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Evening star., 1919-04-13
v. H. TAFT LAUDS
SAMUEL G0MPERS

NEW YORK, April 12.-samuel
Gonpers. Americas veteran labor
leader. was eulogized here today by
former President William H. Taft as
the man who in 1918 had stabilized"
the workers Of the world and helped
win the war when German propa-
gandists had divided the ranks of
labor abroad and were schemi1g to
bring about a negotiated peace.
Speaking at luncheon given by
the National Civic Federation to the
president of the American Federation
of Labor and his four colleagues on
the American labor mission. who have
just returned from the peace con-
ference, Mr.. Taft said he wished to
pay his respects to union labor lead
ers who have achieved a great thing
not only for organized labor. but for
the allies and toward the winning of
the war"
Mr. Taft declared a great response
bility now rested on organized labor
and capital to avert the spread of
''insidious and destructive" anar-
chistic doctrines from abroad. He
advocated collective bargaining"
and said that his experience as a
convinced him that the workers have
| a right to sit in counsel with en-
ployers and discuss such questions as
production. costs. wages and the
hours of labor.
Upheld Democratic Ideals.
Mr.. Gompers told how the five
american delegates to the Paris con-
Terence had fought at thirty five
1ui Cot0 ,f J.,
TO seven hours each" to uphold the
| ideals of democracy. and. by argument
and persuasion. finally won a major
ity OF their Lightweight foreign con-
feres to their point of view.
He said they had opposed the
idea Of allied union labor men
attending the international socialist
conference at Bern. and while some OF
their British. French and Italian fell
iow-Worksrs had fallen under the
| the American delegation stood firmly
| from the first against treating with
German or Austrian labor delegates
against whose countries the allies at
that time were at war"
Referring to the threatened spread
OF bolshevism. Mr.. Gompers said 1t
! reminded him of the Bible story of
blind Samson between the pillars of
! the temple, bringing down death
and destruction to all within the
structure.
I'm unwilling" he said. that all
the genius Of the past ages should
be thrown to the winds. I'm un-
| willing that the efforts that have
been made to bring light into the
lives OF others should be destroyed
because Of maddening desperation.
Meanwhile. it is well for US to see
that our own house is kept in order
There is another element in our
life which deserves careful scrutiny
Bolshevtsm Is not the only danger
confronting our institutions. The
! standpatter. reactionary and the prof
iteer are equally menace to our civili-
zation.
"Since our coming ashore I have
discovered a situation right here that
| bodies ill-a situation where men in
trusted with great Industrial transit
| interests have closed the door to
their workers and said: You cannot
confer and take counsel with u.s.
Evening star., 1919-04-13
EIks' Memorial Service Tonight.

Columbia Lodge. No. IS. I. B. P. o.
E., Of Washington will hold memorial
service for their members who died in
the past year tonight at 8 o'clock. at
Asbury NJ. E. Church. 11th and K
streets northwest. Music will be fur
nished by the Amohion Glee Club.
Evening star., 1919-04-13
Situation Believed Improved.

The general situation of the forces
at Murmansk and Acrhangel has been
improved. Gen. March said. through
the reopening of the railroad from
Murmansk south. bringing the dis
tant southern outposts into direct
of stan did not believe the military
situation in northern Russia was at
all alarming. He said transportation
was nor open to such an extent that
there would be little difficulty in
withdrawing the force.
Evening star., 1919-04-13
Chaulains Transferred to Meade.

Chaplains Benjamin H Clark. a.
Camp jackson, S. c.. and Maurice
Ackermann, at Camp Grant Ill. have
been transferred to Camp Meade, Md
for duty.
Evening star., 1919-04-13
Col. Snyder Ordered Here.

