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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09


Los pueblOs, hambrientOs, lie
aclamaban; los soberanOs, mas
menOs destronados, lie salian al
paso para besarle las manos; Y
cuando lleg0 la orilla del azul
DanubiO, abandOn0 la carrOza Ell
que hasta entonces viajara-to-
da dOrada. como la de los prln-
cipes encantados de los cuentOs
de hadas-para entrar en- una
barca recubierta de piedras pre-
ciosas. como la de Cleopatra.
Tanta gloria, tantos homena-
jes, tantos honOres hicierOn vi
brar Ell el alma de Alexandra la
cuerda del sentimentalismO. Sc
sinti0 magnanimo, superior, casi
omnipotente. Y ell primer uso que
hizo de su magnanimidad, su SUI
perioridad V su dmnipotencia fuG
eXtender sobre la vencida Fran
cia SUI brazO protector.
A merced de slls implacables
enemigos, la naci0n francesa SUI
plicaba humildemente que Sc lie
permitiera enyiar un delegado
(un simple delegadO) al Congre-
so de Niena, conyocadO por la
reacci0n triunfante con el piadO-
so prop6sito de desmembrarla y
destruir pOr su base la obra gi-
gantesca de la REVOLUTION. Con
ira ell criteriO de tOdOs sllS cule-
gas, ell Gar opin0 que no seria
decoroso nj equitativo negar a
/ la deSventurada Francia E'cSc
mendrugO;" v como no hubera ST
do prudente descontentar al HON
bre de MOscOu, las pOtencias sc
mostrarOn complacientes, solta-
ron cl mendrug0, y ell mendrHgo
result0 Talleyrand, quien sombre
70 en- manO V con la sOnrisa Ell
los labi0s, cual Scorresponde al
vencid0, present0se en- Niena. Ocll
pc ell modesto escailo que lie fu(
+ asignadO Ell ell salon de c0nferen
cias, Y dos semanas despues al
canz0 ell triunfo diplomatico
mas grande que registra la His
t0ria, rOmpiendO ell acuerd0 har-
m0nicO de las pOtencias, divi-
diendolas, hacienda que sc tira-
sen los tl:astOs a la cabeza V OBJ
teniendo para Francia todas las
ventaias en- ell tratado de pdz de,
tinitivo.
-. ........ '.'.'.'' -.
=. ....'. ..'.'' $500 ''''''
Hoy, a los cientos cuatro amos
justos y cabales de aquel memo
rable ac0ntecimiento, el mas es-
clarecido principe de la Democra
cia, ell mas excelso Representative
de los ideales de la RevOluci0n,
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09
BuENA OCCASION

BUENA OCCASION
VENTA DE UN AUTOMOVIL
EN- MAGNIFICO ESTADO. ES
UNA BUENA OPORTUNIDAD.
MARCIA "BUIK", 6 CILINDROs
1917.
PIDA INFORMES A EEL I'M.
PARCIAL." Advt.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09

ST QUIERE listed COMPRAR o
vENDER Bonos y Acciones de Ban
cos, Centrales, y otros valores, fincas
rGsticas y urbanas, colocar tomar di.
nero On hipotecas o pignorar valores,
dirijase a N. Llauri = Comp, Tetuan
aIm. 6, San Juan, p. r. Telsfono 287.
(Advt)
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09

Pcra motores de gas, bom-
bas, pldntas de riego, plan-
tas de hielO, m0tores electri-
cos, nOsotr0s: SUCESORES
DE ABARCA. = San Juan.
Advt.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09

iCNdntOs mOtOres de gas
"Fairbdmks Morse" hay en-
la Isla? Porque son los me-.
jores. - SUCESORES DE
ABARCA.-Sdn Juan, p. II.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-09

