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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
FRENCH WINE
INDUSTRY NOT
MUCH INJURED
Claim Vast Stocks Under
Rheims and Epernay
Almost Intact.

Rheims, Dec. 27.-Labyrinthine
wine cellars beneath the cities Of
Rheims and Epernay are being
rapidly put in order by the big
Champagne firms of the two cities.
These cellars, which would form a
subterranean gallery 60 miles in
length, and hold hundreds of mil
lions Of bottles Of precious vim
tages, suffered little damage dur
ing the war. Losses incurred by
the wine industry will be recouped
in a short time, according to state
ments made to the Associated
Press correspondent.
German soldiers took very little
wine from the cellars when they
swept southwark over this district
in 1914. Four years of lombard
ment destroyed the greater part of
the handsome buildings erected by
the wine companies but the most Of
the damages done to the stocks is
attributed to French and allied SOL
diers.
"Rans0med" Some of It
Fighting men made unofficial
acquisitions termed "ransoms" and
these cost the cellars about 325, 900
bottles, including many reserved
vintages. Frequently irresponsible
soldiers would bore holes in huge
casks of unbottled wine and after
filling a bucket, would leave and
permit the remainder In the cask
to run away and be wasted. 1t is
believed 1,000,0 900 bottles were lost
in this way
Champagne firms, however,
took their losses cheerfully, believ-
ing the allied soldiers were entitled
to the wine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
ATLEAST JANUARY
MILK PRICE WILL
NOT BE RAISED

Chicago. Dec. 27.-The Milk Pro-
ducers' Cooperative Marketing COM
pany has fixed $3.65 per hundred
pounds as the Wholesale price Of
milk during January. This Is the
same price charged in December.
The organization consists Of sew
eral thousand farmers in Illinois,
Indiana. Wisconsin and furnishes
the bulk of the Chicago milk sup
ply. ---
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
WANT NOMINATING
PETITIONS FILED
BY SEN. NEWBERRY

Lansing, Mich, Dec. 27.-Nom-
mating petitions filed for Truman
H. Newberry and James w. Helme
in the senatorial primary Of 1918
have been ordered produced at the
trial of Senator Newberry and 134
others indicted on charge Of violat-
ing the state and federal election
laws. The trial is to begin Jan. q.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
LAKE COUNTYITES
COMBMETOG GUARD
STOCKS OF LIQUOR

Chicago. Dec. 27.-Citizens 0f
Lake county, in which are situated
some of the wealthy suburbs Of
Chicago. today planned organiza-
ton Of a protective association"
to cooperate with the sherift's
forces in stopping series Of bur
glaries Of residences. Stocks Of
liquor and tewelry have been the
chief spoils Of the robbers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
ARM AND HAND IN
ALLEY Is MYSTERY

Pontiac, Mich, Dec. 27.-Local
authorities declared this morning
that virtually no progress had been
made In efforts to solve the mystery
surrounding the discovery yestcr-
day In q downtown alley Of q
human arm and hand, through the
palm Of which had been driven .
small wooden plug.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
REACHED AGE 128,
SERVING FAMILY
SIX GENERATIONS

Parkersburg, W. Va, Dec. 81
William Peyton, negro. one of the
oldest men in the United States,
died yesterday at Little Hooking,
Ohio. near Parkersburg, at the age
of 12S years.
As a slave and as a freedman he
served the Creel family Of Virginia
through six generations, 1t is said.
Peyton was in full possession OF
his faculties until within a few
weeks of his death.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
FRENCH PLANNING
TO WORK MINES IN
THE SARRE BASIN

. Paris, Dec. 27.-A bill providing
for government exploitation of the
coal mines of the Sarre basin was
introduced in the chamber Of dep
uties this morning by Louis Louch-
eur, minister of reconstruction, and
Louis Klotz. minister OF finance.
Under the bill an Office will be Gre
ated to work the mines in the Sarre
basin in competition with private
companies, the profits accruing be-
ing turned over to the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
REV. THOS. LEAKE
IS DEAD AT DIXON

Dixon, ILL.,, Dec. 27.-Rev. Thomas
Leake, retired, one of the oldeet
Methodist clergynen in Illinois.
died here today at the age Of so.
He was a graduate of the Garrett
Biblical institution Of Evanston in
The class Of 1864,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
SOv|ETS make
GAINS ALSO IN
KOLCHAK AREA
Said to Have Set Up Government In
Irkutsk, Wrecking All.
Russia Hopes.

