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No. 27,354. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919?TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS.
SEES QUICK ACTION
ON DISTRICT BILL,
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Chairman Good of Appropriations
Stands for Capital as
Best Kept City.
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BACKS 50-50 PRINCIPLE
Trie lMSinci appropriaiion win v?n?
he one of the first measures taken up
i
when the new Congress is called into j
extra session. In the reorganization j
the appropriations for the support of j
the District will he handled by men
in sympathy with a broad spirit to
upbuild the National Capital as the
home city of the country.
This assurance was given today by
Representative James \V. Good of
Iowa, who has been chosen as chair- j
man of the apnropriations committee
in the new Congress, and who is
heartily in favor not only of a "square
deal" for the District, but is ambitious
to aid in making the National Capital
the queen city of the world and maintaining
it in a way creditable to the
greatest nation in the world.
He wants the capital to be the best
kept city in the world, and feels that rt
while the people of the District have V
no vote and therefore cannot pass A
upon questions of public improve- U
ment, it is a conscientious duty for
Congress to deal not only fairly, but
liberally, with the seat of government.
Sees No Reason for Tis-Up.
"The estimates for the support of ;
the District are all in. and. have been j
passed by both bouses of Congress," i ftA.
Mr. Good pointed out. "The appro- j ??'
jiri.nion Dill is tied up In conference, i
end it seems to me now that it should j
be one of the very first bills passed |
by the incoming Congress."
The half-and-half principle of financ- I
ing the I?istrict will be safe as far as |
any fight for its abolition depends
upon the initiative or support of lir.
Good. He has had no sympathy with ni
the contests whereby the District bill rl
v. as prevented from passage in the
last Congress. In discussing this he
% says: "I am opposed to any of the big-'
appropriation bills being held up in \ "
conference through a demand from me
either the House or Senate that the
law on which the appropriation is re<
based should be changed. If there is the
a sufficient demand for a change in val
legislation Congress should act, but .
until Congress does act directly upon sel
this matter the appropriations should re<
be made in a general way in accord- jt
ance with the existing law." ^
Davis Hay Head Subcommittee th?
t There is every prospect that Representative
Davis of Minnesota will be . *"e
chairman of the subcommittee of the'
appropriations committee in direct \ .
charge of appropriations for the Dis- ]
trict of Columbia. While he is not i "ol
ready to announce the make-up of his
committees. Chairman Good gave a
half promise that Representative Da- J
vis. who has been the leading republican
member of the subcommittee, P<M
would be named as chairman. He said: 8ar
"In making assignments of the we
members to compose the various sub- ?al
" committees 1 am trying to select the j ?9
men who are best qualifled by expert- 8 c
ence and abilMy to most efficiently ! "?
perform the special work of each sub- ' a<
committee." . !8tl<
This statement also suggests fhat !
Representative George Holden Tink- j
ham of Massachusetts, who has been ! J
an interested and diligent student of j rec
District affairs and a particularly mui
good friend to the District while a ' go
minority member of the House District j ha
committee, may be selected as a mem- th?
ber of the subcommittee for the Dis- , the
trict on the appropriations committee -<riv
MONARCHISTS CONTROL is
GERMANY'S OFRCIALS i
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' Ebert, Scheidemann and Nosk* Are *h<
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Merely Puppets of Military tin
^ I not
Men, Observers Claim. as
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' as
Br the Aiwrntrt Press.
LONDON. March 17.?Special dis- jy
patches from Berlin report that the He
suppression of the recent Spartacan dia
< outbreak there has shown that a milltary
and monarchist reaction is grow- cti
ing and overshadowing the new gov- P?!
ernment.
The Berlin correspondent of the Mail, ] th
who sent a dispatch February 27 out- '
lining plans for a monarchist upris-i?v;
itn ucrinany, nas arrived in Bon- rL"'
don. having left Berlin March 14, aft- if*
er a residence there of three months, i Jl
He reiterates the statement made in J
his dispatch, saying that President' hac3
Ebert, Chancellor Scheidemann and! tiGf
Minister of War Noske are merely j
puppets. He declared that for the ;an(j
purpose of retaining power they have the
allowed members of the military cast to x.hii
reappear as organizers of the new re- I
publican armies.
These men are the real governors of
Germany." he says. "They make the '
edicts and Chancellor Scheidemann in
and his colleagues willingly sign fna
them." it
Similar testimony is given by other
correspondents in telegraphing from e,n
Berlin, some stating that the capture of
t the suburb of Bichtenburg has been j saI
intentionally prolonged with a view ' an<
to exterminating the Spartacans. ne
whose treatment at the hands of goveminent
troops is said to be sharply
condemned. !
