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The New York herald., 1921-05-01

vanced in their operations FOR the freeing OF
Verdun from its encirclng menace. And
interest will not be confined soley to the
piles of ruins which mark where once pros
porous towns stood Although the devasta-
ton around Verdun has been taxing the
descriptive powers Of allied writer's ever
since the armistce was signed. with the
result that here and there small communi-
ties are being developed much as frontier
towns appeared mushroomlike when the
West was opened to settlers the American
area is still considered inside the zone
rouge" with mined trenches and dugouts,
hundreds OF unexploded shells and thousands
OF grenades holding out the prospect OF
danger to unwary investigators
on the winding road from Esnes to Malan-
court-it was between Avocourt and Esnes
that the Buckeye Division went over the
top" on It's northern push-a few small
farms have been cleared, the farmers using
corrugated iron huts as shelter during the
summer months but moving into Verdun
when the first SHOWS appear.
Esnes Itself can boast OF only three huts,
but more are promised before June. One
of these is already used as a chapel by the
cure Of the Esnes Malancourt- -Montfaucon-
Avocourt region, for the church at Esnes
was destroyed In the bombardment which
followed the Ohio troopg' advance through
the Hindenburg Line and the concreted Hagen
Stellung north Of Malancourt The Malan-
court Woods are still the same tangled mesh
Of underground that troubled Farnsworth's s
troops on the morning of September 26
or Mahncourt only j heap Of stones.
shapeless as In 1918. remains. On the north
ern slope of the hill behind the old village
a new village Is being constructed About
sixty families have already returned. and by
purchasing their household necessities on a
cooperative basis with the cafe" (also hut
at the corner OF the road leading over the
hill 70 Montfaucon) as their only respite
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

the attacks against Verdun. The observa-
tory Is still there, just the Americans
left It,
A dozen rods further down the Hill,
tourist agency has inaugurated a summer
hotel, but 1t Is not until the roadway to
Epinonville is reached, at the bottom of the
hill, that the new village of Montfaucon, as
simple as the original was majestic, is
reached
The VoSer Stellung which marked the last
real defence put up by the enemy in his
retreat toward the redoubts of Cierges and
Cunel runs through the new village, while
here and there among the seventy y-odd huts
car be found the remnants of machine gun
outposts installed by the Southern troops
but only used for few hours the morn
Ing of September 28
The road between Montfaucon and Char
pentry, via Epinonville, which paralleed the
Volker Stellung, is to-day worthy visit of
any summer vacationist seeking real repose
The finest farms of the middle West are not
more green than the cultivated patches,
while occasional wooded clusters. which,
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Chateau Thierry as 1t Is To-day;
Chief Point of Interest to American:

The doughboys and marines who aided IN
the winding up of the Watch on the Rhine
will not all be able to come 70 France this
year, or perhaps for many years hence. But
they will come. and it is only meet that they
know what they may expect when they do
arrive.
Certainly for many years to come the
chief interest Of Americans. whether soldiers
or civilians. will be centred in the region
surrounding Chateau Thierry, where Amer
lean valor and ingenuity received its hrst
critical test in the great and where the
German hordes were finally convinced that
their dreams of occupying Paris were of the
hmsiest sort of structure.
Close to Paris, only an hour and half
nv train and less by automobile, the visitor
is given a startling proof Of what the war
meant to the home owners of France, while
numerous military cemeteries which stud the
whole region tell their own story OF heroic
effort 10 save the worlds capital from the
Eastern barbarans With a vision of Cha !
teau Thierry and its countryside OF ruins
the average tourist seldom cares TO see more
OF the war torn areas.
few may visit the battlehelds Of the Ar
eonne or st. Mihicl; others may be attracted
to the Vosges where individual divisions
completed their training for more serious
work under the tutelage Of adjacent French
divisions: some may go northward 10 Sois-
sons or even to the scene OF the valiant at
tacks which gained the Hndenburg tunnel
for the allied armles--but these will be the
ones who are attracted by the fact that some
members Of their families gave their all in
the 1nal advance. Railroad communication
10 other areas than Chateau Thierry all
work against the creation of new pilgrimage
centres Notwithstanding the fact that in
many areas the American effort was greater,
even more costly, than in the region nearer
Paris. and history text books OF the future
viii place the activities Of Montfaucon, Va
rennes Fresnes-en-W Woevre on a parity with
the mightiest onsaughts of the civil war
and second only in the history of the con-
nict with Germany to the four years hero
ism of the defenders Of Verdun or Ypres
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Traces of Battle Begin to Fade
Once Chateau Thierry Is Reached

