a bolshcvist.”
"When you ask the fanners and the labor
ers In other lines of work to go In debt
*20 00*.006 through the medium of the fed
eral government to buy the railroads and
give them to you to operate for your bene
fit and to uso as you please, you are
making a proposition that Is neither sarin
nor flilr."
Testifying at tlie state food Investigation
former Congressman K. M Pollard, one
of the largest apple growers In Nebraska,
said one fall when apples were plentiful
bo shipped a supply trom his fruit farm
U> Lincoln and started selling direct to
the retailers. For a time sales were
heavy, but In a week or two thoy fell off
to almost nothing. Ho questioned the re
tailors as to tho reason otul was told that
IIm jobbers had in effect Informed tho
retail dealers If they persisted In buying
direct from the producer they must also
look to him for their vegetables and other
grocery supplies.
There has Just been discovered on the
Island of Guudelupe, X50 miles from Cali
fornia, evidence of the presence of Ameri
cans on the Island more than a century
ago. A high rock hears an inscription,
recording the landing or the ship "Tri
umph" In 1807, with an American flag
and a score of names affixed. The names ,
sound Hit* those of New Kngland, and
are believed to have been whalers.
Senator Kenyon Is going on the trail of
tho expense accounts for the witnesses
who are flocking to Washington to tes
tify In the packers- behalf against the
Kenyon and Kendrick hills. A Kansas
butcher admitted his expenses were to
bo paid by the Butnhers* Association of
his town “And who will pay tho Butchers’
As sociation,” asked Senator Kenyon The
witness said he did nut know.
Because sovorol scores of Honolulu
school teacher*, vacationing In the united
Btaten, have found It impossible to olt
taln accommodation * on Vessels which
would return them to Hawaii in time
for the regular opening of the school
term. September 15, the schools will re
main closed until September 22.
Ono hundred picked Australian soldiers
arrived in New York yesterday on the Cel
tic en route to Davis. Cal., where they
will he given a special 12 months’ course
In agriculture. The Anrucs, on their return
to Australia will be plvt o sections of land
throughout the commonwealth trtiere they
will train other -ex-: oVier* who take up
farming upon their return from the war.
The United .States district attorney has
Instructed the prosecuting attorney of
Seattle to Institute a criminal action
aguinst restaurant: that charge Id cents
for a cup of coffee. Hcattjc restaurant men
signed an agreement to raise the price
from 5 cents to 10 cents, which agreement,
says the district attorney is against the
law.
Boa Angeles has a swimming marvel
In the iverson of ltlchnrd Headrick, two
years old. Richard gave Ids first publir
exhibition at the age of six months, but
Ms parents have steadfastly refused the
attractive off tvs of movie firms to film
their son. No one taught Richard. Neither
of his parents, or any of his relatives can
swim
The medics 1 journals In Germany ure
publishing advertisements offering posi
tion: to German phyhucians and surgeons
In the Russian army. AUfoctlve pay and
the right of securing hmnobteads Is prom
ised them.
Forecasting u big demand for motor
care In Australia, Major Goddard, of the
British board of trad::, believe* it will bo
possible to manufacture automobiles in
India and land them In Australia at a
cost of $1,500, which he declares will ad
vantageously compete with the most popu
lar Amoi'lcai) made ears.
What was redd to be the first move to
reestablish trade In raw furs between the
United States and Germany was made
this week when the New York fur auction
eab-s eorporat'on appointed un agent In
iwipslc, where mw fur dealers arc eager
to main their pre-r.nr prestige.
Information gathered by the British
government indicates that there are 10,
<40 000 i-crsons eager to leave the con
tinent as so*.n as transportation Is avail
able Official headquarter* there believed
the United States does not rvalixe the
flood of immigration tAat will seek its
■here*.
Carriage makers report their trade In a
Illicitly prosperous condition Their chief
Tsjj*tne*« comes fretn the south, they say.
According to them there ate more norsos
Oh tlie United States notv then ever before.
A correspondent reports that If n refer
enduia were taken of .he Inhabitants of
Wlerln$«ii. the ox-crow ■ prince would not
•Mofftr resile there He ”puls tip’ ’to the
village-*, but they feel suit; he it a hypo
crite.
