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GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE
W. M. BOLK, Editor
O. 8. WAUDEN, aiiuuucer
LEONARD (Î. DIEHIi
Business M »nager
EDITORIAL PAGE
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
The peace conference will probably convene
next week. It has been slow in assembling and
getting to work—very slow when one considers
the importance of its work to millions of people
in many nations whose whole future plans and
actions must depend on it and what it does. The
long delay in its beginning work was getting on
f the nerves of some people in this country and
the allied countries. We are glad to learn at last
it is going to do something. We are also glad to
know that the United States was in no way to
blame for the delay. The president of the United
States has been over there for five weeks now,
ready to begin, and our delegates were named
and on the ground before any of the other na
tions concerned had even selected their dele
gates. A good deal of the responsibility for the
delay falls on Great Britain .. First, we had to
wait for a parliamentary election there. Then
we had to wait two weeks to get all the votes
counted, for the British army in distant places
took part in the election. Then we had to wait
until Lloyd George could figure out his new cab
inet. Meantime, vast numbers of men who will
be vitally affected by the decisions of this peace
conference in their personal affairs and business
affairs had to wait with what patience they can
and prolong their uncertainty. The demobiliza
tion of millions of men in the allied armies awaits
the decisions of this peace conference. The
raising of the allied blockade so that enemy coun
tries and neutral countries also may freely im
port food stuffs and raw materials to start up
their stagnant industries also awaits that de
cision. It means renewed industry and employ
ment for many millions in many countries. Then
there is the political re-arrangements. Men
want to know what government they are going
to live under before they start up business again.
In case it is not going to be satisfactory to them
many will wish to emigrate to new surroundings
before they begin the process of rebuilding their
ruined personal fortunes. It is not strange that
there is some irritation manifest over the slow
action of the peace conference in getting to work.
Its delays are enormously costly to a whole
world.
But we are now assured that this delay is
about ended. The delegates of the various
iwers are all selected and most of them on the !
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[.und. Preliminary conversation.«? between the
gates of the principal powers have been
arted and such minor matters as the official
language to be used in the public meetings, the
order in which various subjects are to be taken
up. the methods of discussion and publicity for
results, the number of delegates, and their
weight in the conference, for each of the partic
ipating powers—these are some of the ques
tions decided and to be decided at the prelimin
ary conversations. The peace conference proper
will meet next week, we are told, and get down
to business.
Perhaps the most important news that comes
to us from the preliminary conference is the fact
that agreement has been reached to make the
formation of a league of nations the first busi
ness before the peace conference. The defini
tion of its powers and methods of applying these
may be worked out more gradually as its needs
are disclosed by subsequent action of the peace
conference, and the tasks laid upon the league
of nations, but we are told that the present plan
and agreement contemplates the building up of
fthe whole peace treaty around the frame work
of a league of nations. That will not be pleasant
news to Messrs. Lodge, Knox, Smoot, et al. They
want that matter postponed for the present and
peace made first, after which they, no doubt,
feel that the plan for a league of nations will
fail because there will be no use for it. The
i.greement of the allied nations points to an ex
actly contrary policy. The kicking senators
•irhpuld lose no time in sending a round robin
Protesting against the act of the allied nations
of IS urope in giving any consideration to this
seîBeme of a league of nations at this time, or in
fact, against the peace conference taking any
action at all without first consulting them indi
vidually and collectively and obtaining their ap
qbation and consent, on pain of having their
tion nullified when the peace treaty is brot up
the senate for ratification. They owe such
ftrning to their own self importance and sense
senatorial dignity.
Well, perhaps the peace conference will over
look that point for the sake of promptness in
getting results, and if they do we have a feeling
that the masses of the people in this country and
Europe who are ignorant of the importance of
ihe senatorial kickers, but are in a big hurry to
know where they are going to be at after peace
is made, will excuse them and overlook their
break.
