Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 93, 27 February 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1919.

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Street Corner Strategists

More battles, are won and lost in corner-gro-eery, cigar-store, and club parlors by amateur

strategists' than on the field. The American army has been severely criticized by many critics who know as little about military affairs as does the average man about conditions on Mars. They seem to believe that it is their holy prerogative to lambast General Pershing and the other commanders for alleged incompetency. ' Many of the critics could not direct a gang of men digging a sewer or boss a crew of section men.. . And yet they have thejbrazen impudence to criticize men who have directed the efforts of millions of men in a complicated war machine. The Cincinnati Enquirer pays the following tribute to these petty critics : ' Corner-grocery , strategists, cigar-store tacticians and congressional military theorists must not feel slightel if their expert thought and mortgaged time are directed to the moBt recent utterance of General John J. Pershing concerning American participation in the victorious European war, even at the risk of ruining their carefully plotted campaigns of criticism. . , The commander In the field, speaking under world cynosure in France, asserted that tHo American soldier, by the exhibition of certain fundamental qualities, . "turned impending defeat into overwhelming victory." Wars are entered upon and battles fought for the sole purpose of Insuring victories for the Impelling causes of belligerency. Pershing said that our forces won this colossal conflict against autocratic domination. He was there and knew what was happening. The general in command af Belleau Wood, raked by a western governor, told the congressional committee in grieved tones that the Americans won the battle criticized, and had done more In a few hours than the French In as many years toward smashing that particular sector of the German line. '

Our at-home field marshals invariably envisaged martial action as a carefully staged and highly regulated sparring contest with padded gloves and frequent resting intervals. ; If they could see it as it really is, the duplicate on a gigantic scale of a rough-and-tumble battle, In which victor is often as badly bruised and battered as the loser, they would cease from troubling and let the generals and soldiers be at rest. Yet they will not, because to them there is no sweeter sound in all the wold than the mellifluous music of their own words.

before they recall the princess whom they exiled. There is a strong faction in Germany which seeks the return, of the Hohenzollerns and looks upon

the former kaiser as a martyr. It has the sup

port of thousands of common people who are still

in love with the old system. The Independent

Socialists and the Sparatacus group would probably execute the former kaiser and crown prince with the same pleasure that the Bolsheviki in Russia got rid of the Romanoffs, but they do not comprise all the German people. A deep-seated spirit of revenge lurks in the

German soul and the war spirit is far from being

dead. The bid regime gave them commercial supremacy and industrial prosperity for which they are still hankering, and many of them would be willing to pay the bills of a large military establishment in return for conditions that prevailed prior to 1914. This explains why France led by Premier Clemenceau is insisting so vehemently on punishment for Germany .that will prevent her from recovering within the next decade. France knows Germany as no other nation on the globe knows her. France has suffered under German oppression more than any other nation on the globe. France is astute i enough to know that Germany will try to regain her old commercial supremacy and military prestige. The United States and the other Allied nations must not be lulled into sleep by a blind adherence to the theory of a League of Nations which would permit Germany to recuperate to the danger of the whole world. v Germany must be crippled so badly that all thoughts of returning to the world family with a powerful military machine will be broken forever. So'long as Germany cherishes the slightest no

tion of rehabilitating her war machine, she is a

menace to the future peace of the world. The

Allies have it within their power now to crush this ambition forever and the German people

must be told and taught that their old love for

world power is nothing more than a dreamthat will never come true.

When Did Reid MemorialHospital Open Its Doors?

Reid Memorial Hospital was Incor

porated in 1902, the cornerstone of the present structure was laid late in September, 1904, 'and it was opened on July 27, 1905; It absorbed the small St. Stephen's hospital, which for years was -the only hospital in Richmond. This institution was at the corner of North Eighth and C streets. Since its beginning, the hospital has done an increasingly beneficial work, and has ' been filled Jo its capacity with patients most of the time. It maintains a modern Nurses' training school, from which the graduates are as efficient and capable as any trained in any hospital in the United States.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON v.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

f. WE DON'T START, BUT WE FINISH Baltimore Sun. - Uncle Sam- is one of those fellers that wants to be at peace with everybody that i3 at peace with him, but keeps his fist doubled up just for emergencies.