Pr! \ Ion 'n the flu ted States seen a
tie t V. „• of ben* tit .*> Cuba's staph
i •Jastey— . -nr It Is clal-nod that more
■n 100. V * o». net month are Ue til hi
. rc-'uv 'f »iii‘c- *. n'-lli'tl*. d cons'iniptSiMi.
Two hrudr*:. n < fifty ;n.i •. of Utiti h
vra -dal rd-t- n t Is* issued to tin
,*ivy *■*. ■.’.•.*■ entitle *<i ti ■ ■ 1 eora
-.*/‘ :: : .c.-nt * *. . ..*. of I *: king.
MEPREjiCHEASTO
GET BETTER PM
Laymen of Nebraska Confer
ence Adopt Resolution Mak
ing Such a Recom
mendation.
Lincoln, Neg., Sept. 16. -Nebraska
Methodist laymen In a resolution
passed at the >' hr ask a conference
recommends that i minimum salary of
$1,500 be paid any preacher wlio
gives his entire . ae to the work and;
I hat the salary hi pa(d in cash. Th«^
laymen declared taht all salaries of
$2,000 a nd less he increased $100 per
year since 1915 and that salaries of
over $2,000 a year may be increased as
may be; required by the high cost of
living, 'rile laymen held that th<i
ptehghem ale as a class very poorly)
paid.
In an address before the conferences
Ilichop StunXz said that if Methodisns
is to win out in its world drive it must
give a great deal of Its attention to the
rural church. Ho pointed out that Ihf
church originally started In rural com
munities and that there Its foundation
Mill rests.
"The church In the city would bo
bankrupt and without members if 1C
•as not for thee country churches." h j
acid. "We must keep the rural wor|
going at high speed.” He urged conn-)
try pastors to study the needs of theif
people and be able to converse with
them on things in which they arc in
terested.
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TO CHOOSE DELEGATES TO
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 16.—In 44 of Hit
9> counties of Nebraska, a primar.1
election to choose delegates to Hit
state constitutional convention will I j
held Tuesday. These counties ai I
comprised of 24 of the 27 represent.i
ttv edistricts. In 16 of the remaining
63 districts only one candidate lia.t
filed and these will, therefore, have n <
opposition at the November polls.
Elections will be held in the follow
ing counties: .Johnson, Cass. Sarpy,
Colar, and Knox, (float) Cuming,
Boone, Lancaster, Jefferson, Thayer)
Saline, York, Hamilton, Webster, Holt,
Hock, Brown, Keyapaha, Valley. He l
Willow. Frontier, Gosper. Lincoln,
Hitchcock, Dundy, Loup, Blaine, Grant
Hooker, Thornus, Arthur, McPherson
Logan, Scottsbulff, Morrill, Dawe.i
Sioux, Banner, Kimball, CheycnntJ
Deuel, Garden and Madison.
Who the Candidates, Are.
The candidates In the northwest dis<
trlcts are as follows:
Seventeenth-Cedar and Knox court,
ties: W. F. Bryant, attorney. Harling
ton; F. E. Anderson, member of legis'
lature and editor. Wausa; J. H. Keif)'
enrath, lumberman, Crofton.
Twenty-first—Cuming county: A
R. Olson, attorney, Wtsner; Oscar R
Thompson, farmer; Henry Behrenrf
farmer, Boemer.
Twenty-fourth—Madison count J
,H. Halderson, attorney, Newm 4
Grove; 14. D. Tyler, atorney, Norfol )
J. T. Green, farmer.
The polls will open at S o’clock m
the morning and close at 8 In the even
ing ot the primary election.
PROTESTS AGAINST THE
DROP IN CORN PRICE!
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 16—Arthur Mul
len of Omaha, has sent a protest <
Senator Hitchcock, which was mad i!
the Senate chamber, urging an inves
tigation of jmeslhle concerted action 11
force down the market price of co i
and other farm products. Whin Hi)
statement was read Senator Groiinr,
chairman of the Senate committee oi
agriculture, promised to Investigate II-1
matter.
“It Is passing strange" said Mr. Mid.
len, “that the net result of all this talk
about reducing the high cost of llvin !
has been to drive down the price < t
farm products. While the supply * j
corn has dropped, the price of corn h j
dropped, too. It looks strange, to si 4
the least, and I’d like to know wl-.fit
these speculators arc trying to do.”
