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The Supreme Issue
Deprecating the controvei y with
Italy, but recognizing tho supreme im?
portance of the issue, Lord Reading, the ,
1 Ambassador, i i full of hope ?i
solution will bo arrived at. He declines
to entertain gloomy forebodings? He
predicts that "tho intellectual giants at
the peace table will find a way t?. recon
eile their diff?rence ."
Thus the British Ambassador, al?
though avoiding any lifting of a threat
ening ferrule, declares by implication
what to him is tho big thing at Paris;
namely, that there be no breach; that a
union that has won glory and may win
more be not dissevered.
Let us not shrink from the full con?
sequences of this conclusion. Any one at
Paris who, through pride of opinion or
through stubborn insistence on his con?
ception of the demands of doctrinan'"
idealism, helps to throw clown the only
structure for peace that the world pos
is not to be rated a servitor of
mankind. Any one who, by tactless
manner or words, drives the division
deeper may deem himself a friend of
peace, but is the reverse.
The danger that has come lias long
been foreseen. The ink on the armistico
was scarcely dry when a campaign which
has never ceased was begun to divide
the war's victors. It originated in subtle
German brains, and the poison passed
thence to tho Allied countries. First on
one ground and then another,effort was
ted to winning at the peace table
that which had been lost on the field
of battle. Str. ? ?I that any were
caught by so transparent a device. But
many, alas! have been.
New hates and distrusts were deliber?
ately fostered. It has seemed, so art?
fully have successive plausibilities been
emphasized, as if there were a central
,'itrency from which a command has
steadily come: "Manufacture suspicion
any way, anyhow.'* Sometimes it was
(ireat Britain againsl which the propa?
ganda focussed, sometimes I 1
'imes Italy. Sometimes the poor
lied about,
a masquerading humanitarian
? ? 0f Gei
At. last, in i
lodged Unless I
. ' ?
? ',<? Important democi al le nal Ion ??? II nol
b? a member of any league of peace,
? give way If the German
nro not to reach l'a i is w it h
In this juncl m e it 1 profil le !i?
ge int?) a minute weighing of tho
merits of a specific controversy. Every
:>? thing on this score has already
been said during the argument at the
? inference. Tho result is a public state?
ment which Italy's spokesmen regard as
insulting and the departure of the Ital?
ian Premier from Paris. Assuming that
both sides aro equally sincere, it is ob?
vious the impasse is not likely to be
broken except by a compron
We are familiar with tho principle,
that there are circumstances under
which a man may be too proud to fight.
As a companion to this might be erected
a saying that there are circumstances
in which a man may be too proud to
insist on having his own way.
The Unsecrct Treaty
On March 4, PUR, replying to a ques?
tion in the British Home of Commons as
to whether copies of all treaties, secret or
public, and all other memoranda of other
agreements to which Great Britain had
become a party since August 4, 1914, had
been communicated to President Wilson,
Foreign Secretary Balfour said: "Presi?
dent Wilson is kept fully informed by the
Allies."
. Whatever may be true of others, the
L ,-?,.. I "secret treaty" of April, 1916,
' w?a no far bar:-: as March, 1918,
to our government When the armistice
with Germany was under negotiation it
lia?-! knowledge of its contents. When
trio-Hungary asked mediation after
her defeat on the Piave and indicated
willingness to dissociate herself from
Germany, and was referred to the Italian
mander in chief, the secret treaty was
01 le at Washington. 80 it was when
American troops were ordered to cooper
at/- with Italy and large credits were
seed at Italy's disposal. There was no
ignoranc? when Italy, adhering to the
general principien of the Fourteen
^Points, indicated ?he did not understand
th'-y superseded tht pledge? made to her.
The aid of Italy helped to win a war as
much our? M hern. Her 700,000 dead
v,< 1 e a vicarious sacrifice that saved many
an American household from sorrow.
When we were fighting with her wo did
not say her purposes, declared to our
President, were bad and imperialistic.
We did not condemn her for fighting
for Italian Irredenta while she fought
for general civilization. We eulogized
Garibaldi. We cheered her on to destroy
the last vestiges of Teutonic conquest, to
complete tho expulsion for which she had
longed for l,.r?00 years and for which
i countless wars had been waged. Suabian,
| Hohenstauffen, Hapsburg?these words
have meanings to an Italian that not all
; Americans understand.
The Italians, within their ancient bor?
ders, wished to live a free and united
family. To tell them now, a people who
more than any in Europe have be?n the
victim of violations of the principio of
self-determination, that they are impe?
rialistic reenis a strange thing to them.
