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The King Age Is Gone.
Two Photographs from Russia.
The News Is in Them.
Misinformation Abundant.
~~~~ By Arthur Brisbane ~—~
IRNARD SHAW’'S latest ar-
B ticle on the war, its causes
~and effects proves that this
Irish Britisher sees the world, in-’
cluding his own corner of it, more
clearly than other men. With his 1
clear vision he combines a power
of expression that no living writer
equals. Compare his present po®®
erful writings, for instance, with
‘Rudyg.rd Kipling's few feeble efe
forts, and. you see what staying
power Shaw possesses as compared
with other men. f
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 republican
only in spots when the war began,
and royalist almost everywhere, is
now royalist only in spots, feeble
spots at that, and republican, or
revolutionary almost everywhere,
Two great facts <hould he borne
in mind by those that would under
stand what has happened in the
last four years, and speculate wise
ly on what is probably coming.
NOT GERMANY BUT PLU
TOCRACY LOST ‘THIS WAR.
MONARCHIES ARE DEAD, AS
GOVERNING FORCES,
It is worth while to reprint and
emphasize Shaw’'s brief statement
Not to folldw what he says in his
present brilllant series of articles
is to neglect opportunity. Says
Shaw: “The position of republican
ism changed greatly in Europe in
the last years of the war, and even
in its last hours. When the Tsar
dom fell all the thrones rocked.”
YWhen The Hohenzollerns and
Hapsburgs fell Europe changed from
a continent in which one ifiportant
republic and a few tolerated toy
ones were struggling to maintain a
not highly respected existence amid
a host of contemptuous kingdoms,
menaced by legitimist pretenders
within and hostile courts without,
to a continent in which, a handful
of minor rovaities, mostly the poor
relatives of the deposed emperors,
held on 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
publie” after all, belng able to sup-
Port that plea by pointing to the
steady growth of all the worst f&-
tures of French and American re
publicanism in its national life,
The change is so epormous and
the circumstances of it so catas
trophic that Europe has not assimi
lated it yet. .
Our small boys read about the
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age,
and are told that it-is. impossible
to say just when one age ended
and the other began. They over
lapped-—some men even yet are
living in the Stone Age.
The men of todayv may say trmly
that they saw the death of the
King Age.
That this country, its self-satis
fled newspaper writers and states
men may have serionsly misunder
stood and underestimated the work
, that is going on in Russia is Indi
' cated by two Russian photographs
published in The New York Times.
One shows Russian fighters now
ruling Russia and Fecently pursu
ing Allled troops, including our
own, through the swamps in the
north. The Times puts this line
under the photograph:
“Mower of the Rolshevist armv,
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 usua! pictures of Russian
troops in old days that yvau look at
it in wonder,
Under the Czar, troop photo
graphs showed men marching suls
lenly and obedidntly to be shot,
not knowing why. The Times pho
tograph of Bolshevist troops showe
men alert, intelligent, keenly in
terested.
The faced are those of men that
know why they are fighting, WANT
to fight, and mean to win, You can
fmagine such faces in the Revolu
tionary Army of France that car
ried vVietory everywhere—and gave
Napoleon his reputation when he
got hold of them,
If the Rolshevista have many
such troops as The Times photo
graph shows, look out for such an
army. It will not be heaten easily.
Given the right leaders it will not
be beaten at all—as long as it stays
at home and fights for home,
Another photograph, published by
The Times, scarries this line be.
low it:
“Muscovite boys and girls are
taught by the Bolsheviki in free
classes of instruction to handle the
pifle skilifully as a requirement for
graduation”
The photograph shows two long
lines of boys and girls of the high
school age, one row kneeling, the
second standing back of ft. Al
have rifler leveled and .evidently
know how to hold and use them,
The faces are contentrated, keen,
tull of foree. The young women
especially have a look that seems to
wak, ‘1 mean " S 1
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YOL. V. NO. 45,
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
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‘ Make About Atrocities.
