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NATIONAL
EDITION
NUMBER 11,048. WASHINGTON, SUNDAY. JANUARY 19, 1919.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Poincare and Clemenceau, in Opening Speeches of Peace Conference,
Say Allies Accept Proposal of President Wilson as Basis of Action
Today
Today History Contrast.
Kaiser and Liebknecht.
"Red Rosa" and Cavell.
No Throne, a Garage.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyright, 1919.)
Writers of historv will find
strange contrasts in this war.
Edith Cavell. the English nurse,
is shot as a spy in Belgium.
Rosa Luxemburg, "Red Rosa,"
who lived with Lenine in Switxer
land, and taught him the Bolshev
ism with which he rules Russia, is
shot in Berlin by wilder Social
ists that want a republic with or
der, not her prescription for cur
ing all ills.
( The Kaiser, who dreamed of
ruling the world, is a fugitive in
Holland. The allies and his own
country seek to extradite him, and
hang, guillotine, or shoot him.
Liebknecht opposed the Kaiser's
plan; he was one of the handful
that spoke out against him, and
was put in priaor. He opposed
the war that has ruined Germany.
Now he is shot to death in Ber
lin, with his companion, "Red
Rosa."
Pan of the Kaiser's dream was
to provide six "newly carpeted"
thrones in Europe for his six
sons, as Napoleon supplied thrones
for his relations and proteges.
The oldest Hohenzollern son
lives in a fisherman's hut on a
''lonely island; no throne there.
Another son has found a job
with an automobile concern; he
may find there the peace of mind
and safety that he wouldn't have
found on the throne.
The Hohenzollerns, that for
seven hundred years had been
building up power, in good times
and bad, began as usurious room:}
lenders in a poor, barren country.
They ruled Germany, Austria,
Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece, and
intimidated neutrals but 11 few
months ago. Now Ebert, the har
ness maker, rules in Berlin, ird
Morges, a tailor. Is the head of the
Brunswick government, lighting
the national government of the
Berlin harness maker.
There are some contrasts for j
you. f
1 When the war began the United
States confined itself to iis own
continent. The President never
left his country. The newspapers
printed regularly George Wash
ington's advice about "foreign en
tanglements."
Today the President is sitting
with the prime ministers of Eng
land. France, and Italy, and the
ambassadors from Japan and
other countries in Paris, running
this country by wireless and help
ing to settle the affairs of all the
governments of the world.
There are a few contrasts that
will strike the future writers of
history. They will have to think
hard and steadily to present the
entire picture complete, with its
changes, mea lings, and causes.
* That will not .3 done in this cen
tury.
When the war began, Poland
was a nation chopped to pieces,
j divided up by bandit countries, a.
wolves divide and tear up a deer.
The end of the war sees Poland
going back to her old nationality,
with the approval of other nations,
and whom do you find at the head
of Poland in this movement of a
nation'; rebirth? Is it a descend
ant of the Poniatowsky, who, with
bullets in his body, blood stream
ing, jumped his horse into the
river, to swim across and attack
the enemy of Poland, crying,
"One must die like ? brave?" Is
it a descendant of Kosciusko, who
helped this country ir. its fight,
and for Poland starved with five
thousand men to tight the whole
of Russia?
No, none of the old Polish
names. The new head of Poland
ib Paderewski, the musician. The
Poles choose a= their leader one
' 'representing the intellectual
genius, not the fighting quality
of Poland.
instead of fierce fighter, you
have the gentle musician as head
man in Poland. He has already
been shot once, and shot at five
times.
Great as she has been in fight
ing. Poland has been even greater
m the production of grnius. The
?ame of Copernicus will stand out
fn real history, thousands of cen
turies from now, when every name
that ycu read in today's paper?
Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George,
Wilson?wi'l be as completely for
gotten aa the names of the gen
erals that fought under Caesar or
the chicfs of the tribes that strug
gled here.
STREET CAR
CONDUCTORS
ARE HELD ON
THEFT CHARGE
Eight conductor* of the Washing
ton Railway and Hlectric Co. an
under arrest charged tfy the
with embezzling the company?
funds in failing to register and turn
In fares collected by them.
Over one hundred more, many cf
whom arc Capital Traction employes,
are under surveillance, and evidence
has been accumulated by the police j
tbat thsy have failgd tp "ng up on ,
an average m fff? Bi' six fares each!
trip.