Hoy, los cientOs cuatro amos
iustOs V cabales de aquel memo
rable acOntecimiento, el mas es-
clarecido principe de la Democra
cia, ell mas excelso representative
de los ideales de la RevOluci0n,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-04-24

der if you mean that you went ahead
about your business. Wages went
up and prices went up and you bought
Liberty Bonds the first times and you
helped with the Red Cross and so on
But it makes me sick to hear a
man who never got out of rifle shot of
his own front door says that he did
as much to help win this war as the
man who hoped over in No Mans
Land and wrestled with the barbed
wire, with machine gun bullets and
Bosch bayonets. That is plain bunk.
You've got good ways to go yet,
my friends, before you can say that.
here and now call meeting at the
Opera House this night at 1880 and
let's be there and see if we can't
keep this town from acting like an an
mex of Hun land about this Liberty
Bond business
Before noon every human being in
Jeffersonville heard about it. Some
were angry, some were ashamed, 9th
ers were enthused and the town
DuZZeQ ike d uOTuGl nest.
A Town Redeemed.
But a flag here and there began
to make its appearance. Men began
to do sums in mental arithmetic. They
also began to make up their minds to
get to the night meeting. The thing
was more serious than they had
thought Sergeant Colvin spent a
busy afternoon. When Sid Price
heard he was headed for his office he
hurried out, climbed in the blackboard
and struck out for the country to be
gone two days. Colvin made house
toulouse canvass of the village. He
said some stirring things and some
Earring things. But Jeffersonville was
getting wider awake every moment.
Jacksonville didn't like to look at
its own actions, when it became fully
awake. The phones were busy that
afternoon and early evening" The
town was making up its mind. There
was much scanning of quotas past and
present. There was much furtive hur-
rying to and fro in the early evening
Then came 1880 and the hall was
damned early-every seat filled. The
crowd had hardly settled when Gid
Brown rose and walked heavily up
the aisle, clambered to the little stage
and raised his hand
"You know what we are here for"
he said. 1--WE have been mighty
foolish little town. This day we were
reminded that we were still in the
United States, We had been acting
as though we had forgotten it or Sc
coded from it.
Nov, we can make this thing short
and sn2ppy. Blanks have been dis
tributed. There is no use in any
speeches. Let's put our names down,
raise our part of this loan and do the
talking afterwards"
Oh. yes. about every man in the
town enrolled himself. Yes, Ben Ochs.
Teuton enough to scent trouble for
himself if he didn't, was one of the
1rst subscribers. He had seen to
it that other Teutonopbiles had done
the same. The quota was well ,ov = I
subscribed, the next day few stra@
glers were rounded up and JeffersM
vile came back into the United ST.
of America with whoop.
And they located Sid Price
country phone line down in the
bottom country and in the heart
some thirty eavesdroppers on the
told him what his quota would be. II
was little bigger than it was in the
Fourth Loan. but he gave the COM
mtt1Ae n hack TAN.
-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-04-24
"DoNT THIS OUT OF THE WOODS YETI"


wasn't his place to make folks sub
scribe"
1t was then that Sergeant Colvil
took the "bit in his teeth" and swung
himself up on the broad window ledge
and Opened up"
What He Told Them.
II used to know you ALL he said
his voice stilling the hum of CONVEX
sation in the office, "but that il
neither here nor there. l could cal
every one of you by name. l came
down to this mans town to see what
was the matter with an American
community that is so dead in the
shell that it has forgotten the war be
fore the wounds of it's own boys have
healed / wanted to find out what is
the matter with an American com
munity that is playing right into the
hands of every Hun who is still alive
and full of poison.
Don't you know that this country
isn't out of the woods yet? That
we've got big job on our hands over
there? That there are over million
Americans still in France and Ger,
many? Don't you know that you sent
them there to do your work and to
do your fighting and that they did
what they were sent to do? And
don't you know that this community
has turned it's back on it's own boys
who died over there and who are
buried three thousand miles from this
little town."
The crowd stirred uneasily. Men
looked at their neighbors. Why, the
thing seemed different now 1t was
like a voice from the half-forgotten
army talking to them. Had they
failed? Hadn't they made their word
about the loan didn't seem so fine and
so funny as it had a while ago.
Forgotten So Soon.
Are you going tG desert and forget
those boys over there on the Rhine?'
went on the speaker. Are you going
to forget the chaps who died in shell
holes, twisted with the gas-agony, the
boys who were riddled with machine
gun bullets, who died remembering
this little place and knowing they
would never see it again? / want to
tell you that they are watching you
from over there, the chaps who have
not been relieved. They want to see
II you meant what you told 'em when
they left, that you were back of 'em
to the finish. A fellow thinks lot
about such things when he is 5000
miles from home"
1--WE kind O. got notion, mister
soldier, than we did our part!" piped
a voice from the end of the lobby,
as though in explanation and self-de-
tense.
"You do, do you? You have, have
your" said the man in uniform. II
wonder II you really think that?
You've been here at home. You
haven't been out o. Gods own country.
You never heard a bullet whistle in
your LIE. You lever swallowed down
the<gas, that burns the insides out of
you. You never lay wounded for six
teen hours in No Mans Land. You
never missed sleepin' in a bed one
night durin' the war. You were never
a German prisoner and had your ribs
kicked loose from your spine. won
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-04-24

