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The Chinese Steam Roller.
Look Out When It Starts.
Is the Trillionaire Coming?
The Bigger the Better.
NUMBER 11.195.
Published ecry evening (Including Sunday)
Entered aa second-class matter, at the
poitofflce at Washington. D. C
WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1919. dosing Wall Street Prices PRICE TWO CENTS.
FINAL
EDITION
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyright 1919.)
"China Aflame Against Japan,
Tokyo Sends Warships There."
That is one headline. Another
reads: "Anti-Japanese Wave
Sweeps Over China." Reading
this, you realize that mere big
ness doesn't count.
. Japan in comparison is like a
small poodle dog compared to a
steam roller, yet Japan first
thrashes China, with ridiculous
ease; then, after poor China be
comes an "ally," Japan is allowed
to cut a huge slice from Chinese
territory and take control of mil
lions of Chinese.
They don't like it; hence the
line, "China aflame."
One of these days that gigantic
steamroller, at present inert, will
find a driver and start moving.
Then Japan will need all her
various deities and all the "virtue
of the Mikado" to take care of her.
Meanwhile, the trouble in Asia
is not bad for America and Eu
rope. Civilization's main protec
tion against Asia will always be
the blUer hatred that Asiatics
have for each other.
' The Senate has appropriated five
hundred thousand dollars for an
"American field of honor" in
France. There will be buried
Americans who lost their liveB
across the water. Probably the
best favor to the men dead and
their relatives living would be to
make sure that future Senates will
not be obliged to appropriate money
for other "fields of honor" In Rus
sia, Turkey, Armenia, Africa,
Siberia, etc
Axe there different KINDS of
young women in America? Have
we what our iriends tie Socialists
call "class consciousness" and "ab
solute class distinction?"
Solemn authorities of the United
States Government decided that a
young woman, to live respectably
in the District of Columbia, must
have $15 a week. Different States
establishing a minimum wage have
decided as a rule that $15 a week
is about enough to keep an Amer
tican girl sufficiently well fed,
dressed, and housed. So much for
ONE class, that with which Gov
ernment concerns itself when it
must.
Now another class. There en
ters the Surrogate's Court in "New
York a young lady, Miss L. C, to
protest through the voice of her
mother that it is not possible for
a young girl of nineteen to live on
$15,000 a year ($300 a week), the
amount allowed by the court. She
says $20,000 a year is the very
least to pay for necessities, of
which these are a few: "Rent,
sports coats, evening dresses, auto
coats, jewelry, furs, toilet articles,
manicuring, shampooing, hair
dressing automobile operation
($5,000 3 year); education and
church ($2,000 a year); hotel bills,
dinners, dances, amusements, par
ties ($3,000 a year for these).
We have permanently reached
the BILLION dollar stage in
America. Once men bowed politely
and shivered when you said,
f ae s a millionaire. To say now
that a man has ONE million is to
say that, if very careful, he can
live respectably. Gone are the
days when the original August
Belmont, spending eighty thousand
a year, compelled the other "rich"
men of New York city to combine,
giving patriarchs' balls and other
functions jointly that they might
rival Belmont.
Many a man now spends more
than eighty thousand a year on
his garasre, five times that amount
on his stable, and three times as
much on his yacht.
To be RICH a man must have
fifty millions. To be a big con
cern, a corporation must be cap
italized for at least a thousand
millions. When the Steel Trust put
out its five hundred millions of
stock that Carnegie called "pure
air, not even water," the words
"FIVE HUNDRED MILLION"
semed very impressive. Now you
have an automobile company in
creasing its capitalization above
one billion.
' We have in the United States al
ready one man whose annual In
come is equal to 5 per cent on
three billions at least The bil
lionaire Is a part of past history.