Once Chateau Thierry is reached how
ever, these constant symbols of the great
struggle begin to disappear. Around the
City Hall there are still the ruins of thirty
or forty buildings, but in the midst of these.
on the left hand side of the main street an
industrious cobbler has erected a repair shop
and in homage to the American troops who
wrested the city from the Germans boldly
advertises that he half soles and heels the
shoes of tired tourists while they wait-"a
rAmericain." Buildings which were only
lightly touched by the American and Ger
man artillery fire have practically all been
repaired: even the little tower on the City
Hall Is being reshingled and in a few
months the machine gun posts in this build
ing as well as in the steeple Of the stone
church will be completely lost to view
Hotels are to be found in every street and
a strictly English tea ROOM" which boasts
however, that ii has French cuisine" all
help the visitor TO forget that American ma
chine gunners during four terrible June
days held the fate OF France, If not the
whole world, in their hands
The buttresses of the main Marne bridge
still show how deadly was their aim when
directed against the stealthily creeping Ger
man detachments which tried to reenter the
town after having been driven eastward by
the French infantry; two temporary iron
and wooden bridges have been constructed
to replace the pdssereHes by which the Amer
lean lines of communication were kept in
tact after the American occupation of the
town, but the original traffic signs some
what inaccurate owing to the haste with
which they were erected still entertain
many Of the visitors and especially those
who served through that memorable June
with the Second and Third American d.
visions.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Tour of French Battle
fields, Scenes ofGreat
American Victories,
Reveals Few Radical
Changes
"WoNDER what the old place look.

"Wo1NtDER. what At the the iss old place looks
made after discussing their battle expert
enCeS by any one of the two million
Americans who fought in France. Now
two years and half after fighting ceased
THE NEW YORK HERALD presents
10 its readers vivid pen picture of the
more famous battle grounds made ever
memorable by American victories. One
of THE HERALD,S Paris Bureau men
has Just completed journey over the
ground and his report is the latest word
on the subject.
HERALD.
Copyright. 1921. bD THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau, l
Paris April FL
TN every hamlet, town or city in the
United States which can boast of a
branch OF the American Legion, or
even a casual gathering OF three or four
former wearers Of % D." you can choose
your odds that some time during the even
ing some one will suggest in reminiscent
tones
say Bud. do you remember Montfau-
CONF" Or it may be Chateau Thierry, or
Naux, or soissons or Bony, or Fresnes, or
Luneville-n fact, any Of the hundred-odd
points east Of Paris where the American
army fought the Germans
And Bud, with faraway look in his eyes
will reply wistfully:
Remember it? / should say | do! That
dugout on the north side of the Hill nearly
made me a permanent casualty. I wonder
if the fronts just the same as ever"
Take it from THE NEW YORK HERALD, Bud,
it is-and, then again, it isn't From Cha
teau Thierry and Scissors to the frontiers
Of Alsace- Lorraine and Luxembourg changes
have been wrought Here ordinary life Is
being revived there whole villages have
been hopelessy abandoned. Here can be
found constant evidences of gratitude for
what Americans did to save France and the
western world; there gratitude is mpos
sible rs those whose lands were invaded by
the Germans have lost faith in their own
capacity 10 come back" and seeking
easier lives in villages and towns untouched
by the horrors of war.
Here constant efforts to rebuild national
power; there, in the war torn regions which
bore the brunt Of the first German onslaught.
even the danger of death has not been en-
tirely removed, for trenches and dugouts
still contain an unchanging quota of unde-
stroyed explosives. Here increasing com
fort; there incompatible misery-but with
It all a general spirit of fatalism and even
some confidence that Frances ruins will
some day be entirely repaired and France
herself rise to greater power than she has
known since the days Of the Sun King
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Scared Scenery Much the Same
As When the Doughboys Departed