To be lectured as morally defiant because
they feel with and for their kinsmen of
Fiume is startling-- seems like being re?
proached for merit.
Never Liked Italians
"But now there came multitudes of
men of the lowest class from the south
of Italy and men of the meaner sort out
of Hungary and Poland, men out of the
ranks where there was neither skill nor
energy nor any initiative of quick In?
telligence; and they came in numbers
which increased from year to year, as if
the countries of the south of Europe
were disburdening themi eh os of the
more sordid and hapl* si el? menta * I
then- population, the men whose stand?
ards of life and Work were null as
American workmen had never dreamed
of hitherto.
"The people Of the Pacific Coast had
clamored these many year:' against the
ion of immigrants out of ('bina,
and in May, 1892, got at last vfhat they
wanted, a federal statute which practi?
cally excluded from the l Inited ; tates
all Chinese who had not already ac?
quired the right of residence; and yet
the Chinese were more to be desired, as
workmen if not as citizens, than most of
the coarse crew that came crowding in
every year at the Eastern ports.
"They had, no doubt, many an un?
savory habit, bred unwholesome squalor
in the crowded quarters where they most
abounded in the Western seaports, and
seemed separated by their very nature
from the people among whom they had
come to live; but it was their skill, their
intelligence, their hardy power of labor,
their knack of succeeding and driving
duller rivals out, rather I han their alien
habits, that made them feared and hated
and led to their exclusion at the prayer
of tlv*i men they were likely to displaca
should they multiply. The unlikely fel?
lows who cuno in at the Eastern ports
were tolerated because they usurped no
place but tho very lowest in the scale of
labor." Paires 212-14. Vol. V, "A His
lory of the American People," by
Woodrow Wil on.
Feeding the Bolsheviki
Concerning the feeding of Russia, Mr.
Hoover says the plan is, first, to have
"complete distribution to all classes, re?
gardless of all distinctions"; and, second,
"the Bolsheviki are to keep themselves
in a circumscribed area, ceasing all mili?
tary action .and attempts at invasion."
Mr, Hoover adds that if re?'f i ; no1
furnished the bulk of those on whom
the Bolsheviki have thrown the famine
will be 'lead "before the nexl harvest."
The humanit.i rian motive w hich in
spire Mr. Hoover are sympathized with
by all American?, The surplus product i
of i hi i count i v, heaped up und? r an eco
nom?c ' y t< m agii in i which i ho l.olshc
: i have fl?chi rod wai, bave al
been ai. 11,,' (]| |,,, al ?-i moi engen ni
i?.' ' - ,. v? i it i . highly probable, If ri
lief docs not go i oi v. ard uni il i ho con
dltions mentioned are met, hurvosl timo
will !"? long pafl '-'I before I be aid Is
provided.
The Bolsheviki, so far as concerns
Central Russia, are not territorially set
apart. They are intermingled with the
population and are not distinguishable
from their neighbors. Should shipments
be sent to Petrograd and Moscow, the
food would be eaten by the Bolsheviki,
or those recently such and likely again
to be Bolsheviki as soon as their stomachs
were filled. The members of this sect
hold it a virtue to trick and to despoil
the Egyptians.
The local governments in the famine.
districts are in their hands. No authority
other than that of the soviets exists or
is permitted to exist. To distribute
through such agencies, and cooperation
with local authorities is indispensable,
Would scarcely reach those we would
I save. The Bolshevik commissary would
be restocked. That's all.
Nor does the soviet central govern?
ment show the slightest willingness to
cease fighting, except as it is compelled
by force so to do. If the Siberians con
I tinue their advance in the East and the
J Cossacks and the. anti-Bolshevist Ukrain
| ians push on from the south, L?nine and
| Trotzky may seek an armistice, but it
would be to give them time to prepare
further. Then, the anti-Bolshevists who
have arms |n their ban,is, and purpose
not merely to relieve famine, but to cure
it by removing its cause, would scarcely
Stop on the eve of victory.
Moreover, as it would take a number
of month-, to get the food shipped and
distributed and no start, has yet. been
,r ?""? practically Impossible to
? hieve anything between now and
August. Possibly a few cargoes could
be hurried in, but the circumstances sug
)?-'? t that ?hey w0,dd feed the Bolsheviki.
and the Bolsheviki alone. It is not well
to deceive ourselves as to what the food
policy reiiJly implies.
