The Greensboro patriot [January 1, 1917]

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ESTABLISHED 1821
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WILL NOT CONSIDER PROPOSAL
A I,I,IKS SAV PEACE. MAY NOT
BE BASED ON GERMAN
WORD.
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Paris, Dec. 30.—In reply to the
proffer of Germany and her allies for
a peace conference, the entente Al-lies,
in a collective note, declare yiat'
they "refuse to consider a proip»>saf
which is empty and insincere. /They
.note "was handed to the American
ambassador, William Graves Sharf,
today by Premier Briant, aid wis
made public simultaneously in Lon-don
and Paris.
The entente governments insist
that no peace is posstble so long as'
they have not secured reparation
for violated rights and libert/es and
the free existence of imalf states
and have not brought about a set-tlement
for the future seciirity of
the world. The note declares that
the proposal of the /central powers
is not an offer of peace, but a "war
maneuver." It is'declared to be
founded on "calculated misinterpre-tation
of the character of the strug-gle
in the past, the present and the
future."
The note does not specifically out-line
the definite war aims' of any of
the entente governments, except Bel-gium.
Before the war, it is pointed
out. Belgium asked for nothing but
to live in harmony with her neigh-bors.
Assailed in spite of the treat-ies
guaranteeing her inviolability,
Belgium, the note says, has taken up
arms to defend her independence
and "her neutrality, violated by Ger-many."
Belgium's aim. which is declared
to be the only aim of her king and
government, is described as "the re-establishment
of peace and justice.
But they only desire peace which
would assure to their country legiti-mate
reparation, guarantees and
safeguards for the future.
The riore. -wHtch ts tihe-.Jotnt act of
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ita-ly,
Japan. Montenegro, Portugal, Ru-mania,
Russian ad Serbia, declared
that the present strife was desired,
provoked and declared by Germany
and Austria-Hungary, and that Ger-many
made no effort to bring about
a pacific solution of the trouble be-tween
Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
:is did Great Britain, France and
Russia.
A peace concluded upon the Ger-man
idea would be only to the ad-vantage
of .the central powers, says
the note, while disasters caused by
"he war demand penalties, repara-tion
and guarantees.
The German overtures are de-scribed
as a calculated attempt to in-fluence
the future course of the war
ind to end it by imposing a German
peace. The overtures also are said
:o have the effect of intimidating
neutral public opinion, as well as to
stiffen opinion in the central powers
•worn out by economic pressure and
-rushed by the supreme effort which
<ias been imposed upon their inhab-itants."
"Finally," it is asserted, "these
overtures attempt to justify in ad-ance
in the eyes of he world, a new
series of crimes—submarine war-fare,
deportations, forced labor and
toned enlistment of the inhabitants
against their own countries and vio-lations
of neutrality.'"
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GREENSBORO. N. C. MONDAY, JANUARY I, 1917. VOL. 96—NO. I
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DEM AM> UPON GREECE. PEACE TERMS OF ENTENTE IDSfPDT UP OR SHUT UP"
*ris, Dec. 31.—A Havas dispatch
frqi» Pireaus, dated December 31,
sai*:
//'The ministers of France, Great
■fltata and Russia yesterday signed
k note for prestentajion to the Greek
'jovernment demanding the follow-ing
guarantees and reparations:
"Guarantees: First—All Greek
forces outside of Peloponnesus to be
reduced to a number strictly neces-sary
to the preservation or order
and police duty; all corresponding
arms and ammunition to be trans-ported
to Peloponnesus, including all
cannon and machine guns; this sit-uation
to last as long as the allies
judge necessary.
"Second—Prohibition of all meet-ings
of reservists in Greece north of
the isthmus of Corinth and no civi-lian
to carry arms.
"Third—Re-establishment of the
allies' control.
"Reparation: First—All persons
detained for high treason or for
other political reasons to be released
forthwith.
"Second—Dismissal of the com-mandant
of the first army corps, un-less
the government shows that this
measure should be applied to some
other general.
"Third—The Greek government
to make apologies to the allies' min-isters
and flags at some public spot
in Aihpiis.
"The note concludes with the
statement that the allies reserve lib-erty
of action in case the attitude of
the Greek government is unsatisfac-tory.
