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VOLUME XVIII. 151 NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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GERMANY HOPES U. S. WILL
NOT BE HARSH IN DEMANDS.
German Denies That Her Navy Pur
posely Destroyed Life Boats With
Passengers—Asks That Facts
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GUILTY ARE TO BE PUNISHED.
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(4:15 o’clock.)
(By tbe Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 21.— Ger
many’s reply to President Wilson,
.as received by wireless, is re
garded as an awkward attempt
to accept terms for an armistice,
as laid down by the president.
It is believed to be certain that
the wireless version was gar
bled to some extent. Officials
will await the arrival of the off
eial text before reaching con
clusions.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 21.—The German re
ply to President Wilson’s note, the
text of which has been received here
by wireless, says Germany hopes the
United States will approve no demand
irreconcilable with the honor of the
~ German people and with opening, the
way to peace and justice. Germany
protests against references by the
psesident to illegal, inhumane acts
and a denial is made that the Ger
man navy purposely destroyed life
boats with passengers on board and
proposes that the facts be cleared up
by neutral commission. Germany
has despatched orders to submarine
commanders precluding torpedoing of
r.S' passenger ships. The German gov
ernment suggests that opportunity
be brought about for the fixing of
the details of evacuation of occupied
territory.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 21.—The wireless
version of the German reply to Wil
*■'1 son’s note reached the state depait
Jr ment today. There will be no offi
cial comment until text is received.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 21.—Announcement is
made of a fundamental change in the
German constitution, providing for
the representation of the. people in
decisions concerning peace and war,
and it is said that the present gov
ernment has been formed in complete
accordance therewith. Germany
claims the sanction of international
law for carrying out the destruction
of property during retreats, and says
her troops are under strict instruc
tions to spare private property and
care for the population to the best of
their ability. Where transgressions
occur, the note says, the guilty are to
be punished.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 21.—No future Ger
man government will be able to take
hold of office unless it possesses the
confidence of a majority, the Reich
stag announces. Germany has agreec
that conditions of an armistice shouh
be left to military advisers and tha
actual standard of power on botl
sides in the field should form the ba
sis for arrangements.
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First Reports Said That Owing To
Reichstag Discussions Reply To
Wilson Would Be Delayed.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 21.—There seems to be
differences of opinion on various
points in the German reply to Presi
dent Wilson’s note, which have aris
en during the conference held by the
Reichstag group. As a consequence
a dispatch reply will be postponed for
several days, says the Zurich dispatch
to Matinu.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct„ 21.— Secretary
Lansing said today he had reasons to
believe the German reply would be
received shortly, possibly before the
day is over.
LATE WIRE BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 21.—The French gain
ed the bridgehead across the' Lys ca
nal, seven miles west of Ghent.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam* Oct. 21.— Budapest
i correspondent of the Rheinish West
phalian Gazette says that Emperor
Charles will shortly issue a manifesto
announcing the independence of Hun
gary.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Army North
west of Verdun, Oct. 21.— Fierce
fighting is reported on the western
I 'end of the American line.
! MOVEMENT FOR FIXING
PRICE OF COTTON NOT
DEAD, BUT SLEEPING.
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: Special to Independent.
[ Little Rock, Oct. 21.—Commission
| er John H. Page declares that the
| movement for fixing the price of cot
I ton “is not dead but sleeping a gentle
! sleep, and will no doubt be revived
between now and the time for mar
keting the next crop.”
If the price is to be fixed hereafter,
j the manufacturer and consumer will i
i be prepared with statistics to bolster ]
I up his contention for fixing a lower
price, and Commissioner Page calls
upon the farmers to make similar
preparation for looking after their
interests. The producers are not or
ganized, except as they may hold
membership in the Farmers Union.
“They should be organized, but
they are not,” says he. He calls upon
all producers to furnish the depart
■ment with figures with which to meet
the claims of the manufacturers, and
1 _i. _ i.l.„ no n
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basis for arriving at the cost of pro
duction. , '“1
1. Number of hours of man labor
in itemized form, necessary to pre
pare the land, break, disk, harrow,
bed, plant, work, pick, gin, including
bagging and ties, distance to the gin
and time required to haul a load of
seed cotton to the gin.
2. The number of hours of double
I team.
4. Let these figures be based on
the growing of one acre. If you find
the number of man hours and horse
hours of labor in producing one acre
It will be the best basis for determin
1 ing the cost.
