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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-02-13
Notes from the Business Mems Club
By the Secretary

while they are muddy, maybe we viii
get results. 1t is very important
that a big delegation from Upton
county attend the road meeting to
be held in Memphis on the 9th Of
this month.
Applications made by Upton coun-
ty soldiers who have been discharg-
ed from the various camps are still
coming to this office. These boys are
asking aid in securing employment,
and we will be glad to have those
who may need help on farms or in
industries to call and look over
these lists and give these boys a
chance to get employment at the
caliest possible moment. The seere-
tary Of this club has been appoint
ed by the government to render this
service.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-28

becomes apparent when I tell you
further that part of the German
scheme provides for great munition
plants at Mexico City which will
make it unnecessary for Mexico to
import her materials in the future.
The treaty of peace restricts the
manufacture of munitions of war in
Germany, but it does not say any
thing about Germans manufacturing
as large quantities as they please in
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-28

Mexico. Thus there is no practical
difficulty in the way Of Germany's
plans for the next year. 8
German agents are active every
where in Latin-America, and the
newspapers have told us there is TO
be extensive German immigration
to that part of the world in the near
future. The result of the war did not
end the German dream of yofld
conquest; it merely delayed il
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-28

mercial plans IN Mexico, Dr.. Alien
dorff reports that "the first attempt
to carry out an ambitious German
scheme for the economic conquest
and ultimate military domination of
Mexico was a plan originated by the
German consul, Rademacher, at Guy
aymas, with the active aid Of Gov
emor Gales, to build cement plant
with capacity of 10000 bags a
month at Hermosillo, Sonora.
"The foundations were completed
he adds, "and materials for the sup
erstructure We're on the ground in
July, 1917, when l reported the
scheme in time to stop it and the
factory had to be abandoned until
after the peace treaty had been sign
ed. This factory was to furnish the
cement for rebuilding piers and 9TH
er structures and building new ones
on the west coast.
"The American people ought to
know" he continued, "that Mexico
was; not neutral during the war, but
an enemy, active to the extent of its
limited capacity" Mexico gave no
fewer than eighty German officers
commissions in the Mexican army
and assigned the train troops for
service against the United States.
German uniforms were worn so COM
monty in Mexico that even the loca!
Mexican papers complained about it.
Moreover, the Carranza's direct
orders Mexican telegraph wires We're
thrown open to German code mes
sages. l personally carried orders
from Carranza to Governor Gales
to permit the spy Wabirski to send
code messages freely"
Prominent Mexican officials are
alleged by DR.. Altendorff to have
been on the payroll of the German
embassy. He says mario Mendez
director of telegraphs, received q
salary of $500 a month from Won
Eckhardt His brother, a Senate
with influence received the same
salary. A third brother who held
a position in the postofice, also re-
ceived 5000 a month for opening ant.
reading private letters and passing
the information along to the Ger
mans"
DR.. Altendorff states that he, per-
sonally, late in November 1917, car
ried a request from Governor Gales,
of Sonora, to Rademacher, the Ger
man consul at Gauymas, for $780,
900, saw the money put in a bag,
and carried the bag, accompanied by
Redemather, to Gales.
Continuing the statement says:
81 was able to discover that Won
Eckhardt has guaranteed to Carran-
"a an abundance of capital to turn
Mexico into an industrial country.
In fact, Won Eckhardt went to Ger
many last April express pur-
pose of financing German coopera-
tions and perfecting other arrange
ments for building great chemical
plants, textile factories, tanneries
and all the other industries necessa-
~ to make Mexico Independent Of
the United States and Europe.
GAS soon as the treaty is ratified
there will be a hegira of quarter
o. million Germans from the Unit
ed States who will take with them
to Mexico four million dollars capi-
tai. There are already 100000 Ger
mans in Mexico and German immi-
grafton on large scale will soon
turn the country into a German col
ony.
"The activity Of Carranza in driv.
ing Americans out and confiscating
their property is explained by the
fact that Germans with plenty Of
money stand reaay to pick up the
property at bargain rates.
"The full significance Of all this
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SECRET AGENT REVEALS
PLOTS TO ATTACK U. S.
Disclosure of Enmity and Treachery
of Mexicans Made By Former
Intelligence Agent