+ Lieut. Col. Howard M Snyder. Med
ical Corps. at Charleston. S. G.. has
been ordered to this city for duty in
the office Of the surgeon general.
Evening star., 1919-04-13
Named to Receive Applications

YeStcFQdy OIHCcTS WcTC dppOiHtCo
by the public health service to re-
ceive applications in practically every
state west of the Mississippi river.
in sparsely settled parts of the state.
for medical treatment of men en-
titled to it under the war risk insur-
ance act. and to arrange for their
treatment in the local hospitals and
dispensaries. A hospital will be
established in Colorado. though the
exact location has not yet been de-
termined upon.
Wards in the hospital of the Iowa
State University have been leased by
the service, it was announced.
The hospitals of the public health
service which were in existence
before the recent act providing for
the care of the discharged men was
passed also are available. There are
twenty-one of these hospitals, in
cluding one in Baltimore, available
and authority has been granted to
increase the capacity of some by
The public health service also will
build a new hospital at Norfolk. Va
Evening star., 1919-04-13
D. A. R. EDITION.

The Evening and Sunday Star.
containing fun reports OF the D.
a. r. convention, April 13 to 20.
inclusive. mailed. postage prepaid.
to any part of the
United States s...............2 .25c
Inclose the amount Of money
required and place in our sub
scription box at Continental Me-
mortal Hall or leave at Star Office.
11th street and PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue..
The eight-page Rotogravure
supplement Of today contains a
picture of Continental Memorial
Hall and a full page of photo
graphs of those prominent in D.
A. R. affairs
Evening star., 1919-04-13
Will Visit Mount Vernon.
Program Tomorrow Night,

Aside from the session tomorrow
evening. when a number of addresses
are to be given and when the United
States Marine Band. under the leader
ship of Lieut.. William H. Santelmann.
is to play. the entire time of the con-
gress is to be devoted to business
matters affecting the society. Tomor-
row nights program also includes
Evening star., 1919-04-13
100000 RUSSIANS
DYING EACH month
Herbert c. Hoover Issues
Statement Regarding Food
Situation in East.
UPPER CLASSES SUFFER

PARIS. Friday, April 11.-H@rbert
C. Hoover, the food administrator. has
Issued a statement with regard 10 tho
feeding of Russia The statement
says:
with regard to the rumors of food
relief to Russia. MIR. Hoover stated
that numbers of projects from Var'-
Gus sources have been laid before him
for provisioning the people in the
larger cities of Russia. DR.. Nansen
(head of the Norwegian food mission
to the United 'States) and other emf
nent neutrals came to Paris some
time ago with proposals for relief.
The relief administration has car
ried on a great deal of investigation
as to the actual food conditions in
Russia. The gravity of the situation
cannot be overestimated. A very con-
servative estimate would indicate that
upward of 100000 people are directly
or indirectly dying, from the food
shortage. monthly at the present mo-
ment. and the situation is likely to
/ grow in intensity as the season pro-
crosses.
! Children Get Priority.
| Illc SkSlCiil
rigfdly enforced by The soviet govern
ment in the larger cities, the children
have the first priority on the foe
surply by way of meal service IN tte
schools, which are open to chiidren
of all classes. The RED guard and
workmen have the second priority.
ard the bourgeois ana intelleotuai
classes, etc. receive the remainder
! Our reports would indicate that
the children who attend the schools
are being reasonably cared for. tnat
the red guard is >ceiving A sufficient
ratICn. but that the burden of rt'
Shortage falls upon the middle. urper
,anl intellectual classes and thr.a tens
their considerable extinction lcf"re
the next harvest dow Tar tins VIII
be- the practical resai.. however. is d
little difficult to de- erm.ne because 4
the great migration Ia the country
Tue population of Petrograd has de
creased by 20 Per cent
| "The Lenin and Trotsky socialza-
I, tion of the processes of production
has so wrecked both production ar.d
distribution as to create a s'ate o.
famine in a couniry which forinerl,
contributed SO larseay TO the food
supply of the world"
Evening star., 1919-04-13
NATIONAL D. A. R.
MEETS TOMORROW
28th Continental Congress
Will Open Fiye-Day
Session Here.
PROGRAM IS VARIED

With the calling to order at 1890
o'clock tomorrow morning Of the
twenty ghth continental congress
of the National Society. Daughters of
the American Revolution, one of the
most interesting congresses ever held
by the society will get under way
at Memorial Continental Hall. Mrs.
George Thacher Guernsey, president
general. is to call the congress to
order after the sounding of assembly
by Arthur S. Witcomb of the United
States Marine Band and the formal
entrance of the pages. Scripture
9e-ting and prayer by Miss Elisa
beth F. Pierce. chaplain general; !;
singing OF America by the audi
ence. the greeting and address to the
congress by the president general
the report of the committee on Gre
dentials. roll call and report OF the
program committee will complete the
program of the opening session.
The congress will get down to bus
mess at the afternoon session tomor,
row. when reports of the national
officers and of the various commit
tees will be presented. Announce
ment of committees to act on recon-
mendations made by national officers
and national committees and on res
olutions presented by the various
chapters is to be the opening busl-
ness.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
WHAT BUSINESS THINKS.

