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high power is held at conference by america U. S. Has Greater Role Than Bismark Played at Congress of Berlin -America Strong est of Nations. POLICY IS UNSELFISH By FRANK H. 8IMOND8. (CopTTtcht, IMS. Tb McClore Newepaper Syndicate.) ARIS Feb. 5. There is a Question that was . asked I manv times before I left America which finds an answer in Europe quite different from what could be realized at home. What, after all. is America doing In Europe, in France, at the present time? What is her role as it actually reveals itself on the spot? The answer is as simple as it is surprising. At the present hour. America is playing a greater role at Paris, possesses more influence and encounters less opposition, politically speaking, at least than did Bismarck at the Congress of Berlin. No nation, not even Russia, was so powerful at Vienna a century ago. This astonishing development and it is astonishing for a nation which in all but some few years of its existence has steadily avoided intermixture in European affairs is in the main the result of accident, rather than of design. Not even President Wilson could have fully forseen when he left Washington exactly what place America was to hold, not alone in the Peace Conference, but henceforth in the world. U. 8. Still Powerful. Among the great powers which have fought Germany, America alone emerges fresh, with her resources increased rather than diminished. The physical losses of Franc have been stupendous, British material and human sacrifices have been enormous and the blow to British morale has been nerhaps even greater. It was almost Inevitable that when America t0 ?!.J lar more, ner evemum oucueiu, ouwu.u give ber a dominating position., 'And it has happened, t America Is Unselfish. ' America is seeking to impress no Belfish policy upon the world. The truest criticism of the American purpose is that her Idealism Is at times blind and on occasion perilous to her friends and of advantage to the enemy. Yet were America's policy and purposes selfish, there would still be lacking force or energy to oppose them, and I am thinking of political rather than economic policies, v In a curiously complex degree, France, Britain and Italy have accepted the fact that the war has not only made America a world power, but the greatest of world powers, and the people of Europe perhaps even more than their statesmen nave ac cepted American leadership. No head of any European government, save on one or two Questions or Hie ana aeatn would venture to take issue with the United States, and I doubt if even then, he would survive the shock. Shoulder Responsibility. But the consequences of our new and unexpected position must not escape the American people. The nations which have almost tacitly accepted the new American influence have also equally tacitly agreed that with power must go responsibility. If we insist upon putting new ideas and new principles into practice, we must take our share of the burdens which from Constantinople to the Orange River and from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf confront the peace makers. The familiar American idea Is that as soon as possible after our Job is done, we should recall our trooos and return to our old isolation This view is held by not a few Americans in Paris, but it is . not the European idea, nor do I believe the thing will be possible. Rather there are multiplying evidences that when we broke with our past to enter this war we broke with it not for a year, not for the period of the war, but forever. America Powerful. It is essential to recognize that through the logic of events America will have more to do with the shaping of the treaty of Peace than any other nation. Mr. Wilson has accepted for his country a mission which perhaps the nation Itself could not have escaped in any event. But he has done more than accept. lie has embraced opportunity. The Treaty of Paris will be an American document, to the ex- . tent which no American not now In Europe yet suspects. But at every point this, document will combine practical obligations with experimental idealism. We may see our influence, powerfully seconded by the best and most enlightened minds in Europe, erect a League of . Nations, establish new states, and , free enslaved nations; but to preserve . this structure will be a task only slightly perceived at home as yet, al- ' though daily becoming clearer here. Will Be a Fact. Whatever form it takes in words. " the League of Nations will be in fact for its opening years, perhaps forev'er, an alliance between Great Britain, France and the United States, to which other nations will Join them

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Mrs. Roosevelt Sails

