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WEATHER:
Partly elondy tonight
and tomorrow, little
chance la temperature.
Temperature at 8 a. m..
71 decree. Normal tem
perature for June 11 for
the last SO years 72 de
cree. Shorter Hours Coming.
Lighthouses Point Up.
Actors and Pictures.
Where Are the Great Men?
NUMBER 11.192.
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INALl
EDITION
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
1 (Copyright 1919.)
The shipbuilders of Montreal
I demand a forty-four-honr week,
four hours on Saturday, oight
i hours the other five working days.
, The cloak and suitmakers of New
j York have the forty-four-hour
week already. It will come every-
I where, giving workers half a dav
to themselves on Saturday, and
all dav Sunday. When it comes
EVERYWHERE it won't hurt
anybody, for all employers wiU be
on the same footing.
I
Th wisft emnlover does not oo-
ject to wages or hours within rea
son, if others work as he does,
on the same basis of oav and time.
The trouble comes when one em
ployer without conscience gets
out of his men more work for less
pay, creating impossible compe
tition for the other employer.
That, bv the way. is the whole
curse of the so-called beautiful
theory of free trade. With free
trade the men that get the most
work out of other men for least
money get the markets of the
world.
These higher wages and shorter
hours, which are coming, will
compel intelligent men to see
j how much they can get out of ma
chines, instead of striving always
to see how much they get out of
human beings.
For instance, the shipworker
who drove rivets by hand with a
steel hammer was paid just about
"what it cost him to live. Then
the "air gun" was invented, en-
. abling one man to drive ten times
, as many rivets as he had driven
by hand, yet the same worker,
with the "air gun," continued to
- get only ABOUT WHAT IT
COST HIM TO LIVE. Machinery
' has added to the productivity of
labor, multiplied by a thousand
the wealth of the world; it has
not added enough to the pay or to
, the leisure of the WORKER of
1 the machine. That has got to be
changed, and, thanks to the war,
it will be changed.
Great Britain will use all of her
- lighthouses as guides to flying
men. In addition to the rays of
light now sent out to ships on the
water, other rays 'will be sent up
straight into the sky, to guide
sailors in those modern ships of
air, the flying boats. Before long
the earth's surface will be dotted
with light spots that will indi
cate safe landing- places for fliers,
as lighthouses indicate safejihar-.
oorsior we ocner -snips now.
Mr. Vanderlip, retired presi
dent of the biggest bank in the
United States, is latest to be men
tioned as a candidate for Presi
dent on the Republican ticket
next year. The mention is inter
esting:. If YOU had to name the man
that had to be elected President
in 1920, what name would you
suggest?
Does it seem to you interesting
or strange that out of a hundred
million Americans there should be
Bo few, if any, standing out as
nationally known, and inevitably
to be chosen for the great honor.
Why is it that so few Ameri
cans do anything to attract espe
cial attention? Thev talk of Persh
ing, because Mr. Wilson put him
in charge in Europe. If Mr. Wil
son had nut somebody else in
charge in Europe, they would talk
about the somebody else.
How manv men could vou name
that in vour opinion OUGHT to be
i President of the United States be-
cause of special fitness or service
rendereo. to the people? Can vou
mention rven one. the President
in Paris exceoted? Is it because
our average is so high that no
American stands out above all
others, or is it because our pur
suits, selfish and individual, are of
so commercial a character that
public service sinks into an insig
nificant nlace?
Take pencil and paper, see if
you can write the names of a
dozen men, spelling them cor
rectly, that have reallv done
something to deserve the Presi
dency of the biggest country in
the world.
Mr. Arliss. the actor, made
"Master of Arts" bv Columbia
College, made a little speech
against moving pictures. He was
distressed tha,t voung men and
women eiehteen and twenty years
old should see moving pictures,
instead of livine. talking actors.
Human beings seek sensations
and impressions IN THEIR OWN
MINDS. A story or an idea en
ters the brain more ouickly
through the eyes than through the
ears. Men have used their eyes
to gain information for more than
a million years; thev have used
speech for one or two hundred
thousand vears at most. The aver
age human cannot absorb easily,
or at all. complicated sentences.
The eve. on the other hand, under
stands instantly pictures that
move rapidly.
The sound of the actor's voice
is sometimes pleasant, his indi
vidual appearance mavfbe pleas
ing, but real power is in expres
sion, movement. Moving pictures
give all that, and in manv cases
thev give what no spoken play
could possibly give. Suppose you
wanted to show on the staee the
-crucifixion of St Peter head
downward as Rubens painted it;
the burning of Joan of Arc.
the recantation of Galileo, the
couxaeeous death of the monk
Savonarola, how would you do it?