While alleged atrocities are attrib- ! *?
uted to the J4partacans, details which sla
have been given are doubted or de- m
nied. iOven the Vorwaerts admits
, them to be much exaggerated. The ...
correspondents concur in the state- .
ment that extreme bitterness has S>1
been created against the government arn
troops and that further trouble is in- irJ
evitabic. j ? ^
According to a dispatch to the Mail.
the Spartacan revolt will certainly!
recur in ever-increasinc- force
" .. 1 11
a miracle happens. It adds that Herr
Nouke's forces have been recruited
by bribes and promise of big ration, j
and that to this may be attributed
some of the food shortage in Berlin. * V
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Noske Order Withdrawn. wa
! for
COPENHAGEN. March 17.?The or- j tee
der issued by Gustav Noske, the Ger- ; He
man minister of war. for the execu- j out
i ion of persons possessing arms and ye;
lighting against the government has hac
been withdrawn, according to a Berlin ! of
dispatch received here. , wo
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KENYOM COX, ARTIST, j A1
DIES IN NEW YORK <
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NEW YORK. March J7.?Kenyon f^r
^ Cox. noted artist, died today at his cot
w- home here, aged sixty-two years. in
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FORMER KAISER SAWS
HIS THOUSANDTH TREE; !
IS MAKING SOUVENIRS
AMERONOEX, Holland. Satur- j
day, March IS (by the Associ
ated Press).?Former Emperor
William today completed sawing:
into logs his thousandth
tree since he . took refuge at
Count von Bentinck's castle
here last fall. From the thousandth
tree a few logs were
converted into souvenirs of the
achievement and marked in red
ink with the inscription "W 2." !
These were presented to members
of the Bentinck family
and to those who have assisted
the ex-emperor in his work
during the last ten weeks.
As he was completing his
task a young countess took a
snapshot of Herr Hohenzollern
and his assistants. Dr. Foerster
and Capt. von Isemann, together
with the young gardener
who adjusts the logs on the
bench for. the ex-ruler to saw
them The picture included the
former empress, who was reading
a newspaper nearby.
Expert sawyers of the neighborhood
compute the vhlue of
t tie wages Herr Hohenzollern
would have earned if he had
been paid the trade union rate
at about $30 for the whole
period, or an average of r>0
cents a working day, which
usually consists of three hours.
AYS WOMEN WILL
GET SQUARE DEAL
r. Keating Predicts Equality
With Men in Salaries Under
Reclassification.
_ANS OF COMMISSION
Woman employes of the governnt
are to be Riven a fair chance to
:eive the compensation due for
iir work and a fair chance for adncement
where they show themves
worthy of advancement, if the j
classification commission can bring j
about," said former Representative '
ating. a member and secretary of j
s joint congressional commission
pointed to reclassify employes of
federal and municipal governments
the District of Columbia, discussing
it phase of the question today.
'The women of the country have i
te everything they were able to do, j
d that was a great deal, to help win j
> war," continued Mr. Keating. :
hey deserve a fair chance. They L
>uld receive just as much "'com- 1
isation as the men if they do the i
ne character of work and do it as i
11. The only question, after all, is,
1 a woman do th< work? If she can
it. there is no reason why she
>uld not get the same pay as a man
ing the same kind of work. In
:t, there Is every reason why she
>uld receive it."
Alleged Discrimination.
dr. Keating said that he had been ;
teivlng communications from a 1
nber of woman employes of the
vernment pointing out that they
ve been discriminated against in
> matter of salary and promotion in
! past, the men being paid more and
'en promotions over the women.
"Here is a letter from one woman
0 has been in the government serv- :
for about eighteen years." said Mr.
ating. "She is a stenographer, and
writes that she entered the service
about $840; that in seven years she '
s advanced to $1,200. and that for '
last eleven years her salary has J
nained stationary. She frankly
ints out that men doing the same ;
rk nave been given opportunities i
' advancement which she was not
'en. and says that her record shows
s has been successful and has im>ved
as a stenographer. For some
te she served under a chief who did
t believe that women should be paid
much as men or that they were as
jable of performing the same work
men stenographers."
Regarded as "All Wrong."
[r. Keating said this was all wrong. 1
said he had heard of a great many !
criminations against women and in
,-or of men in the government serv- j
, and that he had also heard of
ler chiefs of division who were opted
to advancing women, and gave
the advantage of the man employes,
efore the war Mr. Keating put (
ough the House a resolution calling '
>n the President to inform Congress i
it discrimination against women in
government service was to be found, j
said that the President had promised
look into the matter, but that the '
r had come along antl everything i
1 been side-tracked for war prepara- j
is.
But the war is practically over now
I it is time we were getting back to
normal," said Mr. Keating, "and
i matter (should be looked into."
Difficult to Beach Cases.
ie pointed out that discriminations 1
ofbces were difficult to reach in
ny rases, but isaid that, as far as
was in the power of the joint com- j
ssion and its reclassification of the ;
ployes. tht women would get a
tare deal. If they were doing the j
Tie work as men at higher salaries, |
i the work warranted the salaries, j
said, the women would get the I
rhor salaries, too.
The Joint commission is at work i
tfting a series of questionnaires ,
be sent to private employers. |
te. county and municipal governnts
in which the Compensation i
id the employes of various grades
li be considered.
I have no doubt." he said, "that
aries have increased very greatly
ong employes of private concerns
the last two years. The salaries
the government employes, however,
,e practically been at a standstill
ept for the bonus of |120 which
s allowed last year and the J240
owed during the coming fiscal
ir."
Facts He Has Learned.