Germany up to Her Old Tricks - J If any easy going citizen of this nation believed that the collapse of the German military machine last November meant that Germany had experienced a real change of heart, and that militarism had been given the deathblow by Marshal Foch, he might just as well get that notion out of his head now as three or four years later. Germany has been defeated but not permanently. The temporary setback to her military aspirations has not eradicated her insane dream of conquering the whole world. Substantiation of this assertion can bo found in many press dis

patches that have come from Germany, and from;

the expressed declarations of her leaders. Look at the pictures of Germany's soldiers marching through the streets of Berlin after the defeat on the western front and you will see them

ONLY ONE, BUT IT'S BIG ENOUGH Chicago News. Probably, the Father of his Country would be proud to know that the only entangling foreign alliance we have contracted is to adopt the world.

MINORITY

HURRAH FOR THE

Ohio State Journal. ,

Anne Rittenhouse says that the vast 'nv'ority of women now are as straight up-and-down as lead pencils, but of course the minority is often right

FOR BREATH

BECAUSE WE'RE GASPING

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Why is it that we never hear the old argument that "prohibition will never prohibit" any more?

THANK THEM FOR DOING SO Columbia State. A Boston doctor says that one cause of influenza is the habit of putting too many clothes on a naturally naked animal like man. At least the gentle half of humanity is taking all the precautions it can.

BETTER BE POLITE TO THEM

FIRST AID AFTER JULY 1. If you drop a raisin in a glass of sarsaparilla and drink the sarsaparilla next day the results will be quite satisfactory. The trouble will be waiting until the next day. s A kick can be put into a glass of plain soda water by dropping a cake of yeast in it. The combination will not hurt you if you don't drink it It makes an excellent dentifrice. Cider can be hardened quickly by Inclosing it in a glass receptacle and placing said receptacle in the sun. If you are a farmer and own a silo, silo juice will answer all requirements: The drippings of the cornstalks ferment into a creamy ale, which, drawn from the bottom of the silo, makes an excellent substitute for drug -store whisky. The silo builders report an unprecedented business.

The man who believes that Germany hasn't got a kick left in her is the same gent who bets his whole fitack on a pair of treys against a full hand and wanders why he doesn't cop. Reds execute four Russian dukes, but if they start exterminating those boys they will have little time for anybody else. After reading eighty-five' magazine articles, three hundred and sixty-seven newspaper columns and five books on the subject, written by the "favorite lady-in-waiting to the late empress of Russia," we do not believe that the empress led a very happy life. The burden of proof seems to be all against it. -

His Shoulder at the Wheel With M His Heart and Strength '

Britain s Co-operation Vital

to Our Interest at Conference

Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Petition of Richmond ministers against the repeal of the county option law was presented in the legislature by Senator Kirkman.

Second series of the Y. M. basketball teams were played.

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' Residents of Riverdale insisted that the city and Pennsylvania railroad jointly construct a viaduct or tunnel at either Eighth or Twelfts street crossings. Jeremiah L. leek, 90 years old, one of Richmond's oldest residents, died at his home here.

Columbia Record.

It would be interesting, as some one , suggests, to

decorated with flowers, marching with happy ; vnow how many absolute teetotallers will tuck away, be-

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fore June SO, just a little bottle of brandy as a sort of reminder of days that Will, have gone whistling down the dream of things that were. It may also be worth while knowing their names and addresses and cultivating their acquaintances.

faces surrounded by cheering crowds

manifestation of joy was not because the war was over but because the Germans believed these veterans could again in the future fight in behalf of the German nation. ; A well known author writing in the Saturday Evening Post, finds no trace of malnutrition in Germany, and letters from soldiers show that K Inrmtn Tsrr.lza Viagra a Vnnnf onua ciiTvrilxr rvf

c y " " - w the Republicans in greedily holding on to the offices when food, all Stories to the contrary notwithstanding. the Democrats come In power or brutally withholding from Dispatches this week show that the German. Democrats places of emolument and trust when the Demopeople are only waiting for the turmoil to settle crats are out of power.

