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BOKAR LAW AWAITS
GiLINCOMMONS
Smoking-Out Process Near
[ as He Prepares for His
f Return Tuesday.
RUHR STIRS LABOR MEN
British Are Belying on Benevolent
Neutrality—Surprised at IT. S.
£ Sentiment for France.
the Associated Press.
LOXDOX, February 10.—Premier
Bonar Law' will return to the house
of commons Tuesday well prepared,
according- to official circles, to with
stand the smoking-out process to
which his government Is likely to he
subjected, owing to three months of
sensational events at home and
abroad.
The domestic program of the ses
sion will be largely concerned with
wnemployntent, housing and agricul
tural relief, Interspersed with debates
on foreign relations, which are likely
to be Initiated when the virile labor
opposition agitates for the with
drawal of the British troops on the
.Rhineland.
Developments in the Ruhr continue
to strengthen the official view that
the I 1 rench policy is hopeless, and
there seems little likelihood that any
pressure by the laborites will imme
diately effect the government plans
with respect to the Rhineland. The
intimation from official circles is that
the presence of the British at
Cologne depends largely upon the at- |
titude at Paris, and so long as the
r*rench accept the British policy of
benevolent neutrality the troops will
remain as a steadying force between
the French and the Germans.
One government spokesman char
acterizes the British policy as similar
to America's wartime aloofness while
awaiting the most favorable moment
to bring about a settlement.
One source of surprise to officials
bere is the reports of pronounced
French sympathies throughout the
United States regarding the Ruhr, a
trend which the British correspondents
in the United States have not Indicated
in their dispatches.
LLOYD GEORGE IN SADDLE.
Opposition Chief Expected to Make
Capital Out of Ruhr.
Br Cible to The St»r and New York Tribune.
Copyright, 1923.
LONDON, February io.—Parliament
■will meet Tuesday with the usual
scenes of pomp and pageantry which
always attend the stated opening of
that body. Very soon after the state
robes and gilded coaches have been
put away for the next formal occa
sion, however. Great Britain's legis
lators will settle down to what is
confidently expected to prove a very
Interesting session.
The immediate concern of the mem
bers of parliament will, of course,
be the foreign policy. It is antici
pated that in the debate on the ad
dress from the throne the govern
ment will be pressed for a state
ment of its policy in regard to the
Ruhr situation, and there is certain
to arise a demand for the withdrawal
of the British troops from Germany,
an opportunity for Lloyd George, in
particular, to take a stand on the
most important question that has
arisen since he has been on the op
position benches, and judging from
the tenor of the former premier's
newspaper articles. It seems inevita
ble that ho will challenge the ad
ministration at once. Should he
enunciate a demand for Great Brit
ain's definite dissociation of herself
from the French policy, he would
have the support not only of most
liberal and labor members, but prob
ably a considerable number of the
unionists as well, thus confronting
Bonar Law with a considerable bloc.
Reference to near eastern affairs
will depend largely on the events of
the next few days, but the King's
speech is certain to contain some
mention of that particular question.
The government's program of legis
lation for the coming session is aj
very moderate one, dealing chletly
with rent restriction and housing, the
policy of agricultural credits and ad
ministrative economies.
Although tho next budget is two
months off, the question of finance
will boa dominant one. The funding
of the American debt, while it greatly
reduces the theoretical British pay
ments. nevertheless calls for an ap
propriation of approximately £10,000,-
000 more than in the current year.
When only Installments were paid.
The cost of maintaining troops and
warships in the near east has also
been heavy, and tho chancellor of the
exchequer recently pointed out that
in periods of prolonged trade depres
sion revenue has a tendency to
■brink. Notwithstanding all this,
there is an imperative demand from
the country for lower taxation, espe
cially for the beer duty. Organized
industry is pressing for another shil
ling oft the income tax. making the
basic rate 4 shillings in a pound, or 20
per cent.
The only practicable way to bring
this about would be in capitalizing
the cost of war pensions, which
hitherto hae been defrayed out of the
current taxation and which this yegr
will amount to 90,000,000 pounds. it
la claimed that raising half that
amount byway of a loan would per
mit the desired tax reduction and
spread the charge over long terms of
years.
The government's recent request of
the channel islands to contribute to
the imperial exchequer, even though
it would be only 600,000 pounds an
nually. shows that no possible sources
of revenue ara being overlooked.
Coincident with the reports from
America that bootleggers are being
taxed on their profits, there la an
unofficial suggestion here that taxes
on horae racing bets, even though
beta are Illegal, total an enormous
figure.
