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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Great Events That Are Chang
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
in Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL.
Short Chronicle Of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
CoIonies-News From Europe
That viii Instruct.
PEACE BULLETINS

Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
charged in the senate that Thomas W..
Lamont, representing the Morgan IN
terests, had purchased the New York
Evening Post for the purpose of using
It in connection with propaganda In IA
vor of the League of Nations.
Premier Lloyd George received a
rousing ovation when he appeared in
the House of Commons The premier
had been cheered by crowds on his way
from Downing street, but the reception
from his fellow members in the house
eclipsed the cheers he had received
elsewhere.
The treaty of peace with Germany
was signed by Germany and the allied
and associated powers in the Hall OF
Mirrors in the Chateau of Versailles.
President Wilson's signature followed
those of the German delegation. The
Chinese ENJOYS absented themselves In
protest against the Shantung settle
ment, and General Jan Christian
SHUTS of South Africa signed only
after making a statement Of protest
against what he regarded as too harsh
terms. President Wilson, Mr.. Lloyd
George and NJ. Clemenceau received
q remarkable reception by the crowds
outside the chateau at the close Of the
ceremonies.
One American officer, three enlisted
men were killed, two were wounded
and an officer and four men were cap
tured in battle with Bolshevik forces
In Siberia.
The one time German emperor, Will
liam Hohenzollern, Isl scheming to re-
turn quickly to Germany before the
entente can demand his surrender
from Holland, according to a Startgut
dispatch to the Neue Berliner Zeitung.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
WASHINGTON

Enactment of the $616,OOO,OO0 naval
appropriation bill is completed with
the adoption of the conference report
on the measure by the House and SEN
ate. 1t now goes to the President.
Although loans now are more easily
obtained labor scarcity and f1uctuating
prices for materials are holding up
buildings needed for winter occupancy,
builders testified.
Congress will not act on prohibition
enforcement ligitation until after July
z, an agreement having been reached
to take a recess over Independence
Day after supply bills have been
passed.
In an address to the American peo-
pie President Wilson declared the
treaty of peace opened the way to
liberty for all.
Federal agents unearth widespread
plot to send aliens abroad by using
forged passports. Thousands thought
to have fled country with bogus papers.
More than hundred voyagers held up.
Ten held to testify regarding fraudu-
lent papers.
Opponents of prohibition in Con-
gress have prepared a new program
designed to make the proposed enforce
ment law weapon with which to fight
the "drys'' in a contest in the courts.
An early increase in railroad rates
was Indicated by Director General
Hines, appearing before the House
Commerce Committee.
Cities, military or naval societies
and members Of the crew of the bat
tleship Maine, blown up in Havana,
may obtain memorial tablets from ma
terial taken from the wreck of the
vessel, the navy department an
nounceS.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
GENERAL

House declines to agree to confer
ence compromise giving $40,00O,OOO for
army aviation and sent bill back, in
sisting on original S15,OOO,0O0.
House Judiciary Committees major
ity report on prohibition upholds Con-
gress' right to define intoxicating Ii
quors.
Fifty million gallons of whisky are
In United States government bonded
warehouses, valued at $400,000,OOO, it
Is estimated.
Samuel Gompers declares American
Federation Of Labor is willing 10 help
Germany if the latter shows itself
worthy.
Mrs. Margaret Cent? Fuhrman,
American wife of German soldier by
whom she was betrayed to the German
authorities, arrives in New York after
having experienced indescribable cruel
ties and brutalities at the hands of her
captors.
Attorney General Palmer holds up
all prosecutions for the sale Of 2.75
beer and light wines, and those bev-
CIdS6S Will Dc SOlu ScllCId
out the country. The wartime pro-
hibition act as related to "hard" liquor
will be strictly enforced, it is an
nounced, and the nation celebrates
the last night of John Barleycorn.
DR.. Walter Keene Wilkins of Long
Beach, N. Y, the aged physician con-
victed of the murder of his wife, hang
ed himself in the Mineola Jail. His
neck was broken by two foot drop
from bucket on which he had stood
to attach the moose to a shower bath
nozzle in the bathroom near his cell.
William Fl. Taft finds a flaw In Mr..
Lodges argument that because Con.
gftss can dsclHfs war 1t can also de.
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Ends Absent Voting Act.