,'hen the first fight for a bonus for 1
. government employes was und r j
y in 1917 Mr. Keating appeared :
the employes before the commiton
appropriations of the House
said replies to questionnaires sent
L at that time showed that for some
irs past the government salarlw
i been standing still while those
private employes doing similar
rk had increased to *
en t.
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lies' Air Raids Kill Many Hans.
OPENHACJEN. March IS.?Seven !
idred and twenty-nine persons were
led and 1.754 were injured In aerial
acks by aMIed forces on German
ritory up to November S. 1918, acdina
to official figures made public
Berlin.
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VARYING VIEWS OF
LEAGUEOISPOSAL
Paris Reports Conflict Regarding
Inclusion of Covenant
in Peace Treaty.
FRENCH LEADER DOUBTS>
Conflicting reports from Paris con- !
corning the progress of the league of
nations project cause confusion anil :
perplexity to official Washington, in j
eluding the senators who yet remain ;
in town.
President Wilson last Saturday cabled
Secretary Tumulty that he was |
assured of incorporation of the league
of nations covenant in the treaty of
peace. The President's communication
flatly refuted previous cable dispatches
from Paris of a contrary j
character.
Today the cables quote Foreign
Minister Pichon of France as expressing
doubt whether it will be possible
to include the covenant in the
treaty on account of the recognized
necessity of speedily adjusting the
preliminaries of peace, on the one
hand, and the delay inevitable conse- i
quent upon amending the covenant. |
on the other. It is reported to be 1
conceded that an amendment safeguarding
the Monroe doctrine will be :
proposed and is probably acceptable
to a majority of the commission.
Nothing was said about the demand
of Japan for .an expression prohibiting
race discrimination, which has a
vital bearing upon immigration questions
in Australia, New Zealand and
the United States.
Minister Pichon's Suggestion.
Foreign Minister Piehon is quoted
as suggesting that the treaty of
peace might appropriately and conveniently
carry an expression of adherence
to the general idea of a
league of nations, leaving the details
to be worked out' hereafter in a subsequent
convention. By such a plan
it is assumed that President Wilson
would be safeguarded from seeming
repudiation of his insistence upon
recognition of the league of nations
plan and the first step in the direction
of practical peace could be taken, j
It is thought here that such a treaty ,
would be speedily ratified by the !
Senate. While several die-in-the-last- ! (
ditch senators have proclaimed their i
utter abhorrence of anything smack- j
ing of a league of nations agreement, j i
the majority sentiment is believed to ,
be that a broad indorsement of the : '
league of nations, incorporated in a i '
peace-effecting treaty, would be pret- j I
ty hard to defeat. Senators with the i
exception of the ultra-opponents, feel
that there Is a strong sentiment in
the country tor oo-operatlon of the 1
nations to prevent war and that once
such a plan can be shorn of details ,
offensive to American Ideals, policies
and traditions, popular feeling will 1
approve it. i
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Discussion Is Handicapped. i
One result of the uncertainty ex- ,
isting abroad, or at least indicated
by the press dispatches to exist, will i
be. It is said, to handicap discussion \
and criticism of the league of na- :
tfons project. Critics find the grounds 1 l
of their objections shifting from day H
to day, disappearing in one place and ,
appearing tomorrow in another. For '
instance, reports of the acceptance
of an amendment excepting the Mon- :
roe doctrine would disarm at once a '
group of protesting senators. Next '
day comes the explicit statement that I :
the covenant is not to be amended in ]
any way, whereupon the aforesaid
group gird themselves anew for the
fray?and so it goes.
Friend and foe of tha leactoa oian (
alike will be glad when the treaty t
comes out and the exact statu3 of the (
covenant is made known. Kager ad- i (
voeates and opponents are ready and j
anxious to Jump into the battle and I
defend or assail, as the case m.'y be. ;
when they have something definite to ,
go upon. ,
Quotes President's Speech.
Senator Poindexter of Washington | '
has dug up from the records an expression
of President Wilson which,
it is claimed, shows inconsistency between
the President's views as presented
not very long ago on the sub- j
Ject of foreign entanglements and his
attitude now. In an address delivered 1
upon the occasion of the unveiling of
the statue to Commodore Barry in
this city. May 16, 1914, President Wilson
said:
"What does the United States stand .
for. then, that our hearts should be
stirred by the memory of the men ;
who set her Constitution up? John !
Barry fought, like every other man in
the revolution, that America might be ;
free to make her own life without in- 1
terruption or disturbance from any 1
other quarter. You can sum the whole j '
thing up in that?that America had a :
?-4 trV\ t tn hpp own Shlf-Hotorrv!! 1 it#-.
