The Kentuckian, 1919-05-10

ORGANIZATION IS PERFECTED Te mporary Chapter of Am Legion Formed With Col. B. Bassett As Chairman. With Col. E. B. Bassett as temj or or-ary - ary or-ary chairman and Ira D. Smith as secretary, the organization of he temporary chapter of Christian co m m-ty - ty m-ty of the American Legion was jf jf-fected - fected jf-fected Tuesday night at the AvaMn. Quite a number of returned" sold 5rs and sailors were present at the m et et-ing - ing et-ing and entered enthusiastically in into - to into the work at hand. Col. E. B. I as as-sett - sett as-sett explained the nature of the or organization. - ganization. organization. W. O. Soyars was nominated rnd elected the delegate to St. Louis by acclamation, and was empowered to act for the local organization at -he national meeting. A financial com committee - mittee committee composed of Ellis Melton, T. J. McReynolds, Jr., and Joe Kelly y as appointed to raise funds for the or organization - ganization organization among men who have been in the service, and all those who were present contributed liberally. The commattee on resolutions 're 'reported - ported 'reported the following resolutions which were read and passed: Whereas, We, the undersigned cit citizens - izens citizens and residents et Christian county, who have answered the call to the colors in the late national emergency, realizing the value of or or-ganijng - ganijng or-ganijng ourr-elves together for so social - cial social advantages, mutual welfare, and to perpetuate the deeds, services and sacrifice of our comrades at arms, and desiring to do all in our power to promote a national and permanent organization of the men in the ser service - vice service throughout the nation, do here hereby - by hereby constitute ourselves a temporary Chanter nf the A !be it Resolved: That our name shall be the Temporary Chapter of Christian County of the American Legion. That we nominate as a delegate to the National Convention of the Amer ican Legion, at St. Louis, W. O. Soy Soyars, - ars, Soyars, and empower him to art for us at said meeting. That we shall after the return of our said delegate from St. Louis or- , ganize in permanent form. 1 i 4 -.1 in - J . . T". .1 -r. .1 -iniiur s. wjniree, ceniey Hilda, warns, uennis . jenKms, U. fJ. Mc- ou""," "-u r.oe, josepn jvi. jvei- r 11., ... .,.1 i. t t ..... 1 ir 1 ly, Vernon Howard, Herman A. Boyd, H. R. Hanberry, T. 1). Rolx-rtv, Robt. M. Brumfield. Louis Tanner, Ira D. Smith, Ellis J. Melton, Eiski-ie B. Basifett. Wilbur L. Wadlir.gton. Mr. Soyavs left Wednesday ni(;ht for St. Louis ai.;l upon his ntuiti a permanent organization will be effect- Bowling Green will oil her streets to encourage an infant industry in her neighbor county of Allen. Bad Weather caused the proposed Atlantic flight to be again postponed. it has been decided to take a number of average farms, say 100 and have the owners keep careful record on their crop and from these records arrive at the average cost of pro production - duction production in this county. A number of South Christian far farmers - mers farmers have done this in the past and it has been found that it takes 25 to 30 daps per man per acre to put the crop on the market. Besides this it calls from 10 to 12 days for a man and a horse. This must be added to the cost of materials used. The same experiment will be tried in Fayette county in the Burley dis district. - trict. district. Mr. Hutson can be found during the usual office hours in his office at the H. B. M. A. The coming of Mr. Hutson to our county instead of going to some oth other - er other county in West Kentucky is due mainly to the , efforts to Mr. Gordon Nelson in pushing the claims of our county as the one best entitled to the honor. Mr. Hutson is a young man of fine character and well equipped for the work in hand. He represents the College of Agriculture at Lexington and will be stationed here for the next five months. He has rooms at Mrs. Green Hen- ry Russell's, on Ninth St

