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Evening journal., 1919-12-10

Goals
Won Lost p,
nnACK.EX WINS THREE

Tho Brack-Ex QUOT team OF the All
Wilmington League. played In better
form than at any time during the sea
son last evening. and won three out
Of lis i've games with the Brandywlne
pitchers.
The score;
Bwndywlne ......,ii 81 ~ n iA-2
Brack-EX ......,., q 20 q AZ 2i-3
Players: Brack-Ex, Gelger, Leach,
Menklon, Dougherty and Hettlnger /,
Evening journal., 1919-12-10
GRACE BOYS WIN,
GIRLS FOLLOW SUIT

Overcoming a first half lead OF IDS.
Grace i've defeated Hahnemsnn COL
lege Ave here last night 35-2G cir
Gavine, from a guard position, proved
the star In NE church teams brilliant
victory. with nine field goals.
Preceding the big game, the Grace
Girls I've defeated lligh school Scrubs.
9 10 =. Score:
Evening journal., 1919-12-10
81 CAM d ties
FOR BASKETBALL
Coach Shipley Has Some
Promising New Material
at Delaware
JUNIORS TAKE ONE
FROM FRESHMEN
snocIal Do Do EyenIng journal.

NEWARK. Dec, i0-Aboui 80 candi-
dates answered the FIRST call OF Coach
Shlplcy Tor practice FOR the varsity
cam this week While four OF last
years crack team. @. Carter. AlcXan-
der, McOaughan and B, Carter are all
out. they VIII have 10 hustle TO hold
Evening journal., 1919-12-10

Selling OF merchandise goods an,
auction sales VIII be successful u yoi
advertise through the Want Ads thl
month
Evening journal., 1919-12-10

Real estate, country homes and farms
will be sold TO good advantage If ad-
vertised in the Want Ads.
Evening journal., 1919-12-10

Canefs are sold every
where in scientifically
sealed packages of 20
cigarettes; or ten pack
ages ZOO oigareftes in
giassine paper covered
carton. We strongly rec
onimend this carton for
the home or Office sup
ply or when you travel
r. ]. REYNOLDS
TOBACCO co.
winston-Sslem, N. C
Evening journal., 1919-12-10
BOWLING

Following are the scores rolled last
night on the alleys Of Grady's Bowling
and Billiard Parlors
Evening journal., 1919-12-10

The seascn of the year has
come
When golfers hibernate
And tell their wives about the
time
They shot an lightweight.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
CONGRESS WARNED
 BY BROTHERHOODS
Shea Declares Railmen Would Not Observe Strike Law-Re- sponsibility for Trouble Rests on Congress, is Claim.

Washington, Oct. 26. - Timothy Shea gave notice to Congress tonight that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen, of which he is acting president, would not observe pending anti-strike legislation if en- acted into law.
 Sue han attempt to single out rail road employees and deprive them of what he termed the economic right of workers to strike to prevent injus- tice, must be accepted, he said, in con nection with other information which the railroad brotherhoods have, as a foregone conclusion that the railroads contemplate a general reduction in wages when the government surren- ders control and desire such a meas ure to forestall strike.
 If these interests or the legisla- tors believe the railroad employees will unresistingly submit to any such in- vasion of their rights as citizens," Mir. Shea continued, they had better ex- pei that thought from their minds, be- cause believe I speak for locomo- tive fremen and hostlers at least when I say that any law which de- prives them of the rights of American citizenship would not be observed, not because this class of American citi- zens are lawbreakers, but because such law would be unwarranted, un- American and contrary to American institutions"
 Mr. Shea said such a law was al most certain to precipitate revolution and was in fact just what extreme radicals and revolutionary agitators desire.
 "This would gipe them logical ar gument for, direct action," he assert ed,- with the intention of displacing the liberal and more conservative leaders and thereby oferthrowing the existing social, political and industrial institutions of the country.
 "In an anti-strike law is enacted, the responsibility for any upheaval which might follow lies with Con- gress."
 MT. Shea's statement was prompted by the publication of his recent testi-
 L in which he said the railroad employees were prepared to fight for a living wage and time and half overtime as conditions precedent to the return of the roads to private control. He said his remarks should be extended to use favorite congressional term," soi that the public might understand the position of the railroad men.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
DRIVE RESUMED
 AGAINST REDS
Yudenifch Pushes on Towards
 Petrograd Despite Bolshevik StandL Lenine Reinforced From
 From Afehangel and Karelian

