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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - January 19, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Wea thee colder in journal a. Vol. 134, no. 109. 81st year. Madison wis., monday afternoon january 19,1920. Twelve pages Price two cen1>student vote raises Stor Blaine ruling dooms 2.5 shepherded holds state Daniels in liquor Case a ii a a Iff i4 la a. Coed d j or Hun t toll. S. La pastor endorses purposes but takes Issue with definition denial of private property right declares opinion to Hazelberg shows Mulberger act qualification accepts congressional interpretation Church is Best Friend of labor Flat denial admitted in order probe High court of h opes of Wisconsin wets that 2.6 mgt a cent Beer could be saved in Wisconsin under the Mulberger act in spite of the Federal enforcement Law went Slimmer inn today when at Torney general John j. Maine held that liquor contain Ink More than one half of one per cent of alcohol a defined by the Federal act la intoxication. Here in what attorney general at the request of t. T. Haw Berg. Tate prohibition commissioner for an official opinion. Maya intoxicating liquor la. Purl Chi Are it of. Rood thing of it. The won liquor or the phrase. Nod preventing exploitation of men by intoxicating liquor shall be to co a Fri owl up declared socialism in Dorning fundamental purpose th1 a might is right hut the theory of socialism hut taking Issue i he hebrew theocracy that god is with its denial of the right of pro in a owner of the Earth of the Gold and Vale property and its affirmation of to i the r in the cattle us on a thous Clian cd order submerging the i divid and Hills and that Man is Only no i in Ryt it i a in fro of till toe Uto Tiitu und Ltd ��k1, and a Trum Aal to the exclusive control of the tee. A Steward under Fjon and that he state the Rev. George Vej. Hunt spoke i he it lds and uses his goods for the serv on Quot the Christian answer to the Chall Ltd a i Fellows Long of How Iblis my last night in Christ Pree to choose Preshy Ter bin Church. also Dre dared 1 with this theory of the right of the Church is tailor Best Friend. First bringing out the attractive program of socialism he said it proposes to take control of the to Ltd it is land and raw materials out of private hands and put it into the hands of the state assuring to the people a common and tue to include alcohol Brandy whiskey rum. Gin. Liver ale. Porter wine and in addition thereto any spirituous vinous malt or ferment a liquor liquids and comi Hind. Whether medical. Proprietary patented or not and by whatever Nam called containing one Hilf of one per centum or More of alcohol by volume which Are fit for use for i it Everage the opinion further states that the 18th amendment was regularly pro posed by Congress and adopted by requisite turn i Ter of states and is now a valid kit Lon of the fre Cral Constitution. This National prohibition act contains the Alane quoted definition of intoxicating liquor. Section 1.169-2 of Wisconsin statutes provides Tor exercising of the Power reserved by and Grant d to this state by the 18th amendment Section 1169-3 interprets intoxicating liquor As containing More than two and one half per cent of alcohol by weight at 69 degrees fahrenheit with this qualifying provision that should Congress by a valid get define the words intoxicating liquor As used in 18th amendment such definition shall be operative in Wisconsin. Portage schools closed by a flu Quot Portage a with More than too pm sew of influenza announcement was made sunday through the pastors of the churches that schools would close until further notice. There have been no fatal Here. Often was misrepresented being called bolshevism and Quot anarchy by the ignorant and prejudiced. A every serious program for society that pro Toses to limit the Power of the selfish and give the people a Square Deal is attacked. Lied about Ami he declared. A the purpose of socialism Are lofty intended to redeem human society from some of the sore ills that afflict it Quot the Christian religion is heartily with socialism in its purposes. Opposes two principles he declared however that Quot the Christian Church take Issue with two fundamental propositions of socialism. First socialism s denial of the right of private property and second socialism affirmation that a changed political and Industrial order submerging the individual to the exclusive control of the state will bring the in Lentum of social. Industrial and ill tical peace. Quot the Christian Church stands today anti has Ever stood for the sacred right of private property. Civilised Man is Superior to his Savage brother in trl tial relations usually communistic partly because of the stimulus to tailor and initiative involved in the secure personal Possession of the fruits of toll reversion to the communistic tril Wil state where the individual owns nothing and the tribe everything would lie a Lic Warel step