Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 53, 11 January 1919 — Page 6

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Guarding the Public Safety

The collision of two pieces of Indianapolis fire

tinUHnrr anrtflrflt.us. resulting in the death of

Jltlbiug Mr r ' " brave firemen, suggests the advantage of apply

(J ing the principle of "Safety First" to the res

ponse of fire departments to fire calls. Speed is an essential in fighting fires. If the blaze can

be checked in its incipiency, the loss to property

will be correspondingly minimized. This is ax

iomatic in fire fighting and the principle on

which 'the whole theory of a fire departmeni,

rests. .

But the motorization of f xre apparatus nas

given the department a wonderful advantage over the old horse-drawn wagons, so that a maximum

efficiency is possible with respect to tne iime limit In fact the accident at Indianapolis shows

that entirely too much speed is ODtamaoie wivu the modern wagons and that the safety of the

firemen and the public is jeopardized by tne very aAvaMar thp new form of locomotion offers.

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A reasonable amount of consideration iur their own safety must be shown by firemen when v,v r-nnd with hieh power trucks to fire calls.

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Usually the streets are cleared or peuesinans uu tv,ioa hut this is never a certainty. The Ind

ianapolis catastrophe was caused by" two fire trucks and a pleasure vehicle. Speed was the

element that brought about the accident. A reduction in the speed rate to insure a reasonable

amount of safety for the firemen and also protection for vehicles and pedestrians would m nowise handicap the fire fighters in getting to a fire or increase the fire hazard.

Constantinople Presents Problem to Allies

Continued From Page One. i old rivalry will return. For half a centurythe Turk played the different powers of Europe against each other and thus maintained -his own existence and held on to the European provinces which he misgoverned and perlodically laid in waste. As an admini.ntnf Via Turk is Impossible. Nor

ran he lay claims to the shores of the Straits ond the Sea of Madmora, based upon race or self determination. Outside of Constantinople, the Greek is in the clear majority: within the city

Italy, all but Italy concede. Nowhere does Italian ambition seem more out of tune with contemporary Ideas than in the eastern Mediterranean, where Rome seeks to hold or to acquire vast territories which are Greek by every right one can cite. But conceding, as one must, that Greece should receive these gifts at Versailles which constitute an elimination ot her own Irredenta, granted that she must receive the Islands and the mainland in Asia Minor and Epirtis, by exactly the same logic that

Trieste and the Trentlno are to do ai-

S:oS the most 'considerable lotted to Italy, win the fiends of

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tnrlA element and tho luras

only a relatively small minority. An lone as the Turks hold Constan

tinople and the outlying districts, the

Eastern question win remain. Decause the Turk has for centuries displayed

Greece seek to 6addle upon this little nation the great responsibilities incident to the possession of Constantinople and the guardianship of the Straits? This would mean to put

Greece between two fires, that grow

tinople. there remains only the question of Albania to be settled. Today this Is leu difficult than It waa when the Conference of London wrestled with.' it In 1912 and the peace of Europe hung upon the ultimate agreement or alliances over the ultimate disposition

of Ipek and Jacova. v .

There Is an Albanian race, oui mem is no Albanian nation and there never has hen. The Albanians inhabit the

show of the Adriatic from Monionegro j

to Epirus. But they are divioeo ny

religion Into three separate group, the MohammedanB, the Roman Catholics and the Greek Catholics. The Roman Catholics In the north have been long manipulated by the Austrian, who sought to use them to block the Serb roadway to the sea. The Mohammedans in the centre have supplied the Turk with his best and most trusted soldiers until very recent years. The Greeks on the south have been divided between Hellenic and Italian sympathies. Albania is Makeshift. Albania, as created in 1912, was nothing more than a makeshift. Austria wanted to keep the Serbs from the sea, Italy wanted to curb Greek

aspirations in Epirus, France, Britain

and Russia, although in sympatny wun the Serbs and the Greeks were unwill

ing to fight to permit them to realize their ambitions and Germany, although

standing behind Austria and Italy, was not yet ready to have the World War break and therefore seconded Sir Ed

ward Grey in his effort to find a compromise, this compromise was the ridiculous state of Albania, which had for a brief time as its ruler William of Wied. who latterly had his capital

on an Austrian warship and promptly disappeared as the World War began. Serbia and Greece had agreed to divide Albania, the portion north of the Skumbi to be Serb, the portion south tn b Greek. But today Serbia is less

