Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 91, 25 February 1919 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAMTUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1919.

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Four U. Si Divisions to Leave Army of Occupation in the spring. , 1 : j . .

COBLENZ. Feb. 25. The approximate dates of the departure for home Of ' two national nurd and tvn mat.

ional army divisions, comprising half the American Army of Occupation,

were announcea today at Third Army headquarters. ' The thirty-second division and the forty-second (or Rainbow) division will leave about April 25, and the eighty-ninth and ninetieth divisions of the national army during June. According to the plan the places of the departing divisions will be taken by three regular army divisions. The force of occupancy then will consist of. the first, second, third, fourth.

fifth, sixth and seventh divisions of

regulars.. - v.-; ; Details for the departure of the men by-way of the Rhine and Holland' are being worked out. - - ; The thirty-second division is made up of men from Michigan and Wisconsin. The forty-second .'division comprises national guardsmen, .from all sections of the union. The eighty- " ninth division . was recruited in Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebras- ( ka, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona and the ninetieth in Texas - and Oklahoma. , , ,

LEAGUE MUST

Continued From Paae One. subject races as cannon fodder of conguest' .."' ; ., . . . , Today Germany has been beaten but . on. all edges of the German sea are these various races, Poles, Czechs, .Roumanians and Southern. Slavs. Unless the conference at Paris . can achieve for this block of nearly fifty millions of people independence, security, time to organize, Germany will destroy them as one eats an artichoke, leaf by leaf. ' At the present moment, Poland Is practically isolated, assailed on all sides, and ' until terms of the new armistice were proclaimed facing immediate threat of German invasion. At the same time Bohemian Czechoslovaks are confronted with probably the union of the German provinces of Austria with Germany, which will -leave their own state almost an island in the German sea, without economic

outlet, and it Is also confronted by difficulties raised ' by some three millions of Germans within its own frontier. The Southern Slavs are engaged In a bitter battle with the Italians, who possess their own sea coast; and Roumanla finds herself still unable to escape the menace of the Hungarians, who for centuries have held millions of Roumanians in terrible bondage and still resist the liberation of their slaves If we can at Paris create a strong Poland to mount guard over the Vistula, against German expansion and penetration of Russia, If we can erect to the south a ' strong Bohemia, an advance sentinel of the Near East, and two strong states of Roumanla nd of Jugo-Slavia, Joined in alliance with a greatly Increased

Greece, we shall have automatically abolished most of the hopes of German imperialism, both in the direction of Russia and in ; the direction of Asia Minor. ;' ; Show Great Progress. But all this the Germans saw long ago. When they had broken down Russia, they began at once to create fragments of states and to Involve these fragments of states in difficulties with each other. ; They stimulated the Bolshevik movements against Poland, they incited the Ukraniansto demand Cholm and Lemberg, and, to the north, they fomented jealousy between the Lithuanians and the Poles. In the meantime, when they had lost the war and the Allies had mounted guard upon the Rhine, they transferred their armies to the eastward and undertook to attack and crush Poland. Poland and Bohemia, in the nature of things, are practically isolated from the Allied world: Both have made remarkable progress in the direction of achieving unity and cohesion, but neither one of them is capable of resuming national existence without great and continued protection by the Western Powers. The irst task of the League of Nations ' will not be to organize AsiaMinor, or Africa. It will naturally be to erect in Europe on a basic of selfdetermination various Middle-European states which, by expanding and by becoming strong, . will . block the German pathway to world power and thus, by evolution if by nothing else, bring the Germans out of their policies of the past' - .To a very considerable extent this gigantic task has been postponed so' far by the Paris conference. We have sent commissions to Poland, to Warsaw. We have sent commissions to Roumanla. Every great problem that has arisen has resulted in the creation of a commission with inevitable postponement of action, and in every one of these prospective states internal chaos and external menace have resulted. Prevent German Action. Now, at last, confronted by the German threat to invade Poland at once the Allies have taken action. They have fixed the line which in principle

