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Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-29

The men are trained in the higher
branches of the art of war: in STRAIT
egy and the maneuvering of large
bodies of troops. They make the laws
as they are needed; a new law for
each emergency. Customs have been
handed down by ages of repetition.
but the punishment for ignoring Gus
tom is a matter for individual treat
ment by jury OF the culprit's peers.
and ] may say that justice seldom
misses fire, but seems rather to rule
In inverse ratio to the ascendency of
law. In one respect at least the Mar
tians are a happy people; they have
no lawyers
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-29

CTo BE CONTINUED.


Lines to Be Remembered.
we should give as we would re-
ceive: cheerfully, quickly and without
hesitation; for there is no grace in q
benefit that sticks to the fingers-sen-
eca-
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-29

Jack (gallantly) dear. any
thing you say goes.
Marie (quickly)-Jack-
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
GIVE PRISONERS
RAISE IN WAGES

BERLIN, Jan. 2.-The biggest per
centage increase in wages on rec
ord has just gone into effect here
at time when the tendency every
where is downward. The beneficial
ries are prisoners in the jai's and
penitentiaries. whose share Of the
money earned by them for the state
has been increased five-fold in one
jump by the minister of justice The
maximum daily caInings winch ma,
be credited to their account, draw
able when they leave prison, has
been Increased from 20 pfennigs TO
a mark for penitcntiary inmates,
and from 80 pfenniEs to u mark and
half for Jail prisoners.
The increase is rO1 Il 'llhuted to
the highc: cost of ivlnE though
this factor now makes it about
five times AS expensive 10 maI",lIl
these involuntary boardcrs a. be
fore the war. 1t is presumably due
to the greater earning value OF
prison labor.
Copyright, 1891. Public Ledger Co..
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
MEYICANS PLAN
FOR u. S. TRADE

MONTEREY, Mex, Jan. DE
fensive measures for protection Of
American-MexiCan trade will be
discussed at a meeting Of American
exporters in Mexico City in Apr.II.
according to announcement CT the
American chamber of commerce Of
Mexico City today.
Invitations have been sent to
chambers Of commerce, manufacture
ers and exporters to gather for the
conference, out Of which will prob
ably grow some definite plan for
protection for future trade between
the two countries. American houses
now hold the supremacy in trade
with Mexico, but Mexican buyers
have threatened to invite competi-
tion from South America and Eu-
rope, who have been offering su-
peTior buying inducements, it was
SAID. European houses have Offered
credit to such an extent shat Amer
leans must find some means Of
overcoming this apparent advant-
age, it was said.
American houses heretofore have
dealt only on a cash basis and the
most important debate before the
Congress will be on reorganization
OF the American Mexican ,.e,..t SIT
uatiOn.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
CROOKED GERMAN TRADERS
DOING THRIVING BUSINESS IN
DRUGS STOLEN FROM ARMY
Cocaine, Morphine and Chloroform Sold in
Large Quantities for Export by
Underground Route.

BERLIN, Jan. "A thriving in
ternational business in cocaine, NOR
phine and other drugs has devel-
oped in Germany. the stock in
trade consisting of army stores
stolen from the vast sanitary de-
pots and military hospitals dur
ing the armistice. Drugs vanished
by carloads in the confusion at
tending the breaking up of the army
and the revolution and now are
reappearing in the hands of shady
dealers who understand not only
how to Illustrate the attempts OF
the authorities to check the illegal
trade, but also how to feed out the
supplies gradually in order not to
break the market. Part of the sup
ply has been sold abroad, an under
ground route being chosen to avoid
conflict with the drug traffic regu-
lations of Germany and the coun-
try of its destination and also be-
cause the title. would not bear in
vestigation.
Estimates of the amount going
abroad to contribute to the wave
Of crime in the United States and
elsewhere are difficult to obtain, as
the police thus far have caught only
petty agents handling small guam
titles of coke" etc. who know
little of the inside of the business.
None of the trails yet followed up
has led to the men higher up who
are running the export business and
operating with extreme care and
caution, nor to the hiding places of
the principal stores of these drugs.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
CHASTITY DANCE
ON WAY TO U. S.
It's a Scene in a MadhOuse
Shown in Paris
Theater.