Governor Harrington has issued
proclamation terminating the opera
tion of the Soldiers and Sailors Alb
sent Voting act: This measure, which
was passed at the special session OF
the Legislature in 1917, was intended
to give the men who went into military
or naval service the ballot, wherever
they might be. In practice, it was an
extensive failure. The Maryland sol
diers were scattered all over Europe,
and it was impossible to get ballots
to most OF them in time to be returned
within any reasonable period. Fewer
than 100 absent soldier voted IN the
mayoralty election, and the cost ran
into big money.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

LoNDoN.-The krupp works at Mu-
mich have been sold to Americans, ac-
cording to dispatches from Munich
quoting newspapers there. 1t is added
several Industrial concerns in the Ba-
varian capital also have passed into
American hands.
.,WASHINGTON.-"We car fly around
the world" said Mr.. Daniels, secretary
of the navy, in welcoming home the
American airmen.
ESTON.-Formation of $780,
100000 corporation in Texas to buy
ships for the use of the port of Texas
was announced by Representative
Young.
BOSTON.-The trustees of the Chris
tian Science Publishing Society, court
testimony shows, borrowed 100000
from a Boston bank and placed $14O,-
600 cash in deposit box, where the
church directors could not reach it.
WESTINGHOUSE Wilson,
by mail in mid-Atlantic, receives the In
dian appropriation and railway de-
ficiency bills and signs them. The
mail was CrdnSlerTeu 10 lue IeOTSe
Washington from an army transport.
TTSBURGH.-A record was made
for the price of hogs in Pittsburgh
stockyards when all good weights sold
for SD. 50.
BREST. President Wilson bade
farewell to France in a message of
godspeed and gratitude to her people
and sailed for the United States.
sERLIN.-Twentyt thousand railway
shop and yard workers in the Berlin
district who are on strike refuse to
abide by the union order to return to
their tasks.
LONpoN.-Lesders of British In.
t1ustries Hre impatient for announce.
snent nt The governments retcs lime
trade psity, i.sfipg thar If It s no,
sesn knbwn tls trssent AiHefirui, as
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
FOREIGN

Eighteen American soldiers were
fight with Bolsheviki which followed
an attack on railway guards near
Romanovka, Siberia.
1t Is reported in Montreal that the
Canadian Bankers Association ar
ranged to advance $2OO,OOO,OOO to the
Dominion government to finance han
ding of the crops.
Monocles for men and luxurious furs
or 3rills for women are banned for
ever by the new Budapest Soviet Con-
stitution just adopted. Nor may
walters wear the customary evening
dress hereafter. Bishops and priests
are not allowed to vote.
Bavaria appropriated $12,5O0,O0O as
the first instalment in the cost Of di-
recting the largest water power plant
in Europe
Hermann Mueller and DR.. Johan-
mes Dell, the German peace treaty sig
natories, arrived in Berlin.
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
raided the Vancouver Labor Temple
and seized a quantity of documents
and papers.
Many American soldiers and sailors
were wounded and two civilians were
killed in rioting in Brest, France,
which started when an American naval
officer trampled on a French flag.
One hundred and twenty-seven per
sons are reported dead. thousands in
jured and cities and villages ruined by
earthquake shocks in Italy.
Iirish-American delegates in Paris
on behalf of Ireland's freedom have
told Premier Clemenceau that the Brit
ish have dropped bombs from air.
planes on towns in Ireland, killing wo-
men and children.
Victory celebration by France will
take place on July IA, Bastile Day.
Captain Bachhauser, assigned by the
German army to duty in Coblenz, was
fined 1000 marks for refusing to So.
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
TREATY JUST,
SAYS WILSON
President Issues Statement to
His Fellow Countrymen Asking
Support for Document.
APPEALS AGAINST CHANGES.
Old IntoIerabIe Order Ended and
United Step Taken for Permanent
Peace-Severe Because OF
Wrongs Done by German.

