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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

Hard Pressed and Out-Numbered, American,
Russian and British Column Withdraws to
Village of Srdmakrenga - Reds Used
Gas and Shells ofxGerman Type.

M Archange, Jan. 3l(A FJSTAnoher violent attack by
the bolshevi the American, and British position
Tarescvo compelled the hardpesM and ounumbered little
allied column in this sector to- ~ yesterday approximately
forty miles, Its new posio tile village of Srdmak
The boshevk attack REF ed a6mbardment in which gas,
shrapne and expGve shells used.
the first time that nes had been employed this
northern Russian warfare EsHx
The shells were of German Npe.
has been learned t early Inv january in with
the general plan to max bolshevk formidable
by early spring. genera hools werGsopened Moscow.
The bohevk whose force$1n river
Dvna to the Vologda railroad are number
$4,000, brou~h up still artillery Yesterday heavily
shellng the American position the vaga
the position the Dvna Tugas The other sectors
paratvely quiet.
No Agreement Possble.
Vladyostok, Jan. 2Lieut Gem Horvath o-drector of
the Siberian railway supporer Omsk govern
ment in discussing today the allied proposal conference
between Russian factions the Primers Islands, declared he
did not believe that possible
be arranged between the factions which could
bolsheviki would violate 1t. EM
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

Paris. Friday, Jan. 31.-The first
American officers and soldiers who
are to get a chance to see Paris on
three-day leave of absence before
sailing homeward. in accordance with
an order issued by general headquar-
ters Jan. Is, are arriving in the city.
eFor the immediate future Paris will
entertain $500 soldiers and 1000 off,
GERS at a time, the enlisted men ar
irving and departing at the rate of
$500 daily. Within a short time new
hotels will be opened and accommo-
dations will be arranged in hotels,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
UNCLE SAM ISSUES OLD
g. FASHIONED ALMANAC

Washington, Feb. 1.--If you
must have an almanac, get I'm
Gle Sans. Acting apparently
upon the theory that house,
hold regard for an almanac Is
still as keen as in the days
when other publications were
few. and with the view of liv-
ing facts rather than adver-
tising, the United States. pub
lie health service has compiled
one that even looks the part,
except that there is no hole in
the corner for a pink string by
which 1t may be hung on the
wall. looking monthly.
calendars. one to a page, in
stead of telling one to take DIR.
Pll's powders, abound in such
hints as Does your cold hang
on? Have your lungs exam
ined."
Sunrise and sunset figures
are accompanied with such ad-
vice as Buy thrift stamps"
Public health is purchaseable.
why not invest?" milk is ma
ture's food"
"17-Monday. Retirement of
Germans to Hindenburg line.
1917"
Real health hints and advice
from the health service fill the
pamphlet ,s5k. y h
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
FLEMING INDORSED
Local Journeymen Plumbers and
Steam Filters Take Action.

The journeymen plumbers and
steam filters have gone on record
as endorsing the administration of
City Judge Martin A. Fleming. The
meeting of the association was held
Friday night and the following reso-
luton passed:
Resolved. That journeyman plumb
ers and steamfitters' local 43 go on
record as indorsing Brother Martin 4.
Fleming for reelection as city judge
of Chattanooga, as we know that his
affiliations with us as union men and
his dealings with all union men have
always been fair and in the open. We
unanimously ask that all union men
join US in the enthusiastic support of
Brother Fleming for reelection. Re-
solved further. that copy of this
resolution be sent to the Chattanooga
Times Chattanooga News, the Labor
World of Chattanooga. and spread on
the records of this local
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
4S-HOUR WEEK
BEGINS MONDAY
#s
100000 Men and Women.
Textile Workers to Follow Z
New York Orders. HI
nationwide WAL QIIIa
NATIONWIDE WALK OUT.
American Woolen Company
Only Big Mill Agreeing W
Shorter Hours. 3

