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The King Age Is Gone.
Two Photographs from Russia,
The News Is in Them.
Misinformation Abundant.
~~~~ By Arthur Brishbane -
IRNARD SHAW'S latest ar-
B ticle on the war, ifs causes
and effects proves that this
Irish B.rltisher sees the world, in
cluding his own corner of it, more
clearly than other men. With his
“clear vision he combines a power
.of | expression that no living writer
equals. Compare his present pow
erful writings, for instance, with
Rudyard Kipling’s few feeble es-.
forts, and you see what staying
power Shaw possesses as compared
with other men. o
For those who believe in govepn
ernment by a republic there is deep
interest in a few paragraphs by
Shaw making clear the fact that
this world, which was repubnlican
only in spots when the war began,
and royalist almost everVwhere, is
now royalist only in spots, feeble
spots at that, and republican, or
revolutionary almost everywhere.
Two great facts should be 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 follow what he says in: his
presegqt brilliant series of articles
is to neglect oprortunity. 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.”
Whén The Hohenzollerns and
Hapsburgs 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 contemptuous kingdoms,
menaced by legitimist pretenders
within and hostile courts without,
to a continent in which a handful
of minor royalties, 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 ecitizens. The
British throne alone held steady,
not without earnest professions
that it was only “a crowned re
public” after all, being able to sup
port that plea by pointing to the
steady'gmwth 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 Burope has not assimi
lated it yet.
Our small boys read about the
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age,
and are told that it is impo#&sible
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 today may say truly
that they saw the death of the
King Age.
That this country, its self-satis
filed newspaper writers and states
men may have seriously misunder
stood and undeérestimated 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 recently pursu
ing Allled troops, including our
own, through the swamps in the
north. The Times puts this line
under th{ photograph:
*Flower of the Bolshevist armvy,
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
éo'fltht. and mean to win. You can
imagine such faces in the Revolu
tionary Army of France that car-
Hod'thory everywhere—and gave
Napoleon his reputation when he
got hold of them.
If the Bolshevists have many
such troops ag The Times photo
graph shows, look out for such an
army. It will not be beaten easily,
(Given the right leaders it will not
be beaten at all—as long as It stays
at home and fights for home.
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Another photograph, published by
The Times, carries this line be-
Jow it: ’
“Muscovite boys and girls are
taught by the Bolsheviki in free
classes-of instruction “to handle the
rifle skillfully as a requirement for
graduation.”
The photograph shows two long
Mmes of boys and girls of the high
school age, one row kneeling, the
second standing back of it. Al
have rifles leveled and evidently
know how to hold and use them.
The faces are concentrated, keen,
full of force. The young women
mn! btgn.look that seems to
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THE WEATHER
Georgia: Fair Sunday and Monday;
little change in temperature.
VOL. V. NO. 45
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Every Section of State to Cut
Acreage One-Third and Hold
Present Crop.
Bankers, Farmers and Business
Men United for Diversified
Farm Products.
By VICTOR BARRON.
The agitation for a tremendous re
duction in this year’s cotton acreage
and the "continuance of the present
holding movement of cotton, is taking
deep root throughout Georgia. 5;
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 called for a reduction of
23173 per cent in this year's acreage,
for the 'use_of less fertilizer, and for
holders of };mt <'uttnnfi to stand pat
for not less than 35 cents a pound.
The meetings were largely attended
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 gamblers and consumi
ing interests and~the challenge has
been fully accepted,
v It is 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
ers, 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 “Wisenheimoers”
when the Gevernment's acreage estil
mate is issued this spring.
Farmers Are Determined.
It is claimed by those attacking the
cotton 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
down 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 vield at least
9,000,000 bales of spinnable cotton and
bring the South just as much money
as a 16 £OO,OOO-bale crop.
Cotton Famine Threatened.
With the world already facing a
famine in ecotton, another meagegr
vield will create a “genuine famine in
the staple, and when the embargo
finally is removed from exports to
enemy and neuiral countries a wild
scramble for 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:
Two thousand Upson farmers and
business men gathered at the court
house at Thomson Saturday, pledg
ing themselves to reduce the cotton
acreage one-third and hold the pres
ent crop 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 year on all crops 0 per
cent; raise all food and feed for our
selves and live stock; hold our pres
ent crop of cotton now on hand for
306 cents; orgamize each school and
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Officer Killed B
As Planes Crash
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5,000 Feet in Air
(By International News Service.)
