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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-04-21
'ONLY IA II SUBJECTS
For WITCH CERTIFICATE
Has 9ttN CONFERRED
RopDER WILL GO INTO EFFECT
AMONG TEACHERS OF THE
STATE NEXT TERM.
From STATE SUPERINTENDENT
u.reafter The Instructors Who Hold
Only Elementary Certificates viii
Not be Permitted to Draw Pay in the
High Schools.

Hereafter, that is beginning with
.bo next term, teachers of the state
Aybo do not hold high school certifi-
cates, will not, under any circum-
stances, be permitted to teach any
bigb school subjects. This statement
,s contained in a letter received this
morning by County Superintendent
Graham, from S. w. Sheriff., the state
superintendent The letter, which is
self explanatory, is as follows:
ITO County Superintendents:
"From information received from
the different counties of the State,
lam led to know that there are teach
ers teaching subjects of the high
school course for which they do not
khod certificates. | know that in some
counties teachers are teaching these
2high school subjects when they hold
Cny an elementary certificate. In
8 EOther counties, teachers with certiti-
&cates for only one group of the high
school work are teaching subjects not
&ncuded in that group. This is not in
#keeping With the law for the -certifi-
kate given the holder reads-'the per
Bon to whom this certificate is issued
Is licensed to teach the subjects
against which grades are marked and
no other
1T is not my purpose to disturb the
aEork now in progress, but beginning
with the next school term, no teacher
mut be employed to teach subjects for
(which he does not hold a certificate
SBnd no trustee must honor warrants
Mssued to teachers who do not hold
certificates as prescribed by law. Trus-
Rees paying such warrants will be held
Irresponsible for the money thus paid
put. Please inform all your high
School teachers so they can take the
fXamination in other groups if they
#Eish.
THE next state examination for
feachers will be held May 3O-31, at
(which time an examination will be
Sheld in all the elementary subjects
fnd all Of the groups of the high school
course including reading circle in
Eooth elementary and high school.
Please urge all your teachers to
Hake the May examination in order
Ehat they may have certificates in time
Fo begin their schools in July.
Very truly yours,
IS. w. SHERRILL."
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
UNITED STATES
SETS NEW RECORD
Foreign Trade Of $7,85O,OOO,-
600 Greatest Ever Attained.
BRITAIN BEATEN BY BILLION
Iron and Steel Products Ahead OF
6readstuffs and Cotton, Former
Export Leader-ExpIosIVe
Rank Second.

Washington. - Americas foreign
trade for the calendar year Of 1916,
according to preliminary estimates of
experts of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, will reach the
grand total Of $7,S5O, 100000, a record
never before attained by any other
nation in it's commercial trading with
the world. Great Britain's best year
recorded a worlds trade close to ST.
O0O, 900 900, or nearly billion less than
the figure America will establish this
year.
OF the grand total, $5,500,00O, 900
will represent exports and $780, ,000,-
900 imports, making a trade balance
in favor of this country of $3,150,000,-
900.
Iron and steel products will dethrone
breadstuffs and cotton as the king of
American exports" this year. The
value of the products from Uncle
Sans steel mills will reach $825,00O,-
900, with explosives ranking second,
the value of these being placed at
$71O, 900. Cotton and cotton manu-
factures will take the third place, their
total value being $548,000.000. Bread
stuffs come fourth with $500,000,00O,
and meat and dairy products fifth, be-
ing valued at $300,000,0O0. Until the
European war broke out cotton led all
other American products in export
value. The first year of the war saw
cotton displaced by food products, and
this year steel products will supplant
food products.
The total value of other American
exports this year is estimated as fol-
lows: Animals, including horses and
mules, $95,OOO,OOO; automobiles and
parts thereof, s12O,OOO,OOO; railroad
and other cars, $166, 100000; chemicals,
$3.50, 100000; copper and copper prod
ucts, 1928, 100000; rubber and rubber
products, $S4,OOOOOO; leather and
leather manufactured products $153.-
100000; tobacco and tobacco products,
81, 100000; lumber and lumber prod
ucts, $6O,OOO,00O; zinc, $54,O0O,0OO;
wool and wool products, $44,000,OOO.
The bulk of these heavy products of
the American farm and factory have
been shipped to the warning nations of
Europe, Great Britain and France abb
sorbing practically all of those sent to
the Allies. Russia has been a heavy
purchaser of steel products, such as
rails, locomotives, railroad cars and
other equipment.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
PROHIBITION NOW
BEFORE CONGRESS
National Amendment Ordered
FaVorabIy Reported.
ACTION WAS NOT EXPECTED
Sheppard Bill Prohibiting Manufacture
and Sale Of Liquor In the Dis
trict Of Columbia Now the
Unfinished Business.