Helsingfors, Saturday, Oct. 25.- The official reports of the northwest ern army this morning and last night state that Gen. Yudenitch has sue cessfully resumed the offensive south west and southeast of Petrograd in spite of the arrival of Bolshevik rein forcements from the North Russian front. The white troops have fought their way eastward as far as Tosna, 25 miles east of Gatchina, on the rail- road to Moscow. This point had been reached earlier by cavalry raid
 The white troops were also push ing their way northward from Kras- noye Selo toward the Gulf of Finland in an endeavor to reach the coast at point between Kronstadt and Pet rograd.
 This mornings report reads:
 "A severe engagement occurred near Krasnoye Selo (16 miles south west of Petrograd.) North of Kras- noye Selo our troops began the of- fensive and captured Tsrukonskaya, Kopsovo and Gorialoy (villages be- tween Krasnoye Selo and the Gulf of Finland.)"
 The communique last evening stated:
 "On Thursday our troops advanced by sharp fighting as far as Tosna Con the Moscow railway, 30 miles southeast of Petrograd.) The enemy attacked our positions at Russkoye Selo and at Kaporskoye several times, but were repulsed with heavy casual ties. The Bolshevists have received endorsements from the Archangel and Karelian fronts"
 Reports from Petrograd state that the central executive committee (the soviet organization has decided to close all the factories and send the workmen to the front. Women will undergo military training and be formed into a medical corps, accord ing to the same order.
 A Russian army officer who escaped from Petrograd says the situation there is desperate. The absolute ne- cessities of life are lacking, and even the sailor masters of the city have only meager diet of bread, herrinks and water. The rest of the popula- tion rarely see bread. Coal is lacking, business is dead and cholera and ty- phoid fever are raging.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27

association Wednesday morning. He will address the Oklahoma convention Tuesday morning and then come to Little Rock.
 In an address to the farmers of the South, MT. Wannamaker says:
 "Clamp on your brakes and hold tight to the balance of your cotton demand the price you are entitled to. If the offering of spot cotton in the South should stop for one week, there would be one of the greatest stam- pedes among spinners and speculators in history. And what would the short in the future market do if the South ern farmer would hold tight to his staple when delivery day rolls round. He would find out that it is the man behind the bale that names the price. And when the South does receive a good price for it's chief money crop, Dixie is going to have prosperity from one end to the other. The price of cotton vitally affects every line of business in the South--the banker, the merchant, growers, professional men and others. That's why they are behind the American Cotton As sociation."
 Another prominent speaker at the convention will be Thomas J. Shackel- ford, chairman of the finance commit tee of the association. In an inter- view just given out by him, he says:
 'In my judgment, cotton in Decem- Der will reach the highest level it has ever reached in this country since the reconstruction days following the Civil War. The great buying move ment and wild scramble for cotton has begun and today cotton is bring ing between 38 and Az cents pound, according to grades. Best grades are extremely scarce and mills are in a virtual stampede for what there is. The growers, cooperating with the
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
MINERS SILENT ON
 WILSON WARNING
Nation Waits in Vain for An swer to President -- Govern ment Will Not Permit Disas- ter to Visit Public.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The whole country waited expectantly today for the miners answer to President Will sons blunt command that the soft
 coal strike orodered for Saturday be called off.
 There was not word, however, to show where the United Mine Workers of America stood, or what the gov ernment would do Tn the event the
 presidents solemn warning that the mines must be kept in full and con- tinuous operation was ignored. Considering the temper of labor of
 fcials Washington took the view that
 while there was hope of compliance by the half million miners, who had
 been ordered out, there was no abso-
 lute assurance that the presidents
 letter-part appeal and part com snand-would bring peace to the coal fields But there seemed to be no doubt of the governments determina- ton to see that the people obtained an adequate coal supply to keep them from suffering, and permit the na- tion's vast industries to continue op- eration.
 While declining naturally to com ment on the future course of action, should the strike take place, members of the. presidents cabinet intimated that the government would not sit with folded hands in the face of threatened immediate disaster. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, the one man whose word would have most weight with the half million ready to walk out, was out of touch with labor leaders here, while speeding home ward to take personal charge of the strike. Lewis left Washington last night for Springfield, III, proclaiming to the last that the situation was un- changed, and that the union was still ready and willing to negotiate new wage agreement.
 So far as it concerned the contro- versy between the miners and opera tors the outstanding declaration by President Wilson was that the war tune agreement which the miners con tend no longer exists, still is in full force and effect, and will stand "dur- Ing the continuance of the war, but
 not beyond April l, 1920," Looking at It in "a practical way" Lewis and the full scale committee have stead lastly maintained that the war ended With the armistice and that the min CTS, for full year have worked at tne old wage as their voluntary con-
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27