‘ By H. J. GREENWALL, I
Exclusive Cable by the International
| News Service and The London
Daily Express.
WEIMAR (via Berlin and L(»ndnn.‘
leb. 15).—The German people are]
prepared to submit to restrictions of
‘qn\'m'eigmy involved in the league
of nations plan, including Int¢=rxm-!
tional arbitration and retsriction of |
lurmamonts. providing our enemies |
;nnd future neighbors do the same, |
declared Count von Brockdorff- |
lli:unz;uu new German Foreign Sw‘-}
retary,“in a speech to the national
s;:.&s‘“mhly today |
. “We do not recognize that Ger- |
immzy was solely responsible for the
i\\‘:n" and alone was guilty of bar
|l\:amus methods of warfare. (‘.or-‘
(mfmy has charges prepared m’l
schemes of warfare lasting over|
|)w ars and concerning atrocities wvi
are prepared to allow impartial men, |
having the confidence of all belliger- |
ents, to pronounce judgment, i
| . Opposes War Indemnity. |
“We hold fast to Predident Wil-|
son's fourteen principles and take
hht\ stand that no war indemnity can
be paid and no territory surrendered
]h.\‘ the vanquished to the victors. ;
' Count Brockdorff-Rantzau declar- |
‘ml that Germany is ready to make |
zgnnd the war damages by free labor,
| but protested against the retention |
|of German prisoners, declaring the |
ngrpnsr‘ is to “use them as slaves."
{ “The Allies’ victory was economic |
;mlhvr than military,” said the For- |
{eign Minister, “Hence peace must |
|be not caly political but economie,”
| The Foreign Secretary expressed |
| thegpelief that the Allies should drop,
[the economic decisions reached in|
1916, . |
‘We can not be surprised if, as a |
;rwu]t of the conclusions of the
! peace conference, we are treated as|
| pariahs,” continued the Foreign Sec
| cetary. . ;
! Impartiality Challenged.
| “We may suffer from violence but
we gan net be forced to recognize
violence as legally binding.” |
The count challenged the impar
tiality of the enemies of Germany as
!uuigvn adding: *“We can only sub
mit. But at heart we can feel that
| it is not an impartial verdict.”
The speaker demanded that the
eastern boundary of Germany be de
l cided by impartial authorities and
i proposed to grant the Poles free ac
lcess to the Baltic without yielding
{up the port of Dantzig.
mouthpiece,
President Ebert today said he
i would not consent to live in any of
| the ex-Kaiser's palaces because they
tare a “museum of dead epoch.” He
Epn-furn, he sald, to live in his modest
flat in Wilmersdorff, although offj
cial business will probably compel
Ia compromise which will result in
| the President taking the Chancellors’
! official residence as his place of
fubode,
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Report of Ex-Kalser’s
- Ilness, Declared False
| (By International News Service.)
| BERLIN, Feb, 14 (via London, Feb,
| 15).~—~Reports of the ex-Kaiser's ill
ness are false, according to the Hol
| lund correspondent of the TPrague
| newspaper Veykov. In the meantime
‘(ior"mn politicians are intriguing to
restore kaiserdom in Germany,
: It 18 said the reports of the former
| Emperor's illness were cireulated
with the object of getting the ex-
Kalser into a sanitorium
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Groans in the
Dayv's News
“ (By International News Service.)
CHEYENNE, WYO, Feb, 16—
Wyoming is to be bone-dry after
July 1, 1919. With only three dis
senting votes, the Senate passed the
prohibition bill already approved by
the House,
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15.—The
German Government is considering
the question of putting the ex-Kal
ger on trial, charged with stealing
13 automobiles and $150,000 from
the German treasury before he es
caped into Holland, according to
coples of 'German newspapers re
ceived here today.
