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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-12-12
PITH OF THE
VICTORY NEWS

Secret orders from the German admi.
rally chief to the commander of the
German fleet at Scapa Flow, instruct
Ing him to sink the vessels rather
than surrender them, have been
saIvaqed from the sunken flagship
Emden. 1t is on the demand for
reparation for the sinking of these
ships that Germany refuses to sign
the new protocol to the treaty.
Truman II. Talley cables from London
that observers there realize the
treaty and covenant as they stand
are dead Newspapers are urging
statement by England and France Of
what reservations they can accept.
The position taken by the House Re-
publcans is that the question of
peace was one which the President
and the Senate, constituting the
treaty making power, should de-
termine.
1t lis understood in diplomatic circles
in touch with the Entente govern
ments that an International confer
ence, composed of the representa-
tives of the powers which have rati-
fled the treaty of Versailles is being
formed in Paris to take the place of
the Peace Conference. The new or
ganization is said to be the sugges-
tion of Premier Lloyd George.
At a conference of Republican men,
bers of the Senate Foreign ReIa-
tions Committee at the Capitol it
was decided to press, within the next
few days, a joint resolution deciar-
ing a state of peace between the
United States and Germany in order
to open the way for independent
treaty negotiations with Germany.
President Wilson is known to disap-
prove resolution of peace. He IS
expected to urge the administration
Democrats to vote against it. If il
is adopted and the President vetoes
it the resolution would require a
two-thirds vote to override the veto.
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SOLDIER JOINS SCOUT RANKS.

Widely known among boy scouts and
prominent as teacher in south
Georgia, Prof. w. L. Sprouse, returned
soldier from France, begins his work
as scout commissioner of Waycross
and Ware county with the reorganiza-
ton of the movement in that section.
Scouting is fortunate in lining up
such capable men who have an abound
ing interest in boys and great love
for the outdoors.
Mr.. Sprouse was reared in the foot
hills of the Cumberland mountains,
educated at Peabody college and the
University of Tennessee, has taught in
public and private schools for eight
years. served with the A. e. #. over
seas for nearly year, has Travelled ex-
tensively, lecturing the boy scouts on
the Mammoth cave, where he has made
explorations, and for five years has
been hustling scoutmaster in this
section.
81 shall hope to see the day when
scouting will become tremendous
factor in training our Southern boys
for citizenship said Professor
Sprouse. "Organized boyhood has won
a prominent and lasting place in our
national life because of what boy
scouts did for the country and the
world during the war.
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WHAT KEEPS SCOUTS BUSY.

The juvenile probationers in Mont
clair, N. j., are handled at the boy
scout Office.
A wheel chair was bought for an
invalid boy by the scout troop in
Poughquag, N. Y.
Scouts in Wyano, Penn, raised
enough money to buy a bell for
church and also pledged $50.
AS novel "good turn" the scouts
in Troop No. of Dormont, Penn,
have planted % cherry trees "just for
the BIRDS"
The campaign TO place war and
navy department citations for employ
ers of n turned service men has been
carried on so energetically by thou
sands of scout troops that Washington
is hearty in it's praise of the work
Troop scribes, representing twenty
active troops of Boy Scouts of Amer
lea in the North Hudson council in
New Jersey, have formed press
club. The purpose of the organization
is to form a system of keeping the
troops of the council in touch with
one another's activities through the
medium of scout columns in the daily
oapers.
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WORLD NEWS In
CONDENSED FORM

