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6RecP Conscript
Army of Labor
Is Put in Fields
50,000 Soldiers Begin Prac
tica! Experiment in Trot?
zky's Theory of Enforced
Assistance to All Industry
May Ease Economic Woes
Success Will Mean Impor?
tant Changes in Internal
Affairs of Soviet Land
From Tht Trihune'e Buropean Bureau
CVvryrteht 1920. New York Tribuno Ine.
LONDON, Feb. 25.?The Russian cor?
respondent of "The Manchester Guard?
ian" gives to-day for th? first time the
details of Lenine's program of indus?
trial conscription as a means of re
riving production and the industries
in Russia. He writes:
"I believe the methods with which
Russia is attempting to fight advanc?
ing ruin, to rescue her war-worn in?
dustry and to feed the world manu?
factured goods?in a word, to prevent
that country from slipping back into a
primitive state and enable it to be, as
it once was, the source of supply for
the world and not for itself alone?
will, as they should be, of interest to
Socialists and capitalists alike.
"The- moment that civil war slack?
ened the heads of the republic turned
to this task which until then had been
perforce subordinated to the needs of
se'f-drfense. Even now the first ex?
periment is being tried in an area as
big as England, which, if it succeeds,
may show the speediest way to end
Russia's econoir'c distress, and, if it
fai's. it may bring the collapse of or a
radical alteration in the government
which dared to try it.
Result of Collective Thought
"If such an experiment were tried
elsewhere few would predict nnything
im failure. In Russia it is being
te*ted with much misgiving. It is. how?
ever, the result of collective brain
work and has bien discussed and
counter discussed and is now in force
because no easier- method seems pos
sib'o.
"The general principle of industrial
conscription is recognized by the Rus?
sian constitution, which reads: 'The
Rus?ian Socialist federated soviet re?
public recognizes that work is an ob?
ligation of every citizen of the republic
and proclaims that he who docs not
work shall not eat.'
? However, it i? one thing to pro
claim such a prirciple and quite an?
other to put it into effect. On Decem?
ber 17. 191ft, the moment it became
clear that there was a real possibility
that the civil war was drawing to an
end. Trotzky allowed the -Pravda' to
print a memorandum of his consisting
of hrs<?a or un*-e..s->ned not01? ab**"' ;"- i
dustrial conscription and the militia
system. He points out that the So?
cialist s^ate demands a general plan
for the utilization of all the resources;
of the country, including its human
energy. At the same time, in the pres?
ent economic chaos in which are
mingled the broken fragments of the
past and the beginnings of the future.
ne says that a jump to complete central?
ized authority in the country as a
whole is impossible. Local initiative
and lecal effort, he says, must be
sacrirced for the se.kt of the plan. In
time industrial cons.-ription will be
necessary for the ce mplete* socializa?
tion of the country, he continues, but
it cannot be regardless of individuality,
like military conscription.
Lahor Battalions Displace Militia
'"Trotzky suggest? the division of the
?t?te into territorial productive dis?
tricts which should coincide with the
territorial districts of the militie sys?
tem, which shall replace the regular
army. A registration of labor is neces?
sary, he says. It is also necessary to
Coordinate the military and industrial
registration. ? At demobilization, regi?
ments, divisions, etc.. should form the
skeleton of the militia. Instruction
toward this end rhould be included in
courses for workers and peasants, who
by training will become officers in
every district.
"Trotzky's twenty-four theses or
notes must have been written at odd
moments, on the way from one front
to another. They do not form a con?
nected whole. Contradictions jostle
one another. It is clear that he has no
very definite plan in his head, but his
memoranda annoyed and stimulated so
many other persons that they did per?
haps precisely the work they were in?
tended to do.
"The 'Pravda' printed them with a
note from the editor inviting discus?
sion.
