The Greensboro patriot [March 13, 1919]

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PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY.
GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 21
. IMH REVOLUTION
A PLANNED FOR AMERICA
pgpSE&nJ: *•
1"li'1.ik''repubiic, according to a
the senate
by Solicitor
AXARTH-D
I.
. „,__ March 10.—Mail
0ShSd since the signing of
" •":, 1 co has disced that the
■'';;• anarchW*. radical Soc.al-
■* ./others are "perfecting an
* -Ltion" which has for Its ob-
SfSSw of the American
^'"lent through a "bloody rev-
•'ter a d the establishment of a
i^'ndum sent to
I -t^uHSS. department.
StiSlS -made public
X committee and Chairman
;;,ma» said it would be read into
.<.,. record tomorrow.
Declaring that in bolshevism the
||ir,l elements of the country had
I „„, Brs» time -found a common
which they can unite.
;,,.;,,r said his information
aowed propaganda against the gov-
....,,„ was being conducted with
.'-,.„ regularity and its magnitude
"olll<l be measured by the "bold and
Nupokea statements" found in the
iteratare. Accompanying his mem-orandum
were several hundred ex-cerpts
from mail matter showing the
.'rend 01 the propaganda. These
xill be made public later.
Particular reference was made by
■ho solicitor to the activity of the
Unsatisfied foreign element in the
country, but he said perhaps the I.
tv. W. was the most active in the
Lamination of the propaganda be-muse
it "has at its command a
large field force known as recruit-ing
agents, subscription agents, etc..
•vim work unceasingly in the furth-r.
uic" of "the cause.' "
l.amar's Memorandum.
Mr. Lamar's memorandum, to
which was attached a list of news-l
papers printed in English and for-
1 »fen languages alleged to be regu-
I'.jriy conducted and published by
\«.V:V\\\ \\\. said in part:
"This propaganda is being con-ducted
with such regularity that its
magnitude can be measured by the
nold and outspoken statements con-
Mined in these publications and the
••tiorts made therein to inaugurate
i nation-wide reign of terror and
orerbtrow the government.
"'" classifying these statements.
"».v "re submitted in a major or
WMMl class as follows: I. W. W..
arehhtie. radical, Socialistic and
K'-ihst- It will be seen from these
** and M is '"deed signiticant.
,to '- «* 8m time in the his-
■»" '" ">" so-called radical move-
' : '•■■ l"«'ted States that these
" *■"»*■ have found a com-
" ' b"'s!u-visni i in which!
'" "" >">**■ The I. W. W..|
■'^ Socialists, radical and
"•'■ '" fan all dissatified ele-j
; Particularly the foreign ele-:
'''lv Perfecting an
°n »"«■ en, Ohio,
amalgama-
• -!)j-ct. and one object
'■**«. namely, the over-1
;!::: wreromenl of the "<i St:
'"' WtolMio
s »>■ the means of a'
11 and the establish-!
' ' ''Olsbevik republic.
'■ »■ IV. Mliiwl Active.
is perhapse most
■ '" spreading this
. -"-"a and has
' W. VV
•~S.ii;,.,!
rce
: ' ■ Subs
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"'■""• Of
"This
at its command
1: nown
*rintlon
""ceasingly
""' cause-as
recruiting
agents, etc.,
in the furth-
,h, _ uation P»blishes at
»SW« sp:Ws in the English
|-uase<" . and n'n" in foreign lan-t,
j; A. Pels Badulas, Hungarian,
weekly, Chicago.
Robins Again Appears.'
The information furnished by Mr.
Lamar coincides to an extent with
the statements reiterated to-day by
haymond Robins, former head of
the American Red Cross mission in
Russia, when he again appeared be-fore
the committee, primarily to an-swer
statements concerning him
made Saturday by David R. Fran-cis,
American ambassador to Russia.
Mr. Robins insisted it was the de-sire
of the bolshevists to overthrow
all the governments of the world
and in their place set up terroristic
governments similar to those in
Russia. He said he did not know
of his own knowledge that bolshe-vists
from Russia actually were en-gaged
in trying to accomplish this
purpose in the United States, but he
was convinced certain people here
were engaged in propagating bolshe-vist
ideas.
"The I. W. W.," he added, "has
borne it for 20 years."
Russian Reds to Aid.
In reply to questions, Mr. Robins
said he did not know whether bol-shevist
agents were being sent into
South America but he agreed with
Senator King, of Utah, it was quite
probable the Russian Reds would
undertake to aid any radical
groups wherever operating.