instead of Progress Quot hut the theory of private property held by the Christian Church is not the old Pagan theory of ownership in fee simple the roman theory that a Man owns what he has the Power to take and hold. Which is born of the Jungle j the hard and is based on the false philosophy i brotherly sweeping investigation of policies authorized Secretary declares he did not utter words told by Sims supreme Bench speeds action Rhode Island plea for original proceedings to test Law granted was tar private propel to the Church insists Itiat the state exists for the individual and not the individual for the state that the Hight St form of civilization is a society in which the individual i free to choose his own life free to follow his own initiative the Lien of his own talents with such organisation of society As will secure to him the just returns of his own toll and granting Security to him in All Justice and fairness to All others. Quot the program of christianity is to so change the individuals who make up the mass of society As to work a change in the whole of that society. Make the units composing the mass social and brotherly and you make the mass social and brotherly. For collectivism Quot again the Christian Church today stands foursquare for brotherly col Lect Elsm. In the close and complicated organization of Industry the Only Way the individual can become effective in demanding his rights is collectively. Roth the protestant and the roman Catholic churches of America have within the Paat year publicly proclaimed their justification of Trade unionism of collective bargaining Ann the right of Tabor to a share and voice in the control of the conditions of la i Bor and the methods and wages of Industry. A the Crow to or workers in front of the Soapbox orator Are told that the churches Are bound hand and foot by the Rich exploiters of the Toller that i the churches Are the Rich menus club and the average Workman himself not an attendant at Church and not know i ing the facts from personal ohs Erva i to swallows whole these lies about j the Church Quot some Day the great body of sane workers in America Are going to Wake j up to the fact the Best Friend labor has is the Christian Church and that the surest Way of Justice for the worker is the Way of religion that changes and selfish heart into the Victory for sinn Millerand head miners grows 0f new Cabinet Dublin returns up to noon saturday from thursdays municipal elections showed gains for the sinn fein throughout Ireland. In Dublin alone the sinn fein elated 24 candidates the labovites six and the nationalists eight. Sinn fein leaders were particularly jubilant Over the capture of a seat in the Belfast District. Sir Edward Carson s stronghold Carson further lost prestige through the election of Patrick Dempsey a nationalist in the Dun Cairn area. Score injured in train crash fort Worth text a score or More persons were injured eight or ten of them perhaps fatally when a collided with an Arling Street car in the West of it. Worth saturday a a Rico train ton Heights Ern suburbs night. Fair and colder tonight. Tuesday partly Cloudy and continued cold probe ably becoming unsettled. Freak Northwest winds. Temperature yesterday noon 3 3 p. In7. 6 p. Rn., i 9 p. In. 4. Today Midnight. 6 3 a. Rn., 8. 6 a. Rn., 7 9 a. In3. ? maximum during 24 hours ending 9 a. In8 at 3 p. In. Minimum during 24 hours ending 9 a rn., �?3 at 9 a. In. Mean. 2l Normal 16. Precipitation during 24 hours ending 7 a. In31 in. Normal. ,06 in. Accumulated departure since Jan i �?.27 in. Today in other years warmest 1907. 47 coldest 1885, .22 wettest 1907, i 02 in. Nun sets it 4 63. Will handle portfolio of foreign affairs As Well As premiership Paris Alexandre Mille Rixi governor of Alsaate today Are a it Tel i the offer of president Poincare to head the new French Cabinet. Millerand himself will take a the portfolio of foreign affairs in addition to his duties As Premer. The remainder of the Cabinet he named As follows minister of War Andre Lefevre. Minister of Marine m. Landry minister of the Interior m. Sterg. Minister of France Francois marital. Minister of Commerce m. Isaac. Minuter of labor. Paul Jourdann. Minister of Justice. M. La to plateau. Minister of agriculture. M. Ricard minister of Public works. M Letro Quer. Minister of Hygiene m. Breton. Minister of liberated halons m. Touron. Minister of Public instruction Andre Honnorat. Andre Tardieu former a a Renth High commissioner to the United states refused to retain his portfolio As minister of liberated regions. Says Bryan is agent for . Salt Lake City a. J. Bryan was named Here today by Frank j. Hagenbarth As an agent for the High Cost of living. Hagenbarth president of the Amer icon Wool growers association told his convention today a it is now seven years nines an iniquitous Frame up engineered by w. J. Bryan fastened these free Trade shackles on Hie unorganized american Farmers. It is Only by the Grace of god and artificial help of the War that american meat and Wool husbandry a has survived a dutch May ask Kaiser to yield Premier and foreign mn8-Ter in confab Over Allied demand the Hague a or. Cd. J. M Yuya de dutch Premier has had a Long conference with foreign minis Tor Karo Beek. Presumably Over the i allp/1 note demanding extradition of the former Kaiser it was reported today. The dutch officials it was said. to make representations to the form x Kaiser suggesting he offer to surrender voluntarily to the allies the German naval attache conferred with the Secretary of Tim foreign office presumably Over the surrender of the exem motor of Germany. 