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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-27
EXPELS BOLSHEVIKI,

Paris, June T.-General Cukauskas
with a Lituthian army has expelled
the Bolsheviki from that territory.
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ON WAY TO PARIS.

Coblenz June 27.-Foreign Secretary
Mueller and Colonial Secretary Bell,
the two German peace delegates on
their way to Versailles, passed through
COlOnge this morning.
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TO RETURN HOME SUNDAY.

Paris, June 27.-While no official
statement had been made up to noon
today regarding the ceremony Of the
signing Of the treaty arrangements are
proceeding on the understanding that
it will occur Saturday afternoon.
If the signing occurs as contemplat-
ed President Wilson plans to leave for
Prest Immediately, sailing for the
United States at noon Sunday.
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TURTLE LAKE HAS
FIRST GRADUATION

George N. Keniston, secretary OF
the Bismarck Commercial club, is
home from Turtle Lake, where he de-
livered the commencement addl at
the first graduating exercises of the
Turtle Lake high school. There were
two graduates, Miss Mary Van Horne
and Miss Eda Ola Renslow. Both
had we'll prepared orations The ex
ercises were featured by music from
a boys and girls glee club, which
showed much natural talent and care
full training, and the pragram as a
whole was one of exceptional merit
GLEN ULLIN BOY DECORATED.
Washington, June 27.-The war de-
partment today announced awards Of
distinguished service to Private Au-
gust Hegemann, Glen Ullin, N. D.
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PLAN
FOR SIGNING G
OF PEACE PACT
President Wilson Receives Amer
ican Correspondents and
Bids Them Farewell
TO START HOME SUNDAY
German Delegates En- Route to
Paris to Affix Sig
natures

Paris, June 27.-Plans were COM
pleted by the council of four today for
the signing of peace treaty at 3.
o'clock Saturday afternoon. No OF.
ficial statement however was issued
by the council. President Wilson re-
ceived American newspaper cores
pondents at 2 o'clock this afternoon
and said goodbye to them.
The president went to American
headquarters to meet the other mem
bers of the American delegation and
General Pershing for formal confer
ence and to say farewell.
According to advices received by the
American authorities here. Minister
Mueller and Bell left Berlin in the
greatest secrecy on special train,
fearing an attempt on their lives.
Berlin, June 27.--The German gov
ernment troops ordered to Hamburg
to suppress disorders there reached the
suburbs of the city this morning. The
troops ordered the immediate cessation
of hOstilities, the release Of all prison.
ers held by the communists. in the city
hall, and the delivery Of weapons.
The. casualties In the rioting are es-
timated to have been 20 killed and $50
to 25O wounded.
On the surface the situation is quiet
er today. The banks are open, the Of
fetal Offices are doing business, and
the city's transportation systems are
operating. The authorities, however,
have not re-est8 blished their control.
~ COUNTER REVOLUTION.
Berne, June ,27.-The messages in
dicate that the counter revolutionary
movement dey eloped Tuesday. The
officers took possession CT the moni-
tor, and used the guns to lombard
the Soviet's headquarters.
There was considerable rifle and
revolver firing during which numer-
GUS persons were wounded
A Budapest dispatch filed Thurs
day stated that the movement lad
been quelled and order restored.
In referring to the outbreak, Belle
June Is quoted as recommending
harsher measures to the executive
committee. "The present weakness:
Of the present dictatorship is respon.
sible for this trouble ''To proclaim
kindness and leniency would be 20
shake the confidence of the prole
tariat. We do not want equality bul
the dictatorship of the proletariat." :.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
-
DEMOCRACY. IN BUSINESS.

The dissolution Of the complex ag-
sregation OF business called the
..Meat Trust" is another step in the
WORKING out Of democracy. 1t is the
appHra1ion Of democracy to big bus
mess: in the field where autocracy re-
naained most strongly entrenched and
most threatening
THO packers agree to sell their
holdings in more than $50 concerns
which they have owned in whole or in
part. That gives some idea of the
ranifcations of the vast system they
have: built up. Their system has in
rcfuded, in recen. years, not only all
sorts Of meat products but nearly all
the common substitutes for those
products, and nearly everything like
Iy To fnd it's way to the table. Such
q monopoly is intolerable. II not
abused at any particular time. it IS
safways liable to abuse. The obvious
thing was to break up the monopolis-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
FRENCH ELECTION
JANUARY nth
Clemenceau viii Be Elected
President Without Op-
position

Paris, Dec. 26.-President Poin-
CARES successor Will be elected jan
ary 18th. according TO the inference
generally drawn by the Parlslens
Press from Premier Clemenceau
statement in the chamber. of deputies
that his cabinet would definitely re-
sign on that date. 1t is also deduced
from the prem;ers' declaration that
he will be a candidate for the pres
idency, which means that ne will be
elected virtually without opposition.
Speculation regarding NJ. Clemen-
ceau's successor as the head of the
cabinet is eliciting discussion as to
the next president of the republic
Alexandra Millerand, governor OF Al
sace-Lorraine. seems to have grea'
lead as far as predictions are con
cerned.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
DROPPED EGGS,