"The note undertakes on the part
of the allies not to permit the armed
forces of the national government to
profit by the withdrawal of the royal
troops by .passing the neutral zone
established in agreement with the
Greek government, and states that
the blockade of the Greek coasts will
be maintained until full satisfaction
with regard to the* above points' Is
accorded."
POSSIBLE DEMANDS OF ALLIES
\ IN ANSWER TO PRESIDENT
WILSON'S PROPOSAL.
OH HENRY CALLS
H-JON FOR HIS EVI-DENCE.
OX
1910 TRADE PASSED
ALL EXPECTATIONS.
-Dun's re-
BUoniKKHOODS SEND
WI CIRCULARS TO MEN.
New York, Dec. 30.
view tomorrow will say:
"Results during 1916 surpassed
the most sanguine expectations,
evidence of the unexampled business
being found in every statement that
appears. It has been a period of un-precedented
achievements in fin-ance,
trade and industry, with thft
maintenance of consumptive de-mands
in record volume notwith-standing
the highest prices of mod-ern
times, the outstanding feature.
The year closes, however, with rath-er
general abatement of purchasing.
Certain hesitancy and slowing down
is natural at this season in view of
the interruption caused by inven-torying
and annual settlements and
the fact that in most cases require-ments
were covered far ahead of
the previous extensive buying move-ment.
The great accumulation of
business are intensified by the trans-portation
breakdown which has been
aggravated by the storms in some
sections.
London, Dec. 29.—The Spectator
devotes the greater part of tomor-row's
issue to answering President
Wilson's question as, to what are the
peace terms of the entente allies.
Briefly summarized, the principal
.demands as outlined by the Specta-tor
follow:
"The peace terms are to start from
the status quo before the war, thus
including the evacuation of the
whole of northern France. Belgium
and Luxemburg, and of all lands
taken from Serbia, Rumania, Russia
and Montenegro.
"Alsace-Lorraine is to be restored
to France. The Danish portion of
Schleswig-Holstein is to go to Den-mark
and Posen, Polish Prussia and
Austrian Poland are to be added to
the new sub-kingdom of Poland
which the czar has pledged to cre-ate.
"The Slavs of Bosnia, Herzegovi-na,
Dalmatia, Croatic, etc., are to
.be created into a new kingdom.
"Bohemia is to be an independent
state.
"The Rumanian section of Tran-sylvania
to be added to Rumania.
"The whole Austrian Tyrol, plus
Triest. Istria. and the other portions
of Austria which are Italian in blood
or feeling, to be added to Italy.
"Turkey to yield Constantinople
and the straits to Russia.
"The Armenians to be put under
Russian tutelage.
"The Arabs to'be freed, while Sy-ria,
Asia Minor and Mesopotamia
are to b eunder external protection
guaranteeing tranquility.
"The German colonies to remain
in the hands of the entente. More-over,
a money indemnity for the ruin
Germany has done in Belgium,
I France, Serbia, Montenegro, ■etc.
, "As rega.'rdinglihTpnmg'- Qei Many
to make reparation in kind for all
ships of commerce destroyed too for
,ton, neutral shipping to be replaced
only after all the demands of the al-
Jies have been satisfied.
, "The German navy to be handed
over and distributed among entente
nations.
"As j guarantee against future
war the allies are to insist upon the
democratization of the German gov-ernment.
"The Kiel Canal to be neutralized
under an international non-German
commission, including the entente
countries, the United States and
other neutrals."
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rtom, Dec. 29.—Represen-iiert
L. Henry, chairman of
i committee on rules, call-la
W. Lawson, the Boston
\o books today. He has
to put up or shut up.
■good old North Carolina
In a telegram to .Mr.
Henry said: "What-r
think, the entire world
St President Wilson is
| peace in Europe. All
gjfHl say 'God bless the
|es even one step in that
* Sflnstead of endeavoring
It-peace movement of the
into disrepute, as a
^patriotic citizen, you
ling it. Don't try to
>, this administration by
•ralities. If you have
twitch I doubt from the
\T statement) come
t-Washington and con-
(fejti "'If you have any facts
,;cjtmnot think from your
Sife-them before me and
I'have the consideration
■Ifptt should now accept
i and produce the goods,
■top. Cease slandering
[■/Congress and public of-
|ke' good on your
OPEN MEETING OF *
PEACE ADVOCATES. I FINDS ARMIES DEADLOCKED
mt
Washington. Dec. 29.—The direc-tors
of the American Peace Society
decided today to call an open meet-ing
of peace workers to be held here
January 20 to consider a definite
program for international reorgani-zation
designed to secure a lasting
peace when the war is over.