Tho labor party will concentrate
next seaalon on opposing any cur
tailment In state rent restriction,
and on the housing and unemploy
ment relief schemes, while both Lloyd
George and the Asqulthlan liberals
expect to attack the anti-dumping
legislation now on tho books, which
they claim, amounts virtually to a
jroteotm Ur 10. .. .
French Made Dupe hy Turks
At Lausanne , Says Tardieu
Declares Policy of Abdication Was as
Blind as Lloyd George's Policy
Toward Greece .
France and England Must Meet Issue
France was hadly advised and the dupe of excessive confluence In
the Turks at Lausanne.
The Turks respect only force; the moment they think some one
fears them they go to the worst extremes.
British and French blunders over more than three years are
responsible for the existing critical situation.
There Is likely soon to be seen in action a Berlln-Moscow-Angora
triple alliance.
All interested nations must act in concert to curb the Turk,
otherwise risk of war in the Orient is visible.
BY A YORK TAROIKB.
Former French High t'ommlsaiwner to
America,
by Cable to The Star.
PARIS, February 10. —The French
government seems to have been bad- i
ly advised ns well as the dupe of ex
cessive confidence in the Turks at
Lausanne. Our policy of abdication
there was as blind as Lloyd George’s
inflammatory policy toward Greece
was criminal. The Turks respect
force, and force only. The minute
they think any one fears them they
go to the worst extremes.
Proof of this fact came on that
memorable February 4th, when Ismet
Pasha yielded to England w hile show
ing the utmost stuhborness toward
France. Poincare had deemed It wise
to assert France's right to make a
separate peace, althought not exer
| cising that right. But it was to Cur
| zon that Ismet tendered the offer of
a separate peace and it was Cursor
who refused to consider it.
Mistake of Three Yearn.
All this merely emphasizes the mis
takes of three.years. You all know
where I stand and how 1 feel. The
French and British, instead of stand
ing by their 1919 agreement and the
treay of Sevres, signed in 1920. have
sought to modify it. And they have
acted at ail limes in opposite direc
tions
Lloyd George aroused Greek im
perialism, which was not difficult and
plunged Constantine's government
into the tremendous Asiatic adventure,
where lie doubtless hoped, with the
Greeks as a screen, to obtain great
advantages for Great Britain at Con
stantinople and elsewhere.
Hriand. and then Poincare, met
this blunder with other mistakes, but
in favor of the Turk. They decided
to play the Trukish horse against
the Greek horse backed by the British.
They made successive agreements
with Kemal. whereby France aban
doned the gages which she had in
hand before reaching any final
settlement.
Prestige Depreciated.
This resulted in Franco-Britlsh mis
understandings the effects of which
WOMAN WHO TWICE FLED POLICE
RETURNS, SOBBING, TO FACE JAIL
Tearful and repentant, pretty Anna
Belle Cook. the twenty-year-old
woman who escaped from Police
Court while waiting to be tried on a
number of petty larceny charges,
walked into the first preclnt station
late yesterday, surrendered ami an
nounced her intention of following
the straight and narrow path after
she has satisfied justice for any al
leged missteps of the past.
Mrs. Cook is well known to the po
lice for two reasons—she is really
very pretty and equally as clever.
Married at the age of thirteen, she is
alleged to have deserted her husband
in Upper Marlboro, Md., and come to
Washington to make her own way.
Bad company, inexperience and a
pretty girl in a strange city proved
a bad combination and now. at the
age of twenty-one, Mrs. Cook must
face a number of charges of having
rubbed boarding houses.
The woman was first arrested sev
eral days ago and placed in the house
;of detention to await trial. Tues-
II GET DIPLOMAS
AT WAITER REED
Graduation First of Junior
Aids of Physiotherapy
Training School.
Graduation exercises for the class
of junior aides at the Training School
of Physiolheraphy were held in the
gymnasium of the Physlotheraphy
department of Walter Reed last week.
The exercises marked the successful
completion of the first course of this
kind at the hospital.
Surgeon General Merritt W. Ire
land of the Army presented certifi
cates to the following members of the
class: Mias Mary Abigail Birch, Miss
Etta Bishop Conover. Miss Ruth Vic
toria Davis. Miss Grace Miriam Fls
mer, Miss Mildred Helen Jones, Miss
Elsa Knutson, Miss Catharine Barbara
Lawton. Miss Katherine Dowd Leary,
Miss Eva Bessie Messenger, Miss Lucy
Veronica McCabe and Miss Evelyn
Noble.
