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Copyright, 1919, y
History’s Contrasts,
Kaiser and Liebknecht.
““Red Rosa’’ and Cavell.
No Throne, a Garage.
~~~~~ By Arthur Brisbane -~~~
Writers of history will find
strange contrasts in this war.
Edith Cavell, the English nurse,
ts shot as a spy in Belgium. =
Rosa Luxemburg, “Red Rosa,”
who lived with Lenin in Switzer
land and taught him the Bolshe
vism with which he rules Russia,
is shot in Berlin by milder Social
ists that want a republic with or
der, not her prescription for curing
Al ills, o n
The Kaiser, who dreamed of rl
mg the world, is a fugitive -in Hol
land. The Allies and his own coun
try seek to extradite him, and hang,
guillotine or shoot him.
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Liebknecht opposed the Kaiser's
plan, he was one of the handful
that spoke out against him and
was put in prison. He opposed the
war that has ruined Germany.
Now he is shot to-death in Ber
¥m with his companion, “Red Rosa.”
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Part of the Kaiser's dream was
to_ provide six “newly ecarpeted”
thrones in Burope for his six sons,
as Napeleon supplied thrones for
his relatives and proteges.
The oldest Hohenzollern son
lives in a fisherman's hut on a
Jonely island. No throne there.
. Another son has found a job with
&an automobile concern. He may
find there the peace of mind and
safety that he wouldn't have found
on the throne.
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The Hohenzollerns that for 700
+ years had been building up power,
in good times and bad, began as
- usurious money lenders In a poor,
barren ceuntry. They ruled Ger
many, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria
and Greece, and intimidated neu
trals but a few months ago. Now
¥hbert, the harnessmaker, rules in
Berlin, and Morges, a tailor, is the
head of the Brunswick Govern
ment, fighting the national Gov
ernment of the Berlin harness
maker. s, o
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There .are some contrasts for
you.
When the war began the United
States confined .itself to its own
continent. The President never
left his country. The newspapers
printed regularly George Washing
ton’s advice ahout ‘‘foreign entan
giements.”
Today the President is sitting
with the Prime Ministers of Eng
tand, France and Italy and the Am
bassadors from Japan and other
countries in Paris, running this
country by wireless, and helping to
wettle the affaire of all the govern
ments of the world.
These are a few contrasts that
will strike the future writers of
history. They will have to think
hard and steadily to present the
entire picture complete, with its
changes, meanings and its causes,
That will not be done fn this cen
tury. 4
e s &
When the war began Poland was
a nation chopped to pieces, divided
up by the bandit countries, as
wolves divide and tear up a deer,
The end of the war sees Poland
going back to her old nationality,
with the approval of other nations,
And whom do you find at the head
of Poland in this movement of a
nation’s rebirth? “
Is it a descendant of the Poni
atowski who, with bullets in his
body, blood streaming, jumped his
horse into the river to swim across
and”/attack the enemy of Poland,
crying, “One\ must die like a
brave ™
Is it a descendant of Kosciusko,
who helped this country in its fight
and for Poland started with 5,000
men to fight the whole of Russia?
No, none of the old Polish names.
The new head of Poland is Pad
erewski, the musician. The Poles
choose as their leader one repre
senting the intellectual genius, not
the fighting quality, of Poland.
Instead of a fierce fighter, you
have the gentle musician as head
man in Poland. He has already
been shot once, and shot at five
times,
Great as she has been in fight
ing. Poland has been even greater
in the production of genius. The
name of Copernicus will stand out
in real history thousands of cen
turies from now, when every name
that you read in today's paper—
Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George,
Wilson—will be as completely for
gotten as the names of the gen
erals that fought under Caesar, or
the chiefs of the tribes that strug
gled here.
Belgians Were “Wise”
To Who Did Bombing
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 26 —A Belgian tewn be
bind the German lines was persistently
bombed by Allled airmen. The Inhabiants,
to the intense rage of the German garrison,
were in the habit of turning out and en
thusiastically echeering these demonstra
tions, said The London Daily News.