PARIS. Jan. 2-"The worlds
ghastliest dance" is the description
applied by a Partisan critic in The
Madhouse, one of the items on the
program Of the Swedish ballet at the
Champs Elysecs Theater. which is on
its way to New York, via London.
The curtain rises upon back drop
painted by Nils de Dardel, represe Mt
ing a nude giant in a CrOuChing pos
ture, with a vacant face and eXag-
gerated claws as hands. The scene
represents the garden of an insane
asylum. A dozen or more of the in
mates are discovered in various OC-
cupations, indicating their respective
Authorizations. OneChasesima ginary
butterflies, another imagines herself
a queen, a third talks soundless ora
tory to an unseen audience.
Into this garden Of fools" strays
a young girl, attired. to further ac-
centuate the horror. in virgin white.
She pauses. astOunded at the motions
of her companions, and watches
them intently. Under the sc-utiny
of purity the imbeciles become more
and more violently insane, until at
last the young girl falls under the
spell of idiOCy and goes mad herself.
( other dances of the ballet have
aroused almost equally violent criti-
Cism. but all are conceded to be exc
cuted with a clever technique
FL Greco" depicts a storm in To-
ledO. Thunder is heard and light
ming flashes serve as a wierd illu-
mination. In the foreground, among
the general lamentatiOn. is a young
man whose brother has just been
killed by the storm and who bias
phemes the Divinity, calling on the
Devil to take his soul. He is won
over finally by a nun and the sky
clears. Debussys JeUx and Henri
Battaile's The Foolish Virgins, set
10 music by Kurt Atterberg, are
other items on the program.
The ballets have served to intro
duce to Paris a premier dancer
named Jean Borlin. a cousin of the
King OF Sweden, and Jenny Hassel-
quist, already well known as a fol-
lower Of PavlOwa
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
FRANCE GOT THIRD
OF LOAN in CASH
Recent Issue Hailed as Most
Profitable Ever
FlOated.

PARIS, Jan. 2.-Figures Just pub
lished by the government show that
the recent per cent loan was the
most profitable ever issued by
France, more than 5000, 100000 OF
the 27,OOO,OOO,OOO francs being cash
subscriptions, the highest percent
age of cash recorded in any govern
ment loan.
proves that the sacrifciaI patriot
ism of the French people did not die
out when the armistice was signed.
At the same time criticism against
present financial measures was
leveled in the senate by NJ. Ribot on
the occasion of the ratification of
the financial convention, in which
the government instead of making
the promised reduction of 5000, ,000,-
900 francs in the paper circulation
has put that plan off until some
time in the new year. NJ. Ribot said:
1T is very disappointing that we
should not keep our engagements
With the Bank of France, from
which We have borrowed more than
10000, 100000 francs in the last year
ithout consolidating more than o.
.OO,OO0,0O0 francs of our floating
lebt, which still remains at 43,000,-
10000 francs.
Despite the success Of the loan
We have only reduced our debt to
he Bank of France by 1000, ,O0O.-
90 francs"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
Declares He SaID Alleged
Deserter Badly Wounded

Although John H. Earliwine, a
member of Company c, 111th In
fantry, is listed by the War De-
partment as a deserter. William
w. Baker of his company, has
made an afidavit that he and Ear
Irvine were wounded in the St
Mihiel sector on November 4, 1918
Baker. who was captured by the
enemy, swears that as he was be-
ing carried away on a stretcher he
saw Earliwine lying on the ground
seriously wounded. Earliwine has
not been heard from since October
1918. and his father desires infor-
nation regarding his fate to clear
his good name and to make claim
for his insurance. Address S. F,
Earliwine, Loudsnville, w. Va.
Edgar H. English. private, Sew
enth-third Company, Sixth Marines,
was reported killed in action on
November l. 1918; later message
said he was seen on November 10.
1918. His sister, Mrs. Fred E,
Ryan. st. Marys, w. Va, seeks
any Information.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
WOMAN'S MISSION
is TO END WAR

LONDON, Jan. >. - THE special
mission of women in public life Is
to make war impossible in the fu-
ture," said Mrs Pethick Lawrence.
who has just returned from a visit
to the United States, where she
spoke on behalf Of the Women's
international League
As nCnCOmbatants." she added
We are in the best possible posi-
tion. We are not so liable to be
called towards, and we can say what
we think about war. 1t is essential
that we should say ii so clearly that
the governments Of all countries
will have to listen. We must bring
about universal disarmament.
Men are the weaker sex. They
are quite helpless. quite unable TO
protect themselves They are caught
in the net Of war. Only women are
able to protect them. and in future
! shall devote my time to appealing
10 women all over the world to pro-
teCt them
"A woman who sends her bov 10 a
war is like woman who throws
her baby to the wolves following
her sleigh. A woman would give
her life to save her helpless baby.
He Is quite as helpless when he he
comes Of military age"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
By KARL H. Won wIEGAND.