Pof extensive German plots in Mexico
during the war, which included a
proposed invasion of the United
States by a German-Mexican army
of $4,000 men at the same time that
the Germans launched their last
drive on the western front in July,
1918, was made in New York last
Saturday night by the National AS
sociation for the Protection Of Amer
lean Rights in Mexico, which gave
out a statement by DR.. P. B. Alien
dorff, formerly of the United States
military intelligence department,
reciting his experience as an Amerl-
can secret service agent in that
country.
DR.. Altendorff, the son Of Polish
banker in Cracow, Autrian Poland,
abandoned a medical course in the
University of Vienna at the out
break of the war and fed to Mexico,
where he was offered a position as
German spy to operate against the
United States by Kurt Jahnke, head
of the German secret service in
Mexico.
with pretended reluctance" but
with secret joy, 1 accepted" he said,
land at once found myself in a posi-
ton to render valuable service to
the Allies in general and to the
United States in particular" He
opened communication with the bor-
der as volunteer worker to the
military intelligence department.
The association states that it has
investigated his claims and that Brig.
Gen. Marlborough Churchill, the head
of the military intelligence depart
ment "spoke in terms of the highest
praise of the zeal and trustworthi-
ness of DR.. Altendorff and the great
value of the services he rendered.
In addition to explaining his ac-
tivities in Mexico, DR.. Altendorff
warns the people of the United
States against a proposed German
commercial conquest in Mexico.
"Within six months after the
United States ratifies the treaty Of
peace" he says, Germany will have
complete economic control of Mexi-
co. Within very few years, if they
are permitted to carry out the plans
they have formulated and are now
executing as rapidly as they can.
the Germans will have absolute eco
nomic, political and military control
of Latin-America, with headquarters
in Mexico.
Referring to the proposed invasion
of the United States, DR.. Altendorff
sets forth that in his dual capacity
as a captain in the German army
and a colonel in the Mexican army
he helped train 900 Germans reserv-
lists in Sonora, who were to form
the nucleus of the proposed German
Mexican army, and that in his true
character as an American secret
service agent he prevented the raid
from being carried out.
"This ambitious scheme" he says
"was financed by Won Eckhardt Ger
man ambassador to Mexico), and
was undertaken with the cooperation
of Carranza."
DR.. Altendorff, enumeratiag his
services in Mexico, says in part:
II delivered into the hands OF the
United States military authorities
the German agent, Lathar Witcke,
alias Pablo Wabirski, the most i'm
portant individual capture Of the
war, so far as America was concern
aJ Wob;rck; hoasted to me that he
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portant individual capture Of the
war, so far as America was concern
ed. Wabirski boasted to me that he
had blown up several munition plants
and stores of explosives, including
the Black Tom explosion in New
York; blew up some ships and caus-
ed disastrous fires in the forests OF
the Pacific Northwest.
"Wabirski was on his way to the
United States, by way of Nogales,
Arizona on another mission of muir
der and destruction when captured
by me. On his person was found a
copy of the German imperial code,
and that is understood to be the first
time that this code came into the
possession of the American Govern
ment. Wabirski was court-martialed,
and from the fact that his case is
before the President for review is
believed to have been sentenced to
death, the only German spy to re-
ceive such a sentence in the United
States.
"I also betrayed fifty-eight other
German agents.. and thus enabled
the military intelligence department
to keep effective watch on them, not
to mention some renegade Ameri-
cans, who were giving aid and COM
fort to the enemy.
Other acts for which Dr.. Alien
dorff claims credit includes:
Discovery of two German wire
less stations in Mexico, capable of
receiving messages from that coun-
try; reporting the plan for the Ger
man submarine raid along the Amer
lean coast in April, 1918 one month
before it actually took place; report
ing agents sent by Germany in Mex
leo to poison cattle in the United
States, and the revelation of plot
by four Germans to blow up the hy-
dro-electric plant at Niagara Falls.
Calling attention to German cons-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

