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r"Va9,JWtwfl -OCEA Today France and Her Lesson. Exit Autocrat, Enter Germ. In the Newsboy's Pocket. Watch the Socialists. NATIONAL EDITION WEATHER: Fair tonight and tomorrow; no decided- change in temperature. rrflTf Mt Mm ID I A rTC FLIGHT y J ! t i I i -rt---!-ta-- fe- WM8 M By ARTHUR BRISBANE. (CopyrlEht. 1919.) How does this impress you in the way of French socialism, paternal ism, and anarchy all rolled into one? The authorities in Paris, under Clemenceau's orders, will sell food directly to the people at the lowest possible prices, fixed not by profiteers but by govern ment. And Clemenceau gives orders to begin at once tearing down the old fortifications of Paris, useless now. This will give work to the unemployed. As you read the news, rapidly, your mind works with the minds of millions of others. And this daily work of all the minds of a nation, concentrated on the same facts, is what slowly builds up na tional intelligence and better gov ernment. The newspaper is val-1 uable In proportion to the accuracy and honesty with which it gathers, publishes, and comments on the news. Here the Government has been selling horses and mules, 45,000 of them, far below cost and value to get rid of them. Why not put them to work on drainage, irrigation, canal, and road work? That would give work to the idle, keep farmers busy profitably, and use .Government property today for the benefit of America in the future. Suppose France owned our vast Government lands, swamps need ing drainage, deserts that irriga tion would make fertile, can you imagine how Clemenceau, and others, enlightened by revolution, would hasten to .start draining and irrigation to provide .work now, and good farm homes later, for their soldiers? We cannot expect in America all the intelligence shown by government in France, for French statesmen have had their lesson. Ours have not had it. Policemen searched newsboys celling souvenirs to soldiers at Camp Hills. They were horrified to find one hoy, Louis Feshman, with sixteen hundred dollars in his pockets, others with more than two hundred dollars each. The boys had done nothing dishonest, un less it was to charge too big a profit on the souvenirs they were selling. They were ordered to sell nothing except newspapers. The soldiers must he protected. wnat surprises those same .i:, . vr; , JxlT I policemen might find if they went J 3hrowdxsemeTKdtintherinan- .SI JSil Ii. 1 t uisuMct, wnere souvenirs in. taer. way of oil shares, copper shiifee on1 nViut. wfHl i-imnf-n? ' t"""""! WVU1... ptbliWlJ JJHUH.U .documents are sold. AWTitt ?e ! fll&n-ol -f r .--'U,... 1 to sell a ten-cent souvenir for j twenty-five cents and quite legal for a hroker to peddle absolutely worthless' pieces of paper for fifty dollars or more each? What about protecting the public? This country is not paying suf ficient attention to the interna tional socialist conference at Berne, in Switzerland. European socialism is not like the Ameri can brand. In America it is a minor disturbance that occasional ly calls meetings, tries to parade with a red flag, and is beaten back into obscurity by the police. In Europe it is a force greater than any other at this moment. Germany is ruled by 1L It is the controlling force in France and Italy, and a great power In Eng land. It may prove in the long run that the talking now done at Berne by international socialist delegates will have more real effect on the world's future than the talk at the big international conference in Paris. Bernard Shaw is surprised to learn that there are Rip Van Winkle editors in America who do not know that the war is over. He should not be surprised. There are many that do not even know that the civil war Is over. London scientists announce that they have Isolated and identified the bacillus that causes Spanish influenza, his brother that causes trench fever, and other bacilli that cause nephritis, mumps, measles, and typhus. This means that a plan for iden tifying disease germs has been de vised that applies to many diseases. If this be true, the announcement is more important to the future welfare of the earth than all the deliberations by socialists at Berne and statesmen in Paris put to i gether. and long-range gun. It is the in visible enemy seen only through the microscope and oftener invisible with tho strongest glass. The