hington.-President Wilson in
the occasion of the signing of the
peace treaty made a plea for the ac-
ceptance of the treaty and the cove
nant of the League of Nations, without
change or reservation.
"My fellow cOuntrymen: The treaty
of peace has been signed. If 1t is
ratified and acted upon in full and
sincere execution of It's terms, it will
furnish the charter for a new order
of affairs in the world. 1t is severe
treaty in the duties and penalties 1t
imposes upon Germany, but it is severe
only because great wrongs done by
Germany are to be righted and repair
ed it imposes nothing that Germany
cannot do, and she can regain her
rightful standing in the world by
prompt and honorable fufillment of its
terms
"And it is much more than a treaty
of peace with Germany. 1t liberates
great peoples who have never before
been able to find way to liberty. 1t
ends, once for all, an old and intoler-
able order under which small groups
of selfish men could use the peoples
of great empires to serve their am
bition for power and dominion. 1t as
sociates the free governments Of the
world in a permanent league in which
they are pledged to use their united
power to maintain peace by maintain
ing right and justice. 1t makes inter-
national law a reality supported by
imperative sanctions. 1t does away
with the right of conquest and rejects
the policy of annexation and substi-
tutes a new order under which back
ward nations-populations which have
not yet come to political consciousness
and peoples who are ready for inde-
pendence but not yet quite prepared
to dispense with protection and guild
ance-shall no more be subjected to
the domination and exploitation of a
stronger nation, but shall be put under
the friendly direction and afforded the
helpful assistance of governments
which undertake to be responsible for
their task by accepting the direction
of the League of Nations. 1t recOg-
nizes the inalienable rights of nationa-
ality, the rights of minorities and the
sanctity of religious belief and prac-
tice. 1t lays the basis for conventions
which shall free the commercial inter-
course of the world from unjust and
vexatious restrictions, and for every
sort of international cooperation that
will serve to cleanse the life of the
world and facilitate its common action
in benefcent service of every kind. 1t
furnishes guarantees such as were
never given or even contemplated for
the fair treatment of all who labor at
the daily tasks of the world.
"It is for this reason that 1 have
spoken of it as a great charter for a
new order of affairs. There is ground
here for deep satisfaction, universal
reinsurance and confident hope
WOODROW WILSON"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
ARMY SURPLUS MEATS
TO BE SOLD To PUBLIC
War Department Rejects 90
Bids of Less Than Halt
Government Paid Packers

Washington.-The war department
rejected 6S bids, most of them from
packers, for the purchase of approx
mately 143,OOO,OO0 pounds of surplus
canned and cured meats. The depart
ment will now proceed with its plan
to sell the supplies direct to the pubic.
In announcing the rejection Secre-
tary Baker declared that the bids in
the majority of cases were less than
half what the government originally
paid for the meats. He said:
"a majority of the bids were from
packing concerns, many of them bid
ding exclusively for their own prod
ucts. The highest prices offered were
approximately 80 per cent. of the cost
to the government. There was one bid
by one packing concern for $4,000 cans
of roast beef of it's own brand which
was 80 per cent. of the cost"
Secretary Baker added that there Is
no hurry to make sales, as the meat is
not perishable, and that it is the duty
of the government to get as large
percentage as possible of the cost
price although it was the desire to ac-
cord the public every advantage in
purchasing the foodstuffs.
Upon the announcement of the re-
lection the director Of sales of the
department issued an invitation to in
dividuals to enter into direct negotia-
tions with the war department for the
purchase of the meat. The mayor OF
Baltimore. it was stated, already had
made an offer to buy $4,000 worth OF
the meat and other canned goods to
be distributed through the city at cost.
This offer has been accepted, and the
department announced its willingness
to sell the excess stocks to other mu-
inequalities on the same basis.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
SPORTING

