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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
B~ALLANTINE RESIGNS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ga. A. Ball
iantine has resigned as solicitor of the
Internal revenue bureau effective Jan,
and viii resume the practice of law
IN Boston; 1t is announced. His sue
Gessor will be determined soon.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
CHIEF sLEUTH TO QUIT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a. Bruce
Bielaski, chief Of the bureau Of investie
cation. Of the department OF justice, has
offered his resignation to Attorney
General Gregory. He expects to enter
private business.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
RUIN GREETS j. s.
SOLDIERS ON WAY
THROUGH COUNTRY
DeSOIatiOn and Destruction
on Every Hand Where Hun
Has Touched Is Picture
Douqhb0yS See.

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, Dec, 6, Correspondence
Of the Associated Press THE country
over which the Americans fought their
u picture Of ruin, destruction and desc.
latiou. The villages are u~ntnhabited
and homes seem but sepulChrcs.
Torn by mines causing huge craterS,
gashed by commandments which made
hundreds of thousands OF shell holes
and stre"n with broken or
guns, wagons, heaps OF ammunition,
helmets and all the other debris OF
four years Of desperate fighting, the
whole route betrays the awful effects
OF war, ,
Everywhere, in every direction and
protecting each slightest angle and
nook, across the roads until torn away
by shells or human hands, the count
less strands OF barbed wire, most OF
II rusted by the rains, orally tonsy-
turvy on Its supporting stakes that
have fallen to right and left. IT II
takes four years to win the war said
some casual visitor to the front, lit
will take ak years to roll up the barbed
wire that has been used in winning 1T
Take, for instance, the trip from
ruined, desolate Avocourt northward
to Malancourt and Montfaucon, the
scene OF some Of the bitterest fighting
Of the entire war, AvoCourt was In
ruins before ever the American Often
siVe started.
Trees Shorn and Bare.
For a solid mile northward the road
WHO'S across loothlils lhat ohoe "eLe
covered WIN green trees put no" N.Y.
shorn ana Dare Gigantic mines nave
torn the road In twain and gouged out
holes 80 and more feet deep, "A hundred
and more feet across, to get around or
across which engineers have had to
exercise thelr ingenuity anu tne eul
rounding country strlpPeu " ~ N'"n,
mas turnished we ROCK fortuh"'e'E
there is plenty OF That.
10 elther sl1e OF me roau nc the
remains OF whNt were once siSaole'
comfortable uuRouts II ~ouluInks'
down INTO thoGsands OF pieces py uls-
charges OF explosive Wheh the ehenly
retreated' Partner alleId hho az lAl
as the eye can reach across tne low
hills are hundreds and thousands OF
shell h9ies, theIr craters oNerlappinB
Dig ana niue hotes IRON missiles "i
every character, that nave torn ana
SCARED the eartn almost oeyoho inc
nope OF redemption.
Everywhere is the debris OF me pat
ing, plles ana heaps OF ammunition
broken down ana spiintered wagons,
c%aissons and trucks Ana, II one go
over me scene soon enough poules
awaiting burial
The comparison Malancourt
and AVocourt Is. striking-because the
former has suffered so much more
Buildings no longer nave even a sem
blance Of their former state. where
IN AVocourt walls at least stu stand
mere ana there, IN Malancourt every
Lhlhg mas been razed as thoush win
dynamite. and the crumhllng remnants
are seized upon to rebuild the shattered
roads and make them paSSable for the
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
COMMENT ON U-BOAT LOSSES
Germans Mourn for Submarines, but
Say More Are Being Built,
Dispatch States.