Then something happened that
drove Jeffersonville into hysterlcal
! wakefulness. 1t seemed that the
towns Indifference was being rather
widely advertised and the time had
! come when personal and vigorous
| work had to be done by the district
| loan committee. And the weapon, the
very instrument came shaped to their
hand.
He was a boyish young soldier, with
deem set eyes. He wore a wound
chevron and the gold service stripes
that told of months of overseas serv-
ice. And he hated Stacker and ne
hated a Hun and he had no patience
with the mouthy IL. who loved TO
carry morbid tales, who loved to hint
at troubles between the Allies. And
a few years before he had lived in
Jacksonville and he knew every man
and woman in it and most OF the chill
dren. And-he had gone into Ar
gonne Wood and the Mouse Elbow ana
the barbed wire hell that the Germans
had made of the old Hindenburg Line,
elbow to elbow with the homo town
boys from Jacksonville.
Chance, aided by some design, sent
him tn Jeffersonville the Liberty
Loan drive for the Fifth and the last
Of the series was turning into the
home stretch. It was the business OF
Sergeant Colvin, late of the -th
Machine Gun Battalion, to find what
was ailing the old hometown folks,
| He believed in frontal attack. The
first man he saw was Gid Brown
banker and real estate man, the head
of the somnolent loan organization. He
waved aside all congratulations and
injuries and plunged straight In.
What is the matter with this loan
organization of yours, sir?" and there
was a snap and click in every word.
"We-n," began the banker man,
"the town doesn't seem to be very
much interested this time"
"You were interested last July,
| weren't your? asked the Sergeant.
Interested when it looked like the
Hun had the Allies down."
eyes, we did right well then"
Cant this town do anything unless
# is scared into it," asked the sol
der. "You could see this bank In
the hands of a bunch of Huns last
year and your vaults being cleaned
ont. Do you forget that quick? Do
YOU have to see bunch of Germans
on the horizon before your patriotism
begins to work? Now. let's get busy.
Don't you think you could round up q
| bunch of the workers this afternoon
and let's get started!"
| Sergeant Colvin headed for tie
Post office. The mail was in and the
crowd was dense in the little lobby.
He couldn't see a poster or hand
bin. The loan might as well be under
way in Soochow. This town was dead
from the ankles up, be thought to him
self. The postmaster was dim-eyed
and noucommittal He "hgxered Il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
MEET
 DEFEAT AT COV|LHA
Flag Now Floats Over COvilha and Cas-
 tellO BrancO
By Associated Press

Lisbon, Sunday, February 2.-Mon- archist troops, it is announced, have been defeated in an action at Covilha, southeast of Oporto, neat the Spanish frontier, by republican troops. who are advancing on Guarda, to the northeast. The republican flag now floats over the towns of Covilha and Castello Branco and the monarchists are retiring on Regoa, where their headquarters has been established.
 Along the coast the republicans have occupied Fosoca and Argaja and tho morarchists are evacuating Estarreja, south of Oporto.
 Communication with Lisbon has been restored as far north as Aveiro
 Military courts have been established to consider the question of dismissing civil and military officials hostile to the republican regime. The govern ment. 1t Is added, has no confidence in the wardens of the prisons and peni- tentiaries and will dismiss them.
 The government announces the mon archist clements in the country will be held responsible for all damages in the zone where fighting is now going on. as well as for money expended in put ting down the monarchist movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
OF BLUES
 AMONG BROKERS
By HOLLAND