> ? - ? - -vwi milieu iuo, ;
and what are our corrollaries from i 1
that? You do not have to go back to c
stir your thoughts again with the is- I 1
sues of the revolution. Home of the '
issues of the revolution were not the | '
cause of it, but merely the occasion i '
for it. 1 J
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"Vital Things" Stirring Now. i
"There are Just as vital things j c
stirring now that concern the ex- c
istence of the nation as were stir- ' 1
ring then, and every man who wor- <
thily stands fti this presence should j?
examine himself and see whether he
has the full conception of what it ! o
means that America should live her 11
own life. | t
"Washington saw it when he wrote 1 I
his farewell address. It was not mere- i t
ly because of passing and transient t
circumstances that Washington said !
we must keep free from entangling !
alliances. Tt was because he saw j
that no country had yet set her face !
in the same direction that America '
had set her Thcc. 1
"We cannot form alliances with those ; '
who are not going our way; and in ! 1
our might and majesty and in theis
confidence and definiteness of pur- '
pose we need not and should not form f
alliances with any nation in the 1
world." 1
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TORNADO HILLS NINE. <
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n : A-.. vt_t.i lfJi- n 1
oweeping vrci jcusui-jzuic vuune,
Does $1,000,000 Damage.
VICKSBURG. Miss.. March 17.?A
tornado yesterday afternoon swept
over a course southwest to northeast
from a point flfty-ftve miles north of
Vlcksburg to Pantherburn. a distance
of eight miles. The bodies of J. W. C
Johnston, wealthy Pantherburn plan- t
ter. and eightv negroes have been
found. The seriously injured include 1
K. P. Green, manager of a plantation t
near Grace. 8
The greater part of the loss, which 1
it was estimated today would exceed s
11,000.000. was caused by destruction a
of valuable standing cypress and gum a
timber. _ t
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NO HIGHER RATE FOR'
GOVERNMENT GAS,
Utilities Board Not Expected
to Recommend That Discrimination
Be Abolished.
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95-CENT PRICE TO PEOPLE h.
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Although District taxpayers are required
to pay for pas at the rate of 0
95 cents a thousand cubic feet, as ti
compared with a seventy-cent rate j(
assessed against the District and fed- ^
sral povernments, there is no indication
the Public Utilities Commission
will renew its recommendation to f'
Congress to abolish the discrimination.
8
This is beta use the -commission is c'
Inclined to rpgnrtr tha cheaper seovern- ><
merit price au in iieu of a tax on the t<
company, and also because the in- Q
sreased earnlnps of a uniform ninety- c,
fice-cent rate would not be sufficient,
it is stated, to materially reduce the
"harpe to individuals. ti
The pas company sells about 20.000,- j j]
100 cubic feet of pas to the District
government at the present time? ,5
ipproximateiy 120,000,000 feet to the J
United States and something like a
1,000,COO,000 feet to individuals. 8(
Effect on Earning^ Noted. j *
~ ' * * ~ *?.? r.m art t a . i 1
naies ui iu i??*= ~ ,
jn the 95-cent basis would. It is said, I si
increase the company's earnings by j a
tbout $35,000 annually. If this in- ' ?
urease were taken into account in !
tguring out a price that would enable p
:he company to earn 6 per cent on the ! A!
Tair value of its property, which the : c
commission has decided to be a fairja
rate of return, it would benefit eon- n
turners to the extent of a reduction g
if about one-third of one cent ] ri
for every thousand cubic feet of gas j Ci
sold, calculations show. ; n
In other words, individuals would I o
have to pay 94% cents per thousand I e
c ubic feet to make it possible for the : a
company to earn 6 per cent under pres- ; b
ent conditions. i 1;
President Howard S. Reeside of the | s
company believes that the District and j N
LTnlted States should pay for gas at | rr
the same rate that ir. charged individ- | ci
uals. The commission is on record to i t]
the same effect. However, the com- p
mission is convinced that it would ti
benefit the private consumer little, if tl
my.
I
View of Congress Considered.
It Is pointed out by the commission ~
that if Congress intended the cheaper *
federal rate, by which the company "
loses about $35,000 in revenue annual- w
ly. as in lieu of a tax, the effect upon B
the public treasury and the taxpayer f<
is the same as though a higher rate 0
if taxation had been assessed against n.
the company and the government re- '
quired to pay 95 cents for gas.
In short, the commission sees no
lifference between afl increased tax "I
hat would produce $35,000 annually
ir a cheaper price to the government |?
hat would deprive the company ofiK('
evenues to the extent of $35,000. the )a
let result being the same in either ,r
:ase. as far as the United States f,
rreasury and the individual consumer i,
s concerned, it is claimed. q
With a gas rate revision in pros- tl
>ect at the end of six months, the gas i si
n . i j ? ? J..
'OmpaqD, ncoiuciit i\rcniuc saiu iw- I u
lay, will continue Its efforts to manu-ldi
acture gas at the lowest possible I is
:ost, having always the interest of the K
:onsumer in view.
Testimony of United States bureau C
if standards experts before the 1'ub- y
ic Utilities Commission was to the *8
ffeot that gas manufacture and dis- al
:ribution in the District has been
inducted on highly efficient and eco- 11
lomicai methods.
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Data Before Utilities Board.
Data before the utilities board a'
show that, as the result of a four- 1,1
fear oil contract made by Mr. Kee- Iw
side In 1914, on an average basis of i
I cents a gallon for oil. it was pos- j
ible for the company to save about j *
i million dollars in the cost of mams- (
acturlng gas during the greater
;>art of the war period. Had thiB 1
;ontn?ct not existed and the com- :
>any been forced to buy oil in the I a
>pen market when It advanced to S ' p
ind 10 cents a gallon, a much higher ' F
{as rate to local consumers probably q
vould have resulted. rs
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BEAT VON AENIM TO DEATH. i a
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Hun Officer Killed by Peasants at' ^
Whom He Shot. | 8]
LONDON. Sunday. March 16. ? Gen.