IAMI, FLA., Feb, 15.—1 n a
§ M collision between two air
s ! planes 5,000 feet in the air }
%nne man was killed and anotheré
injured, probably fatally, at the |
E marine flying field here today. ‘E
{ The dead man is Second Lieuten- |
é:mt Edwara Cain, of }‘.ullimore.;
¢ Corporal John Zeree, acting as his é
f mechanic, was injured. The Cain 2
‘svnuohinn was doing a tail spin §
$ when it came down on top of a 3
! machine piloted by Tieutenant 5
5 William Bertholet. §
?. Both machines fell. . Lieutenant é
¢ Bertholet, however, made a suc- !
éwssful landing, though one wing |
$ of his machine was broken. 2
? Lieutenant Cain had just re- {
k'm‘ived his honorable ('S\fh:ll‘gfi‘?
§ from the marine corps and was !
making a final flight before going ¢
to his home. It was Corporal Ze- ?
i lee’s first, trip in the air as a me- E
? chanie. ¢
ASHEVILLE, N. .., Feb. 15.—Offi
cials at the Department of Justice at
Washington have 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 Jot
pleased by this tardy manifestation
of apprgciation. @'nless he Changes
his mind, 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 his
resignation at once.
S. Glenn Young is the man who
captured, single-handed, the Crawley
boys in the mountains of Georgia last
week. Almost immediately following
the safe delivery of his three prison
ers to the Federal authorities at At
lanta he wus dismissed by the De
partment of Justice. The reason
given fqr this dismissal was Mr.
Ycung's failure to hold prisoners,
some eighteen in number, at the point
of capture until he had received au-i
thority from Washington to move
them. He had exercised his own
judgment to the extent of paying out
of hig own pocket some SSOO or s£6oo
in railroad fares in order to take his
prisoners to a safe place.
Mr. Young resents the interference
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 wantfl
ed, especially when he is willing to
pay the fare himself and await the
Government’s own good timge to re-‘
imburse him.
BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 15.—Police
Scout Officer W. D. Evans, and Al
bert Brown, a negro, wearing sho‘unh
form of an army officer, are dead, and
Policeman W, A. Phillips lies mor
tally wounded, as the result of a pistol
cduel between the officers and the
regro in o lonely spot on the outskirts
of the city today. There were no wit
nesses.
At police headquarters it was sald
that Phillips and Evans were on
“scout duty” in the section of the
city known as West End and that
they were on watch for “bootleg
gers” who are said to make a prae
tice of dropping from incoming trains
in the suburbs and walk into town
later with their liguor,
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 ¢lose to the heart.
Az Ivans fell morfally wounded
his prisoner broke away and escaped
into the darkness, HBrown turned his
revolver upon Phillips, his first shot
striking the offiicer in the chest just |
below hig heart, The policeman, how
ever, stood his ground and fired with
#uch 'good aim that his three shots
struck the negro in the head, killing
him instantly. It was stated by hos
pital authorities tonight that Phil
lipg who retently became a member
of the department on his discharge
from the army, might recover. Evans
died at midnight. Phillips, after be
ing shot, crawled nearly a quarter
of a mile toward some houses in an
effort to give the alarm.
Palice parties are scouring the
sparsely settled district where the
shooting took place in the hope of lo
cating the negro who escaped fl'om;
Evans. | |
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Suffs’ on ‘Prison Special’
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- Tour Country for Voles
(By Universal Service,) |
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15—~The Na
tlonal Woman's Party “Prison Spe
cial? with twenty-six women aboard,
il “graduates” of District of Colum
bia jails, left \\':mhlnfg!un tonight at
9 o'clock for a tour of the country In
the interest of “Votes for Women.”
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY. 16, 1919.
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Willing to Accept Arbitration and
| Reduce Armaments if All Other
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REFUSE TO TAKE ALL BLAME
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By H. J. GREENWALL, 1
Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London ‘
Daily Express.
WEIMAR (via Berlin and Londnn.!
Feb. 15).—The German people are‘
prepared to submit to restrictiens of
sovereignty involved in the leuguo‘
of nations plan, including lnt«rna-‘
tional arbitration and retsriction of
armaments, providihg our enomieg‘}
and future neighbors do the same,
declared Count von Bmckdm’fr-}
Rantzau, new German Foreign Se(‘-;
retary, in a speech td the national
assembly “today. ' |
. “We do not recognize that Ger
many was solely responsible for the
‘war and alon:» was guilty of bar-}
barous methods of warfare. (ler-(
many has charges prepared ofi
schemes of warfare lasting over
years and coneerning atrocities we
are prepared to 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 Jictors.
| Count Brockdorff-Rantzau declar
ed that Germany is ready to make
good the war damages. by free labor.[
fbut 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. “Hence peace must
be not only political but economiec.”