Russia has been the greatest cereal
producer in the world. Her loss of this
distinction and the famine are the result
Of discernible Ca I OS. Hunger came with
the rise of Bolshevik power and will
disappear, it may be assumed, when Bol
shcvism goes, and probably not sooner.
Let us not sock to anodyne uneasy eon
sciences. The way to help the well dis?
posed of Russia is to help them rid them?
selves of Bolshevik rule. This our gov?
ernment and other governments refuse
to do, >So refusing we dedicate great
populations to starvation, and a little re?
lief around the edges promi es to effect
little good. On the contrary, it tends
to prolong the Bolshevist nightmare and
means that to the starvation of this year
will be added starvation next year.
One Kind of Snob
A man standing in front of the
Tribune bulletin board yesterday passed
this comment on the picture of "Psyche''
there displayed from the Sunday supple?
ment: "I always wanted to bave a copy
of that picture in the house. But, of
course, now that everybody's going to
have if, it's spoiled."
A not uncommon notion, cither. The
instinctive desire for something rare and
exclusive is as widespread as human
nature. Of such is the great democracy
of snobs to which everybody belongs,
The artistic snob is simply one of many,
per upa a little commoner in America
(ban in Europe, but to bo found every?
where and own brother to all the other
broods of snobs.
ifel wo think most of us recognize
this in: I ?net for what. it. ? and ?
ju i a little ! ?.'? ay as \vc humanly can, Ft
is a mean and an unpl? a; anl and fl hate
fui trait wherever it crops out. in
wanting to lock beauty up for one's own
private pleasure and being annoyed at
having to share it annoyed to the ex
tent of nol thinking it beautiful any
longer ! < )f cour: c, t here Is such o i hing
as hearing a I une too oftt n or seeing
a jiii-i ure too often, But t hat is a dif?
ferent matter. U dues not fatigue one's
own retina or ear drums to have a tbott
sand or a million other retinas and ear
drums seeing and hearing at the same
time.
As a matter of fact, (rue art is the
most, democratic thing in the world. It
exists wholly apart from classes or
masses or any affectation or snobbery.
In a truly musical country, for im tance,
like Italy, every one sings. .Music is as
free and pervasive as sunshine. Ameri?
cans can observe and learn.
Montenegro Vanishes
The national assembly of Montene?
gro has voted in favor of incorporation
into the new Jugo-Slav state. Thus one
of the most picturesque and valiant of
the little kingdoms of Europe vanishes
into the past. At that, Montenegro had
not been long n kingdom. Ii was a
principality until 1910, when Nicholas,
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
bis accession, assumed the royal title.
Montenegro, formerly a part of Serbia,
never completely yielded to the Turk. ,
Por four centuries this little mountain
pqople kept the Moslem invader at bay.
They were all warriors and maintained
into the twentieth century a primitive
irai civilization little differenl from
thai of the Middle Ages. Turkey es
hed ' ado ' uzerainty over
them in 1862, But this was renounced in
L876, and Montenegro's independence
was fina!, re ignized by the Treaty of
Berlin in !
Nicholas, 'he aged sovereign, wa i
remarkable pel onage, He exerci ed
pal i ii i chai powei ? and lived wit h <?
11 erne demo irai ?c i Implit ity. tie
I he proprietor of a hotel it? Cettin ie, n
pool. a piaywi Ighl and pal lonatt \y fond
i,I' the I ? i e || \ ?ii'-i : an game O? 'I i'iiw
poki r .''?? pelant In wtnlure, Im .?. n
probet i?! '.? the mo I Impo i i: u re, tl flgu re
m I'.n i ni??-,
'I'll?- rnllitn < ?. rollfl p ti of Wont? i
m ll?I.', excited much : m pid?n. The
Austro Hungarians took the impregnable
Mount. Lovchon, opposite Cattaro, with
hardly any effort. Montenegrin offi?
cials were accused of collusion with the
enemy, But Montenegro could hardly
have held out. after Serbia and Albania
had been overrun by Mackensen and the
remnants of the Serb army bad tied to
Corfu.
Nicholas v.'i'ut into exile in Paris,
where kings in exile have been wont, to
congregate. His sons liad disqualified
themselves for the succession. His peo?
ple, a pure Serb stock, longed for union
with the other South Slavs. So his use?
fulness a ; a monarch ended. Tie has
passed from the stage with more, honor,
however, than most, of the other forty
or fifty odd potentates of his class in
Europe, whose names will be missing
in the next edition of the Almanack <lc
\ Cut ha.
WANTED: A peace that Germany
j tirill not forget.
