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The King Age Is Gone.
Two Photographs from Russia.
The News Is in Them.
Misinformation Abundant.
~~~~- By Arthur Brishane ~
IRNARD SHAW'S latest ar
ticle on the war, its causes
and effegts proves that this
Irish Britisher sees the world, in
cluding his own corner of it, mote
clearly than other men. With his
clear vision he combines a power
of expression that no llying writer
equals. Compare his present pow
erful writings, for instance, with
Rudyard Kipling's few feeble ef
forts, and you see what staying
power Shaw possesses as compared
with other men.
For those who believe In govern
ernment by a republic there is deep
interest in a few paragraphs by
Shaw making clear the fact that
this world, which was msepublican
only in spots when the war began,
and royalist almost everywhere, is
now royalist omly In spots, feeble
spots at that, Ana republican, or
revolutionary almost everywhere.
Two great facts should be horne
in mind by those that would under
stand what has happened in the
last four years, and speculate wise-.
1y on what/is probably comifies
- NOT - GERMANY BUT PLU
TOCRACY LOST THIS WAR.
MONARCHIES ARE DEAD, AS
GQOVERNING FORCES,
It is worth while to reprint and
emphasize Shaw’s brief statement
N'ot to follow what he says in hia
present brilliant series of articles
is to neglect opportumity. Says
Shaw: ‘““The position of republican
ism changed greatly in Europe in
the last vears of the war, and even
in its last hours. When the Tsar
/dom fell all the thrones rocked.”
When The Hohenzollerns and
gHapsburga fell Europe changed from
a continent in which one important
republic and a few tolerated toy
ones were struggling to maintain a
not highly respected existence amid
a host of contemptudbus kingdoms,
menaced by legitimist pretenders
within and hostile courts without,
to a continent in which a handful
of minor rovalties, mostly the poor
relatives of ‘the deposed emperors,
held gn timidly to a few outlying
little thrones, diligently saving
money for the inevitable day when
they, too, must pack up and face
the world as common citizens. The
British throne alone held steady,
not without earnest professions
that it was only “a crowned re
publi¢” after all, being able to' sup
‘port that plea by pointing to the
steady growth of all the worst fea
tures of French and American re
publicanism in its national life.
The change is s 0 enormous and
the circumstances of it so catas
trophic that Xurope has not assimi
lated it yet.
Our small boys read about thé
Stone Age, Branze Age, Tron Age,
and are told that it is €mposgible
to say just when one age ended
and the other began, They over
lapped—some men even ye{ are
living in the Stone Age®
The men of today pay say truly
that thfy saw the death of the
King Age. N
That this country, Its self-satis
fied newspaper writers and states
men may have Seriously misunder
stood and underestimated the work
that is going on in Russia is indi
cated by two Russfan photographs
published in The New York Times.
One shows Russian fighters now
ruling Russia and recently pursu
tng Allied troops, including our
own, through the swamps in the
north. The Times puts this line
urder the photograph:
“Flower of the Bolsheyist army,
all well armed, many of them vet
eran troops of the old Russian re
gime, marching through the streets
of Moscow.”
The photograph is so different
from the usual pictures of Russian
troops in old days that you look at
it in wonder.
Under the Czar, troop photo
graphs showed men marching sul
lenly and obediently to be shot,
not knowing why. The Times pho
tograph of Bolshevist troops shows
men alert, intelligent, keenly in
terested.
The faces are those of men that
know why they are fighting, WANT
to fight, and mean to win. You can
imuglne such faces in the Revolu
tionary Army of France that car
ried victory everywhere-—and gave
Napoleon his reputation when he
got hold of them. .
1f the Bolshevists have many
such troops as The Times photo
graph shows, look out for such an
army. It will not be beaten easily.
Given the right leaders it will not
W beaten at all—as long as it stays
at home and fights for home.
Another photograph, published by
The Times, carrles this line be
low it: 3
“Muscovite boys and girls are
taught by the Bolshevik! in fred
clagses of instruction to handle the
rifle skilifully as a requirement for
graduation.”