Rumania, perhaps the most important j interested in the , Albanian problem

single strategic point in tne worm. 8lnce a8 a portion 01 jugo-siavia sne it has been the center of more Strug-! 8 assured of an outlet on the sea. Unthan anv other noint. ! nneaf ionablv the old Serb' Claim to

life

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unuea spates, wnicu id uui v : ,SM, ,,0ir vonriet- . v... v... atrorv i trihal harhanam. with their venaei

pledge made to her own peoples and the world. New Eastern Question. If Dalmatia falls to Hay in whole or inpart, it Italy Insists upon the possession ot Flume and of Cattaro, if she prevents Greece from regaining Epirus and reoccupying Rhodes and the other Aegean Islands, then there

Is a beginning of a new jsasiern qu

tas and grudges, could ever alone rise , to unity or achieve order. But this! must be the sole warrant for Italian occupation, suffcient, but to be accepted Bince it does not do violence to new ideals, as would Italian occupation of Dalmatia or indirect control of Epirus. In its last phase, the Eastern question remains as troublesome as ever. Russia is tone. Austria is gone; and

tion.. Neither the Greeks nor me irrance, uniam uu ur.u, Slavs will ever accept as final such a longer any direct connection with the solution. As the Southern Slav state Straits, yet there still survives tilts -nw. .tmnr and it will, the peril ot : ancient menace, the only clear threat

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of i And. by tie way. nas any one

to ask why the peace coniereu nnt hine held in that lovely marble

tmngalow Uncle Andy built at The

aAtti hv the occunation and admin

isratlon of Constantinople by some international force, then there" would be

ail end of the plottings ana buitoss of various nations to control this warAMrav tho nutlet of Russia and

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no capacity for assimilation or organ-1 ing out oi iwau -

iry.a )ia ffonamnnicai limus 01

such a state would be, remains problematical. It might be wise to permit Bulgaria to reoccupy Adrianople and return to the Enos-J'ldia Line, thus finding some solace for the termination of her hopes in Macedonia. Europe accepted such a solution after the first Balkan War, but Bulgaria threw away her gains, when she risked the second and Turkey took advantage of Bulgarian defeat to return to her lost citadel.

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bound to come, if Russia ever regains unity and strength. Claims Unwise.

To nie. the claims of Greece to Con

ization; he has merely camped in Europe, he has pitched his tent amidst the surviving monuments of Byzantium and there he has lived and

awaited the inevitable hour when he j 8tantinople, as well as to the Bulgar

wnulri be evicted ana seni on.. m i-n ehnrA teem sound enoueu in us-

Asia, whence he came and where alone , tJcei but unwjse in fact. At all there is hop for him in th futur. To event3 it would be unwise to press leave Constantinople to the Turk, j them now. Nothing is more certain therefore would be merely to postpone . tnan tnat an internationalized Con- ( the settlement of the Eastern question j stanUnople will at no distant time beI as it has been postponed so many j f:ome a Hellenic city once more. The I times before to the great disaster of j Greek element is very great, there are f the world. more Greeks in Constantinople than