One day a group of planes appeared at
which no gun was fired from the earth.
They dropped bombs exclusively on the
Belgian quarter, Next day the town was
placarded with notices: ‘“The Beigian pop
nlation is perfectly aware of the nation
aitty of the airmen who dropped bombs
yosterday on " The incensed Germans
uever were able to find out eho printed eor
published the decument,
If you have any difficulty in buy
ing Hearst's Sunday American any
where in the South, notify Circula
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VOL. V. NO. 42.
AMERICA HAD SECOND LARGEST ARMY
Resolution Among Those Intro
duced at Second Full Session
of Peace Body.
Early Action Against Kaiser and
; /
German Breaches of Law
Provided,
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
PARIS, Jan. 25.—A resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a com
mittee to work out the details of a
league of nations “to promote inter
national obligations and to provide
safeguards against war” was pre
sented today at the second plenary
session of the peace conference.
The resolution sets forth that a
league of nations ‘“‘is essential to the
maintenance of the world settlement
which the associated nations are now
met to establish,” and provides that
the “league should be created as an
integral part of the general treaty of
peace and should be opened to every
civilized naticn which can be relied
upon to promote its objects.”
Reparation To Be Settled.
At the same time resolutions also
were presented for the appointment
of committees to inquire and report
on the following Important questions:
Breaches of the laws of war, re
paration, the conditions of employ
ment from the international aspect
and the international means neces
sary to secure common action on
matters affecting conditions of em
ployment and to recommend the form
of a permanent agency to continue
such inquiry under the league of na
tions.” /
The resolution econcerning the In
vestigation of the breaches of the
laws of war” provides that the com
mission shall report on five phases of
that question. They are:
Responsibility for War.
1. Responsibility of the authors of
the war.
2. Facts as to the breaches of the
laws and customs of war committed
by the forces of the German Empire
and thejr aliies on iand and sea and
In the air during the present war.
3. Degree of responsibility for these
offenses attaching to particular mem
bers of the enemy forces, including
‘members of the general staff and oth
er individuals, however highly placed.
‘ Will Try Offenses.
4. The constitution and procedure
of a tribunal appropriate to the trial
of these offenses.
5. Any other matters cognate or
ancillary to the above which may
arise,
~ On the question of reparation the
resolution provides that the commis
sfon shall report the two subjects of
the amount of reparation which the
enemy countries ought to pay and on
\What they are capable of paying and
‘the method and form and time within
which the payments should be made.
The text of the resolutions follow.
Draft of Resolutions. ¢
Following is a draft of the prelimi
nary resolutions for a league of na
tions:
“The conference having considered
the proposals for the creation of a
league of nations, resolved that:
“It is essential to the maintenance
of the world settlement which the as
sociated nations are now met to es
tablish that a league of nations be
created to promote international obli
gations and to provide safeguards
agalnst war. This league should be
created as an integral vart of the
general treaty of peace and should be
opened to every eivillzed nation which
can be relied on to promete its ob-
Jects. The members of the league
el ould meet periodically in interna
tional conference and should huve a
permanent organization and secreta
ries to carry on the business of the
league in the intervals betwoeen the
conference, g
Committee Is Provided.
“The conferenec, therefore, ap
points a committee of representatives
of the associsted Governments to
work out the details of ths constitu
tion and functions of the league and
draft resolutions in regard to breaches
of the laws of war for presentation
to the peace conference,
“That a commission compoged of
two représentatives apicce from the
five great powers and five represer.-
tatives to be elected by the other
powers to be appointed to inquire and
report upon the following:
“First—The responsidility of the
authors of the war,
Atrocities To Be Probed,
“Second—The facts as to breaches
of the laws and customs of war com
mitted by the forces of the German
Empire and their allies on land, on
sea and in the air during the present
war,
“Third—The degree of responsibil
ity for these offenses attaching to
particular members of the enemy
forces, including members of the gen
eral staffs and individuals, however
hWighly placed,
“Fourth—The constitution and pro
cedure of a tribunal #pproptiate to
the trial of these offenses,
“Pifth—~Any other malter cognate
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§ (By International News Service.)