The photograph shows two long
lines of boys and girls of the high
sehool age, one row kneeling, the
second standing back of it. Al
have rifles leveled and evidently
gnov how to hold and use them,
he faces are concentrated, keen,
full »* force. The young women
Speciaiy have s ook that seem o
THE WEATHER
Georgia: Falr Sunday and Monday;
little :finnge in temperature.
VOL. V. NO. 45.
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Every Section of State to Cut
Acreage One-Third and Hold -
Present Crop. X
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Bankers, Farmers and Business
Men United for Diversified
Farm Products.
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By VICTOR BARRON.
The agitation for a tremendous re
duction in this year's cotton acreage
and the jcontinuance of the present
holding movement of cotton, is taking
deep root throughout Georgia.
Mass meetings were held in practi
cally every section of the State Sat
urday for perfection of such plans
and to carry out "the resolutions
adopted at the recent Macon conven
tion, which callad for a reduction of
33 1-3 per cent in this year’'s acreage,
for the use of less fertilizer, and for
holders of spot cotton to stand pat
for not less than 35 cents a pound.
The meetings were largely :}tt(-nded
by bankers, farmers and business
men, with complete harmony and
enthusiasm characterizing them
throughout. '
South Accepts Challenge.
A defi has been hurled at the South
by speculative gamblexs and consum
ing interests and the challenge has
been fully accepted.
It ls a fight to the finish, with the
farmers' holding the whiphand. It is
conceded generally that the situation
lies entirely in the hands of the farm
érs, and that they are determined to
show those opposed to the granting
of a fair and just price for cotton that
they are mot bluffing this time and
will not prove to be “Wisenheimeors”
when the Government's acreage esti
mate is issued this spring.
Farmers Are Determined.
It is claimed by those attacking the
cctton market that the South will
plant just as much land in cotton this
year as in 1918 and that a big crop
will be the result. Of course, that
is a mighty fine angle from which to
view the outlook if you happen to be
short of the market and desire to see
prices fall, but farmers of the South
are determined to hold the acreage
déwn to a minimum this year and
devote a record-breaking acreage to
food and forage crops
An acreage of 25,000,000, it is claim
ed by experts, will wyield .at least
9,000,000 bales of spinnable cotton and
bring the South just as much money
as a 16.000,000-bale crop.
Cotton Famine Threatened.
With the world already facing a
famine in cotton, another meager
vield will create a genuine famine in
the staple, an@ when the embargo
finally is «emoved from exports to
enemy and neuiral countries a wild'
scramble ¥or cotton from all parts of
the globe will be witnessed with
prices skyrocketing. ‘
Evidence that this State means
business plainly is proven by the fol. |
lowing: ; 3 ‘
Two thousand Upson fatmers and
business men gathered-# the court
house at Thomson Saturlay, pleig
ing themselves to reduce the cotton
acreage one-third and hold the pres
ent c¢rop for 35 cents. |
Barrow County to Cut.
Winder, Ga., Barrow County, wired
The Sunday American the following:
“At a big- mass meeting held here
Saturday and attended by farmers,
Lankers and other business men of
Barrow County, the following resolu
tions were passed, to wit: -
“‘Cut the cotton acreage down to
7.5 acres to the plow; cut out fer
tilizer this vear qn all crops 60 per
cent; raise all food and feed for our
selves and llve stock; hold our pres
ent crop of cotton now on hand for
36 cents; organize each school and’
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‘Officer Killed
P A
s Planes Crash®
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5,000 Feet in Air
(By International News Service.) g
IAMI, FLA., Feb, 15.~1n a
0 M collision between two air
planes 5,000 feet in the air
one man was killed' and another
injured, sprobably fa{ully, at the
marine flying fleld here today.
{ The dead man is Second Lieuten
ant Edward Cain, of Baltimore.