establishes the policy that the Poles

of Germany will hereafter be joined to their brethren of Russia and Austrian-Poland. They have prevented German action against the Poles along the Vistula under threat of Allied Invasion of Germany east of the Rhine. They have drawn a provisional line of demarcation with far more consideration of German claims than Polish rights, but at least they have made a beginning. ' " Coincident with this beginning is the development of a profound conviction in all quarters in Paris that it Is now necessary to make at least provisional peace with Germany, to serve preliminary terms upon the great enemy now regaining her strength and retaking her old tone of defiance; and the present Indications are that within a very brief time under' the terms of the new armistice, which permits the Allies to denounce it on three days notice,' a complete set of preliminary terms will shortly be served upon Germany. . . - : ; These terms will compel the disarmament of Germany absolutely. They will abolish all German hope and agitation for the re-conquest of AlsaceLorraine by a preposterous plebiscite. They will establish the fundamental principle that the costs of this war must be borne by Germany to the last dollar possible supplemented by payments in kind in coal and in cattle. i Need Definite Action. It is possible to exaggerate the importance of this Polish development as a - sign of returning sanity in ' Paris, but it is not possible to exaggerate the necessity for further immediate and definite action of a similar -sort if there is to be real peace. ' There was for two months in Paris a very great tendency to forget all about Germany. Three months after Germany surrendered, we have been still going on from week to week and month to month permitting Germany to regain her strength, her courage, and return to her old pathways, while Allied morale has been weakening. It has been discovered at last that it was not enough to say to the oles: "Rise from the tomb of two centuries of slavery and become at once a united nation," when all the forces of Boche and Bolshevik' were combined to prevent this thing; and at last something has been done for Poland. But it is a fact that cannot be too frequently emphasized that protraction of peace negotiations, however inescapable, is producing a condition of unrest in the minds of the victorious nations,' leading to a weakening of their strength at precisely the' moment when the German enemy, having passed through a period of dejection and depression, but finding herself with her cities undestroyed and her factories undisturbed, is daily . and hourly improving her morale. The great hope must be now that, having finished with the preliminary draft of the League of Nations, and having taken a clear if short step in the matter of Poland, the Peace Conference will now pass from the domain

of Utopia to the area of Mittel-Europa. One cannot too frequently emphasize the fact that of itself: the League of Nations is nothing, that words in a covenant have no power or force of themselves. , It the League of Nations is a group of countries prepared to use their collective resources to restore health to Europe by eliminating each of ..the open sores which were subject nationalities, it the League of Nations is an alliance of liberal powers prepared to put the weight of its artillery as well as its words behind those small peoples whom it is summoning to national.' exlstance, then, and In that measure it is something, but not otherwise. Growthxof Anarchy. . We have discovered clearly that while it is possible to bid- the Bolsheviks to go to Prlncipo, and to invite the Poles to lift themselves by their boot straps into national existence, and to bestow falicitous words on the Czecho-Slovaks, the result Is not progree towards peace, but an ever growing extension of the area of anarchy. Outside of Europe, we have recognized this fact in principle by creating mandatories for Asia Minor and Central Africa; - but it is utter .absurdity to create mandatories in Africa and abandon Poland, Roumanla and Jugoslavia to their own fate. . It Is perfectly clear that If we create a Poland of twenty-five to thirty millions of people, and that if the weight of the League of Nations is sufficient to give that state time to order itself, time to become a country at once suppressing Bolshevism within and repusing invasion at its frontiers, at no distant time one more considerable self-sustaining nation will be added to the League of Nations with so much additional force to aid in application of the principles of the League. - But in Poland, in Jugo-Slavia, perhaps in Bohemia, there will be an intermediate period between verbal liberation and actual achievement of national existence, and in that period it will require the force of the League of Nations to protect the new Poland, and the same is true in many other countries. '

Prime Minister Hughes of Austra-

lia said a true word recently when he pointed , out that the League of Nations cannot delegate to individual powers the duty of becoming mandatories for the respective states which are to be created at Paris and as the case of Poland has proved, if the Allied powers which are to constitute the league of Nations are not prepared to use force, no words will avail. For three months we have been using words with the Germans in the matter Of Poland, but only now have we told them, that unless they desisted on their Eastern frontier we should put in motion our armies along the Rhine. Confronted with this statement the Germans will permit the creation of Poland, of Bohemia, but not otherwise. Will the lesson, too, be lost?