;cunt Sixt von Arnim, commander of 1,(
he German army in Flanders during a [[
arge part of the war. has been beaten p.
o death by peasants at Asch. Bohemia, B
iccordlng 'o a Paris dispatch to the c<
exchange Telegraph Company. It is c<
aid that Gen. von Arnim shot at peas- d(
ints gathering firewood on his property B
.nd that the mob invaded and Qillaged ai
ds chateau after killing him. tt
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\BOLITION OF CC
IN EUROPE IS
-loyd Georde Hopes
? CM.
many and Later tli
Burdens of War;
BV FRANK H. SIMOXDS.
fecial Cable Dispatch to The livening Star.
PARIS, March 15. ?The past week
as seen one of the most sensational
evelopments of the whole peace eou?rencc.
During the whole progress
f the conference up to that time the
ivo conspicuous figures had been Pres-1
lent Wilson and Clemenceau, and the j
vo great questions to be decided had j
een the league of nations and the
uture security of France.
But in the last week Lloyd George
uddenly has taken control of the ;
ourse of events?for the moment at
sast?and persuaded the Paris' coherence
to adopt a policy the cohseuences
of which can hardly be foreasL
From the .very outset the Paris conerence
has struggled with that duty
iipo8ed upon It by the peoples of the |
'orld to make future war impossible. I
o this end the league of nations was I
evised. In this movement Mr. Wil- 1
on achieved world prominence, but j
o reinforce the purpose of Mr. Wil- I
on Lloyd George has now proposed
'hat must be at least a temporary
iterruption of the system of con- j
cription, first in Germany and later? I
nd only a very little later?in Che
'hole world. ,
What Lloyd George has definitely j
roposed is fairly well known now.
iarshal Foch and his military asso- I
iates had proposed that the German
rmy should be reduced to approxilately
200,000, with a corresponding
eneral staff; but this army was to be
lised in the old-fashioned way, by ;
onscription, and, provided the Ger
lans never naa more man zuu.uuu men
n foot at any one time, it was coneivable
that they might repeat the
chievement of the last century, and
y rapidly passing men through baracks
build such a system as the Prusians
constructed, to the later ruin of ;
apoleon. Moreover, as long as Oerlany
continued to raise an army by
onscription it would be inevitable
liat Italy and France should not only ><
reserve conscription, but should con- 1
inue to call up annually more men i
nan Germany was allowed. il
Joyd George's Emphatic Negative. >i
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To all this Lloyd George has inter- 2
osed an emphatic negative and has it
ad his way. Under his plan there *
ill be imposed upon Germany the j
rltish military system, which calls ,
>r a voluntary army comparable to ,
ur own Regular Army, made up of '
len enlisted for a long period of ;
me?twelve years, to be exact. The '
ize of this army will be rigidly held j
own to a 100,000 army as contrasted
itli the national army of recent de- i
ides. What Mr. Lloyd George had in j
lirid was a twofold thing. If Ger- j
lany were permitted to continue con riptlon
it was inevitable that Eng- it
ind would also have to adopt per- p
lariently that cot'scription method ,t
jllowed in the later, years of war. |1
. < lio lufit nnlif ipnl I'omtmitrn l.lnvH i
eorpe pave unqualified assurances t
lat this system of conscription (s
lould be abandoned. In imposing .
pon Germany the necessity of aban- I
intng conscription Mr. Lloyd George
; keeping his political promises in
upland.
But the thing goes far beyond this,
onscription is the sort of thing
hieh persists because every nation
; compelled to protect itself so long
s one nation arms its whole popuition.
By the system of conscrip- i
on the French revolution not only
ived France, but overran Europe,
y conscription the national armies
F Prussia and the south German
ates overcame the professional
rtnies of France in 1870. At the very
oment of the outbreak of the last
ar France had adopted a three-year
rvice law in a vain effort to raise '
Tiong 40,000.000 of people an army
^proximately equal to that of a state
F 67,000,000.
France and Italy Sure to Follow.
Now, if Germany is compelled to
bandon conscription and to accept a
rofessional army of 100.000 men,
ranee and Italy in their turn will unuestionably
abandon conscription; the
idical and socialist parties, and, in
ict, the masses of French and Italian
eople. will never consent to make an
nnual sacrifice of their youth when <
le attllgei IJICVClHCTi UUIiaiTipi J
ermany is abolished. As for Eng- j 1
ind, nothing is more certain than that i '
tie will return to her old system of a M
rofessional army. :
The thing, however, does not end '
ere. Hloyd George lir^ two objects '
i mind. He was compelled to fulfill 1
is political promises. He was com
piled to find a method to save the <
ritish people from that burden of I
inscription which they had never ac- 1
spted before the war, and only shoul- 1
ireri when the war was well advanced. s
ut he was convinced, in addition, as '
re a very large number of Englishlen,
that if the German people -were
i -
)NSCRIPTION.