Ten of the graduates have accepted
appointments in the physiotherapy
departments of the U. S. Army hos
pitals, It was stated.
A lecture on physiotherapy was
given by Dr. Frank B. Granger, of
Boston. Mass., who was the principal
speaker. Dr. Granger is a lieutenant
colonel In the Medical Reserve Corps
and at one time was the director at
Walter Reed Hospital. To his activi
ties, the organisation of physiothe
rapy departments in army hospitals
during 191 S and 1919 are largely at
tributed.
Other School Activities.
Other schools which have turned out
many graduates are: The School of
Dieticians, where the value of foods
and methods of preparing them are
taught; the School of Occupational
Therapy, in which instruction is given
for the teaching of trades of all sorts
and tho school for patients, in the re
construction department, where many
different courses are taught.
The patient Is allowed to select the
subjects he desires and according to
his wishes Is given Instruction In
languages, mathematics, commercial
courses, drafting and mechanical
drawigg, art work, weaving, all kinds
of automobile repair work, reed and
cane work, studies In agriculture or
in crafts of any kind that he might
wish to make a study of. There are
forty aides now employed in the dif
ferent sections of the arts and crafts
department where the patients who
are able to be up and around come
to receive Instruction and those who
are bedridden receive Instruction In
any line of work which they want
and are able, to do along with (heir
particular physical handicap,
it was pointed out that out of 700
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., FEBRUARY 11. 1923—PART 1.
have been fell throughout the Occi
dent, while European prestige has
been greatly depreciated in the orient.
Today's events have their origin
there.
Xeithcr the Greeks nor the Turks
will curb their ambitions so long as
they think th<*mselves strong enough
to achieve their purpose. Only one
thing can check them, the decision of a
united Europe. Such decisions are
lacking.
The Turks took advantage of
Lausanne to increase the demands
initiated at Chanak and Smyrna. Un
questionably they had support from
Berlin and Moscow. Considering the
events of the last few days at lau
sanne It is reasonable to ask whether
there Is not a close connection be
tween Ismet Pasha's refusal to sign,
the Smyrna notifications to the war
ships, German resistance in the Ruhr
and the recent visit to Berlin of
Count Brokdorf Rantzau, German
ambassador at Moscow. Either I
am mistaken or you shortly will see
In action what T have called for more
than a year .the Berltn-Moscow-An
gora triple alllanct.
Hope to Take Advantage.
Tt is to be hoped that the mad re
sistance of the Turks to accepting the
pact submitted at I,ausanne now will
Ibe taken advantage of to Improve
this detestable treaty they once were
ready to sign. Without mentioning
the real dangers inherent in a strong
armed Turkish force In Constanti
nople and Eastern Thrace the finan
cial and economic clauses meant the
end of all safety and dignity for
European subjects in Turkey.
France and the Cnited States, who
have established so many thriving
schools and missions in the Levant are
particularly menaced. Those on the
ground who are most competent to
speak declare the Ijausanne treaty
would have condemned all schools
and hospitals of this sort to death.
Many Indeed, already are closed.
As for the Christian minorities,
unless the clauses are modified they
must choose between exile and ex
termination. We must make a su
preme effort once again to set things
straight in the orient. This business
is indisputably compromised by the
Franco-German crises. But despite
this France and England must act in
concert with others to make a united
stand. Otherwise the risk of war in
the orient again is visible.
<<V>psTlfht. 1923. >
day night she managed to elude the
guards of that institution and made
her escape, only to be captured In
less than twenty-four hours. She
was found in the company of a man,
and an additional charge of miscon
duct was added to her already long
list.
While waiting in the cell room of
Judge McMahon's court for a hearing.
Mrs. Cook was suddenly seized with
a desire for a drink. An overly trust
ful guard permitted her to walk down
the corridor to a cooler, and she kept
on going—down the steps, through
the engine room and out to freedom
again. In the meantime the court
! and two headquarters detectives
I waited In vain for the prisoner. A
city-wide search failed to bring any
information as to her whereabouts.
Gives Herself I'p.
Just before supper time a tearful
woman opened the door of the first
precinct station and faced an amazed
precinct detective—ll. K. Wilson.
"I'm Anna Belle Cook,” the figure
sobbed.
So Anna Belle Cook is back in the
house of detention, waiting to be
tried not only on tho theft charges,
but also accused of committing a
misdemeanor.
NEW DOCK SCHEME
FOR DJJSURGED
Engineer Department Pre
pares Plans for Sea Wall
and Landing Places.