to Visit Son's Grave (By Associated PreaeV NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of tbe former president, was among the passengers on the French liner Lorraine, which sailed from here today. She .will visit ihe grave cf her son. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, who was killed in an airplane battle over the German lines, and also plans to spend several weeks with her elster. Miss Emily Carew, who Is doing war work In Italy. While In France, Mrs. Roosevelt will see her sons, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Cap tain Kermlt Roosevelt. How long she will remain abroad was not announced. QUESTION OF NEW COUNTY AGENT IS UP BEFORE BOARD Township Trustees Call Spe cial Session of Board of Edu cation to Decide Matter. A special session of the county board of education will be called as soon as possible to decide whether the pres ent county agent, J. C. Kline, shall be retained another year or Purdue asked to recommend another man for the Wayne county Job. County trustees at the regular monthly trustees' meeting held a con ference Wednesday morning with Walter Fulghum, of the Better Farm ing association, and attended by Will Reller, attorney for the association, and T. A. Coleman, state assistant leader of county agents, at which this decision was reached. The trustees' meeting was opened by routine business. Superintendent C. O. Williams then Introduced Fulghum; told the trustees he had asked to meet them on a special matter on behalf of the Better Farming association, and left the room. Want Agent Retained. Fulghum said that it was the unanimous opinion of the Better Farming association that the county agent as an institution should be retained; that the association realized that there was some opposition to the present agent, and asked for an opinion on the office and tbe present holder from each man. Individual trustees were slow to express their opinion, but the feeling of the meeting seemed to be that while there was no question as to the good the office could do, that Kline had n a m ii a. j 1 1 ii i : county agent That he had not come out and met the farmers ..but had worked in his office,, visiting in. the country, only at rare intervalsyeas the main, criticism developed. Should Be Retained. After these expressions Fulghum asked Coleman to state Purdue's feeling in the matter. Coleman said that Purdue was ready to do anything the county asked for but he believed the present county agent should be retained for another year, as his experience in the county would make him more valuable than a new man could be. Will Reller, attorney for the association, told, the trustees that under the law the country must have a county agent, the same as it had a county surveyor or a county auditor, but that they were perfectly free to recommend any man whom they chose for the place. He Bald that the war work Kline had been ordered by his superiors to do had . interfered greatly with his work as county agent, Just as everyone else's work had been hampered, but that he believed the next year would show a different record. Fulghum then suggested that the county board of education be called in session to decide the matter as soon as possible, as the county agent is appointed the first of April and time is limited. This proposition was agreed to by the trustees, and the meeting then closed. FOE PROPAGANDA FOUND IN ARMY (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Feb. 5 Three Germans have been convicted in military courts here during the past few days on the charge of circulating enemy propaganda among American troops In the occupied area of Germany. The distribution of material which Intelligence officers regard as propaganda, has been carried on in various ways. It has been given away as postcards and sold in stores. One shopkeeper was convicted after having offered for sale a watch-fob with the American and German flags crossed upon it. At Treves, recently, a thousand postcards were confiscated by American officers. They picturea n. beautiful German woman with a handful of strings and at the other end of the strings were comparatively tiny French. British and American soldiers dancing to her caprice. By order of French military authorities the study of French language has been taken up in the schools of Bingen on the umne, according to German newspapers. With the inauguration of the study of French, some difficulty is being experienced in finding suitable teachers. It is said that the teaching of French will be undertaken in other Rhine towns as soon as convenient. Service Men to Receive Credits for Homesteads WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Service in the army, navy or marine corps during the Mexican border trouble ana tne war with Germany would count as credit in making entries for homesteads under a bill passed today by the house and sent to the senate. The same DrivUecre was accorded veterans of . the Civil and Spanish-American wars, the time of service being consid ered the same as occupation ana cum vat Ion of the land.