Turning to Ambassador Francis"
testimony Saturday Mr. Robins de-nied
he had gone to the headquar-ters
of the bolshevists in Petrograd,
asked about their principles and in-dicated
his approval of them. He
also denied that he had ever pre-tended
to represent the American
government in Russia. Ambassador
Francis told the committee he had
heard Mr. Robins was spoken of in
Moscow as the mouthpiece of the
American government and as a con-sequence
the ambassador thought it
wise to make a public announce-ment
that- statements coming from
sources other than the American
embassy were not authorized.
Mr. Robins submitted to the com-mittee
copies of cablegrams which
be said passed between Ambassador
Francis and the state department,
and telegrams and letters which he
asserted were sent him by the am-bassador.
The witness explained
his purpose in offering these docu-ments
was to show at all times his
relations with the ambassador were
valued and cordial and he was au-thorized
by Ambassador Franci.? to
maintain contact with the bolshe-vists.
Given Him by Francis.
One cf the letters was given him
by Ambassador Francis. Mr. Robins
said, "to provide against the possi-bility
of error in statement and sub-sequent
refutation of my authoriza-tion
to represent the ambassador in
the manner indicated by his verbal
instructions."
This was at a time when, accord*
ing to the correspondence, Mr. Rob-ins
was in conference with Lenine
and Trotzky and other officers of
the soviet government, socking to
prevent the signing of the treaty o."
Brest-Litovsk.
Another letter which Robins said
was written by Ambassador Fran-cis
contained in the statements as to
wtfat the United States might do In
case the treaty was not signed. Mr.
Robins told the committee the letter
was given him to be used at his die-"
cretion as evidence to Lenine anil
the officials of the fourth all Russia
soviet at Moscow to aid in the pre-vention
of the ratification of the
treaty and "as evidence of the will-ingness
of the ambassador to urge
against intervention in Siberia by
the Japanese."
THOUSANDS VIEW PRETTY | DEMOCRATS GET READY
FURNITURE DISPLAYS!
A POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE THE ISSUES FOR THE 1920 CAM-isaid:
"The Democrats tried to re-
Peal the tax-of 10 per cent on the
TO LICK REPUBLICANS 2?£semiluxuries- which wi» «* feIt by every man and woman in the
country.
JOINED IN HOLY WEDLOCK
DURING THE EVENING.
Greensboro people had an intro-duction
Tuesday evening to some-thing
absolutely unique in the way
PAIGN ARE ALREADY TAK-ING
SHAPE.
Washington, March 11.—Political
questions are taking definite shape
« »«"'u*ci/ uuiquc LIIC w«.» .h.~er.~e now. Th~e D~.em....o..c.iriaitios marue ggeett--
of a spring opening, that was held ting ready to go to the bat to Wal-by
the Huntley-Stockton-Hill Com-pany.
From 7.30 until 10 o'clock
the company had "open bouse" for
their friends, and estimates of at-tendance
ran all the way from 5,000
to 10,000 people. Certain it is that
"many hundreds were unable to gain
admittance to the mammoth estab-lishment
at any time during the
evening, and the three floors were
packed to overflowing every minute
of the time.
'• For weeks past the company had
been planning the event, and the an-nouncement
that a wedding would
occur during the evening doubtless
brought a large number. So closely
had the secret been guarded as to
the identity of the couple that
scarcely anyone outside the person-nel
of the organization knew who
they were. It was an eager and ex-pectant
crowd, therefore, that await-ed
the ceremony and the entrance
of the contracting parties.
It was shortly after 9 o'clock that
the orchestra launched into the
strains of Mendelssohn's wedding
march, and Miss Gracie May Leon-ard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Leonard, of this city, and Earl D.
Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D.
Wright, of Liberty, now a resident
of Greensboro, appeared from an im-provised
reception room at the rear
of the second floor and advanced
along the aisle to the front, where
they were united in marriage by Dr.
E. L. Bain, pastor of West Market
Street M. E. church. The ceremony-was
a simple but pretty one without
attendants.
The music program was most ap-propriate
and beautiful. Mrs. W. W.
Stanley sang "I Love You" and "Be-cause,"
Mendelssohn's wedding
march was played as the proces-sional
and the wedding march from
"Lohengrin" as the recessional. Miss
Britt, at the piano, played softly
during the ceremony.
The bride, who is known to a
wide circle of admiring friends,
wore a gown of Alice blue crepe de-chine,
with hat and accessories to
match.
Mr. Wright, who but recently re-turned
home after serving in the na-tional
army, is making Greensboro
his home, having a connection with
the circulation department of the
Daily News.