HlNGTON.-The Fall resoIu-
ton calling upon the President to
withdraw recognition of the Carranza
government apparently meets with
general approval of Congress. In a
speech in the senate Senator Fall
charges that the Mexican embassy in
Washington and consulates in New
York and elsewhere were engaged,
with the approval of Carranza, in at
tempting to foment revolution in the
United States.
Ell. PASo-Francisco Villa, Mexi-
can bandit, is reported to have been
captured by some of his own troops,
who will surrender him for a reward.
ST. LOUlS.-The St. Louis Republic,
which was founded in 1905 suspended
publication. All of it's property, in
Guiding the daily, Sunday, and semi
weekly editions, has been sold to the
Globe Publishing Company, publishers
Of the Globe-Democrat, the only other
morning newspaper in st. Louis.
WASHINGTON. - Representatives
of all the larger coal mining corpora
lions in the United States reached an
agreement upon new wage scale for
mine workers.
ASHlNGTON.-A drive for def.
mite aviation policy will be made in
Congress.
CHICAGO. - Drastic moves were
made to conserve the decreasing sup
ply of coal when orders were issued
that after December no coal will be
supplied to foreign ships and the an
nOuncement that railroad schedules
are to be cut. Kansas volunteer min
ers produced the first car of coal.
WASHINGTON.-The Mexican for.
eign office is preparing the reply to
the second United States note, but il
may be delayed because of the Illness
of President Carranza. Congress will
back the administration in any move
to end the intolerable conditions in
the southern republic
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U. S. BUYS BILLION
IN LIBERTY BONDS
Purchases Made to Stabilize Mar
ket;; Yielded Government Profit
of$35,OOO,OOO.

Washington.-In the last year and q
half $1,O43OS0,5OO worth of Liberty
bonds were retired by the United States
Treasury, which yielded the govern
ment a profit of about $35,000,600.
Purchases were made to stabilize the
market for these securities, which cost
the government 1898, 1868 ,526, in addi-
ton to $14,2O4,779 accrued interest.
First loan purchases totaled $685.
$4,000; second, 1911, 215,OOO; third.
$27S, 635,50O. and fourth, 1868, 10000
An increase of nearly half billion
dollars in receipts over 1918 was noted
in the report of the treasurer of the
United States for the fiscal year 1919
The ordinary receipts were $4,647.-
603,S52 and the ordinary dsburse-
ments s15,365. 1862, 741, an increase of
$6,39S, 830,475, as compared with those
of the year previous The dlsburse-
ments on account of the Panama Ca
nal were s12,265,775, while the re-
ceipts were $6,777 ,O46.
Gold in the treasury at the begin
ming of the year amounted to $2,479,-
1867 90. the treasurer said. There
was noticeable increase monthly
thereafter until May Is, when the
holdings attained maximum of ST.
569,059, 633. 4S. Modification by the
Federal Reserve Board June 8 of the
embargo on the movement of the met
al caused the amount of gold to be re-
duced moderately. The excess of eX-
ports over imports during the year
amounted to S54,211 ,S02.
The general stock of money in the
United States at the close of the fiscal
year was $7,51S. $4,000, an Increase
of $77,716,7O6. The money in circu-
lation increased in volume by $780,
6O2, $40 and amounted to grand total
of $5,766,O29,973.
Extraordinary expenditures made
during the year were the. purchase Of
obligations of foreign governments en-
gagged in war with the enemies of the
United States, amounting to $3,417.-
S5O.265. and purchase of federal farm
loan bonds SOC, 1893, making total
of $3,574, 512,664.
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SCOUTS A FAITH RESTORATIVE.

So common is the sight of the scout
uniform, so far-reaching is the scout
service, and so deep is its impression
on the American Imagination, that it is
hard to think that scouts have not al
ways been.
There are times when all of US des-
pair of the future of the race, so ram
pant seems evil, so triumphant and ar
rogant seems vice and selfishness. We
know nothing that can so swiftly re-
store faith for humanity as the sight
of troop of uniformed scouts.
Give the scout movement its right
full chance and when Americas pres
ent boyhood becomes Americas man.
hood, bond of comradeship, bond
of brotherhood, shall have been forged
which it will be impossible to break.
Then we shall have the brotherhood
of man, then we shall have true Amer
fcanism.
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GERMANS DECLINE
TO SIGN PROTOCOL
Head of Peace Delegation De-
mandS Elimination of Claim
for SCapa Flow Sinkings.
BERLIN INSISTS ON CHANGES.
Object to Clause Permitting Invasion.
Attitude Reflects Sharp Change in
German Sentiment Following
Failure to Ratify Pact.

