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New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

the aid Of France in the event of
attack. Most of the leading news
papers have not discussed the ques-
tion or have refused to commit them
selves. Exceptions are The New
York Tribune, which strongly ap-
proved the proposal, and "The New
York Sum-" which, after giving Sem
ator Knox the credit for the project,
said:
There could be no more impressive
admissions of the practical futility of
the covenant as safeguard of peace
than this announcement of a forced
return to the practical Knox pro-
posal, ignored and suppressed in a
Democratic Congress by the Admins
tration's legislative agents five months
ago. Derisible, if not pathetic, is the
lingering attempt to connect the nor
NAL engagement with the original
Wilsonian idea by making the treaty
obligations nominally subject to the
approval of the council of the league
of nations"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
The Formula Of Compromise

"The honest pleasure with which lib
erals everywhere greeted the stand of
President Wilson in the matter of FL
ume must be tempered by more than
one consideration. 1t is only too easy,
as Mr.. Wilson himself has remarked in
another connection, to become so en-
crossed by the sdeshows that one
misses the circus. The diplomatic skir-
msh over Fiume raised much noise
and dust-enough, it would seem, to
blind the people of the world to the
fact that whole battle was being lost
on another front. Fiume, specifically
granted to Croatia by the terms of the
Treaty of London, will now, following
the discovery Of Il new formula Of
compromise to satisfy Italian aspira-
tions, be reserved to the Jugo- Slavs
under temporary arrangement. SO
much for President Wilson's courage
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Paris

voys at Versailles on Wednes-
day, the anniversary Of the
sinking of the Lusitania.
A summary of the $4,000 word
document revealed few major points
not already made public, but many
smaller requirements intensifying
the harshness of the terms and max
ing it clear that German military
power was to be utterly broken.
On the same day the Committee
on Public Information officially con-
firmed the much denied report of
projected alliance in aid of France.
The President has pledged himself
to propose to the Senate an engage
nent, subject to the approval of the
league of nations, to "come imme-
diately to the assistance of France
in case of unprovoked attack by
Germany"
An unofficial dispatch added the
report that Italy was to administer
Fiume as mandatory of the league
until 1923, when the city would come
under Italian sovereignty. In the
meantime a harbor for -Slavia
would be built at port a few miles
down the coast.
President Wilson cabled call for
special session of the American
Congress for Monday, May 19.
Bavaria
The Ebert forces captured Mu-
Mich on Sunday, defeating the Rec
army and overthrowing the Com
mune.
Hungary
The Allied forces, composed Of
Rumanian, Czech and Serbian
troops, have apparently surrounded
Budapest.
Russia
More fighting unfavorable to tn
Bolshevik forces has been reported
The Finnish army is advancing O.
Petrograd, which it was falsely re
ported to have occupied.
Fighting Else,Ohere in Europe
A Soviet uprising was reported a
Sofia. Bloody fighting took plac
with the Bulgarian soldiers.
The Jugo-Slavs routed Austrian
troops in the Corinthia Gan Austrian
duchy, east Of the Tyrol).
Mexico and Central america
The capture Of Parral, Mexico
by Villa was announced.
The forces of Costa Rica exile
met and defeated General Tinoco'
government troops near the south
eastern shore of Lake Nicaragua
A crucial battle was thought to b
near, which might result in the re
turn of the Gonzalez government.
United States
J Postmaster General Burleson re
turned the cable systems, taken owe
on November 16 last, to thei
owners
The War Department announce
that 100000 soldiers were return
ing monthly from France and tha
the army would be home by SEP
tember L. Secretary Baker returne
from Europe, announcing that tn
millionth soldier left France fo
home this week
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
The Germans Come Again to Versatile
Euents of the Week