Nauy yorlr Fab Mo apraau1H1I&
hos yat been reachad hetweep ths
nil, owners of the co,ntrv al = whoIA
80 ao. .x 49,. u 4
ana tne 'oV'ooo members - 'ue -
tile workers union OF AMERICA x~~
garding the announcement Of ~
oy,,,,ova. +bat hav,v,nv Nrrs ~
-, .s.-.---..- = " 11 II
.hus vi WIZ wy ~ - - ~ " ~ IN NJ
weekly, fnstead Of nfty-1our. yeets
dent sJohn. coldet# 81 ~ S /
Esrks Z ~ \ Il
"a. s.ss 5.|!Z -! .. "a zfs n 5.s IN W
N *- - s31 W "a
" - neret t1ae tLo $e4s4lN
Of fhS zUnited states WillSha a ~ &
IL !, ~ tr. u, +. ". u II, " VI "
~. IA n. 4 " 7'' ~ "A <1s<
recoshiSe tne 6orkerA 0et1 'L
The New York Bections which ofz1&
hracaa r,atarscr Tnrr rsl.na 4s1.xa
"a z q
other nearby points, Where petW
$50 and 400 mills operate, about lI05t !
OOO men and women will he out NJ
=. a.,
"orh next week IL lhe WORKING houL
are not decreased. The executive
council today In considering plans of
ea,.,r 49, ,eo..,,. a,
he"''"s 'no hi"iiuiao'ureiS IN cseo
the demands are not granted as well
as methods of proyiding relief Ia the
strikers.
To Eorc. th. I..u.
TeIagrams waro received hv r,r..,s
dont CoIdan toaa,, 60, 49, .rs~s,
,,iIis ,.s ,,a.,o,,s 10 10 .ha n. .
o AZ 70 "a ,ne Sounsy
" lie Shoi.eI nouis. xuS
Oh the american Wooien compata6 4
seem determined 10 iorce the issu
Ihese mills are members or the mr.
tonal cotton manufacturers as
ISOLATION and they are acting as a
body.
Now 50 to 60-Hour Week.
Boston, Feb. 1.-Reports today
from various mill centers indicate
that between 100000 and 100000 men
and women workers in the textile In
dustry of the United States on Mon
day will walk into their places of
employment and announce that be-
ginning on that date they will work
only forty eight hours a week, in re-
sponse to orders sent out by head
quarters of the United Textile Work
ers of America in New York.
At present their hours range from
fifty-four to sixty a week Many
thousands Of workers engaged in
trades adjacent to the textile indus
try would also be thrown out of work
by the walkout.
A general strike of Lawrence tex
tile workers, to commence next Mon
day. was called at a meeting of the
general committee of workers. The
offer of the state board of arbitra-
ton to act as arbitrator was rejected.
The committee will, however, con-
slider the state hoard as mediator
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

The American evacuation of Tare-
scvo came only after week of fight
ing in this sector in which the boil
sheviki kept persistently on the Of
fensive after suffering severe losses
in their first attack, which was re-
pulsed.
Although attacked at Taresevo
from three sides and greatly out
numbered the defenders held on there
until yesterday when a flanking coll
umn Of the enemy with guns pro-
ceded northwestward over a winter
road and began an attack on the viii
lage of Cora, which Is on the line
of communication northward be-
tween Taresevo sand Srdmakrenga.
The little detachment at Cora held
out until the American Taresevo
force completed its evacuation. The
two forces then Joined, retreating
northward In good order.
v The weather f0r the two days was
unusually warm with slight SLOW
falls: 1ay. The winter trails are
nj N 4 n Ia .no* tion for sleighssapd
the relief from the extreme cofdTis
facilitating the movement of troops.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK
Serious Situation Results From Coal
Shortage and Strife,

Berlin. Feb. IL. N. S. and Lon
don Daily Express Cable.)-Over
100000 persons are out or work as
result of the coal shortage and
strikes. The coal famine here has
become critical. 1t Is feared that
many more factories will have to
close, making additional thousands
idle. There is plenty of work in
the country and the government is
trying to force idle workmen to leave
the cities and go into the provinces.
The country is in a constant state
of agitation as a result OF the Sparta
Gus riots and strikes. At Branden-
burg the soldiers council has adopted
resolution protesting against the
reformation of the army and demand
ing the dismissal Of Ministers
Scheidemann and Noske.
The Prursian minister of the in
.terior. who has just inspected the
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
EVERY YANKEE WILL GET THREE DAYS.
SIGHTSEEING IN PARIS BEFORE SAILING

canteens and restaurants for ham
ding 1900 visitors at one time. The
Y. NJ. C. A. and the American Red
Cross each have been handling 5000
visitors weekly and their accommo-
dations will have TO be doubled.
Breakfast will be supplied at the
seven American Red Cross canteens
in the city at 10 and Is cents and
sleeping accommodations in no case
will exceed three francs. The SOL
diers therefore will be blissfully OBJ
livious to the exorbitant cost of liv-
ing obtaining here at present
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
COST ONE MILLION
Farragut Hotel at Knoxville Thrown
Open.