Conductors Arrested.
Those arrested and the amounts
they are charged with embezzling arc:
George Peter Rock, seventeen years
old. 605 Sixth street southwest; 30
cents.
Leon Joseph Phillips, twenty-one
>ears old, 422 K street southwest; 55
cents.
Samuel Adrain Anderson, twenty
two years old. 1011 E street north
west: 12.50.
Raymond Willard Brooke, twenty
one years old. 231 Twelfth street
northeast; $1.15.
B. U. Brown, seventeen years old,
1231 D street northeast. $1.
William F. Stickrr.an. seventeen
years, 1332 Four-and a-half street
southwest, 55 cents.
Robert Lewis Clarke, twenty-one
year? old, 5011 Georgia avenue, 55
cents.
Walter Ellis Meyers, twenty-nine
years old, 415 Fourth street north
west, 40 cents.
The arrests last night were made on
evidence gathered by the police, work
ing unknown to officials of the rail
way companies. since .January #.
Twelve plain clothes men and three
plain clothes women, under Inspector
Grant and Detective Sergeant Corn
wall, worthed up the evidence upon
which Assistant United States Attor
ney Ralph Given late yesterday af
ternoon issued warrant.*.
letter* of Pr?te??.
The campaign against alleged dis
honest conductors which was opened
by these wholesale arrests last night
was started as the result of hundreds
of letters received by the District
Commissioners from indignant citi
(Usntinued on Page 6. Col. 4.)
CONDUDTORETTES IN
DETROIT KEEP JOBS
I
Women conductors in l>etroit will
not lose their jobs, as demanded by
I the street car men. Chairman Taft of
the War Labor Board announced yes
terday.
The fifteen women refused permit*
by the Car Men's Union in December
I will now be given permits and be
{allowed to resume work
I
LONDON, Jan. IS.?There are now
2.189 merchant ships under construc
tion in the allied and neutral coun
tries having a total tonnage of 8 921 -
?59.
Of tneaa !>9T thip.*- having a total
tonnage of 3,?47'?7? are being built I
in the United States
BRITISH SATIRIST
ANALYZES WAR
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
!*.>M Brttf*h~ Atlrtrf. who dc^**
Clare* tagcnds necessary and ex
cusable to win war.- bat matters
necessarily and jtlwoys discarded
when victors make peace terms.
By (iEOROE BEBXABT) SHAW.
Kurnlnbed by Universal Service.
'Copyright, 1915 by Star Company )
LONDON, Jan. 19.?Before the pcacc
conference can be discussed with any
profit it must be approached in the
light of the facts and not of the
Romanio on which the popular im
agination was fed during the war.
It is in the nature of war that the
casus belli can never be fought out
on its merits. The common soldier
who has to risk life and limb in the
business and the common taxpayer
and elector who has to support the
soldier and maintain the Government
in power is never trusted with the
truth. He may not be statesman
enough to grasp its scope and Im
portance. He may not be capa.b!a
of understanding it at all. His nar
row personal and parochial morali'v
might be revolted by it. It is there
fore deemed necessary to present the
war to him as a crude melodrama In
which his country is the hero and the
enemy the villain.
Present War Jio Exception.
The present war is no exception
to this rule. The legend of Germany
which has served millions of Britons
and Americans. Frenchmen and Ital
ians to devote themselves to the
destruction of the German military
power through the wholesale slaugh
ter of their fellow men is no truer
than the counter legend of the crimes
of England which rallied millions of
Germans to the defense of their coun
try by the same method.
Now that the war is over the le
gends have served their purpose and
must be discarded.
They would not bear a moment's in
vestigation in an impartial court, or
even at the peace conference, which,
far from being an impartial court.
. will be simply the imposition of the
1 will of the victors on the vanouish
j cd. The victors must, for their own
j sakes, be guided by the facts even if
! they still talk in terms of the fic
I tions. The first step in the discus
i slon. is, therefore, to set forth the
! facts in oiyier.