taIldrinking, pugdog-nursing, half-dresseds
painted woman who frequents the theater, gig
giles at the cabaret. CANDLES in our drawing
rooms and dimes and dances in our hotels with
her dress cut c in front and V in the back,
Take the W in the back" and the &C in front,
apply a ministerial eye and add an e, and there you
have vice itself in its most demoralizing mein, il is
all as simple as spelling.
But no doubt the point for consideration is oug
debt to the pulpit reformer who warns us of these
moral perils. Most men go along taking the changing
styles in women's clothes for granted. seeing no evil
in them and blind to any suggestiveness in scant
skirts or decollete gowns. No doubt they will be
puzzled to know that the length or brevity of a wo-
mans skirt is an index of her moral character or that
giggling at a cabaret show is worse than giggling at
the movies, or yet that dining at a hotel differs in moral
degree from dining at home.
To be now informed that they have been living
in a fools paradise of respect for womanhood in what
ever apparel it chooses TO adorn itself will no doubt
be disinusioning. But have all other New York min
listers been equally blind to the evil? Is it given only
to the superior discernment of one pulpit censor TO OBJ
serve and expose it?-New York World.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
WHAT THE "ARMY" DOES.

Many people seem to imagine that about all the
Salvation Army does in normal times is' TO march
around beating drums and holding prayer meetings.
1t is universally recognized that the Army rendered
admirable service in France during the war. Still,
sisted almost entirely of the distribution of doughnuts
of soldiers. And now that the war is over, there is
an end of doughnuts. and, according to this limited
view, nothing left but the drumming and praying.
Why, then. some people inquire, does the Saliva
ton Army want s13. 600, 0OO2
In explaining exactly why the Army is trying to
raise a fund of that amount, Commander Evangeline
Booth sweeps away all this misconception in a brief
and instructive statement. She explains that the work
done in France was, in reality, exactly what we have
been doing for more than half a century" The details
Of the soldiers, but the principles and general proce-
dure remained the same. And now that the war emer
gency is over, the organization returns to its regular
Job.
Our rescue homes, our day nurseries. our lodging
houses for the unfortunate, our orphanages, our fresh
air farms, our free clinics, our prison work, our slum
settlements. our homes for the aged-these institutions
are founded or exactly the same principles, purposes
and ideals that took us to France"
This little catalogue of activities is in itself IL
Illuminating. Here is a big work that has never been
the money was never available. The workers want 10
handle it as effectively now as they handled the job in
France. That is why they ask for money. And any
city can afford, either for moral reasons or for bust
ness reasons, to give them what they want.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

units included 3o4th ammunition train.
horse battalion headquarters. Compan-
es f and F. 304th sanitary train. cloth
ing bath unit 1872; Company 81. St.
Nazaire Casua Company. 6s3 for Iowa
and s.. Nazaire Casual Company SEA
for Wyoming. ~ officers and 1853
men ia all. The C~anadaigua brought
scattered units Of the s0th division.
mostly western Pennsylvania troops.
There were 1927 on board and includ-
ed members OF the train h~eadquert-
ers. motor headquarters and medical
department of the sOth division; Com
panies A to @ Of the 305th ammunition
train, Company i of the 31sth infantry
and casuals OF the S17th infantry.
Forty officers and s53 men made
Up the contingent on the General Cor
gas. The units included the headquar-
ters detachment. the medical detach-
ment and Companies a, B. c and D OF
the 3O6th engineers; headquarters and
Company B of the 5000 field signal
battalion and Bordeaux special casual
companies Nos. ST., $50 and 5S5.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
AMERICAN CEMETERY IN FRANCE.

