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"3p- the wadtfnafon Today The German Golden Goose. "Let Her Lay," Says Eng land. Suspicion Dies Hard. WEATHER: Threatening weather followed by rain late to night or tomorrow. Tem perature at 8 a. m., 28 de gree. Normal tempera ture for March 8 for laat thirty yean, 40 degree. -tttti r-rk-i-T -. Published every evenlnr (Including Sunday) iVTlMRrOR II 0Q7 Entered a second-daw matter, at the port. XI JitXJ-XJAC O.X,VI . ofnee ,t Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 8. 1919. dosmg Wall Street Prices PRICE TWO QENTS. FINAL EDITION wwzs By ARTHUB BRISBANE. (Copyright. 1S18.) Intelligent Americans, no matter how violently they may "hate Ger many and love the allies," -will read slowly and carefully these extracts from the Daily News, of London, taken from an editorial headed "Plain Speech for Our Friends !" To kill the goose that laid the golden eggs would be more fooliBh than to discourage the goose that is expected to lay golden indemni ties. A. G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily News in London, writes: "We haTe before us in the approv ing columns of the Horning Post forecast of the new Foch terms. There are to be no German guns made of oTer three-inch call ber, no airships or aeroplanes, no German garrison within thirty miles of the Rhine, and an in demnity of thirty billion pounds, payable at the rate of six hundred million ponnds a year, for more than fifty years. TFe do not core how severe the disarmament terms are, if it means the disarmament of all the world, hut what does France propose! TFe know what we propose. TVe i haTe set the pace with army esti mates of four hundred and forty million pounds for the first year. "We know what France has suf fered, and. we mean to secure her against a repetition of that suffer--lag, bat her claims are getting out 6f all whooping. From, Syria they , pass to Morocco to the Saar Tal- ley. Their Chauvinists claim Ger man ships. Tivlaai announces that since Paris cannot be removed, the frontier must be shifted regardles.s of trumpery things like the wishes . ef the popalatlon; and now, If the , Morning Post is right, the allies are to occupy Germany with coni script armies for fifty years, while j vusm wo nuuie puasiuie t earnings of the nation at the point 'f the sword. i "What Is the use of asking the ' industrial commission to saTe dTflization? "Why pursue the in ! decent sham of the League of Na tions covenant? Is there anyone : in his senses who does not know 'that this grotesque talk, If carried fflto effect, woald plnnge the world Into nnlversal Bolshevism within twa years? Can anyone conceive the allies, armed to the teeth, ait ting on the head xf Germany, Aus , tria, and the rest for fifty years witnoat blowing ont each otter's Brains in the first five? "Why . tjaoHia iae wld while flta. waarters ecarvea dv oht nior itaha. t pt, lj peteTflfto discuss this gibberish of mingled revenge and Iastr 1 Mr. fcardiner may be a little excited England and France may "not actually intend to de mand terms that would bring fur ther war in a- short time, but it wastime for somebody to issue a rarhing againsf foolishness, and the London Daily News has done All the figures 'quoted above must be multiplied by five to change the pounds into dollayi. You find that the plan is to have Germany pay the Allies three thousand- million dollars a year for more than fifty years. This might prove hopelessly discourag ing. The ivise creditor is content to take what his debtor CAN PAY. The statement that England pro poses to spend two billion two hundred million dollars on her army for the first year is inter esting, In view of that "universal peace" that the league Is to bring. The late Mr. Ruskin, in his chap ter "Of Kings' Treasuries," de plores the fact that England and France spent "for ten-thousand-thousand pounds' worth of terror a year." Horrified that each nation should spend ten million pounds in one year on an army, he asks: "Now suppose, instead of buying these ten millions' worth of panic annually, they made up their minds to be at peace with each other and buy ten millions' worth of knowl edge annually; and that each na tion spent its ten thousand-thousand pounds a year in founding royal libraries, royal art galleries, royal museums, royal gardens, and places of rest. Might it not be better somewhat for both France and England?" Horrified by the spending of ten million pounds a year each on her army by France and England, what would Ruskin say if he could come back and find England plan ning beautiful eternal peace and simultaneously appropriating FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY MTLTJON POUNDS to be spent on her army in the first year of the peace league? What would he say if he looked across the ocean to peaceful re publican America and found us dealine with miljfery and naval BILLIONS, all the world talking "peace forever and billions for war now in Perhaps the world's trouble re sides in the fact that you cannot change the characters of individ uals or nations by resolutions. The nations are not merely thinking about what Germany might do, stripped of warships, money, guns, submarines, railroad equipment, and the Hohenzollern family. The nations cannot lose in ten minutes or ten years the suspicions, animosities, and intel ligent class hatred bred through centuries. They still suspect and fear each other. What agitates the British edi tor of the London Daily News most earnestly are the claims of SB nannS sHHB annnnnnnnnna HUM nannnnV nannnnm nnnnnnnnnntnl i nannnnV nanaae nananani nannnnni nananV nannnnV nannm HI nH oHHB amV AH HH JnanVal vnnnl nnVnnw nH iana tVa B .H BBnanrnnnnnm' anannnnLnnnnnnf Bnanana aHHVlLiB r & tHHIH nannnnV annnnnB Lnannnnl HHBl nananni fnann nannnnni nBnannBnBnu JLHIH ananV HHB LHHfl HHH Bnanann vnanana Bnann hers lose custody of COURT ORDE The strange case of the bakery children was decided today in favor of the children by Judge Kathlyn Sellers in Juvenile Court. Holding that the six boys and two girls involved in the proceedings "are dependents and destitute of aj suitable home," the court committed them to the Board of Children's Guardians "during minority.' ilr and Mrs. "William A. Greer, respondents in the proceedings, were not present in court when the de cision was annonnced. Their"; coun sel, Lev.H. David, gave notice of an appeal. Police Bemoved Children. The Greer? for nearly twenty .years have obtained orphan boys and girls from various institutions, mainly from, Philadelphia, to work in their bakery. 116 Twelfth street north east 0, . , r,w v . Sn SfS& closures nad been made by an orphan girl who ran away from the place. The children's ag-es range from eleven to fifteen years. The court's decision today sustains the' Ave counts of the attachment against the Greers. It wan given, in formally. The formal order will be entered later, possibly Monday. Exploitation Charged. The attachment charged that chil dren entrusted to their care were ex ploited by their labor; that they were subjected to harsh and cruel treat ment; that they did not receive proper (Continued on Pace 2, Column 0.) CHICAGO. March Guests in the home of Mayor William Hale Thomp son were forced to flee a fire last night while firemen carried several other occupants of the apartment building down ladders. Mrs. Thompson, wife of the mayor, was entertaining several guests. They made their way to a fire-escape and fled to the street The loss is estimated at $500,000 '.a . WILL FLY TO N. Y. Dr Julius Juhlin. postmaster gen eral of Sweden, will fly from Wash ington to New York in a mall airplane today with Pilot Robert Shank, the Postoffice Department said today. Dr. Juhlin has been in this country for some time studying air mail serv ice, and will visit the New York aero nautic exhibition Monday, which is "air mail day.' TODAY Prance, which he says "are get ting out of all whooping." He sees nothing dangerous or ex cessive, apparently, about the claims of England, picking up odds and ends of colonies,' sub marines, battleships, etc. Nations that have won the fight already begin, as usual, to dislike and suspect each other. America is present at the Euro pean party like some innocent little child, saying: "My mama told me not to ask for anything." Let us hope we shall not be sus pected of anything except delight ful willingness to get into trouble and undertake almost any load. The Final ORPHAN BY Fl ROUTS GUESTS DF CHICAGO MAYOR SWEDISH F HEAD Army to Be Held at 509,909 Gen. March Declares The War Department will hold an army of 509,909 until Congress provides otherwise, Chief of Staff March announced today. This army will not be reduced' under any circumstances, March stated until Congress passed a law outlining the permanent military organization. He declared that the United States could not get along with a smaller army. This is the strength asked by the War Depart ment in the military bill which failed to pass Congress. When questioned later regarding whether drafted men would be held in the army contemplated, March explained that the War Depart ments hopes resumption of enlistments will provide specified strength. In event they do not, he added, the War Department will have to deter mine what troops will be held to supply the deficiency, no decision