8hington�?e ear thut eng land would believe it was Secretary Daniels who told Admiral Sims the United states Quot would As soon fight the Fri Tosh As the germans prompted i bin leis to write to chairman Page of the Senate sub committee ii he had made the remark he said today. His letter was written at the recommendation of a High official of the american diplomatic service Daniels said. This Diplomat feared that should i Sims statement go unanswered a serious Imp a in Ion might be created in England dime it might be some time before i in in is is called before the naval committee to testify he decided to write Page inquiry is ordered the senat 1 naval committee today instructed Tho us committee a i Vosti gating naval awards to proceed with that inquiry until its completion and then to take up the broader investigation of the conduct of the naval affairs during the War. Caused by kims letter to Mhz noels read by Mims saturday. Tho sub committee therefore pro pared to resume its hearings at once with Sims on the stand. Sub committee numbers said Ghey Hope to Complete this of ase of the investigation within a week or to Days. Lauds Navy a work commenting on Sims testimony that the Navy department prolonged the War by hampering operations in Kun Wun Waters Daniels said that if the whole Story of the Navy s participation comes out a a any honest criticism will say a no organization in history did a better Job than the american Navy in the War a the Navy a Victory he said was brought about by team work. said it was a a a pitiful thing Quot that anyone should say that the Navy dirt Mil do everything possible during the War. The department will put All the information it i it Oss ass at the disposal of the senat committee in its investigation said Daniels. Press is passive London Early news Siper comment on dispatches from Washington reporting the testimony of Admiral Sims before the Senate naval affairs committee was not inclined to give the affair undue significance. The Admiral s statement that he was warned not to let the British Quot pull the Wool Over his and that Quot we would As soon Light the Fri Tosh As the germans Quot was not interpreted As cause for alarm the warning. Some newspapers pointed out was natural enough in View of a certain amount of anti British sentiment which existed in the United states at the time it was Given. Want same car 5 pitch Nickels Junction City Kane Exive men tossed Nickels at a crack in the floor of a garage Here recently to decide which had u prior claim on a High Jiow ered touring car that each Man wished to Purchase the Winner took the car and the other four put their names on the waiting list in the order in which their coins Lay from the crack. Berlin denies Mission to reds judge sentences Baker to Bath Washington a the supreme court today seeded its final decision As to whether or not constitutional prohibition is valid. Announcement was made that the application of the state of Rhode Island to Institute original proceedings in the court to test the Validity of the eighteenth amendment and the volstead Law enforcing it had beet granted. Rhode Island in making the application. Claimed the Law could not to enforced in the state against its consent. As the state had rejected the prohibition amendment. Enforcement would be a serious infringement on the police Powers and Sovereign rights of the state it was claimed. The suit was authorized by the Rhode Island legislature and backed with an appropriation of $1,009. Claim no jurisdiction the government argued the supreme court had no jurisdiction to hear the Case originally and that it must ii initiate in the lower courts and fought through them until it eventually reached the supreme court. Today s decision eliminates the delay this would involve. The supreme court however refused to Grant an injunction restraining state and Federal officer from enforcing constitutional prohibition in the state. Rhode Island rust tie As dry As any other state until the Case la anally dispose of. Elven with the expedition granted a inlay the Case probably will not be argued until March As the court recesses during eve Briary. Solicitor general King said the government will make every Effort to Rush proceedings by moving next monday to dismiss Rhode Island s Bill of complaint the. Court s action on this motion will