What does business REALLY think of the outlook?
Here is one answer Il was found in a sheet of
fdentia instructions to statesmen by the Brown
Shoe company of St Louis, aimed the
road men off on the new year with something which
to base spirit optimism the successful sales
man must have The Brown Shoe company wanted no
artificial of optimism when the real thing
easily had by digest of the Here is what
the statesmen were told:
American farmers planted 356216OO0 acres of the
principal cereals patooe hay cotton tobacco and sugar
Leets which 1179 than 1914 They gathered
S49 234 385 produce counting increased
output of vegetables beans, and fruits They pro-
nearly 2OOOOOO00O0 pounds of $500 OOO
gallons of milk, eggs poultry and small vegetables in
countless quantities all of Hoovers drafts
stuffs told him to more and when the
armistce signed had of meat animals
than before largest finest winter wheat
acreage the world has ever seen
/, Now these farmers say to the timd business man:
Go with reconstruction The nations basic indus
try stands behind you with Of close 10 $25 OOO
0OOOOO produced year and we have hardly yet begun
to fight
The largest acreage Of wheat ever planted bids fair
to produce the largest crop harvest and best OF all
tae tarmer mas all sold for cash 10 Uncle SAN Ac
cording Mr Hoover wao is now abroad the best part
hungry folks IN Europe and other of the world"
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
HOME BUILDING NEXT.

Aid TO home-builders L national scale and III a
manner similar that by which Federal Farm Loan
Banks aid agriculture suggested to the Division
of Public Works and Construction Development Of the
Department Of Labor by President Keeser of the United
States League of Building Loan Associations in or
der to interest the public building during the transition
period from to peace
Building loan associations Of this country according
to this plan would perform for workingmen much the
service that performed for farmers by farm loan
banks. Mortgages over to building and loan asso
Citations is suggested should be redscountabe at Fed
eral Reserve Banks order that these associations might
render most effective service At present however two
difficulties stand in the way first the associations are
not members the Federal Reserve Bank system and
have no capital stock and reserve therein second the
Reserve banks designed for handling commercial
paper, not mortgages.
The solution of the first problem suggested is that
special measures be taken protect the Reserve banks
and that the second met by limiting the amount Of
mortgages re-dscounted an alternative it is thought
that the farm loan might be authorized to accent
mortgages on homes as wen on farm lands Either
method it is thought preferable to the creation
o. new organizations
President Keesler has been in conference with Frank
I'm J. Miller director and other officers of the Division OF
Public Works and Construction Development in the De
Iartment of Labor. building loan association are
admirably equipped to finance home-buildng and it is
believed that they assist greatly in private home
building which needed to relieve congestion The
restrictions on building due war and the gradual
dec1he IN building for some years preceding the war
have reduced the amount Of housing per capita in the
United States to figures below The norma for number os
years.
TIE building and loan associations for the country
Lumaer 1863 with total membership of 3S3S 612 Their
total assets exceed $15OOO0OOO Their receips from all
in 1917 $122OOO0OOO and their cost Of d.
lag business $9S0OO 600 amounted to only o8 of cent
They semi phanthropic associations and officials
moderately paid unpaid are light because Of
the basis which loans are made Orai
nary, if man lot of ground, he may Immediately
obtain loan for two-thirds combined value Of land
and buildings
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
4 VERSE Il DAY.
II HE COMES NOT BACK!

