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. biigations and pay to her fullest
ability. . !
"The United States." fays the Petit
U-risien. "gives us strong proof of its
gcod will."
The Temps says:
"The American reply doc? not stir
prise us. but U pleases us deeply. We
hop? the voice- of the United State?
will find other occasions to make itself
l.iard in Rettung war questions. No
thought of the American government,
should be slighted; no American inter?
ests should be Ignored, and the cove?
nant of of the League of Nations should
rot be an obstacle to close cooperation .
between the Allies and the United
States."
"One cannot overestimate the impor?
tance of this declaration." says the
.Tournai des D?bats. "It strikes a dead- i
oninjr blow to the hopes and propa
jranda of Germany in the United
States."
The Intransigeant says:
"Wo can be confident that the United
t tates, if we understand that country.
not cease to be interested in a
- ace in which 2,000,000 of their sol
diers played a part."
"The new American government." de- j
i laies La Libert?, "shows an excellent .
. ..?position toward us. It is marvelous
to see how Germany never ceases be-,
ng mistaken about the Americans."
Viviani Calls on Knox:
Grateful for U, S. View]
-
WASHINGTON. April a.- Pen? Vi?
viani, former Premier of France, who i
oti a mission to this country as an i
envoy ' extraordinary, conferred for '
tore than two hours to-daj with Sen
. tor Knox. of Pennsylvania, ?if his '
omc and took occasion, i; is, under- ?
tood, to expri . reciation o? the
>licy of this countrj ai recently j
stated by Administration officials, that
Germany must iccopt full responsi- j
bility for the war and pay her liabili- ;
? to the full extent of her ability.
State Department officials said to- ?
. ?ght :it : 3 notes had been dis
? .."? Ik ? to G< r .? ny outlining this po
ition and pointed iu1 tbaf inasmuch
s a etati <?. war technically existed
- i notes could under diplomatic usage
I q dispatched io that government.
In discussing that situation as af- |
fecting France, however, M. Vivian: is
iiderstood to have taken cognizance of :
.$ utterance of Administration of- ,
? mala concerning Germany's responsi
' ility and to have made clear that it '
could but tend greatly to dispel the
? ossibility of any embarrassment his ]
? o'-iutry might feel, especially in the j
matter of reparations, should the
United States now declare a separate
peace.
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Charles Asks
Throne for His
9-YivOM Son
Contlnuwl from pto? ons
&me hitch over getting Germany's, eor.
?rr.t.
': ilaburg Diet has unanimously
-?? ? ted agi . ?' Charles having vis?
ile:; Austria and demanded that the
I entrai government prevent a recur?
rence of the visit. The Arbeiter Zei
,u?:l' to-day asks Low long Charles is
o bo permitted constantly to pass :
?0 and from Austria.
Swiss Expect Charles To-day
PLUNK. Switzerland, April 3.?The j
Swiss authorities have received a mes?
sage v inch leads them to expect that '
.'ormer Emperor Charles will arrive a:
the frontier station of Buchs to-morrow
?Vqrning, accompanied by British and I
Nie.eh officers. Charles, it is said, will
not be permitted ta return to Fran
gins, but will stay at some other place
tfrptil if :. determined where he shall
resi-N'.
'?PARTS, April 3.?It is said that when
Sfrmer Emperor Charles left Switzer?
land f r Strasbourg he was accompanied
.?;. his brother-in-law, Prince Sixtus of
t I^ourbon, who Lad gone to Switzerland
Bfoni Paris, taking with him a Spanish
??Jissport which enabled Charles to
?..ravel from Basel to Strasbourg.
Sixtus, although a Belgian artillery
?iCicer, twice visited Charles during the
v;.r in an effort to Lave Austria effect a
Wparate peace with the Allie; .
vSotilh Dakotans Defy
New Sunday Blue Laws
Sp( i,?t )>l',, J. '-. .,. The Tribune
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 3.?When
Attorney General Byron S. Payne set
ago to i force the South
wakotn Sunday blue laws, he had only
tatutea to supporl his good in?
dention . h< ? pul .. ban on baseball
Jain? - noving pi iture i hows and for
??/?' '? tng o:' gasoline, tobacco,
: ' ing gui i and newspaper \
. To-day the state at large made it
twain to ? c! ief legal officer that
? i i ? wanted , to put the lid on, he
-. ild have to back up his declared
: tentions with action. Only one coun
'l.'. , Pennington, of the some seventy in?
fo? ";ii<-i: the itnte is divided, offered
;;tf:e Attorney Genorai even ?yinpathetic
?^operation. Out there, in that fron?
tier province, not a nickel changed
Ijands from dawn till dusk. Every?
where else in the state, Sunday and
sjn-ing found business as usual.'