Kaiser in four years did not Kill half as many as did the influenza germ In one year. And the tiny comma-shaped cholera bacillus has killed ten times as many men as all the worms armies throughout all history. Our Stone Age ancestors fought the mammoth and hairy rhin oceros. Our fight is with things too small to he seen and infinitely : more deadly. wnon that germ , fight is over, fighting won't be ended. There will still be the fight ' acainst human selfishness, alwavs wanting more than it can use and , .. . (Continued on Page 2. Column 3) J.UC IKO.I CUCUijr Ul 11UUI2LII UttlUgS -" .". -.. jcli ii-dl ill-j IIUIIH: ; f t-( . . i -. -.i. of V.minorv MKt mitulilx r.t Al-nn . """ u, rm. MnMl ....... 1 - 1-.X . ATiao Tt.lin M.i !..., ... 1., L A . is no longer uie autocrat, witn ins '", """"'' r , ., . "."- meat army ana dynamite, ins big fleet r: :t rr: ," ' V " ;r,ti.;" Y.Y, I which is i T . NLiMBER 11,069. LASKEY SAYS VKE IN S COMPLEI "The police haTe done excel lent work in the investigation in the Chinese murder case. They haTe ample evidence to hold the mca now detained in connection with the murder of Br. Wong and his secretaries.' This statement was made to The Times last night by United States District Attorney John E. laskey. The police trap in the .triple Chi nese murder, which has been jnysti- IN E lying wasmngron lor more intra J , . ,, --. ...-., week, is practically ready to spnmj.'' Ttr: !.: f., lim.w ln Inni. nmnt. i muuu " ; b i"'- rised arrests are scheduled to be made and the police will name the ; men they believe cold-bloodedly mur- dered the & Chinese educators, :Ur. Theodore ,T. wong, . n. usie, and Ben Sen Wu, a week ago last Wednesday, at the 2023 Kalorama ' road home. Ziang Sung Wan, a young man of many aliases, and his brother, T. I. Van, are known to be the only police suspects in the case. Both brothers have been held in custody by the . police since the murder was discov-' ered. Although no charge has been i nlaced against them thev have been ' held ImdaVd a wStoiS . hotel in the downtown section. Both i men realize tneir preaicamenu Neither has summoned a lawyer. They have no friends, as far as can 'be learned, in Washington. ; Kept In Seclusion. ! From the moment that Wan was i taken from the Union Station to the hotel at 6 o'clock a week ago last ! night, he has been permitted to see no human being except members of ' the Police Department. So neccs ' sary did the police believe secrecy as to the whereabouts of the suspect ed young Chinese student, that they appealed to the newspapers not to name the hotel where they were housed. They wanted to be free to examine "Wan and to continue their investigations without interruptions. Since the brother. Van, was brought back last Monday night, he, too, has been kept in the same strict seclu sion. Day and nlsht an officer has lowed access to the rooms. Although they hav? been questioned again and again, usually at midnight I and in the early morning houis, they (Continued on Page 2 Column 5.) RL FAIRFAX ("OT'RTHOUSi: A .1 . Feb. it. Another suspr-t in the assault on !be asked to identify liim tomorrow. ' The man was brousht from Orance. Va.. yesterday by Sheriff J. Robort Allison in response to a telegram from officials of that county. The man was arrested ivhiin imttir. NEW SUSPECT HELD N ATTACK ON G ing at the railway station therr. HpifitinK law continue is said to answer the description of 0lncr excuse. the tramp who committed the second Mr- KMchin said that if the aver- attack upon Miss Garrett, pvn to alaRe profits of the corporation for the i&rgc scar on uie lorehead. He Claims to nave just neen released from the Canadian army and to have discarded his uniform, but has noth ing with which to prove his identity. to lift czkch blockade parls. Feb. n. The Blockade Council announces that the blockade eainst .Czecho-siovaiu wlii :Je n"e.d . Immodlaiely This action is 1 S"",?r& h h,v? b!ockail Ion neutrals who have ben thim nf. rtPd bv the war " T Publishofl -very eveolnff (IncludJntr 8nndy ir?v?cX?Kht' ASKS IMPEACHMENT OFLANDIS, ENEMY OFWRKTWATCH Because Judge Landis in Chicago, ordered a wit ness to remove his wrist1 t watch, Senator Thomas urged his impeachment for the exercise of "arbi trary power,' ' in the Sen ate yesterday afternoon: HOUSE PASSE . Wiih only 23 dissenting vote?, thfa House last night passed the 56,000, COO.00O revenue-bill