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Meade County news., 1917-09-06


purpose; but it is our business to see
to it that the history of the rest of
the world is no longer left to its ham
ding.
"'To deal with such power by way
OF peace upon the plan proposed by
his holiness the pope would, so far as
we can see, involve a recuperation of
its strength and renewal of it's pol.
icy; would make it necessary to create
permanent hostile combination Of
nations against the German people,
who are its instruments, and would re-
suit in abandoning the new born Rus
sia to the intrigue, the manifold sub
tie interference and the certain coun-
ter revolution which would be attempt
ed by all the malign influences to
which the German government has
of late accustomed the world. Can
peace be based upon a restitution of
its power or upon any word of honor
it could pledge in treaty of settle
ment and accommodation?
America Desires No Reprisals.
Responsible statesmen everywhere
must now see, If they never saw be-
fore, that no peace can rest securely
upon political OF economic restrictions
meant to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others, upon vim
dictive action of any sort, or any kind
Of revenge or deliberate injury. The
American people have suffered intoler-
able wrongs at the hands of the im-
perial German government, but they
desire no reprisal upon the German
people, who have themselves suffered
all things in this war, which they did
not choose. They believe that peace
should rest upon rights Of peoples, not
the rights of governments-the rights
of peoples great or small, weak or pow
erful-their equal right to freedom and
security and self government and to
a participation upon fair terms in the
economic opportunities of the world
the German people of course included,
if they will accept equality and not
seek domination.
1.-The test, therefore, of every plan
Of peace is this: Is it based upon faith
of all the peoples involved or merely
upon word of an ambitious and in
triguing government, on the one hand,
and of group Of free peoples on the
other? This is test which goes to
the root of the matter; and it is the
test which must be applied.
1.-The purposes of the United States
in this war are known to the whole
world-to every people to whom the
truth has been permitted to come.
They do not need to be stated again.
We seek no material advantage Of any
kind. We believe that the intolerable
wrongs done in this war by the furious
and brutal power of the imperial Ger
man government ought to be repaired,
but not at the expense of the sover-
eighty of any people rather vindi-
cation of the sovereignty both OF
those that are weak and those
that are strong. Punitive dam
ages, the dismemberment of empires,
the establishment of selfish and exclu-
sive leagues, we deem inexpedient and
in the end worse than futile, no
proper basis for a peace Of any kind,
least of all for an enduring peace. That
must be based upon justice and fair
ness and the common rights Of man
kind.
Can't Accept Kalser's Word.
1--WE cannot take the word Of the
present rulers of Germany as a guar
nnton of nnuthinn that ir To nndnrn
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

The angels couldn't be better than
men in love assert that they will be
after marriage
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

Many man has told woman that
she is the only one he ever loved mere
ly from force of habit.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

The first submarine cable was laid
from Dover, England, to Cape BrineR
France, in 1850.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

jamaica in 1915 Imported $72,31S
worth of confectionery.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06
Letter TO
DR.. Kilmer d Co.
Bindhamton, N. Y.

Prove What Swamp Root viii Do For YO1
Send ten cents to DR.. Kflmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
formation, telling about the kidneys and
bladder. When writing, be sure and mem
ton this paper. Large and medium size
bottles for sale at all drug stosos.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06
University Of NOtre Dame
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA

Offers Complete Course In Agriculture
Full courses also in Letters, Journalism,
Library Science, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Medi-
cine, Architecture, Commerce and Law.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

Some people can best make their
presence felt BY their absence.
Meade County news., 1917-09-06

THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs by
using LA Creole" Hair Dressing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
ARGENT|NE'S BREAK WITH
GERMANY IS HELD UP
KaiSer'S DiSavoWaI of Luxburg
Accepted by Officials as
Temporarily Satisfactory

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 24.-For the
immediate present at least. Argentine's
determination to declare war against
Germany, is to be held in allegiance.
Government officials today accepted as
temporarily satisfactory" message
from the German government. transmit
ted through the Argentine minister at
Berlin, disavowing Count Luxburs's ut
terances and denying that the kaiser ap-
proved of Luxburg's actions personally.
The fact was emphasized however.
that this disavowal does not constitute
full, free and formal reply demanded in
Argentine's ultimatum. Its receipt
however, stops the chamber of deputies
Immediate consideration of the resolu-
ton supporting the governments plea
for declaring a state of war with Ger
many.
Public interest was transferred from
the German situation today to the more
pressing crisis of the nationwide strike.
At / a. m. today all railway employees
struck Complete paralysis of all rail
communication seemed certain. The sit
uation is admittedly of the most serious
character, as many cities lack large sup
plies of food and fuel.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
NEGRO DESPERATE KILLED
BY OFFICER NEAR CAMP
Giant Desperate Slain by
Deputy After the Latter
Had Fired