A plan to be submitted has been
drafted by James Brown Scott,
chairman of the American Neutral-ity
Board, and is understood to have
the approval of Secretary Lansing.
"Some modification of.it is expected
to be adopted by those in favor of
permanent peace secured by interna-tional
legislatures, courts, and pub-lic
opinion as opposed to those who
are supporting the suggestion of an
international force.
Between these two principles, it
has been officially stated the admin-istration
has not committed itself.
President Wilson has been common-ly
supposed to support the program
of the League to' Enforce Peace,
having spoken at its meeting here
several months ago and having said
in some his campaign speeches that
'the moral force, not only, but the
physical force" of this country
should be used to guarantee peace.
Recently, however, it has been stated
that the president is not definitely
committed to that program and is
open to suggestions along other
lines.
NEITHER SIDE GAINING EXCEPT
_ IX RUMANIA—LITTLE PROS-PECT
OF PEACE.
In?
FORTY-SIX WOMEN ARE
CREMATED IN ASYLUM.
THE HIGH COST OF
LIVING IX MEXICO.
New York, Dec. 29.—Special cir-culars
putting up to the 400,000
members responsibility for the next
step to be taken by the railroad
brotherhoods in their controversy
with the railroads over the applica-tion
and interpretation of the Adam-ion
act, were sent broadcast by tele-graph
after a conference of the four
brotherhood chiefs here today.
Announcement of the action was
made by William G. Lee, president
if the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, prior to his departure for
the West. He was accompanied by
ihe other brotherhood leaders whose
■onference with the railway man-agers
yesterday resulted in a dis-agreement.
Earlier in the day the four chiefs
issued a somewhat cryptic statement
over their signatures declaring that
) lie attitude of the railrd&de threat-ened
to wipe out the benefits that
should accrue ito the men from the
passage of the Adamson act, and as-serting
that for that reason "the en-tire
situation is to be placed before
the membership." .
• It is a weird tale of finance and
food costs which has been brought
to St. Louis by Henry Harechkowitz.
formerly translator at the United
States embassy, City of Mexico.
Herschkowitz said he was forced to
leave Mexico by H. C. L.
Articles of food in the Mexican
capital have different prices, accord-ing
to the kind of money paid for
them. An egg, for example, only
costs 10 cents in silver money. But
in Mexican paper money the same
egg will cost 25 pesos. The peso for
many years has been considered
worth 50 cents in United States
money, thus bringing the egg price
to $12.50. But the money changers
declare the value of the peso has de-preciated
to one-quarter of a cent.
It is the same with butter. A
pound of medium quality butter can
be purchased in the City of Mexico
for only $1.25. United States money.
It will cost $2.50 in Mexican silver
and 625 pesos in paper money.
Even in United States coin the
price of shoes has doubled, while
corn la 150 per cent higher than in
1913, and charcoal is 250 per cent
higher. Charcoal is universally
usod for cooking.—St. Louis Repub-lic.
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Montreal, Dec. 31.—Forty-six wo-men
were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed St. Ferdinan de Hal-ifax
asylum at St. Ferdinan de Hal-ifax,
Megantic county, Quebec, late
Saturday night, according to a re-port
received here.
Patients of the asylum of 'whom
there were 180, all were women.
St. Ferdinan de Halifax is in an
almost inaceesible section of the
province and communication on Sun-days^
are poor.
Meager reports obtained from
available sources give no intimation
of the cause of the fire, which start-ed
while the inmates were asleep and
apparently spready rapidly.
to the press Mr.
x Mr. Lawson states
iji'tWall street and an
ft*conclusively shows
■'introduced by me in
^Congress to regulate
i . Stock Exchange
passed and should
more drastic. An-ld
not go by with-ingress.
I shall re-om
next Tuesday
inf of Congress,
find a .way^
protect the American people
ugainst such crimes as the'one just
perpetrated by Wall street, if Mr.
Lawson is anywhere near the truth."