Knoxville. Feb. 1.--(Special.) )-Knox-
ville's new $1,000. 900 hotel was formal
ly opened today. 1t is the Hotel Far
ragut, named in honor of Admiral
David Glasgow Farragut who was born
at loves Ferry. thirteen miles south
west OF Knoxville. July 5. 1901. The
structure is nine stories. 1t Is one of
the most beautiful and most modernly
equipped in the south. The building
was erected on the site of the Hotel
Imperial destroyed by fire.
The first meeting in the Hotel Far
ragut was Saturday morning at IL
O'Clock when the members of the Sec
ond district republican congressional
committee met to discuss plans for the
1920 presidential campaign. Members
of the committee are: Charles l..
Larew. Knox county; Thomas N.
Brown. Blount county; H. c. Slower,
Anderson county; T. F. Ingram.
Roane county; Paris Walker. Union;
Joseph Huggns, Jefferson; James r.
Smith. Hamblen, and Mr. McCfintock.
Campbell.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
COMPROMISE
NOT YET ! | KNOWN
No Official Statement Made
Of Plan for Government
Of Colonies.
NEAR EAST TERRITORIES,
However, Understood to Be
cluded as Well as Ger
.rss man Areas. MI


Paris, Jan. 31.-Associated Press.)
IN, officiaI statement of the
details Of the "compromise plan" fol
the government of the former Ger
man colonies by mandatories has
been made, butt it is understood, that
the use OF the word colonies" in ofi-
cial statements does not limit the
scope Of the plan tuformer German
territory. 1t may also apply to such
territories as Mesopotanlia, Armenia
and Palestine. Chinese and Japanese
claims TO Tsing Tao, it Is understood,
'will be left for adjustment to the
league OF nations and It is also be-
Ifeyed that the same order will pre-
YAH as 10 Dalmatia and Albania, over
!. sssIEls MI = aisly sHa ksIss lsyia arg n 7
The present program contemplates
the haktening of the league of ma
tions plan by the committee having
it in charge so that report may be
made before President Wilson's de-
parture. The secretariat has changed
the name of this body to 'the COM
mission on the society of nations" in
difference to the wishes of number
of delegates who regarded the use of
the word league" as indicating an
alliance for offensive and defensive
purposes.
4 Take Up Balkan Question.
Paris, Feb. Id. N. S.)-In-
stead Of another pIenary session
of the peace conference being
hold today, the supreme inter
allied council met again at the
foreign office to consider Balkan
problems.
The controversy between Ser
hia and Rumania has been deeply
occupying the attention of the
representatives Of the "big five"
who realize fully the dangers at
; tendino the Balkan territorial
disputes. This controversy is
understood to hinge upon coun-
ter claims made to territory that
formerly belonged to Austria
Hungary.
President Wilson and the premiers
and the foreign secretaries of the
allied and associated powers are
treating the Balkan problem eau
tiously, not alone because of the ma
tional iealousies in the Balkans, but
because of the large number of hu-
man beings involved in the final set
tlemcnt. The population of Banat.
which is subject to rival claims, is
upwards of 100000 persons.
Next Week a Busy One.
Next week will be a busy one for
the committees dealing with the
league of nations. international labor
Iegisla tion. financial problems, and
war responsibility.
1t is understood that the colonial
question upon which It has been
agreed to accept President Wilson's
principle of Observation-Disclosures was
not discussed in detail yesterday. and
it was not known IL it would be
treated today.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
SUBMIT PLAN TO GERMANY
For Peace at Same Time ArmlstIee is
Renewed.


Paris. Feb. la. PD-Preliminary
peace terms will probably be presented
80 Germany along with conditions for
a further renewal of the armistice this
north, il present plans are not de-
ranged. Recognizing the need for a
return of the world to a normal peace
time basis, the nations associated
against Germany are considering max
ing a start toward the actual peace
treaty by inserting some OF the ele-
mentary terms into the conditions
which will be submitted to the Ger
man armistice commission on Feb. IL.
This decision is reflected also in the
examination now under way to deter
mine what American troops II will be
necessary to leave in occupied terri
tory. The plan is TO get them all out
as soon as it seems advisable, and II
has been thought that a start might
well be made in laying down the terps
of peace. Some officials who have been
closely studying the situation. believe
that the armistice itself might well he
developed into a peace treaty. just as
they think a society of nations might
he developed out of the deliberations
of the peace conference.
Pres dent Wilson is known TO have
examined this view and contemplated
its possibilities.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
WANT INTERVENTION.
Russian Factions Oppose Any
DEALINGS With Bolshevists,