THE MEAN THINGS WANT EVERYTHING Houston Post. The "spoils system" may be defined as a contemptible and degrading political code of ethics observed by

Canada's Repatriation Plans

From The Outlook. GANADA, a trustworthy and well-informed correspondent informs us, is grappling In businesslike fashion with the problems of reconstruction. The cpeedy repatriation of nearly 500,000 men, taken from a population of "but little-more than 7,000,000 people, and the adjustment of Industry to . the new conditions of peace, constitute no easy task. There is confidence among Canadians, however, that the same energetic leadership which enabled the Dominion to adapt herself so qnlfckly and successfully to the condition of war will find a solution for the new problems of peace. f The sudden cancellation of war contracts has thrown many thousands out of employment; but there will be a speedy remedy of this situation as factories are adapted again to their old lines of manufacture. The real problem is the repatriation of the soldier. - In the first months of the war Canada laid the foundations of a system of vocational training -and re-education for her disabled Boldiers which ha3 since become a model for all the belligerent. nations to follow. Her system has been adopted almost in toto in France and Britain; it

was closely studied last year by a visiting commission from the United States, with tire result that the American plan -'follows step by step the pattern, set by Canada. The same plan has been 'adopted in Australia. In all these countries the partly disabled man is being effectively helped to help himself. The big problem of the moment is to find employment, for the thousands of returning men who are not disabled." In the western province there Is little difficulty, as that portion; of the Dominion had few war in-j

dustries to be disturbed by the sudden ending of hostilities; but In the eastern provinces the problem Is acute. A complete industrial survey of the whole country has been made by the government, and the information is kept up to date. Government employment offices are being opened in every city with 10,000 population or more. These offices are directed from Ottawa, and daily, reports are sent to the director c of repatriation, who thus has accurate information regarding the employment situation in all parts bf the country. Information has been secured from all the soldiers overseas as to their previvous employment and their desires for the future, and all the government employment offices receive advance information regarding the men about to return to their districts. Millions of acres of farm land in the western provinces can be made available for soldiers, and the government is giving substantial assistance to all who are wil

ling to becom farmers. A limited amount of free home

stead land close tothe railways still remains, and this is reserved for soldiers. This land will not be sufficient, and the government has undertaken to purchase land from private owners and resell it to soldiers on twentyyear payment terms, payment to pommenee two years after agreement to purchase. In addition, . the government provides a substantial sum for stock and equipment on similar terms of repayment. To prevent inflation in farm-land prices the government will expropriate land for the soldiers at an arbitrated price. This policy is of course opposed most vigorously by holders of vacant lands, but it is a popular plan and probably the only practicable plan.

(Signs of Spring J , Just date ahead three months from the time the first robins and bluebirds are reported, says Sheriff Clem Carr, and you may know that spring will be coming along in a month or so. -

Land and Labor Problems

Are Faced by Canada

(By Associated Press) WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 27. The land problem and the labor situation are overshadowing all other Issues in the Canadian Northwest. Official assurances have been received from Ottawa that the government intends to put machinary in motion immediately by which large tracts will be available for Canadian soldiers who desire permanent homesteads. . Municipal officials have joined with various associations in urging , the government to take full charge of problems arising from the return of soldiers. It is understood that the Dominion department of interior is completing a bill to be submitted to parliament at the coming session, which will authorize the soldier settlement board to acquire farm lands within settlement districts and to purchase stock and farm implements, it is proposed to sell these lands to soldiers 'on favor

able terms.