on that point having been reached as yet. Italians and Jugo-Slavs Will Ask the President To Settle Land Quarrel ABOARD U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, March 7 (Delayed). President Wilson walked five miles about the decks today, setting a pace that made his volunteer escort of marines and secret service men puff to keep up with him. He attended the ship's movies this afternoon and again, tonight The President presented the officers and- crew with a framect autographed portrait of himself in appreciation of their effort for his comfort and .safety. He also gave Jndi , .uaaifogrHed-photDgrapns to Captain McCauley and Commander Perkins. s t PARIS, March8. President Wilson will be calfed upon, im mediately after his return to. settle the quarrel between the Italians and the Jugo-Slavs, if was understood today. According to re ports the peace delegates have agreed to this method of settling the knotty problem. DISPUTE MAY (The territorial dispute between the Italians and the Jugo-Slavs over the land bordering the northern shores of the Adriatic has threatened to bring on further fighting in southern Europe. The Italian military mission at Laibach was expelled by the Ser vians, who are supporting the Jugo slav movement, and there was an un confirmed report in circulation re cently that an armed clash had taken place.) The peace delegates are anxiously waiting to see whether President Wil son will propose any amendments to the league of nations covenant as a result of the criticism by certain (statesmen in Washington. So far not a single amendment has been submitted to the constitution, al though the nations represented at the conference were able to do so through the peace bureau. This doeB not mean, however, that the European powers may be com pletely satisfied with the present E H . C. T. U: NEW YORK. March S Plan .-f American brewers to transfer their plants to Mexico and the Orient will be fought by the Women's Christian Temperance Union in connection with its campaign for world prohibition, it was announced at national headquar ters today. "With prohibition a virtual certain ty in the United States, we are going to direct our endeavors toward ridding the rest of the world of the liquor and strong drink eIl." declared Mrs. Ella ! Boole, national vice president. , "The liquor traffic is .still a men . ace," she said. "American brewers I and distillers are Invading Mexico and the Orient with their nefarious trade. Our sisters in China have sent their appeal to us. To defeat this menace we are apportioning j:t00.OOO of the ?1,000,000 budget we expect to raise between March 20 and May 31 to that end." Although the W. C. T. U. has put whiskey out of the running, mci, who have fallen back on tobacco f r rolace need have no immediate fears. The W C. T. U. as a national or world organization holds no brief against Lady Nicotine as long as she confines her attention to the malo sex, it waa intimated. BRYAN HAS ERYSIPELAS BETTER William J. Bryan, ill here with ery sipelas. Is much Improved today, his physician stated. IK WORD DRY AM OF W $250 Prize Chapter PROVOKE WAR. covenant. But none of them felt dis posed in the absence of President Wilson to put forward ideas for the modification of the text and the par ticulars set forth therein. If, however. President Wilson leads the way himself by proposing amendments, propositions arc ex pected to flow in from the other pow ers as a result. Wants Police Force. For instance Leon Bourgeois, the French expert on the League of Na tions, still holds to the idea of an international army (a policing force) for the enforcement of the rulings of the league. He is certain to raise this point if discussions of the con stitution are re-opened. Whatever amendments are eventu ally received will be referrd to the League of Nations commission, of which President Wilson is the head. ThiH commission, after considering them, will report to a plenary ses sion of the peace conference. BRITISH BUSINESS MEN ROCKING TO AMERICA LONDON, March 8. British business men, eager to resume their trade relations with Amer ica, are buyincr passage on At lantic steamers which carry few civilian passengers, says a copy righted dispatch to the New York World. Accommodation is so limited that intending passengers have to wait two months for a berth. Eastbound liners, on the other hand, are carrying full pre-war passenger bookings of Ameri can drummers, tourists, theatri cal companies, and speculators. After the arrival of the boat train at Waterloo Station re cently, nearly 200 Americans passed the night in the station as they were unable to find ac commodations here. CANADIAN PRESSMEN