I FAR-REACHINC
Dieorminri n-f ripr.
Le Allies Will End
and Militarism.
once out of the habit of conscriptio
they would not return to it. and th
terrible burdens of armed Europ
would automatically disappear.
The English philosophy in this mat
ten is simple. There are at least 75
000,000 of Germans in Europe wh
cannot be permanently separated frot
each other except by their own ac
and desir-. If these 75,000,000 sha
adopt militaristic ideas of the Koher
zollern epoch, Europe will have to re
main armed as of old, and it spell
almost immediate bankruptcy when, t
the cost of debts acquired in wai
there is added the further charge o
military establishments.
Believe Germany Will Like Ides
There . remains the hope that 1
75.000,000 of Germans turn from th
habit of militarism and military serv
Ice. if they become used to a pre
fcesional army rather than to a cor
script army, there will be no retur
to the old system when, as is i'nev
(table. Germany regains that statur
which her numbers and her hlstor
insure her reacquiring.
We have here one of the grea
gambles of the peace confereno
Here the professional soldier, lik
Marshal Foch. encounters the pro
fessional politician; the soldier re
mains convinced that the solution fo
the future does not lie outside a na
tional army; the politician recog
nizes that the perpetuation of th
old system leads toward bankruptc
and anarchy, and the conference o
Paris has adopted the view of th
politician.
If one can conceive that in the nex
five or ten years Europe will abando
a conscript army and millions o
young men will be retained in in
dustry rather than maintained i
barracks, if one pould conceive tha
the enormous annual appropriation
for the maintenance of armies an
navies are allocated to the paymen
of war debts, it is at least possibl
that Europe will be able to regai:
its economic stabiljty and restore it
industrial life If the thing be im
possible, then, in the words of Pitl
"It is time to roll up the map of Eu
rope for a period of years."
Lloyd George has had his way in on
5f the most momentous changes th
Paris conference lias undertaken t
rake. The German army disappears
.he great general staff of the Germai
irm.v diminishes from t*ve stature of :
jiant to that of a dwart. Allied super
,ision will for a long time regulate th
imount of war material manufactured
The German navy will become almos
is derisory a maritime force as ;
single yacht which flies the flag of th.
Prince of Monaco. Concomitantly, con
icript unties in England and Franc
irid Italy will disappear. Nothing i
nore certain than that with the dis
ippearance of German armies the cans
>f general conscription in Europe wil
le removed.
Will Prussian System Come Back
Will the German in the futiirn n
egains his strength after the momen
vhcn the armies of occupation are with
Lrawn, relapse to the Prussian system
Will he even, in a moment of nations
weakness, adopt the methods by whicl
he great Prussian patriots after Jem
i%oided obedience to the dictates o
<a|ioleon, and constructed secretl,
irmies which supplied the decisive in
luepce at Leipzig, in the Maine cam
jaign of 1914 and in the Waterloo epi
lode of 1815'.' This is a question whicl
einains to be answered, if German:
ihooses. in the long run it is probtbl
hat she can follow ancient procedure.
Meantime, for a period of year:
it would seem that the policy of Llov<
ileorge, accepted by the 1'aris con
Terence. means abandonment bj
Europe of all the old familtar form:
rf ornaments. We go back to thi
time, before the French revolution, o
imall professional armies. We par
with the theory of a nation in arms
which has led Europe in the last wa
almost to the point of suicide. W<
release millions of men annually fron
the barracks to fields and factories
Temporarily, at least, 'we lay asid<
that condition in whicn Europe dwel
in insecurity from 1S66 to 1914. W<
have had an armed Europe for ha1:
a. century. We are now going t(
fxperiment with a disarmed Europi
for a period the length of which w<
cannot calculate.
Squares With League of Nations.
In ail essential respects, Lloyc
3eorge's successful demand of ?h.
Paris conference with regard to tier
nnany is a complementary detail it
:he making of permanent peace. Th<
eague of nations and an armed work
ire obviously a confusion of terms
I'he league of nations and a practical
ly disarmed world are logical coin
plementary circumstances. In dis
inning Germany we have, in fact
lisarmed ourselves, although for ?
seriod of years Germany will be helpess,
and the combined, if small, pro
tessional armies of the allies wil
suffice to prevent a new German assault.
It Is a matter of frank questior
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SPEECH MADE
FOR HOME EFFECT
I
Envoy Makes an Effort to
Satisfy Public Opinion and
I M
nave views Kecognizea.
ANSWERS PROTEST HERE
BY DAVID l.AWRK\t"E.
Japan's maneuver in expressing,
through the medium of Viscount Ishii,
the Japanese ambassador to the
United States, her objection to the
: league of nations covenant on the
ground that it does not incorporate
an article prohibiting discrimination
in immigration, has had a curious effect.
In the first place, it is regarded hy
| administration friends here as a con!
elusive answer to the apprehensions
! of those senators and others who believed
the covenant made it possible
for immigration to be regarded as an
international rather than a domestic
question.
Inasmuch as Japan is the chief party
at interest, the view ol her ambassador
that the league should incorporate a
special article on immigration is a tar-it
admission that any omission of the said
(article leaves immigration within the
realm of domestic and municipal law,
and as such outside the province of the
league of nations.