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BILL PROVIDES CONSTITUTION CONVENTION REFERENDUM Voters to Decide Issue at 1 920 Election Governor Urges $1,000,000 Contingent Fund for Benevolences ANTI-RED FLAG BILL (By Associated Preset INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 15. Bills providing for the voters determining, at the November election in 1920 whether the legislature in 1921 shall provide for holding a constitutional convention, defining as a misdemeanor the display of the red flag or other emblem of Insignia of persons opposed to organized government, and au thorizing municipalities to engage in the Ice, coal and gas businesses were among the 17 Introduced into tne low er house of the Indiana legislature to day. ' Only one measure was passed by the house and sent to the senate, while the Dunn bill, providing for ap propriation of public funds by boards of ounty commissioners to not ex ceed 52,500 annually for payment of premium awarded exhibitors of live stock, agricultural, horticultural, and dairy products, was defeated by a vote of 59 to 33. Asks Central Purchaser. This afternoon the committee on roads was 'to report the highway com mission bill favorable to passage as amended. The amendments concern principally the provision relative to revenue from taxing ef motor vehicles and chauffers. Six members desire the counties to share distribution of the auto tax as they do now with the remainder of the revenue received from increased cost of licenses going into the state road fund, five other members believe all this revenue should go Into tie road fund, while Renresentative Walker favors the present highway commission law. Governor r James P. Goodrich apneared r before - tbe- ways- "and means committee of the house and urged It to include la the appropriation meas ure, to be introduced late this ween, $1,000,000 as a contingent fund to be expended for the benefit of correctional, and benevolent institutions of the state as recommended as by the visiting committee of the legislature, Opposition was voiced by some mem bers to this provision, no action was taken upon the suggestion of the gov ernor nor upon his request mat tne power to purchase all supplies for these Institutions be placer in the hands of a purchasing commission of three members of whom he wouia oe one and the other two selected by him. At present trustees of each In stitution purchase supplies and the annual per capita cost varies from approximately $60 in some institution to more than $100 in otners. Councils of Indiana cities would be authorized to appropriate public funds for the purpose of establishing muni cipal ice and gas manufacturing plants and to sell the products as well as to encase in the coal business by provi sions of the bill, representative Kessler of Miami county, sent up. Endorse Suffrage. The ehot firers Tjill, before many previous sessions of the legislature, was passed by the senate at the morn ing session today by a vote of 29 to 16. The senate also approved the ad ministration Joint resolution, for amending the constitution to empower the legislature to classify country for registration of voters. There was not a dissenting vote. Presidential suffrage for women probably will be endorsed by the senate this afternoon. It was planned to call down on passage Representative Johnson's measure granting women franchise for presidential electors. In view of the unanimous asnate vote in favor of amending the constitution to grant women state wide suffrage, leaders predicted there will be no opposition to the bill, which already has passed the house. Another measure passed by the senate was one by Senator Dorrell amending the statutes to permit a guardian and one party to marriage to convey real estate wnen ine omer party is incapable of managing affairs because of old age. infirmities, im providence or being a spenatnritt. For Indiana by United States Wea ther Bureau Fair, slightly warmer to night. Thursday fair, except probably snow or rain in extreme north portion. Warmer. Today's Temperature Noon 27 Yesterday Maximum 45 Minimum 20 i . 1 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cold tonight Thursday increasing cloudiness with rising temperature, becoming unsettled. . - General Conditions The cold wave has advanced eastward to the Atlantic coast and covers the north and central states, with temperature below zero over the northwest and zero weather in Iowa. . Barometric pressure is low over the northwest, which will cause a reaction to warm weathertThursday.

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Yihon Reception Sad to Show Brotherhood (By Associated Press) PARIS, Feb. 5 The Paris newspapers today in commenting on the reception of . President : Wilson last evening by the chamber of deputies, allude to the occasion as one not likely to be forgotten and which will recement Franco-American menasmp ana stand as a new token of the brotherhood of the two peoples. The newspapers warmly praise tne president's speech, : which is alluded to as an assertion of the solidarity oi all the free peoples with France. NO INTERVENTION ON LARGER SCALE STATES BALFOUR Allies Doing All That fan be Done m Kussia, Days onusn Foreign Secretary. (By Associated Press) PARIS. Feb. 5. Military interven tion in Russia on a large scale is not to be thought of, declared Arthur J. Balfour, the British foreign secretary, In closing an interview which he granted the newspaper corresponaents here last night. The great powers were doing everything they con sidered could be done, however, he said, in dealing with what he char-j acterized "a most disquieting sltua-1 