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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919.

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British Statesmanship Great Britain went to the peace conference willing to do her share to stop future, wars and ready to conserve her national interests. The contrast between her methods and ours is set forth by the Chicago Tribune thus: The peace conference agreements on sea law will leave Great Britain more completely the master of the sea than she has been since the destruction of the French naval power by Nelson. The German navy is gone. The German voice is silent in the councils which are remaking sea law. The

submarine, which threatened British commerce and British naval control, is to be outlawed. Naval warfare is to be confined to the surface, where British preponderance is conceded and even preserved under the new covenant of international alliances. It is one of the greatest triumphs of British statesmanship, and Americans will not grudge it. Fortunately for us and for the peace of the world, Great Britain and America, the two giants surviving the world conflict, have been able to get along with reasonable amity and their essential interests are, in the main, parallel rather than conflicting. We can follow, therefore, the adroit and farseeing statecraft of our British allies without fear or hostility. At bottom we feel that British sea rule is not incompatible with our interest in fact, has certain substantial advantages for us in that we have enjoyed its benefits without paying for them. We also feel that British strength, when allied to or supported by our own, is a better guaranty of world peace than any league of nations. Nevertheless, a certain measure of envy must enter our observation of the resourceful and masterful handling of British interests at Paris. It offers a not very pleasant contrast to the course our representatives are following. The British, without permitting themselves to be put in the position of self-seeking and while working, we do not doubt, quite sincerely for a peace which is founded on justice and toward a better international cooperation, nevertheless are making the security of the British empire their first consideration and leaving nothing on that score to inference. At the very threshold of the peace conference the freedom of the seas was taken over by Great Britain on perfectly defensible British grounds. Not an inch would British representatives go until that was agreed. As the negotiations proceed we find that the Paris covenant is British, and we find, step by step, that British vital interests are being protected and British

greatness conserved. We do not criticize the British representatives for this. On the contrary, we applaud them for their patriotism and their gifts of statesmanship. If we felt it was hostile to America we should attack it. As it is, we only wish our own representatives were as wise and firm trustees of America's welfare. If they were we should not have our essential concerns left open to inference or debate. They would see to it that our legitimate interests as definitely safeguarded as those of Great Britain. The British, we believe, are as idealistic as Americans, but they are keeping before them in this epoch making negotiation the homely maxim that charity begins at home.

The Telephone Blunder Apropos of the action of the Indiana public service commission ordering the refunding of charges made under Burleson's ruling, the Indianapolis News remarks: "The impudent and illegal attempt of Postmaster-General Burleson to take possession for the government of the telephone lines has been fearlessly and successfully met by the Indiana public service commission and other state bodies. The Indiana commission has, as a climax to its resistance to the intrusion of the postmastergeneral, directed that the charges that were made in the few destructive hours that Burleson's department had possession of the properties, be

refunded to the subscribers, and justice be done to them as widely as possible. "This whole episode was revolutionary. Under the guise of war necessity, and after the war had ceased, the government undertook to control telephone and cable lines, and, in fact, succeeded so far as the cables, and the telephones in other states were concerned. This was most unfortunate for the success of the peace congress. The public had been led to believe there would be no

secret negotiations whereas, as a matter of fact,

there were no public negotiations. The redout

able Creel and an army of publicity men and censors swarmed around the peace camp, while Bur

leson over on this side of the Atlantic held his hand on the cable keys. The evil of it was not that the public was prevented from finding out something for this is no longer possible but that it should be regarded so cheap and unnecessary, as if, as long as Colonel House and a few

others were on the grounds, nobody else need be concerned. Everything would be done in due time. All this was resented. And it was an unfortunate prelude to the peace announcements when the government was ready to make them. "The president was losing prestige at home bv reason of the foolish acts of the Burlesons,

who placed their chief in the attitude of attempting to suppress transmission of the news. This was the large national and international effect; while the local result of Burleson's course was to cause the rapid extension of a feeling already existing that we were about to be plunged, willy nilly, into socialistic experiments. "We had also been informed that the early effect of government control of the wires would be lower rates, etc., etc. The first experience was the collapse of the service ; and the next was an increase in the costs. In the meantime the state board acted and now, thanks to its efforts, ths rightful owners have their properties back and the public may once more expect service. But the pity of it all is that it has left such a bad taste in the mouth. The chief reaction will be as to the president himself, whose already heavy burdens will be made more "difficult by the blunders of his subordinates."