It is going to be no small job to make this
peace treaty, and it is an impossible job to make
it on lines that will satisfy everybody. But we
think there will be general approval of the de
termination to take up the question of a league
of nations at the first sitting and thresh that out
ii s well as may be. So-far* thefe is unanimous
agreement on the principle of the thing, but
forty different plans of accomplishing the re
sults desired. If the league of nations can once
be formed it can be made a framework for the
rest of the treaty. It is a fact, cheèring in its
significance, that the leading nations that fought
this war have all come to the conclusion that it
is- a necessity. The visit of President Wilson
abroad has been a powerful influence to bring
even this degree of concord about according to
the universal testimony of those in a position
to know the facts, and the president's trip is
abundantly justified already if this be so.
t0 dpf y the wUI of the ma - |ont - v
THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT
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At the present writing it looks as tho the sane
and law abiding forces of Germany had the radi
cal and criminal elements under control. The
latter always fly like rats to their holes when
confronted by determined men not afraid to use
force with them. The first thing the bolsheviki
do when they get control anywhere is to open
the jails and release all the murderers, thieves
and criminals whose natural instincts are to
ward crime and give them a free hand in loot
ing and stealing and destroying life and prop
erty. That was the case in Russia, and the same
policy was followed out in Berlin and other Ger
man cities where the bolsheviki got control. The
idea is that this class of criminals will inspire
terror and submission. They do among ignorant
and uneducated peoples. But there is no greater
natural coward than the criminal. He can be
cruel and blood-thirsty enough when he has a
big advantage in numbers or position. But all
experience has shown that he has a yellow streak
in his nature and will not stand up and fight
unless cornered or in greatly superior force. He
runs when confronted by equal force every time.
The present German government only profes
ses to be a temporary one waiting to turn over
its powers to a constituted assembly elected by
the people. That election has just been held,
and the results show that only a very small frac
tion of the people in Germany have any sym
pathy with the bolshevik principles or methods.
It was the same in Russia when a constituent
assembly was elected there. But the smaller
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bolsheviki group had the arms and the force back j
of them and used it without the slightest scruple i
They sought
the same result in Germany and tried to attain
it by the same means. But in Germany a major
portion of the soldiers who returned from the
front refused to be fooled by the Russian an
archists or to be bought by their stolen gold, and
they stood by the temporary government and
the elected constituent assembly that is to suc
ceed it. The result was the hasty flight of the
braggart anarchists, who delight in murder
where it can be done with safety to their own
skins, but are by no means willing to fight at the
expense of their skins. A few whiffs of grape
shot, Napoleon once said, is the medicine that
cures revolutionists of that type, and he applied
the remedy with great success in his day. It
seems equally potent for the same purpose where
it has been tried these days, whether it be in
Siberia, Argentina or Germany. Forces of law
and order once organized and armed, always puts
these criminals to rout wherever the numbers
on each side are anywhere equal, and often the
anarchists and criminals are in a large majority.
Force is the only thing these criminals respect.
There should bé no hesitation in applying the
remedy wherever they commence their nefarious
work. That is the lesson of experience.
©fjt ©pinions of ©tfjers
TY'LL HAVE TO FIND OUT HIMSELF.
(Ohio State Journal.)
Mr. Taft has declined the earnest invitation to beeom
permanent tribunal for the settlement of all base-ball dis
putes, so now we don't suppose we ever shall have the
pleasure of seeing him show Ty Cobb which is the best way
to slide to second.
USING KINGS FOR CADDIES.
(Dallas News.)
Of «-ourse it i.s none of our business, but we think that
the Scotch soldiers along the Rhine ought to be allowed to
play a little golf at the Cologne Country Club.
HE'S HUNGRY NOW.
(Anaconda Standard.)
The average German is now as mild a mannered man
ever bombed a hospital or sank a hospital ship.
GERMANY'S FEET COULDN'T BE COLDER.
(.Macon Telegraph.)
A real mean guy suggests that the heating arrangement.
at the peace conference be left to Doc Garfield, so the con
ferenee won't hang on too long.
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IT'LL LOOK BIG NEXT MAY.
(Columbia Record.)
The guy who kicks about, only a quart a month now will i
probably appreciate the wisdom of the adage about not de- |
spising the day of small things.
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
(Thrift Magazine.»
Invesl your liberty bond coupons in thrift stamps
thus get the affable Mr. Compound interest on the job
you night and day.
trul
NOT SO MUCH FOAM. PLEASE.
( Lima Times- De moe/at. t
The eighth wonder of the world will be a visit to a Cin
cinnati soda fountain along about next June and hear a Cin
cinnati man ask for a "vanilla soda.".
THE LAST REFUGE GOING.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
After Ohio goes dry. Detroit will be unable
reason for the existence of Toledo
to see the
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HASKIN LETTER
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
BUILD NOW !
Washington, Jan. 13.—No less than
three billion dollar« worth of private and
public building projects in the United
States were postponed as a result of the
war, according to an estimate made b.v
the department of labor.