determine the Validity of constitutional prohibition he believes. Referendum Case the supreme court today was asked to Advance arguments in cakes testing the Quot constitutional rights of slates by refer Odum to override action of Legislatures in ratifying the prohibition act. Ohio Ami prohibition leaders of the state joined in making the motion. Til suit was brought in the lower court by Georg n. Hawke ctn can a it lawyer seeking to enjoin Harvey c. Smith Secretary of Monte from sub mls ten the prohibition amendment to a referendum. Schuma in Heink has pneumonia san Dirgo mine. Schumann honk famous Singer. Was ill with pneumonia at her Home near Here today. Physic la is stated he r eur edition was not serious. Chicago has woo More cases of flu Chi a Agi it almost i too new cases of influenza were reported to the health Depar ment Here during the 24 hours ending Early today. Thirteen deaths to re re ported in the some period Nix Hun Drol and Twenty five Volun Leer nurses varied working today uniter the direction of health officials in an attempt a Check the disease a i Jon to shake hands. Salute was one of the precautions issued by health commissioner Robertson today. Quot mantis carry germs Quot he said fiume invites do Annunzio to report Belgrade a the following Semi official statement was issued bore a according to advices from Buccari five Miles East of Flum repress natives of the town of fiume yesterday held in meeting and adopted a Resolution recommending that do Annunzio Olavo flume is soon As possible. A intelligence from Spalato reports on Good authority that Arditi and volunteers at Zara Are preparing to fire the town at the last moment should it to give up to Jugo Slavia. The arrival of an italian warship is expo cod and Tho italians Are preparing to resist at All costs whenever our troops ballot says Mccormick Hitchcock stirs up Senate rumpus trying to put College treaty figures into record reds threaten life of Palmer letters from radicals of almost daily occurrence. Say Justice officials by Ralph f. Couch Washington a threats against the life of attorney general Palmer Are being made daily it became known Here today because of his activities in suppressing criminal radicalism Justice department officials Are taking every precaution to guard their chief. A a threatening letters an received almost every Day a said Rottert Scott confidential Secretary to Palmer. A a Al though Manv Are obviously written by Cranks there is no doubt that there is real Quot these letters have been sent from practically every big City in the country Quot Auld Scott. Quot occasionally a name is signed presumably a false one but most of the letters Are without Slana Ture. Tine received from a writer who signed a woman name read in part Quot a our brother gladly gave his life in a worthy cause. failed. You must tie removed. You la hear from a thl a a reference to the dynamite who blew himself to bits last summer while trying to assassinate Palmer in his Home. Another letter sent More recently from halt i More read a your Mutual position is pretty dear. What has been done by us so for is Only a warning that there Are Friend of popular liberties still living Only now we Are getting into the tight my you will have a Chance to see what Liberty Loving people can letters decorated with Blackband and red Ink intended to represent blood Are obviously from Cranks anti get Little serious attention. Generally such letters betray that they a written by disgruntled foreigners. Bryan urges Compromise new Vork a William Jennings Bryan speaking at a dinner Given in ibis Honor at the hotel Astor by the society of arts and science last night declared the i Lemur rat in party could not go before the country in the presidential election. And defend the failure of the democratic minority in the amate to effect a Compromise on the peace treaty arum the league of nations. Bryan said a Well to Quot permit it to run into the Ger of that crime a senator Robert l Owen of Oklahoma and Joseph w. Folk former governor of Missouri preceding Bryan urged immediate Ai Tion to bring about Compromise. Love his party too Dan Burlin. Newspapers her today denied a report printed in purls that Germany will Send a commission to Moscow to negotiate with the bolshevik. The German Mission according to newspapers is composed of representatives of the red Cross and is taking sanitary and medical supplies to German prisoners in Russia. The Mission has no political significance it was added flames sweep Oil District Wichita Falik in the Burke Burnett Pool near Here spread to six Oil Wells flowed Down a Creek bed and spread flames Over a Lake of several acres saturday. Damage will run into hundreds of thousands of Dollar it was estimated a half dozen explosions burst Oil tanks scattering the flames and letting Loose i floods of fire. New Isaac Krinsky a Baker of this City has taken a Bath it in i tee a use he was ordered to do so by magistrate Schwab in Essex Market court. Krinsky