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Surgeons Lashed to Operating Table, Save Soldier s Life at Sea WEATHER: Fair today and to morrow; little change in temperature. the "Hashttiafon fees 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 (Continued ori Page 9, Column 1.) 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