Surveying From the Sky
(From The London Tinu i
Lecturing before the members of the
Royal Geographical Society upon mapping
from air photographs, Lieutenant Colonel
M. N. McLood, J?. S. <)., R. E., said that
owing to the experience gained in the war,
very little development was required to givo
tin the power not only of preparing from
t.ir photographs complote and accurate
largo-scale maps of civilized and highly de?
veloped regions, bi*t also of obtaining rea?
sonably accurate mapa of unexplored re?
gions. For accurute work wo could not, of
course, dispenso with the surveyor alto?
gether, und in lnlly country, until wo could
devise some satisfactory form of storoo
plotter, tin- .-?ir photographs would not help
i y much. There ?lid not, howevor,
seem to be anything to prevent us making
such nn instrument, and whon this was
dour* it should bo po ilble t?> map vory
cheaply and quickly ntr-ep, hilly regions at
prosent troublesome to survey on account
of tlir difficulty of getting aboul In them.
'Ihn aeroplano wan already a valuable In
strument for both exploration and accurate
ui ??< y in flal country, and it. ?should nol b ?
long before its application would be almost
universal.
The Conning Tower
The Good Sports
Tho luck was mine, quoth the pool player,
But you played so well, I'll swear
You merited well the game you won,
For yea beat me fair and square.
I played my best, quoth the tenniseer,
At the net and the old base line,
And my health was never better than now,
But your game is better than mine.
And I fell down a flight of stair?.
And I gave a terrible scream;
And fluttered my heart as, with t, rtart,
1 woke from my pleasant dream.
In reviewing Mr. Genrg?. Jean Nathan's
! "The Popular Theatre," M. A., in tho New
| Republic says that ono of the main points in
: his Indictment is that the theatre ?a bad for
literature just as the mouth-harmonic:., is
had for music. We doubt whether the thea?
tre la bad for literature; or, at any rate, any
fer literature than hooks are. The
average play, we think, is as good literaturo
1 na tho average book.
As to the mouth-harmonica being bad for
music, wo simply sweep that Idea aside,
i ,,?,' ,. it b? charged that the plan?, i i
bad fer music. Por there are many mor?:
i.r pianists, In proportion, than poor
mouth harmonica player
The l'fiwrr of ihr Pre?? Aumt; or, Ain't It n
(.unid unit Glorious Feelln'?
When you haven't hoard from tho Beat Oirl In
mon h
Aii'l .'.',u had ten buck? up on th? Yanks for
the Opening Game
rVnil you hear tho Allies nm golnz to support
iho Oi , Ime
And the Rode have loel Vllna
And Iiiirl.-on la .till on tho Job
And you haven't hppii that raleo that vras
etl you
Am! you're thinking of tel I int. your trnul,l?t
t?, '?I,?' Tower, and heading ttie paragraph, "When
a Feller Needs ;. Friend"
if, all of ft sudden, you hear that Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation is going to releas?
? Movies, und you will have to .ou them
all in the projection room as part of your daily
woi .
Oh-h-h Boy! Ain't It a Gr-r-rand and Glor
r-rious Feelin' ? Moebik.
Mr. Stephen McKenna is ?mother British
? uthor who triea to show his familiarity
with tho American language, and is no
happier than Mr. Thomas Burke. In
"Midas and Son," Aylmer Lancing, an Eng
u , has been in New York a few
months when he writes: "After working
an elevator in a block on Fourth Avenue,
I've been taken in as book keeper to a
firm of real-estate agents. ... 1 reckon
on being tired ns soon as ho comes home.''
Now, probably Mr. McKenna has heard
that a lift is an elevator and a square is n
block; and that, the American cannot use a
sentence without, guessing or reckoning.
But our guess is thai no Englishman, in
New York only a few months, could have
written Blieb a letter, especially to an?
other Englishman, . . . "Guesa I'm go?
ing to make tracks," Aylmer Lancing
-.?. i tes l'i? er.
"Would it bo right," asks ('. B. G_, "to
say that International Peace Common has
dropped fourteen points?" No; it would
he merely comical.