Washington. - Nationwide prohibi-
tion took long stride toward congress
sional consideration when the House
Judiciary Committee Unexpectedly vot-
ed to recommend adoption Of the reso-
luton to submit constitutional
amendment forbidding the manufac-
ture and sale of liquor for beverage
purposes in the United States. Even
the most enthusiastic champions of
the amendment had not expected ia
vorable action so soon from the COM
mittee, which at the last session voted
to postpone it's consideration indef-
initly.
How far the resolution will progress
through the various legislative stages
of Congress at this session is prob
lematical, but administration leaders
doubt that it will reach the Senate in
time for action at this session. Pro
hibition advocates are jubilant over
the action of the committee, however,
and predict ultimate adoption of the
resolution and reference of the amend
ment to the legislatures of the various
states at a much earlier date than they
heretofore had hoped for A two-thirdS
majority in both houses is required.
Coincident with the committees ac-
tion on the amendment, the prohibition
issue was brought directly to the at
tention of the Senate when the Shep-
and sale of liquor in the District of
Columbia became the unfinished busi-
ness to be kept before the Senate until
disposed of. AS an amendment to this
bill Senator Underwood had proposed
referendum to the male voters of
the District. Senator Kern, of Indiana,
has added a proposal that women also
should participate in the referendum.
Sentiment in the Senate for and
against the referendum appears to be
closely divided. with a vote on the
subject expected within a day or two
Discussion of the Sheppard bill af-
forded opportunity for comment on
the proposed amendment, several SEN
ators, among them Sheppard, Varda-
man and Owen, predicting triumph for
the cause of nationwide prohibition in
the near future.
Hardly anyone doubted that prohibi-
ton will be dominent legislative issue
before the new Sixty-fifth Congress if
the constitutional amendment does not
reach a vote this winter In the House
before the amendment can be taken
up for consideration a special rule
must be adopted giving it right Of way.
Representative Webb, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, will ask for such
a rule early in January and endeavor
to press the resolution to an early
vote.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
.DUMA UNANIMOUS
AGAINST FEACE NOW
ExhOrtCd by Foreign Minister,
Votes to Reject Proposals.
WILSON TO SEND NOTE ONLY
Teutons' Overture To Be Transmitted
To Entente Nations Without
Any Offer OF His serv-
ices AS Mediator.

London.-A dispatch to Reuters
Telegram Company from Petrograd
says
"The Duma has unanimously passed
a resolution against the acceptance Of
the German peace proposals. after
spirited speech by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs"
The text of the resolution as re.
ceived here follows:
1.-THE Duma having heard the state.
ment by the Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs, unanimously favors a categorical
refusal by the Allied Governments to
enter, under present conditions, into
any peace negotiations whatever.
"It considers that the German pro-
posals are nothing more than fresh
proof of the weakness of the enemy
and a hypocritical act from which the
enemy expects no real success, but by
which It seeks to throw upon others
the responsibility for the war and for
what happened during it, and to excul-
pate itself before public opinion in
Germany.
"The Duma considers that a prema-
ture peace would not only be a brief
period of calm, but would involve the
danger of another bloody war and
renewal of the deplorable sacrifices by
the people. 1t considers that lasting
peace will be possible only after de-
cisive victory over the military power
Of the enemy and after definite re-
nunciation by Germany of the aspira'
ton which renders her responsible for
the world war and for the horrors by
which it has been accompanied.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
WILL BOYCOTT BUTTER.
New York Housewives Plan Three
Week Campaign.

New York.-A boycott against butter
will be started in this city Wednesday
continuing for three weeks or longer,
it was announced by Joseph Hartigan,
commissioner of weights and meas
ures, and secretary of the mayors COM
mittee on food supply. Housewives
will be asked to economic in the use
of the product, it was stated, instead
Of being urged not to buy it at all.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
HUGHES TO HEAD N. Y. BAR.
Nominated For Presidency OF State
Association.