The barber shops of the city will open their places of business each morning at 7 o'clock and close their doors at 6:30 each evening except Saturday. On Saturday evenings they will remain open until 10:30. Patrons entering the shops before 6:30 and 10:3O on Saturdays will be served. 10-6
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
NEW YORK CIGAR MAKERS
 WILL RESUME WORK

New York, Oct. 24.-Twenty-fve thousand cigar makers and packers will return to work Monday, ending the strike here which has been in progress for twenty weeks. By a ' to 1 vote the workers have accepted ten per cent wage increase, and a compromise agreement giving em- ployers the hire and fire right with factory committees free to insure against unfair discrimination. An average wage increase of r 1-2 per cent was originally demanded.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
tribGticn to the job of helping the country get back to normal.

tribGticn to the job of helping the country get back to normal.
 There was a suggestion tonight that the cabinet might decide to send Sec retary of Labor Wilson to Indianapo- lis to confer with the executive board of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, which will meet there Wednesday. Labor leaders here said that in view of the efforts made by the secretary to settle the strike and in the light of the presidents emphatic announce ment that the mines had to remain open, personal word spoken to mem bers of the board might pave the way for peace.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27
WANNAMAKER WILL SPEAK
 AT MEETING OF COTTON MEN

Little Rock, Oct. 27.--J. Skottowe Wannamaker, president of the Ameri- can Cotton Association, is to be one of the notable speakers at the meet ing of the Arkansas branch of the
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27

l am closing out my musical stock of goods. All who have notes and accounts due me will please come and pay. A. Monson. 29dm1
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-27

merchants and the bankers, are or ganizing and are becoming power that must be reckOned with"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25
American Bar Association
Attacks Military Courtmartial

slight breaches of military discipline.
PunishmentsS are not only grossly
harsh as compared with the penalties
imposed for like offenses by our GRIM
inal courts, but they also differ so
widely that we find the same offense
punished in one court-martial by
twenty-five years in the penitentiary
and in another by six months pun
ishment in disciplinary barracks.
"A boy overstaying his leave or
yielding to a natural impulse to go
Home for Christmas is charged not
with absence without leave but with
desertion. Disobedience Of orders is
seen by jealous officer as mutiny.
In neither case is there present the
intent to desert or to mutiny against
the authority Of the army, but boys
have been convicted of the graver
crime and sentenced to as much as
twenty-five years Imprisonment
"The accused soldier has no real
legal protection. He may, it is true.
obtain a pardon from the president,
but this leaves his record blotted by
a serious crime of which he ought
never to have been accused.
"A young soldier, charged with bur-
glary, was acquitted by the court-mar-
tial which tried him. The command
ing officer who appointed the court
disapproved the finding of not guilty
and ordered the court to reconsider
the case. They did so, and promptly
found a verdict Of guilty and SEN
fenced the boy to fifteen years i'm
prisonment. What would be thought
Of power vested in the governor of a
state to set aside a verdict of not
guilty and order a retrial in a GRIM
inal case? 1t is fundamental to our
principles of right and justice that no
one should have the power to inter-
fere with verdict of not guilty
"a boy of 16, who had just been
discharged from the hospital after an
attack of influenza, instead of being
allowed the usual five days of recu-
peration, was set to scrubbing kitchen
floors and to guard duty He pro-
tested he was not strong enough to
do this work, nevertheless he was
continued on guard duty for a longer
period than usual. In this condition
he was taken with a chill, went to
his tent to get his overcoat, and while
there sat down on the edge of his cot.
He was caught with his head in his
hands and was accused of being
asleep while on duty Though he de-
MED that he was asleep and asserted
that he only yielded to overpowering
fatigue, he was convicted by court
martial and sentenced to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25
POLITICAL PRISONERS
RIGHTS RECOGNIZED