"The 'Ekonommitcheskaya Jizu'
printed letter after letter from work?
men, officials and others, attacking
and approving the theses and bring?
ing new suggestions. Larin, Semashko,
Pyatakov and Bachartn all took a hand
in the discussion. Larin saw in the
proposals the beginning of the end of
the revolution, being convinced that
authority iftust pass from the democ?
racy of workers into the hands of
specialists. Kykov fell upon them with
spirited blows on behalf of the trade
unions.
"All agreed, however, on one point?
that something was necessary. On
December 27 a commission to carry
out the proposals was named by
Trot-ky. This commission included the
fieople's. commissars, or ministers of
abor, ways, communication, supply,
agriculture and war, mid the presidents
of central councils trade unions and
of the Supreme Council of Public
Kconomy. The members compiled a list
of the principal questions before them
and invited anybody interested to bring
suggestions and material for considera?
tion.
"On January 2'A the central commit?
tee of the Communist party after a
prolonged discussion on Trotzky's
rough memorandum finally adopted and
published a new edition of the theses,
expanded and altered to an almost
unrecognizable body of theory, entirely
different from the bundle of arrows
loosed at a venture by Trotzky. They
definitely accept the principle of indus?
trial conscription, pointing out imme?
diate reasons in the fact that Russia
cannot look for much help from with- ,
out and must somehow or other helo !
herielf. *
? ?,r?0me*hl?g' res*mbl,*>g these final
laid before the central executive com?
mittee of the All Russian Assembly
now sitting and undoubtedly fore
???. P6 "M0-;*.-"?Portant develop?
ment? in Russia this year.
Army Used in Experiment
"Bot industrial conscription in Rus?
sia already is being tested at work, i
V?ry early in January, when argu?
ment was at its height, the Soviet Third .
Army addres.-ed itself to the council '
of defense of the republic with an in- !
Cordon &Dilworth
? Real '??
OkanceMabmaiadi
German Prisoners
Predict New War
GENEVA, Feb. 25?German
war prisoners returning home
from France, of whom 200,000 al?
ready have been repatriated, go
through Switzerland singing "Die
Wacht am Rhein" and "Deutsch?
land ?ber Alles" and declaring
that they are going home to pre?
pare for the next war, according
to the Swiss newspapers.
vitation to make use of this army
(which for the moment at least had
finished its military tasks) and ex?
periment with it as a labor army. The
council agreed.
'"Representatives of tho commissars
of supply, agriculture, ways, communi?
cation, labor and tho Supremo Council
of Public Economy wore sont to assist
the army, which was proudly named
'the first revolutionary army of labor'
j and now issued communiqu?s 'from the
i labor front.' precisely like communiqu?s
?from a military force in the field. The
i labor army's Soviet has received a
; report on the state district covered
: by tho army with regard to supply and
??need of work. It already has carried
| out a labor census of the n.rmy and
, finds that it includes more than 50,000
I laborers, of whom a considerable num
! ber are skilled. It has decided on a
1 general plan of work in reestablishing
, industry in the Urals, which suffered
i severely during the r?gime of Admiral
? Kolchak and the ebb and flow of civil
: war. It is considering a suggestion
?made by one of the members that if
| the scheme works well strength bo in
j creased to 300,000 men by way of mobi
j lization.
"It is obvious that such measures as
j these, meet ull sorts of opposition anel
i will provide a basis for all kinds of
destructive critici m. But all this
! must be more obvious to the Com?
muniste on the spot than to ourselves,
i / nd if, knowing the danger, they none
! the less take the risk of introducing
' such measures, we must conclude that
! they are convinced there is no other
; way by which Russia once more can
?. be put into a condition so it can suppl;
I raw material to exchange for machine-;
1 ?that is to say, into a condition to help
herself and us in the struggle to save
civilization.
"The Bolshcviki found the Donets
! coil basin in rums and temporarily use-,
less at the end of General Denikine'a
; administration, and the Urals were in
j no better condition after the r?gime of
I Admiral Kolchak. They believe that
any other Russian government would
have to use industrial conscription, bu!
no other is able to say. No individual
or group of individuals is profiting by
it. We have the failures of Denudue
and Kolchak to illustrate this belief.