LEXINGTON, KY., Feb, 15.-—The
late James B, Hug‘i\n. copper mag
nate, with holdings in Kentuvky,
(‘alifornia. and New York, left an
estate valued at $34,500,000, it be
came Kknown here today. Louis
Hagin, a gfindson, now in England
in the medical department of the
['nited States army, is beqeauthed
$4,000,000,
CHICAGO, Feb, 15.—Butter and
egg prices in the Chicago market
took a sharp upturn today, butter
going to 50 cents a pound wholesale
and eggs to 39 cents a dozen. Prices
vesterday were 48 1-2 cents for but
ter and 38 cents for eggs,
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 15—The
first solid trainload of live stock
that has gver left Alabhama was
shipped from Montgomery early
Saturday morning, consisting of 24
cars, destineéd for packing centers.
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CORK, PFeb, 15.—Four American
soldiers have died from an out
break of the flu in the barracks
here.
CARDIFF, WALES, Femfl 15.—
Two American sailors were wound
ed in a fight with negroes here to
day.
PASADENA, CAL, Feb, 15.—My;,
ron T. Herrick, former Ambassador
to France and ex-Governor of Ohio,
who suqered a slight attack gj‘hefl!‘t
trouble several dayvs ago, was re
ported to be completely recovered at
his anartments in a Pasadena hotel
today.
WASHINGTON, Feh. 15.—A one
eevd man, losing his only eve in
battle. would be entitled to $5,000
fi.om the Government, the same_as
a man losing both eyes in battle,
under the terms of a bill granting
additional Government bounties to
wounfed soldiers, proposed in the
House this afternoon by Renresen
tative Emerson, of Ohin. The bill,
however, fails to explain how it is
possible for one-eyed men to go
into battle, in the first pjace.
MONTREAL, Feb. 15-—Judge
Hughes, famous local curler, W
the conclusion of a curling § eh
here today at which the aa
dians regained possession the
Gordon medal in competiti® Awith
curlers from sixteen " merican
rinks, in the international curling
contest, l
‘v Frank E., Radenslehen, prominent
‘,\'mm: Atlanta lawyer, has been en
'gaged by Mrs. J, B, Thrash, sister of
| Johnny Abbott, slain driver of Fire
Chief Cody’'s auto, to aid Solicitor
| Boykin and Assistanf Solicitor E. A.
Stephens in the prosecution of the
wife who slew him, it was made
| known Saturday afternoon,
' Attorney Rydensleben held a long
confarence wi(\; Solicitor Bovkin Sat
urday and the two went over the en
tire Abbott case thoroughly, in prep
aration for the trial of the young
woman next Wednesday., The two
will work hand in hand In arrange
ments for the presentation of the
State's case from now-on until Mrs.
Abbott is arraigned before a jury in
Judge Humphries' division of Supe-]
rior Court.
Abbott's Sister Determined. ‘
Mrs, Thrash, it was understood, has!
been aiding materially in Jhe prose
cution of her sister-in-law, and final- |
Iy went to the extent of engaging flt-:
torney Radensleben to assist the So
licitor, so determined was she to see
that no pains were spared in defense
of her slain brother and in the prose
cutich of his wife, |
Deputy Sheriffs had finished Satur.
day the summoning of 100 veniremen,
from whom the jury that is to deter
mine the fate of Mrs. Abbott will be
chosen, Ovrdinarily but 756 or 80 ve
niremen are drawn for sérvice in the
criminal court each week, but bhe
cause of tho importance of the Ab
bott case and the fact that it involves
0 capital offerse, Judge Humphries
declded to incregse the number, All
of these prospective jurors have been
gummoned to report to the Criminal
Court Monday morning,
A number of minor criminal cases
have been tocketed by Solicitor Boy-.
{ kin for trial .\ixulny and Tuesday,
and juries for these trials will be
drawn from the 100 speclal venires
men, ‘ |
Trial for Wednesday. |
The trial of Mrs, Abbott has been
get especially for Wednegday morn
ing at 9 o'dlock, and Judge Hum-|
phries and Solicitor Boykin will take
up only short cases Monday and
Tuesday, in order that the stage may
he clear Wednesday morning to pro
ceed with the formal arralgnment of
Mrs. Abbott
Solieitor Boykin, for the State, and
Attorneys 12, W, Martin and Reuben
1. Arnold, for Mrs, Abbott, have an
nounced ready for the respective
sides, and there was no indication
Saturday of any hitch in the plans
for the start of the trial Wednesday
The trisl was expected to consume
the remainder of the week.
