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THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES
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TIllltSDAY, MAY" 22, 1919.
cx gijuiany mki: war again?
Sketches from Life
By Temple
a-a HE loo common be lief that Germany will never be able to
JL make war again does not rest upon rounded considera
tion of all the evidence, but upon an enthusiasm for certain
present conditions, nio?l of which are transitory. Germany is
given an army of no more than lt",000 men. Conscription is
abolished; armaments arc reduced; munitions plants are de
stroyed; the navy is cut to small proportions; a great indemnity
will be charged.
These precautions ought, to be sufficient for the present.
They ought to keep Germany out of war for twenty years to
come. At the end of ami her twenty years there may be such
improvement in human outlook as to preclude war. When the
human mind is siiflieienfiy educated to think peace, there will
be no war.
Every event has a three-fold state. It is rooted in the past,
extctfds, it? .trunk thrniigh the present and has branches and
leaves which nre hidden in the future.
In tlir niatli r of man power Germany has millions of vet
erans. Since the vill to fltht is largely a matter of belief, it is
possible to briild upon thu idea that Germany is permitted no
-tcfencc, a powerful movement for much military power.
The indemnity may prove a source of strength; is almost
certain to do so. A people becomes strong by work and self
denial. The Germans, put to their utmost by conditions im
posed upon them, will be under the -necessity of thinking in
tently upon their task. They must feed themselves and pay
the great e perse ol the war. France went through a similar
process, after the Franco-l'i-ussum war and emerged stronger
and richer.
In the study of history it is easy to see the sudden emer
gence'of peoples, unil the instant obscure and even unimport
ant, in the rnnals of the times. Ancient and pdwerful stales
totter and fall at the height of their seeming prosperiy. New
slates appear, become dominant and in their turn fail.
There is much reason to suppose that the old states die
from loo much prosperity, and especially by the presence of u
s"stem which removes prosperity from the masses of the
people.
Almost as certainly the new powers arrive because their
people are strong and thrifty habituated to self-denial, conti
nence and the virtues of those who engage in useful occupa
. Hons, from which each man derives enough, and few too much.
In the history of India appears the miracle of Mahomedan
crnquewt win; (he conquerors were poor, industrious and fru
gal. The decadence of the Mahomedan dynasties was appa
rently a consecurnce of wealth gained by little effort.
The Roman Empire was made of citizens, careful, frugal,
patriotic. The wealth thai came -from Roman conquests pois
oned the nation, until it died.
So of Sparish power, when the easily seized gold of the
A?.tecs and the Peruvians did its lethal work.
History proves that tribute has been in the long run more
injurious to the conquering than to the conquered.
From the historical view we are justified in supposing that
national power, including military power, does not rest upon
any particular slate of armament, nor upon any particular num
bers of the army, or magnitude of the navy, hut rather upon a
potentiality to produce such things. This potentiality would be
a quality of the industry of the peoplp; their frugality; the de
gree of their inventive power, and so on.
It become necessary then, to look deeper. The Allies must
see to it that in Central Europe they do not build up a social
system stronger than that which the Allies construct. This
maxim does not mean that remedy is to be found in attempts
to disintegra: (he systems of the conquered. The remedy can
ci me only from the construction by the Allies of a system in
trinsically as strcng ns any other.
Broadly speaking, a state which desires to be safe in the
military eiisvnot forT. few years only, but for centuries, must
see to it that all itj ways are set in industry; that the highest
type of co-operation exists between industry and industry and
wimin me same rinds of industry.
ii one cannon outranges another, or one ship is faster
man anomer me consequences are those which occur when
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gieuu-.- jorco meeis n lesser. Hie lesser must succumb. If
, ono industrial system outranges another the consequences as
between th stronger and the weaker, will be much multiplied.
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J113 superior inausinai anl social system will almost certainly
prowao superior instruments and powers in all details, what
ever they arc.
It becomes the task of the Allies therefore to take stock,
.inaing tne Pesi r.ielliod of organization. The best method of
oiganization will be that which contains the most productivity
ana me iairesi distribution of the things produced. The ideal
to be sought i a nation n wnich there is work for all; in which
l , won, is u'jiie vim every species or labor saving contrivance;
in which the waeres of work are so distributed that there is not
any where one in need, though there may be many wko are
ucjunu iKuroi neeu.