Greek Solution. in Athens, tne departure oi me ium

Tho Greek solution is more appealing. It is the demand of the Greeks

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that they be permitted to extend their

frontiers to inrlude all the Aegean coast left to Bulgaria in 1913, the lower valley of the Maritza and the shores of the Sea of Maramora, the

which will draw to it the Armenians of Constantinople, will leave the

Greeks masters ot the situation, despite the fact that they are citizens of an internationalized state. In all human probability the ultimate fate of Constantinople will be to

shores of the Black Sea as far north j become a Dart of a new Greek world,

as Mldia and the Asiatic shore of the it i3 not an idle dream to imagine that

Straits, tho Sea of Marmora and the

mainand of Asia Minor, including Smyrna, with all the isands of the Aegean Sea. This would mean the restoration of the Byzantine Empire, which has been a Greek dream for long centuries. On the whole this arrangement would not do violence to the principles of self-determination and it would follow the tradition of this region, which has been Hellenic since the beginning of history. Yet the difficulties are many. Greece is a small state, with a limited population and a small revenue. She would be called upon to defend her new territories against the Bulgarian,

'who would never permanently consent to be deprived of all Aegean seacoast, hers by the fruits of the first

Balkan war, since without this she would be cut off from access to the open sea and placed at the mercy of the Greeks. Even the Greek possession of Constantinople would be open at once to Bulgar and Rumanian challenge and- ultimately to Russian, if Russia ever regains her strength. That Greece should have the west)ern shore of Asia Minor in consideri able part is conceded by all, save the Italians, who are rivals for this inheritance without any. claim founded upon modern principles. That Greece should have the Islands of the Aegean, which are as Greek as Sicily is Italian, all but the Italians agree. That Northern Epirus, also Hellenic, should fall r to Greece and not to that Albania 'state which is to be a protectorate of

there will be a vapid and enormous Hollpnie renaissance, when both sides

of the Aegeans and all the islands are joined to that Greek state which has already pushed far north in the Balkan Peninsula reclaiming much of the Macedonia of Alexander the Great. A few years of peace and the Greeks will do the rest, they are the traders of this region, they have the commercial aptitudes and the traditional mastery of this market and even under the Turk they have retained it. This is what the Italians perceive and this is the explanation of the Italian effort to curb Greek aspirations on all sides, in Epirus in the Aegean, on the mainland of Asia Minor. But these Italian efforts deserve complete defeat,

it would be a crime to give Sardinia and Sicily to Spain or to Britain just

as it was a crime to deprive Italy of

Trieste and the Trentino. There is

nothing, that can be said for Italy with resDect to her Irredenta that

cannot be said with equal emphasis

for Greece in her Irrendenta. International Control. .There remains the third solution, that of international control, and I believe this will be the solution adjusted. But even here the task will not be easy. International control has never proved happy. It was a failure wherever tried in Turkey, it can succeed now, only if there is a new spirit in tho world and a new atmosphere of trust between the nations. But if the Eastern Question could be

Gallipoli on the northern shore, with its evil memories will have to be included in the now international Ktate us well as the whole Asiatic

shore from the Black Sea to the Plain"

of Troy, with one or two of the sman islands near the mouth of the Dardanelles, notably Tenedos, but this would in reality, mean only a very small

state, little more than a tmn iacaae facing the vital waterways, ut including Constantinople. Back of it the population is Turkish, Brusa, the old capital of the Osmanlis, perhaps their new headquarters, if they retire to Asia Minor is within sight of the Sea of Marmora.Further south, facing Sreece. ?yrna and a considerable area, including the many peninsulas and islands and a fairly extended hinterland from Hytilene to Rhodes, should be Greek.