L Certainly vou could show ten
Washington Telegraphers Out Strike Spreading In Other Cities
ROOT
Fireman Is Shot
STRIKE WILL
ROW FAST,
DICTION OF
While Western Union offi
cials today asserted business
continued normal, striking op
erators asserted at least 50 per
cent of the force walked out this,
morning. Postal officials admit
thev have been hard hit. al
though asserting that not more
than 30 per cent have quit.
Strikers assert nearly 100 per
cent of the Postal men hare left
their keys here.
The nation-wide strike of commer
cial telegraphers, which started this
morning at 8 o'clock, will increase in
force throughout the country and will
be complete within several days, ac
cording to S. J. Konenkamp. -presi
dent of the Telegraphers Union
who. according to word received
from Chicago, has issued a formal
statement on the situation.
To Grow In Extent.
"The full extent of the strike will
not be known for a couple of days
und will increase In force throughout
the country," Konenkarap is reported
as saying-. The telegTaph workers
have been forced to make a test of
strength to determine whether an
avenue of adjustment is open to them.
It is only when the strength lies on
the side of the workers that arbitra
tion Is pointed to as the wav out. We
were willing- to have our case adjust
ed by a fair tribunal before the strike
was declared. Now we feel confident
the result will be in our favor"
Konenkamp predicted that 60.000
men will quit the keys, practically
paralyzing the wire communication
system of the country.
Western Union officials continue to
express the opinion that few of the
telegraphers will quit, and that there
will be little interruption to their
service.
The Inactivity of Government
agencies to prevent the strike, par
ticularly on the part of Postmaster
General Burleson, to whom the whole
strike situation was left by the other
departments, is taken here to indi
cate he does not believe the situation
will develop seriously.
Will Amnlxt Bnrimon.
The Labor Department and the War
Labor Board will not take a hand in
the matter until directed to do so hy
Burleson. The strike was not formally
discussed at the Cabinet meeting yes
terday, and the Postmaster General
did not attend.
Meanwhile, telegraphers predicted a
complete tie-up of the Western Union
lines here, which would ereatlv ham
per Government business. The btatc
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Carl Otto Bertling. of New York.
will be among the interned Ger
mans to be deported on a ship leav
ing Newport News soon. it was
learned today at the Department of
Justice.
Bertling, before being interned,
was in charge of the New Tork
branch of the American Institute of
Berlin, which was responsible for
much German propaganda in the
United States.
Dr Richard Goldschmidt. a Ger
man lecturer and scientist, recently
paroled from a detention camp, also
will be sent back.
TODAY
times more in the moving nicture
than with living actors. Plays,
like books, are intended to make
human beings think. Well pre
pared moving pictures of the right
kind undoubtedly create more
thought, more rapid action within
the mind of the spectator than the
spoken play. Hence the success of
the moving picture.
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PRE
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PROPAGANDA HEAD
SAYS
U. S. GIRL MAY BE
IRISH VICEREINE
LORD DECIBS, -
Husband of the former Vivien
Gould, may be appointed Vice
roy of Ireland, according- to a re
port from London. The marriage
of Miss Gould to Lord Decies
took place in 1011.
PAYS $75,000
FOR PHONI
NEW YORK. June 11. It cost
Theodore Dougherty, member of the
firm of J. F. Whitney & Co., ship
brokers, $75,000 to become the hus
band of Mrs. Ruby Buchanan Dough
erty, formerly a telephone operator
at the Waldorf-Astoria. Upon the
basis of 25 cents on the dollar, air.
Dougherty's first wife. Mrs. Frances
B. Dougherty, settled her action
against the telephone girl for alleged
alienation of his affections.
The sum total of the settlement,
which was revealed yesterday in the
supreme court after the clerk was
directed to strike the asf from the
calender, was $25,000 Mrs. Dough
erty had sued for flOO.000. She haa
previously received from her one-time
husband $42,000 after divorcing him
in July, 1917, and weekly alimony of
?C0.
Settlement Announced.
Not until the case was called for
trial before Justice Hotchklss was the
compromise made known. Counsel an
nounced a settlement had been reach
ed and from friends of Mrs. Dough
erty No. 1 the terms were learned
Since divorcing her husband, the
first Mrs. Dougherty has been living
with her father. N. Ives Bennett, a
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LOS ANGELES, June 11. Jesus
liomo, alleged anarchist organizer,
believed by Federal officials to be a
member of the anarchistic band re
sponsible for the recent bomb out
rages in the East, was arrested
here today. He was taken into cus
tody while posting handbills calling
fcr a meeting of radicals June IS.