Fifty Thousand Books Sent to Men on Rhine

(By Associated PressJ ' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Feb. 27. Fifty thousand books, consisting of works of history, BCience, reference, fiction and others, have been brought into the occupied zone recently for the American soldiers holding the Coblenz bridgehead and the area on the left bank

of the Rhine. - Two distributing stations have been opened in Trier and Coblenz, where soldiers may borrow books by merely signing their name, company and regiment. In addition, books are distributed to the troops in the smaller towns and the hospitals through the several welfare organizations. Distribution of books is in charge of Judson T. Jennings, of Seattle, Washington, for the library war service of the American Library association. In the first four days the library was opened in Coblenz more than two thousand books were taken out by soldiers doing garrison duty in the city and vicinity.

By VICTOR M'NAUGHT

ARIS, Feb. 27. (Special cor- , respondence) The most significant and important development of the peace conference up to this time,

outside the framing of the League of Nations program,

has been the growth of har

mony and understanding between the

British and American representatives,

The League constitution is in reality

the work of Lord Robert Cecil and

General Smuts, with a few minor clauses and suggestions from other

sources. President Wilson preferred indorsing a good program drawn by someone else, to submitting one of his own, and in this be no doubt showed tact. This disposition of English and American delegates to look at things in the same calm and dispassionate way is particularly interesting and significant when we look ahead to the probable developments of the second phase of the conference, which opens on the return of President Wilson to Paris after his brief stay in Washington. The second phase will be crowded with practical problems, difficult, and filled with possibilities of friction. Let us examine briefly a few of them: Rival Ambitions 1. Japan and Australia are watching each other nervously, each anxious for control of islands in the Pacific, and neither quite satisfied with the program for mandatories. 2. Italy and Jugo-Slavia both desire the territory on the east coast of the Adriatic. The Italians claim exclusive dominion of the Adriatic, the annexation of the ports of Fiume, Zara and Valona, the possession of the whole of Dalmatia and a protectorate over Albania. They base their claims on secret treaties made with the allied governments. The Jugo-Slavs assert that 700,000 of their people would be included within such territorial limits, hence their resistance. . 3. Japan makes claims on China which the Chinese are bound to oppose. The Japanese desire to take, over all the concessions in China that the Germans once possessed and some besides. 4. Poland is badly divided internally over the claims of two rival factions, each claiming, the right to speak for and control the territory. 5. Then comes the problem of fixing the new boundary line between.

Germany and France. Of course France will regain Alsace and Lorraine; shall she also have the Saar Basin, rich in minerals, and shall she be given some sort of control of the German territory west of the Rhine 6. What indemnities shall Germany be forced to pay? Each of the allied countries will ask to be reimbursed for its total war expenditures, in addition to the reparation that wiU be required for damages and for the looting of industrial plants and banks in Belgium and northern France. Fixing Armaments Knotty Problem. These are only a few of the most knotty problems that await the president's return. The fixmg of armaments for the various nations, in

cluding Germany, has ticklish aspects. So far the conference sessions have been comparatively mild affairs, but there will be real doings when the time comes to go into rival claims, presented by , claimants with high temperatures and feverish pulses. "President Wilson has his League of Nations," they will say; "now let him stand aside while we get what we came for." Premier Hughes of Australia feels that way. So do the Italian delegates. So do some of the others. The French leaders are, of course, hoping that President Wilson will not interpose any objections to their program for putting Germany in her proper place. They are bound to put Germany there, absolutely determined about it, and they hope that America may not have any foolish notions about mercy. We do not know what President Wilson thinks about all these issues, except for the knowledge that he wants a square deal for each of the small nations in the allied group, and favors a general settlement that will

insure peace instead " of sowing provocations for a whole flock of new wars. England's Attitude Important to U. 8. It must be apparent that England's attitude through the second phase of the peace conference is most important to us. If Lloyd-George and his associates continue in close accord with President Wilson, the settlement will bear the impress of American ideals. Otherwise, America may have little to say about the new order of things in Europe.

