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-.- "Vr?,9raT)l1r8B"-r-flP5,7 ""??tJ tr-f '"B."1" BTrt Wivfl I- Today liefer Cousin From Prisei. Bresgfct Public. EdncatioB.. Wbt Will Mr. Wilson Brkg Fran Fraice, Eaglaad, Italy? Br ARTHUR BRISBANE. (Copyright, lilt.) "What will President 'Wilson bring back from Europe? It Is said that the traveler who would bring back information? from for eign lands must take Information with hint Mr. Wilson Is that kind of traveler. Many things they do in. Europe better than we do them The most useful man is he who brings back the best that another country possesses, especially the other country's best thought "When the President attends learned lectures at the Sorbonne he will see on the outside of the building a tablet announcing that It contains the magnificent library of the philosopher Victor Cousin. Cousin was a good Influence in France all his life. His think ing, advice, and protests were sound, and he was a great teacher. But the best that he ever did for France, and for the United States as well, was to bring back from the prison in which the Prussian King kept him for six months a careful study of the Prussian sys tem of public education. He stndied in that prison, took back and developed in France the Prussian public school system, which was then by far the. best in the world. And as a consequence he did more in one year for the education of youth in France than had been done in all the history Jt France all the way back to Charlemagne and earlier. Said he: To carry back the education of Prussia into France afforded a "Hobler (if a bloodless) triumph than the trophies of Auslerlitz r Jena." The book that Cousin wrote on Prussian education for France ran through innumerable editions there and in translations here. And "because Cousin, luckily, was pat la the Prussian prison, mil lions of French and American boys were released from the prison et igsorance through an.admlrable. paouc sccooi system, borrowed by Coesiiirdci riLr Prussian, jailers. "What will the President Taring back for this country, after he has seen real democracy in France, a real republic disguised as a monarchy in England, the ancient seat of romance, art and science, the modern nation of power and courage 4n Italy? With his power of publicity, the force with which he impressed Ideas upon the nation, the Presi dent might bring to America in one corner of his brain freight more valuable than all the gold of all the countries of Europe. To do a thing you must know HOW. , Every little while it is neces sary to discover over again the soundness of that axiom. Russia is the most recent dis coverer of 'the fact that things dont run themselves, and that you can't satisfactorily replace ef ficiency with high sounding words. The Russian Bolsheviks, showing the high intelligence of three-year-old children deciding to take charge of the nursery, have paid out so far more than one thousand minion rubles to make up the loss on factories that have been run ning under what they call "social isation of industry." which means turning the factories over to work men without any directing boss cr bead. Scientists perform a slight oper ation on the brain of a pigeon. After that, when it files it turns over and over in the air until iU strikes the ground and breaks its neck. Bolshevism performed that slight operation on the brain of Russian industry, which is also 'turning somersaults and breaking its neck. The feet seed the head to guide them. Cables from Europe say that the problem of feeding starving populations in liberated countries is Just about solved. "The United States will do the work without claiming credit for It" That ought to be satisfactory to every body. One Interesting difficulty is the ' wheat problem. The United States crop will be Increased by hundreds of millions of bushels, this coun try having guaranteed the farmers more than two dollars a bushel for all the wheat produced. In Australia yon- can buy wheal Or one dollar and eighteen cents, sad in the Argentine for a dollar and thirty-five cents a bushel. Europe, now that the war is over, will not pay us for wheat more than the price in other places. Uncle Sam will have to dig pretty deep Into his pocket But if he (takes the wheat and gives it away to the starring, that will settle his' probUsa nicely, and, after all, to nm mffnH it WEATHER: Bala T anew tenlght and tomorrow! Increas ing clsadlness. Tempera ture at 8 a. m., 41 decrees- Normal tempera tore far December M for last 30 years, 34 degrees. NUMBER 11,022. Berlin Revolutionists Make Military Commander of City PRISONER IN ROYAL PALACE I TOWSON. MA, Dec 24-Dr. Norbu Ishida, the Japanese psychia trist must face trial for the murder of bis fellow worker. Dr. George B. Wolff, early in April. All possibility that an ins&alty commission mighty be appointed and Dr. Ishida sent at once to -an insti tution has been dispelled by the- in vestigation of. Prosecuting Attorney George Hartman, of Baltimore county. Attorney Hartman spent all yesterday afternoon going over the scene of the murder, conferring'with Dr. Edward N. Brush, in charge of the Sheppard and Pratt Hospital, where the crime occurred, and in Questioning hospital employes as to the relations