Last Friday there was a memorial service in
France which was perhaps more Impressive than
anything done in this country to mark the occasion
The greatest American military cemetery was open
sc at Romagne. France.
Romagne is in the Argonne-Meuse district, where
nearly 10000 Americans were killed or died OF
wounds. For several months a small army of work
es has been busy preparing the cemetery. The bodies
have been brought from the lonely graces scattered
all over the battlefield to this one place, which is to
be made beautiful and peaceful. A truly remarkable
work of identification has beea accomplished, add
in the future the resting places of those brave boys
viii be clearly marked.
There are to be other American cemeteries in
France in the different battle sections where our men
fought. The American army has done more than
either the British or French authorities have been
able to do for their fallen. When the plan OF bringing
our soldier dead back to America had to be abandoned.
prompt action was taken to make the very best pro
visions for the men who must lie over there" where
they fought ard died and won.
The peasants of France have shown a fine appre-
citation of the little graves that mark the battlefieIds
all through the war zone. With beautiful feeling they
tend alike. the graves of their own dead and those of
their fallen allies. It was in their eager, loving effort
that Americans in France placed their hope that not
his first Memorial Day after the war.
The mothers and wives and families of those boys
nay think of their soldiers not as lying in forgotten
as resting in an American cemetery which will be as
beautiful as skill and care can make it. Those GENE
teries will remain symbols Of Americas part in the
war and of her willing sacrifice. 1t is fitting that they
should be near the scene Of the battles in which our
men fought.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
coNTINUANcE OF HIGH PRICES.

It is the opinion of all practical business men that
prices are to keep up. Next fall the prices of all kinds
Of merchandise will be as high or higher than they
are now, and next winter still higher. In fact. no one
can predict with any good reason when the era of high
prices will end. The world has started out on a new
era since the war began. Old things have passed away
or are passing. AS the high cost Of living advances
the rewards of labor keep close behind it. How there
can be any change in this relation no one can under
stand. One incident of this high cost OF living and
higher wages to meet it is the fact that there is more
money now than formerly. There is more money now
to buy with and this situation is likely to keep up.
And these conditions are evening up and we do not
feel the burden of high prices owing to the initiation
Of the currency. That initiation is likely to remain as
long at least as the country is in debt There is a
new relationship between cost and price that is to
remain, not by policy or law, but by the logic of events.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
COBDENISM TO BAT.

Poultney Bigelow contributes two remarkable
statements to the New York Times: First, that the
Monroe doctrine means that the United States is the
only power entitled to expand in the western hemis-
phere-an allegation, whose defamatory character is
evidenced by long years of American history which
give it the lie: and second, that Japan Is entitled 10
the thanks OF China for taking over Shantung and get
ting a good start on reducing the rest of China to sub
lection. Mr.. Bigelow is entitled to rank as our prin-
cipal Japanese patriot. He seems to have acquired his
views of such American policies as the Monroe doctrine,
as a member of the Golden Club, the Authors Club Of
London. the Royal Artillery Institution of Woolwich,
the Royal Geographical Society of London, and me
Theological Society of London. not to mention a life
membership in the late Imperial Yacht Club of KEEL
all of which are listed among his distinctions in Who's
Who" His theory that China ought to thank Japan
for grabbing her sacred province. with 10000 square
miles of territory and forty million people, entities
him to a life membership in the American Humorists
association. Bill Nye never said anything half so funny.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

run upon the same efficiency basis
which has made manufacturing g sue.
cess. II is not fair to make the con-
m pay for the mistakes of the
careless and ignorant. When farm
practice is standardized, we can
double u production and at the
same time maintain our profit.
For instance in the handling Of
potatoes, the old shaking, forking and
~shoveling process damages enough to
change a profit into a loss. Potatoes
should be graded by gravity, the No.
l through a rs inch screen on TO a
~ inch screen for No. q.
"All of these things will be done
eventually, but in the meantime po-
tatoes can be put in the siIo. The gov
eminent will send you a bulletin.
Don't waste potatoes. Remember
that the great middle class of people
must ear and that we must all see TO
II that they are fed bountifully within
their means. Potatoes properly has,
died will solve the p~-chlasa@
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

