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\ r POTASH AND PERLMUTTER AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE lUinUOR, im ?T TM Urd.CRE KWiriPEl STSDrCATC) BY MONTAGUE GLASS IlliMtrated by ALBERT LEVERING DISCUSS THE SIGNING OF IT. "Tea. Mmwruu. when the history of this hens Peace Conference is written, y' understand, a whole lot of things which up to now has bean mysteries will be mad* very plain to the people which has got S2S to Invest In suoh a history and the spare time in which to read it." Abe Potash said te his partner Morris Perlmutter a lew days after the treaty was signed. There will be a grafct many paopte who will try to find the time at Chat." Morris commented, "because I see by the moraine paper that one of Mr WtSMn's relatives has bought for him in Southern California a piece of prop erty especially for Mr. Wilson te write the history of the Peace Conference in. and ~*hy should he go to all that expense if there wasn't a big market for such a history?" "I wonder did Mr. Wilson have to pay much money for the history rights to the Peacc Conference.?" Abe asked. "What do you mean?did he pay much money?** Morris ' Anybody can write a history of the Peace Conference without paying a cent for the privilege, and emn If they couldn't, y'understand, who Is ?Ding to bid against Mr. Wilson, be cause when It comes to wlm.t actually happened at them confidential meet ings betweo Mr. Wilson. Clemenceau and Lord George. Abe. Mr. Wilson had a monopoly of the raw material in the history Line. He didn't even 1st CoL House in on it. so yon bet your life if there was any competitors or Mr. Wilson trying to get a few ideas for a competing line of popular price Peace Conference histories. Abe, Mr. Wilson didn't exactly unbosom him self to them historians neither, be cause a diplomatic secret is a diplo matic secret. Abe, but when in addi tion. the diplomat is counting on writ ing a history of them diplomatic do ing*. Abe. diplomatic secrets became trade secrets " "It seems to me, Mawrusa. that while you couldn't blame jar. Wilson lor wntinig a history of the Peace Conference for a living sfter he loses his job in March. 1921." Abe contirruea, "still at the same time, considering that Mr. Wilson has taken such a prominent part in this here Peace Con ference. and considering also that Mr. Wilson is only human, no matter w&at Senator Reed might say otherwise, don't you think he is going to have a difficult time In deckling for himself Just where history leaves off and ad vertising begins?" ??The probabilities Is that he wouldn't give himself a shade the worst of it. If that's what you mean." Morris observed. ~but as V* whether or not such a history would be the equivalence of aa actor writing a criticism of his own per formance. Abe. thst 1 couldn't sav. W-csuse the chsnces is that when L??rd George gets through with th** job of chief cabinet minister or whatever his Job is called, he would a ?o try his hand at writing a his tory. and if that is the case, you rt?n'd make up your mind to It that Ot?-menceau ain't going to sit down at this time of life and let them Imo historian* put it all over him. S? therefore if Mr. Wilson shou'd feel like writing in history: 'At this point, things was at a standstill and nobody seemed to know what to do next, when suddenly someone mad* a suggestion which cleared tip the whole situation. It was Woodrow Wilson who spoke*, ^un derstand. he will figure that Lord George is probably going to ssy in his history; *At this point the Peace Conference was up against it and H looked like the bottom had fallen ont of everything, wb^n like a voice from Heaven, somebody mad* a re mark which smoothed away all difficulties. It was Lord George who came to the restfUe.' The con sequence will be that both of them historians will beat Clemenceau to it. by giving credit for the sug^ev tion to the feller who made it. even if it would have been Orlando him self.