tion." As to the general work of the peace conference the foreign secretary declared the peace making body was making all possible haste to settle up on the peace terms. He was lea to this statement by a question from one of the interviewers, who said: "There is much talk in the peace conference about various problems such as the society of nations. Do you not think your real task is, before everything else, to impose peace conditions upon Germany?" Peace is Sole Aim. After a moment's reflection, Secre tary Balfour replied: "One can evidently criticize witnout limit the methods of work- we have adopted, but rather than answer criticism, I would rather tell you that the fact that the problem of the society of nations has been taken up be fore that of peace, properly so-cauea, in no way signifies tbat the settlement of our accounts with the enemy will only come afterward. The mechanism of the commissions we have instituted , permits the concurrent study of several questions. . "Let public opinion be reassured. The delegates to the peace conference have no intention of, employing dilatory methods. They are using all their, energy and . skill to attain as soon as possible the just peace to which the whole world aspires. That Is their one aim, their sole ambition." As the interview was closing one of the corresepondents asked regarding the Russian question. "It is a most disquieting situation," replied Mr. Balfour. "We are doing all that can be done. As to military Intervention on a large scale, it Is not to be thought of." PUBLIC BUILDING TO BE ENCOURAGED . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. Encour agement of public building with a resultant employment of thousands of men through the granting of authority to Federal Reserve banks to make conservative building loans was suggested to the department of labor to day by Mark Temple Dowling, cnairman of the Massachusetts commission to revive building. Congress, Mr. Dowling said, should give Federal Re serve banks the power to loan 75 per cent of the actual cost of the land and buildings for a term of five or ten years at a rate not to exceed five per cent. The loan should carry a mortization provision that 2l& per cent be paid on account of tbe principal each year. 1 "Practically fifty per cent of the labor of the United States is employed in building operations and its, widely allied material industries, Mr. Dowling said. "If you wish to keep labor busy, if you wish to avoid disaster. If you wish to kill Bolshevism in the country, then furnish the money. Unless this is done, all the talk at Wash ington, at he state house or from the city hall put together will not result in the accomplishment of one single private building enterprise." Loss of St. Mihiel Was Determining Factor in Defeat, Says German (By Associated Press) LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 4. Any idea that the Germans' final collapse was due to revolution or solely to blockade is scouted in an article in the Frankfort Zeitung by the military writer, Major Paulus. "General Ludendorff was beaten," Says Paulus, "when he commenced to retreat to the Antwerp-Metz line, for this line could not have ' ben held. Neither flank was secure. In the north the Dutch frontier left no room for any retreat which would not have ben catastrophic. In the center, Verdun provided an invitation to the enemy to breaw through. "The line from Diedenbofen to Metz was already outflanked when the St. Mihiel salient was lost while the whole of our southern front was full of disadvantages and too close to the Rhine to be held stubbornly without risk of a catastrophe." Paulus therefore maintains that Ludendorf was right when, at the end of Septeml er, he announced it was impossible to continue the war any longer. This was not due, says Paul us, to anything that had occurred in Germany, but because of the military situation. .

BIG INCREASE If TAX RATES TO PAY FOR NEW BRIDGE

Ten Cents More on Hundred Will be Added by Proposed South Side Bridge, Figures Show. WEST SIDE QUESTION UP Tax rates for Wayne county probably will have to be increased about 10 cents on the hundred to pay for the new South G street bridge, county officers figured Wednesday. When the Main street bridge was ordered built $100,000 worth of bonds were issued fon. a ten-year term. The raise In tax rates to cover the expense of this bond issue was about five cents. Provided the bond issue for the proposed bridge is $200,000, which is the sum named as the minimum for which it can be built, and the bonds are is sued under the same conditions, the new bridge will mean 10 cents increase in taxation the first year of the issue. The old bonds were issued at 4 per cent, while it will probably be impossible to float an issue now at this figure. I This increased tax will grow smaller as the issue nears its end, but will never be under five cents over the present rate. May Cost Over Estimate. As two cents over the present rate is the probable expense of the new South G street improvement for tax payers in Wayne township, dwellers in the township will find their tax rates increased about 12 cents for the year because of these two improvements alone. Construction men of Richmond are also in doubt however, whether the south side bridge can be built for $200,000, and it is the opinion of many that the appropriation . required win be perhaps $225,000 or more. . Attention has also been called to the fact that while the old Doran bridge is perfectly 6afe as long as the present restriction on traffic are maintained there, it may he necessary to route heavy traffic over it later on. . - : West Side Situation.