17. S. Quakers, Forbidden by Religion to Fight, Helping to Rebuild France

F. P. GARVAN TAKES PLACE OF PALMER

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

YES. OUT OF HIS MISERY , Knoxvllle Journal and Tribune. Wilhelm Bays he is compelled to ask the National Assembly to "help him out." According to French newspapers the National Assembly is getting things lined up to "help him out."

PROBLEM IN FOURTH DIMENSION Baltimore Sun. Nothing ever makes a man as wearjf as being compelled to fathom the reasons that lie back of the actions of the members of the United States Congress.

BETTER MAKE IT A YEAR Pittsburg Gazette-Times. . The French Government has taken a three-month tease on the house Mr. Wilson will occupy, but we understand it can be renewed.

AFTER BIGGER GAME NOW Boston Transcript. Has associating with the larger affairs of the world made Mr. Wilson too proud to take another mere presidential nomination in 1920?

LET HIM TACKLE SENATE NEXT Washington Post. Ole Hanson, Mayor of Seattle, gives notice to the Bolshevik! that he will run the town. Good for Ole!

SHOULD BE BAD EGG Cleveland Plain Dealer. Von Tirpitz now lives in a Swiss town named Wildegg. It sounds peculiarly appropriate.

By VICTOR McNAUGHT.

ARIS, March 10. America has sent to France a little peaceful army of 500 men and fifty women, whose task is to combat the fearful ruin and desolation of war. The army is made up

of Quakers, who did not

wish to take life In battle, but who wanted to render some service in the cause of humanity. And what an opportunity for service lies before them! Six per cent of the territory pf France is a desolate waste. This territory, rich in manufactures and in coal mines before the war, paid a full Quarter of the nation's taxes. Now it is helpless. Homes numbering 350,000 have been ruined. Personal property worth four billions of francs has been destroyed or carried away by the Germans. The losses in horses, cattle and other farm animals numberl.510,000 head. To rebuild the country, six hundred millions of days' work will be required, with an outlay for building material amounting to ten billion francs. Do you wonder that France wants an indemnity and the protection of a League of Nations against further 3,tt3.cks' AMERICAN QUAKERS RENDER VITAL AID Of course our American Quakers cannot do more than a small part of the work or reconstruction, but they are starting where their aid is most vitally needed, and everything they do counts. Dr. R. M. Jones of Haverford college, Philadelphia, who is the chairman of the service committee, told me about the work after completing a trip over the region where his people are employed. "We have undertaken to help the French people start life over again in the area west of Verdun to St. Menehould, and from Brizeaux to Montfaucan," he said. "This Is the

region from which the American army started at the outset of the Argonne campaign, and part of the ruin resulted from the fighting in the big offensive. "Our first aim is to take care of returning refugees, who are often sick and who always need shelter. We have a big general hospital at Clermont, which we shall presntly turn over to the French people with a small endowment. We also have a maternity hospital at Chalons. Both hospitals are kept very busy. We have also a department devoted to the care of orphan children. "As you have seen for yourself, the houses in northern France have been shot to pieces. We have two factories at work building portable houses, which we set up for the returning peasants. These houses are made of

wood, double-boarded and double-

floored, and have roofs or red tiles. They are intended for use as resi

dences two or three years, but they

are good enough to be used much

longer. The French government will

supply 2,000 more portable houses, and in May our two factories will

shut down, so that the workers may devote their time to setting up the

nouses. FARMERS WILL PAY ON INSTALLMENT PLAN "The French farmers will pay about 75 per cent of the cost of these new homes, on the partial payment plan, and as the money comes in we shall turn all of it Into the endowment fund for the two hospitalB. "As the refugees come back we fit them out with a few simple pieces of furniture, and we also give each family a pair of rabbits, some bees, and a few chickens. That sets them on their feet. "Are they grateful? I cannot tell you how richly repaid we felt for all of our work, by the simple and touching evidence of gratitude that we are encountering all thetime." The 550 workers are for the most part young college men and women from Quaker institutions, who have come to France to work without pay.

Many of them are from farms and small towns. They are the most willing of workers and accept any sort of task cheerfully. They til the soil, Bet up hosues, repair roofs of buildings tbat may still be used, drive ambulances, nurse the sick. Dr. Jones told me how they take their lives In their hands sometimes. "Our men are plowing the battlenelds," he told me, "with tractors and gang plows. They are constantly in danger of strking unexploded shell hidden in the ground. A French fanner was driving a tractor and a gang plow when one of the plow points struck a "dud." He was blown to pieces. That sort of thing is bound to happen many times within the next year or two. WHEAT ON DEVASTATED LANDS DOING WELL. "Last autumn our men succeeded in plowing over a considerable area of devastated land, and in sowing it with wheat. The young crop, growing over territory so recently trodden by armed men, looks fine and encouraging this winter. We are unable to use tractors and gang plows in the roughest of the Argonne country; we use horses and single plows instead.