between Dr. Ishida and his Tictim up to the time of the tragedy. DA AN H A m CeM.SIoo4ca Crime." mental diseaseor tte oeteon- r -JTTsgallii'rfVe f,cW.Uiat-heJrUJfr:iKas-OtS la a'Japanese aaft an insanity ex pert; jur. isnlaa. -will be prosecuted to thef ull extent of the Maryland law." iif. Hartman announced at the end of his preliminary Investigation. "He committed a deliberate cold-blooded crime and without any justification as far as I can discover. "Jealousy was the motive an un founded, unreasoning Jealousy of a woman who had not encouraged him and who wanted none of his atten tions. Perhaps he was Insane, but If he was, it was with Jealousy and not insane In the 'sense that he wu not responsible for his act. I am convinced that he knew what he was doing, and that he realises the con sequences of his act" Brings Woman In Limelight. Hartman's announcement that he will bring the Oriental alienist to trial means that the young woman who was the pivot of the tragedy will be forced Into the limelight. Up to now everything possible has been done to shield her name and Identity because she Is believed to have been as much the victim of Ishlda'a un reasoning affections aa Dr. Wolff was of hi uncontrolled suspicions. At the trial, however, her presence and testimony absolutely would be es sential to the progress of the case. It would be her testimony that would prove or disprove Dr Ishlda's charges against Dr. Wolff. In his cell. Dr. Ishida speaks of the young nurse over and over again. "I liked her," be says. "I liked her very much. and then his face clouds and he lok puzzled as though he canot understand why his "liking" was not reciprocated. Another nurse at the hospital Is unhappily Involved In the tragedy. She is the young woman to whom Dr. Wolff really was attached, and (Continued on rage 2, Column 8.) 511 iPSlED i . . ..L - . LONDON. Dec. 24. Five hundred and seventeen ships have been added to the British navy since August, 1814. it was announced today. The new vessels include seven bat tleships, five battle cruisers, twenty six light battle cruisers, seventeen monitors, 230 destroyers and 232 mine sweepers and special service craft. ROOMS FOR RENT M ST. St. W SOS Mecly faml,htl front room for two rentltmen; ma nlnr wmt.r: el.ctrle llthti This is the Ad. "I shall always use Times Want Ads in the future. I put the above ad in the Times J and rented my rooms immedi- jaiciy. mrs. narmDerg. Phone The Times your ads. Main 5260. ( TO BUSH NAVY Published rery evening (Including Sunday) Entered as second-elsss matter, at the post-' office at Washington. D. C DOES THE STUDY Of Mmtal Diseases Drive Doctors Mad? & c By DB. ADOLPH XETEB, Head of Johns HopkUs Hospital. I am convinced that the study of insanity does not induce in sanity. On the contrary, I be lieve that a deep study pf that sort develops the brain, broadens its scope, and widens JJae perspective as nothing else can. ,It is the man of limited scope who is most apt to lose his reason. It is the man who thinks too much of the same things or gets one Idea too rigidly in mind. The more-interests, -the more studies, th emore mentality. To be sure, were the individual unstable at the start, the intricate and complicated study of the hu man mind might unseat his reason, but not to any greater extent than concentration on any other-scientific study. Although I personally have known a number of psychia--trists and alienists who have had mental disorders, in practically every case the real source of the trouble was known in some cases, ,ll was from infections, and in' others family inheritance. It is my unequivocal t'oplnhm; that in no case was it the'.stndy which caused the mental collapse. N By Dr. D. PEKCY HICKLING. Official Alienist for the District of Columbia. I see no reason to believe that the fact that Dr. Ishida was a stu dent of mental diseases in any way affected his own mental con dition. Mental disease is not caused from any Rerm and is in no way contagious or infectious. And as for the study of mental de rangements, a man studying law for instance is equally as liable to insanity as a man studying in sanity itself. It is a fact that there is a larger percentage of physicians and nurses caring tor mentally de ranged people In Institutions for the care of such persons who go insane than physicians and nurses in other medical institu tions. This seems not to be because of the character of the institution in which they work nor the condi tion of the people with whom they are thrown, but because a larger percentage of such nurses or phy sicians are permanently attached to such Institutions. Summing up the situation. I do not see how the fact that Dr. Ishida was a student of mental disease could have affected his mind so as to render him abnormal. .7 The District Public Utilities Com mission will hold a public hearing on January 7. at 10:30 a. m. In the board room In the District buUding to consider the establishment of inter-company transfers. The agreement between John A. Beeler, traffic expert, the Capital Trac tion company, the Washington Rail way and Electric Company and the Washington-Virginia railway, together with the recommendations for trans fers offered by Mr. Beeler with which the traction companies