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POSSESSION OF BURGLAR
TOOLS CAUSE CONVICTION
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1C.—A eompU f
set of burglar tools found in the pu j
session of three men charged wit j
stealing an automobile from a farm, I
during the state fair, led to a com
plaint being filed against them for at.
tempting to rob the postofflce a
Bethany. Robert Louis Warrant and
Seth Raymond, two of the three dt -
fend&nts, pleaded guilty to (he com-]
plaint when arraigned before United!
States Commissioner Whitmore. R. ii.j
Ryfln, the third defendant, pleaded not
guilty and waived a preliminary on-;
amlnation. Postofflce Inspector Ran-,
dall says that the men have been traced;
and their records known.
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NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER IS
SUED BY N. P. LEAGUE OFFICIAL
Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 1C.-—The Lincoln1
Dally Star has been made defendant ,in'
a $50,000 libel suit brought In the fed-,
eral court of this district by Herbert
H. Gaston, head of the Nonpartlsa
League publication at St. Paul. Min
On June 18 tho Daily Star ran ai
article which had also appeared in sev
eral North Dakota and Minnesota pa
per*. The article dealt with the per
sonnel of the Nonpartlrnn la-ague lead
ers and their former political activities.
There wore short descriptive sketches
of some 16 or 20 of them, from A. C.
Townley down.
Spain is ‘ worried Inst now hy an over
stock of the coal that is so needed In other
parts of Europe.
CAT RETURNED TO ITS
OLD HOME IN IOWA
Blair. Neb., Sept. 16.—A eat beiong
:ig to Lester Axtoll was moved h11
Tom Logan. Ia„ this week, and upo,.
being -eleased, broke through
screened whdot ar 1 .wo days Aftor
wr rds uhowv 1 ip at Logan, 25 tniler
from Blair. 11 is not known hot" it
ccoBoet. the Mtayuuri rive*, but u ,v„ i
nearly famished when it reached >t*
old hr ne.
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GIVEN * SETBACK
Must Give Service to Subscrib
er Who Refused to Pay Charge
Por Toll Call—Held to
Be Farfetched.
Barg.-nt. Neb., Sept. 16,—The Crown
over Telephone Company, of this place,
has been ordered by the state railway
commission to restore the telephone
on Patrick Sullivan’s farm that it re
moved because be would not pay a 10
cent toll charge the company sought to
collect. It must do this without any
expense to Sullivan and it must forego
the collection of the 10 cent charge.
The commission says that it is not
in fayor of telephone mooching, but
that in this case the company made a
far-fetched interpretation of the rule
relating to calls by or for non-subscrib
ers. Sulivan's son telephoned to town
for a veterinary surgeon, and at the
pame time told the doctor that a neigh
bor also desired his services.
The company said this waa a misuse
of the phone, and when Sullivan re
fused to pay the 10 cents took out his
phone. The commission says that,
where the Information conveyed was a
mere incident to the conversation and
not a deliberate attempt to beat the
company out. of a call, the charge can
not be enforced.
CONVICTED ATTORNEY TO
ASK FOR A REHEARING
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 15. — Arthur J.
Koenig-steln, formerly county attor
ney of Madison county, has asked the
supreme court for a rehearing of the
case In which that tribunal affirmed
his conviction on the charge of taking
protection money from women keepers
of bawdy houses in Norfolk. The
Koenigsteins are prominent In north
eastern Nebraska, and tne case against
Arthur lias been in court for four or
five years. A previous conviction was
overturned.
His attorneys insist that the supreme
court ignored or overlooked the fun
damental law in permitting the evi
dence of the worrian complainant taken
in the first ease to bo read in the sec
ond trial without the requirements
that the courts have always said
should first be met. They say that
the lawless elements of the city con
spired to ruin Koenigstein because ho
had prosecuted and convicted a num
ber of them, through his brother, who
served during his absence. A number
of errors of the court in misreading
the evidence, whereby it reached a
wrong conclusion as to the fairness of
his’ trial, are alleged. They close with
this appeal:
“If this opinion is permitted to stand
and this ease affirmed for the reasons
stated in the opinion, a great wrong
will have been done the plaintiff and
a rule will have been announced which
is not the law in any jurisdiction In
any English speaking country or state.