CWaiting for Final Casually Reports)
And if he comes not back!
o, pleading heart,
Reach up to touch the ritying heart of GOO
i
# We must always listen for his feet
And hear their eager, eager hurrying home,
Yet always find it is the falling leaves!
If we must always hear, with famished hearts,
His voice in happy greeting to his child
Whom Life brought while he faced Death overseas
Yet always know il is the murmuring pines!
If must watch with straining eyes to see
His face light up with wonder at MS son.
Yet always know It's but the sunlight there!
If he must always sleep on that far line
While hearts grown desolate unsleeping lie
And stars through all the night of backened years!-
If he comes not
o. little childrens God.
And Father of the Desoate.
Bind up
With bands of steel my woman's heart!
Make strong
The grieving soul!
Make strong the hand!
No easing of the agony plead
My spirit still can stretch its bleeding hands
Upon the cross of desert years-and smile
To see them crucifed.
This, God if
May only live as strongly as he died.
If may only fling my life
AS he flung death,
In one unbreaking line the year;
May only guide my dead mans to march
With fearless feet beneath the lustrous stars
That light the groping world to liberty;
May only guide his hand to hold aloft
Unwavering, unsuIled that far dream
That CLEANS upon the flag for which he died.
The flag for which his father smiling, died.
Not easing pain, but strength, God strength, plead
With which to fill his son,
That hands of steel
May strongly hold the things he died 20 save
ELEANOR COCHRAN REED in New York Times
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The Plains Auto Company has this
day discontinued business, and the
garage heretofore operated by said
company on Jackson street will here
after be operated by Mr. w. Ross Hub
bard, All persons having accounts
against the Plains Auto Company are
requested to present same to John W.
Oliver, Americus, Georgia, at once for
payment; from this date the Plains
Automobile Company nor John W.
Oliver will not be responsible for any
accounts made by said company. All
persons with notes or accounts due
said Plains Auto Company are re-
quested to pay same to Mr. Stephen
Pace, Byne Building, Americus, Geor-
gla, who holds same for collection.
This, January Sth, 1918.
JOHN W. OLIVER,
Owner Plains Auto Co
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
THE STATE PRESS.
Slandering the Peanut.

Somebody in South Georgia persists in slandering
the peanut There is amentaon about the price hang
ing around 500 ton and it is claimed that the farmer
make nothing for himself raising them and selling
at such price That assertion is not true The farmer
can raise them and make money at 500 ton even in
these times of high prices That thing just as sure
as an individual goes and gives his time honestly and
faithfully The farmer make money growing peanuts
at such price and he should glad of opportunity
He ought to hope that this price stays up
It is not the price which has made it hard for the
lack of labor.
There was season in the fall-a long season-which
was ideal for threshing many farmers took
advantage Of this weather long rainy season fol-
lowed and to this good hour there are many hundred
bushels still in the stacks in Crisp county We presume
that this is the all over the peanut growing belt It
is rather bad plight to get The farmers who have
been caught in this manner will hardly get through with
the Old crop until the dry winds March come to their
relief. Picking and thresbing can be done only in dry
weather
They were caught in this predcament because they
had no labor to get through with the picking Those who
were more fortunate through with the picking at the
proper time The lesson of the past season has taught
farmers not to the dry fall days with their
still on the poles in fields They can be cared for
earlier at much handsome profit And the peanut
season comes but one time year Let us grow them,
even more than we planted last year They are going to
prove valuable especially since we must reckon
with the boil weeyil-Cordele Dispatch
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
As Others See Us.

Up IN Americus they got up row over the change OF
dme and the Chamber of Commerce cancelled dinner ..
gwen a' an eA-members hotel and had it at the tea
o operated by the ladies of the Episcopal church in
stead Ihey Will soon find that divided house will make
tnings even worse than they might be-Thomasville
Times Enterprise
Americus times-recorder., 1919-01-15
Speaking of High FLYERS.