.Sampling the President's Opponents
Ti? , a re t it k led to And t hem
called persona of "narrow vision" by
those who ?eered at preparation for war
in 1914. 'il "v are enterta ined when * hey
hear thomselvea iermed "little Amei h
and "1 - Is" by tho le who I n day
; i ?? ?'i.- - , cepl ing mandates to
r? ??' ite ' he world, but : ufFi red i hai Lei
U "Mi at tho thought of n word to
b* poken foi IJclglum In 1014 in * Ime ,pl
d ' ? F he y ire able to boar
tin i ' |,i,,.i?'ii for nol ?i; ','','.'? iii,?: " i
-. .? m,i," m i ! [?ti man v ho ndvl "?l neu
i ' ?i of mltul I?"' wflfti i lgh|
frightful ' In ni i, rvho had nol di
i ' ?? "wl ul tin -, ?T 'vu ' ni.i " wo In ta
ii (DM ,,?.??! i ? ?i when told ihej
i.i? I* i?," "i,Ighoi vI don" h.v persons who
accepted thn "no quurrol with the Gorman
peoplo" fallacy. And they only tend tow?
ard Impatience when tho words "ideals"
and "idealism" and "vision" are com
mandeered as personal property by those
Americans who, at ease while living for
three yenra under the protection of France
and England, uttering noble sentiments
while other folk died for the truth, then
turned upon our allies during ?he peace
conference and permitted their organs of
opinion to accuse France of "selfishness"
und "imperialism."
EDMUND LESTER PEARSON.
"1 have discovered, I think, the absolute,
live star guiltiest feeling," writes Bruce.
"It comes when I stand In tho subway train,
reading John Spargo's 'Bolshevism,' and
am glared at by all my fellow passengers,
who evidently don't, knew thai the book Is
a hitter indictment of the Reds, and think
because ! reail it I am on,'."
It ia Miss Margaret Franklin';; vote thai
is cast for (1. S. B.'_ "A Request for In?
formation" as this year's best Tower con?
tribution. Our own vote is for C. A.'s
"The Doughboy and the dob."
"Mrs Byrne has no intimation whem hi
may he," says the Sun, but we can guess.
Mr. Chr-uncey M. Dopew belittles the idea
or the six-hour day. "ii would leave eighteen
honra," he says, "for what '.' For my part
I should bo bored blue. Ono cannot read
eighteen hours. One cannot ploy golf eigh
tecn hours. What, is there to do?" Well,
there are eight or nine of those eighteen
hours for sleep; and as for not being able
to apportion nine hours a day for reading;
playing golf, Kelly pool, tennis, poker, the
ukulele; going to theatre; dawdling at table;
changing tires; shaving; buying necktios;
nrguing about Prohibition; sporting with
Amaryllis in tho ?had,'; watching ball games;
concerts why, Mr. Depew, mosl of us would
nol be bored witlf only n two-hour day.
"A two-hour day," echoed the editorial.
Bharcr of our spacious, air-cooled office.
"How would you kill that other hour'.'"
Burke Ig there ?ike a dink with the Amer?
ican language. Keith Preston in the Chicago
No ws.
Frequently a lame one,
J). I'. A.
Germany To-day
Industry Unbeaten
By Samuel Crowther
Special Correspondent of The Tribune, Just Returned From Germany
IV
IP THE revolution of last November had
not broken the German morale and
set the working people to discovering
some method by which they could live
without work, German industry would have
finished the war in stron-rer condition than
when it started. Barring the human ele?
ment, which is not really ho serious as the
surface indicates and which I shall take up
in another article, German industry to?
day has little In the way of reconstruc?
tion to undertake, and if it had the raw
materiala it would be going ahead with a
capacity greater than it had before ;
war. The planta are there and rr-ii'ly to
go ahead, one? new belts and lubricatii
oils arrive. The transformation from a
war to a peace basis is not serious, because
comparatively few peace establishments
went, on i?? a war basis, excepting for such
articles as wore suited to their existing
machinery and without change.
in o far as bricks and mortar and ma*
chlncry aro concerned, German industry
ready to fund Ion, It la bot hcred by the 10
point .
Tin* Only OhntaclcH
I. '?h?- lack of raw materials, especially
leather, "it, cotton, nickel, copper and
aluminum.
::. 'I ; ?? lack of Internal transport by res
'.,].: ng over of : -? many locomo
;.,'. .? ? by ; ho .Ml es and tho lack of ship i
f.?r export I rode,
::, 'lie- fear that many of tie world's
mark?*!:; will be closed t?> German goods;
u ? ? 'raid of decreased Bale i on a
sentimental basis, for non?* of them know
how th<* outside world regards Germany.
??. The finance of exports and imports on
the decreased value of the mark; but
Krupp's ami several other companies have
already arranged that their sales abroad
should be in the. foreign currency. The
financo of wages without production is
bothering the bankers for the smaller con?
cern.?, but, the hip companies have such
largo reserves that they are prepared,even
for a large capital tax.