Archangel, Jan. 30.-(A.P.-
Nicholas Tschaikovsky. presi-
dent Of the provisional govern
ment of North Russia who de-
clared upon arrival at Muir
mansk that this government
would find it impossible to
deal with the bolshevists, has
been given unanimous support
by the press here. f -en the
most radical members Of the
Archangel government at one
time opposed allied interven-
tion, but now express them
selves as being against any
dealings with the bolshevists
and urge instead that more al
lied troops be sent here at once.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
Fair, Says Billy 'POssum.

While Chatta-
nooga hens and
haws about the
annexation and
knockers try to
find the flaws and
drown the towns
elation, a house
burns down upon
the hill q didn't
have protection).
This silent argu-
ment should kill
and bury all OBJ
lection.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
Or. MYERS HOME BURNS

Fire destroyed the home of
DR.. c. II. Myers on Missionary
ridge Saturday afternoon about
1. The property was formerly
the woodard home and was
bought only a short time ago
from r. P. woodard. The house
was a two-story frame. II was
totally destroyed. The loss was
estimated at $4,000.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

western provinces, is making further
efforts to resist the Poles and rhe
bolsheviki. There are signs of Ger
man activity from the north of Libau
to Kovno.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
CASUALTIES OF WRECK

Brussels, Feb. 1.-One American
and three French soldiers and sixty
German prisoners were killed when
an ammunition train blew up between
Longwy and Aubange today.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
ARmIsTIcE IN sILEsIA
Proposed by Allied Commission

Proposed by Allied Commission Z.
Poles and Czeehs.
D Paris. Jan. 31.-Members of the al
ted commission which will go to
teschen TO investigate difficulties
here between the Czechs and Poles
kve proposed that an armistice be
knclu,ied in Silesia pending the de-
Ision of the peace conference. The
kmmittee win start for Warsaw late
txt week and il Is not expected that
= viii be able to reach that city be-
ore The middle of February.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
PERSHING FLATLY DENIES u.
SOLDIERS STARTED CRIME WAVE

Washington Pershing official cabegram
and committed
soldiers
soldiers
he a reutation
strongly before the American public
offered
police organization excellent disorders
Gen. Pershng fatty denies
responsible for a crime n
information of
fore the American people," the
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

The weather? Fair, with not much
change in temperature tonight. Sun
day, probably rain and warmer.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01
ALLIES RETIRE FOR TY lies BEFORE RUSSIAN REDS
0ffieiAl Stltsnen Shows Aerican Casually Per Cent
Ccpplsts 10 Date- Sensational Reports * EasE
itiss II Thirty-Fifth Not Borne Out ~ EAs6 In
Sevsn Oder Divisions Suffer Ahssss A ksN N

Washington Feb. 1-An official tabuaton of cssuass M
divisions fOr the Amcrcan expedtionary forces 95 t hi
complete to date made public odayby the department
TAe ~ for all exclusive Of the regiments
rin3s 4H thA Second diyisioIl 1sSs
sxS 4Hed1f sWoAnds4--ll 1896 IA M @sa 2sT SSS
f Matihg ,in AcioRz-I4 4,649 sA
M G( ia otal 81 Major Casualties rs 1902. ~
the combat dfysonsf southern
hc: ninth division, whicE includes Virginia troops
Tsxiett Tennessee North and South Carolina troops
which includes Virginia troops Eighty
Secon Alabama and Florida trocp 1899; Ninety
Second. and Third
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-01

The purchasing element Of IL,
community reads The News. N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
France, the True Pacihst