William Williams. a negro desperate
who was wanted in Jones county for a
murder in which Eve men were killed
was shot to death at an early hour
Sunday morning in a shanty opposite
the railroad depot at Chamblee by j.
w Webb, a deputy attached to the Of
fee of the solicitor general, who, with
Deputy Sheriff r. P. House and Gus
Hudgins, of Decatur, had gone to the
shanty to raid crap game.
Complaints of the crap game had
been made to the police officers by army
officers at Camp Gordon, and as Webb,
Hudgins and House entered the shanty,
williams took sppgsome money. lying on
the table and prepared to give fight. He
grappled with Deputy Sheriff House and
they struggled from the room in which
the negroes were shooting craps to the
front porch of the shanty. followed by
the other officers. On the porch, VIII
liams drew from his hip pocket an auto
matte pistol and fired at Hudgins, and
as the bullet flew wild. Webb shot at
the negro one bullet striking him in the
hip and another In the head, killing him
instantly.
Williams was a large man, weighing
about 215 pounds, and it was his wife
who told Sheriff McCurdy that he was
a bad man" and that he was wanted
in Jones county for the murder of two
white men and three negroes in card
game.
The other negroes arrested in the
crap game Sunday made no effort to re-
sist arrest and are lodged in the jail at
Decatur.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
AMERICAN TROOPS IN
FRANCE UNDER FIRE
Of GERMAN CANNON
Two Members of Contingent
Who Were Wounded by Shell
Fragments Are ProudeSt
Men in Camp
BY WILLIAM PHILIP srMHrs.

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD Sept. 24.-American troops
for the first time are under German fire
I'm France.
Two American soldiers have been
slightly wounded They were struck
bv fragments of bursting shell
A certain contingent of the American
army is now located directly behind the
british lines, we'll within range OF the
enemy guns. .,
The two wounded men are the proud
est members of this contingent, whlch L
visited Sunday
the TWO American soldiers were Dauly
enough hurt to earn gold medals. They
were the heroes of the camp however
and the most envied of all.
The ewes of this American contingent
are turned longingly to the British nhe
so near to them that the Americans
are now within range of the enemy
guns.
The mems work with the boom OF
cannon always in their ears. They are
great pals of the Tommies, and listen
enviously to stories of going over the
top"
So eager are the men to fight that
the strictest regulations, imposing Sc
we're punishment. have been necessary
TO prevent them sneaking off to the
front. under chaperonage of Tommies
A group of officers sat today before a
table on which reposed great dish OF
Boston baked beans rooted with brown
ed bacon. and toasted in cocoa the day.
when they should follow the stars and
stripes then fiuttering overhead behind
a barrage. This was their answer to the
Of
marks and a fortnight's leave for the
first American. dead or alive. And aft
er the toast the officers rolled cigar
cites to ward of their Impotence TO
get into action.
1t was the hrst performance of this
kind seen in this part of the world.
American officers hugely admire the
British achievements. especially after
a glimpse of the DIFFICULTIES of their
war making The Americans admit they
have much to learn and many Illusions
to be shattered. They say no amount
of pictures or lectures or theoretical
practice can prepare the mind for the
actual fighting. Officers must see the
real thing to understand the task.
America had no idea that fighting
methods in the great war were contin-
ually changing, these officers explain
ed. Folks back home" have believed
the present fighting strictly warfare
from trenches-but as a matter Of fact
the actual lighting is now over prac-
tically trenches country, the enemy
occupying concrete reinforced she'll
holes. with steel and concrete pill
boxes" scattered over an area two-thirds
of a mile wide. The trenches are only
used to the rear of these defenses. and
are manned by reserves. instead of by
continuously lighting forces.
Drift hap &c Oht
Of the Americans profound admiration
They regard 1t as the only safeguard
by which the pill box zone can be navi-
gated
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
NEW EXPOSURES Of
GERMAN |NTR|GUERS
BY j. s. PROMISED
Intrigue in Rumania and Fur
Their Disclosures in Mexican
and Argentine Intrigues May
Be Shown at Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-Germany
will be convicted further before the
world this week on charges of high
handed intrigues against the peace of
other nations.
With revelation over Sunday of a
Teuton bomb and poison plot in Ru-
mania, government authorities limited
that II might be shown the Teutons had
tried to spread disease in America as
one of her insidious means of hampering
war work.
The bomb and poison plot in Ruma-
MIA showed the Teutons planted bombs
in the German legation garden at Buch-
Arrest after the United States had taken
charge there and also had left walls of
germs to poison horses
Similarly, the Teutons may have
spread the germs of lock jaw in court
plaster recently found In the United
States to be infected.
Whether or not such a plot Is dis
closed, the senate is promised an expose
of treacherous German work in trying
to stir up anti-American feeling in ia
pan, and anti-Japan spirit in this coun-
try. Viscount Ishii, now in this country
with the Japanese commission, has al
ready limited at such intrigue. Senator
King, who Saturday showed the Aus
TRAN embassy to be substituting some or
the foreign language press has data on
the Japanese plot, and will speak by
the book" when he does make his new
exposure.
The government is prepared to give
out documentary proof of its recent rev.
Citations in cases where denials are en-
tered by those concerned. For instance,
II proposes this week to make public
Photographic reproduction of the Eek
hardt- Cronholm- Mexico City plot letter.
the authenticity of which has been de-
MED by the principals.
1t was rumored today that the gov
eminent has additional data on the Lux
burg-Argentine case. but 1T Is careful
to avoid any appearance of trying to
force Argentine into action against Ger
many, when its avowed purpose in max
ing the revelations has been to show
Sweden's duplicity and Germany's I'M
ashamed peace propaganda methods.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Georgia Men to Fill
Field Hospital Corps
Are Sought by Major