"We have 150 mowing machines, about forty binders for cutting the grain, and four or five threshing machines, which we expect to keep very busy during the coming summer. We have our agricultural headquarters at Grange le Conte, a 600-acre farm. There we train our workers and the French peasants in handling modern farming machinery." The Quakers have so far raised all the money they have used, about half a million dollars, among their own number They need $700,000 more, and are preparing for a new campaign. Judging from appearances and from current reports, no one is doing more good per dollar spent in France than these kindly, quiet, unassuming Quaker folk and their English cousins, who are also busy in good works. (This is the last of Mr. McNaught's articles from Paris.. He has returned to this country, and will tell next of an American's impressions of America, after a stay among our overseas fighting and relief forces. The series will end with a final story about our soldiers, and what war has done to them and for them.)

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

TALK AND THEN TALK SOME MORE Pittsburg Dispatch. But, seriously, just what are the governors and mayors expected to do about it?

THEY NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT Indianapolis News. If the Bolsheviki really wish to attract the women, they might try shaving.

POOR OLD CASEY AGAIN Detroit News. Then Senator Lodge came to hat and struck out.

REVENGE IS SWEET Baltimore American.

And, now a campaign has been started against socalled immodesty, in women's dress. This must be a wet move to make life less joyful for the prohibitionists.

ONLY SAFE COURSE New York Telegraph. When Mr. Knox takes one side of an argument and Mr. Taft the other, the ordinary Republican may have to trail along with, for instance, Wilson.

Help the Czechs

From the New York Times.

i HE Czechoslovaks, for

A

reasons of necessity, have

been keeping up informal diplomatic relations with

their German neighbors. Now a certain Vice Con

sul Schwartz has been arrested for activities which may indicate that the German diplomat has not yet changed his spots. He did his best to foment insurrections of the German minority in Northwestern Bohemia, supplemented by Bolshevist riots in the cities and German troops they may or may not have been authorized by the Ebert government, but even if they were only filibustering bands Ihey might have been fairly numerous were to cross the frontier at the same time and try to upset the Masaryk government The plot failed because the Czechs, whose talent for secret service work has always triumphed easily over German clumsiness, discovered it in, time. The disposition of the Germans, both within and without the new Czechoslovak republic, to do what they can to undermine it still remains. ;

There are two things the Allies can do to help a people whioh is the most highly developed of Slav races, and which rendered very considerable contributions toward the winning of the war. One is to hurry the Czechoslovak army back from Siberia, the other is to get food and raw materials into the country. This latter work has been delayed, first by the obstructionisis of Vienna and later by the quarrel between Italians and Jugoslavs. There is some reason to hope that both of these factors of delay are on the way to be eliminated, at least so far as they affect the Czechs. And they ought to be eliminated, for if the Czechoslovaks have enough to eat and their

factories are enabled to get under way once more the stability of the government will be greatly strengthened. If we do not give them what help we can, we may presently realize that the saying that the master of Bohemia is the master of Europe is as true now as it ever was. We cannot afford to let the Germans control Bohemia again. '7, '

IT'S A TOUGH LIFE A gentleman by the name of Skibbs went out to skate on a pond near his home in Massachusetts the other day. He sat down on a tree trunk and adjusted his skates and made a mad dash for a grand skid across the pond.

Mr. Skibbs was going by the calendar only, and he neglected to note that the water In the pond had not been frozen. It has been an open winter. When Mr. Skibbs had been dragged out of the mud at the bottom of the pond and returned to-his family almost half alive he resolved in future, whether the calendar says January or June,

to do his skating at the O. K. Roller Rink, downtown.