Unemployment showed a slight
Improvement for the week ended
April 26, it was announced by the
Federal Employment Service.
AS an echo of May Day riots,
"The New York Calf filed a protest
at Washington which led the War
and Treasury departments to order
inquiries into the attacks by uni
formed men upon 1.-The Calf Office
Vigilantes took two strike leaders
of Lawrence, Mass, from their beds
and ran them out of town, beating
them severely. The New York Boil
shevist inquiry began in New York
City. Governor Smith signed the
anti-Red flag bill. Governor Sproul
of Pennsylvania vetoed bill pro-
hibiting the teaching of German in
public and normal schools. The
l. w. W. convention in Chicago was
halted by fear of a raid. Canada
prohibited the immigration of Men
nonites and other pacifist sects.'
The child labor section of the war
revenue bill, placing prohibitive
tax on products of child labor en-
tering interstate commerce, was
held unconstitutional by Federal
Judge James E. Boyd, of North
Carolina, the same judge who held
the original child labor act invalid
The National Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association, in annual conven-
ton at Atlantic City, cabled Presi-
dent Wilson petitioning him to re-
call war prohibition before July 1.
A report that the President had
held out some hope to Mr.. Gompers
that prohibition would be postponed
was denied.
The National Conference on
Lynching at Carnegie Hall passed
resolutions asking Congress for an
investigation and for law making
lynching Federal offence.
Baltimore elected a Republican
Mayor for the third time since the
Civil War.
The boom of General Wood for
the Republican nomination for the
Presidency in 1920 was formally
launched by Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire.
The railroads showed a deficit of
1892, 100000 for the first three
months Of 1919, Director Hines an
nounced.
Local
Governor Smith appointed Lewis
Nixon Public Service Commissioner
under the new law creating single
headed regulatory commission.
Mayor Hylan vetoed the equal pay
bill for elementary school teachers.
The first Sunday of professional
baseball drew $1,000 to the Polo
Grounds and $4,000 to Brooklyn.
Monday was the hottest May 5
on record. The temperature reached
Sc degrees, 6 degrees above the pre-
vious high record for the day.
Died
Asher C. Kinds, ffty-six years;
clerk to the Speaker of the House
| of Representative for many years,
parliamentary authority of the
+ House, later Representative; at
Portland, Me.
| L. Frank Baum, fifty three; au-
: thor Of ''The Wizard of Or" and
other children's books; at Los An
geles, Cal.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

lured back by what appears to be a
typlcally Wllsonlan compromise. Fiume,
II press reports are correct, is to be
autonomous for two or three wears
and then go to the Italians, another
port being perhaps built on the Dal-
matian coast for the Jugo Slavs Thus
does Mr. Wilson turn another com
plete somersault, for only a few days
age (April 29) he wrote that there
would be no justification, in my judg-
ment, in including Fiume, or any other
part of the coast line to the south
of Fiume, within the boundaries of
the Italian Kingdom Now, it seems,
these words should read NO justi-
fication, in my Judgment, for a period
OF two years, in including Fiume with
in the boundaries of the Italian King
DOM
by the time this issue of The Ma
ton is printed, the peace conference
will be practically over and the treaty
which the Germans will now proba-
bly, sign-will be spread before the
world. Whether the good in the treaty
outweighs the evil remains to be seen,
but history must record that more
despotically undemocratic treaty was
never written and that the conference
ends with the delegates, more than
ever pitiful puppets, meekly assent
ing while the Big Three throw all
principles and peace points to the
winds in a mad scramble to end up
the business somehow and get the
thing over with. A treaty has been
achieved, but the gods must none the
less weep when they consider how
the opportunity really to reorganize
the world on a sound humane, gener-
Gus, democratic and Christian basis
has been flung away
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
~%HE first reactions to the
peace treaty may he summed
up as follows:

peace treaty MAY he ouHilieu
4 up as follows:
Germany: Bitter and an
orv, rith call for revenge.
France. Disappointed, but ready
to make the best of 1t.
England: Satisfied, except as to
eogueness Of imden'nities.
America: Enthusiastic approval,
ercept for radicals and German
language press.
Typical Of German opinion is the
declaration of DR.. Theodor Wolff in
the Berlin "Tageblatt," that the
treaty "does not show a trace of
craftsmanship or of President Will
sons principles, but is a brutal,
thoughtless product of thought
less, intoxicated brutality.' DR..
Wolff added that the occupation of
the left bank of the Rhine for ff-
teen years would "within a few
years create imperialism and call
for revenge in Germany"
A correspondent of "The New
York World" cables this description
of popular opinion in Berlin:
thinking Germany is unalter-
ab onvnced that France has tri-
ungAed over President Wilson and
that the peace terms violate the let
ter and spirit of the Wilsonian prin-
cples. The thoughtful are equally
convinced that Germany, temporarily
impotent. can be forced to submit to
what is thus characterized as
'gewaltfrieden,' but that such peace
viii not be permanent, that it is a
mere makcshift and that its terms
are impossible of fulflment and never
can be carried out in full.
The tremendous body of public
opinion fervently believes that this
peace makes another and more ter
rible war inevitable. Not only the
miitarists, Junkers and former Pan
Germans, but the clericals and even
the Democrats see the peace treaty
giving birth to the revanche idea in
Germany, with new and greater 1r
redentas as a congenital menace to
the peace of the world
The defiant conduct and speech of
Count Won Brockdorf- -Rantzau at
the peace conference is apparently
in line with home sentiment in Ger
many. The peace treaty will be
signed, all reports indicate, but only
as a dictated peace.
4 Harsh Treaty
In this country all the comment
recognizes the extreme severity of
the peace terms, but upholds them
as just and righteous Typical of
the almost universal view is "The
Richmond Times-Dispatch":
Under the treaty of peace Germany
is stripped to its criminal hide. 1t is
rot ruined or swept off the map. 1t is
left sufficient resources to work out its
own salvation and pay its debts, but
tor generations TO come it will bear q
crushing burden as a reminder of those
bloody years it forced on the world
1t is harsh treaty, it could not be
otherwise and be just, but it is not SO
harsh as the merciless one Germany
was prepared to impose on its enemies
lad not its sword been sheathed in
defeat, dishonor and disgrace, and Ger
many will sign. 1t will whine and
plead, but sign it must"
Only a few suggestions that the
terms may be too harsh have ap-
reared. "The New York Sun
tentatively raises a query as to the
Tropriety Of furnishing unborn Ger
rans:
Admitting that no punishment car
BE- overpunishment for the criminals
guilty Of the greatest crime in the
worlds experience, and that the limo
cen. in Germany must inevitably suf
fer Just as the innocent elsewhere have
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Turning ON the President
Holy's Victory and the LyncIing Of China

~ ADICAL opinion of the coun-
TX try has grown moreand more
IL " critical of President Wilson
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

bond issue will come solely from tax
es on the horse power of automo-
bIles, Senator Cameron argues that
it is useless and costly to build roads
unless yon build them to stick, or
rather last Demonstration has
shown that concrete surfaced roads
outlast all other kinds. In addition
to the State good roads plans, nearly
every county has road problem OF
its own. Maury and Marion coun-
ties have bills somewhat similar in
which they so on the principle chat
all that use roads rlust pay towards
their maintenance, wagons as well al
autos With SO much work and
planning and Gov. Roberts now
chairman OF the Tennessee stats
Highway Commission, it looks like
Tennessee il at last on the road to
good roads Nashville Evening A.
merlcan, Monday.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
GOODROADSFORi
STATE TO COME
BEFORE SOLONS

Just as soon as the Legislature en-
acts essential taxation and education
al laws, the subject of good roads
will be taken up, and every effort
made to start road building in the
State. However, bills looking to
general road construction in Tennes-
see will be introduced, probably this
week, and the public allowed to be
come familiar with their provisions
Senator Cameron, of Marion, is
one of the strongest advocates OF
good roads in the Asse mbly, and he
is very much In favor of the plan to
connect each county seat.
Chattanooga highway enthusiasts
will be here this week with a bill
providing $50, 100000 bond Issue,
by the State, with which to connect
county seats with hard surfaced
roads, concrete or other hard mater
lal. The tax To care for the big
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Soy Bean Crop important.

The soy bean was introduced into
the United States as early as 1904, but
1t Is only during the last decade that 1t
has become q crop Of much impor-
lance. At the present time it is most
largely grown for forage. In many
sections, especially southwark and in
some parts Of the corn belt, a very
profitable industry has developed from
the growing of seed. During the past
few years the acreage has increased
to very considerable extent. The
large yield Of seed, the excellent quail
ity Of forage, the ease of growing and
harvesting the crop, its freedom from
insect enemies and plant diseases, and
the possibilities of the seed for the pro-
duction Of oil and meal and as food
all tend to give this crop high po-
tential importance and assure its
greater agricultural development in
America.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
COULD HARDLY
STAND ALONE
Terrible Suffering From Headache,
Sideache, Backache, and Weak
ness, Relieved by Cardu,
Says This Texas Lady.