Paris, Dec. N.-Revolutionary
socialists have formed 4 commun-
istlc government in 1rkutsk, 81
IBERIA, where the all-Russian gov
ernment of Admiral Kolchak estab-
lished its headquarters after hav-
ing been driven from Omsk, accord
ing to news received from French
ofhcial headquarters today.
The revolutionists took possess
sion of the Irkutsk station on the
trans-Siberian railway, the reports
state. --
Leaders Absent.
Premier Pepeliseif of the Kol-
chak government is absent from r.
kutsk, being on his. way west to
meet Admiral Kolchak for a con-
ference regarding the formation Of
q new ministry. NJ. Tretickofi, the
minister Of foreign affairs, also left
Irkutsk recently to meet General
Semenoff, the cossack leader in the
Baikal region.
Taking advantage Of the absence
of the principal members of the
government, the socialists, accord
irg to the advices, organized an III
surrection.
VIII Be Little Left.
1t is considered doubtful here
whether Admiral Kolchak will find
anything Of his government when
he finally gets to Irkutsk His pres
ent whereabouts is not definitely
known.
He is reported as having encorn-
tered great difficulties with detach-
ments Of Czecho-Slovak troops
which are enroute to Vladivostok
by the trans-Siberian railway.
Situation is Critical.
London, Dec. 27.-Admiral Kol-
chak, head Of the all-Russian gov
ernment in Siberia, apparently
faces a critical situation, according
to Moscow advices. Bolshevik
forces advancing eastward along
the trans-Siberian railroad from
Omsk. former capital of the all
Russian regime, are said to have
captured Tomsk and Taiga and to
have occupied a number of smaller
towns in that region.
Admiral Kolchak and his cabinet
left Tomsk recently, retiring to the
east, but reports received indicate
retreat Of the all-Russian armies
may be cut off as a result Of the &C.
tion Of social revolutionary ele-
ments which have set up a new
government at Cheremkovo, about
eighty miles northewest of Irkutsk.
Further east another center Of re-
bellion has developed ii the Amur
river valley.
No Agreement With Japan.
Japan and the United States have
reached no new agreement regard
ing the Siberian question, it was
said today at the state departm ,nt.
Negotiations looking to such al
agreement, which were initiated by
Japan after the recent rapid ad-
vance Of the bolsheviki, still are In
progress, officials declared.
Americans Safe.
Advices to the state department
today said the revolutionary So
cialists who started an uprising at
1rkutsk, had taken possession OF
the railroad station across the
river from the city on Christmas
day. Kolchak's forces continue to
hold the city. Only a small craft
controlled by Czech troops, oper.
ates across the river.
Members Of the American Re-!
Cross party in that vicinity were
reported safe and the dispatches
said the representatives of the en-
tente allies stationed at Irkutsk
had not left the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
W|lLDEMAND
ONCE CROWN
PRINCE ALSO
Entente Indicts Frederick
William for Numerous
Criminal Acts.