Corporal John Zeree, acting as his
mechaniv‘ was injured. The Cain
machine was doing a tail spin
when it came down on top of a
nfhchine piloted by~ Ligutenant
William _Bertholet. S
" Both machines fell. Lieutenant
g Bertholet, however, made a suc-;
cessful landing, though one wing
y of his machine was broken.
Liedtenant Cain- had just re
ceived his honorable discharge
{ from the marine corps and was
i making a final flight before going
; to his home. It was Corporal Ze
, lee’s first trip in the air as a me- 2
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RA A A A I ISI
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Feb. 15.—O0f
cials at thé Department of Justice at
Washington hawe discovered that the
man who acts upon his own initiative
is, after all, desirable. At least, this
seems to be indicated in the receipt
here today of reinstatement instruc
tions in the case of 8. Glenn Young,
capturer of bad men and army de
serters. Mr. Young, however, is not
pleased by this tardy manifestation
of appreciation. Unless he changes
his mird, he no longer is in the Gov
ernment’s’ employ. He will not de
cline to be reinstated, but it is his
announced intention to tender l}is
resignation at once.
8. Glenn Young is the man who
captured, single~handed, the Crawley
boys in thé‘mounmins of Georgia last
week. Almost immediately following
the safe delivery of his three prison
~ers to the k‘edqabauthorkies at At
'lanta he was dismisséd By the De
partment of Justice, The reason
given for this dismissal was Mr.
Ycung's failure to hold prisoners,
some eighteen in number, at the point
of, capture until he had received au
thority from Washington to move
them. He had exercised his own
judgment to the extent of paying out
of his own pocket somx:;’»fl() or S6OO
in railroad fares in order to take his
prisoners to a safe place.
Mr. Ybung resents the ‘glterferent‘e
from desk men at Washington. He
can not see any reason why, when he
captures prisoners wanted by the
Government, he should not deliver
-
those prisoners where they are want
ed, especially when he is willing to
pay the fare himself and await the
Government’'s own good time to re
imburse him.
BIRMINGHAM, Feb, 15.——-Pol!<'e‘
Scout Officer W, D, Evans, and Al
bert Brown, a negro, wearing the uni.
form of an army officer, are dead, ans
Policeman W, A. Phillips lies mor
tally wounded, as the result of a pistol
duel between the officers and the
regro in a lonely spot on the outskirts
of the city today. There were no wit
nesses.
At police headquarters it was said
that Phillips and Evans were on
“scout duty” in the section of the
ecity known as West End and that
they were on watch for “bootleg
‘gers” who are said to make a prac
tice of dropping from incoming trains
in the suburbs gnd walk Into town
later with their liquor.
Phillips is said to have told those
‘who found him that he and Evans
had arrested Brown and another ne
gro and that Evans was searching
for the second man when Brown
walked away four or five paces, and,
turning, shot the policeman through
the body close to the heart,
As Evans fell mortally wounded
‘his prisoner broke away and escaped
into the darkness, Brown turned his
revolver upon Phillips, his first shot
striking the offiicer in the chest just
below his heart. The policeman, how
ever, stood his ground and fired with
such good aim that his three nhotui
“struck the negro in the head, killing
him instantly, It was stated by hos
pital authorities tonight that I’hll-{
lips who recently became a lm*mbnri
of the department on his dh'«-harge‘
frédm the army, might recover. Evans
died at midmight., Phllips, after be
ing shot, crawled nearly a quaster
of a mile toward some houses in an
effort to give the alarm.
Police partles are scouring the
#parsely settled district "“where the |
shoeting took place in the hope of lo
cating the negro who escaped rrom}
Evans, 7
Hugh Campbell Wallace
Named Envoy to France
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb., 15.-—~Word of
the appointment of Hugh Campbell
Wallace as Ambassador to France was
recelved in Washing¥on official circles
tonight. Mr. Wallace, who will suéceed
William G. Sharp, resigned, is a resi
dent of Washington, D, C.,, and of Ta
coma, Wash. He has been prominent
’ln Democratie politice for a number of
years and was a delegate at large from
Washington the Democratic conventions
in 1866 and 1812,
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Willing to Accept Arbitration and
Reduce Armaments if All Other
_Powers Do So.