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street bridge may cut off the aide roadway to the present temporary bridge, and interurbans and street cars may find their only route from east to we6t over the Doran bridge. As the old bridge has been express ly closed to traffic of this nature, a crisis may occur in the communica tions between east and west Ricnmond. Should anything happen to the Dor an bridge in the nine months or more before the Main street bridge will oe completed, the whole crowded north west end of town, people and factories, will have no choice except to walk to the temporary bridge at Main street or up to the old obsolete covered bridge at Bridge avenue, nearly a mile up .the river. ' LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE IN SESSION (By Associated Press) -NEW YORK, Feb. 5. With more than three thousand delegates registered, the Atlantic congress for a league of nations began a two-day session here today. The congress is under the auspices of the league to enforce peace and Its state branches in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. It is the first of a series of nine congresses to be held this month throughout the country. To assure the formation or a "strong" league of nations and the accentance of such a league by the Unit ed States senate, it was announced that plans will be outlined at these congresses for an intensive campaign reaching every city and town in the country. Ex-president William H. Taft, as president of the league to enforce peace, called the congress to order and delivered the keynote address The tonic of the morning session was The Plain Necessity for a League or Nations." Other speakers were Nor man Hangood. president of the league of free nations association, and Steph en S. Wiss, rabbi of the Free Synago gue, New York. FIVE TRANSPORTS ON WAY ACROSS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Departure from France of five transports carrying 1,200 officers and approximately 12,500 men all scheduled to arrive at New York or Newport News between Feb. 10 and Feb. 14, was announced today by the war department The largest unit- of the ships are 370th infantry complete and two battalions of the 369th infantry, both ot the 93d division, colored. REVIEW COURT MARTI ALS (By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. George T. Pace, nresident of the American Bar association, announced last night that he had been informed that lawyers in the office of the judge advocate gen eral were reviewing all court" martial sentences to determine if possible, if any Injustices have been done.

Pestilence Caused More

DecthsThanWcrinl918 (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Pestilence caused more deaths than war during tbe year, 1918, according to the annual report of the New York Life Insurance Company, made public here - today. While the death losses paid, by the company In 1918 exceeded those of the previous year by $5,000,000, It was stated that the actual number of deaths was five per cent less than the expected mortality. GERMAN RADICALS IN DISPUTE OVER BLAMEJOR WAR Responsibility to be Investigated by Socialist Want to Influence Congress. (By Associated Press) BERNE, Feb. 5. Responsibility for the great war will be investigated by a commission appointed by tbe So cialist conference, in session here, it was decided today. This commission will be made of two British, two French, one Hungarian, one Austrian and two German delegates, with President Hjalmar Branting acting as a member. The personnel of this com mission has not been announced. During the day it was declared by speakers that the "prime object of the conference was to Influence the peace conference at Paris." This state ment was made by Pieter J. Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader and one of the British delegates. It was decided during the day that discussions between delegates as to responsibility for the war would not; be nermitted. It was pointed out that this subject would lead to nothing but endless addresses by French and German representatives. It was decided that all speeches would be limited to six minutes. Denies German Blame. Following an attack on the German majority Socialists by Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier, during the forenoon, another German delegate, Herr Mueller, a majority Socialist, denied that Germany was entirely to blame for the war and defended his party. He said: "It was not Germany alone, but the militarists of the whole of Europe, who were the originators of the war. German Socialists would have lost forever all their influence upon the people If they had ventured to oppose the war. our enemies but only that of neutrals.' j Carl Kautsky, a German delegate. who has been mentioned as one of Germany's delegation to the peace at Paris, spoke at the evening session, making a renewed attack against the German majority socialist party. He paid a tribute to the memory of Dr. Liebknecht his words being received amid murmurs of sympathy from tbe delegates. He concluded by saying: Discuss Bolshevism. "The minority Socialists, having protested against the terms of the urest-LiitovsK ana .nucnaresi treaties, have . today the right to claim just treatment for the German people. Germany must be fed. She must be given an opportunity to get work and avoid troubles which will lead to a re crudescence of Bolshevism.' Among the other speakers were Herr Grumbach of Alcase-Lorraine, Pieter J. Troelstra, of Holland, M Longuet of France, and Dr. Friederich Adler, of Vienna. Dr. Adler accused the former Austrian government of having "systematically worked for the war." Herr Troelstra devoted considerable time to Bolshevism. He said he did not approve it but declared he did not believe it should be condemned, as Albert Thomason, the Socialist leader. has urged during the conference. Frank Bohm, an American Socialist arrived here today. There are now ninety delegates present, representing 25 countries. MAN REPORTED DEAD BY WAR DEPARTMENT IS ON WAY HOME News that her husband, reported dead in France by the war department, is still living and is now in New York, has been received by Mrs. William H. O'Connor of 808 North Sixteenth street. In January Mrs. O'Connor received papers from the war department with the instruction that she fill them out in order to obtain the war risk in surance for her husband, whose death was reported as occuring in France Oct 17. 1918. Mrs. O'Conner had received at that time a postcard from her husband dated Nov. 10 and a letter dated Dec. 8. Inauiry was made for her at Wash eton bv the Red Cross Home Ser vice department and it was learnea that two William Henry u uonners were members of Co. C 52nd Ammuni tion train, and that one was killed in Prance. Investigation showed that the man who was killed was a W. H. j O'Conner from Texas and that the Richmond man was well and is now on his way home. BatAe-Scarred Soldier Faints in Theatre at "Movie" War Scene A soldier who had seen action on the battle field, and was accustomed to the grewsome sights that attend war, fainted when the motion picture at the Washington theatre last night showed a German officer mistreating a wounded man. , He had to be carried out of the theatre. . It was said that he had just returned from foreign service and had been discharged.