The man who up 900 feet in an airplane is the
enc 20 put on the committee investigate the rise
fo'd pricee.-Waycross Journal Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-03

have, in manner deserving of admiration,
shown very good Judgment, and, having
faith in the decisions of this conference,
she even has abstained from any mill
tary action against her neighbors, al
though the latter have occupied two
fifths of her territory. She has proved
TO be mainstay of peaceful and organ
lied social development in central Eu-
rope.
'We know that we had to receive
peace from your hands-from the hands
Of victors-but we are firmly resolved
conscientiously to weigh each and every
proposition laid before us and any ad-
vice offered to us by you. We shall,
above all, make it point thoroughly to
inform YOU of the conditions prevailing
in our country and to enlighten you re-
garding the primary exigencies of our
existence. If you heretofore have had
the opportunity to hear, with few ex-
ceptions only, the voice of our neigh
bors we now invoke your hearing. For
you, the arbiters of great world, will
have to decide the fate of our small
world also, and it is only just and right
that arbiters should hear both parties.
"We pray for a decision which will
insure for all our national political and
economic existence
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-03
RECKLESS ExTRAvAGANCE"
Was the Way Government Railroad 0p,
Grafton Was Characterized.

Washington, d. G., June 3.Demand
that railroad employees submit to gov
ernment regulations as to the companies
was made by President B. NJ. Robinson
to-day at the convention here of the
American Short Line Railroad associa.
tion.
while the government regulation of
the carriers is expanded to the most
minute details he said, .'the employees
are left to exercise their own sweet will,
which they often do in most autocratic
way. Wage demands have absorbed al
ready the $l,000,000,O00 rate increase
which is being paid by the public
In view of the reckless extravagance"
of the government in all its business,
Mr.. Robinson said, the demand for rail
road economy was ridiculous" He de-
nouneed the claim of Slls,000,000 saved
in the first year of government operation
as unjustified, and charged that, in fact,
government operation caused deficit of
81 000,000,000 every day in the first 10
months Of government control
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-03
TRIED TO KILL MAYOR.
Bomb Exploded at Residence of Mayor
Davis of Cleveland.

Cleveland, O., June 3.-Police of Cleve-
land, Columbus and other cities to-day
are searching for two men who are be
leved to have planted a bomb at the
home of Mayor Harry l.. Davis, late last
night. The house was partly wrecked,
but no one was injured.
The bomb, which is believed to have
been heavily charged with dynamite, was
planted under a cellar window and, ac-
cording to the police, was time bomb
Pieces found indicate that it was made
of brass pipe.
The, explosion was so terrific that it
tore out practically the entire north side
of the house. Windows in many houses
for several blocks were broken
Mayor Davis was seated on the lawn
on the opposite side Of the house with
his wife and several friends when the ex-
plosion occurred. His three year old
son and maid were the only occupants
Of the house. Mrs. Davis had just Joined
the party when the explosion occurred.
Shortly before she had been standing in
the kitchen, practically over where the
blast occurred.
Two men, one Of them carrying a suit
case, were seen prowling around the
house about an hour before the explo-
sion. Less than half an hour before the
blast the mayor twice received mysteri-
GUS telephone calls. Police believe these
were to get him into the house about the
time the bomb was regulated to ex-
plode. For several months the mayor has
been target for anonymous threatening
letters, which he ignored
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-03
Kellogg Bill Ordering 1t Re-
ported Unanimously by
Senate Committee
BUT EXISTING RATES
CONTINUE 60 DAYS
After the Final Action by
Congress on the
Measure

Washington, d. c., June 3.-Favorable
report on the bill of Senator Kellogg,
Republican, of Minnesota, for the imme
date return of the telephone and tele-
graph wires to private ownership was
ordered to-day by the Senate interstate
commerce committee after the measure
had been amended so as to continue ex-
isting rates for 60 days after final ac-
tion by Congress. The vote of the com
mittee was unanimous.
No provision was made for continuing
telegraph rates which recently were in
creased by order of Postmaster General
Burleson, whose action was sustained
yesterday by the supreme court. Clar-
ence II. Mackay, president of the Postal
Telegraph Gable company, in recent let
ters to members of Congress urging inn
mediate return of the wires, promised a
20 per cent decrease in rates by his com
pany.
Most advocates of the return of the
wire properties had urged that specific
date be set, with July suggested by
representatives of the companies, but
the committee decided to adopt Senator
Kellogg's plan for return forthwith"
Chairman Cummins announced he
would call the bill up in the Senate as
soon as possible with the hope of secur-
ing its passage late this week.
The amendment providing for continu-
ance of existing telephone rates was de-
signed, members said, to give time for
state commissions to make rate orders,
and to prevent any temporary disruption
of service of financial difficulty for com,
panies