Emboldened by the attitude
of the United States senate on thu
peace treaty, the Germans have COME
to the point of open defiance of the
allies.
Baron Kurt Won Lersner, head OF
their delegation here, has informed
the peace conference, through Pau
Dutasta, its secretary that Germany
will not sign the protocol concerning
the fullfilment of the armistice clauses
which has been demanded by the al
lies before putting the treaty into eff
feet.
Germany, Lersner said, refuses to
consider indemnities for the sinking
of the German feet at Scapa Flow.
She also demands concessions on
the matter of giving up Germans ac-
cused of crimes in the war, holding
they should face German courts in
Germany.
She rejects the clause giving the al
lied powers the right to take military
action in case she does not fulfil the
terms of the armistice.
Information coming to the American
delegation at the Hotel Crillon from
official sources in Germany shows that
the action of the senate has had a
marked effect not only in political cir
cles of Germany, but also among the
people.
The same arrogant spirit that exist
ed before the war is said to have been
shown lately.
Hope of a split among the allies is
making the Germans bolder They now
openly expect a revision of the peace
treaty and do not hide their belief
that if the allied negotiations continue
as at present an excellent opportunity
will be afforded to slip out of the
pincers.
Unless some drastic action is taken,
such as the blockade advocated by
Marshal Foch, it is felt here that mat
tiers will grow worse and German ar
rogance will increase.
This attitude is taken as confirming
the reports of sharp reaction in Ger
many within the last fortnight.
Trained observers of German develop
ments have expressed to members of
the peace conference the view that a
complete transformation of the situa-
ton in Germany has been brought
about by the failure of the United
States senate to ratify the peace
treaty.
The observers declare that while the
vast majority of the Germans before
the senate's adjournment desired the
peace treaty ratified as soon as posi-
bic they are now supporting the gov
ernment'S attitude in resisting the de-
mands of the allies.
The Germans have apparently for
gotten all about their excuse, given
when their Protocol Commission rush
ed away from Paris as soon as the
American senate adjourned without
ratifying the treaty, to the effect that
they wished to place the protocol pro-
visions before the German national as
sembly. Now they come out fatty and
defy the allies.
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WARTIME LIMIT
ON USE OF COAL
Fuel Administrator Garfield Sug-
gests Immediate Restriction
to Essential Industries
PALMER WARNS THE MINERS.
Production Of Coal Falls to SO Per
Cent, of NormaI-FueI Denied to All
Plants Except Transportation, In
situations, and Retail Business.

Washington. coal situation in
the United States is becoming alarm
ing. Production has fallen off so much
that after the breaking of negotiations
to end the strike 1t was estimated at
between SO and 38 per cent. of normal.
AS a result CT THU situation rigid
conservation measures were urged by
DIR. Henry A. Garfield, the Fuel A l.
ministrator, ', no in public statement
requested the reinstatement of light
less nights and other economies prac-
ticed in war times.
Placing in effect of these measures
Is left largely to the public spirit OF
officials and citizens, but they will be
enforced if voluntary cooperative ac-
ton is not obtained.
The Great White Way in New York
must be dimmed again, advertising
signs cut out and useless lights
banned.
Coal strike conservation of coal is
to go even further than that of war
times. Coal will be distributed by the
Railroad Administration only to the
first five listings on the priority list
of the Fuel Administration. They are:
A-The railroad and transporta-
ton services, including coastwise
steamships.
B-The Army and Navy and
other departments Of the Federal
Government.
C+State, county and municipal
governments and institutions, in
Guiding hospitals, institutions, &c.
D-Public utilities (this in
cludes newsprint paper mills max
ing paper for dailies and all news
papers Office buildings, also un-
der this designation, will get all
the coal necessary for reasonable
use).
E-Retail dealers domestic
consumers are supplied under this
heading).
Industries that are not essential to
the maintenance of life and hum-i
comfort in the emergency will not be
supplied with any coal. Those re-
ceiving coal are warned that onlv
enough will be supplied for essential
uses. Public utilities are asked to
limit coal consumption ard to furnish
neither heat, light nor power for nom.
essential uses. There are no pre-
ferred factories except those certified
on Government work and those fur
nishing necessary creature comforts.
Despite this acute situation and
rigid limiting of fuel supplies the Gov
eminent is determined to fight it out
with the coal miners and with the
operators If necessary. No further
concessions will be made to either side
and no new efforts to settle the strike
will be made. This was made plain
by Attorney-General Palmer in tele-
gram to the Chamber of Commerce of
Moberly, Mo-, In which he said he did
not approve of a suggestion for al :
other conference and that any further
concessions would be an imposition
upon the American public. He urged
the public to stand firm with the
Government.
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Russia a Painful Example.