5. The quantity and value of seed
for one acre, including the average
amount of replanting.
6. The amount of rent per acre.
State cash and crop rent anjount also.
(Not share crop, but the share of
the crop that is necessary in the
neighborhood.)
7. The average number of pounds
of seed cotton per acre per year, as
nearly as you can determine.
<£. The average number of pounds
of seed cotton this year.
9. The number of acres of land
i one man without assistance can cul
tivate.
10. In calculating the number of
hours of man or horse labor for any
. part of the labor, count the hours
I actually applied in field work, not
[ including the time in going and com
ing and hitching up.
German People Should
Feel Horrors of War
The following article was written
by Stephane Lauzanne, editor-in-chief
of the Paris Matin, who is in the
United States with the French high
commission, and should be read by
every citizen of the United States:
When we say in France, “No pity '
for Germany; we must at all costs
enter the country; we must go
through it, occupy its towns and
march through its streets; we must
make it feel the brunt of foreign
domination”—when we say this, our'
best friends look to us somewhat re-‘
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proachfully. They think, even if they
do not say so, that the French are |
bloodthirsty and that hatred and re
venge inspire their words.
Such is not the case. Since the!
first day, the first hour of the trag- j
edy, France has had but one thought, j
one feeling: “This war must be the !
last.” The Poilus, who have been I
credited with saying so many fine and j
noble things, have really said that,!
and nothing else, but they have said j
it with a forcefulness that increased j
with the unspeakable horrors they l
saw and all the privations they have i
had to bear. . j
I shall never forget the fellow sol
dier who had taken part in a partic- j
ularly horrible engagement in the
ftp 4-Vin ftftnftnlf ! n n TVim (TYIO
and who, with his own hand, knifed
three Germans. He was married, the j
father of two children, and a man of ,
refinement and charm. One evening 1
in a trench, I questioned him, and
asked him what he had felt when he
performed that butcher’s task.
“Just one thing,” was the answer.
“I did not wish my son to have to do
it one day!”
You will find that same feeling ex
pressed by millions of Frenchmen; it
is written on the torn and bleeding
heart of all France. And it is be
cause we do not wish to relieve the ■
same horrors that we want to inflict;
such a bitter lesson on the Germans
as to forever destroy any inclination
they may have to begin again. So :
far only the German stomach has'
suffered; and they will only have
suffered in their pride if, when they
surrender, their territory remains in- j
violate, and they do not have to bear
the hardship of invasion and foreign
occupation.
Now the pangs of hunger can be
alleviated by good food and the
wounds sustained by pride close up
with a few kind words. But the
wound that never heals, the suffering
that never ceases is that caused by
the enemy when he tramples on the
soil one loves, by the stranger when
he is master in your home or by the
soldier when he brutally destroys
cherished family treasures under your
eyes.
When the women of Germany are
compelled to walk the high roads
with their children on their arms be
cause of the anmoach of the enemy;
when they have to polish the shoes of
British officers or wait on Beh';
and French soldiers; when banks
are ransacked of their gold; when
German manufacturers see their fac
tories stripped; when junkers wit
ness the destruction of family heir
looms; when German priests trem
ble for their churches; when the
statures of the German Tiergarten
and Unter den Linden are used to dry
the soiled linen of the humblest Tom
my or Poilu, ah, then, and only then,
will Germany understand fully what
war means and all the abomination it
stands for.
Then, when bad shepherds »ext
seek to draw the people of Germany
once again into the vortex of war,
that people will stand up and say:
“No, we suffered too much last time.
We do not wish it to begin all over
again.” Otherwise the people will
merely remember that, from 1914 to
1918, they became acquainted with
hunger, and they will say, “Let us be
gin again, but this time, let us lay in
a good stock of supplies.”
We French people only lay claim to
one superiority over our allies, but
we insist upon it; we claim we know
the boche better than anyone knows
him. We have had to stand him for
50 years, and for 50 years we have
lived side by side. We know all
about him, all that he is worth; how
he should be spoken to and how he
should be treated. Ten years ago, M.
Delcasse, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, said to me: “If you hold
out your finger to a German, you
are done for. He will take your hand',
your arm, your shoulder, your whole
body. The clenched fist is the only
gesture the Germans understands.”
These words are profoundly true.
For generations the Germans have
been brought up to worship brute
force. Force is all they employ, all
they understand. They bow down to
nothing else but force. To believe
that suddenly within 24 hours they
will understand and put into practice
those undying principles of right and
justice and humanity is to believe
that in 24 hourse a gorilla can be
changed into a poodle.