John ("Chief'') Meyers, former New
York and Boston Nationals catcher,
has resigned as manager Of the New
Haven (Conn.) Club of the Eastern
League, which post he has held since
the opening of the present season.
A program of american Olympic
games," open to all service and former
service men, which will be held al
Camp Dix, N. J., August 81 and Sep
tember 1, was approved by Major Gen
eral Harry Haley, in command OF the
camp.
America, with 10 points, leads
France and Canada, with 2 points each.
in the interallied games at Pershing
Stadium, in France.
After a lapse of two years, the
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
held a regetta on Long Island Sound
R. Norris Williams, I'd, one time ma
tional champion, was defeated by Will
liam T.. Tilden in the final Of the Della
ware tennis tournament.
The Grand Prix, run at Longchamps,
Paris, was won by Galloping Lights,
an English horse at to 2.
An American team lowered the 800
metre relay record in the interallied
games at the Pershing Stadium in
France.
Bodie is leading the Yankees in dou-
bles and triples, but Ping is being left
behind in the home run honor.
A resolution requesting the governor
Of Ohio to prevent the threatened desc
Grafton of the nations birthday by a
prize fight between Willard and Demp-
sey at Toledo July was introduced at
Washington by Representative Ran
dali, Prohibitionist, of California.
Commander Ross, great Canadian
running horse owner, has refused to
send any part Of his large stable to
Europe for the fall turf classics. He
says there is plenty of racing on this
side.
Willie Hoppe, billiard champion, will
exercise his prerogatives and ignore
all titular matches until fall. Hoppe
expects to- spend the summer in the
woods of upper Canada.
Vic Safer is playing wonderful
fielding game for the Pirates and Is
being used regularly in the hope that
he will shake off his batting slump.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Extra Session Being Urged.

Not willing to wait until the next
General Assembly meets in January
Maryland suffragists are urging Gov
ernor Harrington to call special ses-
sion to ratify the amendment to the
Federal Constitution giving women
the right to vote. They declare that
before the November election comes
along a sufficient number of states
will have ratified the amendment to
give them the voting privilege irrespec-
tive OF any action by this state. They
are clamoring for Maryland to get
into the band wagon" labeled Votes
for Women" They have carried their
pleas to members of the Senate and
House Of Delegates, who are joining
them in their appeals to the Governor.
It is claimed that majority OF the
members Of the two houses are favor
able to a call for an extra session.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Delegates from twenty-one port
cities meet in New York and organize
the National Free Zone Association
FOR Eroo Ports

Delegates from twenty-one port
cities meet in New York and organize
the National Free Zone Association
for Free Ports.
Justice Whitaker in Supreme Court,
New York, ordered the removal of
George J.. Gould as trustee under his
fathers will, finding him guilty of
three specific charges of dereliction
and abuse of power
Police chiefs from IS cities meet In
the City Hall, New York, to arrange
great drive on bomb plotters and an
archists. Expert federal agents and
secret service men will compare data
and discuss methods of combating
war of terrorism recently started.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo closed his
sea service, his last three years being
especially marked by great achieve
ments and developments in the fleet.
Admiral Mayo and q other officers OF
the navy received Legion of Honor
decorations at picturesque ceremony
on board the Pennsylvania.
House and Senate conferrees agree
on a United States army for 1920 of
325,OOO men. They are still discussing
items of the appropriation bill.
The American Bible Society has just
issued its annual report, which shows
that the past year, in spite Of war con-
ditions, was a record breaking year
from a point of view of the number of
Scriptures published. More than 6,OOO,-
600 volumes were turned out by this
society, which is the largest Bible pub
fishing agency in America.
On the eve of DR.. Karl Muck's de-
parture for Germany it leaks out that
the real cause Of the downfall of the
former conductor of the Boston Sym
phOny Orchestra was an intercepted
scurrilous letter sent by him to Back
Bay society girl.
Opposition to the provisions OF the
peace treaty, apart from the League
Of Nations covenant, develops to
formidable degree in the Senate.
Without debate the senate approved
q committee amendment to the naval
appropriation bill increasing the fund
for aviation from $15,OO0,OO0 to $685.
100000.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Water Protest Upheld.