The Foreign Secretary expressed
the belief that the Allies should drop
the economic decisions reached in
1616,
‘We can not be surprised if, as a
result of the conclusions of the
peace conference, we are treat®l as
pariahs,” continued the Foreign Sec
cetary. \
Impartiality Chalenged.
“We may suffer from vyiolence 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 anly 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
cided by impartial authorities and
proposed to grant the Poles free ac~
cess to the Baltic without yielding
up the port of Dantzig.
mouthpiece,
President Ebert today said 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 business will probably compel
a compromise which will result in
the President taking the Chancellors’
oflicial residence as his place of
abode.
Hindenburg Proposed
As German President
(By Universal Service.)
WEIMAR, Febh. 15.~—Prince Hemry,
of Prussia, the ex-Kaiser's only
brother, is continuing his campaign
}in behalf of Count Hohenzollern. In
‘un appeal to Field Marshal von Hin
denburg to “accept” the presidency
of the German republie, the *‘inwé
]suys it 1s “shameless to demahd that
Wilhelm be delivered to execution”
After dwelling on this “insult so
humiliating to Cermany,” he appeals
to all to join the “League for the
Igeedom of the Kaiser's Life,” in or
dér to spare the German people an
“everlasting disgrace.” |
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U. 8. Troops in Russia 1
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 inter-Allied war couneil,
Secretary of War Baker this after
noon told Representative Doremus,
heading the Michigan delegation in
Congress which prgsented a petition
signed by 100,000 residénts. 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 constant touéh
with them.
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. BELFAST, Feb, 15.—Thousands of
striking workmen paraded the streets
of the city today in a drizziing rain
storm. As a vresult of ominious
threats, the officers on leave were
recalled to their barrvacks today. ‘
General Walkout Ordered in Sym
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pathy With Carpenters’ Un
ion in New York.
Atlanta Organization Expecting
Call—Between 8,000 and
10,000 Involved Here.
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb. li--A general
sympathetic strike of 250,000 workers
in the building trades engaged on
contract work for the Building 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 action of the executive council
followed a controversy lasting for
several weeks between the New York
Building Trades Employers' Associa
ticn and the Carpenters’ Union. The
carpenters went on strike, demanding
a wage increase of $1 a day. Last
Thursday the basic trades declared a
sympathetic strike, but a truce was
established and the ecarpenters re
turned to work. The time limit of
the truce expired this afternoon and
the carpenters walked out again.
The ‘executive council was presided
over by John D, Donlin, of Washing
ton, D, C. The members present were
George Hedrick, representing the
painters; William J McSorley, of the
wood and wire metalllc 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 unions,
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 aggregale
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 been
received from the national building
trades department officials by the lo
cal organization, but the gencral
strike call was not unexpected, It
has been known in labor ecircles Tor
some time that trouble was brewing
between the Building Trades Employ
ers' Association and the organized
workers on account of the supposed
intention of the employe}s 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 on
the point of an open bhreak between
the Atlanta Builders' Exchange mem
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 was
the International Brotherhood of
Eleetrical Workers, which still main
tains a strike against siX or eight
electrical contraciors hecause 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 exs
pressed by Willlam Pollard, business
agent of the Building Trades Coun
cil. He sald that thousands of other
workers depended for emplovment on |
the continuation at work of the ore
ganized erafts, and hinted that there
was a strong possibility that many of
the miscellaneous trades would w:ulk‘
wut in sympathy if the builders went
out.
The principal organizations repre
sented in the council are the carnen
ters, electrical workers, plumbers, |
bricklayers, plasterers, sheet m'»ml}
workers, stone cutters, stationary |
engineers, lathers and a number of]
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 offi
clal advices from their head offices
before taking definite action. Tt was!
not helleved by union offieials closely
in touch with the sghipbuilding trades
at Savannah and other Southeastern
shipyards that the strike would affect
the shipworkérs at all, ‘
DANISH SHIP SEARCHED, ‘
DUBILIN, Feb., 15, -~Three men, wlm‘
declared they “were acting in the name
of the Irish Republic’’ searched the
Danish nhlx Sostrace for arme at Cork
Falling to find any they imprisoned the
captain and crew.
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League of Nations Must
" Be More Than Merely
- 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 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 more intimate terms, they must have,
for affairs wider than their national affairs, a common
legislature and a commen tribunal.
Now people ean not have a common legislature and
a common court of justice unless theyv have common
ideas of right and wrong, law and justice. They must
have a common language, however its dialeets 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. , N
Attempts at’ common action between people who
believe in fifty gods, and make 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 punigh
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 his heart’s
content. Nations which can not intermarry without a
strong sense of miscegenation will hardly arrive at laws
or verdicts by the same process of reasoning.