LEVELAND, Jan. 25.—Bosario
C Spinello for more than a year
has been supposed to be serv
ing a term in the penitentiary for
manslaughter. And all during that
| time he has been at his home with
his wife and seven children—either
there or at his work in a factory
here. The authorities merely ne
glected to come and get him. He did
not attempt to evade the serving of
his sentence. But he was not going
§ to go to the police and insist on it.
! He did not even dodge policemen who
knew he had been convicted, he says.
The crime was committed more
than two years ago. For a year the
case was in the courts. Then the
Appellate Court sustained the ver
dict and ordered the sentence exe
cuted. But papers ordering his ar
) rest, giving the police official infor
mation of the decision of the Appel
late Court, were stuck in a pigeon
hole somewhere, and it was not until
the middle of January that they
came to light and the police went
to Spinello's home and took him
away to jail.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Jan. 25.—
Internal Revenue Officer F. C. Tolbert
was hot in the leg and painfully
woundéd Saturday when a posse of rev
enue men and deputy sheriffs were at
tacked by a party of ten men at the
Frank Snipes farm, about 2 miles from
Kernersville. Snipes, who was recent
ly discharged from the Atlanta Federal
prison after serving a two-year term
for blockading, is recognized, the raid
ers said, as leader of the gang.
No arrests were- made, but it is un
derstood that Revenue Agent T. H.
Vanderford has organized a force and
that they are determined to capture
the.Snipes crowd.
Officer Tolbert was able to be moved
to a Salisbury hospital today
It is stated that when the crowd at
tacked the officers Tolbert demanded
that they surrender. He was greeted
with jeers and oaths. The atackers
then climbed into an automobile and
drove away.
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Army Officials Push
. .
Naturalization Work
Naturalization of foreign-born sol
diers in the United States army is be.
ing carried on with increased vigor by
the naturalization section of the army.
Every man in uniform who desires to
become a 'full-fledged citizen of the
United States is being given every as
sistance by the authorities to that end,
Lieutenant E. M. Morris, naturaliza
tion officer at Camp Gordon, is comb
ing the camp for foreign-born soldiers
who wish to take advantage of the free
aid being given those seeking naturali
zation. Several soldiers will be sent
to the Kederal naturalization court
Monday afternoon.
Soldiers who have been naturalized
and failed to receive their naturaliza
tion certificates, are urged to commu
nicate with Lieutenant Morris at camp
headquarters, Soldiers who have been
idscharged and left the camp without
having received their final papers, but
who had applied for naturalization, are
also urged to write to Lieutenant Mor.
ris, camp headquarters, Camp Gordon,
stating the facts in their case in order
that he may assist them in securing
their certificates.
Rep. Rach Seeks to Make I
. .
T.R. Birthday a Holiday
gay International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 256.—The twen
tiyq-sevenlh day of ©ctober, the day of
the birth of the late Theodore Roose
velt, would be made a legal holiday, un
der a bill introduced in the House this
afternoon by Representative Rach, of
New Jersey. |
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House Gets Undesirable
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Alien Deportation Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—A bill au
thorizing the exlpulslon from this cnun:\
try of enemy aliens designated as un- !
desirabl® by the Secretary of Labor
WaS re{mled out this aftenoon by the
House Immigration Committee,
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. vestigating
; Today Through the :
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| “Automobile” Columns '\
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) A fine lot of good cars are
being put on the market
which are sure to hold the !
attention ofe anybhody who ¢
has even congidered the
ownership of a car. Most {
of them have been more or ¢
less used, but you would §
never know it to look at ?
them, and thefr service will ¢
measure up well with a new e
$ can
? Turn to the ‘“Automobiles’” \\
{ columns over in The Ameri- |
can today and read the in- $
teresting offers there, Then é
go farther. Call up the per- )
son or firm offering the cars
g which appeal to vou and
make an engagement to see )
? the cars in action ¢
* Your desire to own a good !