Ohio News in Flashes

DAYTON A weary search" of four months by his relatives for traces of Corporal Dale Lyons, reported desperately wounded In action ii October 14, was brought to a happy end by a letter from the young man. Since receiving the report of his wound, the relatives had had. no word, though they had tried in every possible way. CLEVELAND Sergeant William Meyers, taking part' in an act at the Hippodrome, saw a young woman in uniform across the stage. They recognized each other and held a reunion. "She saved my life in France,"

said Meyers.

TOLEDO Liquor hauling into Michigan has been halted owing to. heavy rains. Constables are firing at machines which refuse to stop. CAMP SHERMAN ' A good bay horse, the first of 700 to be discharged from i the army, at an auction sale old for $260." Others brought prices comparatively as high. BELLEFONTAINE The entire new testament was read aloud in one day in the First Presbyterian church here, the reading starting at 4 a. m. and ending at 10 p. m. Forty-eight readers worked in relays. ST. MARY'S Mrs. Frances Vorhees, who tried to protect her son Roy from officers on a charge of horsestealing, was put in jail along with her son. He is fifteen years old.

CINCINNATI Fred Lang, a waiter

at a local restaurant was in such a

hurry, to get to work that he forgo f

his trousers. He created a sensauor

on busy Vine street before a polic

man caught him. ' 5 .

DAYTON Lieutenant Charles Key!

looped the loop over Wright field her 145 times before observers grew dizzy and lost count It Is believed he, made a world's record, as he looped the loop so many times that the count was lost ; ' . LANCASTER Charles Alspachj farmer, eighty-four years old, fell from the roof of his barn and broke hi; neck. .'..".".; V DAYTON Because the court la Indianapolis adjourns at noon. Inspector S. E. Yensey, of the local police department flew from here to get, Robert Tomplin, civil prisoner, in an airplane. Tamplin waived extradition and only the court can deliver such a prisoner. The Inspector left Dayton at . 11 o'clock and returned at three.

When the Baby Needs a Laxative-'-

No one knows better than the ever-watchful mother the natural doctor of the family in all the small ills that when the baby la out . of aorta it is usually due to Indigestion or constipation. It is always well. In any of Its nmesaes, to look for tbia cause. ? The diet may have to be changed, but before good can result from it, the bowels must be moved. The mother haa the choice of many medicines cathartics, purgative, bitter-waters, pills, physics, etc But the little body doesn't need such harsh remedies for they wrench the system and do only temporary good, so often followed by an unpleasant reaction.

A better plan ft tojr employ a mild, gentle laxative of which only a little ia required. There ia combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin add by druggiata under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin that thouaande of mothers have used successfully for baby constipation and its accompany. fng ilia, such aa belching, wind colic, rest

i sleeplessness, etc

'The nursing mother will also find it Ideal for herself, and it ia especially important that she be free from constipation. Syrup Pepsin a guaranteed to do as promised or the druggist will refund the money. Thousands of cautious families have it in the house, secure against the little ills.

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.. Every Pair ol Shoes to the louse Mneed-AIso RIew Sprieg low Sloes You have read of shoe sales but the one real shoe sale that will take all Richmond and vicinity by storm is the big WALK-OVER Sale which starts Wednesday Morning, Feb. 26 at 8: 30 o'clock. You know what you get when you buy a Walk-Over Shoe you know they can't be equalled for value but now you get these shoes at greatly reduced prices which means you will get more than just a bargain. In this sale we also offer many new spring low shoes the season's newest and best styles.