The diffieulty, then, in forming a League of Nations
is not to get every nation into it, but to keep the in
compatiblé nations out of it. Twelve years ago the most
zealous elaimant 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 sueh a reduction
to absurdity as oceurred in the Southern States of
America after the Civil War, when the American erank
was allowed to foree heterogeneous white and black leg
islation and justice on the emancipated Slave States,
LABOR MUST BE DEVELOPED.
The moment it is recognized that the League must
he 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 materials for a Legegue of which the
British Empire and the United States are to be eon
stituents are to be found between the Carpathians and
the Rocky Mountains, and not further afield. ‘
Its constituents must be either republies or ¢onsti
tutional monarchies in which the monagreh has mueh
less personal power than an American President would
have if he were elected for life.
It must have 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 vellow world, the Indian
world, perhaps in the Slav world, and the Spanish-In
dian world. '
Human political society is in solution; and it will|
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
heing so fomidable, and let us hope, so well intentioned
that no foreign League either dare or would :m,vmpf
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.
Without a League between the United States
i Continued an Paga 2. Column 1.
(Copyright, 1913, by the
Georgian Company.)
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President Sails From Brest Sate
~urday and Is Expected to Land
in U, S. February 24, o
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League Plan To Be Explained td
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Congress Committees at White -
House Dinner February 26.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb., 15.—RPagerig
discussed in every circle of Washe
ington privately, public views on the
world’'s greatest political experiment,
a league of nations, are astoundingls®
scarce
Interpretation of the meanings of
‘the 26 articles which constitute the
great document through sPnato!‘!fl‘
debate, planned today, was postponed,
because Senators frankly are not yeg
certain of their own knowledge of it,
and then all chance of congressional
debate upon it was cut off by a ca< :
blegram from President Wilson ta4
members of the Senate committee ony
foreign relations and the House come
mittee on foreign affairs.
News of the President’s cablegrand
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 Bostom
probably February 24. It is expected
that in his Boston speech he will
make his first public utterance in this
country regarding the draft of the
constitution for the world league.
Wilson to Give Dinner.
The President’'s cablegram te thé
members of the two committeed
asked them to dine with him in the
White House upon his return to
Washington-—the dinner has been ar«
ranged for the evening of February
26-—and in it the President said:
“I request that I be permitted to go
over with vou, article by article, the
constitution before this part of the
work isgnade the subject of debate of
Congress.”
Administration leaders were franke«
ly pleased at this excuse for decline
ing to comment upon it, and Repub4
lican Senators were in doubt as te
Just what course they will follow.
Whether the whole question is To
become a partisan matter is one of
lh:: things they are discussing among
themselves, although some Senatord
-—~Sherman, Borah and others—arg
known to oppose the idea. For the
first time in its history the Capitol
was not sure of itself undkvllling d
give opinions and interpretations and
to deduce results.
Thus President Wilson himself wily
have the first say as to just what the
constitution means when he speaks
in Boston
Will Go to People.
This conclusion is reached becausd
he evidently does not plan to comd
directly to Washington, and it id
known he has planned to lay the
whole case for the league of nationd
before the people, With congres4
sional debate, and speculation shuf
off, the public will gain its knowledge
of the subject from first-hand
SoLreces
In his cablegram the Presiden§
said ’
Last night the concwaittes of the
confefence charged wli® the duty of
drafting constitution %4 B leagud
of nations concluded its work and
this afetrnoon before leaving for the
United States! It is to be my privilege
and duty to read to a plenary session
of the conference the text of the 28
articles agreed upon by the commitd
tee ,
“The committea which drafted
these articles was fairly repersentas
tive of the world. Besides the rep«
resentatives of the United Statesy
Great Britain, France, [taly and Ja«
pan. wgpregentafives of Belgium, Sers
bia, 'Qm... Greece, Roumania, Czes
cho-Slovakia, Poland, Brazil and Pora #
tugal actively "participtaed in the des
bates und assisted materially in the
drafting of the constitution
Changed His Plans.
‘Fach article was passed only aftes
the most careful examination by each
member of the committee, There i
a good and sufMclent reason for the
phrascology and substance of each
article I request that I bg permit<
ted to go over with you, article b 9
article, the constitution before this
part of the work of the conference i
made the subject of febate of Con«
gress, With thig in view, I n-,qumg:
that you dine with me at %IU Whit
House as soon after 1 arri®e in the
United States as my engagementy
permit.”
President Wilson's plan to land i
Bostofi only became known today
when it was cabled from France. 1
Is known that he had planned to lan
at Hampton Roads, trans-ship to they
Mayflower, the presidential yacht, \ ,
canm‘u,d ‘Dmtb_éfii