A AS A 13 VOTED DRY Nebraska, Bryan's State, the Thirty-Sixth to Raiify APPROVED BY 28 STATES Drought Begins July 1 And May Never End-—Demobilization Act To Be Superseded A Year From January 16. TEXT OF PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, Article XVIII, Section 1. Aft. er one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale or transportation of intox- lcating liquors within, the im- portation thereof into, or the ex- portation thereof from United States and all territory eubject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes, is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have con- current power to enforce this article by appropriate legisla. tion. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amend ment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Con- stitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the states by the Con gress, The amendment becomes effec. tive one year after its ratifica- tion by the thirty-asixth State. PPI PPRPIPPPPOPOOPPITIOOIS PHP 04 8 | : Lincoln, Neb.—The United States | went bone dry Thursday, January 16, 1918. Nebraska, home State of William Jennings Bryan, ratified the Federal prohibition amendment It was the thirtysixth and final state necessary to make prohibition part of the Con stitution of the United States, Washington. —Prohibition is now part of the basic law of the United States, Ratification of the Federal dry amendment by the Legislature of Ne braska makes that measure the eigh- teenth amendment to the Federal Con. stitution. All but about a half dozen of the 48 states are expected to adopt the amendment in the next few weeks, | but the action of Nebraska gives the | ratification of theee-fourths of the states, the number necessary to ad- | minister John Barleycorn the K. O. | punch. One year from January 16, every saloon, brewery, distillery and wine press in the land must close its doors unieas-—-as now seems likely—they are already closed at that time by war | prohibition, which goes into effect next | July 1 and stays until completion of demobilization. This is the amendment adopted by Congress December 18, 1917, and rati- fied by 36 states a little more than one year later, Here are some of the things that the amendment will do: Wipe out at a stroke 236 distilleries, $92 breweries and over 300,000 saloons and wholesale liquor establishments, forcing their employes to seek other Jobs, Cut off from these persons an annual income totalling more than $70,000,000 in pre-war times, Cut off from the United States Treasury a source of taxation counted upon for an even billion dollars in the first drafts of the new revenue bill and millions in additional incomes to State treasuries, Remove the liquor question from na- tional, State and city polities for all time and help decrease eity, State and Federal expense by decreasing law violations. But John Barleycorn will try to stage & “come back.” Distillers are already planning a fight on the amendment in the courts on the grounds that the amendment was not adopted by two-thirds of the whole Con- gress and that the seven-year lHmita. tion in it invalidates the measure, Drys say they are confident that neither of these contentions will hold and on thelr side are preparing legisla tion to carry heavy penalties for viola. tion of prohibition. The first 236 states ratifying the emendment are: Mississippl, Virgnia, tucky, North Dakota, South Caro Maryland, Montana, Texas, Dela: ware, South Dakota, assachusetts, Arizona, Georgia, Latins, Florida, | i} b h\ | | Ai ) Wl NNN BIG RELIEF BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Acts Upon Wilson's Renewed Request For Speed TO BE HURRIED IN SENATE Warning Given That Delay In Pas sage Of Measure Might Jeopar- dize Progress Of The Peace Negotiations. Washington ~Appropriation of $100. 000,000 for famine relief in Europe Se i — al . GERMAN MERCHANT FLEET DEMANDED Terms for the Extension of Armistice Approved —— ACTION OF WAR COUNCIL ——————— Supreme War Council Says Germany Must Hand Over To Allies Cargo Steamers To Assist in Revic- tualing Of Germany. Paris.—The economic terms ap proved by the Supreme War Council, to be imposed for the extension of the | outside of Germany was approved by the House, which passed the admin | istration measure after its enactment armistice with Germany, provide that | Wilson as the only effective means of | combatting the westward spread of | Bolshevism. The blll now goes to | the Senate, where its early passage i» planned, Party lines were effaced in the | House debate and vote, and despite | energetic demands by opponents of the bill for more specific information regarding the proposed expenditure, and criticism of the President, Her | bert C. Hoover and Vance McCormick, chairman of the War Trade Board, a | special rule reported by the Rules! Committee was adopted and afterward | 240 to 73. The only amendment accepted was | by Representative Sherley, In charge of the measure, which parmits | of the fund for relief in! countries contiguous to Europe. This | would make it possible to aid the An menians and other suffering peoples | in the Near Bast. President Wilson's urgent appeal appropriation be authorized consummation of peace resentative Sherley, congressional chairman of the appropriations commit. | and was read on the floor of the | House by Mr. Sherley. It was supple | partment from Henry D. White, Re publican member of the American peace delegation. Both messages sald the problem of supplying food to the distressed peoples recently Hberated | from the rule of the Central Powers | was one of paramount importance in obtaining a return to normal condi tions. “Food relief is now the key to the | whole European situation and to the solution of peace,” Mr. Wilson said “Bolshevism Is steadily spreading westward, | cannot be stopped by force, but it can be stopped by food.” TO STUDY RED CROSS WORK. Headquarters Committees To Expedite Listing Of Wounded. Washington Possibilities of im. proving Red Cross service in the 43 general hospitals of the army, espe cially to facilitate the listing of wounded men on arrival in this coun: try, will be studied by an official com. mitiee from national headquarters which will begin a tour of the coun try this week. A. P. DENNIS GOES TO ROME. First Commercial Attache At Ameri. can Ambasasy. Washington Appointment of A. P. Dennis, of Princess Anne, Md, as the first commercial attache at the Amer jean Embassy in Rome was announced by the Bureau of Foreign and Domes. tie Commerce. Mr. Dennis, a graduste of Princeton, is a wholesale lumber dealer and has written extensively on economic subjects. GARDENS SAVED $3,000,000, Denver Plans To Cut Vegetable Bill Further Next Year. Washington.