The Biggest Shoe Values in Richmond at This Sale for Ladies

:!-.6:5:.........:$4.95

Black Kid, fabric top, military flQ QfT heel, lace boot, $5.00 value. ... J)OsD Black Kid, leather Louis heel, qA ir lace boot, $6.50 value tprrafrD Black Kid, fabric top, leather Louis

heel lace boot, 6.50

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Black Kid, Comfort Shoes, rub- tPC C ber heels, $6.50 value Black Kid, leather Louis heel, flfT Qff lace boot, $9.00 value JW Patent Dress Boot, Grey , Kid dQ QfT top, Louis heel, $12 value.... fpUutJO Dark Brown Calf, military (j A Qf heel, lace boots, $6 value .... Prl9 Dark Brown Calf, military heel, lace boots, extra value, QC IP $7.00 value dD4ID

Dark Brown Kid, leather Louis P QpT heel, lace boots, $8.50 value.. 30Q Dark Brown Kid, leather Louis jQ Qpr heel, 'lace boot, $11 value.... pOaD Cherry tan Calf, military heel, jQ QfT lace boot, $11.00 vaiue ........ ipOmUtJ

Field Mouse, fabric top, Louis heels, $11.00 Q Ap value J)Os0 Grey Kid, fabric top, military heels, lace QfJ ALL NEW

Spring Styles

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SALE OF

MEN: THESE WALK-OVER SHOES ARE WONDERFUL VALUES AT THE FOLLOWING SALE PRICES

Rubbers

Ladies' Footholds, - KKV 75c grade ............. ODC Ladies' Rubber Sandals, fjff $1.00 grade .......... ... I DC Ladies' Cloth Alaskas J- 1 A $1.50 grade .... DalU Men's Rubber Sandals (J- - f $1.35 grade .. tDXaXU

Men's Cloth Alaskas,

$2.00 grade ......

Men's Four Buckle d0 itT

$1.55

a Cloth Arctics, $4 grade

All Rubbers, Goodyear Glove g Brand, First Quality. m

BLACK AND BROWN CALF, ENGLISH LAST $5.00 value .., BLACK AND BROWN CALF LACE and BUTTON, medium toe, $6.00 value BLACK VICI BLUCHER, DOC LAST, $8.00 value ; i DARK BROWN, ENGLISH LAST, $10.50 value BLACK KID, COMFORT LAST, 9.00 value PATENT, LACE or BUTTON Shoes, special at BLACK CALF, WATERPROOF SOLE, medium toe, $6.00 value DARK TAN CALF, RINEX SOLE, English last, $7.00 value DARK BROWN CALF, ENGLISH LAST, $8.50 value ... BLACK CALF, RINEX SOLE, ENGLISH LAST,

$6.50 value

.. $3.95 $4.95 . $595 . $8.95 $6.95 .. $3.95 $7.45 .. $5s95 . $6.95 . $4.95

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Black Kid, Patent and Dark Brown Oxfords, Leather Louis Heels, A "5 $6.50 value . . . : . 4Df9 Black Kid, Patent and Dark Brown Oxfords," Military Heels, $6.00 (Jj ftr value ... ................. $rrD All White Oxfords and White Shoes reduced also. , ; . .' . :' ": - . ' ' ; : ' . 7 '

All Children's Shoes at Closing Out Prices

Boys' Black English PO Lace Shoes, $4 grade daWaUD

Misses Patent Cloth Top, $3.50 grade

Various Sizes of Children's

Shoes; regular $3.00 grade

$2.45 Children's $1.95

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Brown Vici Oxfords, Comfort or straight lasts, d QK $9.00 value .......... t&Ueie Black Calf Oxfords, (O fir

English last, $6 value. .ipOUO

Black or Brown Calf Oxfords, English or Medium last, $8.00 , dr value rpOaHtO Black Calf, Blucher, Comfort last, dQ Qp $5.50 value .... tDOsD Dark Tan Calf, Medium Toe, $7.00 dK QK value tDJs7J

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