A new scheme for the development
of the Washington channel water
front that would provide for commer
cial dock facilities and at the same
time will bo in keeping with tho at
tractive appearance of Potomac Park
has been prepared by the District engi
neer department.
A rough sketch of this plan calls
for a new sea wall built further out
in the stream than the present one.
The added space thus made available
would be filled in and used as a flat
landing place, somewhat lower than
the level of Water street.
The driveway for vehicular traffic
along the water front would parallel
the quay, or fiat landing space. The
roadway would be at an elevation
that would provide for subways from
the wharves, under the street, to
commercial structures along the river
front.
The plan Is merely a prospective
one, to be considered whenever funds
can be obtained for Improvement of
the waterfront. With an urgent
need still existing for school build
ings, street paving and sewer exten
sions. It is not likely that money will
be found within tho next sow years
for the waterfront.
Nevertheless, the preparation of this
new scheme Indicates that District
officials still have the waterfront in
mind as one of the future projects
for the beautification and improve
ment of the National Capitol.
HONOLULU CABLE REPAIRED.
NEW YORK, February 10.—The
Honolulu Midway Cable has been re
paired, restoring direct communica
tion with Midway, Guam, China,
Japan, the Philippines, and Dutch
East Indies, via the Commercial
Pacific cable.
fiatients at the hospital, approximate
y 875 take up some kind of recon
struction work and the benefits in
taking their minds oft of themselves
and getting Intensely Interested In
something, physicians state, can hard
ly be estimated as to the great
amount of good that it does them.
ALL BRITAIN AGOG
‘ FOR WORD ON RUHR
I
How Premier Will Break Si
lence When Parliament
Opens Tuesday Question.
FRENCH LOSING GROUND
Extension of Activities to Baden
Indication of Abandonment
of Treaty.
by A. G. GARDINER,
Britain'* Foremost Liberal Editor.
By Osblp to The Stir,
LONDON. February 10.—Parliament
reassembles Tuesday. The country
awaits with great anxiety the break
ing of silence by the government on
the tremendous situation confronting
it. L»urlng the recess Premier Bonar
Law could remain silent. Now he
must speak.
What will he say? The formula
of "benevolent neutrality" no longer
Is defensible. Neutrality, which is
benvolent to one side, naturally must
be malevolent to the other. Neutral
'*■' flcrf> '* simply an evasion of the
Issue which remains while events
sweep the nation onward.
int^ aj »hi ,y r> d u y France sinks deeper
into the Ruhr mire. Her failure to
?"‘ n of tl,e German
workmen has defeated her original
policy. Not more reparations but less.
h.?iV nore r’, oal but none - Th « strangle
hold on German industry has been
found to be a strangle hold on French
manufacturers.
-I.?!! 16 resu, t is that all pretense of
occupation has disappeared.
Kuthlessness is growing liourly, and
undisguised military occupation is Im
minent. .Shootings, suppression of
newspapers, deportations of loading
officials, severities of all kinds now
are daily occurrences.
Regard for Treaty Goats.
Extension of French activities to
Baden, a hundred miles distant from
the Ruhr, indicates that all regard for
the treaty and restraints of all kinds
have been abandoned. The original
purpose of Poincare was to use the
Ruhr invasion to separate the Rhine
provinces from Germany and estab
lish them as a confederation under
French control. He expected to do
this by capturing the machinery of
industry and using economic pressure.
This expectation was defeated by the
attitude of the workers. The Ruhr
miners hated the Prusslanlsm of Ber
lin, and. having got rid of that, were
not willing to welcome I’ursslanlsm
from Paris.
Having failed to carry through the
mutilation of Germany by peaceful
means, Poincare now is faced with tne
alternative of withdrawing and con
fessing defeat or of adopting naked
force to achieve his end. It seems clear
his present intention is to go on re
gardless of consequences. The alterna
tive would mean political extinction,
and Poincare has no such desire.
Can Bonar Law continue benevolently
neutral in the face of these develop
ments? Can England leave her troops
in Cologne while France tramples on
the policy which their presence there
represents? Can England suffer longer
the humiliation of being represented on
the reparations commission which has
become a mere department of the Qual
d’Orsay? Impossible. But how shall
we withdraw and what action will fol
low?
The answer is not easy. The bedrock
fact in the situation is discreetly left
undiscussed. But it is In all minds.
France has established unchallenged the
military dominance of Europe. So far
as force Is concerned she is able to do
as she pleases. She knows this. We
know it. Hence our sense of impo
tence.