' Shall we see the TRILLION
AIRE the man or corporation
worth one thousand times one
thousand millions? It is not un-
likely. This country has seen only
the beginning of industrial com-
' binations, of gigantic fortunes and
profits built on the INDUSTRIAL
FEUDALISM that does economical
ly and without bloodshed the work
done by military feudalism In the
Middle Ages, acquiring and con
trolling. In any case, big fortunes or big
capitalizations need frighten nobody-
If the average citizen has
intelligence and courage to see
that his rights are protected, that
the worker gets the pay and leis
nm to which he Is entitled. th
bigger the individual or corpora
ktion fortune the better. For blc-
Fcess, under control, means effi
.ionrv. It means that fhoro f
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ERMANY
GIVE OS BEER
10 BE CRY OF
100,000 AT
OR! PROIESI
All roads led to Washington todaj,
delegations from all over the country
arriving hourly for the giant de
monstration on the steps of the
Capitol this afternoon to urge the
repeal of war-time prohibition.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, ar
rived today at the head of a special
labor delegation from Atlantic City,
which will participate in the big
"wet" demonstration.
100,000 to JTarcli.
It is estimated that fully 100,000
men will march upon the Capitol to
demonstrate to Congress that the
sentiment of the country is over
whelmingly against the enforcement
of the amendment.
The demonstration promises to bo
one of the greatest and most spectac
ular ever witnessed in Washington.
A great crowd gathered early at
Union Station to watch the arrival of
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DAPICIP I IPUT
CHECKED BY
A contemplated navy flight across
the Pacific ocean will be prevented if
the action of the House in reducing
the naval appropriation from ?45,
000,000 to $15,000,000 is supported by
the Senate, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels said today.
Daniels sharply criticised the cut
ting down of the navy bill by the
house.
Plan Great Development.
It forces us to stand still and
watch the procession go by," the Sec
retary said. "Coming on the heels
of our great feat in flying across the
Atlantic, the action of the House
comes as a great disappointment. It
has stunned our aviation men who
had expected to undertake great de
velopments." Secretary Daniels revealed that the
navy had planned to carry seaplanes
aboard all dreadnaughts as scouters.
but said there would be no money
available now for the necessary re
modeling which would be required.
The appropriation of $15,000,000
will barely keep up the existing avia
tion stations and will permit no
progress in experimental work which
is all essential, according to the
secretary.
To Study Foreign Almhlpx.
It had been planned to make an
exhaustive study of aviation abroad
and the buying of several foreign
dirigibles and pianos to study, but
these will be given up.
The cut in personnel from the
250.000 asked for to 170,000 will seri
ously handicap the navy and possi
bly force a number of ships to lay
up because of insufficient men,
Daniels said.
While characterizing the house
action aa "disastrous." Daniels added
he is hopeful the Senate will make
additions to the appropriation which
will enable the navy to keep abreast
with the other great powers during
the coming period of improvement
on the basis of the lesson learned
during the war.
BROKE 5 LAWS IN 5 BLOCKS.
NEW YORK, June 14. Abe Banks,
peddler, broke five traffic rules In five
blocks and was arretted Ave times.
The Judge fined him $C wholesale
rates.
TAKE BEIX-AXB BKFORE MEALS and
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WILL SPEAK TODAY
AT "WET" RALLY
SAMLEL. GOMPERS,
President of the American Feder
ation of Labor, who will deliver
an address at demonstration at
Capitol this afternoon.
1H "P
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Congressional "pork" this session
probably will be wrapped in a single
package. House Republican leaders
today determined, in the interest of
speeding up legislation, to combine
all resolutions for public buildings In
one bill. They planned to rush this
through In rcci l tk and with
limited debate.
The number of public buildings
bills is daily increasing, records
Bhow. The eighteen months period,
when no buildings were authorized
except where they aided in war work,
has brought approximately three
times the usual number of "pork"
resolutions before the House.
More than t'00 authorizations for
postofTices. which hung over from
pre-war days, are included in the
list. In those cases, amounts appro
priated were not sufficient to meet
after-the-war costs. All will have to
be voted again.
ES
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ISSY-MOL.TNT3AUX, France, June 14.
Lieutenant Cazale. French aviator,
today established a new world alti
tude record, driving his airplane to a
height of 10.100 meters (33.13C feet 5
inches), in Jin minute?. This was the
fifth time within a month that Cazale
had exceeded 9,000 meters (27.801
feet).
