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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
General Pilsudski Wants
Allies to Give Support
to Government
DECLARES GUNS NEEDED
Army Required to Avoid Civil
War and Thwart Bolshe-
vik Agents
BY the Associated Press

warsaw, Dec 10.
+ The Government OF Poland should be
recognized by all the Allied powers in
order to deal properly with the situation
in Poland, General Joseph Pilsudski, the
military head of the present government,
told correspondent in an interview.
General PilsudslSi when only nine
teen years old was arrested at wilma,
in Lithuania, his birthplace. and sent to
Siberia and his persecution by the Rus
sian Government has endeared him TO
many Poles. His ancestors belonged to
the nobility. General Pilsudski, while he
is the military head of the Government,
signs all government DEGREES and is con-
sidered the civil head also.
The Government now Is In period Of
transition" he said "A permanent gov
ernment win be established after the
January elections to the diet.
Il am neither a Socialist nor Boil
shevik. but a democrat. I think the
Bolshevik danger is imminent in Poland
unless we are able to put up fence
against the Russian influence. Let me
first say how happy ! am that there Is
united Poland. Our independence is
due entirely to the Allies, otherwise it
would always have been a fiction.
I'VE need an army" he continued, ito
avoid the danger of civil war, and to
guarantee the frontiers against Boil
shevik agents or the infiltration of Ger
man troops, particularly those from the
army of General Hoffman. These fac
tors constitute a menace unless we get
help from the Allies in the form Of arms
THE Germans are selling and giving
arms to dangerous elements. 1t Is even
declared that the Germans have deliv-
cred the city of Minsk to the Bolsheviki
In return for 10000 rubles. This has
resulted in much suffering for the Polish
population there and the burning Of
houses and chateaux.
IF the army of General Hoffman
breaks up there is danger that the 2O0,-
900 men In 1t will drift over our from
tiers. robbing and causing disorders.
ut is necessary that our Government
be recognized by the Allies. At pres
ent there are certain difficulties. The
Polish committee in Paris represents
parties not in accord with the others
here. but this internal matter Is be-
ing arranged. Personally I desire a
compromise.
II am a strong admirer Of America.
II was my good fortune to visit there
in 1905, although 1t was only for n
few days during jump across the
continent"
In an interview regarding reports of
anti-Jewish outbreaks In Polish terri
tory, Noah PrilucSi. a prominent Jewish
member of the Municipal Council, a
leader of the Jewish Nationalist party
and "a lawyer. said:
I'm regard to pogroms. I have knowl-
edge that they occurred at two places,
Kielce and Lemberg. Four persons were
killed at Kielce and $50 wounded.
ut is tated that 900 Jews were buried
in Lemberg two weeks ago. I am in
formed they were killed by the regular
Polish army because of unfounded re-
ports. printed In a Lemberg newspaper.
that the Jews were not neutral in the
fighting there"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16

the Reichstag Thursday on his own re-
sponsibility. He had repeatedly protested
against the declaration by the PeopIe's
Commissioners that the old Reichstag
had ceased TO exist with the beginning
Of the revolution.
Large numbers OF workers In Berlin
and elsewhere went on strike, In some
cases for higher wages and in others for
the so-called famine subsidy. All the
employees OF two OF the largest publishing
houses, those of Rudolph Mosse and Uli-
stein. also those In O number OF smaller
printing establishments, struck for
higher wages.
Ullstein's Zeitung am Mittas did not
appear, neither did the evening editions
Of the Tageblatt and the Vossische Eel
tung.
wertbeim's great department stores
on Leipziger Strasse and Alexander
Platz remained closed this morning, to
the annoyance Of the Christmas shop
pers, but to the great delight of thou
sands OF street vendors. half of then,
In military uniforms. who did a thriy-
ing business In the vicinity of the
closed stores. The Wertheim employees
demand lump sums from 100 to 500
marks as compenss tion for extra
drains on their pockets caused by the
ever-increasing price of clothes.
To grant this demand would cost the
irm about 100000 marks. Vert
heims declared that 1t would nay
half that amount. but mass meeting
of employees voted against accepting
a compromise and declared the strike.
At the schwarzkopf works conditions
are also serious. These great works,
which have been largely employed In
war industry during the last four years,
also produce the Mergenthales type
setting machine for the whole east and
north of Europe and the central States.
Here the Spartacus group reigns su-
preme, the directors. engineers and de-
partment chiefs being entirely controlled
by various councils.
These councils have voted to the work.
ers an extra Increase of wages amount
ing to 25.000,000 marks, the exact sun,
which the Schwarzkopfs have ready in
bank to distribute among the sharehold-
ers. The workers say they earned this
money and that the shareholders have
no right to II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
DUCHESS BLAMES
KAISER FOR WAR
Crown Princes Mother-in-
Law Says Whole German
People Are Guilty
HAS IDEAS FOR RUSSIA
BY the Associated Press
Geneva, Dec. IS.