DANISH SHIP SEARCHED.
DUBLIN, Feb, 13.-—Three men who
declared they "were acting in the name
of the Irish Republic'’ searched the
Danigh ship Sostrace for arms at Cork.
Falling to find any they imprisoned the
captain and crew, y
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5,000 Bales of Cotton Destroyed
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by Blaze Which Sweeps
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Savannah Shippi
pping. 1
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Insurance Tangled in U. S. Con
trol of Property and Lapse
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of Many Policies,
SAVANNAH, Feb. 15.—Offcials of
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to-]
day estimated losses in the fire which
swept their Savannah wharves yes
terday afternoon and through the
greater part of last night at 5,000
bales of cotton, valued at $750,000;
2,000 tons of nitrate, at $150,000; 1,200
bales of bagging, not estimated; 20|
carloads of staves, not estimated. This]
covers only contents of the wharves.
Eight sheds of the wharves were
burned to the fire walls and a num
ber of others badly damaged.
No estimate can be made of the
total losses pending a survey, which‘
as'yet is impossible in the still smol
dering ruins. Probably $2,500,000
would not cover it, however,
50 Cars Burn.
Other losses include about 50 rai]-i
road cars and the miil house of the
Southern Fertilizer and Chemical
Company, where the fire originated.
The fertilizer company places its
losses at $250,000,
How much of the loss is covered by
insurance is impossible to state now;
the Seaboard Air Line officials state.
All records are in great disorder as a
result of their being pitched into bins
and moved in haste. However, much
of the cotton, nitrate and such stuff
are believed to be covered in the
losses.
The question of the Seaboard Air
Line property losses is problematical.
Under the policy of the United States
Railroad Administration, wrich is to]
assume its own fire risk and, accord
ingly, has permitted hundreds of
thousands of dollars of railroad in
surance policies to lapse upon their
expiration, the terminals would not
be insured. It is a question with local
officials whether these policies had
lapsed.. If so, it is an additional
question whether the company or the
mlmimsn';qinn stands the loss.
Superintendent on ;cene.
ts. B. Grimshaw, general superin
tendent. of the Seaboard Alr Line,
Southern division headquarters in
Savannah, spent the night on the
blazing wharves and through most of
morning was still on the job. W. L,
Seddon, of Norfolk, general manager
of the Seaboard Air Line, has noti
fied the local office that he will arrive
here tomorrow morning.
The origin of the fire yet is unde
termined. It started in the motor
room of the fertilizer plant, and is
attributed, probably, for lack of any
other known reason, to defective wir
ing. Attendants in the plant discov
ered the flames early and sounded the
alarm. ’ :
Picked Fire Fighters.
The fire burned from the middle of
the afternoon till after midnight,
when .it scemed to have spent itself
and finally was got under control by
a company of picked ecity fire fighters
under direction of Chief Monroe, with
the aid of tugs, ferries and other im
provised fireboats in the harbor.
Sprinkler systems proved of ;:rnuti
ald in preventing the entire loss of |
the wharves, bud the chief cause for
lits unchecked spread is attributed to
the Seaboard Air Line fire system not
having up steam for its big pumps,
which laid idle while the flames went
from shed to shed on two of the big
piers, swept forward by a swift
breeze from the west.
Officers of the fertilizer plant have
announced that they will rebuilt at
once. While the Seaboard Air Line is
expected to rebuild, the official an
nouncement ig awaiting the arrival of
the general manager fomorrow morn
ng. .