COTTON FACTORY
SOLD AT AUCTIOX.
m
tUfo
to
WRECK CHURCH AFTER
* HOLY ROLLERS USE IT.
Asheville. Dec. 29.—James and
Henry Cardell and Jack Franklin, of
the Laurel section, Madison county,
are in jail at Marshall on the charge
of destroying church property, as a
result of the calling of the blood-hounds
from Asheville by Sheriff
Ramsey. The dogs arrived at the
Laurel church Wednesday and
promptly proceeded to pick up sev-eral
trails leading to the men in
question. Two others who are un-der
suspicion have escaped across
the Tennessee state line.
, The church at Laurel was practi-cally
wrecked by the vandals, win-dows
being broken out and the
weatherboarding on the sides of the
church split by huge rocks. Some
resentment regarding the use of the
church by a sect known as Holy
Rollers is declared to have started
tilie trouble, the church having been
built by Presbyterians.
Some trouble over the use of the
church by the Holy Rollers, with
their peculiar form of worship, had
developed previously to the wreck-ing
of the church, it is declared.
Haw River, Dec. 30.—The prop-erty
known as the Holt-Granite
Manufacturing Company, was today
sold at public auction'and was pur-chased
by Messrs. J. R. Paschall and
Warner Moore, of Richmond, Va.,
and Mr. F. L. Williamson, of Bur-lington.
Arrangements have already been
made for financing and re-organiz-ing
a company to own and operate
this property -and, ;Jn__ .anticipation
thereof, the parties who today be-came
the purchasers have been for.
some time in possession of the prop-erty,
cleaning it up and putting it in
condition for immediate operation
and, in fact, operation of a part of
the plant is already started.
Mr. L. Banks WHliamson, who for
many years has been engaged in cot-ton
manufacturing in Alamance
county, will.be in active charge of
the operation of this property. He
is experienced and skillful, and the
parties associated with the new man-agement
it is esserted are men who
can command all the capital neces-sary.
The property is on the river and
on the railroad, and electic power
lines of both the Southern Power
Company and the Piedmont Railway
and Electric Company run immedi-ately
through the village. This pow-er
taken in connection with the val-uable
water power gives the mills
unusual advantages. ■
The people of Alamance county,
and particularly those at Haw River,
rejoice in this outcome to the cease-less
efforts that were made by Mr.
(A. W. Haywood to re-organize these
properties, and it adds to their grief
at his taking that he could not have
seen the successful termination of
his efforts.
Mt. Olive Exported #1.500,000
Wortli of Farm Products.
Phoenix Streets Arc Sprinkled With
Liquor.
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 29.—Five
hundred gallons of whiskey, wines
and beer were poured into a city wa-ter
wagon here today and the streets
of the business section sprinkled
with the liquor. Two hundred auto-mobiles
and several floats formed a
parade that followed the water wag- taloupes, $30,000; beans,
on. A band played a dirge.
The liquor was confiscated in raids
by the sheriff under the new Ari-zona
prohibition law and its disposi-tion
was ordered by Superior Judge
Stanford.
Decide Answer Tuesday.
Washington, Dec. 30.—What an-swer
will be returned to GeneralCar-ranza's
latest appeal for modifica-tion
in the protocol signed at At-lantic
City will be determined Tues-day.
On that day the American
members of the commission will
meet and consider the communica-tion
delivered yesterday to Secretary
Lane by Luis Cabrera of the Mexi-can
ooiniiilMtonj
The year has been the most pros-perous
Mt. Olive section has ever
experienced, more than a million
and a half dollars worth- of. farm
products having been shipped from
that town to Northern and North-western
markets represented by the
following crops: Strawberries. $40,-
000; Irish potatoes, $146,450; can-
$8,000;
corn, $1,000; cucumbers, $S,000;
cotton. $90,000; cotton seed, $400,-
000; tobacco, $50,000. With the
farming industry so profitable busi-ness
with local merchants has been
the best during the past few months
that they have ever known and the
banks have simply had more money
than they could well use.
Bean Causes Death of Boy.
, Reidsville, Dec. 29.—The little
ithree-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bracken Tate, of near Ashland, Cas-well
county, to dead as a result of a
bean becoming lodged in the little
fellow'* windpipe. Before relief.)
(oould be afforded' he choked to
Au J,.■—■■•.*'
Danish West Indies to Be Ours.