Pierre, where the Attorney General
:'? es, had its regular conema shows and
??'? newspapers nisked confiscation at
i,' Land--'. Sioux Falls, largest city in
r'.v state, was a ? wide open as South
Qakota citie i i ver get.
rhe Attori ?y General says he ?s go
; g to make some ai:i sts to-morrow.
St. ?Vlihiel Gets Cross;
Cheers for American
ST. MIHIEL, Franco, Apr!! 3. -The
(trois de Guerre to-day was conferred
? un St. Mihiel, which was the scene of a
Accessful three days' action by the
American troops during the war. The j
ceremony was attended by prominent
French and American citizens. Colonel ,
1!. John West represented the American
-embassy.
When M. Maginot, the Minister of
Pensions, recalled the valor of the j
Americans who fought side by side
with the French a: St. Mihiel, he turned I
ro Colonel West. The population,,
grouped on the ruins of their town,;
Cheered the American officer until I
Colonel West came forward and bowed !
h a acknowledgements.
The Mayors of all the small towns ?
in the region of St. Mihiel were given
the war cross for their respective com- !
?unities.
Gen. Scott Urged as Envoy
WASHINGTON. April 3.?-The name
?*? Major General Hugh L. Scott, re- :
tired, former chief of staff, has been j
piesented to President Harding for ap- '
??ointment us American Ambassador to !
Mexico thotild the American govern- ?
ment decide to recognize the govern- >
mi-nt of President Obregon.
Friends of General Scott in Texas, it
vrua learned to-day, started the move- i
ment in his behalf. Some of the sup?
port given the movement, it was said, ?
has come from influential Texans, who
until recently were convinced that the
Mexico City post had been promised to ,
?I. B. Creager, of Brownsville. These '.
Texans are said to have received re- ?
ports that Mr. Creager would be disin- !
olined to give up his private business ;
interests.
General Scott since his retirement 1
?vat been living at Princeton, N. J.
Rhine "Horror"
Is Pure Myth,
Says Galbraith
Legion Head Cites Reports
by Ambassador Wallace,
Major General Allen, j
Mrs. Gait and Others!
He Galls It Propaganda!
._
Answers Von Mach and the
Hyphenates With Fads
Gathered hv Americans
There i-: no "horror on the Rhine,"!
save in the minds' of those duped by j
German propagandists, evidence made
public y.sterday by F. W. Galbraith jr.,
national commander of the American
Legion, proves. .
Mr. Galbraith adduces, in contradic?
tion of Dr. Edmund Karl von Mach's
assertion that French negro troops
have terrorized the women of occupied
German territory, statements by Hugh
C. Wallace, American Ambassador to
France: Bainbridgc Colby, ex-Secre?
tary of State; Major General Henry T.
Allen, commanding the American Army
of Occupation; Mrs, Gat rio Chapman
Gatt and Francis 1_. Drake, commander
of the American Legion in France. Mr.
Galbraith includes this evidence in a
letter to F. W. Elven, editor of the
Cincinnati (Ohio) Freie Presse, a Ger?
man language newspaper.
Wants No Hyphen
The American Legion chief concludes
his letter to the Cincinnati editor with
these words:
"Our position is that the evidence
shows there is no 'horror on the Rhine,'
that mass meetings to protest against
this shadowy nothing are screened at?
tacks on nations friendly to America,
and that the hyphen must and shall
keep its ugly head out of American af?
fair-:, internal and foreign as well."
Commander Drake's report of the in?
vestigation of the aiieged assaults by
negro troops on German women, cabled
from Paris, said that there had been
in till only 123 accusations of this
character, of which forty-six had been
proved without foundation, fifty-one
were doubtful and twenty-eight, had
"more or less foundatioi ."
Of these twenty-eight, three negro
soldiers convicted of assaults on women
were sentenced to imprisonment for
more than five years, live were sen?
tenced ;o terms of five years or less;
one, whose offense was" unclassified,
was given a term exceeding five \curs;
three unclassified offenders were sen?
tenced to less than five years each,
one received a suspended sentence and
seven were disposed of by "judicial en?
forcement.'' Two were acquitted of
assault and six of attempted assault.
"Many accusations were made after
a considerable lapse of time with no
complaint lodged with the French au?
thorities," Commander Drake's cable?
gram read. "Others refer to trivial
incidents which could occur in any
garrison town and were not peculiar
to negro troops. Moreover, the Ger?
man police often lodged complaints
! based upon pure gossip.. /As~ Sfn exam
! pie, there was a ease at Ivtfdwigshafen,
! where the reputed victim had been un
! known in the. region since 1916."
Ambassador's Testimony
Ambassador Wallace's testimony fol
; lows:
"The tota! number of troops of the
i French army of occupation was 65,000
| in December. Of this number 16,386
! were Moroccans and Algerians and
' 3,224 were Malgaches. The remainder
; were white. The figures, for January
' were approximately the same.