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Why Bridgeport Should Put
"Combined Drive" Over Top
liy REV. GrKALD 11. BEARD
Pnstor Park Strwt Congregational c-liurcfc
L Father's Annual Invoiceof the.Eurnce,Roora;;
GENEROUS GIVIXG OF TIIE JCTVS.
The marked feature of yesterdays giving to' the Combined
ui ic was me fjenerosuy 01 me jews or Undgeport. These num
erous gifts must have represented in many cases genuine sac
rificn tinon flin nni-t. of fVin n 10 nu
The Jews have appreciated the necessity of extra givintr
y.wuii umo ma m spin, uiree ways, lne salva
tion Army receives a third, the Jewish HAliof ihin k.
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Near East a third. The Salvation Army can take care of itself
Tn lAiirioh DarUf .nn - ...
, . 4 11 W31iCi t-n upon a numerous ana wealthy pop
illation. But the stricken people of the Near East, the Turk brok
en Armenians, have nobody interested in their favor, except thi
common hnmnnil r rt fho AmAiian rtxrAn
a V a v A ll A. J rj1J IIZ .
The Salvation Army and the "Jewish Relief must carry th
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The Jews of Bridgeport, being better aoquainted with con
By SIGNOR ARNOLDA CIPPOLLA
(Spocial Correspondence of tbe "Gazette del Popolo," Turin, Italy)
Copyright, 1919, International Xews Bureau, Inc.
(Great light is thrown on the Russian
situaotjn by the despatches of Signor Ar
nolda Cippolla to the Oazzetta del Popola,
Turin. He has been with the Italian Mis
sion in the Caucasus, where he saw tha
movement of tha British forces, and with
General Deniken, and afterwards at Odessa
with tbe French Expeditionary Forces in
Ukrainia. and has paid a short visit to
Moscow. His comprehension of the situation
is, perhaps, the clearest yet published.)
(Continued from Yesterday!
The Bolsheviks, as clearly appears from this,
hold a rather advantageous position that of interior
lines, being able to carry their forces first in one
direction, then in another, as they please, and they
also enjoy the advantage of a single central com
mand. The forces opposed to them, on the contrary,
are extremely diia-d and enjoy no single com
mand'; every army -acts on its own account, and it
is. In fact, compelled to do so, because there is no
direct communication between them. They lack also,
the political cohesion, as the armies of the various
commanders like Ieniken and Kolchak and' the
commanders of the Caucasus have no specific pro
gram for the reconstitution of Itussla. They do not
solve the land question, which is one of the most
fundamental, and might make their way and army,
popular amongst the Soviets. In Ukrainia the Bol
shevik forces received an unexpected increase by
the addition of the whole Ukrainian army which,
passed over to .them.
EalM ldciLS.
This phenomenon is an interesting one, because
it fills us with an idea of the many false notions
which prevail In Europe. Xearly all the ideas "pre
valent in Europe are ' based - on misconceptions of
the situation. The French when ' they landed in
Southern Kussia, imagined, as did nearly everybody
in Europe at the time, that their principal task
would be to arouse the patriotism of the Russians
and solidly unite them against the Bolsheviks. Their
hopes completely failed. Nobody in Russia cared for
the reconstitution of Russia, with the exception of
a few thousand young students and idealism who of
fered to fight and die for the cause of Russia. The
vast majority of the better classes and of the old
aristocracy will not raise a finger to save their
country. It is enough to watch their conduct when
one comes across them in Odessa, or in Kief f or
Moscow, to be convinced of this fact. The one idea
uppermost In their minds is simply to escape from
.the Bolsheviks, but there is no idea of turning back
to fight them, and when they have escaped they
appeal to the allies to anybody and everybody to
come and fight for them, but will not make the
slightest sacrifice or effort to do so themselves. A,
sort of fatalism hangs over thenj like a nightmare,
paralyzing all their energies. It is even discouraging
to see them engaged in all sorts of amusements
spending, perhaps, the last rouble in their posses
sion in enjoying themselves whenever opportunity
offers.
The other day the professors and the ex-students
of the University of Petrograd, who have all
taken refuge at Odessa, joined In a big banquet to
celebrate the second centenary of their university.
They sat down to dinner at. 3 o'clock in the after
noon, and they were dining until midnight. I tele
phoned to one of them at once in the morning to
ask how i far they had got. - He replied in a shaky
voice, using most affectionate terms- of brotherly
love, that they would havebeen delighted to see me.