Moral Consideration.
But France cannot rely exclusively
on the authority of force. There are
moral considerations. Still more Im
portant, there are economic considera
tions. Signs are not wanting that the
financial arrangements made between
the United States and England are cre
ating an effect In French minds. France
owes money to England as well as to
America, and realizes she cannot per
manently Ignore that fact and retain '
her place among nations which respect
their liabilities.
The English position is clear. She
cannot pay her debt to America and
cancel that which France owes her.
This consideration may assume a new
aspect In view of the French opera
tions in Germany. There she not only
is destroying British trade, but any
prospect of Britain ever collecting
reparations. England, therefore, has
a many-sided interest in the Ruhr
drama.
France is slaying her own goose as
well as ours and killing it with money
which belongs to England and Amer
ica. This grotesque situation cannot
continue indefinitely. England sees
one of her debtors reduced to bank
ruptcy by another of her debtors who
pleads she Is too poor to pay. but Is
able to maintain the greatest army
any nation ever kept In Europe in
peace times.
The nation expects the premier to
approach the situation from this
angle. Since France ignores our ad
vice and our Interests she must pay
her way as we pay ours. This aspect
of the matter has taken a strong hold
In the minds of the public. Parlia
ment will look to Bonar Law to face
It courageously.
. (Copyright, 1923.)
The Friday night lectures on physi
ological chemistry and dietetics, by Dr.
J. Wllliston Palmer, and the free clinic,
under the direction of Drs. Plummer and
Jenkyns, are well patronized by the
public,
fraf
M -
HOOVER ZOOK
amonceß
<Lc opening of a new JV\en*s Stop
UirtceuLujJj a.J G sfrect
wkcrc Clotting, Hats anJ larnistings inJispcnsatlc (o
tie well drcßieJ man will always tc
oLtainaLle from our stock
Veicarncstly.aolxcitjrofcr patronage
ARTHUR W.IORAItOAtL
.S’
French War of Independence
Against Britain Seen hy Hardin
Declares Showdown Should Be Demanded
on Whether English Are For or Against
Occupation of Ruhr Districts.
German Hatred Fanned
A giant devil is loose In Germany; French end Belgians are being
boycotted In every way.
Using any forslgn tongue becomes the signal for an angry demand
that only German be spoken.
German monarchists and nationalists have seized the opportunity
to advocate open resistance.
England could settle the dispute by either making allied support
of France's action unanimous or characterizing it illegal.
The French advance Into the Ruhr really is a "French war of
Independence against Britain.”
BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN.
Germany’s Foremost Publicist.
By Cable Dispatch to The Star.
BERLIN, February 10. —A "giant
devil is loose" in Germany.
Warning notices are exhibited be
fore shop doors, "Nothing sold to
French and Belgians.” while these
nationals are not admitted to hotels
or pensions'!' Any one speaking a
foreign language in a tramcar re
celves scowls or Is likely to be told
sharply: "Better talk German.” Any
one speaking French, even in a
whisper. Is ordered out.
The cinemas display the latest tele
grams and photographs of Ruhr
events, while the audience springs
to its feet and sings patriotic songs
Any one remaining seated la greeted
with a flood of abuse. All French
and Belgians have received notice to
leave their rooms.
Contributions for the support of
the Ruhr population are being solic
ited everywhere, and millions already
have been subscribed. Any person
seated In a case who refuses to sub
scribe is asked whether he is Ger
man, usually in a loud tone designed
to attract hostile attention from
others at nearby tables, leaving Im
mediate flight the only alternative
Frsackmts Gets Dead Dog.
One of the principal representatives
of France here had the decomposed
body of a dog delivered at his home.
The first secretary of the French em
bassy received a letter from the
i restaurant where he had been ac
customed to dine, asking him to stay
1 away.
j So terribly strange is the public
wrath against the Ruhr occupancy
and the French military regime there
that revenge is being taken on people
who hot only have nothing to do
with It. but In many cases disap
prove. The wrath even extends be
yond v)e ocean.
When I have attempted to explain
the reasons why false conclusions
have been drawn concerning the
French motives and the daggers this
is bringing toward peaceful settle
ment, Oerman-Americans have cabled
my friends here to see to It that I
am killed, only "more successfully than
was tried last July." owing to my
"championship of Poincare’s policy.”
Only a fool could Imagine I have done
anything of the sort.
Devil Broke* Loose.
Truly the devil has broken loose—
the same devil who raged through
the militant countries during the
war. with the same results as then.