PEACE IMS n ui ii siding officer, speaking to the Ger man piempotentanes, said: "It is unnecessary to express need needless - less needless words. You have before you the plenipotentaries of the small and great powers united in this most cruel war, which was imposed upon thenf. The hour has arrived for a heavy settlement of the account." Paul Dutasta, secretary general of the peace conference, delivered a copy of the treaty to Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the Ger German - man German delegation, who made a brief reply. Count von Brockdorff said: "We declare that we do not deny the extent of our defeat. We know the power of the German armies is broken." , He was unable to admit that Ger Ger-ninyiwu - ninyiwu Ger-ninyiwu solely cupable and demand ed that t3i rJlies make peace ac ac-conJing - conJing ac-conJing U PreidenJ Wilson's point. Germany plcdgefr itself to repair the wrcpg done to Belgium and gave assurance' of the restitution of the j territorfe in northern Frne. The peace pact, on which the lead ing statesmen of the various nations, together with a swarm of experts irom the principal countries involved have been working since the conven ing of the peace conference on Jan 8. is introdlirpd hv an cvtcnein Yn p.uthoritv ,,nnn hi.v, iha trao 4 based Immediately following in the first chapter, the covenant of the league 01 nations, the text of which already has been printed. Of the fourteen point sections, one contains stipulations with regard to frontiers which materially change the map of Europe. Military, naval and air terms are dealt with in another section, while still another is devoted to the subject of reparations. Poli Political - tical Political stipulations for Europe on the one hand and outside of it on the other, are dealt with separate divis divisions - ions divisions of the document. The treaty as it is has to do with ("er.'iiany alone, except insofar as it is required that she accept gree - incuts made bv the es with the othor central rowers. The docu- The treaty is not printed in Ger German. - man. German. The text is French and English on opposite pages. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau asked for the release of German prisoners and said that Germany had adopted the league of nations. GERMANY'S PUNISHMENT FOR STARTING THE WAR New York, May 4 The terms of the peace treaty handed to the Ger man delegates Wednesday; provide the following: Germany recognizes the league of nations but is non-participating. Allies to try the former kaiser for crimes against international morality. Germany restores Alsace-Lorraine to France. Saar Basin is internationalized temporarily. . Danzig is internationalized. Independence of German-Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland recogniz recognized. - ed. recognized. Poland get3 most of Upper Silesia. Germany renounces colonies. German army reduced to 100,000 men and officers. German conscription abolished. German naval and air force abol abolished. - ished. abolished. Allies to occupy German territory until reparation is made. (Continued On Page Five.)

their pnrWnrs rmvnrd tho hnil, W up of our country in a way not dream ed of before the war. The story that the farmers were growing into mil millionaires - lionaires millionaires overnight has been spread 0vtr the country by those who desired to reap a golden harvest while the world's attention was attracted in an another - other another direction. But the truth is that while-the farmers of our country nave Deen getting enormous prices for their products during the war, with the market values. Now that their expenses have grown apace the prices of farm products threaten to seek their former level, the era of government control and government established prices on farm products is at hand. The price on wheat is already es established - tablished established after the cost of production had been carefully investigated. It is probable that in the near future almost every staple article produced on the average American farm will have its standard value. Already many states ol the north and west have set the price on corn and oats Now comes our own great state in the effort to safeguard the farm farmer - er farmer by establishing the price of tobac co. Of course nothing definitely has yet been done in the way of price price-setting, - setting, price-setting, but a great step has been taken in that line by the investigation of the cost of the production of the crop. Mr. J. B. Hutson, of the state col college - lege college of Agriculture has been sent to Christian county to investigate the cost of production. Our county is the only county so honored in the Black Patch. In the investigation, Mr. Hutson plans to take into con consideration - sideration consideration every item of expense which the farmer incurs. The cost of burning the plant beds, the cost of repairing the ground, of setting out the plants and the cultivation and harvesting the crop, all must be considered. Of course it will cost some fanners more than thers, so

ner own clocK. . Repealing the act that falsifies time should be one of the first acts of Con Congress - gress Congress when it meets May 19. .''.' New York now claims to be larg larger - er larger than London and is looking for- ward to next year's census to prove ' it. The phone rate increase ordered 'JSf Pstmaster General Burleson is : jiow in the Supreme Court on test j cases1 from four states. ' , Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium, has been given the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of Liege, by reason of her work as a war nurse. , The peace conierence used 80,000 words to draft the peace treaty and yet Maree Henry Watterson covered the case five years ago with only seven words. " .', Moses, of New, Hampshire, is one of the few Senators knocking on the peace treaty. Let us hope that he will be Moses to lead the Republicans , in the wilderness for the next forty years.. , . The newspapers of Japan have . started a vigorous anti-American cam paign. Abuse of President Wilson appears in many of, them. ' Japan seems to be sore at being caught with a hand in poor old China's pocket. Stensson, back from the Arctics, urges Canada to slock her sub-Arctic region with reindeer and musk-ox and raise them for both milk and meat, while the musk-ox would also pro produce - duce produce wool. He says Ajtic Alaska Will produce 7000, 00 reindeer, mak making - ing making a supply of meat seven tim.es as grant as Canada's present mint A "Captain C. W. F. Morgan, R. A. F. F. R. G. S." a navigator with Aviator Raynham, who failed to start, is writ writ-ting - ting writ-ting articles in Newfoundland papers belittling the American trans-Atlantic flight- If all the Britishers were han-