"But," I asked, "what about your country Rus
sia?" "Oh, we have not forgotten it," he said; "wo
are sure that 'some day it will rise again."
I have seen the Russian officers still wearing
the uniforms of the old regime. Much is to be learn
ed from this fact alone of their pyschology. The auc
cesa of General Denisen's forces in the Caucasus
has almost upset their minds, and made them ar
rogant towards their men. They presume to treat
them again aa Slavs, which was one of the prlnicpal
reaaons. In fact, of the revolution. They think they
have come back all of a sudden to tha days when
they could box the ears of a aoldiar. kick him with
imnunitr and see him turn and aalute them and
thank them for having punished him. The moat ab
sorbing question debated by them at present la not
the reconqueat of RJuasIa, ut whether they ahould
-gime. Factions have been formed. One is for tho
epaulettes and the other against the epaulettes.
They make appeals to General Deniken to issue an
order to abolish them, and contrary factions and let
ters begging him to retain them as the only symbol
of Russian greatness. Poor officers! Thus a question
w'hich at most is one of simple military regulation
becomes with them a constitutional and national
programme. They do not realiez that these outward
symbols are the very things which made them hated
and detested by the great majority of Russians. Ekat
erinador, the seat of General Deniken's headquarters
is a veritable babel. The 90 generals and the 1,100
colonels and the 30.000 officers of other rank are
all talking epaulettes. Many of them claim distinc
tion and rank, to which they evidently have no right,
but everything is accorded to them. The privates;
all trouble is caused by this rank, no one in the
army wants to be a private; all want to be officers.
Naturally, the 50,000 real soldiers in the army begin
to sbrow their discontent.
Wealth and Squalor.
Social life in Odessa is a curious mixture of
wealth and squalor. Every house is a little Court,
but a ruined one, dilapidated, with humerous ser
vants, chambermaids and waiters who have re
mained faithful to their masters and who have land
ed here like wrecks of the Revolution, but still main
taining all the old etiquette and ceremony. There
they receive their visitors in a badly-furnished bed
room, where the bed has to aerve as a sofa, tea ta
ble, and anything you like; the bed room is all they
have it is their drawing room,, their kitchen, and
their dining room. Still, here they receive their
friends, and keep up all the pretenso of official re
ceptions. The European ' who comes there at once
finds himself in a peculiar atmosphere; it reminds
.Signor Cipolla of the days when an Italian landed
in London or Paris at the beginning of the war.
before Italy had joined the Allies: the question
which was asked of him morning, noon, and night
was whether Italy would or not join. So everybody
in Odessa asks the European whether the Entente
is going to send troops oa- not, whether the Allies
are going to re-establish order in Russia or not,
when the troops are coming, when the Conference
of Paris will decide, etc. If you wish or try to ex
plain to them that to send armies to Russia to re
constitute Its vast empire is not such an easy task
as they imagine, they ask innocently whether it Is
not perhaps the fault of the Bolsheviks, who have
triumphed in the countries of the Entente. The Rus
sian upper classes have not the slightest idea of what
is meant by the occupation of the seacoast towns
on the part of the Entente, and the huge effort It
would require to carry the war Into the Interior,
and the impossibility of also doing bo without the
consent of the Conference at Paris.
The Russians Joyfully assumed that tha rxmis
tice with Turkey meant the immediate preparation
of war against the Bolsheviks on the part of the
Entente. All the armies 'in Palestine, Mesopotamia,
and elsewhere were to be shipped at once to Russia
and restore order, and they cannot understand why
this was not done. It Is true that the Entente com
mitted a great mistake in obliging the Germans and
Austrians to withdraw from Ukrainia, The very
contrary should have been done the German army
of occupation, which amounted to about 60,000
men should have been obliged to remain In Ukrainia
to maintain order and to keep the Bolsheviks away
from Kieff and Bessambia, Once tha mistake waa
made the Bolsheviks had an easy triumph: they
occupied Kieff, they came to the vicinity of the Sea
of Asoff, they could Invade the region of the Cos
sacks of the Don when they liked, and. they have
incorporated the whole of Ukrainia and its army.