For three years German aviators
have been butchering women and
children on English soil, while noth
ing has happened to move the Ger
man people to indignation, but now
that in turn the allies are bombard
ing Mayence, Treves, Cologne, Frank
fort, they are beginning to realize
that there may be some penalty at
tached to their favorite sport of
killing innocent people in their very
homes; and the slaughter has sud
denly ceased.
For years they have plundered
burned, sacked our fair French cities
without having met with similar
treatment; but it has been sufficient
for Foch to come rather near the
German border, and Clemenceau to
say: “Enough! if Lille is touched,
Frankfort will be made to pay!” and
as if by enchantment Lille is respect
ed. For four years of war has been
turned into a kind of scientific bri
gandage, such as the barbarians of
old never dreamed of; and today it
is sufficient for President Wilson and
back of him 120,000,000 people to
say: “No armistice as long as you
behave like savages!” and orders are
at once changed and warfare, too.
We shall suffer for it if we do not
heed the lesson, and fail to go to the
very end. Liberty and democracy
will be powerless later if, while they
have Germany by the throat, they
fail to hold her with a firm grip and
make her swallow to the last bitter
drop the abominable medicine we
have had to swallow for four years.
There is no joy in writing these
lines. It is much pleasanter and
much easier to go on the mountain
tops and pen well sounding articles
on generosity and pity and forgive
ness and good will among men. But
there are certain hours when it is
serving humanity to roll up one's
sleeves, take the knife and cut into
human flesh. Such an hour we have
now reached.
We Frenchmen, who are neither
ideologists or philosophers or theo
reticians, but just peasants and
Bourgeoise condemned by the laws
of geography to live eternally next
to a beast, solemnly warn our friends
id brothers of America and say to
“Is for the beast, if you stop
at t1 its of the Rhine, whatever
treai> may be offered to you, what
ever clauses it may contain, whatever
so-called democratic regime may be
established in Germany, whatever so
ciety of nations it may allow, you will
not have insured the peace of the
world. We shall meet again ten
years hence; for all will have to be
done over again. If you do not wish
to begin again, close your ears, cross
the Rhine and Elba and go as far as
the Spree. And let your men step
hard on German soil.”
AN OCCUPATION TAX
I IS NOW PROPOSED.
| Little Rock, Oct. 21.—The city
council will tonight adopt an ordin
ance proposing an occupation tax
whereby it is hoped to recoup some of
j the lost revenue of the city. The
, terms of the ordinance have been
carefully worked out so that it will
inot be burdensome upon any individ
ual or class, but will yield a sufficient
revenue to meet the increasing de
mands upon the city for more salary
for firemen, policement, electricians,
and other employes. It has been dif
ficult to retain the men when much
better wages are being paid on gov
ernment work. The ordinance must
be submitted to the people for adop
tion or rejection, and it is thought
the election will be called for Nov. 12
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LIBERTY LOAN IS |
OVER SUBSCRIBED
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Twenty-five Million Subscribers To
Fourth Liberty Bond Brings
Country “Over the Top.”
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 21.— Figui’es
showing the success of the Fourth
Liberty Loan poured into the treas
ury today and indicated that there
are about twenty-five million sub
scribers and that the six billion dol
lar goal has been passed by several
hundred million.
AMERICANS GIVE
GALLANT SERVICE
And Marshal Haig Sends Letter Of
Appreciation to American Com
mander Commending Them.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the Anglo-American Forces
East of Lecateau, Sunday.—The
American forces fighting beside the
Britis harmies have made an advance
of fourteen miles in the last six days
in the battle going on in this sector.
Field Marshal Haig has sent a letter
to the American commander express
ing his appreciation of the gallant
services of Americans. Thirteen di
visions including Tennessee troops,
were especially commended.
BOMBING EXPEDITION OF
AMERICANS A SUCCESS.
(By The Associated Press.)
American Army Northwest of Ver
dun, Sunday—In an all-day American
bombing expedition behind the Ger
man lines Friday in their pursuit of
aeroplanes Americans brought down
seventeen German machines. None
of the American machines were lost.
PRESIDENT NOMINATES
LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 21. Major Gener
als Hunter Liggett and Robert L.
Bullard have been nominated by
President Wilson to be lieutenant
generals.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
BELIEVED NOW TO BE
UNDER CONTROL
(By The Associated Press.)