Georgia men are wanted TO I'LL up the
vacancies in the Georgia ssld hospital
corps at Camp Wheeler. near Macon,
and in an effort TO get Georgia men Ma
jor - F. HoIton. in charge of the Geor-
Eia field hospital enlistments, is In At
liant recruiting.
Between so nd 90 men are needed. Ma
fOr Holton said Monday morning, and it
is the desire TO I'LL the vacancies, II pos
sible, with Georgia volunteers. since the
field hospital company now is composed
entirely Of Georgia men. Only two or
three weeks remain for volunteers to
get into his company, Major HOlton
further stated. After that IL will be
filled with men from the national army
he said
Major Holton will be at SOS Postoffics
building until Wednesday to give infor-
nation to prospective volunteers, but en-
l.stments for this unit can be made at
any time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Truck Runs Into Five
Points Crowd, Knocking
Down Three Women

4 dairy delivery truck, driven by
George H Parker, of East Lake, crash
cd into pedestrians at Edgewood avenue
and Peachtree street at ] .. m. Monday.
knocking down three women and run
ming over Miss Leila Hardlgrave. of IS
Jones avenue.and injuring her. but not
seriously. She was taken 20 Grady
hospital and found TO be bruised but
with no bones broken
An X-ray will be taken. however. to
see If she has sustained a fracture Of
the elbow. The three other women were
much frightened and their dresses were
ruined from their fall on the wet street
Parker. who was taken 10 the police
station on a charge OF reckless driv-
ing. but was later released under a
small bond. states that he got the sig
nal from the traffic policeman to cross
PeaChtree into EdgewoOd. but that as he
ueared the sidewalk. the crowd got in
front OF him and he put on brakes.
which. however. refused to work. result
ing in the accident
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
OFFICIAL; ;;;5EX POS E..
PROVES CHARGES
AGAINSTSs KAISER
7Tt-r--a nsmTeD SIT