Any one reading the German papers
and crediting their utterances is un
able to doubt that Germany has a
right to self-defense and would be )
558,000,000 GIVEN
BY CARNEGIE BOARD
SI 67,000 Turned Over to
Two Libraries Located
in This City.
During the past eleven years tiie
Carnegie Corporation has made gifts
of nearly J5i,000.000. the report of;
Henry S. Pritchett, acting president, i
shows.
The major interests at present re
ceiving the support of the corpora
tion. in whole or in part, the report
states, include the Institute of Eco
nomics in Washington, an agency for
analyzing and publishing economic
facts In popular form, and the Na
tional Research Council, also located •
here, an organization that aims to I
focus and promote all sorts of sol- !
entitle research in Aemrica.
A total of J 5.254.000 has been paid
to beneficiaries during tho year end
ed September 30, 1023. tbe report con
tinues, of which J 2.578.000 W'cnt to
colleges and universities. Os nearly
$58,000,000 expended during tho
eleven years of the corporation’s ex
istence J 23.415.000 has been given to
four Carnegie institutions—the Insti
tute at Pittsburgh, the Foundation In
New York and the Institution and
the Peace Endowment in Washington.
Under the heading of "grants
voted by the trustees during the year
ended September 30, 1922," appears
two Items for Washington, D. 0., $87,-
000 and JIOO.OOO. The former amount
was for tho new Southeast Branch of
the Library and the SIOO,OOO was voted
for the new Mount Pleasant Branch.
In the connection tho report con
irresistible if it presented a united
front, while he also would absorb a
traglc-comlc account of tbe complete
collapse of the French-Belglan-Ital
lan scheme to extract reparations.
He must likewise see occupation of
the Baden territory as a swollen
headsd impertinence on the part of
shameless robbers. Any one reading
the French papers with the same zeal
equally would be ready to swear to
the French patience, sense of justice
and the complete success of the occu
pation. Further, that the only reason
for extending the lines was to cope
with German resistance in holding up
International trains at the bottle
neck of the bridgehead.
Despite the terrible lessons of the
war, the ancient poison is working
with the same violence. Must we
believe the truth of Goethe’s pessi
mistic philosophy when he said, "Na
tions never ripen, they always remain
children”?
The press of both nations Is in
flammatory. Our monarchists and
nationalists wish to prove the neces
sity of a strong army. Their speeches
and their controlled press are try
ing to arouse the German people to
the belief that their forced disarma
ment Is the only reason for the shame
of being placed under an Illegal for
eign domination. Are the people,
despite their recent sufferings, so
childish as to permit themselves to
bo driven mad, thus creating an at
mosphere of international hatred
which threatens to reduce Europe
I again to a state of barbarism be
i cause of tho interests of the Comite
des Forges, or tho French coal own
ers. or the German militarists, iron,
coal and steel magnates?
Where Danger Lies.
The greatest danger threatening us
today lies In part eight of the treaty
annex which provides for reprisals
for defaulted payments. France
bases her seizures and action on this
section and Belgium and Italy sup
port her. Germany insists the action
must be unanimous by all nations
represented on the reparations com
mission. The fact that the British
representative has not sanctioned tho
action is accepted here is showing
England accepts the German view.
Isn’t it time to get a direct ruling
on this? The American observer,
without dropping his unofficial char
acter, could demand ft. If England
opposed France then her action would
be illegal. If she Indorsed the occu
pation then Germany must yield to
the inevitable. But so long as the
war devil remains unchanged the
world never can come to a peace.
England, which has settled her
debts with the United States and car
ried her chief point, Mosul, at Lau
sanne, cannot deceive herself longer
that the French advance into the
Ruhr is the beginning of a “French
war of independence against Britain."
(Copyright. 1923.)
tinues: "It Is their (trustee®) hope
that the library movement has now
gained such headway that the con- j
tlnuation of the work by other com
munities will be effected without aid
from the corporation. The trustees
of the corporation in their experience
| reached the same conclusion as the
; founder himself, as to the value of
these agencies of social improve
ment. There is probably no other
gift to a community which, made under
proper conditions, does more good and
less harm than the gift of a public li
brary.”
The assets of the corporation amount
to *130.000,000. according to the re
port. It was added that they will be
Increased by about $10,000,000 on the
final settlement of Mr. Carnegie’s
estate.