Geneva, Dec. 16.
Germany made a great blunder in
entering the war and should admit that
she was In the wrong, says the Grand
Duchess Anastasie Of MecklenburR-
Schwerin, mother Of the one time Ger
man Crown Princess, in an interview to-
day.
The Grand Duchess, who is a Rus
sian and cousin Of the late Nicholas
Romanoff. who was Russian Emperor.
came to Geneva at the outbreak of the
war, and now is about to 60 to the
Riviera for her health. She had MANY
relatives fighting against one another
on all fronts.
y The correspondent was the first news.
paper man she had talked with since
the beginning Of the war. Replying to
a question about William Hohenzollern
and the one time Crown Prince, she said.
pathetically:
There is a splendid mRxim in your
language: Don't hit q man when he is
down. Let us observe this principle,
this sporting principle, during our con-
versation."
Asked why she had left Germany al.
soon as that country began military
operations, the Grand Duchess replied:
Il could not remain in a country tina,
had declared war on my own country
Russia This war came as a great sur
prise to me and my son Frederick
Franz ", Grand Duke of Mecklenburs-
Schwerin. who abdicated several weeks
ago). although we were in constant
touch with the royal families of Ger
many, Russia and Denmark 1t has
been said that not more than twenty
persons, in Germany understood what a
cruel mistake it was going to be. 1 was
one of them. However. as I never
meddled in politics and never intend to,
1 was not able to Interfere.
But continue to think that Germany
made a great blunder in entering this
terrible struggle, not only from a hu-
mane point of view, but also for politi-
cal and commercial reasons, as her COM
merce was prosperous.
Now she has lost all. Germany should
recreate political. financial and artistic
nation by openly admitting:
"'We acted wrongly; we are sorry.'"
'If the Allies abandon Russia. Russia
is lost. The Allies do not seem to under
sand the situation clearly. About rs
per cent Of the Russians have respect
for only two things. God and the Gear.
The peasants now say: we have no,
Gear, whom shall we obey?"
"It will take the population fifty
years to understand the meaning of the
words republic and president The
Russian people want some one to
worship, because It is their old custom,
their religion and their lives. Let the
Allies take note and help poor Russia
before it is too late"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16

order. They think II Is a question Of
machine guns, and don't realize that that
is simply another form of militarism
me Entente Powers would do n good
service II they would declare explicitly
ana formally to these young men that
.ne order on which peace Is conditioned
Ineahs government by a parliamentary
discussing tho elections for a national
assembly, my informant said the
mornens vote complicated the matter.
III Catnolic districts 1t would mean an
eno,mous ~ addition to the Clerical vote
while the factory women would vote for
the Socialists. The German jntellectuals
on o., the whole were completely bewildered
SIX weeks ago they still believed In VIC
Tory and never dreamed of revolution.
their bearings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
POLAND BREAKS WITH GERMAN
Severance Due to Unfriendly Acts
in Occupied Provinces

Amsterdam, Dec. 16-TBy A. P.)-
Poland has severed relations with Ger
many, according to a telegram received
in Berlin from Warsaw
Poland. as reason for the rupture,
accuses the German authorities in oc-
cupled provinces of acting contrary to
Polish Interests and working with the
Bolsheviki. At the request of the Polish
Government, Governor General Won
Beseler and the entire staff of the Ger
man mission, will leave the territory of
the Polish republic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
ENLIST DISCHARGED OFFICERS
Army Men, Freed of Commissions,
May Get Back Old Rank