"BEHIND the SCENES"

By George Matthew Adams.

If we could but know? How much there is behind that simple question! Perhaps all the judgment of a complaining and criticising world! For, it's usually the things that we do not know, that we misjudge not merely the things that appear evident Most human beings, anyway, do their work behind the scenes. But they work there, nevertheless. They think there. They dream there. They sorrow there. They laugh there. -Exteriors are the most deceiving things in Jhe world. Clothes, f after all, are just clothes. Their cost doesn't change the skin or the heart of the man behind them. Exteriors may be bought in the open market for a price. Nobody was ever known to auction off a new SOUl. : . ' , r" We may boast, of our front-row seats and of our superior wisdom. But in its last analysis, it is thinly clad and flimsy indeed, if it has not looked behind the. scenes and understood the motives hidden there. Those to whom most has been given, most of course is expected. But . it is oftener true than untrue that these very people silently give ten times more than they are credited as giving because they prefer to " do behind the scenes. ' The veneer of happiness and joy upon the fact of your friend may hide from you the hourly fight and struggle behind the scenes, of that outward character that, in reality in its driving forces, makes him all he is to you and to everybody.

We are all workers behind the scenes. Our occasional appearance

before the crowd is just ambitions, our desires.

a star of our personality, our hopes, our

So let us make our occasional appearance on the stage, one of helpfulness. But let us not forget those behind the scenes who never come out in front to play a part before the footlights.

In previous articles I nave told of the high esteem in which our country and our president are held in Europe.

This is all true, speaking in a broad, general way of the feeling of the masses of the people. At the same time, it should be remembered that men in authority in these countries are going to be influenced in their dealings with us by coldly ""practical considerations. ; . France and England desire to rebuild their industries and their foreign trade faster than Germany can rebuild hers. Therefore, they are going to keep American manufacturers out of their respective .countries as much asvthey can. . How can we oppose them in this? We have protected our Infant industries; now France and England are going to protect their invalid Industries. Recently a company was organized in France to obtain rights to manufacture American articles, on a royalty basis. Half-page advertisements in the "Stars and Stripes" urged our officers and doughboys to use their influence at home to get such manufacturing rights. Big money rewards

were offered. Practical American machines and devices are needed in France, but France wishes to make them herself, rather than imrort them. Allies Need Our Friendship. Our European friends will not be slow, however, to forget this fact: American help was needed to win this war, and American help would be needed if there should come to pass an eventuality that is the bogey of allied statesmen: a warlike and threatening alliance between Germany and Russia. With America to back them up, England and France and Italy need not worry much about any such combination. America can be a powerful friend.. We have unlimited natural wealth; we are quick1 and resourceful. Our trade balance during the past three years our excess of exports over importsreaches the enormous total of $9,490,903,369. We have loaned more than eight billions to the' allies, and our annual interest charge will be large. There is much talk in France of delicately suggesting to us that we

not only cancel all these debts, but that we also shoulder a big share of the war expenses of the allied countries. As friendly as we are, and as we shall undoubtedly continue to be, Americans probably will not wish to be as generous as that However, we ought to feel complimented over France's good opinion of our liberality and our financial powers, as manifested by such large-scale proposals for us. (The next article In this aeries will tell of the work of an American Red Cross doctor In the devastated regions of France after the first armistice was signed.)

Women "Booze Runners" Rounded Up in West By Associated Press) LINCOLN. Neb., Feb. 27. Women "booze runners" have smuggled large quantities of liquor into Nebraska from Wyoming, according to T. S. Allen, United States district attorney. Several women are charged with bringing liquor into the state in automobiles. Federal authorities say women were not suspected until reports showed the number of male offenders had greatly diminished. "Women got in with a number of loads of liquor J before they were caught," Allen said. A novel method of smuggling was disclosed at Omaha. Whisky was shipped into that city in empty gun shells supposed to be war souvenirs. Each "shell" held a gallon.

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