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a a THE CAPITAL TIMES BRYAN PLAN FOR LEAGUE DISCUSSED' Provides Delay of Year Before Declaration Can be Made GUARD SMALL NATIONS President Has Big Job to Get Through With Mission on Time gram will be soon evolved. Represent Common Idea This program, it is believed, will (Continued from page 1.) cussed in meetings of the supreme council and are not technically fore the peace congress as a whole, but fact that the congress has advanced this question to the foremost place in its program is taken to indicate that such progress is being made in the supreme council as to warrant the expectation that a definite and somewhat detailed pro- satisfactory result. With discussions the point where present the common thought of the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and France and therefore may furnish a starting a point from which all the a peace a delegates may participate in the work. President Wilson is personally pressing this one feature of the work of the peace congress to the virtual axclusion of all others. With a definite plan formed for erecting a structure upon which all nations can agree, there are about 25 working days remaining of the time that President Wilson has allotted to himself for work in France before leaving home.

The question being asked is whether he can in this comparatively short time bring the nations together in an agreement for a society of nations. Many of the president's closest advisers are reasonably convinced he can do so. They base their opinion on what appears to be spontaneous developments on expressions indicating adherence to the league plan by Gerat Britain, France and Italy and on the assumption that, being virtually agreed upon in principle as to some details, the remainder of the work, while presenting some perplexities, does not offer hopeless obstacles if approached in a spirit of accommodation and even sacrifice, which virtually all leaders have declared in their public addresses as being quite necessary to a are now past it seems to be agreed there shall be no supersovereignty, nor a common police force and that the question of whether a nation shall contribute force in carrying out the decisions of the league will be left to each nation individually in each instance, the general plan being most talked about, embodies an enlargement of the principles contained in the treaties negotiated by William J. Bryan. These provide for a delay of a year before declaring war and investigations by a special commission of all disputes and that no declaration of war shall te made thereafter without giving special notice.

Such a plan, current discussion in Paris brings out, is intended by those who favor it, virtually to establish a concert of power among the principle nations for a preservation of world peace. This would be extended to what would be virtually a guardianship of the smaller nations, applying to them the principles which govern participation in the league by their greater sisters. For Smaller Nations By this plan, it is apparently purposed to internationalize the guardianship of smaller nations with the idea that there shall be no denomination over them by one nation, economically or financially. It is proper to state at this juneture that Pres. Wilson himself reasonably complete plan for the formation of the league of nations.

It may also be stated that he highly regards many features of the plan presented by Gen. Smuts and is working in close harmony with M. Mourgeois and Lord Robert Cecil. Aside from the attention being paid to the Russian situation, the society of nations question is now in an advantageous position and steady development may be expect- To Supervise Prices AMSTERDAM-The German government has issued a decree that until questions are legally settled as to the influence to be exercised by the government over the mining industry and the participation of the community in the profits is adjusted, imperial commissioners will be appointed to supervise production and prices. Astor on League.

LONDON (Sunday)-If the league of nations is to be a success, it must be positive as well as negative, according to a pamphlet issued by Major Waldorf Astor, parliamentazy secretary of the ministry of food, today. Cooperation between the nations, Major Astor says, will be of ital importance in the period of reconstruction during which all belligerent Lations, with the possible exception of the United States must expect an economic crisis. CLOSE WORK HERE ON FEB. 15 Secretary Melville Gets Wire to Come to Europe The Wisconsin food work for the federal government will close before Feb. 15.

Andrew H. Melville, for the past two years secretary of the Wisconsin food administration, will soon go to Europe. Mr. Melville received a cablegram from Magnus Swenson, formerly head of the state food administration here, asking Mr. Melville to come to Copenhagen to meet him there at The appointment of Mr.

Melville will not seriously hamper the remaining food work in Wisconsin. "We were planning on closing up all the details of the Wisconsin food work by Feb. 16," said Mr. Melville. tonight.

"In fact the great part of that work can be closed up within two weeks. I do not know when I shall leave." CRATES ARE BEING TESTED Experiments Conducted at Forest Products Laboratory Should the railroad carry salt-shakers this summer, or are to withstand the bumps shocks tomato crates to be strong, enough of a long journey by freight? This is the question which has been put up to the Forest Products laboratory at Madison by one of the large fruit and vegetable growers' associations. The association has in mind using a new type of sixbasket tomato crate, but has asked the laboratory to make some practical of its strength before trusting next season's crop to it. The laboratory has what is adchine ever. for testing mitted, to be thermost practical maboxes.