Amsterdam, Sept. 11.-A semiofficial
German admiralty dispatch, comment
ing on the list which the British ad
miralty published of $50 U-boat com
manders whose vessels had been dis
posed Of, says that there are some IN
accuracies regarding the rank of the
officers, which does not allow conclu
sions to be drawn of the number OF
U-boats lost, and continues:
"The German people know too vel
of the heavy fight which Is necessi
tated of our U-boat crews and thai
sacrifices have to be made by them ii
increasing numbers. We regret the
loss of the boats, but 1t can be under
stood by all experts, in view of the
growing counter-measures and the
greater number of U-boats sent out
against the enemy. Serious reflection
would only be justified If the construc
tion of U-boats did not surpass the
number destroyed"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
HUNGARIAN CHIEF J
FOR WILSON PLAN
KaroIyi Says Peace Program
Should Ignore Idea Of a
Middle Europe.
JARS The GERMAN DREAM
Declares Decisive Military Victory ls
Dream Which 1t Is Useless to
Pursue-CroWn Prince ls Tar
oct of German Press.

Basel, Switzerland, Sept. 11.-Presi-
dent Wilson's program as a basis for
negotiations for peace is indorsed by
Count Michael Karolyi, president OF
the Hungarian independent party. A
dispatch from Budapest quoting from
an open letter written by Count Ka-
rolyi to his electors, to whom he
recommends an early peace, says:
"A decisive military victory, de-
spite its successes, is dream which 1t
is useless to pursue. The prime con-
dition of peace negotiations is the
decentralization of nations and the
abandonment Of imperialistic theories.
A second condition is that we should
not become slaves to the idea OF a
middle Europe, either military, eco
nomical or political, and that we
should not strengthen our alliance
with Germany, which would form the
first step toward the realization OF
this central Europe.
eve ought to accept as basis
for negotiations President Wilson's
program"
Crown Prince Press Target.
Washington, Sept. 11.-From the
two extremes of German party lines,
the socialists and the pan-Germans,
the crown prince is being attacked
for his recent interview, denying re
sponsibility for the war.
An official dispatch from France
says the socialist paper Chimnit2
Volstimme declares that IL the gov
ernment premeditates peace often
sive the crown. prince must not be
|E1lifsifeSf ia ~ saaszefs Ok
.'his bellicosa k,sl, .1his notorious at
tacks, his untimely manifestations al
the reiehstag and elsewhere are In
complete contradiction with the way
Of speaking he now wishes to adopt
War Speech Recalled.
Another socialist paper, the Arbei
ter Zeitung of Essen, ironically recalls
the crown princes speech to regi
ment at Langthur, in which he said
"The happiest day In my life will be
the day when the war breaks out"
On the other hand, the pan-Germar
Deutsche Zeitung now demands die
tatorship which will get together al
those who have a clear perception OF
their duty.
The dispatch says this confusion iI
political circles in Berlin explains the
remarkable statement by Count vor
Hertling, former chancellor, in his
last speech about "the dangers men
acing the imperial crown and dy
nasty"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
18TH FRENCH DEPUTY KILLED
CASTOR Dumesni Gets Legion Of
Honor Cross Before Death
i Wounded Twice.

With the French Army in France,
Sept. 11.-Gaston Dumesnil member
of the French chamber of deputies,
died In hospital near the front.
Shortly before his. death Deputy
Dumesnil was decorated with the
cross of the Legion of Honor by Pre-
mier Clemenceau. Deputy Abel Ferry,
who was wounded at 'fiie sane tfisiss,,
was made a chevalier of the Legion
Of Honor by the premier. Deputy
Dumesnil, who was a lieutenant Of
infantry, accompanied by Deputy
Ferry and French captain, went to
the front lines where a shell burst
near them, killing the captain and
wounding the others. Deputy Dunes.
nil was forty years old. He had
been wounded twice and was cited in
orders six times. He is the thirteenth
deputy to be killed at the front.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
Miohinan Labor Statistics.

Women and girls are taking the
places of the young men who left the
shops and factories of Michigan to go
to ware During the past year, accord
ing to the annual report Of the state
labor commissioner, Richard I'll. Fletch-
er, 3001 women have been added to
the office departments in the various
workshops and factories in Michigan.
There has been an increase OF AZ
foreladies and an Increase of 81 wom-
en- employed in regular factory work.
The aggregate daily wages paid all
factory employees last year was 81
775,s55.S6, an increase of $62S75.2e
over the aggregate daily pay roll OF
the previous ydar. The average daily
wage of the factory worker increased
from $2.7S to 1926.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
PLATINUM COMES POURING IN
Public Heeds Government Request to
Sell Old Jewelry--May Do
nate to Red Cross.