The condition of German industry as a
whole is much better than that of England,
ami is as {rood if not. better than that of
tho United States. They have ?ess to un?
learn, ami they are nut. agitating them?
selves with any great departures from ?,i !
theories of production. Where the war has
upset, the business intellect of so mn
countries and has permitted the iconoclast
to have an inning or two, Germany has in
unimaginative way stuck close to its mut?
tons and has always bom?* in mind that
there would be a ?lay after tie- war, \nd
before examining tin- particular industi
l ball 11**, to i i.?'i.-h how it as a whole
m"!, tho war and what, general cha?
? have taken place,
; No Stocks for Export
First, gel rid of seme n :? ? ons.
There are >.' German stocks ready
for - port Phe present government will
no pay exporl subsidies, and tho German
; manufacturer does not wan! them. Neither ,
will exporl or other trade be much under
rol, and tl.rt d
torn is not much In favor excepl for small
compan ies, wh ich cannot a ford their o ? n
? ? Ion ? Tho dri ft Is ent I rely a vay
i ? tit going into business
ahd th? prospects i of indu
I ry are i.I /remote I ?ven In the en se ci ?
coal H i ? ?/'?' y doubt ful if t
I i beei passed for tho ? ? ?.I
the mil i ever I"* put inl?? effort, In
plti of tho fact that a ? iippo cdl .
ei.ili lie |, 11 i ?ri pov ? ?, ' '?" trend In
' ' ? ? ' , . I i ,in i*?.. -en rii'-n ' ? ! i 'i
terfi ram a and toward larga Indlv d
unit -, '? h.icce is of 1 ? inn
. undoj Individual au plci ?? ha - con
vlncad most (Jermann that governments do ?
not make n success In bu linos i,
The Gorman plann for the making of
Who Sent Decatur?
' To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Early In January I received extracts
from tho diary of my brother, the Rev. Fred
erick N. Jessup, a missionary ('with my class- !
mate, I>r. William S. Vanneman) in Tabriz,
Wi-si Persia.
\\ hen Tabriz was seized by the Turks tho
American Consul escaped and my brother and !
J>r. Vanneman stayed to protect the Amer- ;
i?:an property, of which there was a great
deal in the city.
Supposed by the Turks to bo recipients and
administrators of tho fund for Armenian and
Syrian relief, my brother and Dr, Vanneman
were seized and imprisoned in the hope of ex?
tracting from them the possession of these
moneys, which the Turkish officer in command
intimated his willingness and ability to
"properly disburse.''
This outrageous imprisonment having ter?
minated some weeks later, and the Turks
having been unsuccessful in their attempts
to compel these two Americans to betray
their trust, my brother's diary letter reached
me, and on the information contained In this
letter I communicated with tho Department
of State at Washington these facts, suppos?
ing, of cours?*, that, us in days gone by, thai
department would be eager and vigilant in
its defence of the rights of American citizens.
Some two months later that is, just the
I other ?lay 1 received an acknowledgment
of this letter from the State Department, re
! fcrring to the occurrence as the alleged ?m
I prisonment of the Rev. Frederick N'. Jessup,
i
l and stating that, it would endeavor to ascer
1 tain tho facts in the case from our repre?
sentativo in Teheran.
Since the American Consul had run away
\ from his post when tho Turks entered Tabriz
(although we were not at war with Turkey,
as your readers will remember), mid as the
only persons from whom authentic informa?
tion could bo obtained wore those two Amer?
icans who were Imprisoned, and as l have
already furnished the State Department with
that, information. I am seriously a? a loss
to understand tho attitude of tho State De?
partment and Its exaggerated deliberation In
proceeding In this manner.
iti the socond place, thoi'O have been re
war material were well thought out and
worked splendidly. The government kept
its hands off actual production and con?
centrated its orders in a few largo con?
cerns, such as Krupp's and the Rheinischer
Metal Factory, at Dusseldorf. The orders
for all heavy guns went to Krupp's, but
outside of the heavy forgings, for which
Krupp's alone was equipped, the general
effort was to concentrate the manufacture
of supplies for the Western front in the
Rhine regions, and for the Eastern fronts
about Berliti and in the Silosian regions.
Spandau, near Berlin, was the big Eastern
munitions centre, and that was government
owned. No new factories were established
in placea without proper housing facilities,
and thus the building of new houses for
workers and tho difficulties of obtain mi:
labor In out-of the-way places was avoided.