If right is to prevail in this case, a re
hearing must be granted."
METHODISTS REFUSE TO
REARRANGE DISTRICT
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 15.—The princi
pal topic of a session of the Nebraska
annual Methodist conference was a
motion advanced by Bishop Homer
Stunts, at the request of the members
of the Northwest Nebraska Confer
ence to divide the territory comprising
the main Nebraska conference. It
was pointed out that while the North
west Neb'aska C onference covered a
large territory, it did not have a fair
division of the population. However,
the motion was lost by an overwhelm
ing votes.
Two years ago the conference started
out to raise an endowment fund of
$250,000 for retired ministers. Dr. J. R.
Gettys, who has charge of the endow
ment, reported that the found now
amounts to $520,000. M. D. Cameron,
of Omaha, treasurer of the fund, re
ported that the income this year
amounted to $8,652. C. C. Wilson, N. A.
Martin, B. F. Shacklock, Titus Love,
M. B. Cameron and H. I. Babcock were
elected trustees of the endowment
fund.
COMPLAIN ABOUT HAY
SUPPLIED AT STOCK YARDS
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 15.—J. M. Calk
ins, big ranch owner of Knox county,
has promised the state railway com-,
mission that he will file a formal com
plaint against the Union Stockyards at
Omaha, alleging that they sold him
rotten hay that sickened his cattle and
caused him considerable loss when
marketed. He had made an informal
complaint, but in order to give the
commission, jurisdiction, to issue an
order it had to be made final. The
company says that its instructions are
to buy only first grade upland hay, but
that it was not always possible during
the shortage period of the past year
to get it. The situation as developed
by correspondence made it Impossible
for the commission to reach a conclus
ion as to what steps could be taken to
Insure the keeping for sale only of
first class hay.
NEBRASKAN IS FOR
REGULATION OF PACKERS
Washington, D. C„ Sept. 15.—Excor
iation of the "big live" packers was the
burden of a three hour argument made
before tho Senate Agricultural Com
mittee by Fdward L. Burke, of .Omaha,
Nob., vice president of the American
National l. yestpck Association, who
asked ' the > lifimediite * passage of 1 he
Keiidrick and Kenyon bills for federal
regulation i -f the pa- king Industry.
OLD CLOTHES CLUB IS
ORGANIZED AT CANTON
Canton, 8. D„ Kept. 13.—One of the
most unique clubs n the state or no .h
west is bong foirned by resident of
Canton. K vill be known at the ( Id
Clothes Club and members will pledge
thmsel .ei- to wear old clothing whi< h
ordinarily • ouljS-be thrown into the
discard. In this way they pr .pose to
rfeluoe - cost of living- apd at < tlit
same tim contribute their rat'a to
v -vrd redr- ng the price of clot ilqg.
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BILLS! FUEL
New Rules to Govern Nebraska
Officials In the Matter of
What They May Spend
For Hotel Service.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 13.—Under regu
lations Just issued by the state de
partments organized under the code
law the old practice of allowing em
| ployes to choose between staying at
expensive or inexpensive hotels when
traveling on state business will be
abolished. Hereafter all employes so
traveling will be allowed a stated per
diem, 32 a day when domiciled at a
place outside the capital city for two
weeks oj; morq, 33 a day for lest) time
than ,that aivl 35 a dayvwheri traveling
outside the state.
In addition the state will pay reason
able miscellaneous charges and will
furnish mileage.
UNUSUAL CASE UP
TO BUREAU OF LABOR
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 13.—If a man
is physically improved by an alleged
injury, is he entitled to workman’s
compensation? The bureau of labor
must decide that question in the case
of Henry Bockman, an employe of
Morris & Co., of South Omaha.
Bockman, it is said, was subject to
epileptic fits, due to an old injury to
his skull. Several months ago he fell
from a ladder at the plant, injuring hbf
head over the scar of the former jjjg
Jury. Bockman hasn’t had a fit sil|H|
However, he has made claim for
pensatlon, which is being opposed by
the insurance company on the basis
that he wasn't injured, but rather was
benefited.
SAYS TELEPHONE SERVICE
IS BEING DENIED HIM
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 13-—N. J. Rode
wald of Seneca has appealed to the
slate railway commission to prevent
the telephone company from depriv
ing him of service. He says it has in
formed him that he must take $50
worth of stock or he will get no service.