The machine is a revolving churn-like apparatus, in which the boxes, packed in the same manner as for shipment, dropped and tumbled Are, weak feature of their construction is discovered. In the case of the crate in question, the inner baskets are being packed with baseballs. Tests have been completed on 20 crates SO packed. Already some weaknesses in design have been noticed, which, if not corrected, might have made it necessary to divert most of next season's shipments of tomatoes for the fancy grocery trade to the catsup factories. By building up and testing modified forms of the original, the laboratory hopes in a short time to produce a crate equally strong in all parts, and one that will be sure to protect its contents against the ordinary dangers of transportation.

PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASSES FORMED Extension Division to Give Training to Business Men and Women A public speaking class for Madison's business men and women is being organized by the University Extension division, with Prof. H. G. Houghton of the public speaking faculty, instructing. The class will meet every Thursday evening in the Association of Commerce rooms.

This is to be one of a series of classes to be organized by extension division to be for the general the public. The work is planned to be of especial commercial benefit. JONES' SAUSAGE MAKER IS DEAD Passes Away on Farm Near Ft. Atkinson, Ill for Months FORT ATKINSON (Jan. Milo C.

Jones, owner of the Jones' dairy farm here and one of the most prominent men in his line in the country, died here this afternoon following a stroke of apoplexy. He was 70 years old. He was the originator of the famous Jones' sausage. HOME FOR WOMEN PLANNED FOR CITY Plans are under way for the establishment of a home for women to be conducted by the Carmalite Sisterhood of Wauwatosa. The local branch of this Catholic society is especially interested in the project.

A meeting will be called within week or two to formulate plans. NEED HELP AT ONCE SEATTLE If help is not forthcoming at once, any government set up in Russia will fail, declared Madame Catherine Breshskovskaya, the "grand mother of the Russian revolution." Wisconsin Joins White Area A A A WASHINGTON MONTANA DAKOTA OREGON I DAHO 3 DAKOTA WYOMING HOWA NEBRASKA I NEVADA OHIO UTAH ILLINOIS COLORADO KANSAS MISSOURI CAROLINA KENTUCKY TENNESSCE OKLAHOMA ARKANSAS ARIZONA. MEXICO: GEORGIA TEXAS LOUISIANA The forty states which have ratified the prohibition amendment to the constitution, thereby making the entire nation dry, are shown white in above States which have not ratified amendment are shaded. TOBACCO MEN PLANS FOR NEW BOLSHEVISTS TO ORGANIZE Will Become Affiliated With Society of Equity; to Await Meeting "Co-operation and co-ordination" was the plea of J. N.

Tittemore, president of the American Society of Equity, before the meeting of 500 tobacco growers of Dane county who met in Agricultural hall, Saturday afternoon, to hear the report of the temporary town chairman and to discuss the question of the sale of their tobacco crops. Last fall, buyers offered farmers 35 and as high as 40 cents for their tobacco. Many farmers sold at that price. Now, buyers are offering the farmers as low as 20 and 10 cents a pound for their tobacco. The farmers who had not sold their crops became indignant and two weeks ago they gathered together at the county building and appointed town chairmen to provide for meetings all over the county, learn the exact conditions, and to get the opinions of the tobacco growers.

Saturday's meeting was called to hear the reports of these town chairmen or delegates. Jesse Stoughton, called the meeting to order and presided during the discussion. Reports from 18 different -Albion, Burke, Bristol, Blooming, Grove, Dane, Deerfield, Christiana, Dunkirk CotDunn, Oregon, Fitchburg, Pleasant Springs, Springfield, Sun Prairie, Windsor, Vienna, and Westport-were submitted. These reports were to the effect that large meetings were held in practically all of the towns; that the sentiment of farmers, shown by votes taken at these meetings, was that the tobacco growers with crops still on their hands should hold out for a minimum of 30 cents a pound; that the farmers were ready to stick together in whatever course of action decided upon by their representatives to defeat the efforts of the buyers to get them to sell at a lower figure than 30 cents a pound. Figures compiled in the various localities showed that the cost of cultivation of an acre of tobacco ranged around $250.