Fayette County to Hold
Cotton for 35 Cenls
FAYETTEVILLE, Feb. 15.~—Despite
the disagreeable weather, about 100
representative citizens of Fayette
County met here today to formulate
plans to maintain the price of cotton
at a living priee, and to stlmulate di
versification. After an expression from
many of those prasent, a re solution
was passed to reduce the acreage and
amount of fertilizer used one-third
and to hold cotton now on hand for
35 cents per pound. A good sum of
money was raised to carry this prop
aganda to every farmer in the :'(mmy,‘
and an active organization was per-|
fected with a county committee .‘l!ld‘
organization for each milital district.
Hon. W. N. D. Dixon was made coun
ty chairman,
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U. S. Troops in Russia ‘
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War Council Question
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15,~The pow
er of withdrawing the American
troops from Rusisa is entirely in the
hands of the inter-Allied war council,
Secretary of War Baker this after
noon told Representative Doremus,
heading the Michigan delegation in
Congress whieh preesnted a petition
gigned by 100,000 residents of that
State asking ‘that the troops In the
Archangel sector be 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 congpant touch
with them,
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1919
Leaders Prepare to Carry Out
General Order Reported “in
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New York Saturday. ‘
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Paralysis in Construction Work
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in Atlanta Threatened in
Unon Action.
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Officials of the Building Trades
Courcil 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 stvike order r('-l
ported to-have been issued by t]ml
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 construc
tion activites ‘n Atlanta. A meeting|
will be held as soon as nqssihh- tnl
consider action.
Call Not Yet Received.
No direct communication had been
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 brm\'in;:‘
between the Building Trades limploy-}
ers’ Association ang the organized
workers on account of the supposed
intention of the employers to begin a
nation-wide attack on the carpenters,
electrical workers and other unions
affiliated with the building trades
councils. ‘
Apart from the strained situation
in New York, relations have been nn“
the point of an open brealk between
the Atlanta Builders’ Exchange mvm—l
bers and the members of the Atlanta|
Building Trades, Council for several
weeks. The first of the labor organi
zations to come to an open break wns!
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, which still mnin-!
tains a strike against six or ui«_:ht,l
electrical contraciors bhecause of their
refusal to sign a working _agreement
with the union.
10,000 To Be Affected.
That more than 10,000 workers
would be affected by the general
strike, if called, was the opinion ex.
pressed by William Pollard, business
agent of the Building Trades ("mm-»l
cil. He said that thousands of other
workers depended for emplovment on
the .continuation at work of the or
ganized crafts, and hinted that there
#as a strong possibility that many of
the misecellaneous trades would \\‘::l!«'s
out in sympathy if the builders went
out.
The principal organizations repre
gented in the council are the i-:umon-‘
ters, electrical workers, pllm'nhwrs.'
bricklayers, plasterers, sheet mv!ul,
workers, stone cutters, stationary |
engineers, lathers and a number uf’
other crafts.
There was some speculation among
the carpenters as to just which em
ployers the strike would be effective]
against, and they are awaiting nfli—i
cial advices from their head offices
before taking definite action. It was
not believed 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.
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Reds Organize for |
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Work in U. S., He Says|
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb 15. [{n;.:fl’i
1. Simmons, of the Department ut';
Commerce, informed the Senate pro
paganda investigating committee this |
afternoon that he was informed lu-_l
fore he left Petrograd, by “an au
thority he deemed reliable,” that Al- |
bert Rhys Williams was to come to
the TTnited States to “establish a pro
paganda bureau with branches all |
ovre the country to circulate Bol
ghevik doctrines.” l
Williams, whose speech in a local
theater furnished the inspiration fnr‘
the present investigation, has (h-niml}
that he has any knowledge of any
organized Bolshevik propaganda in
this country at the present time. |
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Many Georgia Cities
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Get Building Funds
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.-—Georgia
cities included in the qublic buildings
bill introduced in the “House today
and the sumse carried for each are:
Savannah, -$650,000; Monroe,§ 40,000;
Rossville, $50,000; Winder, $5,000;
Thomaston, $5,000; Shasta, $5.000
Milier, $5.000; Jesup, $5,000; Macon,
$180,000; Dawson, $5,000; West Point,
$18,000; Sandersville, $30,000; Fort
Valley, $50,000; Waynesboro, $40,000
Ashburn, $5,000; Baxley, $5,000; Cairo,
$6,000; Blakely, $6,000; Commerce,
$5,000; Hawkinsville, SB,OOO, and
Jacksén, $5,000.