In my opinion the following three aolutlona
might be found to create order again In the Russian
chaos; First, Intervention on the part of the En-'
tente. but with an imposing force consuming of ail
armies of all officials of the Entente nations; aecond
ly, if the above Intervention la abandoned to cut .
tha Gordiank ' now by officially recognizing the Bol-
i shevlk. Government; tho third alternative or, rather
would have been four- months ago to compel tha
Germane to make order in Russia. To my mind
neither the flrat nor the third solution la any longer -poaalble
and only, therefore, the second one remains.'
(To tw CMotttaed.)
If even a few of the salient facts back of the present 'Com-'
bined Diive" can be made clear to the public spirited people of
our city, one feels sure that their response will be so general
and so generous that Bridgeport will not only raise her $3004-:
COO quota, but will go well over ffce top as so many other cities .
nave clone in this, and as Bridgeport has done before.
That we have had many campaigns for gLHs during the war.
and that some hcvj already given to-the p;unt of real self-de-"
nial, counts for little with big-brained, big-hearted people who
remember that millions of people in other lands have suffered"
and are suffering more in a week than we in this country havf f
suffered from start to linili 0f the war.
It is on of the fine things in this drive that three great causes are '
Ih. ;ia Jol"t.f?peal to us' The Salvation Army we 111 know weT an
the good work it has done over seas for our soldier boys. Because of that '
SrPrP;r U'lil"'S fr Phi'h'-Pic service here at home will doubtless be -it
is L T.n V ? W.e" ,hat PvteIon should be made for that, f
It is understood that of the $100,000, which will be the Army's share of
the sum sought, $95,000 will be spent in thiseity Army s share of
well known "lTlSS f thV!W 3 b0lh the war "and before are fairly
r. r, Rus,a' Palestine, and especially In Poland, contending
armies have crossed and recrossed their home territories that thev cont .'
B''!"tt0y ,V3St teokUon and' but human charity despair. Not
only are these long-persecuted people without food, but their farm im- :
plernents tools, machinery, and other means of self-support have been '
tin Zet r ,Ca7iCd f Lby nbtile frCes' so that a "extTutumn ;
will be largely impossible and bread-and-butter employment can be re
gained only gradually.
Without abating interest in these two causes in the least degree let
me speak, however, a bit more of the "Fund for Relief in the Near East"
which claims from us the other hundred thousand. Many are not familiar
with that name even. Adopted to express the inclusion of relief for other
neighboring peoples in tho countries of the nearer East the chief re
sponsibility of this fund is yet the helping of the Armenian people who '
have suffered as perhaps no people on earth ever suffered before, a a
result of both war and the unparalleled atrocities of the Turks. 3
The Armenians are distinguishing among the peoples of the Near
East for their thrift, business success, capacity for education, and moral '.
development. It was for this reason, as well as for their Christianity, that-.-.
the Mohammedan TVirks fell upon them, murdered their men, seized their"
homes and their wealth, carried thir younger women to their harems and '
drove their elder women and little children into exile. On their forced
marches into the deserts, all but. the strongest fell by the way, till their
.llltv, j uAuiucrn iiuu fiiifwfa tne plains, .thousands were
tortured and suffered indescribable indignities. Over a million perished
in the last four years from starv ation. The rest has subsisted most of the
time on chance fooci roots, grass, even the flesh of dead and rotting car
cases. Cablegrams received within a week or two from such men as Pres- "
ident Main of Grinnell College, who is American Commissioner to Tur
key; Counsel Willoughby Smith of Tiflis, Louis Ileclf fit the head of the
American Rmbassy just now in Constantinople, and other impeachable
eyewitnesses, tell in that, now that these Armenian exiles ore returning
from their long exile, groups of refuges fill the border towns only to share
in horrors that surpass all that has gone before, as they find themselves
unable to regain their homes, without work, starving for lack of food.
The day rr. Mains reached Alexandropol, 19a corpses were picked up
from the streets, dead from starvation, and that was less than a day's
average. One seventh of these refugees are dying each month. This Is
typical of scores of cities and towns. '
Full relief can come only witn peace and a strong protectorate,
which will enable these Armenians to recover their homes and places of
business still in the hands of the Turks, and make possible again their -ancient
freedom as a thrifty and liberty loving people. Fortunately our
couoary has- been able to send partial relief, however, in the meantime,
in the way of four shiploads of supplies. foodstuffs, clothing, farm im
plements and seeds, the Government furnishing transportation and private
gifts the money. Distribution has begun, and some have already been
started towards self-support. Many are in hospitals and orphanages.