BERLIN, Jan. "A dark. gloomy
and uncertain portent, generally
speaking, is the outlook visioned by
Germany as the nation peers into
the uncharted and trouble promis-
ing year Of 1921.
On the eve of the new year a YER
table drum fire of French and Brit
ish notes were falling upon Ger
many's political front calling aloud
"Dlsarm Further" and there prom
Use developments in the new year
which cannot be forecast, but which
without exception, serve to intensity
the uneasiness of the German people
and to create a state of affairs which
gives a poor outlook for the coming
year. They will prevent the mental
consolidation so necessary to the
work of reconstruction.
With but few exceptions. the sit
uation in Germany is no better al
the beginning of the year than il
was at the beginning of the revo-
luton.
Count Won Bernstorff, former Am
bassador to the United States, in a
written statement declares the one
bright and promising ray piercing
the black political clouds hanging
over Germany is from America with
the establishment of a new govern
ment there. He believes that Presi-
dent Hardings first official act will
be the restoration of peace between
the United States and Germany.
Germany's statesmen are seeing
war looming up in the early spring
between Russia and Poland. Mill
tary specialists are convinced that
Poland will collapse, even If not
miIitarily, then politically and eco
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
Germans Fear Polands Collapse
And Inevitable War On Her Border;
Denounce Demand for Disarmament

nomically, and they point out that
Germany must be prepared fully to
reckon with the Red armies at the
main German border.
Persons coming from Warsaw
paint the political and economical
and financial condition OF Poland as
we'll nigh hopeless. They point out
that the German mark, which is
worth less than Il cents in Amer
lean money, buys 10 Polish marks.
They also express doubt whether
France can much longer carry the
burden Of keeping up Poland's mill
tary machine.
With that prospect in the East,
the Germans are both enraged and
depressed by the entente demand
for the dissolution of the German
security police" II is pointed out
that with the advance of the Red
armies, the radicals in Germany are
prepared this time to make an i'm
pOrtan: move and not lie inactive
as was the case when the Red
armies were at the German border r
the last time.
Already Germany is 10000 men
short in the Versailles treat allow
ance of a ReiChswehr force OF l00,-
900 men because the men object TO
the twelve years enlistment period.
1t is declared that the security
police Of Essen have been dissolved.
At the same time the entente is eX-
pected to register a demand for the
disarming OF the Einwohnerwehr,
which, together with the dissolution
of the security police, it is bitterly
declared. will leave Germany prac-
tiCally defenseless.
To add to the dark outlook the
government tonight makes known
that an allied note has been received
demanding the eXtraditton of twenty
war criminals.
And on top Of all that reports tell
Of a general vote being taken by the
railroad workers on the question Of
a general strike in the event that
their demands are not granted. Up
to the present all the votes tabu-
lated have been for the calling of
the strike to enforce the demands.
So far only reports from three of
the railway centers are in.
In bitter language, the Lokal An
zeiger reviews Germanys armed
condition in the light OF the renewed
demands from France and England
that Germany comply with the Ver-
sailIes treaty.
Instead of 100000 men on a peace
footing" says the paper, we to-
day have an army of $4,000 men.
Forty thousand officers have been
dismissed and only 1000 remain.
I'VE have no heavy artillery and
no flyers. Universal military serv-
ice has been done away with. Our
fortresses on the western front have
been dismantled.
Fifty thousand cannon, five mill
lion rifles and small arms and sixty
thousand machine guns have been
destroyed. OF our airships, $4,000
aeroplanes and $4,000 aeroplane
parts have been delivered to the
allies"
Notwithstanding all this, declares
the Lokal Anzeiger, France demands
$50 guns. The fortress at Koeniss-
berg has been reduced to twenty
guns, there are IS at Pillau and s6
at Kuestrin, with 1873 guns dis
mantled entirely, leaving Germany
and Berlin open to invasion from
the east.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
GERMAN POTASH
TRADE TAGGING
Syndicate Will Send Delegates
To United States to
Boom Sale.