Albany, N. Y.-Charles E. Hughes
will be the next president of the New
York State Bar Association. He has
been named for the Office by the nomi-
mating committee, and this is equival-
ent to election. The formSl election
will take place at the annual meetin,
in Brooklyn, January IL and 13. Alton
3. Parker is chairman of the nominal
ing committee.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

London.-Peace talk may be under
discussion in European capitals, but
the roar of battle resounds on every
front, east and west and north and
south.
Seldom has there been such un-
animity in reports from all fronts in
detailing bitter, unrelenting warfare
the kind Of warfare that was never ex-
pected to continue in winters snow
and cold.
1t seems as though every belligerent
was bOlstering up It's own ideas Of
peace by force of might-Germany en-
deavoring to show that its plea for
peace came through strength and not
weakness; the Allies returning defiant
rejection of the proffered peace by
hurting forward massed troops.
Verdun held the center of interest
in all the battle news. Called to a
higher command over all Frances
armies in the west, General Nivelle
ended his command on the Verdun
front by a stroke of arms which, de-
tailed dispatches gradually led to con-
vlction here. was an even greater coup
than Frances effort of October "a,
when she hurled German cohorts from
Forts Douamont and Vaux.
Eighty thousand French troops
swept the Germans from twelve square
miles Of soil redeemed months ago by
long continuous and bitterly contested
advance by the Germans. One hun
dred thousand Germans opposed this
onslaught in vain.
1t was master stroke, made pos
sible by almost superhuman co-ordi-
nation Of effort in all branches Of mill
tary science-in men, In guns, timing
of attack and surprise to the foe.
French batteries poured a never
ceasing rain Of projectiles into the Ger
man positions; then stopped and just
at that exact moment came the French
advance; the batteries resuming in
barrage fire.
A dismal rain fell during most of
the fighting hindering air craft.
Their objectives achieved, the
enemy's trenches occupied, the vic
toriOus French hurried out with scout
ing parties and, penetrating still
farther into the enemy's country, sue
ceeded in destroying probably a score
of German guns north Of the positions
they took.
The late German official statement
announced revival of fighting on the
east bank of the Meuse.
The ground won by the French in
this assault was in the first territory
which the German Crown Prince won
from the French, after weeks of as.
sault and bloody losses, on February
Is, 1916.
But this action around Verdun-al-
though no doubt the tiercest of the
comDats on all fronts-was not the
only place where the Teutonic forces
and the Allies were bitterly fighting
A violent artillery duel was apparently
on along the British front in Flanders.
Over on the east front desperate rear
guard actions marked retirement north
Of the Russo-Roumanian forces in
front Of the Teutonic invaders of ROu-
mania. In the Carpathians, where the
Russians and dAustro-Hungarian were
at grips, Petrograd detailed almost con.
tinuous fighting in some actions with
the tide of battle running first to one
side and then to the other-and all
amid the SHOWS and cold of the noun.
tains.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
SON GETS MCLEAN INCOME.

Also Named Executive OF Washington
Post and Cincinnati Enquirer.
ashingtOn.-Edward Beale Mclean
will have the entire income from the
yreat estate left by his father, John
+. and is recognized as the sole head
II the Washington Post and the Gin
,innati Enquirer, by an agreement
cached out Of court. The income, ac-
3ording to Wilton J. Lambert, Nc
leans attorney, will approximate ST.
100000 yearly or more.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
SAFE CONDUCT FOR TARNowskl
Entente Powers Yield To Representa-
tions OF United States.

London.-The Entente Powers have
decided to grant safe conduct to Count
Tarnowski Won Tarrow, recently ap-
pointed Austro Hungarian Ambassador
20 the United States. The Foreign
Office made this announcement, saying
the Entente had decided to grant the
safe conduct in consideration of the
representations made Ly the Ameri
can Government.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
DANES READY TO SELL.
Overwhelming Majority FaVors Dis
posal OF Islands.

Copenhagen.-Only a few further
formalities are necessary to consum-
mate the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States. The
newspaper Politiken remarked in view
Of the overwhelming majority in favor
of the sale, as registered by vote of
283,694 for and 157,596 against the
recent referendum vote Of the nation
further opposition was impossible.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
Wilson Decides On Course.