Chairman Utter submitted a figure of $200. Considering 1,200 pounds as an average yield per acre, it was shown that it cost in the neighborhood of 22 cents a pound to raise tobacco. At this point, the time for action had come. Not till then did the farmers realize that they were unorganized; that they had no weapon with which to strike for their rights. H.

E. Holmes general manager of sales of Society Equity, pointed out the necessity of of organization, and told the farmers that he believed if they organized immediately that they would not only be able to prevent such a predicament as the present in the future, but would also be able to settle the present problem satisfactorily. The danger of forming an organization which would come under the anti-trust laws bothered the farmers considerably. Assemblyman Hanson, president of the Wisconsin Farmers' Tobacco Growers' association, chartered in 1909, then told the, farmers of the aims and the by-laws of this organization. Mr.

Tittemore and Mr. Hanson showed the farmers that this organization embodied their aims and that it was unnecessary to form a separate organization. The farmers saw the point and 334 of them handed in their names and addresses on slips of paper signifying their desire to join this society as soon as possible. Assemblyman Hansen promised to arrange for a meeting of the tobacco growers' association at the same place, Agricultural hall, as soon as the by-laws would permit. The date of this meeting will be advertised thoroughly.

The meeting adjourned with the, BORAH CALLS HOOVER FRIEND OF THE PACKERS Says Administration Allowed Combine to Make Huge Profits WASHINGTON-When the bill for an appropriation of $100,000,000 for food in Europe came up in the senate, Saturday, Senator Borah assailed Hoover. Borah said: "I can not vote to turn over to a man of Hoover's viewpoint such a vast sum to spend as he sees fit. I have been studying the relations of the great food dealers with the food administration and can say that the great food monopolists directed and controlled the food administration. When children are starving in New York and other cities, meat packers have been getting 47 per cent profits under Hoover's administration. I can't vote to let a man with his viewpoint spend this money out of which food dealers probably will demand and get from 25 per cent to 60 per cent profit." OBITUARY JAMES CRUMMEY James Crummey died at the general hospital at midnight, after an illness of three weeks.

He is survived three brothers, William, Dave and Robert. The body was removed to the Schroeder funeral parlors and will be taken to the home of Robert Crummey, 109 South Murray street. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The pall-bearers will be George McArdle, Edward Olson, Claude Stives, Martin William Brophy, and Joseph Leary. Burial will be made at Forest Hill cemetery.

The funeral of Mrs. Henry Pepper, who died Saturday at her home in Ladysmith will, be held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock from 3 John's Lutheran church. The Rev. O. J.

Wilke will officiate. Burial will occur at Forest Hill cemetery. G. W. GILLETTE Word has been received of the death at Avoca of Gillette, uncle of Dr.

W. L. Gillette, East Gorham street. Mr. Gillette was a graduate of the university with the class of 1876.

The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Avoca. Burial will be made at Middleton Junction. EDWIN R. BALSLEY Edwin R. Baisley, civil war veteran died Saturday afternoon at the old and is survived by three general hospital.

He was 84 F. M. Balsley, with the highway commission, E. A. Balsley, of Chicago, Lieut.

Henry Balsley, in France, one daughter, Mrs. W. O. Hotchkiss, College Hills with whom he made his home and one Mrs. L.

Coover of Los Angeles, The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at G. A. R. hall. The Rev.

W. J. McKay will officiate. MORE FATHERLESS CHILDREN ADOPTED The Fatherless Children of France committee reports the following adoptions in Madison: New adoptions were made by Miss Flora T. Bohn, Prof.

and Mrs. W. J. Chase, Miss Ruth Chase, Mrs. G.

L. Erdahl Lorena S. Findorff, for the Capital Mutual club, Mrs. F. M.

Foran, Mrs. A. 0. Fox, Mrs. Anna B.

Hall, Mrs. Paul Harloff, Miss Kate Kershaw, for the supreme chambers, Mrs. W. S. Marshall, court, C.

F. Martle, Miss Gladys Miller, for the Attic Angels, Mrs. George Nelson, for the Lutheran Memorial church, and Miss Reichert, for the Longfellow school. PAPERS PRAISE THE POINCARE SPEECH PARIS -Pres. Poincare's address at the opening of the peace congress yesterday is warmly praised by newspapers, even socialist writers giving it their enthusiastic approval.