"Properly speaking, there are no
| black troops. The Moroccans and Al
; gerians are Arabs of the Mussulman
religion and entirely distinct from the
: egro race. The Malgaches are Ma?
lays from Madagascar.
"Incidents occurring between these
? colored troops and the natives of the
occupied district., which have been
; investigated by the French military
, authorities, have been in the proportion
1 of one to 1,584 men. About one-fourth
of such casts have resulted in con
?? demnations of from thirty days to ten
years' imprisonment, according to the
, gravity of the charge. The remaining
ca ea have been dismissed on account
I of inability to substantiate charges, or
be.cause of the lack of good faith on
the part of German authorities who
brought charges.
"The French government has made
1 tea
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Germans Confess Debt
For French Forests
PARIS, April 3.?At a hearing
to-day before the Reparations;
Commission on land and orchard
damage* Franco contended that
it was incumbent upon Germany
to pay the proportional cost of
replanting orchards, which should
be determined by the difference
between the age of the tree when
destroyed and the normal life of
the tree, according to an official
announcement.
Germany recognized that com?
pensation was due for the de?
struction of forests to the value
of the wood destroyed or carried
away and also for reforestation,
provided the felled trees were of
no commercial value.
no attempt to disapprove officially the
accusations concerning the behavior of
the troops ?it lias, however, unoffi?
cially supplied facts and figures
through its press agencies to various
countries. So far as I am able to ascer?
tain the recent behavior of these
troops has been on an average with
the conditions above reported."
Ex-Secretary Colby say-:
"The. number of Senegalese troops in
the occupied region was never large.
The specific attacks mr.de against
them in the German press have in most
cases boon refuted by investigations
or by testimony on the part of respon?
sible Germans, and where, individuals
have been found guilty tney have been
promptly punished.
"The American authorities in the
Rhine-land stntr that the stories of
atrocities originate not in the occupied
territory but in Berlin, and appeal- to
be very largely anti-French propa?
ganda."
General Allen's Statement
General Alien brands the Rhine
"horror" charges untrue in the follow?
ing statement:
"The wholesale atrocities by French
negro Colonial troops alleged in the
German press, such as the alleged ab?
ductions, followed by rape, mutilation,
murder and concealment of the bodies
of the victims, are false and intended
for political propaganda.
"A number of cases of the sort
charged have occurred on the part of
French negro colonial troops in the
Rhineland. These cases have been oe
casional and in restricted numbers, not
general or widespread. The French
military authorities have repressed them
severely in most cases and have made a
very serious effort, to stamp the evil
out."
The American Legion commander's,
letter to Mr. El ven, which was in reply
to a communication from the editor,
follows in part:
"I am convinced, and the vast major?
ity of Americans are convinced, that
Mr. Colby, General Allen, Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Drake and Mrs. Gatt are telling the
truth and that there are no French
negro troops now in the Rhine country.
We believe them, first, because they are
trustworthy and. second, because they
have no reason to distort the truth.
"Can as much be said for the pro?
tagonists of the other side of the
Controversy? Do we not remember
that in the days preceding our entrance
into the T.ar, and even thereafter,
pro-German champions in this coun?
try stopped at no falsehood to attempt
to gain a point';
"The American Legion denies the
: right to existence of any hyphen. If
] the time shall come when America
! must again take up arms it must be
: for America's welfare, not for the
welfare of any other nation. Conse
'? ciucntly, we object to men of confessed?
ly strong German sympathies endeavor?
ing to embroil America on a charge
; that is trumped up and false."
Turks Report
Greek Disaster
In 9-Day Fight
?,?
Victory at Eski-Shehr and
Retreat of Foe Toward
Hrusa Reported by Lead?
er of Nationalist Forces
Reds Convoy Troopships
Allies Said to Have Forbidden
Constantino's Army Use of
Railway to Rattlcfront
CONSTANTINOPLE, April V, (By
The Associated Press'.-The Greeks
have been completely defeated by the
Turks in the baffle at Eski-Shehr, says
a communication issued by the head?
quarters of Mustaphn Kemnl Pasha, the
Turkish Nationalist leader.
A Turkish communiqu? dated April 1
says that, the buttle on the Eski-Shehr
front, lasting nine day.-, bas been con?
cluded, Piled dik being recaptured and
I the Greek's retreating* in the direction!
1 of Brusn. I
Turkish transports convoyed by Bo!- ?
shevik gunboats have landed part of!
j Kiazim Kara Bekir's army at Ineboli.
The Greek? declare that there has!
?been a renewal of the fighting on the j
Eski-Shehr front.