No, people do not have to pay any
old price that happens to be demanded
! for commodities Take eggs, for ex-
ample.
Eggs, have gone down lately, all
over the country. They are still high
enough but not nearly so high as they
were in the early part Of December,
when they retailed in some Of the big
cities for more than 81 dozen.
Why have they gone down? The
hers have not been laying any more.
II anything, they have laid fewer eggs
with the advance of winter. When
eggs8ent above 81 in the big cities,
aud neared the dollar mark in smaller
cities. millions Of people simply did
the natural, sensible thing, and stop
sred buying. them. They substituted
meat. and milk and cheese, which
Sptovided the same food elements and
were cheaper. and they quit eating
cake and other things that required
eggs with the falling demand. of
course prices fell.
The women Of Lincoln, Nebraska,
shastensd the process by a deliberate
boycott when fresh eggs reached IS
cents, and in three days eggs fell to
Sc catsts. formal boycott is not
often Necessary or desirable, though
certainly 5ustifable in emergency.
Ordinarily if the average consumer
simply acts sensibly about his con-
sunafng, suiting his purchases to the
season asand the state Of his purse. that
win serve as an effective price-regula-
tor-shere are so many Of him.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
PROHIBITION AND THE MoRGUE.

The jails and the county houses
have already reported their business
as on decline since prohibition began
its more Or less perfect work, and
low another we'll known pubic insti-
tuition falls in line-the morgue is
about ready to go out Of business in
most cities. One such institution re-
ports that where formerly some
eighty bodies went from it to the pot
ter's field every two weeks, now there
are hardly any at all.
If additional evidence were needed
as to the value Of prohibition, the
empty slabs at this final resting place
Of the social derelict should be elo-
quent testimony.
First drink, then dope. then sui
eide, the patrol wagon and the NOR
que; or, first drink, then quarreling,
then murder with the same final des-
tination-that is about the way the
sordfd tale has run hitherto.
There are Of course innumerable
avenues through which drink is still
distributed, even in localities which
SUP oosedly have been dry for years,
and rnis is considered by many people
as evidence Of the futility Of attempt
ing prohibition. There is also the
army Of good-natured souls who got
a lot Of fun, and as they thought, no
harm at all from their use of alcoholic
liquors. These people protest against
the abolition of strong drink as un-
necessary and unduly contributing to
the gloom Of the world.
But the jail and the county house
and the morgue are the institutions
which tell the real truth as to what
brought gloom into the world, and
they are showing steadily decreasing
patronage. Whatever agency means
fewer wretched beings carried by the
tide of life to these landing places is
an angency for good.
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tic system, and accordingly it is brok-
en- up, at least in form.
This is in line with the trend cf the
times. Democracy is demanded in
business as in government. Freedom
is wanted for the individual business
man or firm as it is for the individual
as a person and voter. Many great
business organizations have already
been demolished for this. purpose, and
many more are likely to be. The
Steel Trust persists, despite its size
and it's practical domination of the
steel business, but one Of these times
it may go the way of the Oil Trust
and the railroad combinations.
Perhaps such action is not final.
Perhaps it is only an intermediate
step in business evolution. The plain
est tendency of the time is toward
wider and larger organization in all
kinds of business. It is movement
toward cooperation on an ever-in-
creasing scale. Yet here we are,
fighting that tendency and trying to
restore old-tine competition.
Many have held that trusts were
formed in obedience to a natural eco
nonic law. They have been broken
up because of an actual menace they
held. The parts, however, keep re-
grouping themselves, somehow or 9TH
er. In time Of emergency the gov
ernment itself takes hold and COM
bines the railroads, the coal mines,
the shipy2rds. etc., in a way it forbids
private owners to do.
Now, with the war over, there is ar
effort to restore competition every
where, by force if necessary. And it is
proving to be mighty difficult task
in some fields. It is what the govern
ment has to do, however, unless it
wants to tackle the democracy game
from another angle, and set up
some sort Of state socialism, with all
the business men in every industry
free to compete on equal terms with
strict limits, and all subject to gov
ernment control outside of those
limits.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
MINE OWNERS
ARE OBSTINATE,
Assert That Thev Are Not.
Bound BY Decision of
Commission

Chicago, Dec. 29.-Representative
of coal operators in the soft coal fields
met here today to discuss the attitude
to be adopted toward the findings Of
the commission appointed by the pres
ident to adjust wages Of the miners
after the settlement of the recent ma
tionwide strike. The operators assert
that they do not commit themselves
as to accepting or enforcing any decis-
ion the presidents commission may
reach.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
PRODUCE MoRE;<s SPEND LESS.