The immediate resumption of this
work, and the initiation of as much more
necessary construction work as the pri
vate and public capital of tie country
can carry, are the only measures that
can avert an ere. of unemployment .and
labor unrest, with all the injury to busi
ness ami financial conditions which in
evitably accompany such a condition, in
the opinion of labor department officials.
It is for this reason that the labor de
partment has created a new division—
i that of public works and construction de
! velopment. This division will co-operate
with states, «ties and individuals wish
ing to undertake constructive work.
During the war the labor department
built up a machinery which became very
effective in the work of finding men for
jobs. Now it faces the problem of find
ing jobs for men.
The seriousness of that problem can
scarcely be exaggerated. Soldiers, are
now being discharged at the rate of about
fifieea thousand a day, and many of
them have no work lo turn to. The Labor
well ha-s already overflowed, and only
prompt action can avert a flood.
The administration is at, work on the
preliminary investigation for a measure
which will provide for the reclamation
of thousands of square mile* of swamp
and cut-over land, and the making of the
reclaimed areas into farms for soldiers.
This work would give employment to an
army. But the measure is not even for
mulatnd as yet, and when it comes he
fore congress it will be months before its
passage. The present emergency must
be met by the state and city government
and by private capital.
The work of this new division will be
primarily to bring capital and laixir to
either so as to obtain the best results.
It will assist the leaders in the build
ing industry by giving them expert a 1
vice and information relative to the de
«»and for building in all parts of the
country. It will aid labor by providing
employment to large numbers of soldiers
and workmen discharged from war
plants.
The advice given will be expert he
cause professional men have been called
upon to handle this work. F. T. Miller,
who is organizing the work, is a well
known publisher of industrial publica
tiens. The investigations and inquiries
will be directed by a group of economists
and special investigators, supplied by the
department of labor and other govern
or borrowH from
Th '- c; *kh»p of economists and
men will make n tboro pti rvcy of th**
country and collect statistics in resard
to price and supply of building materials,
and the amount of labor available and ira
cost, ihe vaines of land, prevailing rents.
the supply of capital, and the amount of
construction held up by the war.
This data will be available for the use
of any e,immunity or builder in deter
mining whether it is advisable to under
take public or private construction in a
given place.
The department of labor will also con
duct an active «ttmpaign to encourage
building operations. It is expected that
the building industry will respond to this
artily. for ev
Kuropean war
as«vl until now
the beginning of
construction has de
't is practically at a
TRAVELETTE
Pv N1KSAII.
DRUID
rim of ;
TEMPLE.
cup formed by the
Within
mountains of the English lake district,
lies a ragged circle of stones. A child
of a giant race might have set up these;
mammoth pebbles in an attempt at the
outline of a house foundation. As a mat
ter of fact Druid priests are said to
have directed the placing of the stones;
to form an incloaure with an altar at one
>nd. thus forming the simplest form of
architecture known—a Druid temple.
Midnight was considered by the Druids
as the appropriate hour for some of their
most solemn ceremonies. The weird and
impressive aspect of this and other
Druid temples at night, has not been
changed by time.
All about the magic circle are the,
mountains, gray and purple in the shad-1
owy night. The moon sends shafts of
light across the peaks, anil strikes the
gaunt, old stones with a greenish glow.;
The stillness of this shut-in temple seems
waiting to be broken by the wail of a
Druid invoking the gods, or by the
crackle of flames upon the altar,
This is the place said to have seen]
the lait Druid rites. The tradition is
that a maiden chosen as a sacrifice to
drive away a plague from the people was
rescued, as the fire was about to con
sume her, by a dosen streams of water
rushing down the mountain sides. When
the flames were extinguished' the water
rolled back and the intended victim walk
ed out unharmed. At this unmistakable
sign from the gods, the Druids abandoned
their human sacrifices, and even, it is
sometimes said, their sacred temple.
SEARCHLIGHT.
Canada has banished the old style Ca
nadian penny, famous for its huge size,:
and has ado|>ted in it.« place a coin the]
size of the United States copper.
rORTY-FIVE APPLICATIONS
FOR CITIZENSHIP TAKEN UP.
Special to The Daily Tribune,
Malta, .Ian. 10, -Judgo Horly con
side red 45 applications for full citizen
ship Saturday. Among those who were
admitted were Harm Meyer. Chas. H .