Navy of 131,485 Men
Now Is Recommended
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—A per
manent naval personnel of 131,485
enlisted men, with 6,000 apprentice
geamen, was recommended to the
Senate navel affairs committee to
day by a subcommittee appointed to
consider the personnel question. The
subcommittee also recommenged that
the navy be allowed 82,000 men as
temporary force for use in connec
tion Wwith its work with the shipping
board.
League o ions Mus
gue of Nat Must
Be More Than Merely
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A Pledge, 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 mueh more than
mere pledges between the constituents of the League Ofl
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 more intimate terms, they must have, |
for=affairs wider than their national affairs, a vomm(m;
legislature and a eommon tribunal. !
Now people can not have a common legislature zmd!
a common court of justice undess they have ('nmmoni
ideas of right and wrong, law and justice. They must |
have a common language, however its dialects may \'m'y:
from English to French and from German to Swmlish.{
CERTAIN NATIONS TO BE BARRED. f
They may have half a dozen different words for|
justice, or for wife, or for God, or for hongr, 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 compon action between people \\'hmk
believe in fifty gods, and make human saecrifices to
them, and people who believe in one god or in no god,;
will not work. !
People to whom women are mere breeding mttlo,f
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 criteise the.
(iovernment 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 his heart’s
content. Nations which can not intermarry without ai
strong sense of miscegenation will hardly arrive at laws
orverdicts by the same process of reasoning. I
The difficulty, then, in forming a League of Nations
is not to get every nation into it, but to keep the in-|
compatible nations out of it. Twelve years ago the most|
zealous claimant for admission to a League of N:ltinnsg
would have been the Czar of Russia, whose example|
would immediately have been followed by the l‘]mprvssi
of China and possibly the Lama of Thibet. |
Their admission would have pr«fiullu-«-d either mnn-é
plete paralysis of the League or clse such a r(-dnvtiun!
to absurdity as océurred in the Southern States of |
America after the Civil War, when the American vmnk?
was allowed to force heteregeneous white and black leg-|
islation and justice on the emancipated Slave States. |
LABOR MUST BE DEVELOPED. l
The anoment it is recognized that the League must
he founded on a basis of common ideas, common insti
tutions, common level of eivilization, and, generally and
ronghly, a common philosophy of life, it becomesappar
ent, first, that the materials 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 Rocky Mountains, and not further atield.
Its constituents must be either republies or consti
tutional monarchies in which the monareh has much
less personal power than an American President would
have if he were elected for life.
It mustthave a well developed labor movement, So
cialist movement, and scientific movement. And it
would have to be prepared for the formation of other
Leagues of Nations in the yellow world, the Indian
world, perhaps in the Slav world, and the Spanish-In
dian world. 4 ' ‘
[Tuman political society is iif solution; and it will
not erystallize into one solid lump for a long time yet,
The possibility of putting an end to war lies not
i in waiting for the one solid lump, but in the first League
heing so fomidable, and let us hope, so well intentioned
that no foreign League either dare or would attempt
such a monstrous and perilous enterprise as a war on it
would be. ’
LEAGUE NECESSARY TO PEACE.
’ With the ground of speculation thus cleared, we
can see quite plainly where we must begin,
l Without a League' between the United States
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President Sails From Brest With
Prestige Vastly Increased by
World League Victory.
French Newspapers Now _Freely
Admit Plan to Keep Peace Is
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Highly Practical and Simple.
L Si——
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—President
Wilson will take the Senate and
House foreign relations committees
into his confidence on the progress of
the peace conference at a dinner to ba
givein by him at the White House on
the evening of Wednesday, February
2, it was announced late this after
noon. o
(By Internaticnal News Service.)