Decorations and arrangements of
the interior on all three floors were
artistically worked out. the lighting
effects showing off to wonderful ad-vantage
the rare collection of furni-ture
and home furnishings assem-bled
for the opening display. To say
that the event was successful, that
those attending were deeply im-pressed
with the exposition of beau-tiful
things for'the home, would be
putting it mildly indeed. Members
of the organisation were overwhelm-ed
with congratulations upon the
extent and character of the displays.
The reception accorded the thou-sands
of visitors was most cordial,
and so perfectly had detailed plans
been worked out that the crowds
were handled masterfully. Carna-tions
were distributed as souvenirs,
and everyone in attendance was
made in some way to feel the wel-come
in which they participated.
lop the Republicans.
The issues of the 1920 campaign
are taking permanent form, and
would-be candidates have out feel-ers.
The league of nations may
prove to be a good thing for the Re-publicans
to leave alone. It is be-lieved
here that by the time Sena-tors
Borah and Reed have complet-ed
their speaking tours in opposi-tion
to any and everything that
looks like an association of nations
to prevent wars the sentiment in
the country will have crystallized,
and then other aspirants for the
presidency can get their bearings.
It is understood among their friends
that Messrs. Borah and Reed will
seek the nominations of their re-spective
parties. At present they
have no apparent following in their
parties but the purpose of their talk-fests
is to create factions of their
own. The group of Republicans led
by Senator Lodge deplores the ex-treme
position of Mr. Borah. It is
understood here that Mr. Lodge
would be satisfied with a league of
nations but is not willing for Presi-dent
Wilson to have the credit for
the exact form of the covenant.
Most of the Republicans who signed
the Lodge round robin saw to it
that they could support a "league"
without appearing to back down. It
was the "Wilson league" they op-posed.
The change of a few phrases
would enable those who signed the
paper to say to their constituents
that they forced modifications. That
is a favorite trick in Congress.
The atmosphere of Washington
has undergone a" decided change
since Congress quit last Tuesday.
Sentiment, is turning toward Presi-.
dent Wilson. An impression that
the Republican leaders played poor
cards when they filibustered to
death the army, navy, agricultural,
general deficiency and other impor-tant
bills to force an extra session
of Congress. The Democrats will
make the Republican filibuster of
the last session of the sixty-fifth
Congress an issue. They will use
it in the campaign for seats in the
senate and house.
"It is erroneous." said Senator
Thomas S. Martin, former leaders of
the senate, "to assert that the Re-publican
filibuster lasted but a fen-days,
and that the bills they killed
were opposed because they were
rushed in at the last moment. The
truth is. and it can be proven, that
filibuster commenced the day Con-gress
met last December. There
never was a moment from that time
on that we did not know that the
Republican leaders were using dila-tory
tactics in committees and else-where
to hold back legislation.
"Defect of departmental appro-priations
and important fiscal meas-ures
through ti Republican filibuster
in the senate." said Homer S. Cum-mings.
chairman of the Democratic
national committee, to-day, indicat-
The Republicans made re-peal
impossible.
"The aggregate appropriations
killed by the Republican filibuster
was $3,000,000,000. The army ap-propriation
of $1.238,282,697 was
needed for the war department to
continue its provision for the Amer-ican
forces overseas and to hasten
the return of the soldiers to peace-ful
pursuits. They also represented
a large credit for the purchase of
materials and supplies and the em-ployment
of labor.
"The general deficiency bill pro-vided
$750,000,000 for improve-ments
and betterments."
Having enumerated the other ap-propriations,
and the purposes to
which they were to be applied, Mr.
Cummings declared: "The Republi-cans
sought to cripple the govern-ment,
force an extra, session of Con-gress,
and prevent the President's
return to Paris, solely that they
might promote their partisan pur-poses
and embarrass the President.
The Republican leaders have assum-ed
a heavy responsibility in prevent-ing
the passage of appropriation
bills as well as these necessary re-construction
measures."
WIND UP OF THE
STATE LEGISLATURE
SUMMARY OF THE LAST TWO
DAYS' PROCEEDINGS—DO-ING
THE HONORS.
BRYAN ENDORSES LEAGUE.
SUGGESTING AMENDMENTS.
Washington, March 11.—William
Jennings Bryan issued a statement
here tonight endorsing the league of
nations, but suggesting amendments
to the proposed constitution which
among other things would preservo
specifically the Monroe doctrine, en-large
the proportionate voting pow-er
of the United States and make it
clear that each member nation
might decide for itself whether it
would support decrees of the lea-gue's
general council.
While pointing to imperfections.
Mr. Bryan urged they should not be
allowed to lead to rejection of the
plan, declaring risks to be run in
accepting the league were less than
those involved in rejection and re^
turning "to the old ways of blood
and slaughter."