*" But suppose Mr. Wilson actually did make th? suggestion. Mawrus*. and In the interests of telling the strict troth about the matter, he feels that he Is obliged to mention it in hie history-"* 'Abe said, ."he's bound te run up against a big chorus of1 YowaT" "Wen. so far as I could see, no body con, pels Mr. Wilson to write a history of that Peace Conference if he don'* want to," Morris replied, "and if he should decide not to do so, he could always rent that South ern California property furnished for the season, or if he feels thit he must occupy it himself for history few days ago. which holding a thing like that in a hall. Mawruas, la a sam ple of what kind of management there wu." "They had the Germans sign the peace treaty in that hall, because it waa the s&roe hall where them Ger mans made the French sign the peace treaty in 1870." Morris explained. "Sure. I know." Abe aaid, "but what did they know about such things in 1876? Even grand opera they gave in halls in them days, which, considering the amount of Interest there was in sarcastic, M&wruss. The signing ot that treaty was arranged Just the same like any other show is arranged, except that the arrangements wasn't quite so good. The idea was to make it impressive by keeping it very plain, and that is where the allies to my mind made a big mistake, because the people to be impressed was the Germans and what sort of an im pression would that signing of the peace treaty by delegates in cittxen clothes make on a country where a station agent looks like a colonel and v r tisements of Rochester, Chicago and* Baltimore clothing manufacturers for people who ride in closed cars, two days is an awful short lim-i lo hire a ieally impressive uniform, let alone to have one made to order. Abe," Morris said "Furthermore, Abe, the signing of thst pcacc treaty could have been put on by the icller that runs off these here foil leu with the assistance of Creorge M. Cohan and the management of the Metropolitan Opera House, y'understand. and the costumes | business purposes, he could anyhow write a domestic History of the United States from December 5. 1918. to July 6. 1919. both inclusive, in which his name need hardly occur at all. But joking to one side. Abe. when the history of this here Peace Confer ence gets written, it don'4 make no difference who writes it. he ain't go ing to be able to ignore Mr. Wilson pxactly. In fact. Abe. the history of this here Pence Conference is going to be more or less principally about Mr. Wilson and if the feller who writes it wouldn't be exactly Sen ator I^>dge. y'understand, the truth is bound to leak out that Mr. Witkon did a wonderful job over in Paris. Of course he made a whole lot of enemies over h~re. but then he also made a whole lot of peace over there. Abe. and. after all. that is what he went there for." "Still I couldn't help ^thinking that from a business point of view. Maw russ. the Peace Conference suffered a good deal from poor management." Abe said. "Take, for instance, the signing of the peace treaty in Mirror Hall. Versailles, and properly worked up. the allies couM of made enough out of that one show alone to pay for tall the ships that Germany sank a The Lure of Chinatown Clings; An English View of Prohibition; N. Y. Gossip of the Week New York. July 19.?From four or five side streets running into Broad way the Chinatown motor buses await each afternoon and evening their hordes of slum seekers?a motley crowd from all corners of the world. The bus may hold a Sao Antonio banker. a Chicago packer, a Minneapolis truckman and a Detroit longshoreman, together with school teachers, a bud from Butte, and so on. Only the shell of Chinatown re- ' mains. Its romance has gone. The low lit hallways that slink from PelL Doyer and Mott are not burst ing with mystery. tong feudists and the smell of opium. Chinatown has moved to brighter gsy lamped haunts of wonder in Newark ana Paterson. The lilied tongue of the yellow men in Chatham Square will tell you that Chinatown is just the same, hut when you are gone they wink knowingly and drag reminiftcently at their long pipes. It is a far cry to the old days of Chuck Conners snd his pearl gray derby when sob sisters were able to lift affairs of squalor into the loftier spheres of passion and beauty and sorrow. Muffled ? wails of reed instru ments are heard now and then be hind cloaely shuttered windows and the whispers of slippered feet echo in the causeways and now and then one comes across the satyr and the sadist?but the pallid blue light that is the symbol of China throughout the world has been supplanted by the bilious glare of the American incandescent. When I came to New York a good many years ago Chinatown was the most fascinating spot in the city. I knew Its merchants and its cafe keeper* and I was proud to call Chuck Conners ray friend. Woo of the Port Arthur, later stabbed to death, used to cash my