The returning veteran Of the fighting
around Chateau Thery wil-at least until
Germany begins TO pay for the damage she
has caused-fnd the scenery badly SCARED,
but much as he left Il in 1918. The hlllsides
surrounding Vaux and Bouresches, and es-
pecially the famous Hill 204, from which the
Germans looked down upon Chateau Thlerry
with covetous eyes, are still marked by the
shell torn tree trunks, while thousands o.
shell holes. only partially filled by Natures
kindly attempt 10 conceal the 'o2morias Of
the past to-day prove tie bane Of tho io"7i
farmers existence. Thoust ds OF these holes
have been filed in by tie farmers them
selves. but along the outskirts II Vaux can
be found the trace Of the opening barrage
which prepared tho way for the Ninth In
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

fantry's almost bloodless capture of the vii
lage itself.
Vaux to-day is as ruined it was that
misty morning the doughboys rushed
through It's streets A few of the residents
returned after the armstice and found shell
ter under a few wrecked walls, but their
homing instinct did not survive long. They
are housed to-day in Chateau Thierry in
some of the smaller towns which escaped
prolonged bombardments.
Through the southern end of Belleau
Woods runs a striking line of demarcation;
the artillery fire concentrated upon the ma
rines after their half kilometer advance on
the morning of June 10 left but few trees
standing, while the northern side, where
the hand to hand fighting was heaviest on
the following morning. there remnants
of the original forest beginning to bear
leaves. Ragged stumps on the northern
edge tell of the second intensive lombard
ment, in which the Seventh Infantry shared
the glory of defence with the Marine Bri-
gade, enabling the latter to add the whole
of the Belleau stronghold to the growing list
of American possessions.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

razed although 1t is probable that a portion
CT the original entrance will be used in the
erection of its successor.
Every one knows that Hattonchatel is to
be restored during the next two years,
thanks to the financial aid of a group of
wealthy Americans and already the village
is beginning to assume businesslike aspect.
Here again huts being erected on the
scene of the First Divisions conflict on Sept
13, 1918, and plans are under way for the
restoration of the chateau from which the
village takes its name.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
100000 Worth
OF Building Under
Way in Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ga, Aug. 16.-With
the announcement that E. w. Swift
& Co. had accepted plans for the
construction of a new seven-story
office building at the corner of
Broad and Thirteenth streets, and
investment to represent an expendi-
ture of several hundred thousands,
came rought estimate to the effect
that over 100000 is being expended
in construction operations in Column
bus and vicinity today.
Another big office building is to
go up at the corner of Broad and
Eleventh streets in a few weeks, this
building to be erected by the Illges
ing combined investment of perhaps
S1,000,000. A contract for the latter
building hasn't been awarded, but
plans accepted for the new tenants
the Silver company-call for a trer
mendous building. 1t is to be COM
pleted by the first Of the year, or
very soon afterwards.
Columbus is on quite boom from
a construction viewpoint, and the sit
uation is most promising. There are
over 100 private homes in course OF
erection, some of which are quite
expensive places. And there are many
business houses going up and numer-
Gus improvements under way. The
city is building one great concrete
bridge over the Chattahoochee at a
cost close to 100000, and it plans
to build another shortly at point in
the North Highlands section.
The office building to be erected
height to the Ralston hotel, and it
will be modern and creditable in
aVerV waV
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
Newspaper Manager
Takes Own Life

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 49,
Examination Of the business and per-
sonal affairs of Roland A. Mullins
business manager of the Birming-
ham Age Herald, today failed to re-
veal any motive for his suicide yes
terday. A nervous breakdown is
believed to have beer responsible.
Mr.. Mullins body was found in the
dense woods on Shades mountain,
near Birmingham, after a search of
several hours. He had shot himself
through the heart.
Several notes, addressed to his
wife and dealing with minor per-
sonal matters, were found. They
gave no motive for his act. These
notes, together with the story of his
chauffeur that Mullins had driven
to Shades mountain and then had
him bring his car back to town,
aroused fears and a search was start
ed by business associates which re-
suited in the finding of the body.
Mr.. Mullins had been business
manager of the Age-Herald for near
ly four years. He was also south
ern manager for r. L. Polk & Co.,
publishers Of city directories. The
funeral was held this afternoon.
Mr.. Mullins was forty-three years
old. He is survived by his wife. He
was born in Brunswick, Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
To PLAN SALE FOR
LOW GRADE COTTON