New York, February 5.-"We are so blue that we are almost black in the face" were the words with which one who had been of long experience in the securities market described the situation or rather the State of mind which char acterizes those who deal in securities and especially the brokers who transact business of this kind. No necessity ex- isted for describing the situation in this brief way. Everybody who has watched the quotations was himself able to un- derstand that something like gloom and a good deal of lethargy exist not only in the New York stock exchange. but also in similar markets in other parts of the Uniter States. Sometimes the question is asked, is the securities mar ket really discounting the future as it IS sometimes said to do? If that be so, then the future does look somewhat dark and those who have confessed themselves pessimists are hereafter to find themselves justified in that feel ing.
 Possibly as astonishing feature of the situation as any is the fact that when the so-called bankers committee re moved the restrictions upon loans which were established late in the fall the pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
GASLESS SUNDAYS
 PREVENTED DEFEAT
War Won By Keeping Up Petroleum Supply, Says
 Marshal FOch
By Associated Press

Washington. February 5.-Sixty days before the armistice was signed and when the situation on the western front had reached critical stage, Marshal Foch cabled the fuel administration:
 If you don't keep up your petroleum situation we shall lose the war"
 This and other messages from allied leaders were made public tonight by the fuel administration to show how quantities on the western front alone prevented alterations in the plan of campaign which forced the central pow CTS to an armistice."
 Another message received october 1 said in part:
 Senator Berenger writes, highest command informs him that position has become so serious that change in mili- tary operations will have to be con- templated unless increased deliveries of gasoline at front are made possible
 Observance by the American people of the "gasolineless Sunday request, fuel administration officials said today. enabled Senator Berenger later to de- clare: Petroleum will have played as great a part nthe victory as blood it. self and will have proved the life blood of victory"
 The fuel administration said that the Earl of Curzon on November 21 esti- mated that the United States furnished so per cent of the allied petroleum re- quirements and other allied leaders sent messages of thanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
Are You Suffering
 With a Hacking Cough?
Cold in the System Must Be
 Eliminated

Thousands of people who feel that they have no real cold, but who are continuously experiencing HACK ing Cough" believe that cough drops and sprays will cure them. No greater mistake can be made. The cough only grows worse instead of getting better for the sprays and cough drops cnly relieve temporarily, and the cold must be gotten out of the system before any permanent relief can be had.
 Cure your cold by opening the bowels and eliminating the mucous and phlegm by the right method. Lamarine Waters. "The Ideal Laxative" act quickly and with a peculiar toning influence with out the slightest griping or sickening. and you are not weakened IS Is the case after taking most laxatives,
 As the very important thing is for you to eliminate cold and get at the seat of your cough and as it is es- sential that you do not weaken your self, two Lamarine Waters each night for three nights are just what you need. Iamarine Waters are eaten like candy rather than taken as pills or nauSeating tablets, and after giving them trial you will never again purge and sicken yourself with drastic harmful drugs.
 Ask your druggist for a bottle of Lamarine Waters today. Remember. there Is nothing else like them. Do not accept anything else. They are guaran- teed. Price soc
 For free sample package address Desk 31, Lamarine Laboratory. At Ianta Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
SEN NATORS HANDS OFF"
 IN POSTOFFICE CASE

Washington, February 5.-(Special) Senators Bankhead and Underwood an- nounced today their intention to keep hands off" in the contest between citi- zens of Decatur and Albany relative to the location of the new postoffice, the contract for which has been awarded.
 It is stheir point that the fight is one entirely in the province of Representative Almon. As in practically all other cases. they will be guided by the desire of the representative from the district con- cerned.
 It Is Representative Almon's position that proceedings have gone so far that no change can be made. It is understood that the delegation from Albany which contends that the spirit of the law was violated when the site was purchased in Decatur rather than at some point mid way between the cities, has made little progress.
 However, Messrs. Bowles, Tidwell and Patterson comprising that delegation, have made themselves so active that resi- dents of Decatur have wired repeatedly to members of Congress urging that no change be permitted. And it Is learned that a delegation from Decatur to oppose the delegation from Albany will be In Washington before the end of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
MONTGOMERY FIGHTS
 TO RETAIN CAMPS

Washington, February 5.-(SpeciaD Montgomery, fighting with'its back to the wall, has come to Washington in final effort to have made permanent Camp Sheridan and Taylor field, located mead that city.
 From Sheridan 120O soldiers were re- gently removed and the indications are that the war department is making nasty plans to abandon it.
 It is not included among those camps which Secretary Baker would buy. No indication has been given that the war department will accept an offer of the state which would result in making Sher- idan a permanent camp for Alabama na- tioEal guard maneuvers.
 The Montgomery delegation is composed of Mayor Robinson, Frank Bernard, Clayton Tullis, Jack Thorington ana others
 Accompanied by Representative Dent, chairman of the house committee on mii- itary affairs, and Senators Bankhead/ and Underwood, it will interview Secretary Baker tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
COURT BUSINESSES
 LYNCH|NG CASES
Following Verdict of Not Guilty of Two Defendants
 Others Are Released