BERLIN. Jan. 2-The German
potash syndicate, which has been
waiting long and anXiously for the
return of representatives of the
American fertilizer interests to
resume the negotiations interrupted
in September, has decided to send
plentipotentiaries to the United
States in an attempt to drum up
foreign business. The negotiators
will sail Tuesday for New York.
The syndicate now is well aware
that the depression in the United
States and the fall in the prices of
wheat, cotton and other agricul-
tNral products, has reduced the de-
mand for German potash TO a min
imum and that it must be prepared
to make an attractive initial offer
IL ii hopes even to launch nego-
tiations.
The eagerness to dispose Of pot
ash in the United States Is aug
mented by the failure of the German
market to absorb its potash aliot-
ment for the d mestic supply and
the unsatisfactory state OF the con-
tinental export trade. Some com
paratively small contracts have
been placed in Holland but eastern
Europe virtually is closed by ex-
port prohibitions or restrictions and,
as one of the syndicate leaders re-
marked the other day, no prosper
ity is in sight for the German pot
ash industry unless the American
markets are reOpened.
The mines are now predicting all
the potash required by German agri-
culture. but the farmers are hold
ing and not buying. owing to the
price. American sales, even at re-
duced prices, it is expected would
yield a profit which would permit
a reduction to domestic consumers.
Any considerable sales in the
United States probably would in
volve reciprocal purchases of Amer
ican phosphate rock because the
greatest shortage is in this fertil-
izing element, but imports are i'm
possible owing to the prohibitive
exchanges.
Copyright, 1921, Public Ledger co.,
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03

The authorities thought they had
one OF the big insiders when they
caught a business man of good rep
utation in West German city with
a considerable quantity of drugs for
which he was trying to find a for
eign purchaser. but they learned he
was merely a tool attracted by the
prospect of large profits. He was
let off with a fine.
A gang of domestic distributors
were arrested this week by Ber-
lin detectives posing as foreign buy
ers looking for a large quantity OF
coke" etc, at a bargain. The drug
peddlers, whom they met in one
of the cafes serving as a head
quarters in the drug trade, offered
to inquire further and ultimately
returned with 10000 marks worth
of cocaine, morphine and chloro-
form and $4,000 marks worth of alb
sorbent cotton, also stolen from mill
itary stores. They were arrested
and the dope was confscated, but
the trail led no further.
There also is a considerable legit-
innate export of German drugs and
medicines-part of it being the COM
pulsory supply to the entente powers
and the United States under the
peace treaty-but this export plays
but a small part in the demoraliz-
ing effect of drugs upon dope fiends
and criminals OF the underworld.
1t is controlled at every step from
the factories through the channels
of export .rsde to the ultimate dis
tr;hutors.
Copyright 1921, Public Ledger Co..
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
King ALphonso Loses
But Queens Horse Wins

PARIS, Jan. "A ruction in the
royal house of Spain nearly fol-
lowed the victory of Ovillers in the
Aston Blount stakes at Auteuil
last Sunday.
Both King Alphonso and the
Queen of Spain were at the races
and when the Queen charged NJ.
Quinones de Leon to bet 10000
francs on Ovillers the King became
peeved because she wouldn't take
his advice and bet on Courtcy,
owned by Marquis de Villamajor.
Finding the Queen still strong for
her horse the King went out in the
betting ring and bet, according to
rumor, practically all the money in
his pockets on Courcy.
Ovillers won and Courcy trailed
the field. The King was broke to
the wide"
Observers remarked that their ma
jesties exchanged no further re-
marks during the whole afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
Department of Sports
In German Government

BERLIN, Jan. "A Department
of Athletics and Sports" has been
established in the German Foreign
Office. Its purpose is to furnish in
formation. give advice and all pos
sible assistance to German athletes
and sportsmen who wish to travel
abroad or compete in international
meets.
With universal military service
done away with. there is a dispOsi-
tion more and more to substitute
physical training, athletics and
sports for physical Upbuilding and
reinstilling discipline into the grow
ing generations.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
EXILE WITHOUT
COUNTRY JAILED
German Threatened at Home,
Seized by Paris
Police.