The Presidents message closed with
a pointed reference to radicalism and
Red doctrines, and referred to RUS
sic today with its blood and terror as
painful object lesson of the power
of minorities." There are those in
this country" said the message, "who
Threaten direct action to force their
will upon majority. 1t makes
little difference what minority 1t H..
whether capital or labor or any other
class, no sort of privilege will ever
re permitted to dominate this coun.
ry."
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LABOR AGAINST WAGE CUT.
Oppose Plan as Means of Reducing
LiVinu Costs.

Syracuse, N. Y.-Labor unions will
not consider a decrease in wages as
means of bringing about reduction
in the high cost of living for a period
of at least five years, according to
James P. Holland, president of the
State Federation of Labor.
Mr. Holland says that under no con-
ditions will workers consent to re-
turn at any time to the pre-war wage
scales.
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PRESIDENTS ANNUAL
MESSAGE To CONGRESS
Urges Placing Budget Under Uni
fled System and Questions
Utility of Further Income
and Profits Taxation.
WILSON WARNS OF UNREST.

The Presidents Recommendations.
A budget system with one single au-
thority responsible for all appropria-
tons and expenditures and without
the approval of which Congress cannot
make appropriations.
Legislation to protect new indus
tries, especially the dyestuff industry.
Legislation to remove the cause of
political restlessness In the body poll
tic and curb radlcalism.
Advancement Of the program to pro-
vide farm lands for soldiers.
Further legislation to bring down
the cost Of living.
Fair play for labor and the estab-
Iishment Of the principles regarding
labor laid down In the covenant In the
League of Nations, In the realization
"that tho seed Of revolution Is repres-
sion"
In his remarks on labor President
Wilson said:
"The establishment of the principles
regarding labor laid down In the cove
nant of the League of Nations offers
us the way to Industrial peace and con-
Citation. No other road lies open to
US. Governments must rec
ognize the right Of men to bargain col
lectiveIy for humane objects.
Labor must no longer be treated as
commodity"
1.-THE only way to keep men from
agitatine against grievances Is to re-
move the grievances"
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To Lower Living Cost.

Several recommendations, some re-
newals of previous ones, were made
by the President, in his message, to
bring down the cost of living. Among
them were extension of the food con-
troll law to peace times for the emerg-
ency; regulations for transportation
Of foods in interstate commerce;
cold storage law modelled after the
law in New Jersey; law requiring
marks to show the length of time
foods are kept in storage and law to
secure competitive selling and pre-
vent uncomfortable profits"
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Washington.-The plan of Repub-
lican senate leaders to declare a state
of peace by concurrent resolution of
Congress struck a snag in the house.
Chairman Porter Of the Foreign At
fairs Committee said his committee
had no intention of reporting out such
a resolution, and it was indicated that
house leaders supported this position.
The stand of the Republican leaders
was accepted as at least blocking the
plan of Republican senators to ha re
the house act first on peace resolu-
tiOn.
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FIVE BILLIONS TO
RUN NATION IN 1921
Largest Sum Ever Sought by
Federal Departments for a
Peace Year.