Through aanyd offfcia1Q sSrossnrz,9
based on the 'TonqfEel paper 300
the government e6day !SbhSfdte-ye 7
ed Germany off SPYING And t 4goat
ting in this country Is bomb q
munitions ships IT'D ififaebncs pt6-r 8
lie opinion and f6Sen petpstrAaats re :
many other q sfiamsfessh ef1risss1
while still at LPpssace. esogxe eht n4f'E
Senator King revealed That ssss svt
German and Austriano enlbasAiass los
had paid checks to Teur6n Blot 9s
aides. and promised TO On reveal
how the Ted46ns Bad sought att66 siit
stir up tHAhherteHHissyE o II i
Japan. w ~ - -.
Previously mtttiisW eOvertRRf1n4s SIT I )
R mSion T DroSeS fP5ErffssBBqfdssAs
AMBASSADOR Bel BsardfsstRoafff ssa1b rss66ols
a $4,000 slusho fund from HIS f. - |.
government TO sway lcconsress -
against war; that Count dLpxBRprS
Buenos Aires. had used I, Stbs 80
Swedish minister as messenger -
for his spurlos yerssnkt 'Jtsfe-r-sr
grams; that the then, Foreign -.
Secretary Zimmerman sugg ested ~
aligning Mexico = ana JRnanr
against the United Statss;s that Nj
the German Mexico city tenEpyts,a
used the Swedish minister there so4
as spy messenger; that a, German
agent in the Philipptpes offered
white woman as "a fbatt, to pros
pective Filipino ihsdrrec sof..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Big Stills in Lumpkin
County, Not Dawson,
Writes Mr.. Anderson

The Journal is in receipt of a com
munication from ]. X. Anderson. of
Jacksonville, Ca, in which he protests
against the publication on September Is
of a news story describing the capture
of two huge blockade stills on the prem
Uses of Henry Mckee. The stills were
not found in Dawson county, declares
Mr.. Anderson.
The Journal takes pleasure in pub
fishing Mr.. Andersons protest, in which
he says
81 saw in your todays issue of the
Semi-Weekly paper that Dawson county
was in the limelight on account of big
raid the deputy marshals had made on
the premises of Henry Mckee.
II wish this corrected, as Mckee does
not live in Dawson, but Bumpllin coun-
~, and the story constitutes a slur on
our county"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
7 eutonS Take Town and
Territory in Drive on Russians

NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-By Foreign
Cables From European Capitals i'm
the midst of Russias internal troubles
has come another German stroke on
the Russian northern front. resulting
in the capture of the bridgehead and
town of Jacobstadt, on the Dvina, and
the enforced retirement of the Russians
in this region TO the eastern bank of
the river
The fall of the bridgehead gave the
Germans possession of new territory
on a front OF approximately 25 miles
and six miles i'm depth enabling them
TO push their lines to the west bank o:
he Dvina in this area. They took only
four hundred prisoners from the re-
treating Russians but gathered in fifty
guns from the abandoned positions.
Dramatic as this suddenly developed
operation was, il seems unlikely TO de-
velop anything comparing in impor-
tance in it's effect upon the general mill
itsry situation with the desperate bat
tie still i'm progress on the Flanders
front
Loaf 10 give up the valuable ridges
the British wrested from them on
THURSDAY, the Germans continue to
launch desperate counter-attacks from
heir battered Flanders line and TO COM
bat with determination every effort of
Field Marshall Haig's forces to improve
their positions This official statement
lays stress on the exceedingly severe
character of their losses.
The German command seems particu-
larry reluctant to surrender the slight
elevation west OF Gheluvelt. close to the
Ypres-Menin road. Fierce fighting de-
veIoped there Saturday, the engage
ment centering about the position
at
patches indicated that up to mid-after-
noon there had been no cessation OF
the struggle, the tide of battle flowing
back and forth within a narrow area
Berlin's official statement makes no
claim of any ground recovered from
the British. 1t records the lighting Of
Friday, the day following the initial
British dash, as marked by continue
ton of British attacks along the LANCE
marck-Hollebeke front, which were re-
pulsed and describes Saturdays en-
gagements as lighting of a local caar-
actcr. which resulted in German sue
cesses
Regarding the air lighting of Thurs
day and Friday. the customary COM
parison is given by Berlin of German
and entente losses in machines. Thir-
ty-nine hostile machines were shot
down on those days by the Germans
it is declared, while only three German
machines were lost This varies nota-
bly, from the British official account.
which mentions ten Germans airplane
destroyed and six driven down out of
control. The probable loss of ten Brit
ish machines, classed as missing is aC-
mitted by London.
Meanwhile, as q complement to the
land fighting I'm Belgium. British war
bapn hOn1 ha riding the town of OSteud
ships of the Belgian coast patrol nave
where German naval works were she'll
ed with results pronounced satissac-
tory British aviators continued their
extensive bombing operations behind
the German lines. Cstend being one or
the points successfully attacked by the
aviators as well as the fleet
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Baker and Farmer Must
Squelch Middle Man,
Pack Informs Bankers