"During the whole of the preliminary
discussion, though this and that par
ticuiar proposal was fiercely criticized,
no single voice suggested that Russia
could save herself without some ex?
traordinary effort of this kind. The
Communists may break themselves in
the attempt. But whether they fail or
succeed, the experiment is of the great
est interest, as on it; fa lure or sue'
ccss depon?is the length of the general
ruin of Europe."'
ISitti's Russian Policy
May Win the Socialists
Italian Premier Hopes to Bring
Party Into Constitutionalist ?
Panks: Food Is on Issue*
ROME, Feb. 24.?Resumption of re?
lations with Rus' ia is being widely
discussed in the press as well as in the
Senate and Chamber e>f Deputies, the j
question deeply interesting the public, .
particularly because of the determined j
attitude of the Socinli t party, which
demands recognition of the' Soviet re- ;
gime by the government.
Premier Nitti, it is declared in polit- j
ical circles, was guided by two consid- !
erations in consenting to favor an ap- <
proach to Russia, e??ie political anel ,
the oth,er commercial. The Premier has '?
shown a consistent desire to please .
the Socialists, who are largely repre
sented in the Chamber. One of the '
leading points of the Socialist program
is acknowledgment of the present Rus?
sian government, and it is hoped the j
Premier's policy will gradually bring
the Socialists into the constitutionalist
ranks.
It is said Premier Nitti is encouraged :
in his present stand by the attitude
of the British Prime Minister, Bavid
Lloyel George. The food supply of Italy i
is vitally concerned in the considera- I
tion of a resumption of relations with
Russin. Before the war from two
chirds to three-fourths of Italy's food!
imports came from Russia. In 1913 ?
| these reached a total of 203,000,000;
lire and included 10,000,000 quintals of I
| wheat.
j Economists hero point out that if it ?
were possible to restore commerce with i
Russia and import from that country I
all the cereals needed, Italy would be '
safe. She would be able to free her- !
self from the economic domination of1
the American continent, it is asserted,
which, under the present rate of ex-|
change, is having elisastrous results.
> In dealing with Russia, Italian money ;
I would be at ? premium.
White Army Annihilated.
Says D;spatch From Moscow
LONDON, Feb. 25. A wireless dis?
patch from Moscow says that General
Tolstoy's army, defeated at Guriev, in
the government of Uralsk, Southeast
Kufsia, has fleel to the Caspian Sea,
retreating under terrible conditions.
The dispatch adds that a thousand
of the men lay down to die in the
waterless steppes with horses and
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camels, and that nothing remains of
the White Army.
Another Bolshevik communication
says fighting is proceeding for tho pos?
set sion of the town of Kerekop. and
that in tho region of Novocherkassk,
the Bolshcviki troops have captured
Starocherkasskain.
It adds that in the Stavropol region
the Bolshcviki have driven the nnti
Bolsheviki from tho village of Alex
androves.
*
Boston Crowds Cool
As Gen. Pershing Passes
Banquet, From Which Some
Officers Are Absent, More
Cordial in Welcome
Hpcoial Dispatch to The Tribune
BOSTON. Feb. 26. This city to-day
greeted General John J. Pershing in a
peculiar manner. Though the coin
i mander of the armies in the field was
i given a splendid welcome by the Logis
! laturo and by the 300 business, profes
! sional and army men at the formal
! banquet, the attitude of tho thousands
i in the streets as he passed was notice
. ably cool.
The hostile demonstration that was
i feared because of the bitterness of
j certain officers and men of the 26th Di
I vision, centering around Colonel Ed
| ward L. Logan and other officers, did
! not take place, persons who sympa?
thized with this sentiment abstaining
from the display of their feelings.