Lloyd George, in his statement to the
Petit Parisien, denying that Great Brit
ain would leave France naked in the
presence of an enemy which he has seen
scourge her twice, INDUCES in no round
about discourse. The words are simple
and straightforward.
France is to have security--not merely
Tor limited period, but for ar-stretch-
ing future. The British came once.
They are ready to come again The beast
has been mastered, but if he arrives
again France and Great Britain will be
united in brotherhood.
The promise will be rcassuring to
sorcly troubled France. Doubtless she
would like similar declarations from
other lips. But the French are logical as
well as emotional. They submit that they
cannot be expected to be wholly at ease.
even though they know good friends will
ultimately save them from extinction.
They look at their devastated prov
inccs; they think Of their 1900 900
slaughtered soldiers; they recall how it
took more than three years TO force the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

professors and book writer's were the
only men with "vision." The bibulous
sailor in port is thrifty person COM
pared with the Washington scatterers.
But even when allowance is made for
exceptional extravaganza and incompe
tence, it would seem as if the inherent
Weaknesses in government operation of
complicated business machines were es-
tablished-that a goose which laid golden
eggs is slaughtered when hope of selfish
profit is no longer a spur to personal in
itiative and when a swivel chair occu-
pant has only an art interest in the sue
cess of enterprises with whose RESPONSE
bilities he is charged.
1t is time to give sober attention to the
railway problem. If sober attention is
given rejection of large number of
half-baked compromises is possible
plans which hobble private management
by taking away the attributes of private
ownership, while pretending to reestab-
fish it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
In Medieval New JERSEY

Aeroplanes may buzz overhead and
women may sit on political Steering
committees" and be made eligible to hold
Office under the solemn covenant of the
society Of nations. But every now and
then we wake up to the fact that we are
living in a world which still hanks back
to the foibles and superstitons of media-
valism.
A woman resident of the rural section
of neighboring commonwealth, often
held up to admiration for the cclerlty
and generally emancipated spirit of it's
methods of justice, has just been in
dicted as common scold.' And this
indictment has been upheld by the
majesty of a county court. The judges
decision is said to have been based on
ruling by the New Jersey Court of Err
rors and Appeals sustaining a similar
indictment found in 1890.
This prior offender was also woman.
What is it that inevitably associates this
ancient misdemeanor with purely femi-
nine loquacity? Every witch who ever
rode broomstick in the chldrens story
books wore skirts and a Tapping head
dress. Every malefactor ever pictured
as decorating the seat of ducking stool
was a woman.
Was there ever, under man-made law,
man witch or man common scold"?
The law is laggard. In these enlght-
ened days the provision under which in
our time two New Jersey citizenesses
have been put in peril of the duckjng
stool can be vindicated only by the in
dictment of some loose-tongued citizen
maledicting in basso profundo. At
least, indictments should be brought in
pairs.
The decision sustaining the common
scold" Indictment against Dame Fuller,
of Wyoming, N. j., was made on April 2
1t came a day too late And if the duck
ing stool is to be again rugged up, the
ceremony ought to take place the next
Jersey wash day." that bucolic sum-
mer festival, now largely Pigment of
the imagination, in which the Jerseyites
Of the back counties make their annual
acquaintance with the salt sea waves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Gee-Up Oar, Mules

tFroD Contemporary Verso
LIE STOOD up in our khaki with the
4 poise
Of perfect sodiership beneath the praise
Of the French officer We caught the words,
"Conspicuous courage" bringing wound
ed in"
And decorated with the cross of war"
Black-faccd? Yes, just niger. Nine
months since
He drove span of bony cotton mules,
And never had been out of Jasper County
In Georgia, U. S. A
They drafted him,
Shipped him to barracks, broke him into
drill;
1t was a changelings life. l saw the lad
After his first three days in environments;
He had just finished polishing his teeth
Novel achievement, and he swung the
With beat ecstatic, chanting ioyously:
"Lordy, lordy, got a toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got a 4oothbresh,
And I'll go to heaven on a-high,'
Perhaps he sings now of the service medal.
Or Of some other meagre badge or symbol
Out of that rich and SCATTERING experience
Hurled round his simple soul. With hasty
hand
Life sweeps loaded vvifyng brush
Over his old dull past.
And yet, | like
To think he will come back to Jasper
County;
picture him in patched and faded denims;
Over the wagon wheel he mounts the seat.
Evens the lines so the lead team won't jerk,
Then all together the four nervous mules
Will straghten tugs dig in their toes and
pull.
She shakes, she creaks she rolls,
"Gee-up dar, mules."
General Foch is fine old French.
He puts us niggers in a front line trench;
The barb-wire dossn, and the barrage be-
Boche see a niger, and the Boche he run,
po' mourner,
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you free,
ooh, hitched up the mules, and the mules
worked fine;
| hitched 'em to that Hinnenburg line,
l drawed her back till snagged her on the
Rhine,
An the boss come along, and he give me
my time.
0 po' mourneri
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you freel
Gwan-n, mules Cee-up dar, mules"
EDWIN FORD PIPER.