SENATOR-ELECTMAYFIELD
IN HOTEL LOBBY FIGHT
Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUSTIN, Tex., February 10.—With
members of the state legislature and
prominent business men standing
nearby. United States Senator-elect
Earle B. Mayfield of Texas and Silli
man Evans, capitol correspondent for
a Fort Worth (Tex.) newspaper,
staged a fist fight in the lobby of a
downtown hotel hero this afternoon.
The difficulty took place at the en
trance of an elevator from which the
senator-elect was stepping into tbe
lobby when the newspaper man ac
costed him and struck him. black
ening his eye. Before Mayfield could
siriKe back bystanders Interfered and
ho was hustled Into an automobile by
a friend and taken to his horne.
Thc altercation, it was stated,'grew
out of a difference between the two
men when they met accidentally in
the room of a mutual friend at the
hotel. The senator-elect, according
to Evans, assailed him about a story
he had written and which had been
published In tho Fort Worth paper,
and, locking the door of tho room,
threatened to chastise Evans phvsl
cally. The mutual friend Interfered
at this point and Evans* left the room
with the announcement that he could
settle things If he could meet tho
senator-elect outside. Later they met
and blows were struck.
AVIATOR FLIES BY NIGHT
FROM BRITAIN TO FRANCE
Filer Escapes Danger In Fog by
Dropping Flare— Makes Per
fect Landing.
By the Anortated Preia.
PARIS. February 10.—An airplane,
flying through the darkness from the
British field at Croydon, England,
made a successful landing at Le
Bourget. The plane followed a course
marked out by special light signals
and the aviator reported his progress
by wireless telephone. When he ar
rived at Beauvais, fifty-four miles
from Paris, where a fog forced the
last experimental night flyer to land,
the aviator sighted the light on the
Lo Bourget field, whereupon be
dropped a green flare. This was the
signal for tho Illumination of the
field, and the subsequent landing was
perfect.
It Is expected that a regular night
passenger service will be started soon
between Croydon and Le Bourget.
CANADAAFFECTED
BY WORLDUNREST
Parliament Faces Difficult
Task in Combating Post-
War Conditions.
IIV JOHN GARDINER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MONTREAL, February 10.—The
Canadian parliament has met under
political and economic circumstances
that will make Its present delibera
tions momentous.
Canada Is not escaping the back
wash of turbulence in Europe.
Although she Is free from tho dis
quiet that threatens the old world
with chaos, there has been no time
since the great war when her prob
lems were more grave or more press
ing.
In the great west there is un
doubted distress.
The upheavals in Europe, with their
disruption of markets, credits and ex
changes, largely nullified effects of a
good harvest. In consequence of this
and some other things adversity has
come up%i the farmer. He Is gravely
discontented and under a smarting
sense of grievance toward the exist
ing order.
Discontent Is Evident.
With wages continuing on a high
level, with taxes increased, with
transportation charges a burden, with
the cost of everything he buys much
above the level of pre-war days, the
agriculturist faces the fact that the
dollar price of his produce is little
higher than before tho war while
the dollar he receives in return has
a greatly reduced purchasing power,
as compared to former times.
It is menacing to the Dominion that
so large and so important a portion
of the population is discontented.'
There c;«i be no solid advancement in
trade and industry, officials admit, be
cause agricultural prosperity and
business growth, and agricultural de
pression and business stagnation run
on parallel lines and are largely in
terdependent. It means further a sit
uation which lends itself to the in
citement and wiles of the demagogue
and to the plausible figments of the
economic visionary. Already the voic
es of fomenters of class and sectional
animosity pervade the land and are
finding many listeners.
Hence the just grievances of the
west, and of the farmer, demand in
telligent consideration by parliament.
There also is the vital problem of
immigration. By common consent, a
select immigration is one of Canada’s
vital needs. The census figures prove
that between 1911 and 1921 as many
people left Canada as entered it.
Other figures reveal that today emi
gration surpasses immigration. Yet
the government, apart from a futile
conference with the provinces—a
conference that, because of its very
nature, was doomed to fail—has done
absolutely nothing.
Call for Economy.
There Is an Imperative call every
where for economy by the lawmakers.
Canada’s financial position today Is
very serious. How serious may be
grasped from the fact that since the
close of the war—since the armistice
—the national debt has been In
creased by a billion dollars, and on
November 30. 1922. was $2,391,630,515.
The country is not much interested
in political tactics or stratagems, j
The old war cries, tho old shibboleths
and formulae, almost always divorced
from reality, have entirely lost their
appeal and potency in contact with
existing difficulties. Today the coun
try is not so much concerned over
whether progressives or liberals or
conservalives (names that have lit
tle significance to fit the times) are
triumphant in tactics and deba.te.