checks. Chinatown was then a fascinating spot of mystery as far . removed from New York as the > famous Chinatown of London?the fabled Limehouse Causeway. There, were stealthy voices, and mysteriously strange Httle Jets or lamps that winked like evil eyes. Shadowy figures went in and out snd suspicious looking figures sat on door steps. In the joss houses were 4 the squatting slant-eyed worship- j pers who hurried away to play fan tan. There were low couches, pasty faced white wives, victims of opium ?each one a story of the wickedness of a great city. It was an atmo sphere churned with all the fllth of the world and yet it was myster ious enough to intrigue the true lover of a city's seamy side. ' Now it is supported by the rubber neck wagons. The owners of the wagons fix up the opium "dens." The victims are painted a sickly white while they recline on a couch and smoke bulldurham. There are a lot of Chinese In Chinatown but they are commercialized and they hurry away over the week-end to the j country?preferring ? the meadow, bird and bee to the sticky and prison-like atmosphere of China town. | George Simson Fraser, a Brftish student Qf labor conditions, arrived in New York this week t? make a study of conditions in America. He I wrote several articles on the in dustrial unrest in Great Britain during the summer of 1917 and he had some cheer for those who op pose prohibition?if they can pos | albly be cheered. I He says that in England, rightly or wrongly, the workers are con Ivinced that beer is an indispensable j beverage for men engaged in the i so-called "hot" or "heavy" trades. | "I believe," he said. "that America Is going tS get along better without | so-called hard drinks containing a I high percentage of alcohol, but I be | lieve that for * few yeaca at least a | mild beverage of some sort is needed. It is true that Arizona did not have much I. W. W. trouble until the State was voted entirely dry. The Soviet government was established in Mnnich when brewing was stopped and also in Winnipeg, I am informed. Absolute prohibition tends to breed malcon tent* and I believe that the problem should be handled carefully. New York has only had a few schools of social science so far. In Budapest the Soviet instituted a dry regime, i believe, to stir up discontent. Ot course, the chief complaint in Amer ica is going to be that the rich man has Ms cellar Oiled with fine liquors, but on the other hand the working the signing of the peace treaty, Maw-1 russ, I bet yer enough people was; turned away from Mirror Hall. Ver-! sailled, to more than fill five halls of the same size. As it was Mawruss, so many people crowded into that Mirror Hall, that nobody could see anything and the consequence was that when Clemenceau begun his speech, the dis order was something terrible." "I suppose his opening remarks was: 'Koosh! What is this? A Kaf feklatsch or something?* " Morris re marked satirically. ^It might just so well have been for all anybody heard of it," Abe went on. "In fact the papers say that all through it, there was loud cries of: "Down in front* from people which had probably bought their tickets at the last moment off of a speculator who showed them a diagram of Mirror Hall, Batesville and not Versailles, on which It looked like they was get ting four good ones in the fifth, row center aisle, Mawruss." "Probably also while Clemenceau was speaking, there was difficulty In falling off the score card and ice cream cone vendors," Morris said. "I am telling you Just exactly what I read it in the newspapers," Abe said, "which there ain't no call to get men should understand that he Is much better off without a cache ot liquor. "The problem of absolute prohibi tion is one of many different angles. America may work it out and set a pace for the world." Carroll McComas, an actress, is back from England and France and is get ting reams of publicity over the fact that she danced with Gen. Pershing. She says, by the way. that he danced with great grace. He did not step on her toes once. If he had?she would probably receive twice as much publicity. Union Square is one of the city's busiest spots. Several subway en trances nightly receive workers that the neighboring lofts and office build ings pour forth. Before the news stands in the Square form lines ot men and women?eager and anxious to get home. Many a news dealer there finds two hands insufficient for his needs. There is one news dealer in the Square, however, who handles the Job without any hands at all, and loses no time making change, folding and handing out newspapers, opening and closing his stand, etc. Lou Young is the dealer's name. When he was 13 years old he lost his hands in an explosion. But In spite of that handi cap he runs his flourishing stand in Union Square. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. CONTINUED FROM PAGE THRI.1V and a number of other Woodmen will pay them an official visit. lAt the meeting of Oak Camp, No. 4, Wednesday night. Consul Com mander C. Q. Stott definitely an nounced' that he will leave next week for Dominican City, Santo Domingo, where he will be connect ed with the Federal government. Sov. B. F. Williams was unanimous ly elected to consul commanded the remainder of the year. Sov. Will iams was installed by Sov. Stott. The camp presented Sov. Stott with a steamer trunk in appreciation of his work for the camp. Six applications for membership were received and eight candidates were initiated. Banker Kerns re ported so far he Tiad received $225 from .he excursion of the camp to. Marshall Hall. a colonel look* like th#? combined an nual conventions of the Knights ot Pythias and the I. O. M. A." "The chances is that the allies did the best they could with the short time they had for preparation, be cause you must got to remember that the Germans didn't make up their minds to sign till two days befcru the signing, and considering thc*t the President of the United States wear? only the uniform pre scribed by the double page adver j x min mi i mn iw i , Sm could have been designed by Ring ling Brothers with a few hints from Rogers, Peet, understand me. and I don't believe them Germans would stick to the terms of the treaty anyway." "Europe should worry about that, Mawruss." Abe said. "The mairv thing is that the peace is signed and the last of our boys would soon be home again from Europe, and once we get them back again in this coun try, Mawruss, it oser would make any difference to us whether Germany keep? the treaty or she don't keep It. Mawruss. the chances of us send ing our boys back again Is pretty slim." "But under section ten of the league covensnt. Abe." Morris began, 'the time might come when we would got to send them." "Maybe." Abe admitted, "but if any of them European nations has got the idea that because Germany is going to be slow pay, we would oblige with a few million troops. Maw mas. they've got another idea coming. We are a nation, not a collection agency, and no amount of section tens is going to make us one. neither." "Well, that is the danger of this here league of nations. Abe." Mor ris said, "and if the Senate ratifies it. we are not only a collection agency but a burglar insurance company as well, and in fact some of the Sen ators Roes so far as to say that we ain't so much insuring people against the operations of burglars as insur ing burglars against the loss of their ganevas." "I know the Senators is saying that, and I also know that Mr. Wil son Kays it ain't so," Abe agree<t, "but this here fuss about interna tional affairs has got what the lawyers calls a statute of limita tions running against it right now. and I give both Mr. Wilson and the Senate six months, and they will be going round saying: 'Do you remember when six months ago we got so terribly worked up over that?now?national league,' and somebody who is sitting near them will ask for the sske of having things just right: 'You mean that league of nations, ain't itT and Mr. Wilson will say: 'League of nations! National league! What's th% dif ference? Let's have another round of old Dr. Turner's Favorite As paragus Tonic and forget about If " "So you think that all this Inter national politics will be forgotten as quickly as that," Morris com mented. "Say!" Abe said. "It won't take long for Mr. Wilson to settle down into American ways again. Of course, it will be pretty hard for him during the first few weeks. whenever he gets a sick headache to send out for a doctor instead of an admiral, and he may miss his evening schmooes with Clemenceau, Lord George and Orlando, but anyone that will have such a lot of clav hasholom times to talk over as Mr. Wilson will for the rest of his life, even if he does have to hold out some of the stuff for his History of the Peace Conference in three volumes, price $25. Mawruss would never need to play double soli tsire in order to