§ ear can be fulfilled rlfh( now
b at termsg z/hlvh will be a ¢
g pleasant sOrprise to you.
J Read the “Automobiles’” col- {
3 umns today ¢
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- The Georgian and American
¢ Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
. Read tor Protit-Use for Results
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919
atEk MISSING
WAULIFFE BOYS
A, |
Father Enlists Private Sleuths in |
Search for Sons He Charges {
Wife Holds. |
NEGRO MAID IS ARRESTED
Mack and Jack Are Believed by!
Both Parties To Be in !
Atlanta. l
Private detectives have been en
listed in the remarkable hunt for the
two missing McAuliffe children—
Mack,' 11, and Jack, 9—by their fa
ther, J. W. McAuliffe, who still in
sists that the boys are being kept in
biding by their mother, Mps. Eleanor
McAuliffe, of No. 122 Bonaventure
avenue. She, in turn, accuses Mc
;Aulifl'e of having spirited them away.
~ With no clew to the wheregbouts
of the missing boys found by either
side, both the father and mother de
clared their determination to con
tinue the search until they had been
found.
- Announcement of the entry of pri
vate detectives into the case served to
increase interest in the mystery,
which has become even more mysti
fying since the arraignment by Mrs.
McAuliffe of her husband before
Judge W. D. Ellls, in Superior Court,
in an action to force him to give up
'the. boys and the dismissal of the pro
ceedings by Judge Ellis. Both Mc
’Aullfle and Mrs, McAuliffe expressed
the greatest concern Saturday as to
‘the welfare of the boys,
~ Father Is Confident.
McAuliffe confidently expressed the
belief that he will find his boys—--so
conrident, in fact, was he that he as
serted he would be willing to wager
money on the result.
“These boys will show up all right,
and then we’ll know definitely who
spirited them awaw" said the father.
“I would be willing to bet SIOO that
the boys are found-—I am just that
confident.”
Attorney Walter A. Sims, counsel
for McAuliffe, said Saturday that no
court proceedings would be taken
against Mrs, McAuliffe until the boys
are found and it develops positively
that she hid them away. He inti
mated that in such an event imme
diate action would be taken to re
cover the children for McAuliffe,
Boys Believed in Atlinta.
McAuliffe and Mrs. McAuliffe both
expressed themselves as sure the
missing boys still are in Atlanta.
“l am satisfled my husband has
placed the children in an orphanage,
o some other such place right here
in Atlanta,” Mrs. McAuliffe said.
“And 1 don’t intepnd to stop my
search until I find them, too,” she
added with determination. “My hus
band said he didn't know where they
were, and I'll have him in jail for
per)dry if it takes me years."-~
Dfluck and Jack disappeared last
Thursday afternoon a week ago from
the home of their mother,
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Rumely Fights Against
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Washington Extradition
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Dr. Edward
Rumely, former owner of The Eve
ning Mail, appeared before Judge Ju
llus Mayer, in the United States Dis
trict Court, today on writs of habeas
corpus and certiorari, in an effort to
prevent his removal to Washington,
D. €., to answer an indictmant charg
ing him with violation of the espion
age law,
Counsel for Rumely entered the
contention that the former newspaper
owner should not be'removed hecalse
he is under similar in(nv’m-nt here
and hag been under $35,000 bail since
last July. He algo insisted that there
is rno reason for the New York court
to defer the tria! of Rumely on the
indietments returned here,
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House Passes Bill Giving
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Mrs. Roosevelt Pension
WASHINGTON Jan. 2h.~With
nine Representatives voting in the
negative, the bill bestowing an an
nual pension of $£5,000 upon the widow
of former Presidemt Roosevelt was
pasged by the House late today. Those
voting no were Representatives Black,
Blanton, Bucharan, Connally, Garrett,
Jones and Slayden, all of Texas;
Doughton, of North Carolina, and
Quinn, of Mississippi.
The bill already had passed the
Senate,
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D. R. Francis Plans Paris
. .