Duvail. Hubert Aikins. Robert Arnold,
Charles Kvaiis, James II. G Keiljcy. Pat
M. Chrisi iauson, Carl Hart. Olaf Holm,
Felix. Strom. Henry Granthier, Albert
>rummond. John J. Aikins, Michaeli
Murphy, Duncan K. Cameron, Joseph;
Albus and Hans Rushtnan.
Albus is aii Austrian and Uushman is
a German. They are among the first inj
the state to be admitted to citizenship
since the signing of the armistice.
Judge Hurl.v was assisted by Dan
Pearsell, who represented the govern
ment
Judge Hurl.v granted the pica of
Mrs. Mary Anderson for a divorce from
John Anderson, adultery being alleged
as the ground. .
Resembling lazy tongs, a new holder
for bunches of asparagus grips the stalks
firmly and prevents the tips breaking
while being cooked.
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standstill. The increase in rents is indi
cative of the shortage of houses.
It must not Im « supposed, however,
tbut the department of labor will en
courage building just for the sake of the
employment it will give. The new di
vision of public works and construction
development will be very careful not to
stimulate economically unsound enter
prises.
A point to be emphasized is the ad
visability of beginning building* oper
ations immediately. One reason for the
serious labor situation at the close of
I the Civil War was that building was
- then limited to short seasons. Now oper
j at ion s can be carried on as far north
î as New York in the coldest weather.
; Modern science is fast overcoming nature
! by such inventions as electric riveters
j and the rt.se of «team in thawing out
the frozen ground. For instance, all the
j ground-breaking and foundation work at
j flog Island shipyard was done in the
! dead of winter last year.
The department of labor will urge the
i completion of the subway and elevated
j lines under construction in Philadelphia,
and other similar work in iarge cities.
Inquiries from Ilarrisburg, Pa., show
I that municipality is getting ready to go
! ahead with municpal projects delayed by
the war. The demand for residential and
business construction in Washington,
! D. C... is greater than ever before. Chi
! cago has a Union Station to complete.
At the close of the war, the depart
i ment of labor estimated the labor short
: age at one million workers. This short
i age has now disappeared entirely, and
i the scales are already tipping the other
way.
It. is quite clear that this situation is
only temporary, but. it is aiso quit" clear
that ii will be worse before it i.s better.
That is. at the present time only a
small percentage of the navy and about
one-fifth of the army have been de
mobilised. Add to the number of soldiers
»and sailors soon to be discharged the
j vast army of those engaged in war
occupations who will be turned off oa
account of contract cancellations, and
you get an idea of the condition that, is
coming. The labor market will be flooded
long before the manufacturing industries
will be ready to absorb their share of
labor .and long before the farmers are
ready for the army of "hands" which
they will demand in time.
The temporality of this situation
may minimise its seriousness in the eyes
of governments and employers, but the
soldier who has just received bis dis
charge and the munition worker .who
has been given notice, are not so in
terested in the jobs that await them next
summer or the big opportunities that
will com* in the falL They want t<> know
how they can fed their families and pay
the rent. The landlord and grocer can
not be put off wilh promises about the
future.
Work now! That is the demand of
hundreds of thousands. And surely there
is work enough to be done. ! " ne n !•»('>/
ment has n<*ver been due to a real lack
of work that needed to be done, but
always to a lack of initiative on the
part of those who bad control of the
capital tiece-'sary for its doing, A nation
which ha< million of acre-s of bush and
swamp to reclaim, a whole system of
canals to be impr >ved or built, thousands
of miles of outworn road to b«» rWaid
>« that it will carry the growing truck
traffic, and billions of dollars worth of ;
delayed housing projects to complete,
has no r>'al excuse for leaving men un- !
einploye-L
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State College at Bozem:v T;.Kt.
Precaution Against Im .ds
of Influenza.
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Boteman, Jan. 10. With the L:. < -■*.
epidemic spreading over Montana J
second wave, the faculty of the M.
State college of agriculture aud nc
ic arts at Bozeman has taken ever;, pre
caution to safeguard ihe itealfh of -in
dents. L ;m Friday the students were
notified that inoculation would be given
free of charge to those desiring it. Inoc
ulations of the anti-influenza sertira
were administered by Mrs. W. C. Mi -
Crue, wife of the state bacteriologist.