-All the newspapers lay stress on the tone of "affectionate veneration for Premier Clemenceau evident in the speech of Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain." Unanimous opinion is expressed that reciprocal confidence, publicly affirmed, guarantees the conclusion of future agreements in spite of unavoidable differences of opinion. LONDON TO PARIS IN 100 MINUTES LONDON (Sunday) -Lieut. 0. E. Edmunds, a British pilot, made the first official flight from London to Paris in a British machine last Wednesday.

He started from London in a two-seater and arrived a short distance from Versailles in one hour and forty minutes. The weather was unfavorable. He carried urgent dispatches for the peace congress. The return journey was made Friday and completed in two hours. Joseph B.

Bliss, Madison, to liam Scl.woegler, Madison, one-half: interest partner in the co-partnership Schwoegler Bliss in and to parts of lots 1 and 2, block 56, Madison, $1. I STORM BREWS ON CONTINUED HIGH PRICES Policy of Administration is Assailed by Congress ASK EXPLANATION Say Packers Have Millions in Hogs to Get Rid of in Europe GERMAN GOVT. SLACK ARE ISSUEDON President to be Elected by the People; War to be Made by Reichstag (By the Associated Press) LONDON Details of the proposed new constitution for Germany drawn up recently at a conference of widely known-authorities on constitutional law, including Hugo Preuss, state secretary of the interior in the Ebert government, are given in an official wireless patch sent out from Berlin and picked up here. It states that the empire is to consist of its former component states; besides any territories which by virtue of the right of self determination desire to be received into the empire. The dispatch declares that the peoples have the right, regardless of former frontiers, to erect new German free states within the empire providing any such free state has population of 2,000,000.

If the people of a border country wish to join the Ger-1 man empire the assent of the man people shall be required. The imperial president, who is to be elected by the people, must be 35 years of age have been a citizen of Germany for 10 years before his election. He will be elected by an absolute majority of all the votes the The president will represent the empire but declarations of war or conclusions of peace rest with the reichstag. As soon as a league of nations, the object of which is the exclusion of secret treaties, has been formed, all treaties with the league shall require the assent of the reichstag. The imperial presidents tenure of office will be for seven years and his re-election will be permissible.

The imperial government will be composed of a chancellor and ministers who will be chosen by the president of the The government must have the confidence of the house of deputies and shall be responsible to the reichstag. FORMER SHERIFF DIES IN THE WEST Robert J. McWatty, sheriff of Dane county in 1903, died at his home in Spokane, Jan. 10, at the age of 71 years. He is survived by his wife, two sisters, Mrs.

Sarah McGann of Madison and Mrs. C. F. Jackson of Omaha, and two brothers, Hugh of Fitchburg and Andrew of Interment took place in Spokane. EIGHT ARE DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA FIRE PHILADELPHIA- -Eight are dead as the result of a fire last night in the Italian quarter.

A father and mother and two small children were burned to death. PALESTINE TRADE IS AGAIN OPENED (By the Associated Press) WASHINGTON Palestine with trade routes reaching out by rail and caravan across Persia, was thrown open again to American export and import under an order today by the war trade board. This territory includes Damascus. All import restrictions on Egyptian cotton also have been removed, it was announced. understanding that the farmers would keep the buyers waiting till they had effected their organization or till their minimum of 30 cents a pound was acceded to.

Men Have Been Seized at Vilna and Must Pay Big Ransoms (By the Associated Press) WARSAW -Bolshevist troops have slackened vance at the Polish frontier. The Germans are delaying their evacuation of Grodno for several days although Gen. Falkenhayn has retired to Suwalki and Gen. Hoffman has gone to Koenigsberg. Polish leaders allege that Germans are selling arms to the Bolshevists under the pretense of aiding the "Society for provisioning Ukraine." Men have been arrested at Vilna and other places and have been released later, it is said, on payment of sums ranging from fifty to fifty thousand rubles, the size of the ransom being in proportion to the terror of the victim and his power to pay.