Gonzales, Tex Mrs. Minnie Phil
pot, Of this place. writes: give years
ago I was taken with . pain In my
left side. It was right under my
left rib. It would commence with an
aching and extend up into my left
shoulder and on down into my back.
By that time the pain would be 20
severe I would have to take to bed,
and suffered usually about three days
~ suffered this way for three years.
and got to be mere skeleton and was
so weak I could hardly stand alone
Was not able to go anywhere and had
to let my house work go. II suffered
awful with pain in my back and
had the headache all the time. just
was unable to do q thing. My life
was a misery, my stomach got In an
awful condition, caused from taking
SO much medicine. ] suffered SO much
pain. I had just about given up all
hopes Of our getting anything to help
me.
One day a Birthday Almanac was
thrown in my yard. After reading
IT'S testimonials I decided to try Car
Gui, and am SO thankful that did,
for I began to improve when on the
second bottle. II am now well
woman and feeling fine and the cure
has been permanent for 1t has feen
two years since my awful bad heS-th.
I will always praise and recommend
Cardui." Try Cardui today. = "a
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Maine Producing Flour.

Flour mills. once fairly numerous In
Maine, but largely eliminated by
Western competition, are being re-
stored through the operation Of the
war, the shortage of transportation
facilities, the conservation of wheat
-four and consequent food regulations
and the increased acreage OF wheat In
this state, says the Lewiston (Me.)
Journal. Maine people will once again
have the opportunity of eating bread
made Of Maine flour ground in Maine
mill from Maine raised wheat. The
increased wheat acreage in Maine this
year has been simply astonishing. And
there Is n big demand for all the flour
that can be ground from all the wheat
raised In Maine this year. 1t is esti-
mated that in rural Maine every year
there Is consumed about 10000 bar
rels Of flour, which has been shipped
into the state from the West. The
saving of cars for transportation for
other commodities Is therefore a very
large one II the flour used could be
raised and ground in Maine. Brewer,
for instance, has nH up-to-date -four
mill Which is turning out 40 barrels
OF flour in "a hours. The mill, up to
a year ago, was sawnill. The wheat
storage capacity Is 5000 bushels.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
MRS. ROSE WEBB.

y With sorrow we pen the death of
orr loving friend, Mrs. Rose Webb,
who died Saturday, Jan. 25. She
was a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Foster, and loving wife of
William Webb, and mother of four
children, Thomas, Made, Foster and
John. She was q years old, and
was a true and devoted Christian,
and member of Baptist Church.
Revs. Cox and Shines conducted the
funeral service. Her remains were
laid to rest at Pleasant Grove.
We greatly sympathize with the
family. She is gone but not forgot
ten. Weep not, loved ones, we
hope to meet her again. She leaves
host of friends to mourn her loss,
A precious one from US is gone,
A voice we loved Ia stilled,
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
A Friend.
Jasper, Tenn. .
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
For Membership
Gain In S. S.

A large number of friends of the
Sunday School of the M. L. Church,
South, held meeting at the home
of MIR and Mrs. E. E Bull, of Whit.
well, Wednesday evening of last
week to organize membership con-
test.
Two teams were selected, the
Blues, eaptained by E. E. Bull, the
Reds by Luther Farmer. Buttons
will be used to designate the teams
and identify the workers. DR.. Lay
and wife, Mrs. Seay, Miss Maude
Chastain, Miss Emma Smith, and
many others have been enlisted un-
der the Blue or the Red. The con-
test will run till Easter Sunday.
Every home in Whitwell will be
asked to join in this Sunday school,
or some other, and to give their
presence, goodwill, enthusiasm, time,
talents, to build a Sunday school
worthy of the community; a live one.
a happy one, a profitable one for
men, women, boys, girls, and the
stranger that is within the gates.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Less Cement Produced.

Statistics of the cement Industry in
the United States in 1917, prepared by
the United States geological survey,
Indicate that the total shipments of
Portland cement from the mills
amounted to 90,703,474 barrels, valued
in bulk at the mills at 1922, 745, 08S.
This represents decrease in quantity
Of IL per cent and an increase in val
.ue Of IT'S per cent compared with 1916
The production of Portland cement in
1917 was 92.S14,292 barrels, compared
with 1921 1893 barrels in 1916, an In
crease of Ia per cent. This produc-
ton holds the record, the next highest
output, o2,097, 131 barrels, having been
in 1913.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
new PIKE a1
ROAD COMMISSION
Messrs. Dykes, Sherman
and Haskew Now
AT Head of Roads