BREST, FRANCE, Feb. 15.—Amidst
impressive scenes, President Wilson
sailed for the United States today
upon the Uner George Washington.
It was annnunced that he would
land at the port of Boston,
Cheered by a great multitude, the
President and Mrs, Wilson went on
board the vessel during the morning
and at 11:15 o'clock the ship weighed
anchor and steamed toward the open
sea, bringing to an end the first phase
of the historie visit of the first Ameri
can President tb set foot on French
soil.
The departure of the American ex
ecutive struck deeper into the publie
interest than otherwise would have
happened because his great victory in
the league of nations negotiations at
Paris was still fresh.
Accompanied by Leorat.
General Leorat, of the French
army, accompanied the presidential
party from Paris.
The train bearing the presidential
party pulled into the station bereath
a vast crane which had been used iuv:
unloading American war machineryg
from ships and past docks piled Ligh
with American equipment ready for
shipment home,
The presidential train left Paris in
two sections. The first section reached
Brest at 9:15 this morning. On (it
were Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D Roosevelt and Mrs,
Roosevelt, 40 doughboys, all of whom
were wounded in action, and 22 tele~
phone girls who operated the presi
dential wires during his stay in Paris.
The doughboyvs guarded the Murat
residence while the President was
there, and he decided to bring them
home wi'h him
The train arrived at 10:40, just 3§
minutes nefore salling times .
French Sailors on Guard.
F'rench sailors were drawn up on
the dock, making picturesque figures
with their white collars and red top
knots on their hats.
There were » gathering of American
officers of various ranks
General Helmick, commander of the
American base, and Prigadier General
Starbird, commander of the part, rep
resented the American units,
The French navy was represented
by Admiral Moreau anda a.saumber of
cflicers wearing numerous medals,
The red ribbhon of the Legion of
Honor was a conspicuous decoration.
A naval band plaved and trumpets
sounded as the party left the train
and boarded the ship.
When the train came to a halt a
French =ailor hurried forward bearing
newly constructed.steps made on pur-.
pose for the presidential party's use
while alightingz from the coach.
Band Plays American Air.
The band struck up “The Star-
Spangled Banner,” but there were
no cheers. President Wilson was first
to aligh followed by Mrs. Wilson.
Fverybod saluted Hurried fare
wells were said hefore the party
oarded the tender
Among those who wished godspeed
t othe Pre ient were Charles M.
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel
Caorporation, and Dr, 8. A. Brown, of
Bellevue Hospital, New York. They
Wil 18 on the ".‘.::*[in'.
A guard of honor, composed of sol
diers and sailors, was lined up on the
dock and stood rigidly at attention
while the President walked slowly by,
A group of movie men ground
ceaselessly at their machines, regis«
tering the historic scene
I'he streets leading to the {»-vr and
the crowning hills overlooking the
lock wers Ul filied with crowds,
Some cheered, others, touched by the
olemnity of the occasion, stood silent
ind uncovered Handkerchiefs slut«
tered from tha hands of women
Bougquet for Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs, Josephine Lewis, of Cinein«
nati, Ohio, in charge of the Red Cross
depot at Brest, presented Mrs, Wilson
with a beautiful bouquet of violets
and was graciously thanked, The only
other women on the dock were Miss
Beatrice Allen, of New York, and
Miss Florence Harrison, of Chicago,
All wore their Red Cross uniforms,
President Wilson saluted this little
group of women warmly as he passe
A IFrench sallor accompanied
party, carrying a 4 hugs yougquet :
roses with ribbon streamers attace
The party went out to the Geo
Washington on a French tender pil
with baggage That were U‘lln”‘.
Bags. s and ven piles of gol
clubs A French nay officer, Weaurs g
ing a gold-hilted sword, was &t the
wheol,
Waves Hat to Crowd.,
Onee on board the George Washs
ington, the President hurried to the
renr deck, where he removed his hat
nd waved genlally at the crowd om
the dock . 4
Soon the liner got under way and
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