Immigration Inspector Burnett
said the man r.dmltted coming here
to organise anarchists for the pur
pose of overthrowing the Govern
ment. He carried a letter of intro
duction from Chicago radicals, dated
February 7 last, which stated he
was sent to California especially to
"orange workers in orange district
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William H. Bieber, thirty-seven
years old, member of the Dictrict of
Columbia fire department, is in a
critical condition at Casualty Hos
pital today from gunshot wounds in
the throat, inflicted by his wife, Mrs.
Grace, Bieber, age 22, during a
family quarrel at their home, 469
G street southwest.
Mrs. Bieber was cut on. the right
arm by a tumbler which she says
was thrown by her husband She is
also at Casualty Hospital.
Children Saw Shooting.
According to the police, two small
children of the Blebers were the only
witnesses to the shooting. They were
too young- to give the police any Infor
mation concerning the circumstances
whichMead up to the affair.
Bieber is a fireman stationed at No.
3 truck company and has been a resi
dent of southwest Washington for
several years. Physicians at the hos
pital hold out little hope for his re
covery. Mrs. Bieber was not serious
ly Injured.
Mrs. Bieber is suffering from se
vere bruises and a general nervous
breakdown. She was taken by the
police to No. 4 precinct station, but
later removed to the hospital.
Mrs. Bieber declared that her hus
band bad been drinking for several
days. As a result of a quarrel, she
declares Bieber attacked her and she
was forced to shoot him in self-defense.
TELL SENATORS OF
The Honse Foreign Affairs Com
mittee today heard more Witnesses
in its investigations dealing with
reported pogroms against the Jews
in Poland.
Morris Rothenberg and Dr. H.
Margoshes. of New Tork, submitted
documents which they said were
translations from Warsaw Jewish
papers, in an attempt to disprove
statements from Minister Gibson,
who cabled to the State Department
that Jewish papers in Poland did
not substantiate the reports of
massacres.
CmirrRm.an Sliirfl of New York.
'today said the department had been
jmipplied with copies of speeches in
the Polish Diet and with leaflets
'said to have been used during the
, I'aderewski election. These docu
ments. Slegcl said, showed the in
tense anti-Jewish feeling.
Chairman Porter has made it plain
to both the Jewish and Polish dele
gations who have appeared before
his committee that he is not In sym
pathy with their agitation.
N.Y. 1IIER HELD
PARIS, June 11. The case of Rob
ert Minor, former cartoonist and
writer for the New York World, who
was arrested mysteriously here Sun
day, Is now in the hands of tho Ameri
can military authorities, It was learn
ed today.
Information regarding the charge
against Minor and his whereabouts is
withheld pending further investiga
tion. BOY FINDS SPUTTERING
BOMB IN HALLWAY
JERSEY CITY. June 11. A crude
ly constructed dynamite bomb with a
burning fuse was discovered in the
hallway of a house yesterday by six-year-old
Morris Dublier, son of a
grocer whose store occupies the
ground floor of the building. The
boy called a clerk in the store, who
extinguished the fuse with his fing
ers and summoned the police.
01 S N POLAND
BY ARMY IN PARIS
GAV
ALLIED LAWMAKERS
READY TO RAlfY
PEACE TREATY
By HK7TRT WOdD,
(Baited Preaa Correspondent) .
PARIS, June 11. The German
peace treaty Is likely to be pre
sented to all allied and associated
powers parliaments for ratifica
tion the week beginning June 23,
according to Information from re
liable source today.
In the event the Germans sign
the treaty within the five-day
limit that will be' granted after
presentation of the allies' reply to
the counter-proposals, no time
will be lost in rushing the docu
ments to the parliaments of all
the associated powers, as well as
the German national assembly.
Premier Orlando decided to
summon the Italian parliament
June 10. The French Parliament
already Is in session, as Is the
American Congress. 'The Germans
have called the National Assembly
to meet In Welmer on Friday. The
British Parliament, while now tak
ing Its Pentecostal vacation, will
reassemble June 24.
TREATY TERMS
REJECTEDBY
PARIS, June 11. Admiral Kol
chak's reply to the allies' offer of
conditional recognition of his Omsk
government constitutes a refusal of
practically all the conditions laid
down by the peace conference, it was
learned from an authoritative source
today.