Camp Dix. wrishtstown. y. H., Dec
lo'-Authority has been granted to all
commanding officers TO enlist former en-
listed men OF the army who were d,s.
charged to accept a, commission and who,
having been discharged from such com
mlaslons tender themselves for enlist
ment within three months after the
termination of their commissioned serve
ice. These men are to lie appointed 10
the grade held by them before thew were
discharged to accept comm ssions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
Anti Bolshevist Attitude of
Returning Troops Saving
Feature, Says Observer
LESS HOPEFUL
Sees Aim of Russians to Estab.
lish Military Front on
Rhine
BY HAROLD WILLIAMS
BY Wireless TO EUening Public Ledger


COPYRIGHT 1918. bv Public Ledger Co.
and Neo York, Times Co.
Berne, Del. 1e.
l have had a conversation witt two
distinguished German intellectulals re-
Gently arrived from Germany. Both
maintained an Independent attitude dur
ing the war. One In particular is a lead.
ing authority on English economic ques.
tons. I reproduce here the substance
of their views on the present position In
Germany.
My first informant was comparatively
hopeful. He considers the danger of
Bolshevism not serious, and drew psr.
tcular attention to the strongly anti
Bolshevik attitude of the troops from
the front. The troops, after four years
of fighting, desire peace and order, and
in any case the German people, through
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
DOUBTS HUN REPUBLIC
Viviani Says New Regime Is Moekery,
Untrustworthy

Paris, Saturday. Dec l4.--Havas--
(By A. P)--1he German republic is a
mockery and cannot be trusted. said M +
Viviani. one time French Premier. In n
speech tonight at dinner given by
graduates OF Columbia University 10
mobilized graduates and students. He
urged that German kulture' be sup
pressed in French and American univer-
stiles.
Colonel William Barclay Parsons pre-
sided. Other speakers were Henri
Bergson. Baron D'Estournelles de Con-
slant and Colonel Joseph A. Blake. Mar
shall Joffre sent his regrets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
Gets Part of Bayer Business

wheeling, W. Va. Dec 16.-(By A.
P.)--The Grasselli Company, one Of the
largest chemical manufacturing concerns
In America. has taken the chemical end
of the business Of the Bayer Company,
which was purchased in its entirety
pany OF wheeling. 1t is reported that
the aspirin end OF the Bayer business,
which was included in the big deal,
will be brought to Wheeling, involving
the building of a great manufacturing
plant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
FRENCH BEGIN DEMOBIIIzAnON
Start Disbanding Two Classea
Christmas Day

Perfs, Dec. ~. !.
The War Ministry has decided % de-
mobilize the classes of 1892 and 1893 be-
ginning December rs and ending Jan
uary Is.
The classes 6f 1894. 1896. 1899 and
1897 will be demooilized beginning Ian
uary 81 and ending February IA.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
GERMANS IN UNIFORMS
BARRED FROM U. S. AREA

American Army of Occupation, Dec
16.-(By A. P)-Men in German mill
tary uniforms are not to be allowed
within the American area of occupation
hereafter unless they are on duty and
have written permission from the Amer
ican military authorities. according to
a proclamation issued by Colonel ]. c.
Rhea, chairman of the American bridge
head commission.
Assemblages for purposes of political
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
Deserters Keep
Berlin In Turmoil

Continued from Pare One
tending the proposed insurgent session
will be guilty of treason.
:. Wild ruSlors are afioat concerning
the significance of Fehrenbach's move.
II is reported that Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg will send troops to protect
the meeting.
DR.. Hugo Haase in an interview de-
clared that IL Germasy loses Alsace-
Lorraine she will gain German Austria,
He said Germany had enough food to
last a few months. providing 1t was
strictly rationed.
K The Government has issued a procla-
nation calling for volunteers. for
peoples army" It Is also has urged
demobilized soldiers not to remain un-
employed. but to go to the country
( where labor is scarce and food more
plentiful
The Workmen's and Soldiers Council
was scheduled to meet today. Herr
Brockdorf-Fratzau has arrived In Ber-
lin from Copenhagen and probably will
succeed Foreign Secretary Solf.
Basel advices on Saturday said Il
was reported that Doctor Haase and
Richard Barth had resigned from the
German Cabinet. The foregoing dis
patch Indicates that Doctor Haase still
retains his place in the ministry.
Berlin. Dec. 16.-(By A. P.)-Adolph
Joffe, Russian ambassador to Germany.
who was expelled from Berlin in No
vember because of his activities In ad-
vancing the interests of the Bolsheviki
10 reported. in a Breslau dispatch, to
have crossed the frontier after bribing
- - L.. C1IA
Council.
He is said to be returning to Berlin
for the purpose Of attending today's
meeting Of the Soldiers and Workmen's
Z Congress, in spite Of the request of the
Ebert cabinet that he keep away from
this city.
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
copvrioht. 1913, by Neto York Times Co.
Reriin, Dee. 1S (vla Copenhagen, de-
layed) d).-President Fehrenback convolsed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16
Bank Director Dies at go