Washington. Sept. 11.-Platinum
one of the scarcest of metals, has
poured into the office Of Raymond T.
Baker, director Of the mint. so plen-
tifully In the last few days in response
to an appeal to sell scraps of jewelry
to the government for war purposes
that Mr.. Baker requested that 1t be
sent hereafter to the United States
assay office, New York, which has bet
ter facilities for receiving 1t. Payment
will be made for consignments, but
persons wishing to donate the metal
may give 1t to the Red Cross, which
win sell 1t to the government.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
WOMEN IN WAR FACTORIES
United States Authorities Supervise
Labor to Prevent Physical
Dancer

I. N. T., or tri nitro tOluOl the chem
ical most dreaded by workers in NUM-
tions factories, is not to have a chance
to make "canaries" out of American
girls who undertake to work with it.
Neither are there to be any more
"ether jags" among girls who work
in the manufacture of guncotton, if
the United States government can pos
sibly prevent it.
Dangerous diseases caused b tetryl
are also to be eliminated so fa as pos
sible. And if it is not humanity posi-
BILE to conquer the munitions chem
| icals, ''let the American woaen face
/ them as pSlsssssss 9flnGr bruthefs axe
facing them in the form of shells on
the other side" said DR.. Alice Hamil-
| ton, special investigator of dangerous
occupations for the federal govern
ment, who addressed the conference on
women and children in industry of the
Illinois Woman's committee, council Of
national defense, which met at Hull
House recently.
"There are at present only about
900 women working in the manufac-
ture of guncotton and about 100 who
are working with T. N. T." said Doctor
| Hamilton.
"In 1916 there were only 10000 per-
sons engaged in the manufacture of
high explosive munitions in the United
States. Now there are 10000 working
with 7. n. r. alone.
sit is expected that the number of
women working with it will be in
creased very soon to 1000"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
Stockyards Strike Ends.

The strike of employees of the Union
StOckyards and Transit company in
Chicago ended "a hours after it began.
The number of strikers had reached
1900 during the day, with the possi-
bility that the number would increase
and the food supply of the nation be
seriously menaced.
Robert Osborne and Ernest Whitall
mediators of the state industrial COM
mission, met representatives of both
parties, who agreed to conference to
be held with President A. G. Leonard
of the stockyards company. This con-
ference was attended by the mediators,
by President Leonard, Attorneys SilaS
II. Strawn and John Black for the COM
pany, and J. w. tombstone, chairman
of the newly formed Live Stock Hand
ler's union, which conducted the
strike; William q. Foster, secretary of
the Stockyards Labor council, and four
other representatives of the men. Ev-
cry minor point of difference was dis
posed of by mutual agreement.
The main bone of contention, de-
mand by the men, both those employed
on a monthly and hourly pay basis, for
S15 additional per month"; was referred
by agreement to Judge Samuel Alschu-
Ter.
! The present rate of pay is 371s cents
4 per hour for an eight hour day. Prior
to the men walking out the company
had offered So per month increase,
! which was refused.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
N|9RkERS MUST
help WIN WAR
Action at Home as important as
Any of the Battles at
the Front.
|n Time FOR CONTROVERSY
PItsident Wilson's Words of Warning
Ghould Be Needed Fully as Much by
Yhe Employer as the Employee
Former's Responsibility Greater.