—-Denver saved $3,000, 000 op her vegetable bill, says a re other ports to enable the Allies to | revictual Germany and such adjacent | countries as may be decided upon etc. taken from the invaded regions which | possible to identify. This was decided on in the view that it would | bring about a quicker revival of eco nomic life than the payment of an equivalent in money, The financial clauses concern the gold reserve of the Relchsbank and the issue of money by Germany Marshal Foch, when he meets the Ger. will make Suggestions regarding the security of pent monetary deposits snd the means of issuing bank notes. Guar. | antees will be required regarding any removal of the Reichabank’s goid from | Berlin in view of Bolshevik activities The naval conditions demand strict it is the original armistice handing over have not question cupation concerning the submarines which yet been complied with. No was raised regarding the oc of German ports by the Al | of Examination into the question of Allied Intervention in Poland against council. uU. 8. AND JAPAN IN PACT. Agreement For Join: Sontrol Of Trans | Siberian Railroad. Washington.—An agreement for con- trol of the Trans-Siberian and Chinese | Eastern Railroad by an interaliied | has been instructed by the American Governor to proceed to Viadivestok to participate in the working out of de tails. The Interallied committee will one representative Japan, the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy and the Omsk Russian Government in Si beria and will be under the presi dency of the Russian. HUN HELMETS TO BOOST LOAN. 80,000 Captured By Yanks Will Be Sent To United States. Washington. Eighty thousand Ger man helmets captured by General Pershing's troops-—some new, taken from storehouses behind the enemy lines, and some battered relics of the battiefield-—-—have been ordered by Frank R. Wilson, director of Liberty Loan publicity, for distribution in the Fifth Liberty Loan campaign. The helmets will be allotted to Federal Reserve district headquarters on the basis of their respective subscription quotas and will be ured as prizes for campaign achievements under rules to be formulated by the district man. agers. 2,000 KILLED AT PRZEMYSL. Ukrainians Bombard Galician City By . Land And Air, Geneva. — Two thousand persons have been killed at Prremyel, Galicia, by the Ukrainians, according to a dis. patch to the Neue Frele Presse, of Vienna, a copy of which has been re ceived here. The Ukrainians have EFFORT T0 SCREEN PEAGE GONFERENGE Tn —————————— Americans dnd English Corres- pondents Raise Row QUESTIONS TO BE REOPENED ——————————————— Announcement That News For Public Is To Be Confined To A Daily Communique Brings Explo- sion Of indignation. Parig.—The question of whether the Peace Conference is to be secret or wholly open to the eyes and ears of the world, the settlement of which has been long awaited, was brought to a focus when it was announced that that a gentleman's agreement of the meetings in the Foreign Office, this purpose was issued, but word was which quite of the peace commissioners. The understanding is that the Amer. ican and British delegates oppowed this and Japanese, valled. The British newspaper correspond ents Immediately joined in a memorial of protest, which they put Premier lidoyd George. newspaper correspondents united is virtually a round robin io President Wilson in which they pro- test in measured terms against the decision, and reminded the President of that one of his fourteen points which specifies “open covenants of peace openly srrived at” The memorial was before the Pres ident, and thers is every reason to that such a storm has been will force the voling together, The question whether the meetiings are to be open or closed has been smouldering for several! dave it is the lack of method making public what in conference for the past month 100 here 10 report the ences by the American commissioners under the stipulated condit what was developed was solely thelr guid as bearing the stamp of suthorily mission ions from the MILK PRICES TO DROP. Relief For New York Consumers Promised. New York-New York consumers E Dowling, the Milk Commission Governor Smith to settle nouncement by Robert | by the Dairymen’s League. Mr. Dowi. be expected, GERMANS FREE 338 YANKS. To France, Washington Names of 338 enlisted men of the Army reported to have re- turned to France from prison camps in Germany were made public by the War Department. ———— nN WASHINGTON An increasé from five to ten cents in passenger rates between East Liverpool, Ohio, and Chester, W. Va., over the Steubenville, East Liverpool and Beaver Valley Traction line waa approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Confereea on the War Revenue Bill agreed to eliminate the House provi sion levying federal horsepower 1i- cense taxes on automobiles. A warning against extravagance in appropriations was volced in the Sen ate during discussion of an amend ment to the Census Bill A vote by the Senate on the woman suffrage resolution will be indefinitely delayed in view of the rejection by the New Hampshire Legislature of a reso. lution to Instruct Senator Moses to support the measure, Orders directing Major General Leonard Wood, now commanding Camp Funston, Kan, to proceed to Chicago and take command of the Cen: tral Department were issued by the War Department. ; The authority of the National War Labor Doard to enforce