All Industry Concentrated
The effect of all thin concentration of
wit h large rna has been to
drive most Bmall concerns oui of bus!
, and futuro German indu ?try will he
in tho hands of s very few people. In
alone orne il . hundrod small estab
- mploying le is i han ten men be
fore tho war have disappeared, and tho
same Is 'rue in Dusseldorf, except ihat,
about Solingen many of the small
shops found It possible t?> take sub-con?
tracts, and thus Burvivo. Tho reason fur
tho closing down was that those small
proprietors wen- commonly men who had
been trained as non commissioned ?
and thoj were needed in the army. Those
who were not needed in the army went into
the largor factories as foremen or superin?
tendents at higher wages than they could
earn alone. And now few of them care tc;
reopen their old places.
Germany is not an inventive nation, and
during tho war they invented little, but
they did go far in the direction of finding
substitutes for many substances which coul*
not be imported, [hey are Baid to have a
new steel, but on this I could obtain no par?
ticulars, and also I could not discover what
strides had been made in chemistry, althougl
they are considerable. Complete secrecj
ma ntained on these points, but th.
manager of the Benz Automobile Companj
told me that he intended to go back t(
the us?1 of the samo materials that he ha.
used before the war and that none of th*
metallic, substitutes were satisfactory.
After-the-War Production
In the way of weaving from paper, fren
nettles and from reeds, great progress ha
been made, and In these Germany will be :
competitor of the world if the prices can bt
brought down.
The most serious shortages of industry
were in leather for belts, oil for lubricating
in rubber for all its varied uses, ?n nicke
und in copper, and no substitutes worth whili
were found.
The cost of after-the-wnr German produc?
tion and the ability to compete if afforded i
lev?! ground will be taken up later, after ai
nation of the various industries, but i
I be sheer nonsense to attribute an
superhuman virtues to tho industry or t
imagine that it will be very much differen
after the war fnnn ore. J
has suffi red !' i I hon Bri
it will not I"- hampered by the governmer
in its rehabilita! Ion I hat is, i 11 not 1
? ed." 11 lu? ' agi ' '
and mo I co lai ge ordei
Austria
In gt ? ' hel her 1 hoy can gl\
er? 'Ii t In ti II 'I ? h? -.- ,i I -, I , ?.
1,0 la
i,, , *. ? 1.1 ; . in con lei
Hut then 111? nun ttu I lo boni h
, / Jill ?. i f?o j m ,,,-.? r In a
,, funk Bui t; Ind I < i il ?
11 i" really cheei Ing to r.?ieo1 ? I th them ai
to hear words of di toimination after tl
helpless whining of the politicians and tl
hankers.
peated references in the public prints to tl
imprisonment of Mr, I ?ana, ono of tho Arne
lean mission in Beirut, in respect to whoi
case perhaps tho State Department wou
like some information. I have just heal
from tho most authentic
Dana has succeeded in getting back, aft*
having lived through suffering and rackir,
experiences beyond anything I have ev<
heard of in real life d?lib?r?t?- torture
IIP .1 for three days and night
jammed in a Bmall room with th
prisoners of the foule ? ? d
food or drink (two prisoners died during tl
time and wen? left in with the rest for n?,
days; this was in July), then taken off to
dungeon, and he had another day in the dar
without food, then for ten days he had on
ono piece of black bread a day and nothii
kept for five days in a room with
crazy man, who tried to kill him again ai
again at night. But he lived through it!
The sentence with which this a'ccou:
c?o ?es reminds me of the remark of a di
tinguished gentleman to whom I complain?
of my brother's imprisonment in Tabriz ai
demanded that some action be taken by o
government to vindicate the dignity of Ame
?can citizenship, to which this gentlemi
indignantly responded, "But he's our no
isn't lie'-'"
Who sent Decatur? And why did he g
HENRY W. JESSUP.
New York, March 29, 1919.
A Northern Secession
[From 'lhe Springfield Rep?blica?)