Mr. Bryan dictated the statement
from his sick bed at the home of
friends, where he has been confined
for nearly three weeks. He said the
league of nations idea, "the greatest
step toward peace in a thousand
years," was taken from the 30 arbi-tration
treaties" negotiated by the
United States while he was secre-tary
of state. It was not to be ex-pected,
he said, that so great an idea
would be made perfect in so short
a time and. while President Wilson
"had done the best he could." he
would be helped by intelligent and
friendly criticism from the Ameri-can
people.
.Tl-RY TURNS DOWN
"♦ELECTION FRAUD** CASES.
Beaufort, March 11.—The case
against a number of citizens of At-lantic,
in this county, charged with
election frauds came to a rather
abrupt end here to-day when the
grand jury, after due deliberation,
returned a verdict of "not a true
bill."
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Th
sho
."' Papers „f
1 Co*,
B'i in the list given
comprises only
fio*s not , the oorrggaanniizzaattiioonn I
1*'° 1'imbo 'nt° account the
r'rtliiiM" r of free lance papers
hHcJ. interest of the
DRAFT OF PEACE TREATY
HAS BEEN FINISHED.
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^"•"nuatiou.
Vo* S»u?Spapers "sted r >caJo.
|*itU*
Soiidarriity,
One
English,
B'e Union.
were: The
weekly,
p, ■ --•■WM| Efilnl!glish.
:' BngitaTa8°: !ndustrial i-nlon- SCB;eek,>' *** «*-
i
Sun English. Bulletin,
^lJiranCiSe0; The **ebei lorlt; [.. 81,8h. bi-monthlv. New
^Mv f.'va 8olida"dad. Span-
■ ■ inica;
••h
I'J. n
s»an
frol:
'o; Colos Truzen-
*f*kly, Chicago; Li
"ca:0: '""ana. Italian, weekly.
>.Ch'ici V:Jrldpn- Swedish.
;'V,v0
"*»«j
If *ign.
Industrialer,
wlw. weekly, Chica^
London, March 11.--Premier
Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary
Balfour have sent word to their col-leagues
here that the peace confer-ence
has nearly completed it* -vork.
the Evening News says it under-stands.
The draft of the peace treaty
already has been finished a.;d will
be signed berore Hie end of M.irc.'i.
When the Cermans are summoned
to Paris, the News adds, the treaty
will be read to them and they ws!l
be invited to sign it. There will be
no discussion with a view to altera-tions
of the principal articles of the
treaty, if ft is thought necessary,
questions involving the adjustment
of details will be referred to a spe-cial
commission.
----.., - These men. some fourteen in
ing that issues for the coming cam-! number, were indicted for alleged
paign, "delays and hampers recon-1 frauds in connection with the ab-straction
at the moment when the sentee voters act. One waa a poll-country's
industrial and commercial , holder, another an election -.nilcc
interests were reviving from the ef-.and two of then\. L. H. Hardy ai.d
fects of the war. retards demobili- ■ W. E. Hocutt, are ministers. The.
zation of troops, prevents the organ- rumor here is that the verdict r>i the
ization of a regular army to replace grand jury, although composed of
men overseas, deprives the railroad both Republicans and Democrats,
administration of funds for repairs ; was unanimously the outcome of the
and improvements, checks the em-! affair is regarded as a complete ex-ployment
of labor and the absorp-. honoration of the men indicted.
— tion of materials in naval, military i Democratic leaders here say the
Paris. March 12.—President Wil- an(l general construction, and im-. whole affair was merely an exhibi-son
will be met at Brest by the Pairs business confidence." tion of partisan politics and they are
WILSON WILL ARRIYE
AT BREST TOMORROW.
French minister of marine. Georges
Le-ygu_ s; Captain Andr—e T■«a•rd«i«e«u,. *i»w utni""uio Will lUdAO vn t.l»C
coi. House and his son-in-law. Gor- stump. In a speaking tour of the
don Auch.ncloss. who left Paris by country, immediately after he re-spcciai
tram this evening. jturns from France, President Wil-
That is the comprehensive charge consequently pleased over the resnlft
the Democrats will make on the of the jury's investigation.
Victory Liberty Loan Campaign.