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Foreign Secretary Says Germany
Also Has Some Charges to
. Make About Atrocities.
By H. J. GREENWALL, :
Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London °
Daily Express.
WEIMAR (via Berlin and London,
Feb. 15).~The German pebple are
prepared to submit to restrictions of
sovereignly involved in the league
of nations plan, including interna
tional arbitration and retsriction of
armaments; providing our enemiest
and future neighbors do the same,
declared Count von Brockdorff-
Rantzau, new German Foreign' Sec
retary, in a speech to the national
assembly today.
“We do not reingnize that Ger
many was solely fesponsible for the
war and alone was guilty of bar
barous methods of warfgre. Ger
mpany has charges prepared of
schemes of warfare lasting over
years dnd concgrning atrocities we
are prepared te allow impartial men,
having the confidence of all belliger=
ents, to pronounce judgment.
Opposes War Indemnity.
“We hold fast to President Wil
son’s fourteen principles and take
the stand that no war indemnity can
be paid and no territory surrendered
by the vanquished to the victors.
Count Brockdorff-Rantzau declar
ed that Germany is ready to make
good the war damages by free labor,.
but protested against the retention
of German prisoners, declaring the
purpose is to ‘“use them as slaves.”
“The Allies’ victory was economic
rather than military,” said the For
eign Minister. “Hemge peace must
be not only political but economic.”
~The Foreign Secrectary expressed
the belief that the Allies should drop
the economic decisions reached in
1916,
‘We can not be surprised if, as a
result of the conclusions of the
peace donferencde, we are treated as
pariahs,” continued the Foreign Sec
cetary.
Impartiality Challenged.
“We may suffer from violence but
we can not’ be forced to recognize
violence as legally binding.” “
The count challenged the impar- |
tiality of the enemies of Germany as
judges, adding: “We can-enly sub-!
mit. But at heart we can feel that
it {8 not an impartial verdict.”
The speaker demanded that the
eastern boundary of Germany be de
cided by impartial aythorities and
proposed to grafit the \l’ole!o free ac
cess to the BaMlic without yielding
wp the port of Dantzig.
mouthpiece.
President Ebert today @aid he
would not consent to live in any of
the ex-Kaiser's palaces because they
are a “museum of dead epoch.” He
prefers, he said, to live in his modest
flat in Wilmersdorff, although offi
cial buqlnesu will probably compel
a compromise which will result in
the President taking the Chancellors’
ofliciad residence as his place of
abode,
Hindenburg Proposed
As German President
(By Unrlversal Service.)
WHFIMAR, Febh. 15 —Prince Henry,
of Prussia, thes ex-Kaiser's only
brother, is continuing his campaign
in.behalf of Count Hohenzollern., In
an appeal to Field Marshal von® Hin
denburg to “accept” the presidency
‘u!‘ the German republic, the Prince
says it is “shameless to demand that
Wilhelm be delivered to execution.”
After dweNing on this “ingult so
humiliating to Cermany,” he appeals
to all to join the “League for the
Freedom of the Kaiser's Life,” in or
der to s{mre t!v German people an
Sewerlasting diggrace.”
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U. S. Troops in Russia
.
War Council Question
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15,—The pow+
er of withdrawing the Americaw
troops from Russia is entirely in the
hands of the Inh-r-AlHetl war couneil,
Secretary of War Baker this after
moon told Representative Doremus,
heading the Michigan delegation in
Congress which presented a petitioA
‘signed by 100,000 residents of that
State asking that the troops in the
‘Ar('hmlgel sector bé recalled,
Secretary Baker assured the dele
gation that the Americans were.in no
danger of being cut off from supplies
or reinforcements, and that the War
Department was in constant touch
with them.
BELFAST STRIKERS PARADE.