To those who have not composed
their minds sufficiently since the war
Ito reach unprejudiced conclusions rel.
ative to the political prisoners, two
recent orders of Secretary of War
Baker will be of great assistance. The
secretary of war has ordered the re.
lease from military camps in the
United States of all unsentenced con-
scientious objectors, of whom there
were many thousands. These were
men whose scruples in regard to war
were so firmly fixed that they refused
even non n-combatant duty in the army.
In addition, the secretary has provided
for the release of another large class
of conscientious objectors who ac-
cepted work on farms or other non
combatant work in lieu of military
service.
There remain, therefore, only the
objectors who have been sentenced to
prison, some of them to as much as
80 years. These, of whom there are
about 200. can be released only
through pardon or parole of the presi-
dent of the United States, and it is not
too much to hope that President Will
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25
Criminals Too
Big For Law

We have heard frequently that some
persons in the United States are too
big to be made to answer for their
crimes. We hate to believe it to be
even occasionally true, but what are
we to think about the Bisbee deporta-
tion cases? A federal judge has just
acquitted each and every one of the
defendants accused of this despicable
crime. So far as this case would de-
termine, special privilege is free to
raid any peacable community in the
United States and assault and carry
off its law-abiding citizens. Not a
pleasant thing to think about at least.
At the will and in the interest of
the copper trust over 1000 peaceable
persons were dragged from their
homes at night in Bisbee, Ariz.,
packed into foul cattle cars, and run
out into the desert. After much suf-
fering, without food and water, in the
hottest season of the year, they were
rescued by the federal government.
Then began the second part of this
amazing, eye-opening episode in our
history Instead of making arrests of
those guilty and protecting these in
noeent persons from lawless elements
the government established an in
ternment camp for them 1t thus ac-
knowledged that the copper trust was
sovereign. Then when the newspaper
comment died down, the government
forced these people out of the intern
ment camp by cutting down the food
The wronGed men had the alterna-
tives of gGdng back home at the mercy
of the triumphant mobbists or MAX
ing their homes elsewhere. and sacri-
ficing their property in Bisbee.
Now a federal judge has dismissed
all those accused of the crime Evi-
IDENTIFY we are supposed to be so fool
ish as to believe the criminals in an
open, boastful act of this kind cannot
be found. They can be found very
easily and quickly if the supposed
forces of law and order want to find
them.
The only way to keep up respect
for law and order is to enforce law
and order, not only against part of
the people, but against all the people
who step over the line. The censor
ship of the kept press and driving
papers out of the mails that tell the
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25

truth about such incidents as the Bis
bee outrage, will not maintain law
and order. Confident in their ability
to escape punishment for crime, the
special interests have repeated their
mobbing activities in many parts of
the nation against organized workers
and organized farmers. These crimes
are continuing because the war which
ended over month ago was only a
superficial excuse. And to the ever
lasting shame of American officials
before their own people and before
the world, they can point to no case
in which mobbists have been brought
to e.-Non-Parisan League.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25
son win follow the lead Of the seer