Washington.-The record $1,000
100000 Congresses of ordinary peace
times faded into the past when Secre-
tary Glass, presenting the annual es-
Inmates, proposed appropriations of
virtually $5,O0O,O0,OOO for conducting
the peace-time activities of the govern
ment during the fiscal year 1921. Ac-
cording to these Igures 1t will cost
more than five times as much to con-
duct the peace time affairs of govern
ment as it did in the year Immediately
preceding the world war.
The greatest individual estimates
for expenditures, of course, go to the
army and the navy. The yearly inter-
est on the war debt, however, is ST.
OF 100000, which sum alone is great
er than all the appropriations for all
purposes whatsoever of any peace
time Congress.
All in all, the estimates justify the
predictions made on the floor of Con-
gress during consideration of the war
tax bills that the present generation
would not see the government conduct
ed at an expense of less than $4,000
100000 a year.
The estimated appropriations for the
principal government departments
were presented as follows:
Legislative Congress-. $9,025, 297.25
Executive (White House
and government de-
partmenO ........... .149, / II, 463. II
Judicial ................ 1884, 10000
Army .................9 S9, SIS. 657 20
Navy ................54 $40, 031, S04.S0
Pensions .215, 03O. 900 90
Public works .......... .273, 921 ,S10.17
} lScellaneoCS ......... S33, III ,63I so
I'sreign intercours e...... II, 243, 250.91
The billion dollar estimate for the
army includes $S5.0OO,OOO for the Ma
tional Guard. The S542,OOO,0OO esti-
mate for the navy includes provision
for the program of increase. The
STE, 100000 public works estimate in
cludes the Panama canal, reclamation
projects, rivers and harbor improve
ment, public buildings and also mill
tary works, arsenals and Notifications
The estimates for miscellaneous ex-
penditures contain some tremendous
sums. For the treasury department
more than $247, 000,000 is asked, which
goes largely to the enforcement of
prohibition and collection of income.
corporation and excess profit taxes
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SEEKS VOLUNTEER MINERS.
After Governors Call 200 Students OF
fered Their Services.

Lincoln, Neb.-With the tempera-
ture as low as Is degrees below zero
and the fuel situation becoming more
critical hourly, Governor Samuel Nc
Kelvie, in an official proclamation,
called upon the citizens of Nebraska
to volunteer to go to the mines to dig
coal. Within an hour atferward more
than 200 students of the State uni
versity had offered their services.
There are 1000 volunteers.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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BERLIN ORDERED SHIPS SUNK.

Statement That Commander Acted on
Own Responsibility Proved Lie.
London-Dramatic disclosures by
the British admiralty indisputably
proves the Berlin governments COM
plicity in the scuttling of the German
warships at Scapa Flow. The admiral
ty nails the lie that Admiral Won Reu-
ter, in command of the warships, act
ed on his own responsibility and with
out official sanction when he sank the
vessels and leave German treaty OBJ
structionists without Les to stand on.
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MINE OFFICIALS FACE CHARGES.

Keep Strike in Force, Thus Violating
Terms of injunction.
Indianapolis. - The United States
government again invoked the powers
of the federal courts in an effort to
end the strike of 100000 bituminous
coal miners of the country
Information charging criminal con-
tempt of court was filed in the United
States District Court here against
eighty-four international and district
officers of the United Mine Workers of
America.
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S. D. REPUBLICANS FOR WOOD.
Governor Coolidge Endorsed for Vice
President.

President.
Pierre, S. D.-The Republican con-
yention by a majority vote indorsed
Major General Leonard Wood as party
candidate for president over Governor
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois. Gov
ernor Coolidge of Massachusetts was
Endorsed for vice-president by the Re-
pubicans,
The Democratic convention unani-
mously Endorsed President Wilson for
a third term if he is candidate.
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General Pershng Goes to Border.
Neutrality-suspicious. John J. Per-
shing, accompanied by staff of ten
officers, left for an inspection tour of
army posts in the south and on the
Mexican border
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SAYS EUROPE MUST HAVE AID.
Hollander Declares International Loan
Is Essential.

London.-"If something is not done
at once to help the distressed coun-
tries of Europe there is great danger
of an upheaval more serious than any
thing hitherto known" In these words
DR.. Treub, ex-minister of finance in
Holland, summed up his Impressions
of the situation on the European con-
tinent. Dr. Treub, who is now in Lon
don, thinks that the immediate neces-
sity is an international loan.
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PRESIDENTS PLEA FOR
LOWERING OF TAXES

!. Congress might well consider :.
!. whether the higher rates of in i
|. come and profits taxes can in i
|. peace times be efficiently produc- i
!. tive of revenue, and whether i
!. they may not, on the contrary, be :!
!. destructive of business activity :!
!. and productive of waste and i
!. inefficiency."