Trip; Then Coming Home
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.~David R
Francis, United States Ambassador to
Russia, now In London recovering
from an operation, will go to Paris
not Jater than Febroary I, and from
there he will leave for the United
States, said a dispateh to the State
Department this afternoon
310,000,000 IN
3. R PROFITS
Armour Denies He Entered For
eign Field to Keep English
From Cutting Prices.
$25,000,000 TOTAL EARNED
Packer Chief Says Policy Has
Been to Buy Small Competi
tion-Rather Than Squelch.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Soffe
£10,000,000 1n profits have been made
by Armour & Co. in South America
which have not been included in the
financjal statements submitted to
congressional committees, Francis J.
Heney, Federad trade commission
counsel, brought out in cross-exami
nation of J. Ogden Armour today.
These figures were refused the Fed
eral trade commission by Levy May
er, Armour’s counsel. They would
bring the tytal approximate profits of
Armour to about s2s,ooo,ooo—about 16
per cent—instead of approximately
$15,000,000 profits, or 9 per cent,
“The figures on the South American
com)fiqnles of Armour are required to
be fade public by law down there.”
Armour testified in answer to Heney's
questions as to the profits of the
American companies. 4
“Isn’t it a fact that you refused to
give these to the Federal trade com
mission?" asked Heney.
“Yes, on my advice"” interrupted
Levy Mayer, Armour's counsel. “The
Federal trade commission has no au
thority urder the law to ask for those
figures.” / i
Charges Price Strifling. -
Heney charged that the real reason
Armour entered the South American
trade was to keep English companies
from furnishing meat to this country
and thereby bringing down the price.
Armour denied this, saying that
while it would affect the cattle mar- |
ket its influence would not amount to
much in the long run.
“We ship our beef where he can get
the best prices,” said Armour.
“It has never been the policy of Ar
mour & Co. to erowd out small pack
ers,” Armour declared. “We always
try to buy them out.”
“Suppose you wanted to establish
a branch in a town and the small
racker refused to sell, your policy
would be to pay large prices to put
him out of business as soon as possi
ble, wouldn't it?" "Heney suggested.
Blames Small Packers.
“T don’t know what we'd do. Tt
would depend on circumstances.”
Armour said small packers were
mzkflng far larger profits than the
big packing houses,
“And sO,” Heney commerited, “they
can pay larger wages to their work
ers.”
Armour contested fhis statement.
They might pay higher wages for a
day or two, he said, but their work
was not steady.
Armour reiterated his statement
that there was not any arrangement
—or combination or call it what you
will-—between Armour & Co. and oth
er packers as to buving or apportion
ing of territory in buying, but admit
ted that there might have been some
sort of an arrangement by which
packers “conld protect their industry”
in some special case.
If there was, it was not a standing
arrangement,” he said. He denied ab
solutely that he and Swift had appor
tioned dairy territory among them
selves or -that between Swift and
Armour & ("o, the butter market could
be influenced,
“We might have a slight influence
on the butter market, but not much,”
he testMied., The packers sold about
60 per m\n) of the oleomaregarine on
the markef, he said, and Jelke & Co.,
original manufacturers of this prod
uet, about 25 per cent.
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Six Missing as Schooner
.
Breaks Up in Pacific
(By International News Service.)
ABERDEEN, WIS, Jan, 26.-The
cuxillary schooner Janet Carruthers,’
driven ashore near North Head, is
breaking up today and will be a total
1088,
Captain Carney and survivors of
the crew left here this morning for
Seattle, No trace has been found of
six members of the crew who at
tempetd to reach shore in an open
boat,
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Death of Wealthy Twins
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Confirmed by Red Cross
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan, 25-Apparent
confimmation of the double suicide of
Misses Gladys and Dorothea Cromwell,
wealthy heiresses of New York City,
wasg reported by the Red Cross here
today. A cable to that organization
stated that the Misses C‘romwell
sailed on the French liner La Lor
raine, News dispatches yesterday
told of their leap to death from the
deck of that vessel,
Two Stowaway Deserters
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Captured on Freight Ship
NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Jan. 26—
Two American deserters arrived here
Friday -an -the freighter Iron, They
were locked in the guardhouse and wil
be sent back to I“r:nr-.- for punishment
on thHe flst avatlablelship. Pne return
ed American Casual efficer from the
Amef*cun expeditionary force also or
riygd on the Iron.