PARIS, Jan. p Following two
years of forced travel through
Switzerland, Italy, Spain, England
and France, William Schoenberg, a
German, has been sentenced to thir-
teen months Imprisonment in Paris
for returning to France after being
expelled
Schoenberg's adventures since the
war recall those Of Castro, the
Venezuelan president, who WAS
asked to leave" nearly every coun-
try in Europe
Married to a Frenchwoman,
SChoenberg before the war was rep
resentattve at Paris of various Ger
man houses. When the war started
he declared himself to be an Alsa-
tian. The lie was discovered, and
he was sentenced to detention for
the remainder of the war.
After the armistice Schoenberg
was released and expelled from
France. In Switzerland he learned
that he had been condemned to
death in Germany for high treason
as d deserter. Then he was ar
rested in Switzerland and returned
to France because he did not have
a German wise on his passport. En-
tering Spain, the same thing hap
pened, and Italy and England both
closed their doors to him as an un-
desirable immigrant.
Forced to remain in France,
Schoenberg settled the problem by
giving himself up to the police.
who promptly imprisoned him again.
On his release = year hence,
Schoenberg hopes passports will
have been abolished. in which case
he intends going to the United
States. During the war his wife
divorced him.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
DOCTORS PRACTICE
ON BABES IN PARIS

PARIS, Jan. 2. - That babies as
well as dogs and monkeys are ex-
perimented upon at the Institute
Pasteur is revealed in the institutes
monthly magazine, just published,
which has aroused violent criticism
against the institute in Paris.
In a report by DR.. Charles NiColle
and DR.. T. Conseil, famous micro
biologists. it is stated: We in
jected in a monkey s &C. of the blood
Of measles patient. Nine days
later it's temperature had risen to
4O.7 Forthwith we inoCulated
with the blood of this monkey two
other animals and an infant.
After nine days of incubation the
child presented all the classical
symptoms of the malady. The blood
Of the child was then in its turn
injected into three monkeys. in the
case Of two of which the inocula-
tion showed positive results"
40 mention is made as to whether
the child recovered.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
Confessed Murder
To Save Lover; Is
Jailed for Perjury

PARIS, Jan. 2.-Because she con-
fessed TO the attempted murder OF
her husband, committed by her
lover, Philippe Duplan, son Of a
prominent Paris lawyer, Marie Casa
michele has been sentenced 20 a year
in prison by Paris court for
perjury.
Casamichele returned to HE fat
one night and discovered Duplsn
there with his wife. A shot was
fred and Csssmichele fell severely
wounded.
The wife and her lover rushed out
Of the building and hailed a taxi.
As they got into Il q passerby heard
her say, You get away quick and
I'll tell them I did It."
The passerby's good memory re-
suited in DUplan being arrested a
few hours later despite the pro-
testations OF the wife that she was
guilty.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
SEE DE VALERA'S
REPUTED RETURN
j, AS PEACE OMEN
Belief Grows in London
That Irish Leader
Is in Dublin.
By ROBERT J. PREV.

LONDON, Jan. 2.-The where
sbouts of Eamonn De Valera re-
mains a mystery, although despite
the efforts of Scotland Yard and the
Irish office to discredit the story
that he is in Ireland, the belief that
he has actually reached Dublin is
growing in London.
Today's newspapers refuse to ac-
cept the theory that De Valera's OBJ
ject in returning to Ireland is to
lead the insurgent movement. On
the contrary they are advancing the
idea that the incident is a peace
omen. The Sunday Herald goes so
Sfar as to say that De Valera will
visit Premier Lloyd George at the
end of next week to discuss terms
o. the peace settlement.
Papers show PoIiteness.
Marked politeness is shown the
fugitive president by the leading
English organs who do not wish to
prejudice whatever prospects of an
Irish compromise the return of the
president may entail. In the OBJ
server Stephen Gwynn says:
He steps dramatically but with
real courage into a post of appall-
ing diffiCltv and danger, in which
every Irishman will wish him God
speed. 1t would be Unwise for the
government to do otherwise than to
leave him free as long as he makes
II possible for them to do so. His
coming must mean one of two
things. Either it will give new
character to the Republican armed
campaign which can only shorten
the agony and may possibly redeem
some Of its squalOr, or, as is ten
times more likely, it will open the
way to negotiations for a settlement
directed from the Sim Fein side by
the only man who is in a position to
make vital decisions.
Knows American Sentiment.
De VaIera's public record shows
that he possesses generosity and is
devoid Of rancor. He brings to Ire
land a knowledge of the true facts
of Americas intentions which are
essential for a settlement.
The greatest difficulty is the
question of amnesty but Lloyd
George is ready to realize that there
is need for an act of oblivion"
The Premiers journalistic friend,
Garvin, says:
IF any business looking towards
a real settlement could be done with
De Valera We would do it without
regard to the complete technical
justification for his arrest or for
any conventional etiquette"
Regarding the English campaign
for the Limitation of naval arma-
ments Garvin warns the government
that America is more likely to agree
to the proposal if England first set
ties the Irish problem.