Attorney General Palmer while
posssbsy bit over-optimistic in some
Of shlscost- living pronunciamentos,
puts tAe whole matter in a nutshell
wheahe says: :.
S. ..Ifsereryone who produces will pro-
duce his utmost; if those. who buy
and consume will save and eliminate
sxtrasgance, and If all honest people
VIII Join with the Department OF
Jnstiee in stamping out, profteering
and boarding, the cost Of living can
be e<reduced''
This recipe might be boiled down
SIN more, thus:
Produce more; spend less" Or If
anyone objects to the word spend"
on account Of possible misconstruction
sof tsG:7.tProduce more; waste less"
II everybody would do those two
things. or if half, or a quarter Of the
people in the United States would
settle down in earnest to doing them
and thus setting a good example, it
would turn a false prosperity into real
prosperity. People who are making
money" only to see it slip through
their fingers would find that they were
getting something for their money;
and people making no more than
formerly would come nearer to get
ting an old-fashioned living out Of it.
- THIS formula does not cover the
whole problem. Under-production
and oyer.spending are not the only
causes Of high prices. There is the
fundamental cause Of big war debt
aud the inflated currency and credit
resulting from it. While there is 50
;uuch money in circulation, prices
cannot go down to normal But the
methods suggested might send them
down, say, at least half way to their
pre-Har level within a fairly short
time. And that would give rs cents
the purchasing power Of today's dol
/.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
THIEF PROVED HERO
Arthur Abbott Decorated For
Distinguished Service in
France Receives Pardon

Boston, Dec 26-How Arthur Abb
bott, long wanted as fugitiHe for
the theft Of fifteen thousand dollars
from q local trust company enlisted
in the marines and as Sergeant VIII
liam Haskell was cited for brilliant
war service, was disclosed today when
he announced that he had been set
free on probation by the district at
torney and that lie had received the
French crox de guerre. officially. un-
der his right name, Abott was in the
Sixth regiment and. was one OF forty
four men left of the famous thirteen
hundred marines who went through
the Argonne campaign.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
INVESTIGATING
DUBLIN SHOOTING
Inquest Being Held Over Lieu
tenant Who Was Killed

Dublin, Dec. 29.-Details of Sun
days shooting affray near the vice re-
gal lodge were given today at the in
quest over the body Of Lieut.. Boast,
the officer Of the guard who was kill
ed at the same time the civilian was
found in the park was shot. The
firing led to the belief in some quar-
ters last night that an attack was be-
ing made against the .dge, the resi-
dence of Lord French, whose life was
attempted last week.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
SUNDAY MASS MEETING

On Sunday at 3:15 p. n1.. Major
Henry E. Raines of Charleston spoke
70 a large crowd Of men at the local
y NJ c.. a.
Major Raines is a very forcefuI
speaker and on this occasion took
for the subject OF his address, THE
Golden Age, Past or Future?" He
made strong plea for higher edu-
cation for boys and girls. He stated
that the three greatest assets in this
life were school, home and church.
The address was a mastery appeal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
ENGLAND TO GET
GERMAN SHIPS
President Wilson Directs That
Ships Held in New York
Be Delive. ed

Washington, Dec. 26.-By direction
of the president former German pas
senger ships of the Imperator group
now in New York harbor are to be
delivered to Great Britain shipping
boad. it was announced today. The
vessels are those assigned to. the
United States after the armistice for
the repatriation of American troops
and designated by the inter-allled ma
val council 70 be turned over to
Great Britain under the arnistice
terms, already delivered to the Brit
;cI,
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MASS MEETINGS
ON SUNDAY
Mrs. Boring Charmed Those
Present With a Vocal
Solo

At the Hi-Y club meeting at p. m.
yesterday, Prof. S. H. Edmunds made
a splendid address upon the subject
An Appeal to Young Men, The
speaker told Of the courage neces-
sary to lead a clean and successful
life. A huge crowd was present.
quite number of college students
being present.
Mrs Boring was present and rem
dered a charming solo.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31

Postmaster Doar today announced
that the government will continue its
savings movement program and the
sale Of War Savings stamps and
Thrift stamps and Registered Treas
ury Savings certificates during 1920.
Ee hopes that the patrons Of the
Sumter office will invest even more
in 1920 than in 1919.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
KILLED BY ALCOHOL
Christmas Spree Finished Con-
necticut Booze Artists

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 26.-Six men
are dead here and three are dying
from the effects of liquor. The police
believe it was wood alcohol, contain
ing coloring matter that they drank.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
ARABS AND
FRENCH CLASH
Bloody Battle Reported to Have
Occurred in Syria