the greatest In the history of the world, and which vill affect almost every individual In the country. The vote was 310 for th& bill, 11 against, and 12 voted "pres ent." The House action Jeaves only the Senate ratification of the conference report before the bill is ready Tor the President's signature. TllA .f. 41l-.. ., i ji? Hsm on me conrerencc re- port was one by Mississippi Congress men on the, child-labor amendment, w,,ich taxes profits from the products of ch"d labor- The flsht wa lost on a to recommlt the bill by Con- fTMB Vcnab,e of IIppI. l to 15. Venable and Humphreys, of Missis sippi, declared the child-labor amend ment was unconstitutional and an un warranted assumption of State police power by the Federal Government. On the flnal roll call four Missis sippi Congressmen voted against the bill. Calls It "Chnmber o Horror." Congressman Moore of Pennsylva nia, Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, called the measure "a financial chamber of hor rors," but voted for it. Concerning the alleged propaganda to defeat the bill, Kitchin said: "If this propaganda had succeeded, the war profiteers of the United States would have been saved ?l,7O0, 000,000 in taxes. If any man votes against this bill on the ground that th" taxes it levies are too high, he will be voting to take from the peo ple's pockets $1,700,000,000 and give it to the war profiteers, who alreadv have made billions upon billions in addition to the tremendous profitb they had already piled up before the war. "He would be votins to irive thn United States Steel Corporation $16!5,- O00.000 which is the difference De. j tween the taxes they will have to pay under this bill and what they woula have had to pay under the existing law. "He would be voting to give the Standard Oil Company $20,000,000 out; of their profits. j "He would be votinc to sive thu ' I Bethlehem Steel Corporation ?1U,- I 000.000. "He would be oting to eive the meat packing companies the packing combine, $20.000,00o, the diiference between th taxes l,hiS- fctU1 Icv.u " them IV"d the taxes levied on them under the ex isting law. "No man undr the existing con ditions can afford to vote .i gainst this bill with the idea of letting the ex ile must get an tnrce years prior to tne war were deducted, together with all the taxes they have been required to pay during the war. "they will still have net profits of ? 12,000.000.000 in their pock fts, at least, a wt gain of between ten and twrlve billions. The speech of Chairman Kitchin, of the House AVays and Means Commit tee, in opening up the debate was lurgeiy a protest against the recom mendations of former Sectutary of the Treasury McAdoo and President irontlnued on Page ". Column 5) REVENUE Rill W JB S g j WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, MI HERE 10 IRK OUT DETAILS EOR EAN FLIGHT An airplane flight across the At lantic will be attempted soon by United States navy fliers. Orders today disclosed the fact liy, the assignment of Commander John ! T. Towers, one of the foremost naval i aviators, to the project. He isiiolje I ln nhorcrn nf fho rivotnnmint nf plans and the assembly of material and 'personnel for the proposed trans-Atlantic flight," acocrdlng to the orders. The naw for more than a year has considered the'planVfeasible, and late last summer a. trial was tde at- tempted but it was delayed on ac count of the necessities; of using all machines and pilots for war work. To Start From Halifax. The flight probably will start from Halifax, as it was planned to start tht- flight last year there, this being the closest point to Europe. The navy's new monster flying boat, theN. C. L.. which recently carried fifty persons, probably will be used in the attempt, because It can carry such large amounts of gasoline, fuel, and other supplies. It has three Lib erty motors and Is the largest flying machine in the world. Every test of thje boat has been successful. Sleep ing compartments for three men are provided in the boat. It carries a crew of two or three pilots, three me chanics, and a radio operator. Naval aviation exports believe the most feasible plan to cross the At lantic by air would be to string a fleet of destroyers and supply ships along the entire route, and send two or three planes together to avoid the danger of losing one. The destroy ers could come to the rescue of a disabled plane, as could one of