Rhode Island is marked by fate to pi
nn historic rr?lo in the opposition lo Fe
eral prohibition. The statu Legulatu
has already authorized the Attorney Ge
ernl to tost the constitutionality of t
Federal amendment. And now the st_
Senate has pai Bod a bill making lawful
per cent beer in the dry time to como. (>
can forecast what will happen. Congrt
will pass a law making the alcoholic p?
cot tagt? of beer much lower, und then, i,
der the "concurrent, power" clause of t
Federal amendment, Rhode Island and t
1 nited States will clash over the enfor*
ment of th*' liquor laws in that state. I
t ?mutely tho only way out for Rhode 1
and nmy be to secede from the Union,
Glimpses
By Wilbur Forrest
COBLENZ, - ?.?Post-war Con?
gressional Investigations may hare
tho opportunity to probe into over?
seas tobacco sacks and cans before ali the
boys return home. Gradually some grade?
of tobacco shipped to the tioops in Europe
have becomo inferior in quality, indicat?
ing that some one is engaged in making a
better percentaje of profit than during the
earlier days of the war. Though this fact
has been sufficiently noticed by the dough?
boys and others who smoke pet brands of
American tobacco, no official cognizance has
been taken by army officinl?. However,
Congressional visitors are now touring the
occupied area, and there Is plenty of ev*.
dence that their portfolios will contain the
"tobacco grouch" when they roturn i?
Washington.
The Air Service sausage balloon that
floats over the German fortress of Ehren
breitstcin almost daily war* used recently
for observation purposes, even though the
"intelligence" telegraphed down to the
ground did nol Include the most important
at ion. Lieutenant , ol
i cunning underlying territory with field
glasses, "spotted" a pretty villa pnepln-?
from clusters oi about
two miles from tho Rhino, on the cant
bank. 11- ? -.p. nn__
'rip of
in by .m' "in. e :t; ?\
half dozen lieu ? ipying
? able and plctur
esquo little ? It h Ins
i n ! he An sad,
At the pre i
nine n * rican mi ave] by
Bti amer from Coblonz to Ehi
Two steamer constantly ply between tbs
two [mints, competing with tho pontoon
bridge
?
And the "lazy" water trip is most popular
with the American soldier, who is the con-'
?tant patron of the steam
Six thousand dozen ' . 6,000 catch?
ers' gloves, numerous thousands of other
gloves, 10)000 baseball bats, hundr I of
chest protectors and ma gh uni?
forms to clothe an infantry briga le this
is some of the baseball equipment already
receive^ by \.n ? ca's military force in
Germany for the 1919 bar. I m. All
came from America except the bats, and
they were made in Franco espec ally fnr
trie American Expeditionary Forces Uncle
Sam's national pa time is already ringing
tho hills of Germany with "Atta-boy,"
"Bonehead" and isions,
The na n mute surprise. About
at it. The
cry "Kill the umpire!" is barred, for under
army rules the "um] Ny an
officer, and Buch would ho a
breach of discipline bordering on
vism and not countenance,] in active army
life.
Baseball, however, is decidedly kinpr, en?!
many big !< re in tho making for
ten hundred tonina to pick
them from. Connie Mack is expected to
make a scouting trip through the American
bridgehead before midsummer. One difl
8?on?the 2d has formed two league- the
"National" and the "Americ n " Other dirl
sions have thei " and "minori."'
The army's "W01 mbted
n'ng, anisas
the Bo and in that raac
?twill
: Rhine
? ..
? '
'
1
?
?
Third Arn
stumpi
1 m nreJi be ma I
carrier pigeons
and the b.rds be tamed irncU to the Aille
down the river However, Amanean ?
quiet -. an ! I I ipped the .
nlng tho nation?
ality of pigeons.
Felonious Dogs
The Trib
Sir: Your edit, rial of to-day on the
"New Felony" * '" every
??wrier of ful are we
for even th ra of pr<
But how- aboul the worse thieves, the
chick?. 1:
run at largo and devastate whole 1 eigh
borhood e are not, I
?hold pet1.
, and protectors of children;
Buch dogs rarely kill or chase cl
but*.:.
law and kill r poor
.- food, ba\
a hen left two out of a fl
flock oi
ten, and ? ?1-*c''*
out, and what si,., s the
dog owner do f. last? Pays her *
a hen for the fr-t. foui killed, and after
that declines to pay lying it was
not his dogs. What can be done to ?suci?
nten as these? They should be sent t"
prison for two and ? half years, <??'g*" ftni
all. But it appears millionaires' .toes arc
and beyond lia* law. The poor woman
who is trying to ?!?> as the government
urges and Increase the hen power of tho
country, besid. .: food for hef
little family, can get no redress.
Hence Bolshevi m. CHANTICLEER
New York, April 22, ltui*.
And Mr. Lloyd George in Parii
iFiom Thr I n?i,l,i*i WsStmtnSttr (-,,.?<?(."?
Applying for the license of Carre
nallt Inn, I chan, at Bangor p?
lice court, an ex metropolitan police a*"'*'"
geani apologised to the bench for bis .
inability to pronounce the name,
i