England, as all the world knows,
| has ever since she ceased to be raided
anu conquered by one continental in
i vasion after another of Romans, S<ax
| ons. Danes, and Normans, taken the
| lesson of these raids and conquests to
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DUB IB
TOSHPW
, OPERATE US
SIODM RAGES
NE^f YORK, Jan. 19.?Two army
surgeons, lashed to an improvised
operating table, removed the appen
dix of Corp. E. O. Williams, of the
Fifty-sixth Artillery, while the
cruiser South Dakota was being
rocked by forty-foot waves at sea, it
was learnod upon the arrival of the
ship. f .. J.. > ; ,
The South Dakota nosed into port <
<Wf?U il'tUllliji Voyage Just aJi^ad of ^
the cruiser Montana after a race
across the Atlantic which started
at Brest, France, on January 4. The
South Dakota brought 1,451 troops
and the Montana 1,311.
Stop Ship For Operation.
Two days out from Brest, Corporal
Williams was stricken with a severe
attack of appendicitis. Despite thi
fact that the ship was storm-tossed,
the surgeons decided an operation was
imperative.
Capt. J. M. Lubby stopped the crui
ser. While forty-foot waves rocked
the ship. Williams was placed on an
improvised operating table. To either
side'of the table Major Cresma'n and
Lieut. C. I. Wood, U. S. army .surgeons,
lashed themselV*??. Between lurches
the operation was performed and the
patient was removed to the sick bay.
When the South Dakota reached the
army piers at Hoboken yesterday
Williams was removed to St. Mary's
Hospital, whpre it is said he is doing
nicely and w ill recover.
Pilot House Wrecked.
During the storm the pilot house of
the South Dakota was wrecked while
Captain Lubby, Commander R. E.
Caldwell. Lieutenant Montgomery and
three quartermasters were in it. The
three first named officers were badly
cut and bruised, and the quartermas
ters wjre so badly hurt that they
have been in the sick bay since {he
accident.
Among the officers on the South
Dakota was Capt. H. S. Carpenter, of
battery C, Fifty-sixth coast artillery,
who. according to members of his or
ganization. fired the last shot of the
war. At any rate. Captain Carpenter
sent over one shot near Sedan be
tween 10:5* and 11 a. m. on the 11th of
November, the day the armistice was
signed. \
Fired In the Air.
' Bui I look pity on the poor devils
and fired into the air." Captain Car
penter raid regarding the incident.
Lieut. H. D. Ackerman. of I-'t.
Wayne. lnd.. also returned on the
South Dakota and brought with him
Lulu, a dog mascot, that saw service
witli him for lEiree years in the
French army.
WOMEN 10 DECIDE'
GERMAN ELECTION
H.v PltAXK J. TAYLOR.
I . P. S. C.
BLRLl.V, Jan. 17 (delayed) ? Twen
ty two million women and 18,000,000
men have the right to vote Sunday in
Germany's first election since the rev
olution.
Of the six parties actively cam
paigning, the majority socialist?the
government group of Ebert and
Scheidemann?is expected to emerge
the strongest.
One of the most remarkable fea
tures of the election wil be that the
v, omen, newly enfranchised, out-bal
lot the men by a margin of 4.000.000
votes.
PERTINENT POINTS
IN POINCARE'S
SPEECH
The intervention of the United*
States was something more,*!
something greater, than a great
political and military event. It
was a supreme Judgment paased
at the bar of history by the lofty
conscience of a free people and
their Chief Magistrate on the
frightful conduct which was lac
erating humanity.
tt * *
The solidarity which has united
us during the war and has en
abled us to win military success
ought to remain unimpaired dur
ing the negotiations for and af
ter the signing of the treaty.
Kf * ?
It is not only governments but
free peoples, who are represented tj
here.
* tt flf
Even before the armistice, yoo
placed that necessary unit under
the aid of the lofty moral and po
litical traits of which President
Wilson has nobly made himself
the interpwiwr ek# 1n tiRelight
of these troths you intend toac
eomplish your mission.
You will s?ek nothing but jus
tice?justice that has no favor
ites, justice in territorial prob
lems, justice in financial prob
lems. justice in economic prob
lems.
? *
Justice demands,* first, when it
has been violated, restitution and
reparation for the peoples and
individuals who have been de
spoiled or maltreated.
* n
What justice also demands, in
spired by the same feeling, is the
punishment of the guilty.
"i % *
You will, in conformity with
the fourteenth of President Wil
son's propositions, unanimously
adopted by the allied powers, es
tablish a general league of na
tions, which will be supreme
guarantee against any fresh as
sault upon the right of peoples.
* Vi #
It (the league) will not of set
purpose shut out anybody, but
having been organized by the na
tions that have sacrificed them
selves in defense of right, it will
receive from them its statutes
and fundamental rights.