This he must have, and he says that as
lie once ldst $100 in a telephone ven
ture, he thinks he ought to have the
privilege of choosing whether he will
pay a regular monthly rental or
whether he will take stock. He plain
tively says that he accords the privil
ege of taking stock to the others, and
he should have the same freedom of
action.
STRIKING COOKS OPEN
CAFE; PRICES WAY DOWN
Omaha, Neb., Sept. IS. — Striking
cooks and waiters have opened a safe
at which an order of roast beef, pota
toes, bread and butter is sold far 25 cents
and other articles in proportion. The
lush was so great that the place was
virtually sold out at 1 o’clock. Last
night the management announced club
steak with potatoes, bread and butter
will be sold for 40 cents. Pork chops
with pre-war accessories will be 30
cents.
The union expects to make a small
profit, but the chief idea of the cafe
is to provide a "fair" place for union
sympathizers to eat and provide em
ployment for the strikers.
GIRL CAPTURES BOYS
WHO LOOTED STORE
Gordon, Neb., Sept. 13.—John Borders
and another youth, the former on pa
role from the Kearney industrial school
were captured in the act of burglary
and are held for trial.
The lads entered the hardware store
of Kocer & Co., and failing to find cash,
equipped themselves with pistols and
flashlights. As they were leaving Miss
Yon Kocer walked into the place and
collared one of the boys. Sho recog
nized his companion and a telephone
call to the marshal resulted in the
latter's arrest.
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ALLEGED LAND SWIND'-ER
ONCE MORE CONVICTED
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 13.—Henry G.
Fisher was found guilty by a jury.
Only one ballot was taken. Nellie
Pearson, of Omaha, testified that nine
years ago this month Fisher called at
the office ’of the J. P. Cook Co., In
Omaha, and had the seal made with
which ha affixed the notary's seal to
his bogus deed, on which he borrowed
$300.
Fisher on the stand admitted that he
was director of a bank at Forrest City,
Okla., and insisted that he never .left
the town. He denied having obtained
$100,000 by filing fraudulent deeds in
various counties and then borrowing
money on them.
BAD NEGRO AND RAZOR
PLAY MUCH HAVOC
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 13.—Paul Parker,
negro, with a razor slashed his wife
across the back and chest when she
detected him stealing her clothes from
her room.
Following the assault, Mrs. Parker,
with blood streaming from her body,
ran into the yard screaming far as
sistance. Two negro men ran to her
aid. They too sustained cuts from
the razor.
Parker.left before a>posse, which had
been organized could catch him. He
is still at l(b'*i«}y. f - '
The fugitive escaped from the city
Jail two monthr ago where he was
serving a 90-day sentenoe.
FREMONT—Adolf Wolf, who stole
Franc Kelt's car duri: t, t*.# Chautauqua
was given one to 19 years by Judge But
ton. 'Volf's v If#, who 1# connected witb
a w- althy Auburn fan iiy. tv round ..yt
gull1 . They ran the autor lobile off the
bride;. Into th# Klkhorn elver near
Hoc,*:.
FI!' MONT—J . t s:x m .nth* of mar
ried Ufa proved juMcl'i t for Pete Ben
nett. veteran Fr. mo Wdra'-mrn. .lged OS.
rod hi* vvi,»- w' " is at. J dr - tutton tli
l-a#'known tl of t cm Ivy n ar.:t > .r,
t jl(l' them they should have kr mv.i h > ,
than to get mari-ed.
HALED BEFORE
Thronged Galleries Witness
First Open Consideration of
Treaty In Nation’s History—
Jones Makes First Speech.
Washington., Sept. 16.—“I call
up the treaty 04' peace with Ger
many. J ’ v
With these words, Senator
Lodge^ehai rraan of-the foreign re
lations committee, today formally
opened the discussion in the Sen
ate of the peace treaty as reported
by the committee.
For the first time in the Senate’s
history, a great treaty was consid
ered in open session, before
thronged galleries instead of be
hind closed doors.