The reply contains the following:
1 Refusal to recognize the inde
pendence of Finland, which the
United States, Great Britain, and
France already have recognized.
2 Refusal to summon the 1017 con
stituent assembly, giving as a reason
the alleged fact that a majority of
tiiat body are Bolshevik.
3 Declaration of Kolchak's right
to determine the disposition of all
outlying Russian territories.
4 Recognition of Poland's inde
pendence. Kolchak's armies, according to the
latest allied information, have re
treated an additional seventy-flve
miles, and their left wing now rests
on the village of Sarapul (650 miles
cast of Moscow). His evacuations
during the last month constitute an
area equal to that of the State of
Maine.
THREE ARE KILLED
LONDON, June 11. Three persons
were killed and several wounded in
a fresh outburst of rioting in Cairo,
Egypt, according to dispatches from
Lata today. Troops charged the
mobs.
The Chronicle office was destroy
ed, and the Union Jack was torn up.
The trouble centered about the na
tional assembly building.
It had previously been reported
that the outbreaks of the Egyptian
Nationalists had been quelled fol
lowing tho arrival of General Alien-
by in Cairo.
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reparation:
PEACETREATY
S COMPLETED
PARIS. Jane 11. The big four to
day completed the reparations sec
tion of the reply to the German
counter proposals! and ordered tills
portion, of the note to be printed im
mediately. It is understood the al
lies refused to fix a definite sum for
indemnities.
Of the sixteen commissions study
ing the counter proposals, all have
reported except that one handling
the economic section.
The commission on Hungarian,
Rumanian, and Bohemian bound
aries turned in its report this morn
ing. The Bi- Four is to.' consider
its findings this afternoon. The. war
fare involving Hungary, Rumania,
and .Bohemia; also is to-hejtaken up.
Allied and German financial experts
are to confer in Versailles today.
Protest Delivered.
Chancellor Renner's first note in
protest against the Austrian treaty,
delivered today, takes up the eo
nomlc situation and declares the
treaty renders industrial and com
mercial life in Austria impossible.
) Premier Orlando, as the result of in
structions from the Italian cabinet,
is reported to have rejected the
latest proposed solution of the Adri
atic question, which included inde
pendence of Flume.
Indications today are that the
chief difficulty In reaching an agree
ment is furnished now by the ques
tion of shortening the period for ad
mission of Germany to the league of
nations.
French Press "Wrought TJp.
The French are opposed to this
concession, and after advocating such
a plan the big four were said to have
switched to the original idea of leav
ing the matter in the hands of a spe
cial commission.
The French press is wrought up
over the idea of including the Ger
mans in the league sooner than at
first planned, some of the newspapers
declaring flatly that France ill not
be a member if Germany is taken in
immediately.
The Turks are en route here aboard
the French battleship Democratic.
They are coming merely as "experts,
not being vested with plenary powers.
They will be quartered at Vaucrea
son. between Versailles and St. Cloud.
The Turkish delegates, it Is under
stood, will undertake to place the re
sponsibility for Turkey's part in the
war on the Young Turk party. It is
said they will agree to separation of
Armenia and other sections of the
Ottoman empire, but will object to the
Greeks occupying Smyrna.
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NEW TORK, June 11 Upon the
ground that his twenty-elght-year-old
wife had been only a "spirit
wife" to him, John Sherwill Conabeer.
wealthy Weehawken, N J., coal mer
chant, today obtained a referee's rec
ommendation for annulment of their
marriage of four years ago. Conabeer
testified that his wife scorned babies,
and declared that "God, not the human
race, is the creator of children."
F
JEITH. Scotland, June 11. The
hCpital ship Kalyan, with more than
1C American soldiers aboard, arrived
h ra late yesterday from Archangel.
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OPY OF TREATY
SAYS HE GOT TREATY
TWO WEEKS AGO
EI.IHU' BOOT, .
Former Secretary jof State, who
voluntarily told Senate committee
Investigating- "leak that he got
copy of treaty from H. P. Davi
son, of Morgan & Co.
PRESIDENT IS
NEW TORK. June 11. Herbert
Bayard Swope in a copyrighted ca
ble dispatch from Paris to the Ncr
Tcrk World says: "In the matter
f supplying the American Senate
with copies of the projeced rcaty
as submitted to the .Germ-ins, enly
the President knows what he will
do and he has confided his intention
to no one.
"If a guess is permissible, he will
fcrward the document to the Son
ate, pointing out that he takes this
course not because the Senate has
any right to the instrument at this
time but because he wishes that
body to be informed concerning it.