Japanesj Feeling of Dissent.
On the other hand the nurnose of
the Japanese ambassador undoubtedly
; was not to help remove one of the ob|
jeetions raised in American quarters to
J th? league, but to emphasize a growing
feeling of dissent on the part of Japa;
nese public opinion with the league us
[ at present planned.
The Japanese press has been active
" from the very beginning in agitating
i the immigration question. The Japa|
nese delegates at Varis have said
i nothing about it. Indeed, they have
| been conspicuously reticent throughout
all the discussions. Nevertheless
they have let it be known that any
: hard and fast rules which would foreclose
them against making protest
against racial discrimination or which
n ; would prevent them from literally
being accepted on terms o> equality
; with other nations would be viewed
with concern by the Japanese public,
i No Japanese has gone so far as to in!
timate that Japan would on that
! ground decline to become a member of
| the league.
" | Rather has it seemed that Japan,
;j : owing to her intimacy with Great
' i Britain and the friendship derived
: from the Anglo-Japanese defensive
: alliance, would follow along witn
s \ Great Britain on most questions. Out
? ! of this reationship. however, Japan
r. : expects due consideration, namely,
f i that the sensitiveness of her people
| on the question of race discrimination
j shall not be ignored, and that the
L. i machinery of the league shall provide
somehow for the amicable adjustment
1" of such disputes as may arise from
e - ttJC immigration question.
^ Gentleman's Agreement.
Strictly speaking, this is more of a
n problem for Great Britain than the
United States, as there Is no federal
e law or treaty on the statute books
y of this country which excludes Japanese
from rights enjoyed by other
t aliens. There i? in existence simply
i. a gentleman's agreement between the
e United States and Japan whereby the
>- latter takes it upon herself to regu!?
i late the outflow of Japanese laborers,
r 1 American officials testify to the
! splendid fashion in which the Japa
: nese have observed the spirit and the
e letter of that agreement. Some of
y the British colonies, on the other
f hand, have by law barred the Japae
nese. This discrimination is deeply
j felt In Japan.
t I Possibly the outgrowth of the presn
| ent agitation will be an informal unf
j derstanding between the governments
. i of Japan and the United States and
n j Great Britain whereby each of the
, parties shall reciprocally agree by the
j control of passports to prevent the
j I exodus of Japanese or American or
? ! British laborers. By making the
agreement reciprocal the objections
e j of the Japanese probably will be met.
n 1 as their public opinion is simply anxs
: ious that the discrimination against
" i the Japanese people shall not be. a
- i matter of legal exclusion with all the
- I offense thereby implied.
! Japan, cn the other hand, has never
* j disputed the right of America or any
e other country to restrict immigration
? ; on purely economic grounds. Phrase>
' olog.v of our immigration laws, there11
| fore, has always been carefully
11 ! guarded so as not to offend the Jap"
! anes'e.
e l
* No Article on Immigration.
i is unlikely, on the whole, that
e 'the league of nations will include any
- : special article on immigration any
e more than iti will embrace any other
s domestic question. So the speech of
- Viscount Ishii. which is #ie first long
* i comment on the league of nations
11 from any official Japanese quarter, is
1 viewed partly as an effort to satisfy
? Japanese public opinion and partly
: as an effort to secure some recognition
of the Japanese position with
j regard to race discrimination.
' | This can be treated by the individ!
ual government concerned by special
agreements, as it has been in the past.
, and it is not expected that the forma1
' tion of the league constitution will at
j fhis time be delayed to resolve a point
for the settlement of which adequate
_ machinery already exists or can be
~ i created in the realm of diplomacy.
- i (Copyright. Ibl9, by N. Y. Evening Post, Inc.)
i
I j SERVICE MEN HONOR ERIN.
] Soldiers and Sailors Prominent in
St. Patrick Parade.
3 i NEW YORK, March 17.?Soldiers
^ | and sailors today were accorded the
t honor places in the preat St. Patrick's
. day parade, in which 38,000 reiyesentar
\ tives of some 100 Irish societies were
" j assigned to places. Conveyances were
1 . provided for wounded soldiers. Serv
I ice men also were the puests of the
: | Irish societies in Brooklyn and other
' borouphs of the city. John W. Goff,
f former supreme court justice, led the
New York parade as prand marshal.
' Celebration of the day bepau last
| nipht with banquets and meetings, and
many others were arranged to begin
soon after the parades today.
, 1,500 CLERKS QUIT STRIKE.
s Employes of Railroads Entering
i Atlanta Retnrn to Desks.
[ ATLANTA. Ga., March 17.?About
| 1,500 railroad clerks, employed all
! roads euwmifi .niama, cAtcpi lIjc
! I Nashville. ChattanooRa and St. Louis.
. i returned to their desks this niorninp,
i i after havins been on strike since Fri
| day.
The return of the men is understood
I | to be for the purpose of laying the
I foundation for a final settlement of the
! controversy between the clerks and
I It. P. Ottarsohn, federal auditor of that
I road.