suequehanna. Pa. Dec. 16.-Believed
to be the oldest resident of northeastern
Pennsylvania. Fred Lyons, ninety-nine
yesterday old, died here after a brief
illness. Mr. Lyons for years was a
prominent figure in business circles. He
also was q bank director. ...
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16

Special Cable to Epening Public Ledger
copvrsoht. 1913, by Ne,o York Times Co.
Reriin, Dee. 1s (vla Copenhagen, de-
layed) .-President Fehrenback convoked
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07
THE CIVILIANS FIRING LINE.

1t was a fine New Var message tina
Lloyd George sent to the people O.
Great Britain:
"To every civilian | would say
that your firing line is at the
works or Office in which you do
your Bit the shop or kitchen in
which you spend or save; the bank
or Dostofiice where you buy your
war bonds. To reach that firing
line and to become an active COM
blatant yourself there are no cum
munication trenches to grope
along, no barraee to face, no
horrors, no wounds,
THE road OF duty and patriot
ism Is clear before you, Follow
1t, and ere long it will lead to
safety your own people and
victory for our cause"
The message is as true and inspir-
ing for America as for Britain 1t
should be taken to heart by every citi-
zen American soldiers are already
cropping forward along those communi-
cation trenches and taking their place
in the actual firing line. Others. by
the hundred thousand, are prepa ring
to follow them. We cannot match
sacrifice. And we are not asked to.
We are only asked for services which.
in comparison, are trivial as to shame
US in the mere mentioning. Neverthe-
less, we all have our firing line, and
though it is far removed from peril
and pain it is none the less important
in the grand struggle
We are simply called upon to do
our days work as well as we can, to
save as much out of our days pay as
we can, and to put as much of our
savings as we can into war loans. And
very stroke Of honest, every dime
lept from frivolous or self-indulgent
every dollar put into
Thrift Stamps or Liberty Bonds. is
! bullet or grenade or a she'll sent
nto the enemy's trenches from the
iome firing line.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07
Calling Down Savannah.

Under the heading of Visits from
Our Country Cousins the Savannah
Press prints a clipping fom The
Times Recorder Americas is about
as much of a country town as Savan-
nah is mountain village,-Americus
Times Recorder We shall not say
we told you So" but we do say that
we have been expecting IT. We also
have been noting this column OF Old
Sutlive in TIE Press, and have been
expecting some the fellows to give
him calling down about it-Co-
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07

A Georgia Congressman has come
home and announced that he Is OPP
posed to woman's suffrage ct the press
ent time because in his opinion the
women of Georgia do not want to vote.
He says that late on he may vote for
It when the Georgia women want it.
Tllt is the same as saying he has no
mind Of his own on the subject but
prefers to drift with public sentiment,
which is the fault of so many of our
public men of today large majority
OF our public men OF today drift with
public sentiment. They are for any
things, whether right or wrong, that
public clamor demands. Instead Of
being leaders, as they should, they are
followers of public sentiment.-Lyons
Progress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07
WOOL.