Immediately after Lodge had for
mally made the treaty the Senate busi
ness the first gun in a marrage of
speeches from the democratic side of
the chamber in favor of unqualified
ratification was fired in a speech by
Senator Jones, New Mexico. Jones, one
-qt the treaty's most ardent supporters,
will be followed tomorrow by Senator
Overman, North Carolina, also In favor
of its ratification as It now Is.
Six Week’s Debate.
From now until the final vote has
been taken on ratification the treayt
will remain the Senate’s unfinished
business, taking precedence over all
else. Senators today estimated that the
debate upon it will consume from four
to six weeks.
Lodge also put Into the record a copy
of the treaty with Austria, with the
allied note telling Austria to take the
treaty just as it was written. Lodge
said he was given he treaty by a Chi
cago newspaper. He anounced thai
following Jone’s speech he would ask
that the Austrian pact be read.
Gallery room in the Senate was at a
premium today. Many spectators left
in disappointment when they learned
that instead of being treated to a view
of the Senate at work on the momen
tous document, they would be com
pelled. if they stayed, to listen to a
speech.
Assails Treaty Enemies.
Senator Jones, to whom flell the
chance of making the first formal
speech after the treaty was called up,
declared opponents of the League of
Nations "poison the public mind with
insidious declamation.”
”1 have given to this covenant of the
League of Nations all the careful an
alytical and calm consideration of
which I am capable, and I fail to find
anything which even tends to justify
these invectives which have been di
rected against it,” he said. “I can un
derstand how the wisdom of some of
the provisions of this covenant may be
drawn in question, but ther should be
no difference of opinion as to the cre
ation of a super government to which
we shall surrender our sovereignty.”
Such a super government may cofe,
but "the time has not yet arrived” said
Jones. He took up the covenant by
article and declared the -objections
raised against various provisions aro
not , supported by the covenant's
language.
McCumber's Report.
Earlier in the day. Senator McCum
ber, North Dakota, presented his in
dividual report on the treaty as a mem
ber of the foreign relations committee.
Scoring the committee reservations
to Article X of the League of Nations
covenant, Senator McCumber said it
really is an amendment “pure and sim
ple’’ and designeed to make the United
States entirely out of the league.
He expressed opposition to the pro
posed amendment to the Shantung pro
vision. By this amendment, he said,
Japan would be “kicked out" of the
league by the United States end Shan
tung possibly lost to China. Calling
attention to what he termed the failure
of the majority to explain the purposes
of the league, Senator McCumber said:
"Not one word is said concerning ei
ther the great purpose of the League
of Nations or the methods by which
those purposes are to be accomplished.
Irony and sarcasm have been substi
tuted for argument. It is regreted
that the consideration of a matter so
foreign to partisanship should be Influ
enced by hostility towards or subser
viency to the president.”
Hits Johnson Amendment.
Senator McCumber said that the
amendment to give the United States
equal votes in the league with England
and the British colonies was ‘'unnec
essary."
The plan of giving each member na
tion one vote without regard to size
or importance, was the only possible
plan, the senator argued, adding that
to all intents and purposes the British
colonies are independent.
Criticises Lodge.
Senator McCumber said his only ob
jection to the Lodge reservation on
withdrawal from the league was of
form. As to the Lodge reservation to
Article X, Senator McCumber said he
had many objections.
"hirst—It is an amendment pure and
simple." he said, "Qf the most import
ant article in the league. Its purpose is
to take the United States, as a power
for >the ineaee of the world.'out of the
league entire)}’.
"Second—It places this count -y in a
false and wrong position:, an attitude
of encouraging powerful countries to
Inflict or impose any wrong upo weak
er nations by our declared policy of
non-intervention.”
With his report Serutor McCumber
eubrr. .ted the six 1 ese.wati one he
champions as substitutes for commit
tee reeervati. ns. These recently wci 3
m< do public.
Doobt cn Am«ndmer..s.
W1 'e treaty oj pencils u.'.rnit there
s do.ibt a’-out their ability *c nass
-♦nendmenfa, they declari tha . ..ner
vations of - some sort ane .- c rtain.