BELFAST, Feb, 15.—~Thousands of
striking workmen n:lr;:;lvd the streets
of the city today In a®drizzling rain
nto:lp. As a result 01, ominious
thréats, the officers on feave were
recalled to thelr barracks today. ‘
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 'l6, 1919
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General Walkout Ordered in Sym
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pathy With Carpenters
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Union in New York.
Atlanta Organization Expecting
Call—Between 8,000 and
10,000 Invelved Here.
(By International News §ervice.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15i,--A general
sympathetic strike of 250,000 workers
in the building trades engaged on
contract work for the Bujlding Trades
Employers’ Association was ordered
today by the executive council of the
Luilding trades department, American
Federation of Labor. The walkout is
effective- Monday. %
The actign of the executive council
followed a controversy lasting for
several weeks between the New: York
BuildMng Trades Employers’ Associa
ticn and the Carpenters’ Union. The
carpenters went on strike, demanding
a wage increase of $1 a day, Dlast
Thursday the basic trades declared a
sympathetic strike, but a truce was
established and the carpenters re
turned to work.: The time lifnit of
the truce expired this afternocon and
the carpenters walked out again.
The executive council was presided
over by Joehn D. Donlin, of Washing
ton, D. C. The members present were
George Hedrick, representing the
rainters; Willlam J McSorley, of the
‘wood and wire metallic lathers;
James Hannahan, of the hoisting en
gineers; Jokn J. Hines, of the sheet
metal workers; William L. Hutcheson,
of the carpenters and joiners, and
William J, Spencer, of the plumbers.
This council is the controlling body
of the 30 building trades unfons, ~
More than 800 contracting concerns
in the United States will be affected
by the walkout. Among the contracts
affected are 200 for Government work.
Local Officials Expect
Order to Stop Work
Officials of the Building Trades
Council of Atlanta, an organization
of fourteen allied bodies of building
trade workers, with an aggregate
membership between 8,000 and 10,000
men, last night began preparations to
carry out the general strike order re
ported to have been issued by the
building trades department of the
American Federation of Labor in New
York Saturday afternoon.
If a local strike of this nature is
called, it will mean practical paraly
sis of building and general construe
tion activites in Atlanta. A meeting
will be held as soon as possible to
consider action.
| Call Not Yet Received.
- No direct communication had beef
received from the national building
trades department officials- by the lo
cal organization, but the general
strike call was not unexpected., It
has been known in labor circles for
some time that trouble was brewing
between the Building Trades Employ- |
ers’ Association and the' organized
lwork('rs on account of the supposed
intention of the employers to begin a
I nation-widb attack on the carpenters,
electrical workers and other unions
affiliated with the Tbuilding trades
councils.
| Apart from the strained situation
in New York, relations have been on
the point of an open bredk between
the‘Atlanm Builders' Exchange mem
berd and the members of the Atlanta,
Building Trades Counctf for several
weeks. The first of the labor organi
zations to come to an open break was
#he International RBrotherhood of
Electrical Workers, which still main
tains a strike against six or eight:
electrical contrac.ors because of their
refusal to sign a working agreement
with the union. |
10,000 To Be Affected. |
That more than 10,000 waorkers
would be affected by the general
’ntrlkn, If ealled, was the opinion :-x-‘
' pressed by Willlam Pollard, business
’azf-nt of the Building Trades (‘n!nb‘
cil. He said that thousands of other
' workers demended for efmplovment on
the continuation at work of the m».‘
[xnnizod crafts, and hinted that there
} was a strong possibillty that many nfl
the miscellaneogs trades would walk
} out in sympathy if the builders went
out, £
The principal organizations repre
sented iln the council are the carpen
ters, aelectrical workers, plumbers }
bricklayers, plasterers, sheet metal
workers, stone _cutters, stationary |
engineers, lather® and a number of
other crafts. ‘
There was some speculation among |
the tarpenters as to just which em- |
ployers the strike would Le effective
against, and they aresawaiting offl
cial advices from thei?¥ head offices
before taking definite aetion. 1t was
not belfeved by union officials closely
in touch with the shipbuilding trades
at Savannah and other Southeastern
shipyards that the strike would affect
the shipworkers At all.