London, Dec. 27.-Frederlck VIII
liam, the former German crown
prince, will be included in the list
of persons whose surrender for
trial is demanded by the French,
to an unofficial report Of
a recent meeting between British
law officials and Eduard. Ignace,
French under-secretary for mill
ta-y justice.
The ex-crown prince, it is said,
will be charged with criminal Of
fenses, including looting and rob-
berry with violence, committed in
France.
FAN to Agree On Father.
There appears to have been NO
further decision reached at the
conference with regard to the case
of former Emperor William.
A list Of the men whose surren-
der will be demanded has been
completed it was stated, and the
steps to be taken to insure their
surrender have been decided upon.
One or two questions still ou:-
standing will be submitted to Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Clemenceau
in Paris next month.
Discuss Allied Note.
Berlin, Friday, Dec. 26.-The en-
tente's last note, demanding the
signing Of the protocol to the peace
treaty, was discussed by the cabi-
net today.
In official circles, the note. is Is
said, is regarded as further evi-
dence that the supreme council Is
playing politics. Government Off
cials point out what is believed to
be a contradiction in the note
which in its Introductory sentence
refers to the absence of American
ratification and subsequently meE-
tions the possibility that the United
States may be definitely omitted
from the list Of ratifying powers
The Berlin government believes
reference to these conditions SUI
perfluous as the German govern
ment is wholly aware that ratifica-
ton by three powers is all the
sanction needed.
WIN Still Resist.
It Is evident the government is
determined to resist the entente de-
mand for indemnity tonnage for
German warships sunk at Scapa
Flow, as was recently indicated.
The German reply is expected to
suggest that a second protocol def
nitely establishing the tonnage
issues. published simultaneously
with the original protocol.
Want Better Trains.
Paris, Dec. 27.-The supreme
council today received information
as to the results of the first meet
ing between German and allied
military experts regarding a.
rangements for the execution OF
the treaty of Versailles.
On the first exchange Of views
the railroad material offered by
the Germans for the transportation
Of allied troops to districts where
plebiscites are to be held, was con.
sidered insufficient by the allied
representatives.
The council also considered the
reply to the Swiss memorandum
concerning the entry Of Switzer.
land into the league Of nations.
The report on the negotiations
with the Germans over the troor
transportation question, was laid
before the council by General Wei
gand. The report revealed that the
Germans had declared that because
of lack of material it was impos'
sible to supply the six trains dali,
demanded by the allies. They made
an offer Of four trains q day for the
time required.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
EDITOR VAN HAMM DEAD.

Cincinnati, Dec. 27.-Caleb Marsh
Won Hamm, native Cincinaatian.
one Of the best known editors in
the country. died today at Miami,
Fla, according to word received by
relatives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
SCORES PAY
ASRESULTOF
xMAS0RC|ES
Arrests Made and Educa.
tion of Public as to
Poison Is Planned

New York, Dec. 2.-Dlstrict
Attorney Martin Of Bronx
county today began q search
for the men who are alleged to
have sold the "whIsky" made
from wood alcohol, which
transferred to New England,
was responsible for the deaths
a more than two score per.
sons.
Martin Immediately laid aside
all other business to attend to
the new menace.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27

Washington, Dec. 27-Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday, issued by the weather bu-
reau today, are:
Region Of Great Lakes: Unset
tied with local SHOWS and normal
temperature.
Upper Mississippi and lower Mis-.
souri, valleys: Generally fair with
formal temperature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27
The Weather

Unsettled and slightly colder to-
night, probably with light snow.
Sunday generally fair and some
what colder. Lowest temperature
tonight about 20 degrees above
zero.
Highest yesterday, 80; lowest
last night, 81.
Wind velocity, miles per hour.
Precipitation. none.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-27

Chicopee. Mass, Dec. 27.-The
drinking of whisky" with a wood
alcohol base had caused the deaths
Of "a persons in Connecticut val
ley cities today. The list Of victims
mounted during the day with re-
ports from this city. Holyoke,
Springfield. and Hartford. Conn.
Others stricken by the concoc-
hon marketed for Christmas festiv-
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08
BALANCE OF POWER

Our friend Frank 'Simondss tells us
that the League covenant is to be
supplanted in Europe by the idea of
balance of power. Balance of power
was the old way of doing things. The
strong trampled on the weak. Ger
many did that and thought the rest
of the world would stand for it.
No, the balance of power idea is to
be supplanted by world order which
hangs out the notice: ''If you try to
overrun your neighbor, we will stop
you" That is the vital principle of
the League of Nations. That prin-
ciple established will prevent wars.
American arms pledged that in the
war against Germany. 1t was the domi-
mating principle that sent us to war.
II was the thing which made us fight
Germany. 1t was the principle which
carried other nations into the conflict.
Nothing in the world could be more
logical to follow peace than league
of nations to preserve world order
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08