# fi *1
You hold in your hands the
future of the world.
SWEAR LEBAUDY
SOUGHT ASSASSIN
?
MJXEOLA. V. V. Un 19.?Affi
davits purporting to show that
Jacques Lebatidy, who shot and
Killed by' his wife Saturday night,
sought to buy a quantity of poison
to kill his wife and daughter, and
offered a stranger SI.500 to shoot
them, were made public by Harry
W. Moore, rounsel for Mrs. Lebaudy.
Both affidavits will be submitted to
District Attorney Weeks on Monda;-.
SLAYER BUYS SUIT
WITH LOOT TO BE
CHIEF MOURNER
HAILBIRY, Ont, Jan. 1?._
Charles tooper is probably the
cheekiest murderer on record.
Today he is under sentence of
death for killing Theodore Tay
lor. the evidence being that he
murdered his victim, bought a
new snit with (he loot, and show
ed up at the slain niun's funeral
in the clothes, being among the
chief mourners.
POINCARE
.PAYS HIGH
TRIBUTE TO
PRESIDENT
PARIS, Jan. 19.?Warning the
peace delegates that the destinies of
, the world are in their control. Presi
dent Poincare yesterday opened the
6onferen?e in Paris with a speech
in wtafcft he urged establishment of
a league of nations to aa/eguard hu
manity from Jeering- Poin
care declared the Bslio&s which
madft sacrt&rcc in defense of right
would lay down the rules for the
ftigue. Its aim, he said, would be
to prevent wars and gain respect lor
the rigtateous peace the conference
is to establish.
Ended la Disgrace.
Calling attention to the fact that
the German empire was bora forty
eight years ago today, Poincare said
it had ended its career in disgrace,
and had sunk into oblivion, perishing
by the sword it unsheathed.
President Poincare aaid:
"Gentlemen: France greets and
thanks you for having unanimously
chosen as the seat of your labors the
city which for over four years the
enemy has made his principal military
objective and which the valor of the
allied armies has victoriously de
fended against unceasingly renewed
offensives.
Homage ?f All XititM.
? Allow me to see in your decision
' the homage of all the nations that
j you represent toward a country which
| still more than any others has en
| dured the sufferings of war; of
? hich entire provinces, transformed
Into vast battlefields, have been sys
'ematically wasted by the invader,
and which has paid humanity's tri
mte to death.
'?France has borne these enormous
sacrifices without having incurred the
: slightest responsibility for the fright
ful catastrophe which has over
I whel.ncd the universe; and. at the
| moment when this cycle of horror is
ending, all the powers whose dele
tContinued on Page 2, Column 4.)
STATE OWNERSHIP
FACES FIRST TEST
| BISMARCK. N. D.. Jan. 18.?Slate
ownership faced its first real test in
America here yesterday.
Ten amendments to the State con
stitution, providing State-owned
banks, flour mills, elevators and other
industries, awaited Governor grazier's
signature to become a law.
Besides State ownership. the
amendments included initiative ref
erendum, tax reforms and quick ac
tion on constitutional amendment.
Non-partisan league leaders who
promulgated the amendments said
the plan is to institute only the State
ownership program this year.
The amendments are:
1. Initiative and referendum
2. Limiting emergency measures
and making them effective on signa
ture by the governor.
3. Direct action on constitutional
amendments.
4. Fixing status of taxable prop
city by legislature.
5. Hail insurance by land tax.
6. Limiting State bonded indebted
ness for industrial enterprises to $10,
000,000.
7. State ownership.
FRENCH GENERALS HONORED.
| PARIS. Jan. 19.?President Wilson
j has bestowed the American distin
guished service cross on the following
French generals: Franchet d'Esperey,
De Castelnau, Faolle, Maistre Debeney.
Hirschauer. Gouraod. Maneln. De
gontte. Berthelot, Humbert. GuiHaamat.
' ?nd Wevgand.
RULES OVER PEACE
DELIBERATIONS
Chosfc* M precid* over conferences (
which will shape future
of the world.
Trotr.ky has marked Premier Cle
mencesu and other French leader* for
death as a result of the French oppo
sition to recognition of the Bolshe
viki, according to authoritative diplo
matic disclosures here.
Bolshevik propagandists and con
spirators in Switzerland were sent to
Paris on the mission of assassination,
it was stated.