ETEtrike statistics issued by the Unit
GlbStates government enumerating 922
xIlRes in which industrial work had
Ia abandoned during the last year
HWe been prolific of criticism, much
ii stch has been severe. The main
Ft for the caustic character Of
comment in the large number
Masaisat hat by far the larger pro-
M Mon of the disturbances had direct
objection with production Of war
n lahrial. Extra point was given the
ic Inflammation of strikers because, ac-
cdjrdlng to the government figures, the
WARS total Of 922 was an increase of
III per cent in the number of strikes
aIad 18 per cent increase in the num-
bier Of workers affected, over the pre-
Nious Il months.
Almost all of the comments upon
these figures included quotations
from the message of President Wilson
to the annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor at st. Paul
touching responsibility. Mr.. Wilson
told the federationists that the war
can be won and lost just as readily in
the mills, shops, factories and mines
Of the United States as upon the bat
tlefields of France, which was widely
accepted as friendly warning to all
Industrial workers. The presidents
advice was that and more-friendly
warning to everyone concerned in in
dustrial production for war service,
employers no less than wage workers.
although the words were addressed to
employees.
In economic sense the human ma
chine of production must be regarded
in the same light as the mechanical
plant. Due care must be exercised
over maintenance of both, the man
not less than the machine. If either is
permitted to decline in efficiency the
loss is Immediately reflected upon the
nation. and the human upkeep is fully
as important as the mechanical
though not always viewed In the same
light. How many of the 922 strikes
were over the cost Of upkeep of the
human machine Of production is no
stated, but considerable proportion
would be conceded in fair esti
mate. Neither do the figures draw any
line between strikes due to arbitrary
action by workers and those produced
by arbitrary action on the part OF em
ployers. In the light of an increas'
Of 12 per cent in the number of strikes
over the last year preceding, the ami
cable warning of President Wilson
that the war may be lost as readily Il
the shops Of the United States as ol
the battlefields of Europe should b.
posted in every part of every plant IL
the country.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
NEW CLOUD ON HORIZON
Amsterdam Dispatch Says the Seandl-
navian Kings May Move for
independence.

London, Sept. 11.-Newspapers in
Germany, according to an Amsterdam
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company, commenting on the forthcom-
Ing annual conference at Copenhagen
of the kings of the Scandinavian coun-
tries. say the monarchs may seize the
opportunity of taking steps for inter
national independence.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
Mediation Board Settles Strike.

The 1000 sausage makers who have
been on strike at Chicago, went back
to work, and the difficulties which
took them from their castings will be
thrashed before Federal Judge Samuel
Alschuler in the near future.
The strikers have been demanding
recognition of their union, recently
organized, and an increase to $1.50 an
hour. W.. J. Sullivan, superintendent
Of Oscar Mayer & Company, declared
the workers of that firm had gone out
only in sympathy, as they We're now
getting more than the scale awarded
the stockyards employees by Judge Al
schuler.
The strike was settled by the ma
tional mediation board.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
2 DIE IN CAMP GRANT WRECK
Negro Porters Killed When Freight
Cars Crash Into Empty
Troop Train.

Camp Grant, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-Two
negro porters were killed. another Sc
verely injured and brakeman hurt
slightly when freight train ran into
the rear end Of an empty train in the
Chicago, Milwaukees& s st. Paul yards
at the camp,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
Million Women in Industry.

Surveys in Is states for the Nation
al League of Women's Service showed
that there were approximately 1906
061 women In the United States engaged
In essential war Industrial work. In
munitions factories, the estimates show
100000 are employed as against $500
in 1910.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
HOGS AT S2o.5o SET RECORD
Advance of IS Cents Made at the Chi
cago Stock Yards-StiII
Going Up.

Chicago, Sept ia record price
for hogs was established for the Chi
cago district, where the porkers brought
$20.50 hundred pounds at the stock
yards. HogsSclosed Monday at $20.25
d hundred pounds. Hog buyers thought
that the record price had been reach
ed last Friday, when a load of hogs
brought $2040 a hundred pounds.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
cleveland Rail Men Vote Strike.

Twenty-Five hundred employees of
the Cleveland Railway company at
two mass meetings voted to end ne
gotiations which had been pending for
two weeks and declare strike.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
ALLIED ARMIES
ARE ADVANCING
AT ALL POINTS
Field Marshal Haig Issues Spe-
cial Order of the Day
to the Army.
TAKES $4,000 HUNS MONTH
French Drive Wins Six Towns While
British Halt CounterbIow-Huns
Are Afraid of the American
Negro Troops.