Thirty-five members of the 2(.lh
(Yankee i Division, many of them of?
ficers, refused invitations to the ban?
quet to the general to-night. This af?
fair, tendered by Mayor Petei's, was
really the saving feature of Pershing's
Boston visit. Yet this was not ideal, for
the absence of Brigadier General Charles
H. Colo, Brigadier General John II.
Sherburne, Colonel Logan, Colonel Will?
iam J. Kenville and other Bay State
leaders, seemed to dampen enthusiasm
until the evening's program was well
under way. This was changed, however,
when Mayor Peters, Lieutenant Gov?
ernor ('banning Con and others poured
out their words o? praise for General
Pershing and the men he commanded.
When John A. Sullivan, who made the
principal address of welcome, eloquent?
ly traced the history of the A. E. F.,
placing unstinted credit at the door of)
Pershing, the gathering registered its !
approval.
Premiers Would Hasten
Conference on Exchange:
Policy .Sa i el To Be in Line \\ it!. ;
. . S. Position on Euro?
pean Finances
LONDON, Feb. 25. "The Dai y Mail"
says to-day that although the British
government has declared its intention
of leaving the initiative in calling a
conference on foreign exchange to a
neutral state or to the league of na?
tions, the conference of Premiers has'
protested ai such a delay and has ar?
ranged a discussion al an early date .
-.-.?til experts on the problem of high!
prices and rates of exchange
This disposes for the moment of a !
consultation with the United States,!
"The Mail' says, but adds: "This is
not a slight to America, but rather |
;, recognition of the American stand-1
point that Europe must right their
finances before the United States feels
any call to action on her behalf."
?v?iiis 5lii lime in JO Years:
Jersey Judge Hastens From the
Bench to Greet Stork
As Judge Richard Dohorty, of the
Hudson County Court of Commons !
Pleas, was leaving the bench yesterday
afternoon in the courthouse at Jer?
sey City, "Tony" Hogan, his scrgeant
at-arms, ran in from the judge's
chambers, beaming and breathless.
lie whispered something in tho
jurist's ear and Cue judge, smiling'
broadly, lost no time in getting under ;
way for his home at ?].: Kensington
Avenue.
Mrs. Doherty, it. soon became known,'
had give birth to her fifth pair of
twins in their ten years of married
life. The newcomers are a eirl und a
boy. They ami the mother are doing
well. Eight of the children born to
the Dohertys are living.
Three Fishermen Missus??;
Empty Sloop Found Dragging j
Anchor Oil Rockaway Point
A search is being made by members
of the ('oast Guard of Rockaway Point ?
and a police launch lor three men who
left Dunn's docks, Sheepshead Bay,1,
yesterday in the fishing sloop Princella.
The Princella was found dragging ?ts '
anchor a mile off Rockaway Point. Its]
occupants and a dory wore missing.
The missing men are Charles Ander- ;
son, of Fifty-fourth Street and Seventh
Avenue, Brooklyn, captain of the |
sloop; Alfred Olsen, of 1810 Voorhies
Avenue, Brooklyn, and .Max Johnson,
of 1010 Voorhies Avenue, Brooklyn.
It is said that, the trio left for a two
weeks' trip off Block Island. 1
Premiers Get
Wilson's Note;
Delay Action
Continue?! from pa*? 1
their support of the British Russian
program, but now that tho Russian dif?
ficulty is heading toward a decision
satisfactory to Great Britnin there is
?i desire to bring British influence to
bear to change tlic Turkish decision.
The government is well aware of tliiH,
hence the "good behavior" warning to
the Turks which appears to answer the
objections of those bent on ousting the
Ottoman government and at tho same
time leaves n loophole for further dip?
lomatic man?uvering if opposition be?
comes too strong.
This will be the ins?: -week of the
present sitting of tho peace conference.