Boston, Oct. 21.—Health officials
are now of the belief that the influ
enza epidemic, which caused nearly
four thousand deaths in Boston, is
completely under control. Schools
and other places of assembly are al
lowed to reopen today.
OPPORTUNITY FOR MUSI
CIANS AT CAMP PIKE.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 21.—There is
wonderful opportunity for musicians
at Camp Pike.
training school for bandsmen is to
be established there, and 220 musi
cians are wanted for the headquar
ters Company of this training camp.
Special authority has been granted
j by the adjtant-general of the army
, to escure by voluntary individual in
duction the number of men desired,
provided it does not exceed the num
j ber indicated.
Applicants should address the ad
| jutant, Camp Pike, Little Rock, giv
ing the following information:
1. Full name.
2. Order number; Serial Num
ber; Color.
3. Classification of Registrant;
Class; Division; General Military
Service; Special or Limited Service
i only.
'medial group; physically disqualified
(Class 5-G.)
5. Present address of registrant.
6. Designation of nearest local
; board of transfer. (To be given only
in case registrant is a distance from
| local board of origin.”
] Mrs. O. W. Scarborough, chairman
! of the Rad Cross knitting unit, de
1 sires all knitters to send in their work
this week in order that a shipment
| may be made Saturday. Let every
! one who has unfinished work, get
: busy and send in the finished gar
' ments this week.
Subscribe for the Independent.
BRITISH TROOPS .
FORCE RUNS
FROM POSITION
BRITISH HOLD GAINS AGAINST
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ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS.
Allied Rights Are Not Being Infring
ed Upon and British Are In Posi
tion to Outflank Mormal For
est and Cut Railway Line.
AMERICANS BITTERLY OPPOSED
(Associated Press Summary.)
British troops are smashing
th.rough f rmidable German positions
along the Selle river north of Leca
teau and have forced the Germans
from positions of great natural
strength on a wide front. The Brit
ish maintained their gains, notwittP"
standing enemy counter-attacks. The
British now hold their rights between
the Selle and Harpies rivers and are
in a position to outflank Mormal For
est and to cut the railroad between
Valenciennes and Avesnes. Further
north the allies continue to progress
through Belgium and' French Flan
ders from Denain to the Dutch fron
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tier. On the north the Belgians are
approaching Ghent; in the center
the British are marching on Scheldt
’river and outflanking the Tournai
Railway Junction. The Germans
flooded some of the country, but this
failed to interfere with the allied ad
vances. The French continue to make
progress along the Oise and Serre -
rivers despite bad weather. In the
Champagne region there is little
change in the line except west of Af
gonne where the French moved ahead!
once. The Americans apparently
meeting desperate resistance west of
the Meuse. No significant progress
has been reported there in a couple
of days.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 21.—More than three
thousand prisoners were captured
yesterday in operations north of Le
er leau when Selle River was crossed
o:. a wide front, Haig reported today.
In the Valenciennes region the British
are approaching St. Amand, six miles
northwest of Valenciennes. North of
Tournai they are pushing forward to
r line on the Schclldt river.
(By The Associated rre3s.)
Paris, Oct. 21.—There was no in
fantry fighting of moment on the
French front last night. The war of
fice reports only artillery activity
between the Serre and the Aisne.
Casualty List
The casualty list for the 20th and
21st, as given out by the command
ing general of the American
tionary forces fighting in Frai
tains a total of 1932 names.
The Arkansas boys appea „
the lists are as follows: Severely
wounded Horace F. White, Mammoth
Spring; Davis F. Brodie, Van Buren;
woundedwounded slightly, Charles F.
Cargile, Arkadelphia; died of dis
ease Wyatt Blackstocks, Hollyville;
Sherman C. Oliver, Greenwood; Na
thanmel Helms, Sweet Home; Elijah
A. Howard, Okolona. Missing in ac
tion, Birley Dowdy, Whitehouse;
Thos. J. Theal, Washington; Frank
L. Ross, Bazite . Wounded, degree
unknown, Timothy Murphy, Smack
over; Elias Oscar Stephens, Success.
Died of disease, Geo. S. Thomas,
Ozark.
T. M. Thurman returned Sunday
from Mount Carmel, Illinois, where
he was called by the death of his son,
Thomas L. Thurman, who died at
Camp Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. Earl Folk,
who was also there, is expected homa
tomorrow. r •