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ATTENTION!
SHOULD CONGRESS DISCREDIT
THE YEOMAN (F) BATTALION?
EARL GODWIN will have something to say about
this in his Heard and Seen Column
TOMORROW
ELECTRICAL
WORKERS 10
QUITMONDAY
ALLOVER U.S.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 14.
Approximately 113,800 electrical
workers employed by the telephone
and telegraph companies of the coun
try will walk out at 8 a. m., Stan
dard time, next Monday, unless
agreements are reached before that
time, according to Charles P. Ford,
secretary of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
As he awaited word today from
conferences In Washington between
representatives of employes and
companies, Ford added that he had
not abandoned hope of a satisfactory
settlement.
113,800 Affected.
Aa originally called, the strike
would have affected 125,000 workers,
but since that time, Ford said, agree
ments have been signed with a num
ber of companies, and the grand total
of men liable to walk out is 113,800.
Following are the main demands
of the employes:
1 The right to organize without
interference.
2 Designation by the companies of
some representative in every com
munity to hear grievances.
3 No discrimination against or
ganized employes.
4 That discharged or demoted em
ployes be returned to their former
positions pending an investigation.
5 That employes laid oft when
forces are diminished be given pref
erence when any addition to the
force is made.
6 Appointment of a general ad
justment board, composed of an equal
number of representatives from the
companies and from the employes.
PACIFIC COAST PHONE
GIRLS ARE ORDERED OUT
ON BIG STRIKE MONDAY
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 14.
Julia O'Connor, head of the telephone
operators department. International
Brotherhood of Electrical "Workers,
declared today she had sent orders
to the Pacific Coast for a strike of
telephone operators there, effective
Wednesday.
Miss O'Connor, who is a delegate
to the labor convention here, said this
strike was called in sympathy with
the electrical workers who are sched
uled to strike Monday. She asserted
a nation-wide telephone operators'
strike would he called next, if no set
tlement is reached.
Miss O'Connor gave out the follow
ing, saying It was a copy of a strike
order sent this morning to union lead
ers in Seattle, Portland, San Fran
cisco. Oakland, and Spokane:
"This will be your instructions that
a strike of the telephone operators
in employ of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company will be effective
Wednesday, Juno IS, at 7 o'clock, Pa
cific time. Proceed to take any ac
tion necessary to place this order In
effect. Advise open meeting of all
operators be held to inform them of
this action. Give wide publicity.
Strike is called for purpose of lend
ing support to male electric workers,
also to establish right to bargain
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PEACE
I Am The Flag
I am the symbol of independ
ence, righteousness, and freedom;
a product, of the loom, an evolu
tion of the handiwork of a
woman, the outgrowth of an
American need.
I am on the high seas, on the
housetops, in the home, and dear
to the heart of every citizen of
the United States. But whether
on land, fluttering to the breeze,
or on sea, tha safeguard of hu
manity, I ever awaken a love of
country.
I have stood in times past, and
will always stand, for deeds of
heroism, for sacrifice of life, for
perpetuating all that is highest
and noblest in republican gov
ernment. I am the cause for prepared
ness, the source of national pride,
and the emblem of a united peo
ple forever.
I will never cease to be just
what men and women of patri
otic thought and action make me
the standard of a mighty conn
try, the banner that has inspired
the greatest of songs and the
best of prose and poetry.
To some I am Old Glory The
Star-Spangled Banner. To others
I am The Stars and Stripes
The Red, White and Blue. To
everyone, I am the guarantee of
personal liberty everywhere
I AM THE AMERICAN FLAG.
LOUIS VARNUM WOULFE.
LAG'S BIRTH
The United Slates today honors the
one hundred and forty-second anni
versary of the Star-Spangled Banner.
The Continental Congress on June
14, J 777. passed the act establishing
the flag, with its blue field of thirteen
stars. The flag is among the oldest of
the national flags, being established
before the Union Jack, the French tri
color, the flag of Spain, or the Italian
and German emblems.