The national relief fund is thirty million dollars. Enorrtrotls as this
is, it la only $7.50 a person on the average. Already some twenty three
millions has been contributed. Many states, like Ohio, Vermont, Washing- '
ton, and others have contributed more thart their quota, 137, 156, even
179 per cent. Connecticut stands now 75 per cent, of hers. Bridgeport
postponed her drive because of the Victory Loan and other urgent mat
. ters till now. It is now up to us to do our part to the full, while at the
same time we meet the need of the similarly suffering Jews and the
Salvation Army work.
When brave women and tender children, many of them as fine as
any of the loved ones in our homes, are starving and dying, after Strug- .
gling through four years of unspeakable agonies, no man or woman that
really understands and has a big heart will turn aside from helping.
If a single hundred of them could be transported and placed here
in our, city for all to see and know, not one of us but would gladly get
along on one meal a day for a week if necessary to save these people
and give them a new hope in life.
As it is, I believe there are few of us that will not meet this tremen
dous need and opportunity in the spirit of one man that gave me his j
subscription of $200 yesterday, saying, "Business is flat; nothing is com
ing in: but as long as I have anything to give and people 'are starving, -
I want to give it.'
One thing we must not lose sight of. Bridgeport ought not to be con
tent for one minute to give less than $300,000 to these three great causes.
$400,000 would be much fitter. But we shall not do this if we scale down
our subscriptions because "the war is over" and we fancy we have done
enough. The war, we trust, is over; but the sufferings due to the war will
last for many a long day yet. The cost of the war in untold human mis
eries has yet, in a large measure, to be met; and it is ours to help meet
it. If a firm that gave $5,000 to the "United War WTork" drive last year, .
when we raised $500,000, gives only $1,000 now, it is easy to see that we
shall raise, not $300,000 but a poor $100,000 in all. The same if an indi- '
vidual contributor who gave before $250 stops now at fifty. We must -make
75 per cent., at least, our aim, or we shall fail. And if we may -judge
the future by the past, Bridgeport will not fail. , '
Nor. if we are people of vision, shall we forget that, in meeting
humanity's need, we are helping to secure the peace of Europe and of
the world at one of its most vital points: for the Near East has been a
bone of contention for centuries. There will not be lasting peace unless
these people are freed, settled and established.
GERALD H. BEARD
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(From The Farmer, Thursday, May 22, 1869) :
The choir at St. Augustine's church is actively engaged in
rehearsing for the forthcoming consecration and dedication, on
Sundav, June 13th. Several vocalists from New York aifd
other cities are expected to take part in the musical perform-;
ance. ' .-
Yesterday the mercury in our thermometer was up in the
region of seventy; this morning it was down in the neighbor
hood of fifty. Look out for these changes. Don't dispense
with too much of your coId-Heather clothing.
A man who supposed his neck was broken yesterday, on
Main street, bv colliding with one of the alreet cars was mis--,
taken. He only had a poke in the region of the "cerebelum'V
without doing any injury to the "vertebra" or the t-medulary
e "
A large stock of Catholic, books, newspapers and periodi
cals can be found at the news depot of Dinon & Murphy, opj
posite the N. Y.& N. H. R- R. depot. The proprietors are' en
terprising young men, and we trust they may receive a fan
share of patronage.
A party of between forty and fifty ladies and gentlemer
from New Haven visited West Peak, Meriden, on Sunday;
morning where they ruralized,, botanized, geologized and en.
joyed themselves splendidly. 1 ' ;
' Mr.-Levi Wordin is grading off and otherwise beautifying
his new place on the corner of State and Division streets.
new residence of Mr. Aaron Sherwood, on the other side at
the line, is approaching completion. It is far more ornate tha
we ever supposed would be congenial to his taste.. With vkjl
his sedate Qualities. h has been unable to resist the spirit i
which all seem to be impelled in this "progressive age. . ,
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A grand public meeting1 in favor of woman suffrage, v
held in Boston, yesterday at which Julia Ward Howe pes
and addresses were delivered by Wendell Phillips, Ralph1
io Emerson, lillie Peckbam, a young la.wyerf- rr -t.ianaford,
a. young female divine. . ,'
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