Shaw Reveals Secret
Alliance That Bound
Eng ussia
ngland and R
Menace of the Triplice Drove Her to Accept
(zardom Under Pressure of France.
. By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
Copyright, 1919, by Star Company.
: LONDON, Jan. 25.—At the end of the preceding
article, published in The Sunday American last Sun
day, having traced the direct course of the policy by
which the British Empire broke the power of Germany,
I promised to explain the entanglements which made it
impossible at any moment before the end of the war to
lay that policy bare to the British publie, the British
Parliament or the British historian.
To begin with, the jingo Imperialists and the genu
inely liberal Imperialists were at cross purposes. Lord
Haldane, a Scot, and by far the ablest member of the
amperialist trio—Asquith, Grey and Haldane—who
conducted the policy and as Secretary of State for War,
the acting partner of the combination, foresaw the war
as a horrible possibility to be avoided at all costs short
of subjugation. He did what a man, a liberal and a
philosopher could to maintain friendly relations with
the Germans, a course which, when the war broke out,
earned him bitter vituperation and even threats of im
peachment as the friend of Germany. ‘
HOPED KAISER WO ULD KEEP QUIET.
| His two English colleagues who had drifted into the
combination under French pressure, accepted this as
the correct attitude, and, being peaceable, good-natured
persons, hoped the Kaiser would keep quiet.
The jingoes, on the other hand, were eager for a
fight with Germany. Many of them advocated a sur-‘
prise attack on the German fleet about a year before
the war? l
On the initiative of a German Count friendly ad
dresses were exchanged between the leading men of
both countries, full of platitudes about Shakespeare
and Goethe. A sentence was inserted in the first draft
of the British address to the effect that the possession
by Germany of a powerful fleet from being a subject of
Jealousy could only be regarded a 5 an additional guar
antee of civilization.
It was found impossible to obtain the necessary
British signatures until that sentence was expunged.
Kvidently those who refused and those who consented
were in very different attitudes.
Men who were making a necessary provision for de
fense in"the event of an attack by Germany were inex
tricably eonfused in the same party with men who could
hardly be induced to wait for a deeent pretext before
springing the mine so carefully dug.
CALLED SURRENDER ‘‘PEACE OFFENSIVE."
To the latter the avoidance of the war would have
heen the worst misfortune that could have happened to
England. Even when Germany capitulated, they were
still uhder such a terror-of peace that they called her
surrender *‘a peace offensive.”
There is a good deal to be said for their view from
the militarist and British leonine point of view. 1 am
not here eriticiging it adversely. I am only demonstra
ting the division of opinion and feeling that existed in
the Imperialist camp.
Now, if this had been the only divisjon in the patty !
and in the country, it would not have mattered, as both|
sides were agreed on the practical part of the policy. |
Both were equally determined to place the British)
Empire in a position to reduce the German Empire tu,
the degree of a second rate power if she moved toward a
hegemony and to keep ahead of her in naval shipbuild
ing, but there were other sections whose secession wonld
have wrecked the Liberal Government and who were
fundamentally opposed to the poliey.
First, there were the commereial non-intervention
ists, Cobdenites, Gladstonians and George Washington
ians, who objected to meddling in Continental quarrels,
and knew that huge profits could be made out of a war
by neutrals supplyving the combatants with war mate
rials.
PREVAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.
On their position I need not expatiate, as it pre
vailed in the United States during the first vears of the
war,
With them on the practical point were the Quakers,
Coamttymed an Page L. Cabumm |
(Copyright, 1913, by the
Geor!iun Company.)
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Ui, Fimaman.
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PRICE “SEVEN CENTS.