STRIKE. OTTAWA, Ontario, March 8. AH of the printing of the Canadian Parlia ment was tied up .today by a strike of 100 pressmen employed by the gov- ernment printing bureau. The men are demanding higher wages. snvnn nvnvnV anvnvnvnvnvnBnvnV JfenvnaB nanvV aLmvnvnvnHLvaH lanvnal tnanvna unvavnt avnvna Hvnnl Bnn nnni nvavna BnnnnM nnni annnl annV 'nnnnV LnnW IH &nnH HnvnH nnnl 30 FAMILIES HRDERED T Occupants of J&irty homes on the Navy Yardj reservation in southeast Washington will have to move to other quarters by April 1, according to the terms of a removal notice sent out by Capt. A. L. WillarH, com mandant of the Navy Yard. Unless they move to other houses by this date the gas and water in the houses will be cut oft and ma rines will evict all. occupants. The Government commandeered this property last October. Fifty per cent of the families living on the commandeered area at that time have moved- away. Thirty families still remain, claiming they can not find suitable houses to mome to. .Offer to Build Houses. In a statement to The Times today Captain Wlllard said the navy yartt has offered' to- build -houses or apart ments for1 'them. This offer they have all refused, he" stated. A year aaro the Government addjjfl by condemnation to tne navyyard property that section of M street. In cluding Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh streets to the water front. It was needed, officials declare, to build shops on ior me increased work of the yard. Today thirty families who have io- mained in the houses face forcible eviction by April 1, according to the terms of Captain Wlllard's removal notice. , Captain Wlllard says he has given the occupants sixty days' notice. His oraer wm be carried out to the very letter, he says, because the Govern ment needs the space, and the people have had plenty of time in which to make other arrangements. Notified Laat Fall. First notice was served on the occu pants of the houses In the reserva tion last September, when the resi dents were notified they must vacate the premises on October 14. At that time a committee waited on navy of ficial1 and explained because of the bousing situation they were unable to And other homes. No further effort was made to force the eviction of the tenants of the properties until Feb ruary 2, when the formal notice that they must leave the reservation by April 1 was served. Since October 1 none of the resi dents of the reservation haa paid rent for the houses they occupj. Before the Government took over the prop erty and Included it in its reservation (Continued on Page 2, Column C.) ALUElfOlDE PAK1S. .March 8. The allied powers have agreed to distribute the surren dered German war fleet among them selves. It was understood here today. This is in line with the desires of both France and Italy. President Wilson is expected to ad vise against sinking the German fhips. except as a last resort. He re gards recommendations of those ad vocating sinking them as "the coun sel of those who do not know what else to do." Disposition of the surrendered Ger man men of war will be one of the foremost questions to be unraveled by the peace conference in Paris when they formulate" the naval terms to be submitted Germany In the final peace treaty. Prohident Wilson is known to have seriously considered the advisabilitv of dividing the German fleet between France and Italy to assist them in meeting the naval strength they will be allotted under the League of Na tions. But the President has reached no final conclusion as to his course and will not urftil ho has advised 'fully with his naval authorities and those of the allies. VACATE NAVY YARD HOUSES GERMAN FLEET of "Camouflaged" in First Picture of Man Who Shot Glemenceau wwnwMKytytjmitmH.bwt W 'mmmLmWImmSSmmmmmmmi I 'ill ill ft' UllIliW : 1 ' BSKSamBBSsmmBSKt ry wiiiiiiii M i 1 1 f-rgife MiPMiPMiiyiiiyy wjhub-J j & fii-vr? IIB4f.j9rH3hKS', wIIHHhh :: I TOBiHaBF ant Wj; & & . 1IBHHb''iAXnm' mm&Mm bl rBanjHUK'A KfK--?. rf"' "tvflifipnvx jc .'iA'-K'wi. jtmmmmmmmmmtmtt- '.i. TssiBfinii Copyright, 1919, Underwood & TJnderwood. EMILIE COTTIN (RIGHT) LEAVING COURT. Latest cable reports from Paris indicate that the prisoner, who was an associate of anarchists in Italy and Switzerland, has refused to plead insanity at his trial for attempted assassination of the Premier. Bigger Business For Washington Ford May Establish Factory Here D.C.to Take Census Of All Available Sites to Bring Others Here Br BILL. PRICK. "My compliments to Ross Andrews on his promptness and foresight in wiring Henry Ford that Washington is just the place to build one of his big factories for automobile manu lacturing." said