Its concern is almost solely that
flarUament as a whole slutli legislate
with a simple regard for w hat prom
ises tho public most good.
(Copyright. 1923.)
BOTH STORES
WILL REMAIN CLOSED
UNTIL TUESDA
IN PREPARATION FOR
AN EVENT
UNPARALLELED
IN OUR HISTORY
WATCH TOR THE BIG STORY
IN MONDAY EVENING’S STAR
t
Moneys Worth or Money Beck
WORLD REVOLUTION
SCAREDISAPPEARS
Threatened Uprising Sudden
ly Collapses as Europe
Trembles With Fear.
OUTBREAKS SUPPRESSES
“Red” Groups Quickly Defeated in
Germany, Italy and
Hungary.
BY GRANT GORDON.
*y Cable to Tbe Star.
PARIS, February 10.—Lost, a world
revolt t *° n ' Three yftars a «°. th* red
ha, at th ° ffat * of Eu rope. it
scarj. PP * ared - Today th ero
anvut, H tracC of to be found
anywhere. Who killed It. or stole l
ever oTwillV Way? *" 11 * one fo ' *
er . or will it come back?
which hVTa lnrredibl * that a thing
w Inch bulked so big and near a~,j
menacing could have so utterly
eclipsed itself in so short a space' f
of tho? n ‘ y d hree XearS a * 0 ’ hundreds
of thousands of people ln Enro] „
Other P h 4> It"* Rnd Cheerlng for It-
Other hundreds of thousands were
fighting ,t. without great apparent
dread*of ,£ ,terill,y n,iUions "ere in
Revolution Disappear*.
I eople took their money out of
banks and hid it in places they hoped
T hey sold their houses
and pianos and other bulky now/
Imitn’ 21'h bOUgbt diamonds and pl“:
inum and rare postage stamps ami
ed readViv** that CoUld be transport
readjlj, or even concealed on the
person In case of search. And now
the revolution is gone and people
r . u f b *!'» their eyes. What hap
pened to it? p
}’ ?320. the French confed
eration of tabor called a general
.f-~,. People sald “ lt a the revolu
tion. There was nearly a panic for
a few days. Troops marched through
the streets of the cities, staging pa
rades to restore confidence.
Germany, everybody said, was a
tinder-box. Bolshevism might arrive
any day. The Kappists did arrlv».
and w ere defeated by a general strike
called by the government. People said
"that Frankenstein government hsc*
called into being something that is
stronger than itself." But it turned
out otherwise.
Italy’s revolutionists seized the
factories and held them for a wee’;.
They ran them, and produced ma
chines and motor cars without the
services of their employers. Then
something happened—nobody has
ever been quite sure what. And two
years later the country was In tho
hands of the superpatriotlc fascist:,
l ong List of Failures.
Something has happened In every
country In Europe to make it seem
unhealthy for revolution. Is it that
conditions generally have become
more stable, and the causes of unrest
diminished? If so. it is not apparent.
The opposite rather would seem to
be the case so far as most of the
continent is concerned.
Is it that the Moscow experiment
has shown conclusively the failure of
communism? This might he a tempt
ing hypothesis—except that history
affords no examples of revolutions
founded on reason. Revolutions are
not made, apparently: they just hap
pen. Karl Marx said they would
happen in countries where capitalism
had been developed to the highest de
gree. Russia disproved him. Nobody
else has advanced a theory that fits
all the facts.
Nobody, cither, seems to have ex
plained clearly and understandably
why the communist revolution In
Hungary failed. Bela Kun was
dictator for a time. Suddenly his
regime collapsed. His communist
brethren in Moscow said it was be
cause he did not use the terror.
And there was a near-communist
regime In Munich just three
ago; today Munich is the center of
pan-German plotting. What hap
pened?
All these movements are detached,
and yet possibly there are, certain
features common to them all. Pos
sibly the same explanation will hold
good, in part, for all of them. Pos
sibly not.
Anyhow, there's a book that might
be written: What happened to the
world revolution?
(Copyright, 1923.)
SCHOONER REFLOATED.
CAPE MAT. N. J., February IP—
The three-masted coal schooner Es-»
telle Krieger, of Boston, which went
ashore early yesterday at Ship Bot
tom Station, twenty miles south of
Barnegat Light, was refloated this
afternoon and taken in tow for New
York, by the coast guard cutter
Kickapoo and the wrecking tug Re
solute. The vessel was bound from
Norfolk to New Haven with cargo.