London, Sept. 11.-Douai, the great
German base position in northern
France, is being evacuated, and most
of the population has already left, it
is reported by German war correspond
ents at the front, said Central News
dispatch from Amsterdam. ...
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21

Brigadier General Buck, commander
Of brigade of United States troops
In France, who was recently awarded
by General Pershing the Distinguished
Service Cross, the highest ho..G that
can be bestowed by the American
army. At great personal risk General
Buck led his men over the top toward
Berzy-le-Sar, strongly fortified vii
lage south of Soissons, which they
captured after strenuous and terrific
lighting.
18TH FRENCH DEPUTY KILLED
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
Three Austrian Flyers EeIled.

Amsterdam, Sept. 11.-A dispatch
from Vienna states tnat three Austrian
airmen We're brought down while flying
over the German lines on the western
front last week.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21

A 100000 nre destroyed the plant
of Meadowbrook Condensed Milk
company, Seattle. Wash.
----a~s>.~-~~>~-~>S>~>~
cesses obtained on August IS on both
sides Of the Observation-Disclosures
road on a front of about 1000 meters
and penetrated the first enemy lines
to a depth of two-thirds Of mile,
which was maintained.
"To the southwest Of st. Julien our
detachments penetrated by surprise
attack into the first position Of the
enemy on a front of 5000 yards, which
were consolidated.
"These are successes bringing into
our hands very advantageous posi-
tons"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-21
President Says Duties in Wash
ington viii Not Permit
Him to Leave.
COVETED CHANCE TO SPEAK
Hoped and Planned to Tour Country
So He Could Discuss Great Under
taking Which Has Made
Loans Necessary.

Washington, Sept. IL. - President
Wilson, in announcing that he had
abandoned definitely plans for trans
continental tour for the Fourth Lib
erty loan, said he was convinced that
1t was not right for him to be absent
from Washig ctar fcr more IL
or two at time wlifll the war con-
tinues.
The president said he keenly felt
the privation of being confined to the
capital, but that 1t was impossible for
him to deal with important war ques-
tions by telegraph or at distance
from sources of information which ex-
ist only here.
81 had hoped, and had even begun
to plan,' the president said, "a trip
to the western coast and back in con-
nection with the Campaign" for the
Fourth Liberty loan, not because be-
lieved that the country had any need
of being stimulated to subscribe to
that loan by anything that could say,
but because coveted the opportunity
to discuss with my fellow citizens the
great undertaking which has made
such loans necessary and in which our
whole energy and purpose are enlisted.
"It is the third or fourth time that
1 have tried to persuade myself that
such a trip was possible for me with
out serious neglect of my duties here,
because / have keenly felt again and
again the privation of being confined
to the capital and prevented from
having the sort Of direct contact with
the people am serving which would
be Of so much benefit and stimulation
to me.
Calls Regret Deep"
"To my deep regret, I find that
must again give the idea up. The
questions which come to me every
day, many of them questions Of the
utmost delicacy and involving many
critical matters, convince me that 1t
is not right for me to absent myself
from Washington for more than a day
or two at time while the war con-
tinues. Questions concerning our
dealings with other governments in
particular, it is impossible for me to
deal with by telegraph or at dis
tance from the many sources of infor-
nation which exist only here.
II should feel myself an unconsc-
entious public servant if l yielded to
my wish in this matter and took any
chance of neglecting even for short
time things that must be decided
promptly and in the presence Of all
the facts"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-01-26

'If censorship is conducted in any
city on reasonable grounds, it will be
of value, not only to the public but to
the motion picture industry. In Los
Angeles at the present time, for in
stance, there are few pictures seen
on the screen which should undoubted-
ly be consigned to the flames. They
are bad thing for the industry, cast
ind discredit upon the legitimate pro-
ducers who, ] believe are doing the
best they can to produce good, clean
pictures.
'sThe great difficulty" continued Mr..
DeMille, sis to secure a censorship
which is not czar-like. In certain
cities, notably Chicago, we have had
examples of censorship in which the
official sets himself up, not only as a
guardian of public morals, but also as