are not In ac cord will be disclosed. As the matter of lnter-company transfers Involves not only, a question of service but a question of rates the commission Is required to give ten days notice of the hearing. HIS MONEY SAVED WHEN STREET ROBBERS FLEE Robert Hill, of 0 P street north west, was held up at the point of a pistol by three young white men while on his way home early today. The highwaymen were frightened off. Hill told the police that the three men Jumped out from behind a tree at Ninth and II streets northwest and ordered him to turn out his pockets, but fled when they saw a pedestrian approaching. PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSFERS JAN WASHINGTON, TUESDAY EVENING," DECEMBER 24, 1918. MUD AND RIM - Ride, in State Coach With King MA M OF PRESIDENT FRONT By HENRY O. "WALES. , GENERAL HEADQUARTERS O? THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 'IN -FRANCE, Chatraont. Dec 24. Bad weather may impair the pleasure of 'President and Mrs. Wilsoa's trip to Genera) Pershing's headaaarters on Christmas Day. It haOjeen raining steadily here "for weeks, and the ground has .become so saturated that doughboys were busy today 'constructing "duck. boards" In every direction across the deep mud for the distinguished visi tors to walk over. The skies are still gloomy, and it is leafed that more rain will' fall Christies Day. It is unlikely that "tae American airmen, will be able .to go through their aerial antics as planned -so ac count of weather. If is possible that the Fres-Meat wirrilaK aaWrt SSPtiSf Bister to "Be steaaotnbe. Tlie Presidential party vHll not eat" from mtu wits when they sit down ts a good old-fashioned noontime dinner at. Montlgny-Le-RoL but everything will be Just, as democratic, aa it Is Impossible to scraps up enough crock ery and silverware In this section of France for 200 covers, even If every thing were commandeered. There will be the regular tin forks' and steel bladed knives, aluminum' plate and big ellpse shaped cup the same as the dough-boys carried on their way to battle when they were sometimes compelled to utilized this bandy lntrument for trench digging purposes. If the President decides to talk It will be to the officers of the Yankee division, after the meal. M Elaborate Menn. An elaborate menu is lielng pre pared. It will be printed on a topo graphical map of the sector the divi sion held and will contain the history of the division's battles. The dinner will be held In a big building that was formerly used for a French hospital, and tho great white cross giving warning to raiding airplanes of the character of the place is still there. The review will be held at a hamlet containing 100 houses, a brewery and a cheese factory. It Is Just outside of Langres and a main line railroad passes the field. The big guns and tanks that are to take part in the procession were brought upon this line and dumped off right into the field. Although the field Is on high ground the entire country Is swampy with mud. noy Proud Why Kotf On the way from Chaumont the President will pass numerous war hospitals, Including a base hospital and a couple of prisoners' camps, where German soldiers captured by doughboys In battle are Interned. The huts are surrounded by great fences of barbed wire. These captives are employed chiefly as wood cutters, but a few are working on the roads filling in the holes over which Presi dential automobile will pass. The Presidential party will pass also an aerodrome where machines guarding the headquarters of the American ex peditionary force are located. The noon dinner Is In charge of Mess Sergeant Hoy. and he Is on" proud roan. He handled the first roll ing kitchen that the United States army received on the Mexican border In 1916. ' LIFTS COKE EXPORT BAN. Prohibition of the sale, or delivery, of coke for export by ocean transpor tation except upon the prior Issuance of a permit by. the Fuel Administra tion was lifted today. NO SNOW FOR XMAS Taere will be anew for Christmas. Ss aalth the prophet at the Weather Bureau. On the contrary, thrre will be elands and rain and moderate tem perature tonight and Christmas Day, wltfc the possibility, how ever that It may clear oft eel Ch rista sight. YANK LONDON, Dec 24. President Wilson will ride from Sharing Crow Station to Buckingham Palace in the state carriage with King George, it was announced today. 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Secretary Daniels Is scheduled to reach New York tomorrow. After the review 10,000 sailors are to parade on Fifth avenue. New York expects the greatest crowds on record even surpassing those which attended the Hudson-Put ton celebration. JAPAN LOOKING TO SOUTH. Japan seeks a substantial share of Brazil's foreign trsde. Latin-American advices Indicate. Announcement Is made of the opening of a Illo de Ja ests in both Brazil and Argentina, poratkin already represented at Bue nos Aires. Japan already has made special financial arrangement to care for the expansion of her trade Inter ests' in both Brazil and Argentine. limes ride with Queen Mary. " honor on all state occasions, will constitute the , !.. , GIFTS FOR WALTER REED TOTAL 8000 The gifts contributed by Times' readers to the wounded soldiers at Wal