shington.-President Wilson has
decided that the notes of the Central
Powers proposing all discussion Of
peace to the Entente Allies will be
sent forward by the American Govern"
ment acting as intermediary without
any accompanying mediation offer Of
its own. He has not determined
whether any action in behalf of peace
will be taken later by the United
States on its own account, but is hold
ing himself in readiness to serve in
any way possible toward bringing the
warning nations together.
Watching Entente's Moves.
In other quarters than the White
House it was learned that some word
Indicating the official attitude of the
Entente Allies toward the peace pro-
posal is being awaited with the deep
est interest by the American Govern
ment. The President will not consider
injecting the United States into the
situation until he is thoroughly familiar
Win all ltS phases.
Must Deliver Many Notes.
In England, France and Japan this
Government represents all three Teu-
tonic countries, and will therefore
have to deliver three separate notes.
In Russia and Serbia the United States
represents Austria and Germany and
will have to send on two separate
notes. Only to Belgium, where Aus
tria is represented, and to Roumania,
where Germany is represented, will it
be possible to send only one note.
Switzerland's action in handing the
German note to Italy without comment,
as announced in the Italian Parliament
by Foreign Minister Sonntno, was
noted here with interest.
Meanwhile, the authorized statement
of the German Embassy here that par
tial disarmament will be one of the
subjects taken up at any peace con-
ference is being discussed generally in
official and diplomatic circles with
speculation as to how far in this direc-
IlOH G6Emduy mlSnC DS "A11HS W 81
All Other Issues Wait.
American diplomacy in the various
questions relating to the war may be
said to have stopped short, temper
ariIy, with the announcement Of the
Teutonic offer to talk peace. Tenn
porariIy out of mind are the submarine
issue, which again had reached an ae-
gravated state with the completion Of
evidence that the steamers Marina and
Arabia were sunk without warning o.
provision for the safety of those on
board, and the Belgian deportation as
to which Germany has just replied in
a note believed to be unsatisfactory
10 the State Department. All the
pending questions with England are
also dormant.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
1,2oo-BARREL cUsHER OPEN.
Carnegie Gas Company Makes Big
Find In Pennsylvania.

Fno IN pennsylvania.
Waynesboro, Pa.-Drilling into the
Gordon sand on the George M. Isa-
minger farm, in Springhill township,
Greene county. the Carnegie Gas Com
pany struck a gusher which is pro-
ducing so barrels an hour, or 1900 bar
rels a day. Oil was found a week ago,
but at that time showed only 100 bar
rels a day. Tanks were erected and
on continuation of the drilling, the
gusher shot higher than the derrick.
There is another well on the farm a
short distance from the gusher, which
is producing 100 barrels daily. The
company holds leases on virtually all
the adjoining property.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
AVIATION GROUND ON THE BAY.
LOO Acres Purchased For Army Near
Fort Monroe.

Washington.-The War Department
has purchased about LOO acres of land
IN lower Chesapeake Bay, near Fort
Monroe, for use as an aviation expert
mental and proving ground for the
army. The price paid was $290O00.
appropriated by Congress at the last
session for this purpose. War Depart
ment officials estimate that $1,500.000
will be asked Of Congress for buildings
md equipment, with the idea of max
ng It one of the foremost stations Of
he kind in the world outside of coun-
tries now engaged in war.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

An additional Diaphragm features a
new telephone mouthpiece to absorb
outside sounds that make telephoning
difficult in noisy places.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Cecil county grand jury has indicted
Charles Larue, James Warield, Ernest
Rhodes and Vincent Viccario, all
charged with larceny, and Viola Ivory,
with assault with intent to kill her
husband
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Wool 13 inches long has been shorn
from a Merino sheep which had been
lost for four years in the wilds of,
Australia.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
MAKES BACHELORS "pRY."
Virginia Court Holds They Have No
Regular Homes To Get Quart.

Roanoke, Va.-lf Virginia bachelors
want to get the one quart of liquor a
month allowed them under the state
Prohibition law they must marry. This,
n effect, is the ruling of the State
Prohibition Commissioner. The de-
cree sets forth that bachelors ha re
no regular homes and obviously, there
fore, cannot take their monthly quart
into their homes.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Male and female slaves were sold
publicly in the fairs of England during
the fourteenth century.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Of the $4,000 persons employed in
the Swiss hotels, it seems strange that
only 10000 are Swiss.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
FIVE YEARS FOR BANK CASHIER
Pleaded Guilty Of Stealing a Check
For $2o,e47.

For $20,e47.
New York. - Henry ]. Dorgelch
formerly assistant cashier in the Goa.
and Iron National Bank here, was sen
fenced to five years in the Fedora
Penitentiary at Atlanta. He pleaded
guilty of the theft Of check for $40,
S47 of bank funds, the check being
part of alleged speculations amounting
to $4,000. Use of the banks money
in stock speculations was charged
against him.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS

Walter Patton, of the Sixth district.
has been appointed rural mail carrier
from the Rising Sun Post Office.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

The large bank barn on the farm of
]. o. De Vries, near Sykesville, was
destroyed by fire, together with its con-
tents.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
JOSEPH 7. MILES DEAD.