Here dwell something like two millions of Greeks and behind them is a population once Hellenic and still preserving the Greek tradition. In this way

there would be created a new Greece of from eight to ten millions of people, while by abandoning its aspirations for Byzantium, this new state with ancient memories would avoid the great perils which must come to any small country holding the gateway by which large states would advance. The history of Belgium is perhaps the best argument against Greek possession of Constantinople at the present time. But the Greek claim may be placed on file and it. is far from improbable that in due time the inheritance may return to the Hellenes. Single Sound Solution. International control of Constantinople and the Straits is, then, the

single sound solution of the Eastern

Scutari will be pressed, probably the Serbs will ask that the valley of the

Drin be the northern frontier of Albania, instead ot the eccentric frontiers traced at London, but this is relatively a minor point To the south the difficulty is larger. Italy desires to organise al of Albania as a protectorate, this desire may be

realized at Versailles, but having mis purpose, Italy seeks to make Albania as big as possible and she is Insisting on retaining for it Northern Epirus, which is Greek, desires to join New Greece and was happy In Hellenic existence in the present war, before Constantinaple chose the German course and well nigh ruined his nation. ' Plan Italian Post.' At Valona in Albania, which, faces

Brindisl and overlooks the Straits of

Otranto. Italy plans to erect a great

naval post, which will, in reality be

the Gibraltar of the Adriatic, in doing this she wishes to push Greek frontiers as far away from this naval port as possible. This is the practical reason for her demand that the Greeks abandon their claims to Northern Epirus. But the demand is unreasonable and it is to be hoped that it will not be honored at Versailles. Argyrocastro, Tepelleni, Devino, Santi, Quaranta, Korytaa, these .towns, wholly Greek in eympahy should be returned to the new Hellas.

Two weeks ago I poined out the clash between the Slavs and the Italians over the Dalmatian coast. It will be seen that in the lower Adriatic and in the Aegean, it is the Greeks who have reason and just reason to complain of Italian imperial

istic aspirations. One must sincerely hope that Italy will not too much urge claims which do violence to her own history and ner own aspirations as expressed in half a century of longing for Trieste and the Trentino. If she earns the lasting hostility of both the

Southern Slavs and the Greeks, she will lay up trouble for herself and for Europe," which can hardly be exaggerated. Jugo-Slav Dispute. At this point, 1 should like to correct an error in one of the previous articles, which gave cause to a certain friendly criticism in Serb and Jugo-Slav quarters. There are, as I then pointed out, three separate statements which affect the Jugo-Slav and

Italian dispue. The first is the argument between Italy and her allies, France, Britain and Russia, which preceded Italian entrance into the war. This assigned to Italy substantially the territory she has occupied as resul of the terms of the armistice and included northern Dalmatia.

This agreement was never accepted ;

by the Slavs, it was made over their heads and against their rights and interests. In refusing to accept it now, as they do, they are not repudiating an agreement made by them but one which disposed of their lands and peoples without their consent or agreement. Certainly such an agreement can have no binding force for the United States and it, does violence to all the principles expressed in Presi

dent Wilson's many utterances.

Adriatic Problem Troublesome. In addition to this agreement of London, is that of Corfu, made between the various tribes of the Jugoslavs and arranging for an association betwen these tribes, including the Serbs of Montenegro and Serbia. This is the basis lor the new Jugo-Slavic state, which has ben constructed in very recent days. But this agreement did not surrender any of the Slav

claims to Adriatic coast lands. Finally there is a Delphic utterance at Rome last Spring, which committed Italy to nothing but sympathy with the Slav aspiration for a united nation and to a rather indefinite recognition of the principle of self-determination and the claims of race and language in settling the disputes between Italians and Slavs. But this was, as my Slav friends point out, purely Platonic and has not yet embodied in any definite document, nor has the concession made in language been made in fact, as yet by the Italian Government. I have said and I repeat that this problem ot the Adriatic, with that of

nrnifiut will InrrnaaA and Italy, in

self defense will lead to Intrigue with the Bulgars and perhaps with the Rus

sians, seeking to gam aines agmuai the Slavs and the Greeks. Then at no distant time we shall-see the old dis

ease breaking out again. The true solution lies in the sacrifice by Italy ot aspirations inconsist

ent with the new period, aspiration

fmiirht with evil consequences, requir

ing large armies and a strong fleet to vindicate and certain to be submitted to a new decision of arms at the first opportunity. American sympathy with