the escort planes. Communication could be maintained by radio. Thirty-nix Hour to Crona. Thirty to thirty-six hours flying time, it is estimated, will be required to make the trip, and this experts be lieve necessitates at least one atjp In mid-ocean. This would also ic licve the terrific strain on the r-ilots. Aerial navigation has been fo per fected during the war that theio ia little danger of the planes gc-Uing much off the course, it was stated. The compass is their main reliance for direction. Keen rivalry has arisen bctweon the Britifeh and the Americans to ob tain the honor of making the first transoceanic flight, and it is known that Ihe navy Is making every effort to beat the Britons to it. If the flight Ih made It will be ail American, it was pointed out. Liberty motors will undoubtedly be used, and ery parl " b "made in j of the machine; used will America." 7 KILLED IN m PLANT EXPLOSION .MADlO.Y. AVI.. Feb. 1. hevn per sons are dead, three missing and fif teen injured as a remit of an ex plosion in the city gas plant at Plattfvllle. AVis., fifty miles from' here, yisterday. ' Pirn cwinr 1 vli tmainKv ViIa..Lc? v.,f I Is now undei control. BOY, EPILEPTIC, BURNS TO DEATH IN GRATE FIRE ASHEAULLE. N C, Feb 9. The nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mr. Hen ry Shands, while in an epileptic fit yeKicraay afternoon, rcu in an onen - - - -" wiii" i graif lire ana was Durneu to death before the mother could reach him. j Tho screams of the boy attracted I neighbors, who turned In the flr alarm, but he was dead before as.it-' hii. i'imiiii amvr FEWCHANGES N LEAGUE AR PARIS, Feb. 9. The League of Nations committee practically com pleted the entire constitution at its meeting yeserday, it is announced. Redrafting, necessitated by several changes, will delay its completion until the middle of this week, how ever. Lord Cecil, of Great Britain; Pre mier Venizelos, of Greece; Senator Bourgeois, of France, and Paul Hy mans, of Belgium, were appointed aa a drafting committee. The next meeting of the committee jwllkbe iield at 10:30 Monday morn ing. Official Statement; The following official statement was issued yesterday; "Tho committee on the League of Nations met at the Crillon Hotel at 10:30 o'clock this morning, and it was marked by the same accord of view that had characterized the previous sessions. "At the end of this meeting the committee finds itself nearlng tho end of Its task. The committee re ferred for discussion and clarifica tion a few' matters to a drafting committee. These points, however, still are to be referred back to the main committee. At the same time ' certain points, vhlch were previ- J ously accepted, may be reopened for discussion before the league of na-' tions committee makes its report to! tho peace conference. I '11. Rlcci Busati has been named ! to represent the Italian delegation on the secretariat. "The committee will meet again at tho Hotel Crillon on Monday morn ing at 30:30 o'clock. "On Sunday afternoon the draft ing committee (above referred to) will meet at the office of Lord Robert (Continued on Page 21, Column 8.) E E FOE ASKS POLES BERLIN, Feb. 8 (via London. Feb. 9). The Prussian government has opened peace negotiations with the Polos, demanding the immediate evac uation of Poson by Polish troops and the demobilization of the Polish army. L BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Feb. j.Eigh persons were drowned when a motor launch capsized on AA'arrior river at a point two miles from the Alabama. Power Company's plant at Gorgas. Ala., late yesterday afternoon. The launch, which, it is reported was overloaded, turned turtle while rounding a sharp bend in thn rivet. 'CONFESSES SHE BURNED HER BABY IN BONFIRE ASHBVILLn, N C. Feb. 9. Jessie Robinson, negress, under arrest here, has confessed she cut up and burned the body of her .baby, born January 28. In a bonfire in the rear of tho residence where for five years sho Las been wonting as a servant. Por .,.. . r 1m Hfil,s'a hrw1, AtA ... i.. iiuiia ul n .wrf . wuj um uul uurn and tho woman scattered them in back lots of several hounes. and chll- dron found the pieces. Tho woman is beimr held without bail. She savs the child died anl she was too poor 0 lurr 'I. RULES F TO RE M VACUAT ON EIGHT HN AS AUNCH CAPSIZES 1919. 