GREENSBORO, N. c., Aug. 16:-A
special committee of the Southern
Tariff association, headed by Ed
ward B. Benjamin, of New Orleans,
was appointed Tuesday by Chairman
John H. Kirby at the session of the
Southern Tariff congress here to de-
wise plan for the utilization of the
enormous amount Of low grade cot
ton now held on the farms and in the
warehouses throughout the south.
Senator Ransdell, Of Louisiana, has
offered an amendment to the senate
finance committee increasing the du-
ties on burlap to II per cent ad va
loren In addition to the present levy
of 1 cent per pound, and the special
committee of the tariff association is
solidly supporting this amendment on
the ground that low grade southern
cotton can be manufactured into
bagging and substituted for tho BUR
lap imported from foreign countries.
Proponents of this plan contend that
will mean millions of dollars to the
Farmers of the south, as it will en-
able them to market their low grade
cotton, which in many instances has
been held for three years.
A resolution faVoring the retention
of the embargo on dye until perma-
nent tariff legislation shall have been
enacted giving them proper protec-
ton was presented by a committee
of 200 manufacturers and was adopt
ed. Aresolution protesting against
the policy Of free raw material for
any southern product was urged by
several hundred North Carolina bank
ers, and was also unanimously adopt
ed by the congress-,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
Wealthy Farmer,
Now Serving Sentence,
Converted at Revival

L1NCoLNToN, Ga, Aug. 16-The
greatest revival in the history of
Lincolnton eliminated Friday eve
ming. when sixty-six converts were
baptized in the Baptist church here
by DR.. w. A. Hogen, the pastor, the
baptism taking Sc minutes. Seventy
nine additions to the church was the
full result.
The most significant feature of
the revival was the baptism Of G.
c. Rogers and wife, both of whom
stand convicted Of violation Of the
prohibition laws Of the state. Mr..
Rogers Is a wealthy farmer and
wholesale merchant who Is now serv-
ing a. sentence in the changing Of
Lincoln county for violation of the
prohibition laws, and his wife has
been convicted Of like offense, but
her case is now pending on motion
for new trial. 1t was on Rogers
farm that some $50 gallons of whis-
ky were found by Sheriff w. S. Har-
rison some months ago.
The revival was conducted by Rev.
I. F. Galloway, Of Macon, and the
song service was led by r. o. Bell,
of Atlanta
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
RUSS GOVERNMENT
REMAINS THE SAME

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-"The Russian
government remains the same toilers
government as before; our new eco
nomic policy is the result of the
general situation"
That was the statement made to-
day by Foreign Minister Tchitcher-
in, of Russia.
"The famine makes much change
in the internal situation" Tchitcher-
IN said.
(The change mentioned by Tchit-
cherin was the decision announced
last week on the relinquishing of
government operation of industry.
It was announced that industries
will be leased to cooperative con-
Germs and individuals, the govern
ment retaining full control only of
vital public utilities)
Tchitcherin's message in full said:
THE famine makes much change
in the internal situation of the
workers and peasants government,
which adequately represents the will
Of the toiling masses.
at does it's duty struggling against
calamity. 1t remains the same toll
erS government as before.
"Our new economic policy is the
result of the general situation.
Communists always consider en-
vironment and emergency. Their pro-
gram remains but their tactics
change according to the situation
Copyright, 1921, by United Press.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
FACTORY LABOR 1T /
TWENTY PER
The average factory worker is
m q king q hout So6 q 1I,aaly