Premier Nitti must return to Italy,
where, in "iew of possible Allied con?
cessions to Mr. Wilson, his fate trem
bles in the balance, and it ?a possible
the' sessions will break up before Mon?
day, unless untoward happenings oc?
cur. Hungary must wait a while for
be'i' turn. ,
To-morrow, nltbough he feels tho
same anxiety as the' rest of the con?
ference to get on with the Avork, Pre?
mier Lloyd George must appea* be?
fore the House; of Commons to answer
the Liberal opposition anel the Cecil
group regarding Constantinople, For
this reason it is eioubtful whether the?
conference will ait, and in this case
eliscussion of Mr, Wilson's note on the
Adriatic may go over another day.
Wilson ?s Not America.
Says Rome Newspaper
t(We Admire and Love V. S.y
in Spite of Him,"' It Declares
in Comment on Adriatic
ROME, Feb. 25.?Commenting on the
Adriatic situation and President. Wil?
son's recent, protest to the Supreme
Allied Council, the "Messnggcro" says:
"We Italians read and forget the injury
done us by Mr. Wilson's tenacious
Italopbobia, because he is not America,
anel we admire anel love America, in
spite of him."
In an editorial devoted to the recent
statement of Frank A. Vanderlip, the
.' merican financier, relative to the
difficulty of America granting new
credits to Europe, the newspaper saya: ?
"Our economic situation must not be
jnelged too severely. America must I
trust the strength of Italian work. If'
ii is helped in time with raw materials ?
and credits it will be able to intensify
our production, which, together with a
limitation of consumption, will enable
us to pay edel and new debts.'-'
Reports from Washington telling oe" :
the' refusal of the United State's Senate '
to accept modifications of Senator I
Lodge's reservations to the- Versailles
treaty have created a great impression
here', anel the Senate's action is consid?
ered as signifying the collapse of
American participation in the league of
nations, at. least according to tho cove
nant arranged by the peace conference.
Adriatic Notes May Be
Made Public on Friday]
Dale To Be Agreed Upon After
Correspondence Bettceen Dip?
lomats of U. S. and Europe \
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.?President
Wilson's note to the Entente Premiers j
on the Adriatic situation was before the
council of Allied Premiers in London
to-day. A reply to it is expected in
due course.
Mean time the question of the time
of making public the contents of this
and the other communications on the
matter, seven in all, still is the subject
of diplomatic correspondence between!
London and Washington. It is pos?
sible' that Friday will be the day agreed |
upon. j
The series of notes will include the
agreement in Paris on December 9 to !
which the United States was a party.
Hie new agreement by the Allieel Pre
miers which was sent to Jugo-Slavia ]
as an ultimatum, the note from the:
United States on January 27 inquiring !
as to tlu* new agreement, tho reply of j
the Premiers, the note of February 10, !
in which the President said a situation J
might arise in which he would have to |
aonsider withdrawing the Treaty of I
Versailles from the Senate; the reply
of the Premiers, and finally the note
delivered to-day to the; Premiers at
London.
?
Poles to Submit Soviet
Peace Terms to Allies
Principles Upon Which Settle?
ment W ill Be Discussed to Co
fr \i~ ?,.?... ;tt T--V? Weeks
WARSAW, Feb. 25.?"Poland has not
rojee. . im bo e. r.-i sils to enter
into pence negotiation?," says an offi?
cial statement made public to-day by
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Soviet Rule Is
Set Up in Italy
LONDON, Feb. 25.?Workers
at Pieve di Soligo, Italy, have
seized the municipal buildings
and proclaimed a soviet govern?
ment, according to a Rome dis?
patch to the Central News, which
says fighting has taken place be?
tween the workers and caru
bineer8 in which many persons
were wounded. Disorders have
also occurred at Vittorio and
Montebelluna, as well as else?
where, the dispatch says.
NAPLES, Feb. 25.?A general
strike in sympathy with striking
metal workers has been declared
by the labor chamber here.
the Foreign Relations Committee of
the Diet. Principles upon which the
government will be willing to eliscuss a
settlement will be sent to Moscow nft?r
being submitteel to the Allied nations,
it was indicated, probably within two
weeks.