The Bolshevists are especially bitter against the Poles, it being reported that declaration of a holy war against Poland by the Moscow government makes it "right and the duty of every Bolshevist to kill the Poles as enemies of mankind." There are fewer burning houses than formerly, but it is charged that where houses are spared their inmates are slain. "We have saved the nest, but destroyed the birds," is a remark attributed to one Bolshevist leader. SCOTS CELEBRATE BURNS BIRTHDAY: Program Will be Given at Moose Hall on Friday The one hundred and sixtieth Burns anniversary will be celebrated by the Dane County Caledonian Society on Friday, at Moose Hall with President Dr. A. S.

Alexander presiding. The following program will be begun at eight o'clock sharp: Community Singing America, leader, Dr. B. C. Campbell.

Jean, Peter Dougherty. Recitation- -Donald and His Dog, Dr. L. A. Wright.

Duet- H. Forbes and A. E. Clump. Dancing- Forbes -Highland Fling, Misses Marjorie Leora Wylie.

Song--On the Road to Home, Sweet Hime, Byron Deadman. Remarks -With Our Boys, Lieut. W. F. Whyte.

Scotch Character Songs, Stanley Shanks, Columbia County--Harry Lauder. Community Singing Auld Lang Syne, Leader, Dr. B. C. Campbell.

After the program a buffet luncheon will be served, and dancing will be had from ten to one, with music by James Thompson's Alex Orchestra, J. Cobban with Barclay, and Dr. C. A. Deadman as floor managers.

Y. M. C. A. DORMITORY READY ON MARCH 1 Dormitory accommodations in the new Y.

M. C. A. will Ty ready about March 1. The house committee will begin work this week in fixing the prices and regulations of the dormitories.

OF OCCUPATION Owing to insufficient fuel supply the consumption of electricity among the civil population of Coblenz is to be reduced one half. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY WASHINGTON With increasing complaint of unemployment produred by faulty methods of army demobilization and with the federation of labor predicting bread lines by May 1, congress is being flooded with appeals for action to reduce the cost of living, sent skyward during the war. There is a storm brewing over the policy of the administration in continuing, with the war ended, a high minimum price of foodstuffs under war legislation designed to stimulate production, and this agitation is destined to crop out when the administration sends to congress the bill to appropriate 000 for stabilizing the, price. Call for an Explanation Representative Gould of New York has introduced a resolution in the house calling upon the food administration to state the "economic reasons which warrant the continuing of agreements that fix the price of food products and explain the reasons for continuing a practice which evidently is directly responsible for the high cost of living to the consumer, together with detailed information as to the agreements." The administration is already under fire in connection with the continued high price for hogs. The packers and the representatives of the hog raisers are to meet in Wash.

ington on Jan. 28 to consult with the food administration. Still Under War Control. The attorney general has been petitioned by the Chicago Board of Trade and New York produce exchange to take steps to end the fixing of prices for hogs, which at cents a pound are pronounced 50 per cent higher than normally, but the attorney general has replied he can do 80 long as this control of prices is exercised by the food administration under war legislation still in effect. Food administration Hoover has been charged with shielding the packers from possible loss by maintaining high pork prices, and much of the opposition to President Wilson's $100,000,000 appropriation for food for Europe arises from reports that the packers have $55,000,000 worth of pork in Europe which it is necessary to dispose of immediately.

This is approxmately the value of the 70,000,000 pounds of furnished to Germany in exchange for German merchant ships under the agreement negotiated by E. N. Hurley. WALLACE ANDREW DIES IN SUPERIOR Was Well Known as Leader ir Assembly; Served Several Terms Wallace W. Andrew, assemblyman in 1901 and 1905, died his home in Superior, Saturday afternoon.

He was well known in political circles in Madison. He was a member of the assembly several times. He was serving his fifth term as chairman of the Douglas county board. He is survived by his wife and two married sons. CERTIFICATES OF HONOR FOR ALUMNI Certificates of honor and appreciation to be granted to all alumni who entered military service are being prepared by the university.

They will be awarded at the 1919 and former students who served in commencement to those graduates the army and navy to send their and evidence of service to the names secretary of the faculty. COMMANDERS ARE GIVEN HONORS -Practically all army corps and division commanders of the American expeditionary the heads of forces, together with the staff departments, have been awarded distinguished service medals by Gen. Pershing for conspicuous service. the United States and Serbia and Rumania soon will be reopened, The war trade board announced tothat hopes it will be able day within a few days to give information as to the conditions under I which trade can be permitted- RUMANIA TRADE WILL BE REOPENED WASHINGTON- between.