.Whether these reservations will t
rclifl cr strong, they declare, deptia-r
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4 PRESIDENT TO ORATE 4
♦ TO SAN DIEGO CROWD 4
♦ FROM BIG GLASS CAGE 4
4 -. 4
1 4 San Diego, Cal.. Sept. I'!.— 4
, 4 President. Wilson is ''raged'
I 4 in San Diego. When he speaks 4
4 at the huge stadium here on 4
| 4 Friday he, will stand in a glass 4
[,♦ "cage” with 250 members of the ♦
4 press and the official reception 4
4 committee. 4
4 This precaution is taken be- 4
4 cause of the physician’s advice 4
4 against outdoor speaking. 4
♦ The thousands who fit! the 4
4 big stadium, however, will hear 4
every word he utters through a 4
4 new invention, the "magrni 4
4 box,” which magnifies the voice 4
4 of a speaker and carries it for 4
4 a great distance. It will ho one 4 *
4 of the most unique settings for 4
4 a public speech in history. 4
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on the outcome of - coafefrws now on
between the mild reservation ists and
Senator I-edge, who is for those framed
by the foreign relations committee.
Treaty supporters today sav. new
strength added to their cause in the
committee of 250 leading republicans
and democrats, formed to bring about
unqualified ratification.
—4—
GIVE STRONG SUPPORT.
New York, Sept. 16.—Two hundred
and fifty leadfhg Americans, republi
cans and democrats representing 40
different states and every prominent
activity, have joined in a nonpartisan
effort to bring about the ratification
of the peace treaty “without amend
, mtftt and without delay." Their
| names are attached to an address to
the United States Senate, which was
made public today through the League
to Enforce Peace, after it had beer, sent
to every member of the Senate.
The signers, almost without oxeeep
tion, are men and women of national
reputation. They include Ex-President
Taft; George VV. Wlchersharn, attorney
general in the last republican adminis
tration; A. Lawrence Lowell, president
of Harvard; Charles C. Moore, of San
Francisco, president of the Panama
exposition: Judge George Gray, of Wil
mington, Del.; President Samuel Gom
pers, of the American Federation of
Labor; Harry A. Wheeler, ol' Chicago,
retiring president ot the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States; Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Oatt, president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, tho
Philadelphia publisher; President Ho
her J. Grant, of the Mormon church;
and John Spargo, leader of the social
ists who supported the war.
The signers declare that every day
of delay in ratifying tho treaty puts
the world in “imminent peril of new
war.”
Wars Not Ended, He Tells Close
Army Friends—Points to
Mexico and Japanese
Militarism.
Washington, Sept. 16.—According to
a remarkable articel in tho Washington
Post today General Pershing, though
he has not talked for publication, has
expressed his views on the League of
Nations and on preparedness to close
army friend. He has told them tho
league will not prevent war and tho
United States must look to its own
fighting strength.
He thinks there is a great danger of
another war. He regards intervention
in Mexico as unavoidable and has ad
vised his staff to be prepared for ac
tion there. But he looks on Japan
with its excessive militarism as most f*
dangerous.
In this connection, it appears Japan y
wanted to go into Russia alone against
the bolshevists but made extreme ter
ritorial demands in Asia, as the price
of this work. Pershing has been un
willing to talk for publication on any
matters relating to politics or interna
tional affairs but to old'army friends
he has, the Post says, made no secret
of his views.
TWO EARTH
SHOCKS IN
CALIFORNIA
Eureka, Cal., Sept. 16.—The fifth
earthquake in a week attack this sec
tion today, demolishing a number of
chimneys. It was the moat severe of
the series, and was accompanied by a
heavy roar like thunder.
The 'shock was felt at 7 a. m.
Another sharp shock was felt at 9
o'clock this morning.
BROOKLYN OIL FIRE
.BURNING ITSELF OUT
New York, Sept. 16.—The spectacu
lar oil Are which since Saturday after- .
noon has raged at the plant of the
Stone & Fleming company, in Long Is
land city, with Injury to more than 50
persons and property damage running
into the millions, was gradually burn
ing itself oat today.
Officials of ice Are department, how
ever, expect the blaze to continue for
two or three days until the thcrusands
of gallons of oil in the path of the
ftr.ir.es have been ronsumcd.
I . r‘. j-1. Little, special <-nvoy of the Unite*
I sti-'ee government in Dali -atia says tbu
peep f t..- 'e a keen interns, in Vine, Jrani
I (joedfi. • ♦ is ei. >ugk to?-them sc i *bo
mark rr .no in the Untied Stated and.
i they are stiff!, icutly manuite- d."