Kiazim Kara Bekir, commander of the i
Turkish Nationalists in Armenia, with
his "army of salvation," i; Hearing
i S i vas.
A dispatch from Constantinople last
I week said Kiazim Kara Bekir, with 25,
000 troops, was making a forced march
I from Armenia to aid Mustapha Kemal
1 Pasha.j
The Allies will refuse the Greeks
permission to transport their troops in
i Thrace to the battlefront in A<ua Minor
by way of Constantinople or to use
the Ismld railway.
The Italians ?-.ave protested that a
' Greek patrol lias held up the steam
! ship Cleopatra in the Black Sea. The
Allies have informed the Greeks that
J they must not blockade the sea.
The Greeks are reinforcing their
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IF "imitation is the
sincerest flattery,"
then we arc flattered
indeed. Already there
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French and Italian
Vermouths.
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army. They now have- three new divi?
sion? in Mudania with which to en- !
deavor to overcome the Turk victory. I
The entire Greek merchant marine has ;
been mobilized sa transports, and it is
expected the Greeks will bo able to i
put an army of 200,000 in the field.
The size of this army is being viewed i
with nlarm by the Serbians and Bul?
garians,
While tho Greeks are silent or are
making denial?, the Turks continue to
sent out communications telling of vie- i
tories.
Mustapha Kenial Pasha has issued a
manifesto saying: "This is the last1
war for the preservation of tjie em- j
pire. Every Turk must enroll or bo j
executed as a traitor."
LONDON', April 8.-?Feeling is run-:
ning high in Constantinople anf] minor1
incidents are occurring daily between j
the Turks and Greeks, according to the :
Constantinople correspondent of The
London 'finies. The Vcnizolists appear
to have buried the hatchet, confidently .
expecting, the correspondent, adds, that,
Constantino will enter Constantinople
at the heat! of the Greek army by i
May 1.
Texans Threaten to Urge
Carving Ont of New State
SWEETWATER, Tex., April 3.?Five
thousand citizens of Nolan and sur?
rounding counties assembled hero last
night;, unanimously adopted resolutions
demanding representation in the state
government according to nopulation, as
provided in the Constitution.
The resolutions were drafted by 0. II.
Roberts, editor of The Daily Reporter,
and R. M. Chitwood, representative
from the 121st District. The resolu?
tions also stated that unless the de?
mands were complied with creation of
a new state out of that part of Texas
would be urged.
Wood to Devise
Plan to Guard
The Philippines
Contlmifxl from pafls on?
?ti the islands, but the present agita?
tion for imniediate independence,
coupled with the declarations of the
Wilson Administration that the fitness
of the islanders for self-government
had been manifested, have made capi?
tal for both purposes ro timid that
virtually none is obtainable.
Following this state nie nt. of the in?
tention of this government to hold on to
the islands for not less than twenty
live year? the Administration plan is
to raise tlio present debt limit of the
islands, so that money can be bor?
rowed for needed purposes. The pres?
ent debt of the Philippines is about
$15,000,000, or in the neighborhood of
$1.50 a person. The national debt alone
of the United States amounts to more
than $200 a person.
This permission to extend the debt,
incidentally, will have a soothing ef?
fect, it is thought, perhaps entirely
reconciling even the agitators in the
islands to the declaration that their
dream of independence has been post?
poned for twenty-live vears.
Spain to Control Societies
MADRID. April 3.- One of the chief
items in the government's legislative
program at the present session of Par?
liament is a measure dealing with the
law of associations, which will permit
the formation of all kinds of societies
within legal bounds conditionally.
Each such body will furnish to the
government a complete account of its
revenues und how its funds are dis
burned. 'I he government will reserve
to itself the right to be represented at
the meetings of all societies in order
to see that they do not exceed the
limit* of the objects for which thev are
organize'). This measure is intended to
prevent a continuation of iiw.) ??.
tie?i amonpr societies in var?ouf?iA
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i^J the fund? of their organ;??t?"*'"
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Cut prices are alluring only on goods of known
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Without the previous establishment of stand?
ards, cut prices would not be seductive.
An excessive cut price on advertised goods of
known value is a bait.
? very wise and cynical fish would swallow the
bait but avoid the hook?because, of course, there
is a hook.
When a dealer sells for less than cost it is not for
love that he does it.
If gold were without value there would be no
thieves.
If advertising had not established for an article
a wide-spread public recognition of standard value,
there would be no bait in a "ruinous cut price."
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that she must face in the next twenty-odd years,
she would robably lift up her voice and tell the
world her u sion to quit right now and here.
Who is goij to tell her?
M other and Father and playmates and teach?
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But she must also be home-maker and
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food, good clothing, good furnishings, good
values for her household and children?these
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To teach her to want a better home and to
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her mother made?that is truly shaping public
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