The Soviet government's outline of
terms has been approved by the Diet,
it was said. The statement said, in
part ;
"Poland must demand definitely the
annihilation of the efforts for Poland's
partition and insist that the historical
injustice which hinders the establish?
ment of good neighborly relations be?
tween Poland and Russia be rectifieil.
"The republic has' decided absolutely
to stand for the determination of the
Eastern frontie'r with the consent of
the local population, anel Poland has
j every right, anel it is Poland's eluty to
: demand that the inhabitants beyond
| the present battle line be allowed
| plebiscites. This concerns tho terri?
tory wrested from Poland. Tho Polish
| government has decided to consult tho
Allied powers and interested slates
: and base its answer te> the Soviet's
i peace proposal thereupon."
Moscow Elections Show
Htiae Bolshevik Victory
LONDON, Feb. 25.?A wireless dis?
patch from Moscow sa; s the' latest re?
turns in the Moscow elections show
that of the 8f>.'? Soviet members chosen
7ti2 are Bolshevjki, 27 sympathizers
with the movement, 54 members of no
party. 9 Menshcviki, or minority, and
one? anarchist. Editor Stekloff, of t he
newspaper "Izvcstia," was elected, the
dispatch add.-.
Mrs. Nelson To Be Married
Henry George Pcarce, of the Stand?
ard Steel Works Company, Philadel?
phia, yesterday obtained here a license
te> wed Mrs. Leita Wheeler Nelson.
daughter of Thomas Henry Wheeler
anil divorced wife of Lieutenant Com?
mander Charier Preston Nelson, U.r^. NT.
Mrs. Nelson was divorced last De?
cember. The couple will be married on
March 3 at the homo of Mrs. Nelson's
sister. Mrs. W. T, Dewart, wife of the
vice-president of the New Vork Sun
Publishing Company.
Both parties concerned are well
known in Philadelphia society.
Swra>* Slrik?' V irtually Over
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 25.- The
police to-day report that the strike!
among the .sugar workers virtually has :
ended, with all but two of the centrals ?
working full time. Wages in many
place- have been doubled. Sugar men !
estimate the loss through the strike at I
from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Vanderlip and Schurman
Plan Mission to Japan
American Parly Will Sail in
April; Will Discuss Points
in Controversy
A party of Americans, including
Frank A. Vanderlip, Darwin P. Kings
ley, president of the New York Lif?
Insurance Company, and Jacob Gould
Schurman. retiring president of Cor?
nell University, will sail from Seattle
on April 10 for Japan on an unofficial
? mission in behalf of better relations
! between the two missions. Tho men
! expect to return on May .'10.
The mission, which is designed for
i the discussion of points of friction
between the United States und Japan,
will be undertaken at the invitation
I of a group of Japanese statesmen and
'. business men, organized into a com
fmittee of welcome, including Baron
Shibusawa and Baron Migata.
The full personnel of the American
j committee has not yet buen deter
j mined. It wns learned last night that
tie committee is in no way associated
with the group that was chosen for a
similar trip to Japan under the direc?
tion of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce or with the mission of
Thomas W. Laruont, of J. P. Morgan
& Co., who is now en route to Japan
to discuss the four-power consortium
as the, representative of the American
banking group concerned.
Mr. Vanderlip and his associates in?
formally will discuss general interna?
tional relations, with the object of
promoting good will.
Soldiers Stand Guard at
Cetitralia ?. W. W. Trial
Troops' Stay During Murder
Proceedings Will Be Indefi?
nite, Say? Commander
i MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. Z5.?
I . .
United States troops in response to a
1 request of Herman Allen, attorney in
: charge of ten alleged I. W. W. on trial
; here for one of the Ccntralia Armistice
?! Day murders, arrived from Camp Lewis
! lato to-day. The soldiers, member? of
?a provisional company of the 35th In?
fantry, arc in command of Major
Arthur Casey, who said their stay is
indefinite.