=• j turns irom eranee, I'resiaem wn- WHMasUhIiUnBgIt»oUn,. .M...a.r.c..h. •1-2..-—--•T-h»e. v..i.c.--
resuiom loincare with a guard son is going to analyze the Republi- tory liberty loan campaign will open
Pres- can opposition to the league of na- Monday, April 21. auo c-ose three
_ * i_«__ n-b — .J,..- M^,.- 1 ft •
°H Jwii Wil' meet Pres_ opposition to the league of na- .uonaay, April ai. au«* c-usc t
ident Wilson at the Paris station be- tions and the Republican filibuster weeks later—Saturday, May 10.
tween 11 o clock and noon. The re- which upset the plans of the admin-! Secretary Glass announced the
ception will be unofficial and will istration tor a readjustment pro- dates tonight, together with the fact
lack the ceremony which attended gram. Before setting out from New that short term notes maturing in
•* "-I3™13' °f President and York President Wilson promised to not overlive years would be issued
Mrs. Wilson in pari8. ,nake a speaking vi8it to the vari. instead of longer term bonds. The
The steamer George Washington ous sections of the country when he amount of notes to be offered was
IS. f*^ ™ t0 rCach Brest ab°ut « Pets back. The Democratic leaders not disclosed, but it has been gen-o
clock Thursday night, the Presi- urged him to do so. feeling that the erally understood the loan would be
dent going immediately to a spe- people would respond to his appeals, for a minimum of $5,000,000,000
''„ ,"' W,b,ch *«1 make a. slow Summing up the harmful effects with the treasury reserving the right.
mp to tne French capital. of the filibuster. Mr. Cummings to accept all oversubscriptions. I
Raleigh, March 10.—The bill of
Senator Brown, of Columbus, for a
constitutional convention went to its
death in the house this afternoon by
almost a unanimous vote after it
had passed the senate by a large
majority some weeks ago. Its death
was largely due to consideration of
the success of the income tax amend-ment
to the present constitution
that bas to be submitted to the peo-ple
for ratification at the next elec-tion,
and a desire to not hamper
this is"sue with any question as to
further revision of the constitution.
This, the last busy legislative day
of the session, saw the ratification
of the state highway federal aid
bill that gave both branches of the
legislature so much trouble in reach-ing
a compromise. Adjustment of
diversified views that would provide
a really workable law, under which
the counties, the state and federal
aid could co-operate for the build-ing
and maintenance of both main
artery highways through the state,
linking county seats and principal
towns, and the lessed roads that ra-diate
into localities and lead to
these thoroughfares.
Representative Pharr, in the
house, was apprehensive that there
was a defect in the bill that should
be remedied by two more roll call
votes in the house, but Representa-tive
Doughton was sure that fears of
the Mecklenburg gentleman were
unfounded and the bill takes its
chances as ratified. It seems that
the last amendment to the bill pro-vided
that the question of the coun-ties
assuming one-fourth of the cost
of the state highways in the county
should be left optional instead of
mandatory. -Mr. Pharr thought this
change would require roll call en-actment.
He was assured that the
bill was safe as passed.
Noon Tuesday is the time set for
final adjournment.
The senate passed a bill to make
the appropriation for factory inspec-tion
under the new child labor or
child welfare act $10,000, instead of
$4,000. In that connection. Commis-sioner
of Labor Shipman renewed
effort to make that department sub-stitute
for the commissioner of pub-lic
welfare and the effective officer,
but the senate was not inclined to
reopen the matter, although every
one insisted that in this whole mat-ter
the legislators meant no reflec-tion
on Commissioner Shipman or
his department.
The house, on motion of Repre-sentative
Gold, reconsidered the vote
by which the amendments to the
election law to require the regis-trants
of election to furnish lists of
those registered to candidates of
either party on demand, and then
passed the bill by A safe majority.
These were the amendments asked
for by the minority party legislators
and approved by Doughton and Bry-ant,
of Durham, as a committee from
the house. Crier, of Iredell, nude
the fight against the passage of the
bill and lost gracefplly.
Representative Crisp, in personal.
privilege, gave Representative Saun-ders.
*f Pasquotank. a tongue lash-ing
for criticisms of Crisp in his pa-per,
the Independent, in which he
referred to "The habit of the repre-sentative
from Dare, Crisp, of tak-ing
a bit of the fluid that cheers the
heart of an inebriate! Crisp told
the story of Samuel Coleridge and
Charles Lamb and the latters dec-laration,
"Yes, I am drunk but I
will get over it, but you are a damn-ed
fool and won't get over it,"
Saundere joined in the uproarious
laughter. But Crisp was not done.
He denounced Saunders as .having
had to be called down on the floor
of the house for using unfit lan-guage
and having run the only
newspapers in the state that had to
be suppressed at any time.
The so-called "equal pay for equal
service" bill, relating to salaries of
teachers of the state, which had
been adopted by the senate, was un-favorably
reported by the house ed-ucational
committee to-day. In ac-cordance
with the suggestion of Dr.
E. C. Brooks, head of the state
schools, this question will be inves-tigated
by the special state educa-tional
commission with a view t»
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