Million Men Discharged and
1,300,000 More To Be Mus
tered out of Service Soon.
France Alone Exceeded American
\ Force in Field When Armis
~ tice Ended Hostilities. ¥
(By International News Service.)
]\’ASHINGTHN, Jan. 25.-—America
hdd the second largest army of the
Allies on the western tront at the time
the armistice was signed, Generai
March, chief of staff, announced to
day in his weekly conference with
representatives of the press.
The Allied armies on the western
front at this time ranked as follows
in proportinate strength:
First—France, total strength of
2,257,000 men.
Second—The United States, teo
tal stregth of 1,950,100 men.
Third—Great Britain, total
strength of 1,718,000 men.
Next ranked Belgium and Ttaly
with a total combined strength of
approximately 200,000 men, the gen
eral said.
| Figures Are Complete, /
~ These figures have just been Pe
ceived by the War Department, Gen
eral March said, and they are fairly
| complete, 2
The suspension of the war-time se- .
verity of army court-martial sen
tences also was announced by Gen
eral March. The general explained
that during the war sentences for de
sertion, absencé without leave, in
subordination and of a like nature
were dealt with great severity. The
suspension of the war-time pumish
ment, however, does not commute
those sentences that are now being
served, March declared.
All such commutations, he contin
ued, must be made by the President
himself, who approved the sentences
when they were dealt,
915,553 Men Discharged.
To date 57,366 officers and 858,187
enlisted men have been discharged
from the army, General March an
nounced, and the number designated
for discharge, including both the men
who have served overseas.and those
who remained in this country, is now
1,300,000, Regorts reaching the War
Department indicate that Great Brit
tain has taken to speeding up the
demobilization of her men, the total
since the signing of the armistice be
ing 12,769 officers and 611450 men of
other grades,
Will Speed Un Mail,
The failure of friends and refatives
of members of expeditionary forces
to receive mail from overseas has re
sulted in the War Department taking
action, which General March said
will result soon in the next of kin of
every mgn in foreign service hearing
from hin', Form post cards have been
ordered and will be sent to Genera|
Pershing, with instructions that they
be issued to every man, with orders
that they be filled out and mailed at
once to the next of kin.
A recent War Department order,
General March observed, has been
misconstrued to mean that men couki
not wear divisional insignia in the
United States. The department has
no intention of depriving any soldier
of displayig snuch insignia, he added
10 Die in Fighting Reds,
General March also read a dispateh
from Archangel, reviewing the recent
action in which the Allied forces were
forced to withdraw in the face of at
tacks by the Holsheviki
The dispatch, which was dated Jan -
sary 23, failed to supplement those
received through press channels, how
ever. The American casualties were
placed at ten killed and seventeen
wounded
“The War Department studied the
question of demobilization very ecare
fully before adopting any poliey.”
March also wrote., “T'wo needs of the
‘h,;""»" were kept constantly in
mind: First, the resumption as rap
idly as possible of the normal indus
trial life of the country, and, second
replacement therein of individuals in
the military forces and in occupa
tions which ended upon the cessation
of hostilities
The War Department gave serious
consglderation to the plan of making
the order of discharge depend on the
avatlability of industrial positions te
which the individual soldier might re
turn as opposed to the plan of dis
banding complete organizations in the
order of thWr avallability for dise
charg:
Scheme Is Impracticable.
The forfmer plan was deemed Im
practicable. The preliminary Investi
gation discloses that an equitable de
termination of such a schedule, if
practicable at all under present con
ditions in this country, would have
delayed all demobilization beyond
reason
‘On the other hand, disbandment
of complete military onits could be
and was immediately begun.
In this way the military siteation
was safeguarded, and at the same
time demobilization was accelerated.
If a cross section of industrial or ag
vicultural class discharged had Deen
at once cut aeross all military ov
ganizations, the integrity and eff
clency of every unit would have been
destroyed at the outset, to the son
fusion of orderly procedure and the
retardation of the whele demodiltws
tlon programs" o ¢