ter Reed total in number about 8,000. They have all been packed for trans portation to the hospital, and will rejoice the sol diers Christmas morning. HEAR EBERT TAKES ACTION ON KAISER J The Russian "Prlmorskoye Provln- ' leal Zenntvo" has appealed to America AMSTERDAM. Dec. 24 Chancellor for motion pictures showing agrlcul Ebert was reported today to have tural production, highway construction exchanged communications with the and forestry work In this country as Dutch government regarding the a means of educating Russians In former KsJier. The result Is not) these activities. The Alms have been known. forwarded. The Second Life Guards, RETURNING D.C.MEN WILL GO TO MEADE The troops from the District arriv ing In New York tomorrow from France on the transport La France, will be Isolated In a. camp near New York for about ten days,-where they will undergo a medical examination. I' The District troops probably will be sent to Camp Meade, lid., after leav ing New York. The War Department has officially , announced that Camp Meade, Md i would be used as a demobilization center. The policy of the War De partment, as announced recently is I to send men returning from overseas to a camp or fort near the place of their Induction for demobilization. In this case the District troops will In all probability he sent to Camp Meade, IMd.. for del- yillzatlon. The Dlstrlcr troops arriving in this country tomorrow are attached to the 137th Field Artillery. Batteries C and I F In this artillery, which Is composed I of 500 men, troops from the District. 1 Illinois. Arkansas. Mississippi and Alabama are attached. WANT EDUCATIONAL FILMS. f EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS. FIERCE BAM CALLED TO SEA Br FRANK J. TAYLOR, United Press Staft-CarrwpiHwlwt BERLIN, Dec. 23-(Nitt) Jfa- tinous marines, who revolted wba ordered to sea, are eatreacked ia the royal palace here, after a battle with the- military jroard. Upon .receiving their orders, sev eral regiments of marines revetted,. kidnaping the military of the city asd holding hla ' la the fighting which ensaed. for mirlBesTverekilkd aadtenwojmdesL ROYAUSTS START ACTIVE PROPAGANDA DRIVE TO RE-ESTABLISH THROftE BERLIN, 2ec 23 Relayed). Soy- .allsta have started aa active- prop. ruii- i iiiI Tin w lj,'hT' tec i-OTtflHUftsnifi oi m jaussi m. ltseease apparent today. F The movement center In Bavarts, Irecaxded as the. pivotal state of th .Ausiro-uerman political situation. 41 being conducted, by the clerical group, who at present are devoting their strongest 'efforts to the rural populations. The republicans are convinced that formal establishment of a German, republic and election of a president ' scheduled for the last of this month or the first of next will effectually end the aspirations of the mem-s f arcblsts. As a result, they are re doubling their efforts to combat the ' monarchical propagandists. Oppose 'Separatists. Bavaria, In addition to Its; territo rial and economic Importance, would bring into the German republic a large portion of German Austria, which would replace any territory lost through the aspirations of the French and Poles. The German news papers, therefore, believing a strong central government absolutely essen tial to the life of the German rspub- .-f lie. are vigorously opposing the re publican separatist movement In Ba varia, on the grounds it would "weak en the democratic movement and ba playing into the- hands of the royal ists. The plan for establishment of sevea semi-republics In Germany and Aus tria, to be confederated like the United States, was being strongly ad vocated in Saxony. Here's Hew Frogrsaav The newest program la this con nection provided tho followlnr line-up: Dresden as the capital of tipper Saxony; Hanover as capital of lower Saxony: Coblenz ass capital of thai Rhlneland: Stuttgart aa capital of Schwaben. which would be called Neckerland: Munich as capital of Ba varia, which would bo called Danube land; Vienna as capital of German. Austria, which would ba called Alp land, and Berlin as the capital of. Oberland. which would include Prus sia, Posen. and Silesia. Each republic would have a. local president or governor, who would be under the confederation's president In matters of national Importance. Eith er Berlin or Dresden would be the national capital. Electioneering In the balloting for delegates to the national assembly is proceeding. The army la taking an active part in this. General Von Gou tard, commander of the Fourteenth Baden army corps, has Issued a proc lamation urging the army to vote against the Sartacldes. GEN. GROENER THREATENS TO OCCUPY FOE CAPITAL ZURICH. Dec 2i. General Croo ner, who succeeded Ludendorff as first quartermaster general of ths German army, has sent an ultimatum to the Ebert government that he will occupy Berlin unless order is quickly restored, according to information from the German frontier today. 8ERBIANS WOULD RETURN. Serbians, naturalized as Americans, who returned to their mother coun try at the outbreak of the war. are apparently anxious to get back to the United States, according to Red Cross advices today. C Cables say that while passing through Palermo. Sicily, mora than 500 of them marched along- ths street ENSUES we MARN ARE II 5l