By act of legislature the Ma
rion County Pike Commission
composed of Messrs, A. L. Rob
erson, ]. F. Tate and w. M,
Long were legislated out of of
flee last week and a new board
created as follows: ]. ]. Dykes.
of Whitwell, G. Sherman of this
place, and S. T. Haskew, of So.
Pittsburg.
Mr.. Long was elected at Jan
uary term of Court but had a re-
luctance to qualify as he suspic-
Toned even then that it was in
t nded to GUST the old board by
legislative act. Mr.. Robertson
was reelected by the county court
last July, and Mr.. Tate was one
of the original board created by
by the Cameron act.
1t is said that this legislation
was done by Sen Cameron, who
has been contemplating a change
His determination was fastened,
by the new road to Kimball de-
pot, which seems to have caused
much comment
Of the new board Mr.. Sher-
man has had great success in
road building, and it is hoped
that Sequachee will now get a
liberal share of the road improve
ment of the county, which by
virtue of its position at the geo.
graphical centre of the county,
is fully warranted. Mr.. Dykes
is fully able to look after the road
interests of the upper end, and
Mr.. Haskew as a shrewd and
successful business man will no
doubt keep a careful eye on the
roads of the lower end.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Death of
"UnCle Billie" Lay

William Lay died at the home Of
his son, John Lay, in Rankins Cove,
Saturday of influenza. He was ~
years old, and was born near Tsze-
well, Claiborne Co., May 7, l847,
and was a son of John and Mary
(OdelD Lay.
In 1871 he located in Marion
near Victoria, after having been in
Indiana for three years, farming and
in the timber business, and later %
weighman for coal company. For
eleven years he resided at Victoria,
but in 1883 purchased property in
Rankin Cove, which by assiduous
effort he converted into most
beautiful place.
He was married Dec. Ia, 1873,
to Miss Louisa Jane Brown, daugh-
ter of G.. NJ. Brown of Victoria, and
to them were born ten children: John.
James, Alice, Lizzie, jamie, America,
William and Celia.
Interment was made Monday at
Sardis. MIR. Lay was a member Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
there, and also served at trustee.
He was also a member Of Altine
Lodge, A. Il. & A. NJ, of Jasper.
Politically he was republican,
aud was always interested in meae-
ures for the betterment of his com
munity, county, state and country
Popularity he was known as Uncle
Billie" and large circle of friends
regret his death
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
WHEN WOMEN TAKE CHARGE
Git Of Ancient Chinese History That Is
Decidedly Interesting Coming
Just at This Time.

In the World Outlook Welthy b.
Honsinger gave this entertaining bit
of ancient Chinese history 1t only
goes to prove, once again. that "there
is nothing new under the SUM-
In olden times, when, us Barrie tells
US. 1.-THE world was so young that
pieces of the original eggshell still adj
hered to it," long before the Tai Pings
or long-haired rebels ravaged this part
of China, the two provinces of Kiangsi
and Fukien were quarreling. The men
vent out to fight and left the women
at home, even as we do today. The
women did not know anything about
planting crops or pudding rice fields.
At first they just let things slide,
hoping the men would soon return.
But the feuds grew fiercer and more
men were called out. The fighting
reached the Kan and Hsia Kiang.
Finally all the strong men disappeared
from their ancestral halls. In the swift
years that followed the women found,
to their surprise, that they could make
tAS AA'S oiiVpS plOniCA' NOiC luhho
were sailing up the river than in for
mer days and clean little houses lined
the shore for long distances.
But although everything was going
beautifully and the women were max
ing more money than they ever had be-
fore, the feeling gradually grew that
no town could be complete without
husbands.
A vote was accordingly taken and
the majority decided that husbands
should be imported.
Enter husbands from a neighboring
clan. The women having conceived
the scheme, worked it out logically.
Husbands were soon given to under
stand that they were husbands only.
and imported at that.
1--WE shall still be managers of our
lands and rice shops. We will run this
town and see that no harm befalls the
province. You are to look after the
children" So the cictum ran and the
men subsidized into mere men and be-
came useful to the community.
So the women managed with high
hand in Hsia Kiang, just as our men
did In the Flint age. And the women
In Hsia Kiang have kept on managing
just as our men liked to manage a
man-made world even to the present
day,