James A. D. Ball, thirteenth juror in
the trial of ten alleged I. W. W.,
charged with the murder of War?
ren Grimm, Centralia Armistive Day
parade victim, was seated as a perma?
nent juror when the case reopened to?
day. Ball took the seat of Edward
Barr, discharged to-day from jury serv?
ice because of illness.
Mr. Allen said there liad been rumors
of approaching trouble, even of armed
interference, since the trial began last
month. He said there had been "an
increasing drift" of radicals to Monte
sano.
Governor Hart refused to discuss the
situation.
Editor Taken on Red Charge
Roberto Elia, forty-eight years old,
:i printer .and editor, of 7*57 Union
Street. Brooklyn, was arrested yester?
day on a charge of having anarchistic
literature in his posession. lie was
locked up at Police Headquarters in
Manhattan by Detective ?Sergeant Cor- ;
nelius Browne, of the Bomb Squad, and]
agents of the Department of Justice.
According to Sergeant Brown. Elia
admits that he is an anarchist.
Martial Law in Honduras
SAX SALVADOR, Feb. 25.?A state!
of siege has been proclaimed by the
government of Honduras, and the i
theaters are closed, according to a dis- !
patch from Tegucigalpa. It is reported j
that revolutionary forces have pene- '?
trated the frontier between Nicaragua !
and Honduras.
Crucial Fight
On Treaty to
Begin To-day
Continued from pace 1
that will be voted upon were offered
by Democrats," saiel Senator McN'ary,
"while the- amer.elment defeated last
Saturday was drafted by Senator
Loelge himself. The Democrats should
support the modifications of the other
i reservations after having accepted
them in the bipartisan conferences."
More Modification? Predicted
Senator MeNaty said he: looked foi
; several of the remaining Loelge reser
I valions to be modified so that mon
i Democratic Senators coulel vote for
ratification ?han coulel be secured for
! the Lodge reservations unchanged.
The treaty will bo tnke;n up to-mor?
row, with the prospect of having a final
vote within a week. While several
Senators have notified Senator Lodge?
that they wish to speak, debate, i xcept
I of a general nature on Article; X and
; the Monroe Doctrine, has ended.
According to Senator Moses, of New
I Hampshire, a reservation declaring for
the independence of Egypt will be
! adopted by the Senate. The rcserva
j tion was oifered by Senator Owen, Dem?
ocrat, of Oklahoma, and was defeated in
I the Se?ale last November. The reser?
vation follow?:
"The protectorate of Great Britain
- over Egypt is umlerstootl to be mere?
ly a means through which the nomi?
nal suzerainty of Turkey over Egypt
shall bo transferred to the Egyptian
people, and shall not be construed as
I a recognition by the United States
in Great Britain of any sovereign
i rights over the Egyptian people or as
! tlepriving the peopic of Egypt of any
I of their rights of self-government."
Majority Vote Claimed
Senator Moses said recent polls of
the Senate showe-d that the reservation
I wil, have a majority when it is voted
: on. Senator Owen reintroduced the
reservation last week.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, intends to
open a fight to-morrow for the adoption
(of his reservation on "vital interests
j and national honor," which the For
: eign Relations Committee originally
! adopted and which was defeated in the
'. Senate last November. The Reed res
i ervation reads as follows:
"The United States reserves to it
j self the right to decide what ques?
tions affect its honor or its vital in
i terests, and declares that such ques
; tions are not under this treaty to be?
i submitted in any wu yeither to
arbitration or to the consideration of
? the coune-il or of the assembly of the
. league of nations or any agency
', thereof or to the decision or recom?
mendation of any other power."
4*Hip" Liquor Held Legal
, .- .