In the National Museum here today
on special exhibition is the historic
"Star-Spangled Banner" which flew
over Fort McIIenry, Baltimore harbor.
during the British bombardment.
September 13, 1M4, and was the In
spiration for Francis Scott Key's
"Star-Spangl-d Banner" anthem.
The original banner is thirty feet
square with one star Bhot away, and
badly battered and torn.
The most recent addition to the flag
collection is a banner made by several
Scotch women and used on the occa
sion of the burial of 133 Americans
lost on the transport Tuscanla. The
flag was placed in the National
Museum by President Wilson, after
it was sent to this country by Hugh
Morrison, at whose house it was
made.
WILL NOT STRIKE
That the employes of the Chesa
peake and Potomac Telephone Co.
in this city are perfectly satisfied
and do not contemplate any demon
stration in connection with the pres
ent telegraph strike, was the declara
tion of officials of the telephone com
pany this morning.
"The operators are not organized,"
said C. T. Clagett, division manager,
"and are not connected in any way
with any of the telegraphers unions.
They are satisfied here, and there is
no possibility of any movement In
sympathy with the strikers."
I D. Mahon, District manager, also
emphasized the fjict that the com
pany doea not fear any troublo with
employes.
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FROM RUSSIA
REACH BREST:
BREST, June 14. The 339th in
fantry, which arrived here from
Archangel aboard the transport
Czar, 'will remain in camp Pontane
zen for about two weeks before leav
ing for home, it was learned today.
The Czar has returned to Archangel.
Before the Seventh Division sailed
on the Imperator, Lieutenant Simp
son, of the 56th infantry, was made
a chevalier of the Legion of Honor
and was awarded the Croix de Guerre
with palm.
Sergt Henry Q. Stanley, of North
Carolina; Sergt Charles O. Elliott,
of Elmira, N. Y., and Corp. Ivor Cutt,
of Vermont, were given the Croix de
Guerre with gold stars.
The Imperator carried 10,000 mem
bers of the Seventh Division and 500
nurses.
DICTATORSHIP
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LONDON, June 14. The industrial
situation in Franco Is becoming
graver and there are rumors that a
military dictatorship will be declared,
said a Paris dispatch to the Man
chester Guardian today.
The French extremists are pre
pared to go to any length, the dis
patch said. They are very bitter In
their charges of war profiteering and
their accusations of "chicanery and
robbery."
Women, who are usually conserva
tive, are bragging of what they will
do in case of a general strike. They
are enraged over the increased costs
and the shortage of necessities.
ROME, June 14. Five persons were
killed and forty injured in strike
riots at Genoa, according to advices
from that city today.
The Epocha urges that all possible
haste bo mado in securing peace so
that the numerous strikes throughout
Italy can be adjusted.
.y.
NEW YORK, June 14. Twenty-flve
per cent of the children of New York
city are suffering from malnutrition
because tholr parents are unable to
earn enough, with food at its present
prices, to furnish them with nutritive
edibles, according to an . esimate
mado by Health Commissioner Royal
D. Copcland today. The commissioner
said he based his figures on reports
from a recent survey of school chil
dren made bv his department.
WISCONSIN WAS FIRST TO
RATIFY WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Wisconsin goes down in history as
the first State to ratify tho woman
suffrage amendment.
The State Department today settled
nil disputes over the question by
officially notifying the National
Woman Suffrage Association that
Wisconsin had captured the honors
by completing ail formalities attend
ant upon ratification before any other
State.
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COPENHAGEN, June 14. Official announcement
was made in Berlin today mat the German government
would not accept the peace terms even in modified form,
and that a decision is now up to the national assembly,
said a dispatch from the German capital.
The idea of holding a national plebiscite to allow the
people to vote on acceptance or rejection of the terms has
been abandoned.
The decision of German officials will be reviewed
by the national legislative body within a few days, it is
understood here.
If the- national assembly upholds the action of the
government, and so notifies the peace plenipotentiaries, the
armistice will be immediately declared at an end, and the
allies will be free to resume hostilities.
There is every indication today that action by the
German national assembly will be taken within a week.