DANISH SHIP § RCHED.
DUBLIN, Feb, 15, ree men, who
declared they “‘were acting in the name
of the lfllgl Republie’’ searched the
Danish nhlx Bostrace for arms at Cork.
Falling to find any they imprisoned the
captain and crew. j
League of Nations Must
Be More Than Merely
- APledge, Says Shaw
Must Set Up a .Common Legislature and Com
mon Tribunal for World.
BY G. BERNARD SHAW. )
(Copyright, 1919, by Star Company.)
LONDON, Feb. 15.—There must be much more than
mere pledges between the constituents of the League of
Nations. They must form a super-national legislature,
and set up a super-national tribunal, exactly as the
United States had to set up a super-state legislature
and a super-state tribunal.
To put it in mbére intimate terms, they must have,
for affairs wider than their national affairs, a common
legislature and a common tribunal.
Now people can not have a common legislature and
a common court of justice unless they have common
ideas.of %ight and wrong, law and justice. They must
have a common language, however its dialects may vary
from English to French and from German to Swedish.
: CERTAIN NATIONS TO BE BARRED.
~ They may have half a dozen different words for
justice, or for wife, or for God,'or for honor, or for hu
manity; but unless the different,words mean pretty
nearly the same thing, no common legislature or trib
unal is possible.
Attempts at common action between people who
believe in fifty gods; and fifake human sacrifices to
them, and people who believe in one god or in no god,
will not work. _ =
People to whom women are mere breeding cattle,
to be bought by the dozen if a man can’afford-so many,
will not get on with people to whom women are wives
and mothers, in the Western sense.
Nations on whose territory it is"an offense punish
able by torture and.death for a laborer to eriteise the
Government can have nothing in common politically
with nations in which every man has a vote, and may
vituperate his rulers with tongue and pen to hisheart’s
content. Nations wh.i('li can not intermarry without a
strong sense of miscegenation will hardly arrive at laws
or verdiets by the same process of reasoning.
The difficulty, then, in forming a League of Nations
is not to get every nation infg it, but to keep the in
compatible nations out of it. Twelve years ago the most
zealous claimant for admission to a League of Nations
would have been the Czar of Russia, whose example
would immediately have been followed by the Empress
of China and possibly the Lama of Thibet.
Their admission would have produced either com
plete paralysis of the League or else such a reduction
to absurdity as occurred in the Southern States of
Ameriea after the Civil War, when the American erank
was allowed to force heterogeneous white and black leg
islation and justide on the emancipated Slave States. ‘
LABOR MUST BE DEVELOPED. 3
The moment it is recognized that the League must
be founded on a basis of common ideas, common insti
tutions, common level of civilization, and, generally and
roughly, a common philosophy of life, it becomes appar
ent,first, that the meierials for a League of which the'
British Empire and the United States are to be con
stituents are to be found between the Carpathians and
the Roeky Mountaing, and not further afield. ‘
Its constituents must be either republies or consti
tutional monarehies in which the monarch has muuh'
less personal power than an American President would
have if he were elected for life,
It must have a well develpped labor movement, So
cialist movement, and seientific movement. And it
would have to be prepared for the formation of other
Leagues of Natious in'the yvellow world, the Indian
world, perhaps_ in the Slav world, and the Spanish-In
dian world.
Human political society is in solution; and it willl
not erystallize into one solid lump for a long time vet.
The possibility of putting an end to war lies not
in waiting for the one solid lump, but in the first League
being so fomidable, and let us hope, so well intentioned
that no foreign League cither daresor would attempt
such a monstrous and perilous enterprise as a war on it
would be.
LEAGUE NECESSARY TO PEACE.
With the ground of speeulation thus cleared, we
can see quite plainly where we must begin.
Without a League between the United States
Continued on Page 2, Column 1 0
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President Sails From Brest Sat- -
urday and Is Expected to Land
‘ in U. S. February 24,
I
League Plan To Be Explained to
Congress Committees at White -
- House Dinner February 26.