its decrees, now that hostilities have ceased, was challenged by counsel for the Bethle- {GERMANY MUST PAY : Boche Entitled to No More Sym- pathy Than Any Criminal, WRECKED CITIES AND LIVES Many Girls in Lille Are Mothers of Babes Whose Fathers Are Ger. mans—Punishment Cannot Be Too Severe. By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. When a robber breaks into your house and steals that which he can carry away and then destroys that which he cannot steal, you expect that when caught he will be punished both for what he stole and for what he de- stroyed. Bo It is with Germany. The German army, acting under the orders of the German government, stole everything it could carry away in the invaded sections of Belgium and France, and what it could not carry away it destroyed. I was in the city of Lille very short- ly after the retreating Germans had evacuated it, Before the war Lille prosperous manufacturing towns in all Its great factories, pro- ducing linens, cottons, velvets, ribbons and woolen goods, had patrons all over these products, For four years, during the German | occupation, the factories of Lille had | been idle. They are idle today, and | come. The reason is that Germany or in lengths that the Huns even invaded the homes of the people chines, Germans Fathers of Their Babes. The German army looted this bean It stole not alone the French of how B000 young away at one er girls with Ge rman babies. “Money wm not pny for these things, but money and work can in some small degree pay for the wrecked factories and ru- ined business of the city of Lille, and through the payment of this money and labor the people of Germany will learn that might is not right, and thes war for the purpose of gratifying a selfish ambition Is not profitable, Why Lille Was Not Destroyed, The German retreat from Lille came near the close of the war when the Germans knew they were beaten and they would have to pay, and for that reason the city itself was not de. stroyed. But the fact that It was not destroyed is but another evidence of German selfishness rather than Of vir- tue, There are hundreds of cities and towns that have been destroyed after being looted as Lille was looted ; hun- dreds of towns where even the mate- rial of which they were bullt has been carried away that it might be used in the construction of fortifications be- hind which the German army might defend itself and its fli-gotten gains, For all of these Germany should pey now, and for generations to come. No sympathetic pardon board should sit on Germany's case, No sentiment alist should have 8 voice In deciding her punishment. There is no more, {if as much, reason for leniency in fix- { ing the punishment of Germany than there would be for leniency in fixing the punishment of the ruthless slayer of your son or your daughter. Germany must pay all that the present and fo- ture generations can pay, and she will | even then have explated her crime only {in a small degree, Any Demand Not Too Great. I am sure I know the desire of the | American people for falr play in sll things, Including the settlement with | Germany. They would not wish to do | the German people an injustice in the As I rode mile | after mile over the devastated fields of Belgium and northern France as I passed through town after town thst { had been destroyed because of 8 mad craze for loot and world domination, {1 feit that could the American people Io see the things 1 was seeing, they | demand for reparation. would feel, as 1 felt, that any demand { that might be made could not be un- {feir. Could they have seen the ruins {of the beautiful cities of Ypres, Ar- | mente res, La Bassee, Kt { Quentin, Noyon, Lens and many hun- {dreds of others, they, too, would {say with one voice: “Germany must { pay.” The boche will appeal, and in fact is appealing, for the sympathy of the Peronne, ihr APR ny time. They told me of another time when more than 10,000 boys of from fourteen to twenty years of age had been carried away to Germany. When I was in Lille on October 22 it had very few Inhabitants except old peo- ple or very young children. Among the few exceptions were girls of from seventeen to twenty years of age nurs ing bables, which they told me were the offspring of German fathers, and the pathos of the situation of those young girls is something I shall never forget. And this condition at Lille is the re. sult of German ambition for world domination, an ambition fostered among the German people through years of training, the ambition of a people whose boast has been that “might makes right.” 1 am somry to say I have heard peo ple attempt to excuse this looting of 1ille on the ground that it could be shown to be a war mefsure—the need of Germany for this machinery and for the labor of the people deported to Germany. But these people cannot find any reasonable excuse for the war ftself, on war that was started only for the selfish purpose of a selfish peo Shall Germany not pay for this con- dition at Lille? Shall she not pay for the machinery that was carted away of destroyed, for the people that were deported? Shall she not pay for the of idleness of these factories, i § 3 2 g | 3 a i g : £5 is i world, but the boche is entitled to just the same degree of sympathy that the world accords to any other crim- inal. We feed and clothe the crime inal that he may live to expiate his crime, and we will feed and clothe the German people that they may live to expiate their crime, and that after they have done that they may again be entitled to the place in the worid's civilization that only those who are cleansed may occupy. Germany is ene titled to nothing more than this, and this is fair play. BRITISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT Steam-Heating Plants and Heavy Overcoats Never in Demand in That Part of the Earth. British Honduras keeps its Christe mes in the shade. From ite position, pretty near to the equator, and wedged in between Yucatan and Guatemala, it it i= always hot in that country, and ii
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