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QUESTION OE : ENFORCING LEAGUE LAWS IS DERATED Peace Congress Considers Use of Moral and Physical Forces Two Drafts Considered for Organization. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH PARIS, Feb. 5. The question before the commission on a society, of nations today was whether the force by which the league is to make Its decisions effective shall be moral or physical. Although plans have been suggested for abolition of armaments and for an International police force, the delegates Incline toward no such radical measures. The most popular proposal is for a reduction of each nation's military establishments to a point consistent with internal - Bafety. The league would determine the size of the army leaving the method of providing the forces to the separate governments. Forces Required. Great Britain and the United States almost certainly would rely on volunteers, attracted by good pay, France and Italy possibly would return to conscription, on the ground they could not pay wages corresponding to those in tbe British and American armies. Whereas France had a conscript army of 800,000 before the war, it probably' would need only about one-fourth of that strength under the league. In thi case of Great Britain and the United States, -the number of soldiers would . approximate their former standing armies (200,000 for the British and 75,000 for the Americans). .When the central powers were taken into mem bership tbe league would fix the size of their armies. Only emergencies would be likely. to call these armies to distant points. In the event of trouble on the American continent the United States would be directed by the league to take action. Similarly European troubles would be settled by use of the armies- . nearest the affected district It is believed this plan would receive tbe approval of - all countries, since it overcomes the natural prejudice against fending--troops to -distant lands. -Two Plana Considered. Exchanges of views by the various powers indicate ' that one feature of the new "freedom of the seas" laws will be' prohibition of floating mines and prohibition of all mines outside territorial waters. .Such mines would have to be anchored and designed so they would be made nonexplosive if they broke free. The three-mile limit to territorial waters possibly will be extended, however, due to the fact that modern guns, both land and navy, have a greater range. Two plans for the complete league structure are being considered by the commission. Both are regarded as embodying the American views, although containing articles from the British, French and Italian drafts. In its original form the first plan is generally regarded as more democratic, and, therefore, more acceptable to the small powers, whereas the revised plan is not so acceptable to the small powers, as it eliminates them from the executive branch of the proposed organization and is a long step toward the creation of an international supreme court, with a fundamental basis of codified international law. CARRIED LIQUOR IN FLOOR OF TRUCK Fines of $100 and costs and thirty days in Jail were the sentences given in city court Wednesday morning to Jacob M. McClain and E. Robinson, for violation of the liquor law. The men were caught Tuesday afternoon with a large empty cattle-truck with a false floor. When the truck was examined at police headquarters, eighty quarts of whiskey and a dozen bottles were discovered hidden between the false and the true floor. Both men pleaded not guilty. Robinson said that he had been asked by McClain to accompany him beyond Connersville, from the home of both near Franklin, "to move a guy." The expected mover did not develop. Instead McClain drove to Eaton, left Robinson there while he got the liquor and came back for him. Robinson said he was entirely innocent although he had "kidded" McClain about having liquor. McCain said that the liquor buying was his own business entirely; that he had made arrangements with a man in Indiana to bring the liquor over; that he had not found the liquor he was told to bring and had bought what was found in the truck a a venture of his own. He said Robinson knew nothing of the liquor. r Counterfeit Note Is Circulated (her U. S. (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Warning was issued today by the treasury secret service that a counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve note on the New York Federal Reserve bank, ia In circulation, one specimen bavins been found in Havana, Cuba. The note bear the portrait of President Cleveland, darker in color than on a genuine fljyte, the check letter "D," plate No. "51." and signatures of W. O. McAdoo and John Burke, treasurer of tbe United States. Silk fibers In the papers ore imitated by pen marks. :..