'LIAR IS MAYER'S ANSWER TO HENEY NEW YORK. Fab. 0. Levy Mayer, counsel for Armour & Co., ,l&st night denounced as "an In famous lie" the charge 'of Francis J. Heney before the Senate Agri cultural Committee yesterday that Mayer attempted to "buy him off" by offering Heney "more business than he could handle." "The charge of Heney, made during my absence In New York, is an infamous lie," Mr. Mayer said. "He says that tho attempt was made by me at an open ses sion of the committee. Next Mon day It will be two weeks since. I was before the committee. Why did not Heney then get up and im mediately tell of this Imaginary offer? "The ,lie is tbo transparent. It is very clumsy Hennas for many months -attacked the honesty and Integrity of every one of the nve big packers, and all' of their law yers. Now in desperation he re sorts to still anotherjHIe. "Some days ago the committee asked me to appear next Monday to discu5S. the constitutionality of tho pending bill. I will then ap pear and have more to say." HUTU BERLIN, Feb. S. via London, Feb. 9. A new constitution of Germany will be accepted by the National As sembly at Weimar today, according to the Berliner Tageblatt. The report of a preliminary draft binding the various state govern Glocko in commenting upon the peace ted to tho assembly and was ratified yesterday without discussion. "Our hopo is in President Wilson." said the German newspaper Groesse as "tho Empire." Representatives outlook, adding: "President Wilson's confidence in German honesty' during the peace conference is essential." This paper advocated the speedy abolition of the council system. The first draft of the new German constitution refers to the federation as "The Empire." Representatives j of the entente at Paris, in pressing for the severest terms for Germany. have mentioned that the reformation I in Germany is only camouflage to j hide the purpose of establishing a i great empire which shall still be a menace to the world's peace. Sour of the Provision. Here arc the leading provision of the first draft: "The president must be at least thirty-four years old and haY been a German subject for at least ten years; he shall be ejected for a term (Continued on Page 3, Column G.) B F Complete demobilization of the Ger man naval forces has been ordered by the Weimar government, a Swis diplomatic dispatch announces. Only a few detachments engaged In sneelal work nnd some volunteer or ganizations will remain In service, tti was stated. The government plans to provide civilian employment for all of the sailors. RKRMAX SOCIALISTS LEAD. BERNE.. Feb. . The Socialist con- : gress here is closing with a complete j victory for the German represents.- j Ives. The British and French dele-1 gates capitulated to &U i the fie inaods of -:tho &exsac& OR GERMANY UP I0DA! HO UZA1N NAW ODD 1,500 AH MEN ARE BEN HELD READY TO CHECK ANY DISORDER My Fight Is Against Russian Methods In America By OLE HANSEN, Mayor of Seattle. Two years ago1510Qtf work ing men were employed in the ' industries of Seattle. There are noeSv-T'uhions: have admitted to their, ranks under the stress of war conditions every Bolshevik and I. W. W,. who desire to join. Those men have secured control of many labor orgaizations. The conser vative members have shown their yellow streak by allowing the foes of organized- govern ment to run their union and their affairs. When the shipyard strike Avas called the men went out unwill ingly in most instances, al though there is a feeling that the lower paid men were not getting sufficient wage when figured on the present cost of living. Then the radicals, having read of the revolution it Petro grad, tried to duplicate the initial steps of the same here. The city government told them to go to hell, that all things would run as long as there was a government, and made no concessions to the revolution ists. They closed down the news paper plants through fear of in jury of the employes of news papers. Business, always cow ardly, hunted its hole for a little time until I announced that all people would he protected to the last man and that we had 1,500 men armed with rifles to kill on sight any one that caused dis order. On Friday I notified the strike committee that at 8 o'clock Sat urday morning everything would operate. Everything i9 activity in Seattle now. Gathered here are hundreds and thousands of Russian Bol sheviki, who have arrived here during the past two years. These scoundrels want to take possession of our American Gov ernment and try to duplicate the anarcliy of Russia. The seat of goA'ernment is the city hall.' We sworo in 1,000 extra police and hold in reserve citizens armed with rifles and shotguns. 