Most of the students availed them
selves of the opportunity of obtaining
free inoculation. It was made clear that
the college was not demanding that all
students take the inoculation, but was
offering it free to those .who did desire
it. The inoculation will be given over a
period of about tiO days, in three "in
stallments." Physicians declare that no
person so inoculated has developed pneu
monia. that very few ever develop the
influenza and that even those few con
tracting influenza have a very mild at
tack. The inoculations themselves have in
no case caused serins trouble to the per
son taking them.
The system <»f home quarantine has
been established in Bozeman for the
cases now known and this system will be
continued. Mayor Trnitt of Boseman has
warned citizens that the home quaran
tine rules must be obeyed to the letter.
While the college faculty does not ex
pect serious interference from the second
influenza wave no pains are being spared
to keep the students free from all dan
ger.
Anti-Saloon League
Chooses Officers
Helena. Jan. 15. At the annual meet- •
im; of the Montana anti-saloon league, I
here, the following officers were elect ;
ed :
lVesident, George \V, Miles, Miles j
City: secretary. Rev. Charles N. Donald-!
son. Helena: treasurer, O. J. Thomas, j
I'.illings: state superintendent, Rev. Jos-j
eph Pope. Hillings, (retired.)
WOMAN WHO FOR 16 YEARS
LIVED IN MISSOULA IS DEAD
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Missoula. Jan. lö. Mrs. Daniel Arms,
for lt> years a resident of Missoula, died
here after an operation. She was the
wife of Daniel Arms, an official of t he i
Hiaekfoot Land iV Development com
pany. They were married i.n Hutte in 1
INNS». She is survived by a sister. Mrs. D.
A. McDougal of Philipsburg, and by tw
brothers, Joseph and Elijah Kiîtuey o
Gold Creek.
United War Work Fund
Payment of Subscriptions Is as Follows:—
December 2, 1918 50%
January 15, 1919 25%
March 1, 1919 25%
The First Installment Is Now Due
Please make payment promptly to S. S. Ford,
Treasurer, at the Great Falls National Bank.
Payment in full, if convenient, appreciated.
Sergeant Back With
Memento From Men;
Special t.o The Daily Tribune.
Malta, Jan. l-">.—-Sergeant If. M. Kir
ton, of the law firm of Tressler and
Kirton, has returned from Camp Greene,
where he was in the tank corps. He
brings back a silver cigarette case in
scribed "First Sergeant H. M. Kirton,
from Co. A äOStn Battalion, Tank Corps,
Dec. 11, 1918."
CRIPPLED CANADIAN
TROOPSHIP IS tN NO PERIL
Vancouver, 15. C_ .Ian. 15.—An Otta
wa dispatch received here today, says
th^. British troopship Protesilaus, carry
ing about -000 Siberian-bound Canadian
troops, is in no danger. Last night Vlad
ivostok cables reported the steamer,
when nearing Vladivostok, had sent out
a wireless call for assistance, one of her
propellers having been broken.
Start the New Year Right
Systematize your work and save time,
labor ami money.
Dolt
Electrically
Just as the modern store, office, or factory, can afford
the electric motor, cash register, typewriter, adding and
billing machines, so can the modern housewife afford the
electric range, dish washer, suction cleaner, floor polisher,
sewing machine, washing and ironing machines, because
they are acknowledged by all who have used them to be
Safe, Clean, Economical and Certain.
Whether you do ail or only a part of your own work, it
will pay you to look into what the newest electrical de
vices will do to relieve you of wasted time, work and
worry this New Year.
Information and demonstrations cheerfully furnished on
all applications of electricity.
Call at our display room, or phone 5921.
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THE GREAT FALLS
TOWNSITE CO.
9V* Third Street South, First National
Bank Building
Y. M. C. A. Workers
Charged With Theft
of $38,940 in Paris
Paris, Jan. 15.—It became known to
day that three Young Men's Christian
Association workers are under arrest in
Paris charged with defalcation of $38,
't)40 of association funds.
The men are George Hehoeffel, former
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
of Rochester, N. Y., The Itev. R. T. At
kins, of Eagle Pass, Tex., and Mansfield,
said to have been a former seer eta ry
of the Sailors' union of New York City.
DEPUTIES VOTE FOR 30
DAYS MARTIAL LAW IN
ARGENTINA REPUBLIC.
Buenos Aires, Jan. 15.—1^»e chamber
of deputies, today, by a vote of ÜÜ to 5.
declared martial law thruout the entire
republic for ?»l> days. This is expected
to pass the senate and to receive the
signature of the president. '