SENATOR A. O. STANLEY. Upon the meeting of Congress on May 19th Gov. A. O. Stanley will re resign - sign resign as Governor of Kentucky and be succeeded by Lieut. Governor Jas. D. Black, of Barbourville. Senator Stanley served 12 years in the House prior to 1915 when he was elected Governor.' In the House he won wide prominence as chairman of a special committee to investigate the steel trust. . I THREE START TWO GET THERE TRAN S.ATLANTIC PLANES MAKE FIRST 525 MILES IN NINE HOURS. NC-4 LOST BY TFU3- WAY THE . . . All Three Planes Had Radio Tele phone and Telegraph and Ra Radio - dio Radio Compass Installation. Washington. Mav 9. With two of three .. naval seaplanes which1 OTarran T rr.ru KAnirourair I nnm o nn caieu more man sixiy mnes norcn 0f Cape Cod and half way to iax ..o ; the McDermut and the next ship . . ... v..u....u. ..-i. . i beyond, the Kimberly, in search of the missing plane. Commander Read had reported just before reaching the McDermut that the oil pumpon one! course they took being 525 miles. Thee two planes went through the tpst n such fashinn n tn nnv;,. officials here that prospects for reach ing Plymouth,' England, the ultimate goal of the nevy airmen, were ex ceedingly bright. . PROF. WALLER RE-ELECTED Superintendent J. C. Waller and Four Principals Are Again Chosen. The Board of Trustees of the white schools have had one meeting and Supt. J. C. Waller and four princi principals - pals principals were all re-elected. Prof. G. C. Koffman of High School and Miss Mary Walker for Belmont, Miss Lottie McDaniel for Virginia and Mrs. Sallie Moss for West Side ,vere the principals. The teachers will be elected Monday night.

that a decision may be arrive I at The Communist government in Hungary is declared to have declin declined - ed declined to accept the terms laid down by Rumania for an armistice an dhas decided to continue fighting. The terms of the Rumanians included dis disarmament - armament disarmament and the surrender of war materials and also the return of war prisoners without reciprocity. Trouble seems to be brewing for Arhan tribesmen who, aided by Af Afghan - ghan Afghan regular troops, have violated the British Indian border by crossing it and occupying certain positions on the Indian side. The British are taking military precautions and have also addressed a strong note of pro test to the Amir of Afghanistan Versailles, May 8. Germany has the terms by which she can gain peace. The treaty of peace was handed to the German delegates in a session this afternoon which Tasted until 3:15 o'clock. It was an impressive occa occasion, - sion, occasion, marked with solemnity, and stir red by the declaration of the Ger man delegates that they will sign the peace treaty but that Germany will not pay an indemnity. The full weight of the peace terms which Germany must agree to struck the world for the first time with the publication of the treaty al although - though although some inklings of the various terms had been given previously, j In, opening the session of the peace! conference, M. Clemencau, the pre-

"77 ou,u"'- "A 1 Pl.l.thA'"lar uxn.itzuy, u..D.,HCa "! sive literary organization, he seem seemingly - ingly seemingly had much to live for and every everything - thing everything to encourage him to a career of honor and usefulness. The tale of his downfall is a pitiable one. His friends know too well the story of his Sitakness. His faults are buried with him. in a premature,grave his ashes! Peace to ; The fact that Gov. Jas. D. Black was elected Lieutenant Governor by more than 800 majority when a part of the ticket was defeated, in 1915, shows that he possesses a positive strength with the people. It does not help other candidates for Governor to attempt to belittle him. , It would be far more becoming to recognize his services at a time when every was needed, than to deny that he gave strength to a hard presseu ticket. Gov. Black won his nomina nomination - tion nomination for lieutenant governor in spite of the .calculations of slate-makers and the management of the subse subsequent - quent subsequent campaign was not his choos choos-in - in choos-in and yet he won by a safe majority on merit alone.. 'If Governor Black is defeated for the Democratic nom-j ' ination, it will not be because hej would be a weak candidate. Figures do not lie.

. JTO r J; ""u:auai monarcny in tne way 01 pay- of the journey. yesterday morning on the first leg of .ment of indemnities, the making of ' t efrAtIantic flight, iravedBafeH .reparations and the reli The. Kentuckian has been sentry at Halifax, navy( officials were territory, from time to time to hundreds of its bending every energy to locate the! r ," 1. u j n OW, subscribers and large numbers of: third, missing since early in the af-L nnn nnn nnn VY . t3n have sent in their subscript ternoon. Lp'J I' i TV 1 . tions. In addition several thousand! No report of the missing- machine i gJ ZTJto sample copies are being sent to all the NC-4, commanded by Lieut. Com 1 5 f rontiers The Pre war Tb parts of the county We,now have a ; mander A. C. Read, had been received ; J r the former empire and I Uncdoin rapidly increasing list, not only in after the machine passed the destroy- ft is saidTt0 b?dSdSd aS the Christian but in all adjacent counties. :er McDermut. first station shin lo-' 1 " .??i?"e h.e