Both houses of the Danish parlia-ment
have approved the sale of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States. Negotiations for the pur-chase
of these islands by the United
States have been in progress inter-
•mittently since the Civil war. The
United States senate has already
given its approval, and as soon as
the formal exchanges have taken
place the administration will press
pleasures in Congress appropriating
the purchase price. $25,000,900,
and providing for the institution of
an American territorial government
on the islands.
American naval strategists for
years have regained possession of
this little archipelago, lying 50
piles east of Porto Rico, as abso-lutely
necessary to prevent any Eu-ropean
power from acquiring it, and
moreover to establish there a great
paval base and coaling station for
the United States fleet. Commercial-ly
the islands are regarded as of
comparatively little value. There are
three of them, St. Thomas, St. John
und St. Crolx, and on their 143
square miles live some 33,000 peo-ple,
nine-tenths of whom are ne-
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The* dawn of 1917 finds the bel-ligerent
armies temporarily, at
least, virtually deadlocked every-where
except in Rumania. It finds
also in the air a suggestion by the' .
teutonic allies that they are ready
to discuss peace, but no basis for the
ending of hostilities has yet been ad-vanced
by them and the entente al-lies
have signified their determina-tion
to continue fighting until their
oft-repeated desires are complied
with.
The war map in the main theaters
of the war at the commencement of
the New Year shows at numerous
points material changes in the lines
as they stood a year ago. On the
front in France the Germans in the
Somme region and before Verdun
have1 been driven back by the
French and British over fronts of
considerable size; the Italians have
advanced their line on the east
closer toward Triest and the entente
allies operating from Saloniki have
placed the Serbians on their native
soil again and also have pushed for-ward
their lines at various points In
Macedonia.
A great drive begun in June by the
Russian general, Brussilloff, from
the Pinsk marshes to the Carpa-thians
was successful in clearing the
Vilhynian fortress triangle of the
Austro-Germans and in the capture ••
of much terrain in Galicia and Biiko-wina.
Half of Rumania which entered
the war in August on the side of the
entente is now in the hands of the
teutonic allies. The sweep of the
Russians through the Caucasus re-gion
and Turkish Armenia has torn-pell
the Turks to yield much terri-tory,
while in the south the British
in their advance toward Bagdad
have been forced to give up their
strategy base at Kut El Arnara and ) J
are befng held to a. virtualjsj^ei£fttr**-*Hl
by the Ottoman forces.
Aside from Rumania there is lit-tle
activity on any of the fronts ex-cept
by the artillery wings of the
belligerent armies. On the Moldavia-
Transylvania front of the Rumanian
theater the teutonic allies, rein-forced,
are still making progress in
their drive which apparently has as
its object the effecting of a Junction
with their troops moving north into
Moldavia. Additional points have
been taken from the Russians and.
Rumanians on both sides of the
Oituz valley and in the Putna and
Zobala valleys.
Meanwhile Field Marshal Von
MacKensen's army continues push-ing
north into the country from the
mountains to the Danube. The east-ern
flank has thrown back the Rus-sians
from the Braili bridgehead
while in Dobrudja the teutonic line
has been driven closer to Matchin,
across the river from Braila. Here
the Russians have been forced to
give up a point of support east of
the town.
Advices from Athens say the
French, British and Russian minis-ters
have signed a note demanding
the reduction of the Greek forces,
except in Peloponnesus, to a size nec-essary
only for police duty, the re-lease
of political prisoners and apol-ogies
to the allied ministers and
flags.
Wilson For Bonds lo Cover Deficit.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Tentative
approval having been given by Pres-ident
Wilson to plans for a bond is-sue
to meet a part of the prospective
deficit at the end of the next fiscal
year, administration leaders in Con-gress
are preparing to bring in their
revenue bill as soon as possible after
the holiday recess. It became known
today that they have urged that the
president deliver a special message
to spur both houses to prompt action
so that the necessary legislation
may be passed before the end of the
present session.
Richardson-Causey.
Mr. G. W. Richardson, of Rich-mond.
Va., and Miss Mayme Lee
Causey, of this city, were married
Thursday at noon at the home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Causey. Rev. Dr. E. L. Bain,
pastor o:: West Market Street Meth-odist
church, performed the cere-mony
In the presence of members off
the family and a few friends. _T
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