Tuscumbia, February 5.-(Special) The closing chapter in the sensational Sheffield lynching cases, was recorded in the circuit court here early this morning when a jury returned a yer dict of not guilty in the case of Frank Jenkins, the second of the IS defend ants, to be tried on the charge of be- ing implicated in the hanging of the negro, Will Byrd, in Sheffield last No vember. Following the acquittal of Jenkins this morning, which was in- dicated by the acquittal in the case of Frank Dillard. who was tried on simi- lar charges yesterday. Judge J. J. Cur tis, acting on the request of, Solicitors thompson and Jones for the state or dered that the 16 other cases on which indictments had been returned be nol- pressed and dismissed
 All of the defendants being held in custody were immediately released. Ev- cry effort was made by the state to se- cure the indictments and convictions in these cases. and although some of the pest legal talent in the state assisted Tn the preparation of the cases, it has been apparent from the very outset that there was little likelihood of securing conviction of the IS men indicted. That the state had built it's hopes of secur- ing convictions almost solely on the evidence of several negroes, whose criminal records made them unworthy or oellef, indicated from the begin ning, that it would be extremely diff ncuIt 10 secure convictions.
 The acquittal of billiard and Jenkins apparently meets with the popular ap- proval of the public here. Very few people believed that they were guilty or being the ring leaders of the mob that hung Will Byrd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
Little Stories of the
 DayFror1 Washington
Chairman Taft to Reopen Sloss-Sheffeld Case Today Alabama Senators Hands Off" in Albany-De- catur Fght-Republicans Want to
 Handle Ford-Newberry Case
By HUGH w. RoBERTs

Washington, February 5-(Special) William Howard Taft, as chairman of the war labor board, will reopen tomorrow the wage scale dispute between the em- ployes of the Sloss-Sheffield company at it's ore mines at Russellville and the offi- cials of the company.
 J. W. Mcqueen, president of the com pany, and w. J. Porter, superintendent of the mines at Russellville will present the evidence and the local activity will be under the direction of Col John Till man and Hugh Morrow of Birmingham and John H. Bankhead, Jr, of Jasper.
 The decision of the board two months ago was against the contentious of the company. Judge Taft finally consented to reopen the case and the company will be heard as result. Inequality on wages will be one of the points of the company. Under the recent decision or the board the company is compelled to pay trackmen of its narrow guaged and temporary railroad APO per day. whereas trackmen of the Southern, running paral- Tel to the road of the company, receive less than $2.50.
 The company will endeavor to show that this Is only one of innumerable dis crepancies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-06
COLUMBUS, MISS.

Columbus Miss, February 5.-(Spe- cial )-After having run away from the scene of the crime and later sur rendered to T. G. Jones. sheriff of Ok tibbeha county. Joe Cuspet, negro, who last Sunday killed a negress named Adelle Turner on the plantation of T. c. Billups in this, Lowndes county, was brought to Columbus today. and upon being arraigned before Justice of the Peace T. M. Cummings on the charge of murder was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury. Jealousy is said to have been the cause of the killing.
 Preparatory to the special election which Is to be held here Monday, Feb ruary IT, to name a councilman from the First ward and a public school trustees, the municipal election com missioners, J. s. Marx, c. NJ. Flynn and J. H. Brickell, are purging the city poll books. They have already stricken more than 100 names from the list, and the work is not yet completed
 Mayor Mechanism has named the fol- lowing delegates to represent Colum- bus at the meeting of the southern branch of the National League to En- force Peace, Wnicn began at Atiah ta' Ga, today and which will continue in session until February 2S: T. F. Pat ton, IT. l.. Whitfield, B. A Lincoln, J. T. Harrison, c. l.. Garnett, T. J. Locke, E. R. sherman, F. R. Simms and J. w. Lipscomb.
 T. c. Shaw has received a letter an nounoing the marriage of his daughter, Miss Vivian, to George W. White, which was recently solemnized in Denver, Col. Mir. White is engaged in business at Fort Worth, Tex, where he and his wife will reside.