ATLANTIC CITY, Y. J., Sept pa
When baker and farmer unite against
the middleman the country's food prob
lem will be near solution, C. L. Pack.
president of the national emergency food
garden association. told the American
Bankers association in convention today
The farmer is the best friend the
country has, said Pack. IF he is pros
porous you bankers and all the rest Of
us are prosperous. The thing for you
to do is to get together and smash the
cornerstone of high prices. Aid the
farmer over the rough spots so that he
can produce more foodstuffs than ever
before"
Three million emergency gardens by
city farmers" has produced $3.50, 000,-
000 worth of food f. o. b. kitchen door,"
said Pack. We must produce food as
near the points of greatest consumption
as possible route the middle men and
cold storage men and thus relieve the
railroads"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
HEAVY CANVONADINC
RACES WEAR YPRES;
INFANTRY HAS REST
Signs of Activity on Other
British Fronts Are Appearing,
Artillery Is Busy on the Yer
dun Front

NEW YORK. Sept. 24-CFrom For
eign Cables from European Capitals
Heavy cannonadiHg was again in prog
ress last night on the Flanders battle
front northeast of Ypres. but the infan-
;ry had a relief from the recent hard
fighting.
Signs of possible important activity
impending are appearing in other sec
tions of the British front. notably in
the Arras region near the Scarpe and in
the vicinity of Lens. Considerable ar
tiliery activity is announced from these
sectors.
The artillery on both sides is also
notably busy on the French front in the
Verdun region.
Although suffering heavy reverse in
recent German operations in Jacobstadt
region, the Russians on the Riga-Dvinks
front are showing recuperative power
and today a substantial Russian victory
is reported in the sector south of the
Riga-Pskoff road. the Russians captured
the German positions they attacked, re-
tanning them after a hard struggle. The
German losses were more than 400 in
killed and the Russians took a number
of prisoners and ten machine guns.
The Berlin official statement today
claims the capture of large quantities
of provisions by the Germans when
Jacobstadt. on the Dvina, was taken in
last weeks assault.
LONDON. Sept. 24-German raiders en-
tered British trenches early last night
near La Basseville, Field Marshal Haig
reported They were driven out with
losses after a short fight. after few
British soldiers had been taken:
on both sides OF the Scarpe. the Bril-
fish field marshal reported the enemy
artillery active during the early morn
ing South of Lense and northeast of
Ypres there was artillery activity dur
ing the night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
fegrettabIe Affair, Says
PAPER of BernstOrff Plot

LONDON, Sept. 24.-In commenting
On the latest Washington disclosures
concerning the activities of Count Won
Bernstorff, former ambassador to the
United States, the Koelnische Volks
Zeitung. according to an Amsterdam
dispatch to Reuters Limited, says:
"This affair, If true, has very dis
agreeable character, and its highly re-
grettable. The American government.
God knows how, was able to get a hold.
APPARENTLY, of the whole collection of
German diplomatic documents which it
is now exploiting against US and
Sweden. What the state department
remarks about the relation between Won
Bernstorff's policy and the U-boat war
can be recognized as a misleading in
vention by every one who knows the
history preceding the U-boat cam
paign."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Three Men, Same Name,
May Become Candidates
For Recorders Court

Talk around the city hall Monday
centered for time on discussion of the
possibility of three "Johnsons" being in
the race for judge of the recorder
court at the election next year.
Friends of Alderman Steve R. john
ston of the Fourth ward, are known TO
have suggested to him that he make
the race Councilman W. H. Johnson,
of the Fifth, also has given an atten-
tive ear to friends who have suggested
to him that he be a candidate, while
Recorder George Johnson is regarded as
a certain candidate for reelection.
There was humorous speculation at
the city hall over the confusion at the
polls that might result if three candi-
dates of the same name enter the race
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
Capture of JaCObStadt
Announced by Berlin

BERLIN. Via London, Sept. 22.-Cap-
ture of Jacobstadt was formally an
noUnced from the Riga front tonight.
Northwest of Jacobstadt We broke
through the Russian positions" the war
office declared. THE enemy was fore
ed back against the river and yielded
the bridgehead and positions forty kilo-
metres ga miles wide and ten kilo-
metres tsix and a fifth miles, deep.
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