Paris, Dec. 29-Arabian volunteers
and French detachments have clashed
at Baalbek. Syria. according to
Cairo dispatch. The losses suffered by
both sides are said to have been Sc
we're
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31

FOR colleges. Those present greatly
enjoyed the address.
The meeting was presided over by
5Dr. .1S. TT. Edmunds. - -, 80.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
MORE DEATHS
FROM ALCOHOL
New York Adds 7 o Hundred
to Death List

New York, Dec. 2s.-Two more
cases Of wood alcohol poisoning were
reported hero today.
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-31
FLU IN SPAIN
Many Deaths Reported From
Madrid

Madrid. Dec. 29.-Fatalities from
Influenza and typhus have reached
high figures and many funerals @ere
held yesterday and Saturday
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-17
BACKBONE OF CONSUMER
TO BRING DOWN COSTS

ernment's war on soaring costs be-
gan, is probably true so rar as some
foods are concerned, yet housewives
have not noticed any appreciable re-
duction in prices from day to day.
II presume Mr.. Palmer has cor
rect figures" said Mrs. Heath, but
they are not borne out by facts.
Fundamental necessities have not
gone down, neither foods nor cloth
Ing.
Sugar, -four eggs, and other
staples are just as Highland in some
instance higher-as they were before
organized efforts were made to stop
the rise. There has been no lower
ing effect felt by the housewife and
the time has come when she Is
ready to assert the necessary back
bone by cutting down consumption
and instituting an effective boycott
OF necessities"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-17
|IIuuI
Tn lhTnf
CALLED FOR NOVEMBER

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17.-In an
effort to avert the threatened strike
of 100000 coal miners called for No
vember l, Secretary Of Labor Wilson,
John L. Lewis, acting president Of
United Mine Workes OF America,
and Thomas T. Brewster, president
of the Coal Operators association,
We're to confer here today. Secre-
tary Wilson desires to get tha rep
resentative Of both sides to sign an
agreement which could be ratified by
the miners at special convention
to be called for that purpose. II nn
agreement is not signed, Lewis warn
ed there was little likelihood # pre-
venting the walkout.
The miners are holding out Tor the
six hour day and the Ave lay week.
Brewster. the employers represents
tive. contends that the miners are
working under contract which le-
mains valid until the end of the war
has been officially proclaimed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-17
CHEAPER MILK
is PROMISED
Company Which Has Monopoly just
Boosted Price to Ten Gents
Per Pint Bot
tie.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 17.-Mayor
Wallace M. Short announced today he
had secured sufficient backing to en-
able him to start operation within the
next week of a dairy company to COM
bat high milk prices here.s
The fight is aimed particularly at
the Roberts Sanitary Dairy company
which increased It's prices Monday to
16 cents quart for milk in quart bot
ties and ten cents for pints. The
Roberts company has monopoly of
the c;ty's milk business. The mayors
company will use an abandoned police
station as its main distributing station
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-17

B. W. Maynard, leader of the trans
continental air race. early today pre-.
pared to resume his flight
with borrowed Liberty motor
taken from the disqualified plane OF
Captain Roy Francis, the flying '.sky
pilot" planned to reach Omaha to-
day. The plane OF Major j. w. Si
mon, who was disqualified at North
Platte yesterday, was ordered rushed
to Omaha for Maynard's use. His
closest pursuer eastward is Lieuten.
ant Alexander Pearson, Jr., at Chey
enne, Wyo
Captain Lowell H. Smith. who was
pushing Maynard for the lead when
his plane burned Wednesday at Buff.
falo. planned to continue flying to-
day in machine offered by the Cur.
tiss company. Permission was re-
ceived from Washington last night
Major Carl Spatz, who was held at
Rochester yesterday by bad weather
planned to resume flight today.
On Maynard's Heels.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct IT,
Hoping to overtake Lieutenant B. W.
Maynard in the air race eastward
Lieutenant Alex Pearson, Jr., planned
to leave here early today. Pearson
spent the night in Cheyenne after
flying in from Reno yesterday, dis
tance Of $40 miles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-17
INJUNCTION
ASKED FOR
Strikers Ask Court to Issue Orders
Permitting Them to Hold
Meetings If They
Desire

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. IA
petition for an Injunction to restrain
city authorities from interfering with
meetings of strikers probably will be
presented in court today by attor-
neys representing w. B. Rubin, coun-
sci for the national committee of
steel strikers. Rubin alleges the
police are exceeding their authority
In preventing free assemblage" and
free speech"
In letter which should reach Sen
ator Kenyon today Sheriff William
Haddock disputed assertions of labor
leaders that Mrs. Fannie Sellins, mine
organizer, was shot in the back near
Breckenridge a few weeks ago. Had
dock claims an examination of the
body, which was exhumed showed
wounds which he alleged were in
flicted after the official autopsy.