Was Author Of "There'Il Be 4 Hot
Time In the Old Town."
Santa Rosa, Cal.-Joseph T. Miles,
author of the song "There1l Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight" died
here. Miles, who was veteran actor
was known On the stage as Joe Hay
den." He was 70 years old.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

A census of the volcanoes in the
world shows there are 672 in all, of
which 275 are active.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

While threshing on the Shrewsbury
farm a spark from an engine set fire
20 the wheat rick and the entire crop
Of wheat was destroyed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
WANTS U. S. MILL AND BAKERY,

NORTH Dakotan Would Demonstrate
Real Cost Of Making Bread.
Observation-Disclosures of a Govern.
ment flour and bakery in the capital
% demonstrate the real cost of making
bread is proposed in a bill INTRODUCED
by representative Young, of North Da-
kota.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
HORSE MEAT IN DEMAND.
Germany Fixes Maximum Price A
80 Cents A Pound.

Berlin.-Owing to the steady ad-
vance in the price of horse meat, a
maximum price of 80 cents a pound for
the best cuts, liver and sausage has
been fixed by the authorities.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
FRENCH SMASH
GERMAN LINES
Roar Of Battle Resounds on
Every Front.
ACCLAIMED AS FRENCH REPLY
General NiVeIIe's Army Within Short
Distance Of Where Germans Stood
At Beginning OF the Great
Verdun Drive.

LondOn.-The French victory at Yer
dun is acclaimed by all the London
papers as the French reply to the Ger
man Emperor's speech to his troops in
Alsace and Chancellor Won Bethmann-
HOllweg's claim of the invincibility of
the German arms.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Members Of the Masonic Order at
Chesapeake City celebrated the fftieth
anniversary Of the institution of their
ledge.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

An English inventors cigarette
holder is equipped with a porous disk
to filter the smoke.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
NEUTRALITY VIOLATED.
Government Plans Many Arrests On
Mexican Border.

Mexican Border.
Ell Paso, Tex.-Wholesale arrests of
Americans and Mexicans here and at
other points along the border accused
Of breach of the neutrality laws in
'omenting or aiding the revolutionary
actions Of different Mexican factions
are planned by United States Secret
Service agents. Members of the vari-
ous revolutionary iuntas are now under
'urveillance by this Government
agents, but action is held up pending
'atihcation of the American Mexican
mediation protocol.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

The thumb-print as a means of iden.
tification is used in new English
time-recording machine for workmen.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
SENATE ELECTS SALISBURY.
.ceives Al Votes to % for GaIlin9er
Hlnrara

NeCEIVGS II VOLOo 20 q '~' N''''' ~
and 5 for Clapp.
Washington.-Sena Willard Sauls
bury, Democrat, of Delaware, was elect
a. President pro tempore Of the Senate
receiving Al votes to II for Senate
Gallinger, Republican, and five for Sen
ator Clapp, Of Minnesota, the candi-
late of the Progressive-Republicans.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Koochiching is the name of one Of
MinnesOta's counties.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

The frame barn, $50 by 40 feet, for
merly part of the Blue Mountain House
property, lately owned by the new
Blue Mountain Land Company, was
burned near Pen-Mar, entailing loss
OF $4,000. 1t is thought the building
was fred by tramps who sought shelter
3n the barn.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Prince Raphael Emanuel, of Meso-
pOtamia, spent tt+we days visiting the
family of Mrs. William B. Tilghman,
Salisbury. He is 26 years Of age. His
father is king of one of the largest
tribes in Mesopotamia, and the fathers
household has 500 servants.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

Geo. T. Musselman, 54 years old, of
Cambridge, mail clerk on the Cam
bridge and Seaford Railroad for the
past 18 years, died of paralysis. Mr..
Musselman was a native of Sunbury,
Pa. He leaves his widow, formerly
Miss Viola Powell, of Caroline county,
and four children.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23

John Frye, former employe of the
Hagerstown Postofice, who was con-
Victed Of rifling letters containing
money and sentenced to two and half
years in the Federal Prison at Atlanta,
Ga, has been paroled, after serving
about one year. and has returned to
Hagerstown.