Commissioner Louis Brownlow today. Mr. Andrews noticed a fow days ago that Ford is going1 -tobuild a great little "niverette-it' a low price, and that he will -establish plants at advantageous poIntsHe wired .r Ford that ho rnuBtrBOt overlook Washington In hW plans and today expressed hlsflrm, japnvTc. tlon that the automobile Sf &r4r will be impressed with Washlngl&iJsa' vantages and will invnat money here4 Double Ten Strike. Not only would this prove to be a ten strike in a business way for the new Ford company, but Wash ington would also be the logical place for Mr. Ford's new publication, having for its object the general up lift. Mr. Andrews is the chairman of the committee on promotion of man ufacturing in Washington named by Joseph Berberich. the hustling, live wire head of the Merchants' and Man ufacturers Association, in the pro gram of calling the attention of the industrial world to the great ad vantages of Washington for manu facturing. Mr. Berberich had been Virginia Car Line Doubles Earnings The net earnings of the Washington-Virginia Railway, trhlch. nearly doubled In 191S the figures of the year previous, are expected to be greatly Increased lor the coming year, according to a state ment to The limes today by John Cv Frccland, treasurer of the com pany. The peak of onr operating costs vras reached under war con ditions, he said, -but the new naval torpedo plant, rapidly Bear ing completion, will add from 124)00 to 15,000 to the population of Alexandria. "We own nearly all the stock of the Mount Vernon nnd Camp Humphreys Railway, which will probably begin opera tions before April J." The company Is paying a divi dend of 5 per cent on preferred stock, bnt has paid nothing on its common stock tor several years. Officials are hopefel of reward ing holders of the latter either la 1019 or 1020. studying the lassitude of Washing ton and became convinced that a prop erly conducted campaign will eventu ally bring to the Capital much busi ness that will in no manner lessen the beauty of the city as a residential center. "While, in the city Itself, manufac turing should be confined to light matters." went on Commissioner (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) The Sunday Times FIGHTING 1 BUN ENDS; RED REVOLT LONDON, March 8. An Exchange Telegraph, dispatch, received from Berlin today, via, Copenhagen, said the fighting In Berlin ended at noon with all public buildings in the hands of the government forces. A number of Spartacan prisoners, the dispatch said have been sentenced to death. The dis patch is accepted as meaning that firing ceased Friday. The counter revolt at Berlin has b?en quelled", by Minister of War Gostaye Noeke, said a German wire- lees dispatch picked up here today. Tne Spartacans have been de feated and; the deserters jEfom tbe governrwnt forjahave bees di The number of dead and franade in the recent fighting exceetfcT 4W latest messages say ' BERLIN, March 6 (Delayed).-. The Spartacans have determined to break off all negotiations with the government and settle the issue by lighting. This ac tion was teien' despite the fact lhat the government troops were ex tending their control of the city aad apparently had broken the rerola--Hon. After a day of comparative suc cess, the revolutionists were again on the deefnsive tonight, and the bat tle had become one of guerilla war fare. The tide turned when govern ment airplanes began dropping hags bombs on the roof of the royal stables, occupied by revolting sail ors. The buildings were- practically? demolished and scores of sailors were killed or wounded. The remainder surrendered. Shortly afterward the Alexanderplatz, which had changed hands several times, and where tha Spartacan resistance was centered, was taken by storm by government troops. More than a hundred revolu tionists were captured there. Strike Gaining. While the Spartacans were losing their hard won military advantage, the general strike was gaining. Work men have adopted resolutions indorse f ing the Spartacans' latest demands-' which include abolition of all war loans and debts. At the same time the workmen decided to cal lout tha electric, gas and water works em ployes. The radicals are taking steps to ward formation of their own cabinet and are boasting that in spite of tha government's present strength they would soon win complete control of the city. BERNE, March 8. A Wolff Agancj dispatch, filed In Berlin Thursday and received here today, announced thit the Prussian diet would open nex week. This was accepted as pnnf of the government's confidence that the revolution had failed. "Buy A Motor Car Week" March 10-15, Inc. See Automotive Section IS CRUSHED