son will follow the lead of the secre-
tary of war in giving these political
prisoners their freedom.
The Leader mentions the secre-
tary's action in this matter with ex-
treme satisfaction We brought down
on our heads some criticism recently
when we published editorials advocat-
ing amnesty for political prisoners.
1t seems the secretary of war agrees
with us.
But this is not the best of the news.
Secretary Baker in the second order
mentioned has recognized that politi-
cal prisoners are not criminals or re-
bellious soldiers who have violated
the military oath, but that they con-
stitute class of offenders entitled
to mild and humane treatment. His
second order abolishes the practice
of claiming political prisoners in mill
tary prisons to the bars of their cages,
a barbarous proceeding that has been
the disgrace of army prisons. Men
have been chained by their wrists in
a standing position until they have
tainted with exhaustion and agony
The secretary of war says that these
punishments clearly were not formu-
lated with the political type of pris-
oner in mind, and their effectiveness
as deterrents has been questionable"
He points out that men have repeated
ly suffered these tortures without
weakening in their refusal to violate
their consciences by obeying military
orders.
1t is now up to the United States to
show its adherence to democratic in
stitutions and principles by release of
that other large group of political
prisoners, those who have been i'm
prisoned for the EXPRESSION OF
OPINION concerning the war and gov
ernment policies. The Leader made
no fight against the locking up Of war
heretics during the war, but the war
is over and no matter how mistaken
or fanatical those convicted for their
opinions were, the persecution of men
for their political opinions is no part
of the business of a republic. The
time must never come i'm America
when We keep our prisons filled with
men who honestly criticise the gov
ernment and it policies. 1t must al
ways be safe here for every citizen to
hold what political views he pleases.
Non Partisan Leader.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25
SOCIETY ANDLOCAL NEWS
Protective League

Protective League
The third meeting Of the Phoenix
Protective League was held last Mon
day evening, January 20, at Doris
hall. Quite large crowd came to
this meeting and besides the usual
features of the meetings, we were
favored with few remarks by Mrs.
]. P. Watson, the noted woman evan
gelist. A grand literary and musical
program will feature the next meet
ing on February 8, and there will be
all kinds of free eats including ice
cream, cake, sandwiches, etc. You
should attend this meeting and learn
the real object of the club. A letter
from the secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored Race was read at the last
meeting and he invited us to join in
with them. This we intend to do
just as soon as we receive sufficient
members. At the next meeting, which
will be on Monday evening, February
8, we invite you to come out and help
us carry on"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-01-25

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-President
George T. Page of the AmericA Bar
Association has thrown a bombshell
into the General Staff with his vigor-
GUS denunciation, at the annual meet
ing of the executive council of the as
sociation in New York city on Janu-
ary 8, of the cruel and excessive pun
ishments meted out by military
courts-martial to American soldiers
during the past year and half
For when Mr.. Page, as spokesman
for the most conservative legal group
in the country, declared publicly that
"the war has revealed that our mill
tary laws and our system of admin
istering military justice are unworthy
the name of law or justice" he shat
tered the almost incurable compla-
cency of the General Staff by reveal
ing solid public resentment of which
the military mind has hitherto been
blissfully ignorant.
Congress has now taken up the mat
ter. Senator Chamberlain-who had
some indignant words to say on the
same subject the other day-is now
gathering material to back up his de-
mand for thorough investigation in
to the sentences meted out to the vol
unteers and drafted men for trifling
infractions of discipline Those who
know of cases where men have been
railroaded to the penitentiary by the
army authorities for trifling offenses,
ought to forward the facts to Senator
Chamberlain or their own senator's
without delay.
Up on the hill it is believed that an
investigation of all the sentences will
be ordered. Some predict that before
congress gets through certain high
military regulations will be blasted
forever and that the reactionary Arti-
cles Of War will be overhauled to
make them more democratic and
abreast of the more enlightened mill
tary codes of France, England and
Belgium.
President Pages references to the
atrocities of military law were in full
as follows: \
"This war has demonstrated that
our military laws and our system of
administering military justice are uu-
worthy of the name of law or Justice.
We are still following rules and forms
copied from England in 1774, which
were abandoned by Great Britain and
which were better suited to the armies
of feudal times than to the citizen
armies of modern republic.
my interest in this matter was
aroused some time ago by stories of
outrageous punishments meted out by
our court-martials for comparatively