Such action is urged upon the Presi
dent on the plea that It may seem
discourteous to withhold the docu
ment from the Senate, as outsiders
have obtained possession of it.
Is Not a Treaty.
"The strong point to be made in
connection with the instrument is
that it is not a treaty, but merely a
formulation of a conference project
which is now used as groundwork
for dealings with the Germans.
"Some of the members of the
American delegation hope the atti
tude of the President will remain
unchanged. They urge that the Sen
ate has no right to participate In
negotiations at this stage, and that
the President ought not to appear to
submit to the Senate under compul
sion. They say the fact that the
document leaked should not concern
or move the President, and that rea
sons advanced to induce him to yield
are petty and legalistic.
DlfXlcaltie of Revision.
"The main reason why it Is hoped
he will do nothing, however, is that
transmission to the Senate at this
time might justify the inference that
this is a final instrument, and thus
the difficulties of the revisions now
in progress might be increased both
Immediately and in future delibera
tions by the Senate.
"The suggestion in the American
Senate that the Sinn Feiners should
have a hearing in Paris has strength
ened the position of the Irish dele
gates now here, who believe that
with this fresh moral support they
will make material progress. A
report by the Irish-Americans who
visited Ireland under British pass
nrts, and who studied conditions
ere, has been laid before King
orgt H
RETICENT ON
TEXT PLAN
DAVISON SAYS
LAMONT GAVE
HI MI OF
PEACE TREATY
Elflra Boot, testifying unexpect
edly, before the Senate treaty leak
investigation committee today, said
he has had a cony of the peace
treaty for about two weeks.
Boot said he got it from Henry P.
Davison. New York banker, who,
durins: the war. headed the Ameri
can Bed Cross War Councili.
Davison, who followed Boot as
witness, declared he received the
copy of the treaty from T. W. La
inont. also a member of the J. P.
Morgan banking firm.
Boot appeared before the commit
tee as a volunteer witness. jt '
Leak Unknown To Morgan
J. T.' iforgan, took the stand and
said he had never- seen a copy of tho
treaty. He said he had heard one waa
in New Tork.
Root entered the committee roonx
almost Immediately after Morgan and
Davison arrived.
Frank A. Vanderljp, former presi
dent of the National City Bank, of
New York city, showed up Just before
Senator Lodge, as chairman of ta
commlttee, opened the hearing.
Lodge began by reading a telegram
from Jacob H. Schiff, of Kuhn. Loeb
& Co., Jn which be begged to be ex
cused from appearing before the com
mittee. Root was the first witness called
Senator Lodge explaining- that Root:
had" "rolunteered to appear as a wit
ness" and "had to take an early traizf
back to New York."
Sit Together On "Side Liaesw"
Before the hearing began Root
chatted with Morgan and Davison as
the three sat together on & big leather
lounge on the "side lines."
Root warmly resented, he said, any
suggestion by anyone that he had no
right to the treaty. He declared that
it had been published In full by tha
German government and it thereupon
became public property.
"All diplomatic secrecy ended wbttf
the Germans published the treaty,"
said Root. "I therefore resent any
suggestion that I have not a right
to have the treaty and use It as
see fit, as I propose to do."
"The publication of report that
this committee would inquire 2nU
possession by persons here of copies
of the draft treaty with Germany led
me to feel it was proper, if not my
duty, for me to come here and give
the confmittee certain knowledge on
the subject which I have," Root said.
Makes Dramatic Statement.
"I have a copy of the so-called
treaty," Root declared dramatically.
"I have had It several weeks. It was
sent me by Henry P. Davison, chair
fan of the war council of the Ameri
can Red Cross. He sent it to me a
couple of weeks ago.
"I stand upon my right to have tt.
I deny that anybody can properly
question that right. I assert the en
tire propriety of my having It.
"Mr. Davison had It in Paris
while there in consultation regarding1
the relation of the Red Cross to those
affairs of international adjustment,
and he brought It away with him.
"There was no injunction against
persons having possession of the
document bringing it to the United
States. I understood there has been
such an injunction or pro tion is
sued since Mr. Davison left j. ris. But
there was none at the time he came
away from Paris against bringing
away any document he rightfully
bad.
"It was not a secret document,"
Root added.
Defend Davison.
He defended Davison's right to tb
treaty draft because of the relation,
of the Red Cross to the treaty pro
visions. "The relation of the Red Cross to
international conventions and, to tra
ditions of international relations
made it such that Mr. Davison's p-fts-
f-ssion of the treaty was a matteiTt
lc
"