1
I ' >
WANTS 14 POINTS
110 GOVERN TREATY
Erzberger Says Hun Assembly
Will Reject Pact That '
Goes Beyond Them.
| FAVORS A "REAL LEAGUE"
COPENHAGEN, March 17.?If the
allies loaded the peace treaty with
!rnn.lit;nnu
? ftUIHH UHU ? M fliurui
Wilson's fourteen points the German
national assembly would have to refuse
its assent to the treaty.
Mathias fclrzherger. head of the
German armistice commission, de
clared. in an address at a Berlin meeting.
in favor of a "real league of nations."
according to a dispatch from
the German capital today. The matter
then would be left to a referendum
of the German nation, he said.
Herr Krzberger disclaimed any obligation
upon Germany to give compensation
for acts she committed after
her first peace ofTer, in December,
; 191B.
The speaker declared that the only
means of calling a halt on bolshevism
was the abandonment of the "mailed
fist policy of the allies."
Have Confidence in President.
The German people. said Herr Erzberper.
had almost unlimited confidence
in President Wilson, and he
hoped that the leaeue of nations covi
enant as promulgated February 14
would not be finally adopted, as, he
declared, it was a compromise of the
ideals of President Wilson with the
imperialistic aspirations of some of
the allies. The American President,
Herr Erzberger insisted, was under
obligations to advocate the immediate
admission of Germany to the league.
Herr Erzberger asserted that Germany
was prepared to accept the vote
of Alsace Lorraine as to its future,
but he referred to the reported aspirations
of France respecting the Rhineland
and to Poland's claims to Danzig
as "crimes," adding:
I "What is German will remain German."
As far as the demands for compensation
were concerned. Herr Erzberger
declared that Germany would reject
any demand that applied to acts committed
after December. 1916. when
. Germany made her first peace offer.
There was no moral obligation upon
, Germany regarding compensation
: aside from the case of Belgium, the
speaker argued. In that case Ger|
many would act honestly, he said.
West Bank of Bhine "Test."
LONDON*. March 17.?The test question
for the German delegates at the
peace conference will be the west bank
of the Rhine says a Berlin disnatnti
' to the Mall. ' '
The delegates will be authorized to
break negotiations if this matter is
i ? fear i
I and will resign if the national assert! J
bly takes a different attitude.
Allies Will Dictate Terms.
PARIS. March 16 (by the Associj
ated Press).?The present determina'
tion in peace conference circles is
( that, after the allied and associated
| powers have reached a complete uq!
derstanding regarding the conditions
i to be imposed on Germany, the Gerl
man delegates will be called to Ver-i
Jsaiiles. but they will not be. allowed
j to discuss the conditions, the inten|
tion of the allied and associated powj
ers being to dictate peace. Either the
i German delegates must accept
i terms and sign or a state of war will
! continue. '
i The general opinion here is that, itr
i view of the internal situation in Germany.
the delegates of that country
will accept, rather than expose the"
country to a graver risk and more
drastis measures. ^
Shaping Covenant of League
So as to Appease Opposers
! By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 16.?Efforts are bej
ing directed to shaping the league of
nations covenant so as to insure its
acceptance by the supreme council
and win the approval of tfiose A'mer-^
icans who are demanding its amendment.
V
Col. House conferred with Laird
Robert Cecil. I/ton Rourgeois. and the
American delegates and reported to
: President Wilson. It is.conceded that
some of the suggested amendments
can safely be adopted?for instance,
those safeguarding the Monroe doc!
trine and fixing conditions which will
permit of the adherence of the late
enemy powers. The Americans are
! proceeding on the supposition that
' the covenant may be included in the
! peace treaty.
Foreign Minister Fichon said today
that he felt it was practically impos-'
I sible to include the covenant in the
i first treaty The issue, the minister
i sugested, might be met by a declara1
tion in the treaty of the principles
: underlying the league, leaving the
: details ill abeyance. The war would
] be ended when the preliminaries were
! signed, he pointed out_ but the Ger
mans would not regain' their pre-war
j status with liberty of movement until
the signing of the final treaty.
WILL REVISE RAILWAY PACT.
f
International Traffic, Though, Not
to Be Under Leaaue.
PARIS, Sunday, March IS (Havas).
| ?The commission on international
j railway communications has decided
j to revise the convention, signed at
j Bern in 1890, which previous to the'
war governed international railway
: trail'ic. according to the Echo oe Paris.
The commission has rejected a plan
I which wouid establish an internai
tional administration of main lfnes of
railway under the control of the
| league of nations, it is said.
j LLOYD GEORGE TO GO HOME.
| Labor Situation Will Take Him
Away From Peace Parley.
LONDON. March 16.?Premier
Lloyd George is expected to return
; to London to be present during a week
| which is looked upon as critical in the
! labor affairs of the country,
j PARIS. March 16?The Tempa
says the British prime minister.
David Lloyd George, probably will re!
turn to London about tlie middle o.
the Inst of this week. It points out
thnt 1'resident Wilson was away part
j of the time the British premier was
here, and now that the President has
returned, Mr. Lloyd George has been
obliged to absent himsolf. The hope ia
i expressed by the newspaper that there
will be no delay In the elaboration it
i peace.
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