The average factory worker is
making about SIS a week.
This is shown by the latest off,
cial report covering all factories in
New York state, which is consid-
cred representative of average fac
tory wages in the whole country.
In June A says g the report from m
$25.71. This was $S,o6 a week less
than year ago: The tendency con-
tinues downward, and the average
wage now is around SIS.
The industry paying the highest
wages was printing and paper
Week says the report. The lowest
was the clothing trades, averaging
$23.2S.
Thirty cents an hour is the new
wage scale for common labor in
| most of the large independent steel
mills. The pre-W war rate was 10 IL
during the war boom was 46 cents
an hour.
Wages have been slashed right
and left in the non-union bitumin-
Gus coal mines. This has enabled
the pon-union operators to UNDER
price.
Wages of 10000 coke workers in
the Connellsville. Pa, district have
been reduced a tenth.
| A 10 per cent wage cut has just
been put into effect by many ore
mining companies in the Lake SUI
| perior region, where a 20 per cent
wage cut went into effect May 16.
Since deflation began, wage cuts
| have, averaged about a third, the
country over.
Day labor is being hired as low
as IS to 10 cents an hour in many
of the large eastern cities.
| Working members of the Interna-
tiona4 Typographical union are con-
tributing nearly $1,00O,000 a month
to carry on the fight for the Az
hour week, says the last bulletin
| from union headquarters. The union
has about $4,000 members, of which
S,6O7 were out early in August.
| The Kansas court Of Industrial
relations is proving a success, ac-
| cording to the claims of Governor
Allen. He says: Each Of the 2S
orders and judgments Of the court
| rendered thus far has been accepted
by both sides of the controversy,
| excepting the last, which Is now
pending on appeal before the state
supreme court"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
Foreign Powers Ask
Exchange Conference

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The
treasury has received inquiries from
two foreign powers for details of a
possible international conference in
Washington to discus measures for the
sterilization Of exchange rates, Sec
rotary Mellon said Monday The
powers were informed, he added, that
the treasury was proposing no such
conference.
Comptroller of the Currency Girls
singer, however, declared that his
original suggestion of the advisable
ity of such meeting still stood, al
though no details had been consider
ed. No plans have been drawn, he
said, although the idea has been pre-
sented in correspondence to fiscal
officers of other countries, and has
taken tentative shape at the capitol.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS ON
TAX REVISION MEASURE
Dairy Demonstration
Interests Farmers
OF Butts County

JACKSON, Ca, Aug. 16.-One of
the most important meetings ever
held in Butts county in the interest
of a system Of safe farming and real
dlversification was the dairy Demon
stration held in Jackson Friday. The
meeting was attended by hundreds Of
interested farmers and business men
from Butts and adjoining counties.
Addresses were made by Roland Tur-
ner, general agricultural agent, and
H. c. Bates and G. w. Humphrey,
live stock agents Of the Southern
Railway system.
Dairy supplies and accessories
were shown and their use explained.
Model dairy stalls were constructed
and milk was tested for butter fat
and a number of cattle judged.
AS the result of this and other
meetings held here, a cream station
will be established in connection with
the Jackson Ice corporation and ship
ments of cream on large scale will
begin at once. Ready markets are
available for all the cream that can
be produced. Dairying will fill an
increasingly important part IN the
farming operations of Butts county
and many farmers will be able to re-
cover some Of the losses sustained
by growing cotton.
Great interest has been manifested
in the dairying industry and the
banks have pledged their co-opera-
ton and aid by lending money to
farmers to secure cows and needed
equipment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-18
Gen. Billiard Meets
Man Who Saved His
Life in PHILIPPINES

NEW CASTLE, Del, Aug. 10
Major General Robert Lee Billiard
Monday met Corporal Tom Doyle.
Wilmington, who prevented the for
mer's head being cut off in the Phil
ippines in August, 1902, when Bull
lard was major with the American
forces there. On being introduced
General Billiard studied the face Of
the corporal and then grasped his
hand, exclaiming: why, God bless
you, corporal, are you the man who
saved my life in the Philippines?
poral.
well, I have been looking for you
ever since, writing to almost every
Dolye 1 ever heard of in my effort
to locate you," remarked the general.
On that day the corporal and l."
said General Billiard, had been sep
arated from the rest of our party,
when from a thicket jumped a Fill
p1no, with a machete in his hand
He first swing cut away the top OF
My cap, and knocked my sabre from
my. hand. I was at his mercy. The
Filipino had his machete raised for
a finishing stroke when Corporal
Doyle jumped from the brush and
shot my assailant through the head.
killing him instantly and saving my