TO IfT TURK KEEP
CONSTANTINOPLE
PARIS, Juhb 14. The big: four of
the peace conference have decided to
let the Turk retain Constantinople,
according to Pierre Lotl, famous
French writer and student of Ottoman
affairs.
IL Lotl accuses the Greeks of burn
rngr the houses of 60,000 Mussulmen
in order to reduce the Turkish popu
lation, and also setting on fire a
portion of the palace formerly occu
pied by the Sultan in Constantinople.
It is understood that Premier Clem
enceau has given way on his pro
posals regarding the left bank of the
Rhine, which he was urging for the
safeguarding of the future of France's
western frontier.
The Poles are extremely dissatisfied
with the provisions for a plebiscite In
upper Silesia. However, the big five
are understood to be unanimous on
this point.
Members of the American mission
today directed attention to an edi
torial in the final number of the
"Stars and Stripes," the official news
paper of the American expeditionary
force. It said, in part: "The Prus
sian guardsman died hard. The men
in frock coats who make the laws
neevcr had to stand up against him.
They never took a machine gun nest
nor saw a barrage roll down upon
them. We know what the Prussian
guardsman means his code, his cold
courage and his blind patriotism that
sent him forward, granting none the
right to live but only those who wore
his uniform.
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THROUGH ITALY
ROME. June 14 Country- wide
economic and political demonstrations
were held in Italy today.
The teachers have joined the strikes
of working people which have been
spreading through the country.
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SEVEN WARS NOW
RAGING IN EUROPE
PARIS. June 14. After stx months
efforts by political leaders to In
augurate an era of world peace, Eu
rope today is the scene of more wars
than at any previous time In its his
tory. At least seven distinct major cam
paigns are under way, in aditlon to a
number of smaller ibroglios conduct
ed by some ambitious individual with
a small military following. There are
also several conflicts in the incipient
stage. The bulk of these wars are
for the purpose of occupying coveted
territory, despite the fact the peace
conference some time ago notified all
nations to cease fighting over dis
puted areas.
Status of War.
The present status of the seven
principal wars is given authoritative
ly as folows:
First Admiral Kolchak, dictator of
the Omsk government, after advanc
ing to within a hundred miles of th'e
Volga and threatening both Moscow
and ePtrograd, has been thrown back
by the Bolshevik! upon the Bieiaya
Oufa front. His left wing Is retreat
ing to Sarapul.
Second While the army of tho new
ly proclaimed Esthonian republic, un
der General Laldoner, was success
fully driving the Bolshevik! back
along the sixty-mile sector on the
Pskoff-Dvina front, the German army,
with headquarters at Libau, suddenly
attacked the Esthonians. The latters
further success has thus been tem
porarily endangered.
Third The recently organized Uk
rainian "green army." commanded by
General Grigorleff, Is engaged la a
campaign in the Kleff district against
the Bolshevikl "red army. Grigor
ieffs program provides for absolute
separation of Ukranla from Russia
and annexation of Bessarabia.
Soviet Army Advances.
Fourth Bela Kun's , Hungarian
Soviet army has made great advances
against the Czecho-Slovaks, but fur
ther progress has been hampered by
a counter-movement in the region of
Oudenberg, where peasants revolted
against Soviet rule and captured sev
eral towns.
Fifth A Serbian army after a hard
campaign along the Drave valley,
captured Klagenfurt, capital of Ca
rinthia. forcing the Austrians In that
province to ask for an armistice.
Sixth Polish and Rumanian troops,
under the centralized command of
General Haller have effected a Junc
tion at Kolomea and are advancing
against the Bolshevikl. The campaign
is advertised as being directed solely
against the Bolshevikl. Meantime.
Germany which, opposed Polish oc
cupation of Silesia, is reported to
have concentrated eighteen divisions
against the Poles. Should these
forces move forward their Immediate
objectives would be the mine fields of
Domtrowa, Suwalki and Mlawa.
Seventh As the result of a Bolshe
vik attack against the Finnish fron
tie; Finland has sent its entire army
into the field on the front betwea
th.o gulf of Finland, and Ids Tailnwj,
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