Iways@.the outbreaks always the efoy
of protest against what here and there
white people are doing to negroes,
pla wing up the one-tenth of one per-
cent of trouble and passing up the
ninety-nine and nine teEths of contin-
ued and growing organization on a
better basis for both races in the
necessity of getting along together.
Has there ever been a word in the
publication of that arbitrator to the
best interests of his race, DuBose,
telling negroes and his white readers
that the negro children are educated
in the South in public schools paid
for almost entirely out of the tax
money of white men, that the white
man pays double school tax in Geor-
gia and Alabama. for his own chill
dren and those of the negro family
block away? Not onee-his sole treat
ment is the plant that negro teach
- are retained to teach in negro
schools and white teachers in white
ones. and that local boards OF educa-
ion won't mix them up. And so 1t
/ has been in all negro propaganda for
| the last five or ten years, cSrecially
since Booker r. Washington died and
that calm, strong and unfoolable in
| hnence was removed from watch and
ward over the people he knew and
owed and understood so well. Hate
he white man because he is white;
stir the negro to chafe and fret and
IL. IL nt,1
the whiteness of skin and the farth-
" development and progressions in
civilization of the white men; an all
vancemnnt the fruit Of centuries ,:
steady and sturdy and not to be de-
MED endeavOr in acknowledgment,
while, as one. correspondent pointed
out the other day, the black man liz
ed for uncounted centuries in Africa
on his own resources and never so
much as improved the makeup of an
arrow, coined new word or crept an
inch nearer to a spiritual religion.
The solution is in the hands of mon
like Morton at Tuskegee. They know
tie lot of the negro is steadily better;
they know Southern white people Of
power and influence and wealth are
more and more anxious and able to
better the negro's condition and re-
move him from even sporadic out.
breaks of local trouble. They know,
too, that great and mighty things are
bein gdone in the South along these
lines, that the negros condition was
never so good in every way, but also
never so well based to get rapidly bet
ter
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY

If you are a wise farmer, you will
get your hands on a good supply of
seed rice this fall and make plans to
have fine rice crop next year. The
idea of rice at eighteen cents a pound
when it can be made at a handsome
profit at three cents a pound, forces
US to call attention to it. Make ar
rangements to plant the low lands in
rice next year and come out with a
handsome balance in cash You can
do it. Mark it down in your mind
Rice Is selling at eighteen cents
pound 1t is one of the commonest
foods on earth. DO your best next
year TO glut the market!
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08

Ne matter. who fathers the idea.let-
us have it. The world will be, the
battle-ground of future wars. We will
be in it whether we want to or not.
1t is the wise thing, the only thing
fer national safety and for the pre-
vention of conflicts to bind ourselves
with other great powers never to per-
NIT national injustice to be started
again. The people who would make
trouble, then must know they will
have to defeat the whole world ever
to carry the old idea of might makes
right"
No, the idea of balance of power can
never again prevail among nations in
the old way. A nation, to Win its
point must first be right That is a
guarantee to all peoples in the league
covenant
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08
Every boy who

Every boy who wants to be pre-
pared for the future conflicts of life
ought to be in school this fall If
there is one who believes he will have
no conflicts. let somebody tell him he
will be no man without struggles.
Without mental equipment, he cannot
win. He must stand aside and let the
educated man pass him by. The
school and college call for the boys
who would do something for them.
selves. The years to come will require
trained men even more than the pres
ent, and no man wins now without
his education, unless he is wonderfully
endowed with other energies with
which he can overcome his lack OF
training. Send the boys to school
Let them know what it means to be
trained. Their future.-all the future
of the whole generation, depends on
their training. They are the men
coming to take our places.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08

Reports from Washington in Al.
lanta papers Sunday said that Senator
Hoke Smith would be lined up against
the treaty. for the reservations and all
along the line pitted against the ad
ministratiOn and the ratification. We
had hoped none of this would e, er
show up in Georgia. But at the same
time we almost knew this would be
his course if he took any. There are
some other democratic senators who
have done more for the administra
tion than this. Their day and oppor-
tunity is passing. While thev can,
they ought to be fighting for party
principles. 1t will sound strange in
deed TO hear Hoke Smith and Under.
wood and Champ Clark back home
shooing 'em up for democracy in fu-
ture conflicts. Now is the time. If
ever party conflicts deserved to have
every man fighting, those of today
need fighting men,. The people of
Georgia would adopt the peace treaty
and League of Nations with great ac.
claim Please, won't somebdy tell
Senator Hoke we want him to go in
and fight for it?
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08

Some internal revenue men shot Il
negro in the back and killed him in
moonshine raid near Hawkinsville
the other day OF this negro news
accounts say "he was noted in Haw-
kinsville for the payment of his debts.
he owned his own land and his own
home. and was regarded as a proper
Gus negro" Now the officers are GO
ing TO be required to explain how the
negro was killed and why it was
necessary to kill him.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08
.IAE..NEGRo,S- FAULT.