fill in the time be tween supper and seeing is the pan try window locked, in case Mrs. Wil son is nervous that way. Thea again there is things happening in this country which looked very picayune to Mr. Wilson over in France, and which will seem so big when he ar rives here that almost as soon as he sets his foot on the dock in Hoboken the league of nations will get marked off in his mind for depreciation as much as a new automobile does by merely having the owner's number plates attached to It, even if it ain't Unusual Furniture Bargains During Our lAmOff Sale Refrigerators Both top and front-icing styles?hardwood cases?standard makes?in all sizes. Former Price. $15.00 $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 During Sale. $9.98 $15.00 $18.75 $22.50 CEDAR CHESTS FOR BABY Prepare now for fall stomge of your summer ^clothes. Excellently constructed solid cedar chests? Medium size $14.00 Extra large size. .. $20.00 Our entire stock of fine Baby Car riages?Go Carts and Strollers? Reduced 25 per cent FOR THE PORCH Solid Maple Porch . Rockers, high back, double seat. Special $1.89 Large double-size Settee $1.98 Easy Payment Terms If Wanted HOPKINS FURNITURE CO. 415 7th Street N. W. Between D and E Streets been run two miles from the agency yet." "I. never thought of It Ihet way." Morris admitted, "but it la a fact Just the same that this here league of na tions is only being operated at the present time under a demonstrator's license, so to speak, and as soon as It gets its regular number, the manu facturers and the agents won't be so "Ui? ?fe?71? "t? W incf?re?o?d -vrst? Gremoairoe ** I >pecUM< family It th? wife ctnH It and the children want* It, H mi< be that the Old mu will think It or?c for a co up If of w?k?. and he may begin b; saying that the family would get a new rar over hit dead body and what 'do they think he u made oi money, y'lmderatand. hut wooer rn later he !? going to ragr, op for that new car, and don't you forget IL Ar,d sensitive About the knock* thst th* prospective customers is handing it." "And just so soon as the demonstra tions have *one far enougrh. Mawruss. Just you watch all the nations of the earth that*ain't made up their minds whether they want to ride or not, jump aboard." Abe said. "Also Maw rugs, this league of nations U to the United States Senate what a new car proposition is to the head of any rc *oW: T after all. Mawruss. if the other %Hf | nation* is in on this lea*ru' of nation^ we could certainly afford to pay our ; share of what It costs to run it.** "Maybe we could.*' Moms concluded, j "but if a new leajrue of nations Is like a new automobile, we are probably m I for an expensive time, because w?tb j a new car. Abe. it ain't what you run ' that costs so much roonev. If* what j you back into " Democracy of American Origin. The Founding of an Ancient Republic. By Or. JAMK* E. TALLAGE. Of the Council of the Twelve. Church of Jesu* Christ of Latter-day Saint* Salt Lake City. Utah. I Holri For frw roplrs af otkrr artlel< ??(I i Democracy is indigenous to Amer ! ica. j One of the earliest recorded exper iments of representative government by the people was undertaken on the '?western continent; and it was a suc I cess. These statements are not made with reference to the establishment of the United States of America ps a free and independent nation, but to events ' that antedated by nearly a century jthe birth of Christ. At that time North America whs inhabited by two great peoples?the Nephites and the LAmanites, each named after an early leader, and both 'originally of one family stock. Ex jcept for brief periods of comparative , peace, the two nations lived In a | state of hostility, due to l^amamtc aggression , ! The Nephites were progressive, cul tured. and of peaceful desires, while the Lamanites became degenerate, ' dark-skinned and barbarous. Even j tually the Nephite nation was de stroyed by Its savage foes: the l*m j anites persisted and are represented i today by their direct descendants, the {American Indians. ! For five centuries prior to fhe events now under consideration each nation I had been governed by a succession of kings. The Lamanite rulers exercised ? autocratic sway ar.d r? lied upon phys ical force for their power. Some of the Nephite monarchs were almost as bad. though many mere notably considerate and Just. The last of the Nephite sovereigns was Mosiah; he die?l 9\ B. C.. after a righteous reign of