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(By International News Service.)
I WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—HBEagerly
zdlscussml in every circle of Wash~
| Ington privately, public views«on the
| world's greatest political experiment,
l a league of nations, are astoundingly
| scarce. A
I Interpretation of the meanings of
| the 26 articles which constitute the
great document through senatorial
( debate, planned today, was postponed,
betause Senators frankly are not vet
gertain of their own knowledge of it,
.and then all chance of congressional
debdte upon it was ‘cut off by a ca
blegram from President Wilson to
members of the Senate committee on
l foreign relations and the House com
mittee on foreign affairs. 3
l News of the President’s cablegram
- was made public shortly after the
’ announcement that President Wilson,
his plans for the league of nations
, now in definite shape, had sailed from
' Brest and would arrive in Boston
‘ probably February 24. It is expected
| that in his Boston speech he will
make his first public utterance in this
iuulmtr.\' regarding the draft of the
“ constitution for the world league.
i Wilson to Give Dinner.
i The President's cablegram to the
| members of the two committees
. asked them to dine with him in the
White House upon his return to.
Washington—the dinner has been ar:
| rangeq, for the evening of February -
26--and in it the President said: :
“I request that I be permitted to go
over with you, article by article, the
constitution before this part of the
work is made the subject of debate of
Congwess." ]
' Administration leaders were frank
1y pleased at this excuse for declin
‘ ing to comment upon it, and Repub
lican Senators were in doubt as to
E just what course they will follow. '
. Whether the whole question is%to
lhs-mmo a partisan matter dis one of
i the ‘things they are discussing among
themselves, althoygh some Senators
~-SBherman, nomty and others—are
known to oppose the idea. For the
| first time .in its history the Capitol .
' was not sure of itself and willing te
give opinions and Interpretations ang
’ to deduce results, W
#Thus President Wilson himself will+
have the first say as to just what th.w
;(-onstizution means When he speaks
| in Boston f ¥
| Will Go to People. “
l This conclusion is reached bono\*yf;.’fi
he evidently does ‘not plan to come
‘mm.”y to Washington, and #t i":
}knnwn he has planned to lay the -’§
l whole case for the leagué of ‘l\nuol-}“:gi
before the people. With Ccongres- o
sional debate and ‘speculation shut B
off, the public wilt gain its knowh&iojfi“ji
of the subject frog first-hand &
sources ' L 8
' In his cablegram the memé"
| sald: «’fifi
’ “T.ast night the committee of ‘*,'s':»s‘{}
eonference charged with the duty™ f
‘:h'ul‘!mu a constitution for a I
‘vr nations concluded its work m; Fo
this afetrnoon befare leaving for 4"‘?
United States 1t is to be my privileg:
and duty to réad to a plenary sessio ]
of the conference the text of the W”\‘
articles agreed upon by the commits
tee “ B
“The committee which drafted®
these arficles was fairly repersenta- '
tive of the world., Besides the rep
resentatives of tlve United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja
pan, representatives of Belgium, Ser
bia, China, Greece, Roumania, Cze
cho-Blovakia, Poland, Brazil and Por.
tugal :u'luv[,\ participtaed In the de«
bates and askisted materially in the
drafting of the constitution.
* Changed His Plans.
“Each article was passed only after
the most careful examination by each
member of the committee. There i 8
a good and sufficlent reason for the
phrageology. and substance of each
article., I request that I be permit
40d to go over with you, article by F
article, the constigution before this =
part of the work -ua‘the‘ conference i§
made the subject of debate of Con
gress. With this in view, I request’
that you dive with me at the White
House as soon affer I arrive in the
United States as my em;uxemoy
permit.”
President Wilson's plan to land im
Boston only became known lodtx{.
when it was cabled from France. It
is known that he had planned to |nd ‘
at Hampton Roads, trans-ship the
Mayflower, the presidential yacht, - “?‘:::‘
L e—— 5, ~?—"F..ki"'
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