Lonacondng-The Public Servico
Commission has decided the case OF
the Mayor and Councilmen of Iona
coming against the Homecoming Water
Company, protesting against the pro-
posed increase in water rates, to have
taken effect January / last, uphold
ing the protest. The rates, az pro-
posed, are found by the commission
to be unjust and unreasonable"
The valuation of the property OF the
company, as the basis for rate-mak-
ing, is fixed by the commission as
s91,146.35 and the maximum return
which the company In permitted to
earn 10 Z per cent.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
PITH OF HE
VICTORY NE w S

The signing of the peace treaty closed
the first scene of the first act In the
world drama, but sanguinary poIiti-
caIand racial struggles are still 60
. Ing on In eastern Europe and fiercer
conflicts are impending in the west
ern and central countries.
What will now happen to the ex-kaiser
and ex-crown prince is the question
many people are asking in Holland.
Both are enjoying the Netherlands
hospitaIities in the capacity Of po-
IiticaI refugees. The ex-kaiser's ex-
tradition is expressly Stipulated as
one of the articles of the peace
treaty.
Dr.. Won Bethmann-HolIweg, formerly
German chancellor, has asked the al
lied and associated powers to try
him instead of the one time Emperor
for war crimes.
Certain Berlin newspapers appear with
black borders for the editions telling
of signing the peace treaty. Some ed
itoria writers declare against
thought of revenge. Evangelical
churches throughout Germany desig-
mated Sunday as day of mourning.
German newspaper correspondents all
declare that kaiserism is dead and
that Germany is ready to start life
anew. She looks to America for aid.
Nation hears news of the treaty sign
Ing calmly, in marked contrast to
the feverish JOY and wild demonstra-
ton of Armistice day.
Oscar S. Straus declares League Of Ma
tions fails if article 10 of the cove
nant is rejected by the United States.
Reply to eritique of Elihu Root says
world would lapse into old alliances
and bring more wars without disput.
ed section.
Warnings THAI the League Of Nations
WeYid sfsste huge war trust and
frsaxs ths ~sfld lRte ina.utshli!tY
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
Montgomery's Tax Rate.

Rockville.-The county commits
sioners have signed annual levy and
fixed the tax rate at s1.06, which is
26' cents more than the rate for the
year now drawing to close.
The increase in the tax rate was
made necessary by increased appro-
priations for public schools and
roads. The estimate OF the county
board of education of s152,383 for
school purposes was adopted with
out change. This is large increase
over the appropriation for the pre-
ceding year and will be sufficient to
permit of substantial increases in the
salaries of the public school teachers
of the county.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD
Apple Shipments To Begin.

Cumlberland.-Sh of early
apples from the orchards along the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
Western Maryland Railway, in West
ern Maryland, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia will begin in a few
days. Early peaches will move in
about two weeks. The crops are
growing and ripening rapidly.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
first will send out shipments from the
fruit-bearing lands near Sleepy
Greek, Cherry Run and Paw Paw.
At first the Western Maryland will
move out early fruit from the or
chards at Hancock now owned by the
Pittsburgh Syndicate, Inc, and from
the Allies lands at Town Creek. The
other orchards will be touched later
as the fruit ripens.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-07-11
UphoIds Mayor And Council.

Cumberland.-The Public Service
Commission of Maryland has decided
the case of the Mayor and Council
men of Homecoming against the Lon
aconing Water Company, protesting
against the proposed increase in wa
ter rates, to have taken effect Janu.
ary 1 last, upholding the protest. The
rates, as proposed, are found by the
commission to be unjust and un-
reasonable" The valuation Of the
property of the company, as the basis
for rate making, is fixed by the com.
mission as s91,146.35 and the max
imum return which the company 10
permitted to earn is per cent.