Diplomatic advices from Basel an
nounced the deportation to Russia of
the Bolshevist staff in Switzerland,
which is believed to have been appre
hended in full.
Forty-five interned Russian soldiers
and 400 Russian civilians are volun
I tarily returning to Russia on a spe
cial train provided for the agitator's,
' the advices announced.
I PAY PLEDGES
t DALLAS. Tex., Jan. 19?"Slacker
! pledgers" were rudely awakened here
! yesterday.
Harry Tratlier. local Red Cross
chairman, in a statement calling for
payment of pledges, pointed out that
every one * ho signed a Red Cross
pledge in this district affixed his sig
i nature to a legal promissory note
and announced that colection of these
! notes from delinquents wll be legally
enforced.
"PERFECT 36" MAY
RETAKE DRY VOTE
OMAHA, Xeb., Jan. 19.?Nebraska,
the "perfect 3?th," which filled out
the quota of States necessary to com -
j plete ratification of the national pro
i j hibition amendment, may have to do
I the lob all'over again.
i Many legislators here toda> ex
j pressed the belief that there are
flaws in the ratification resolution,
and both the senate and the house
are planning to ratify the amendment
to eliminate all chances of error.
PRESIDENT
CLEMENCEAU
TO PRESIDE
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMM,
United Pr*w Stag
PARIS, Jan. 19.?The
of Paris begaa yesterday
Fixia^ the guilt
the CT^Tiiej
dur^nj? the war wai the ftrot 1
takes ay by the delegates
The league of notions will
brought before the sex
President Poincare, ia his
welcome, urged the
tablish the league. IV
gress, be declare^, holds ia its
the future of the world.
Premier damenceao presided. b*>
ing nominated by Preeident Wilsoa.
Premier Lloyd George and Italian
Foreign Minister Sonaiao
FOur rice presidents
great powerl were selected, and
committee oa credentials was ap-1
pointed.
Premier Clemeaoeaa, who letaa
declared for the old balaace ?f
pober, came oat ia feTor of tfcfr
league of nations in his ad dree*.
Newspapermen Admitted
\r*ipap?rm?n were admitted Is
this session. Led by American < or
respondents. they are reedy to make I
a fight for more representation than ,
j allowed by the amended rule, which ,
provides for a certain number at full
conferences and for secret sittings
when deemed expedient.
| French Foreign Minister Fichea
drove to Prince Murat's pel ace aad
picked up President Wilson there,
shortly before the opening of the
congress. They drore to the Qua!
: d'Orsay together. Poincare entered
j the hall shortly afterward. There was
j a crowd outside the buildings, but
the automobiles bearing d clean tee
1 dashed directly into the courtyard.
| being distingulahed by the flag* flut
| ter.ng from their hooda. Therefore,
? there was no opportunity for a big
| demonstration.
In the center of the conference hall
was
The
Poincare.
the American delegation on his righu
while Lloyd 'George and the Britleh^^
delegation aat on hie left. Vine dele- .
gates from the British dominions hnd
places still farther to the left. At
the right of the American delegation
sat Clemenceau an* French repre
sentative* and with them Marshal
Foch, not as a member of the French
group, but a* a representative of the
inter-allied command. Still farther
along the table were the delegates
from Italy. Belgium. Brazil. Greece.
Haiti. Liberia. Panama. Poland. Roe
mania. Siatn. and Uruguay in the or
der named. On the other side were
the representatives of Japan. Bolivia.
China. Ecuador, '^ratemala. Honda- ,
tas, Nicaragua. Peru. Portugal. Ser
bia. Csecho-Slovakia. and likewise
Price Emir Yaysaai. representing his
fsther. the Arabian King of the Hed
i j**
PreaiScBt Ha* Special t hair.
, All the delegates were seated in or
dinary chairs except Wilaon and
Poincare. who occupied big chairs of
I
; state. Before the congress opened
Poincare thouk hands with ell the
} representatives. Andre Terdleu. of
1 the French group, set the first to en
ter the halt. Henry White was the
! first American delegate to appear
Focli folln* Then they began ar
riving rapidly There were a fev
minute- if general conversation and
handshaking: Mil son and Clemcncean
engaged in a sinilkig talk.
At .V<>? all rose tram their seals*
a large table, with three eidee.
central pert was occyplod kr
care, with President Wilaon ?ad