Italy is very keen, we snail nave many opportunities in the future to serve the Italians, who will have real need

ot our assistance financially and otnerwise in regaining lost prosperity, but it should be perfectly plain to the Italian statesmen as it is becoming plain to the Italian people that American sympathy in the present dispute is with the Slavs and the Greeks and not with the Italians. . s American Aid Needed. If only the Eastern question can be

settled in accordance with rignt ana Justice. If the Rumanians, the Southern Slavs and the Greeks can have their rights recognized, if Constantinople can be placed under international control and Bulgaria at last removed as a breeding place of war and re

venge, then there will be sound reason tor hoping that the peace of Versailles will endure. But if the spirit of Vienna and of Berlin is again manifested, If the Greeks and the Southern Slavs are sacrificed as the Poles were sacrificed, with the Italians at Vienna aftd the Rumanians, Bulgars and Greeks at Berlin, then there will be enduring cause tor disappointment. In Albania, Italy can find a wide field for her effort. She has Mm&n-

ians among her subjects at home; in

gaining Valona she will establish her .

maaiery Ul llic nuuaui;, auu uuuci her wise direction the old prosperity

of lllyria may return. Albanian pro

to a successful accommodation Of conflictinK interests. And in the nature

of things this is precisely the sort of Droblems which American advice

can help most to solve, if that advice is wise an dsi not influenced by the real but dangerous predilcUon in

Washineton for Bulgarian claims

claims which have no solid foundation and have been forfeited by two

treacherous atacks upon neighboring states at the moment when an honorable settlement was assured.

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SOME UNUSUAL LADIES. Sir I see, according to the want ad. department of your paper, that

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sale; "a solid gold lady s ring nu "a diamond lady's solitaire." l Note also a reference to a "corrugated paper man." ' Would suggest that the corrugated paper man select one of these ladies for a wife. The blue serge woman would perhaps be more fitting than the solid gold woman or the diamond woman. E. N. GRAVES.

Germans will now begin to take the American occupation seriously. Pershing has cut down on their supply of beer. . v Thus the greatest blow of the war comes with peace.

Hague? - Norman Hapgood oelleves Wilson can dictate peace and Col. George Harvey doesn'L Move those two gentlemen bo allowed to light It ont with mustard flUed adjectives and poison gas adverbs to the finish. May they both win. 1 Count von Bernstorff is "not In favor of shooting the kalser.M Neither are we. There ain't no such animal. But as for Herr Hohenzollern that's dif

ferent In other words, the resignation of Mr. Creel was slightly exaggerated.

Something more to make the New Year

happy. Market report says storage eggs are scarce. But they wlU never be scarce enough. Beats all where people win keep their farms these days. Sign on Walden avenue, Buffalo:

"For Sale Farn Upstairs." Count Hohenzollern doubtless longs for those comparatively painless days when he was having those famously pleasant chats with his American dentist.

STOMACH UPSET?

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the Greeks, finally arranged within boundaries which are based upon right and justice, with Bulgaria, the one disturbing factor, finally eliminated as a factor of harm, since she will no longer' be able to meet any one of the other states in single combat, the Eastern question may disappear and the unhappy people of the Balkans at least, after centuries of suffering, be able to begin a new life, possessing at least the opportunities of prosperity and liberty so long denied them alike by their Turkish masters and by rival Jealousies of the Great Powers, in their own hands. Apart from the problem of Conftan-

lesome of the material questions to be settled at Versailles only the Polish complications are comparable in potential obstacles. As it stands, Italian asperations contemplate doing violence to the legitimate ambitions of two small peoples, the Southern Slavs and the Greeks. Behind the Italian purposes lies the sanction of France, Britain and Russia, which was given at the critical hour when it was necessaril to pay any price to persuade Italy to nlist. But however, the governments "inay be bound, it U clear that 1pth ti British and the Frenrh ninnk stOngly OPPOSe the

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