1 gave orders to shoot on sight any disturber of the peace. They know from the ex perience they had at the riot a few weeks ago that we meant business, and believe me, we did. I wanted a show down. If there Is a majority of these fel lows in the United States, I don't want to live here. They told me the troops wore disloyal and would not help us. I told them that was a lie. but even if it was so. wo would fight until we were dead before we even allowed them to turn oci os 8-casdter fewer ljsfc&, w-u . PRICE THREE CENTS. SEATTLE, Feb. 9. Encouraged by the determined stand of Mayor Ole Haason, business here was re- jsumed to a slight extent today. - Hasson declared early that the strike was broken, but labor leaders asserted that labor's solidarity had not been affected, i f At least two municipal street cars, heavily guarded, left the barns trips through the cir. A few res taurants opened. 4f few small stores yesterday did a li&e business. Mayor Hanses issued a vigorous statement in which he decdared radi- f tSaVTabor men had tried to duplicate, .in Seattle, the Russian revolution. told Them To MGe To- Hell., "The city government told them t go to hell." Hanson said. Bust ness always cowardly, hunted its hole for a little time: until I announc ed that all people would be protected to the last man and that we had 1,509 men' armed with rifles to kill on. sight any one that caused disorder." Maj. Oen. John P. Morrison, com manding the Western department of the United States army, arrived In Seattle this afternoon. He immedi ately went into conference with. Mavnr TTjinsnn and Kidra.l officials relative to action to be taken in case J tho general strike continues. ( Mayor. Hanson's threat that the cltr would operate industries unless th ' BVfiiDathetic strike ivas called off j by 8 a. m. Saturday, had caused some anxiety, but the day passed without disturbance or any unusual dem onstration. The mayor declared "everything 1 activity in Seattle." "Every municipal car is running; Our light plant never has shut dowa. one minute." "Gathered here are hundreds and thousands of Russian bolshevikl, who have arrived here during the last two years," Hanson said. "These scoun drels want to take possession of our American Government and try to du plicate the anarchy of Russia." Although local newspapers were cir culated here that left the press three" hours after Hanson's statement vu issued, they did not publish It. Labor leaders Deride Statement. Labor leaders termed Hanson's statement "flamboyant" and "rldlcs lous." They offered data to back their eon-t tention that the bolshevik! and I. AV. AY. have no voice in the councils its Seattle labor. "The general strike is not conduct ed by Bolsheviki." said E. B. Ault, publisher of tho Union Record. "The I. W. W. have no voice in the coun cils of the strike commltte. On tho contrary, every attempt of the I. AV. AV. to distribute propaganda has been, checked promptly by labor's own pc lice department." Ault said that for sixteen days bc fore the general strike was called the shipyard workers had been oat, and that not one of them had been arret ed. The general strike wm called Thursday, and In the following twent-ty-four hours, he said, thirty-two ar rests were made. In the next twenty-four hours fourteen men were booked, but not one of them had any connection with the strike. Tells or Strikers' Police. Ault outlined the policing system devised by the strikers to keep ordsr in their own ranks. "Labor's police department Is head ed by former officers of the United States army and navy, and in the forco are many discharged soldiers." j he said. "These policemen carry no clubs nor firearms. Moral suasion i ! used, and the orderly condition o Seattle's streets today bears test!- money to the efficiency of the t weapon." The general strike was called Isj i sympathy with 30.000 striking ship i workers who would not accept the! ' Macy award. This award was drawn up by it committee of three- Two oZ the members, represented the Shipping Board and the American Federation , of Labor. The third was appointed oy rrestdent Wilson Director General Piex oC the Ship ping Board .baa refused to deal wjtk 1 h