was charged with violation of the sanitary Che. Magistrate Schwab suspended sentence after ordering the Balter to take a Bath the court sent the detective who made the arrest to see that Krinsky did a he was told. $500,000 damage to paper Plant Rue a alow Eire which started suddenly in the basement of the Buffalo Dally and sunday times did damage estimated at $590,900 the fire is of unknown origin. Several presses Thart department stereotype and mating departments a were destroyed. Ii the secret Battle sounds like Littion does no to it hut better still a the secret Hattie is nothing More than the True Story of How two american spies visited Hindenburg run Headquarters conferred with the Gorman War lord received the thanks of the Kaiser hid then came Back to american Headquarters with two Mem hers of Hindenburg a a Talf and the plans for the final German drive on Paris. It was Thene plans that caused Knell to shift hts methods and turn the tide of Battle which resulted in the armistice with Germany crushed. A the secret Battle will in next sunday n the Wisconsin state journal. It has been truly named the greatest of All War stories. Washington senator hitch cock today stirred up a storm in the Senate by putting into the record figures on the intercollegiate poll on the peace treaty. Hitchcock s figures showed he said that of the 138,900 vote Cost by students and faculty member 100,0041 favored either unqualified ratification or interpretative reservations while Only 27,000 favored the Lodge to serval Mccormick Illinois asserted the vote among College Quot was a shepherded the league to enforce peace he declared sent speakers to the colleges to speak to favor of the treaty amt the league of nations while the other Side of the question was not presented. Cites French action Quot senators should not forget the result of other votes cast at election in various states recently a shouted Mccormick. A nor should they Overlook the vote in thee Rench Assembly where m. Deschanel was elected president Over Premier Clemenceau who helped write this senator Sutherland said that in addition to the americans who go about lecturing in support of the treaty Quot there Are distinguished britishers who have come to Tell the american people their thl time the Senate was in tumult. Senator Edge anally made himself heard and said Hitchcock was trying to claim for the democrats All the credit for Compromise efforts. A every Compromise move has coms from this Side a said Fdge. Senator Nelson referring to the College poll asked if a senators Are to use their own judgment or lie dummies. Refers to Hoover Mccormick referred to Herbert. Hoovers recent statement that the treaty condemns Austria to perpetual famine and anarchy and Czecho slovak la to ii Eric equal civil War and got into a lengthy dispute Over the Point with senator King. Utah. Senator Brandegee Connecticut presenting a petition from the China society risking that senators stand firmly for the Shantung reservation observed Quot i will refrain from asking that it be submitted to a Straw vote of the College boys of the a demand for the regular order of business ended the discussion. Religious meet opens tuesday the two Day religious educational conference under auspices of the Wisconsin a a federation of churches open tomorrow at 2 p. In. In Wesley Hall. Members of the committee in Harg Are. Prof. M. V. O Shea the Rev. Edward a. Blakeman Joseph la. Gleason and the Rev. Al. N. Worcester. Tuesday s program follows 2 00 religions training an Aid to a Nodal vision and Power prof. J. In Builtin. 3 of Church and state a partner in education the Rev. Blakeman. 3 30�? new developments in religious education. Or. Henry a Cope Secretary of religious education association of America discussion prof. John p. Dean Beloit College. 4 39 main Hall religious education As affected by changing Conception of religion. Prof George Albert Coe Union theological Seminary new York 7 19 Welcome by University faculty the hib Licul let eur tent a contribution of be Hola ship. President Samuel plants Lawrence College liner is towing big transport Bostons the american transport Powhatan disabled about 599 Miles East of new York with about 271 passengers aboard is being towed to Halifax. N. H., by the White Star liner Cedric according to a wireless message received at the Charlestown Navy Yard Here today. The message said that the ship was in no immediate danger. A later wireless message stated Ilia steamship Bard to had taken the place of the Cedric in towing the big liner. No reason for the change was Given everything was reported progressing smoothly. Stands by trawler Steamer Hea Bird was standing by the steam trawler. Curlew of the coast fisheries i company to Render any assistance necessary according to a wireless i message received Here today. I tile Curlew sent out distress Call a late last night but did not state the nature of her trouble

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