If the Negro is to get along well
anywhere in this country, he must
learn with the white people to con-
denim present policies of such negro
publications as. The Crisis, the Dubose
New York negro magazine and the
Chicago Defender. the rabid Chicago
paper. II is not wrong for the negro
to have a paper or a magazine with
negro editor. 1t is not wrong for
the negro to learn how to teach his
race by the use of the newspaper and
magazine But it is nothing less than
criminal for such publications to de-
vote their entire space and time to
stirring race prejudices. There is no
time for such trouble making in this
country.
The Macon Telegraph puts it plain
ly and in trUthful language in this
paragraph:
The whole trouble is that for
years these men have been
preaching not an increasing self
respect on the part of the negro
for his own race and himself as
member Of it, but resentment
against the white race because
the white man is white and the
negro is black, and there IS no
real social common ground on
which they can meet with pleas
ure and compatibility to either
race, white or black. DuBose
hates white men because they are
white and he is black Instead of
following in the footsteps OF Book
er Washington and walking along
with Morton in the great and pa
tient and resultful labor of teach
ing the negro that negro can
reach just as relatively high altl-
tudes of character by developing
himself as a negro, accepting his
race and color as his own person
al possession, insisting it be re-
spected as his entirely and ac-
cording to the white man an equal
reserve and right to be white and
stay with the whites, DuBose
leads the bitterness of the hope
less fight against segregation,
jim Crowism and division of the
races. b
Negro publications 60 into the
hands of negro readers who are doing
all they can to better their own con
ditions. Nearly every negro knows
the character of the Crisis and tho
Defender. lIG will tell you flatly that
the doctrine is dangerous. There can
be no harmony where these two pub
lications are read by either writes or
blacks. They must lie changed, or
they must be stopped altogether, else
there is. no peace for the future. This
is plain truth.
The Telegraph goes further into
this vital matter:
Negro publications make no effort
to educate negroes as othe things
being done by whites and negroes to
bring them closer together on the mu-
tual ground long since established
for ninety-nine percent of all inter
racial relations of the Mason and
Dixon Line-always the clashes, al
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08

The British milling industry has
started a campaign of technical edu-
cation to improve the efficiency OF
Brazil's production OF sugar has
reached about 100000 tons a year
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-08
Members Of Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively
sntitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-07-05

Try our banana cream pics. they
are delicious. RACES Sweet shop. Il
cook vantod during haylng scason,
Soc or address Grant Thompson.
Crane. Oregon. Il
The nc'. question TO be answered
is what win become of the whiskey
glasses aud the drinking songs.
Adam George was up To attend the
reunion of the pioneers aud look after
some business affairs.
Iiurrnh for the lates, combInatio is:-
The air and the Atlantic and the air
plane and the sixteen hours and tho
brave iNitishersi
Charles Mosher has returned re-
Gently from Los Angles and is again
az work on the Cecil place over ON
silver Creek.
After 1919 n the wheat price
begins to toboggan down hill will
II take corn with ~ And will pork
hang ON behind?
II women make good elevator opcr-
atorH. railway conductors. munition
workers and farmerettcs. why should
not they make excellent votcrs1 This
view Of the subject iS commended to
the United States senate.
For Salc-The South u OF North I
West y North East y OF South ;
weAt =. and North West u or South .
East >. Section 10. Township 20 ,
Range ~ East.
Address W. =. GILBREATH
922 y. Wiehkah. Aberdeen, wash. ,
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-07-05
Who Should Wear the ran,,g

Pants were made FOR men. not for
women. Women were made for men.
not for pants. When man pants
alter woman and woman pants
after man that's pair OF pants
Pants are like molasses. thcy are
thicker IN winter than In summer.
There has been. much discussion y
20 whether pants Is singular or plural.
n seems that whom men wear pants
Il is plural and Whom they don't a.
singular II YOU want 20 mako yuur
rants last make the coat first Pix
change.