ANYWAY you figure it out
YOUTH will be served
AND a Ford at 21 is usually more
fun
THAN a Cadillac at so.
THE mental depression
WHICH is said to exist in
is probably due to the
FACT tha the German people are be-
ginning
TO understand
THAT peace is not TO be arranged
FOR their exclusive benefit.
THE reason why some women have
only one
SERVANT and sometimes none
is the way they talk like they had a
dozen
AND makes them work that way.
EVERY married man believes
THAT he has to waste a whole month
OF time each year
HUNTING for something his wife
has put away
WHEN she was cleaning up.
THERE is always plenty of
ROOM outside Of
AMERICA for the fellows who are
not for America
EMINENT prof. tells US why we get
thirsty
MIGHT be as well
FOR some eminent prof. to get busy
and
TELL US how to destroy
AN abiding thirst.
THE tax on ice cream IS raising
something of a roar
THROUGHOUT the country but a
BOoTLEGGER can peel your roll TO
the tune of ten dollars a quart
AND nobody could hear you
wHIMPER with a stetboscopo
AN optimist is usually popular
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
A Billion Bushels of Potatoes

National Crop Improvement service.l
khVVHE American Potato asso-
citation has set its mark at
q billion bushels of pota-
toes a year, We ordinarily grow about
three hundred millions and owing TO
u imperfect methods Of marketing
q large proportion of that amount
goes TO waste" SAYS Mr.. Frank
Baackes, V. P. American Steel &
Wire company.
I'VE can never have too many po-
tatoeS If we learn how to use them
and utilize by-products. IN the first
place we ought never TO market any
thing but No. 1 and No. , potatoes
carefully graded, free from blemishes /:
then we should utilize the culls by
making them into stock food by de-
MIGRATING; and by making potato
-four and by making farm fuel By ex-
tracing the alcohol
Probably twenty-five per cent of
the potatoes we grow are wasted
through careless handling and by i'm
proper storage. All farming should be
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

But hen you come to analyze him
YOU often find that his
FACTS are wrong
ANOTHER thing about the neighbor
women's
CHOICE of language that
I ABUSES US sometimes
is the way they apply the term over
dressed
TO some girl Who doesn't look to US
AS if she had anything on but shoes
and
STOCKINGS and
SOMETHING in the nature of a fair
ly wide sash.
DON be in a hurry, you have all
day." said
VICE PRESIDENT Marshall to the
senators who were
RUSHING their bills the other day
SOME day Mr.. Marshall will quit his
Glowing
AND the country will appreciate it.
ABOUT the only virtue
TURKEY seems TO have is the
PURELY negative one of
NOT really making most of the genu-
inc
TURKISH cigarettes
THIS war or sven the actual night
ing for that
MATTER will not be over until
THE last speech has been made in the
CAMPAIGN of 1920.
MUCH OF our modern education is
sheer waste
A GIRL will learn at college
TO clear the high jump bar
AT four feet three inches
ONLY to wear a
SKIRT measuring q scant yard
around the ankles
IN early after life
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03
THE rRAcKLEss TROLLEY CAR.

One hears that the trackless trolley car, now in
operation in several New England towns. is proving
itself a welcome convenience, although to those who
are familiar only with a trolley car travelling on the
undertaking straight line of its tracks, this latest ad-
dition to the transportation system must seem rather
a lively feature in the rural landscape. The troffey
Ehat allows the car 10 wander about the road as the
the exigencies of traffic demand. This car can pass
vehicles ahead of it, avoid puddles, and otherwise con
duct itself as If no trolley connection fastened IT to
the overhead wire. Practically it eliminates the ex-
pense of laying tracks and keeping the roadbed in re.
pair afterward, and those who have seen and travelled
in 1t think that it is leading the way back to the five
cent fare for street railway transportation which the
American public has. in many places. so regretfully
seen vanish.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-03

Major H.. VI. Hosmer. n former Gary
physician who returned from France
two weeks ago, visited in Gary last
saturday and then went on to San
Diego. Cal. where his two sons have
been in the care of their grandmother.
He will spend a month with them and
then return TO a reconstruct.on hospital
near New York. The major was refus-
ed his discharge as his services are
needed in reconstruction work