thirty-three years. King in name, he railed his people brethren and counted himself their trusted and presiding servant. A short time before his death Mo siah called for an expression from j his people as to whom they desired to succeed him on the throne. There was a united answer; the people wanted the king's son, to whom it was said "the kingdom doth rightly belong." But Aaron, the people s choice, de clined the crown, as did his brothers in turn; for all these sons of Mosiah were devoted to the preaching of the Gospel and esteemed the labors of the ministry above the royal estate. Mosiah seized the opportunity oc casioned by the people's loyalty and unity to awaken them to the fact that the powers of government were in herent within themselves, and to urge them to exercise their sovereign rights and assume the privileges and respon sibilities of self-rule. He recommend ed that they abolish the monarchy and establish a republic according to **the vslce of the people." Solemn as the sound of doom, piercing as the blast of angel's trump. Is the Lord's affirmation: "Whmrrrr eommltteth sin Is the servant ?f ?ls." (John 8:34). ? Who *can find so much as excuse to think of himself as a freeman when he knows he is a slave?to base pas sion. to 1 dishonorable desire, to hypocrisy and crime? The prisoner's fate is as com monly the result of negative sin? of neglect, indolence, failure to do ?as It is the consequence of ill directed activity and poaitive trans gression. Refusal to comply with the prescribed laws aad ?rdiaaaeea ?f the Gasp el sf Jeras Christ is to '? of thia series, rfflft to the ior. permit or invite capture by the aroh-enemv of soul*. Obedience is the teat of all*pri? ance, and he whom we obey, the leader we elect to follow, is the master who direct* our deatiny, whether 1n the liberty of nght eoimnew or the serfdom of Fin -KnoM ye n?t" wrote Paul ? f old to the proud Roman? ??that to wh?m >f yield yoarseltes ?rnant* to ohrj, hi* servant* ye are to w Horn ye obey okrtkrr of nil onto death, or of obrdiparr unto ri|tlitf?tiinrM f" (Rom. 6:16). Th^ certainty of capture by the enemv through passivo iiiueluti hi or appr* ssive violation of I>i\.n? law, lagdlwr with the actualitv of the captive state mas set forth by m Hebrew prophet on the West* m Hemisphere centuries before th* birth Of Christ, as follow: "For the klnirdoB ?f the devil ma?t shake. nod thry wkkh krloiu: to It must nrrdi be stirred up ??(? repentance, or tke devil will fzm?p them wit* hi* everlast iac rhuin*. nod they be stirred up to anger and perish. "For behold, at that day [this lat ter. modern, present day] ahsll he rage la the hearts of the rhlMrm of men, and stir then np to anfrr against that which Is good. ??And others will hr pacify, and lnll them away Into carnal nfcMritj, that they w 11 say. All Is well in Zioni yen. /.Ion prospercth. all is wfllj and than the devil chcstetk tkflr souls, and lendeth them s??r carefally down to hell. ??And behold, other* he fluttrrrth ? way. and telleth them there U no hellj nnd lie snlth sinto them. I sm no devil, for there Is none; snd thus he whtapcreth In their ear* until he grnsps them with hi* anfnl chslns. from whence there Is no deliver? unce. ??Yen. they nre rrnaprd with ilfith. and hells and denth. and hell, and the devil, and nil that have beta seised therewith, mast stand before the throne of (iod, nnd be Judged ac cording to their workn. from whent? they moat go Into the place pre pared for them* even* a lake of flro nnd brimstone, which Is endless tor ment.** (Book of Mormon. 2 >^phl 28.19-21). It is evident from the forecoins and from the follom'ing. that car tivity to the devil shall extend into the eternities as the state of thos%? who have failed to establish their status as citizens in the Kinedora of freedom: -For behold. If ye have proerss tinated the day of your repeutsnce, even nntll denth. behold, ye baie be come subjected to the spirit of tno devil, and he doth ocal yon hist therefore, tbe feplrlt of the Lord hath withdrawn from yoa. and hath no place la yon. and tbe devil bath all power over yoai and this la the final state of tbe wicked.** (Alma 34:35). For the Book of Mormon. rte^j apply to Eastern Mates M*as!on. 2TS| t.ntes A venae. Brooklyn. >. Y'. Far books of MO pages, contusing complete series af these articles numbering 104. entitled "The \ Ital Ity af Mormon lam." npply lo pab llshera. The l*orham "Press, Bostos? Xasa.?Adv.