Baltimore Magistrate Refuses to
Hold Prisoner
BALTMORE, Feb. 25.?Acting on the
advice of the federal prohibition
officers, Magistrate Gough, in the
southwestern police station hero to?
day ruled that a man shoulel not be
held under the Volstead enforcement
act for carrying liquor "on the hin''
through the streets. Under the prohibi?
tion laws, a man is forbidden to h r"
whisky in his possession outside his
home, except when a permit is secured
from an internal revenue oilicer.
The magistrate saiel he acted care?
fully, because it was probably the first
case under the laws that had been
brought up by the police. The police
heretofore, have been reluctant ti place
charges against men who when ar?
raigned were found to have bottles of
"private stock" in their possession.
Guardian "On Warpath"
After Rich Indian Weds
Barnett Must Come Home, hut
His Wife Cannot, Says Ok?
lahoma Wateber
Special Diepatch lo The 7Yt->u.,,,
COPFEYVILLE, Kan., Feb. 25 _A
battle for Jackson Barnett'? riches i?
about to begin.
Tari J. O'Hornett, of H<?r.r;i-tta
Okla., guardian of the wealthiest Ind
,;?r;, arrived here to-day and announced
he was going to t.?tk-? B rnetf becx r?>
Oklahoma. He hopes Barnett w???
willingly, but , moU?J
1 ici jr.' ? will b
That O'Horn '.'??? . .- ?y
Distance was ap?h -.. after bit
arrival. Harold McGuigan attortes
t'or (ho *. om in ? ?> tarried ?
Barnett here Monday, a ion need that
h< was preapi ed to ins; r'.
< orpu proc edingi to pi the lud
ian iroui being returned Oklahotni
"The woman ? not '
back with as," O'Hornetl di lared
Woman Dead in Room;
Beaten or Strangled
?
Man Who Had Been Hf-r 0>m?
pan ion on Other \ '-.its to
House \<>l Found
A worn,-.11 who wai idi ; a? Mrs
, Marie Var Varo, of B35 Bedford Ave
1 nue-, Brooklyn, was found dead vfter
day in a room tit 168 We * Twenty^sec?
ond Street, to ? ? had g me a?
11:30 a. m. on Tuesday with a inart
Dr. Char-es Norn-, medical examiner
expressed the opinion, after seeing
bruises and discoiorat on on the wom?
an's face, that she had been beaten or
strangled to di a
Neither the man nor any of h s be?
longings were found. The proprietor
I of the house said thai thi ouple had
called there occasionally ::nd rented a
room for the last two years. -"h,.
knew the woman as Heien Grilla. Th?
body was identified at the morgue by
Mrs. Var V'aro'a brother-in-law, I"??delo
Cassanova. with whom Bhe lived. An
autopsy will be performed to-day.'
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9.641 Shot in Poland
PARIS. Feb. 23. A dirpatch received
here l rom Warsaw savs the report of
the committee "of thi I igg] ?.gains*
counter-revolution" officially announces
the number of persons arrested during
the last three years ?? 128,000. Th?
number of person hot, says the re
port, was 9,6 U.
Every red-blooded man
?'??>-. ?? ih-illi r of a
detective story. That's
why
Louis Tracy
nn m hers his reader-! ?n
million.--. If you're
anaemic don't read his
ne-vv self-starter
The Strange
Case of
Mortimer
Fen?ey
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Ten men now living in New York
can make their names immortal
A GOOD many rich men lived in Europe in the year
1260. And the world has forgotten them all.
But one man, Robert D.Sorbonne, endowed the college
of the humanities at the University of Paris in that year.
And the "Sorbonne" has made his name immortal.
The French Revolution did not destroy his memorv.
No war or earthquake can blot it out. Brick and mortar
crumble fast, but institutions live forever.
There are several thousand rich men in New York.
The world will soon forget them.
BUT ten of those rich men can, if they will, endow
and name professorships at Cornell University.
$125,000 endows one.
And a hundred, or even a thousand years from now,
the professorships, bearing their names, will be training
the men who will make the America ofthat day.
A hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. What
a tiny cost at which to buy an immortality of influence !
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