Our armies must be clothed as we'll
as fed and armed. They must be
clothed with wool And therein lies a
difficulty which will become more evil
dent as the year advances.
Soldiers will wear out clothes faster
than civilians. 1t takes more wool
therefore to clothe an army of mil
lion men than to clothe a million men
at home The tremendous extent of
the military demand has hardly begun
to dawn on the general public. 1t Is
stated on good authority that it will
require, to outfit our armies this year,
more wool than the entire production
of the United States amounts to.
We have long consumed more wool
tnan we produced In 1916 we raised
only 80 per cent as much as we manu-
featured Last year the percentage
was probably less. For unfortunately.
the number of sheep has been decreas-
ing while the demand has increased.
There are 100000 fewer sheep in the
country than there were three years
ago, and the wool yield has fallen off
100000 pounds in that time.
We need sheep for meat. but we
need them more just now for wool.
It takes twenty sheep TO grow enough
wool for one soldier. And in this
ime of pressing need, we find that on
y one American farmer out of seven
las any sheep on his farm.
More sheep must be raised. That is
Imperative. No farmer is really doing
lis bit if he neglects to add a few
heep to his flock, or to start flock
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07
THE yellow STREAK.

An appealing and instructive story,
touching the matter of courage, comes
from the American army in France.
A certain regiment was being put
through the hardest test of its train
ing, the gas mask drill In this eX-
ercise the men must don their masks
and pass through a gas-flled room
Familiarity known as the chamber of
horrors
1t was that indeed, to the young
est member of one company. He had
been so thoroughly frightened in his
comrades tales that when it came his
turn to go through the chamber he
fell in a dead faint at the entrance.
AS his consciousness returned he
found the captain looking at him, and
saying with a sneer: $50 you're yell
low streaked, eh?"
The lad Strengthened up, saluted
and asked permission to try again This
time he succeeded in passing through
the chamber, but tainted as he emery
ed.
There are no sneers now. But he
was not satisfied He asked the cap
tain to let him try again And in the
third trial he came through ordeal
pale, but on his feet, with a smile.
The captain withdrew his yellow
streak" accusation, and congratulate
ed him on his courage
And that was real courage. The
| brave man is not the one VINO goes
through danger in serene unconscious
ness OF it, but the one who, intensely
aware of the peril, and exaggerating
il by his keeness of imagination, never
the less forces himself to face and
master it. Such men, sensitive but
high spirited and strong willed, always
have desperate struggle to conquer
themselves But when once they dc
that, when they become seasoned"
they make the best fighters in the
army.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07
WHY NOT DRAFT THEM!

The Minnesota state forester, w
Fox, has been inspecting conditions
in Northern Minnesota where logging
operations have been greatly curtailed
The trouble is not a shortage of labor
Mf. Fox reports that there is plenty
OF labor on the spot He gives high
wages as the chief cause of all the
trouble and delay.
Lumber men are receiving more
than twice as much money as they
have in the past few years. and nearly
five times as much as they did in 1914.
The result is that the men need
to work only a few days at time to
make all the money they want for a
while. Then they quit work until the
moneys gone The effect upon log
ging, operations is obvious.
The same explanation has been
given for the shortage IN some of the
shipyards. The men that are on the
job won't work steadily because they
make enough in a day or two of steady
work to keen them through frenuanf
vacations.
In the meanwhile expert workInen.
electricians. eac, who were making
dollars day in civilian life
before the war are now working in
the various environments on pri7ate's
pay. They are drafted men In the
service of Uncle Sam.
The demand for lumber is great.
Why not draft an army of lumber
ilcks, put them on regular soldiers !
pay and let them serve their coun- |
.ry directly as soldiers do? If present
conditions continue to obstruct inn
1ortant work the government will
surely take some such step toward tx
ending the operation of the seIective
lraft system. And patriotic Ameri-i
ans will be glad Of It.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07

According to dispatches from Petro-
grad, even the most radical Bolshe-
Wiki and the ardent peace advocates
have been aroused by the German
position" Well, after all that armistice
and the fraternizing of German and
Russians at the front may result in
the early overthrow of the Kaiser's
government. The German people are
no fools-they are just blinded by the
Kaiser's camofuage.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07

The aggregate debt of the autocrauc
allies fighting the United States is
given as 2S per cent of their aggre-
gate wealth, while that of the de-
mocracies aligned with this country
Is II per cent To the observing man.
this looks like a two-to-one shot that
the democracies will win the fight
Easy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-07

If we are to judge by the express
sions of the state press, both weekly
and daily, then Hon William j. Harris
is without doubt the logical candidate
for the Georgia Democracy to settle
on against Hardwick and Hardwick-
ism--B Brunswick News.