Remus J. Purdy, an eminent scientist at Hog Ford, Ky., was experimenting the other day on a process of making good corn whiskey out of gasoline and saltpeter. So far as he knew nobody had even invented a satisfactory substitute for whiskey, and he expected to make a fortune out of it. Mr. Purdy had just taken a drink of his invention and struck a match to light his pipe. The funeral was held from what remained of the house. REGULAR POETRY Oh, It takes a lot of sand to be a soldier, Against the rushing foe to make a stand, But no matter how unpleasant, He always answers "present," For a Boldier's always got a lot of sand. Oh, it takes a lot of dough to be a citizen, For the profiteers just keep him on the go; He may show a timid feeling When the prices hit the celling. For the citizen hasn't always got the dough! When he was young poor TJflcle Ned Had funny noises in his head. Those funny noises had begun Before he had reached twenty-one. They worried him thruout his years. The docs were baffled, it appears. His was a melancholy fate. He died aged Just a hundred-eight.

His death was caused, the docs said,

By funny noises in the head.

A thousand-acre farm in the heart of a large city would doubtless be looked upon as a poor business proposition and a waste of valuable space. But in hundreds of large cities of the United States the corporate limits surrounded last year thousands of little farms, the aggregate area of which ran Into thousands of acres. Nor were these garden farms a poor business proposition, for the land had been idle for many years, and the time spent in its cultivation in most

cases would have been wasted.

Nobody knows how many city gar

dens were planted or how many acres were really occupied last year, but it is known that the value of the products of these gardens ran into many millions of dollars, and that the home food plots .helped materially in providing food for the hungry. A survey of the situation discloses that there still are thousands of acres of idle land, suitable for gardens, in and around our large cities and Industrial centers. There still Is great demand for food production and conservation, and the man who turns Idle city land and spare time into edibles will serve his country by raising a part of his own food and lessening the drain on regular farms.

Francis P. Garvan.

When Was Eighth Street Friends Church Founded?

There was a young girl in Hohokus Who was given a fine education, But Bhe married a barber Who wore white coats and trousers, And spent her whole life at the washboard.

Dinn er Stories

"The time has come," the allies said, "To talk of many things Indemnities and boundary lines And cabbages and kings."

"Pardon me," said the army cook, for military chefs are prone to address their underlings courteously, "but I prithee tell me where you learned to peel potatoes so artistically? I observe that you do not cut off the cuticle in great hunks, as, alas, too many do, but loosen a bit of the skin

of the tuber and then deftly strip it all off. You must have had much experience in skinnings e'er entering upon a soldier's life?" "I did, thank you, sir," replied the accomplished member of the kitchen police. "Before I decided to make the world safe for democracy I was a country banker."

"Dont talk to me about the wonders of past ages," said Uncle Joe Cannon. "The world today is far more wonderful than ever before. Just think. It took Columbus as many months as it now takes days to cross the ocean, and we talk about flying and traveling a mile a minute as though they were nothing. "Why the other day I dropped into a country school just in time to hear the teacher ask: " 'Johnny, into what two great classes is the human race divided?' And Johnny answered promptly: " 'Motorists and pedestrians.' "That's what I call progress. After a while there won't be any pedestrians."

"MEXICANS ROB AN EDITOR" Headline. Those Mexicans were always great for wasting time.

National prohibition may go into effect, but it will be a tough job to make Maine dry, they have had prohibition there so long.

SAVING SOULS ALL WAYS AT ANNAPOLIS! NOTICE! Charles Houston, Evangelist; Charles Stevens, Champion Shoe Artists of the World. Shoes dyed. No. 1 Market Space. From Annapolis Evening Capital.

Fifty-two years ago, on Sept. 15, 1S87, the first meeting of Friends was held In the South Eighth Street FriendB' church. The congregation had been organized for several years, but had met in rented rooms. The South Eighth street church was the child of a progressive movement among Quakers of that day, and has continued in the forefront of progress ever since. It was the first meeting where men and women sat together, the first to engage a pastor, had the first organ, sent out the first foreign missionary, experienced the first revival, had the first regularly organized prayer meeting, had the first Christian Endeavor society, was the first to allow a minister of another denomination to speak from its gallery, and the first to admit negro members. Benjamin Johnson, until this day, a leader in the church, helped cut the timber for the church structure. The building cost $13,000 and was financed by a stock company, formed for the purpose. Levi Jessup sat at the head and 'timed' the first meetings; John Nicholson -was the first clerk. There was no regular pastor, members of the church occupying that position. Among the first were Levi Jessup, Charles F. and Rhoda Coffin, Hannah Lawrence, Theodore Candler, Joanna M. Teague, Sarah Smith, Dr. Dougan Clark and Charles A. Francisco.

Francis P. Garvan of New York eity, who has been director of the bureau of investigations of the alien enemy property custodian's office, has been appointed alien enemy property custodian to succeed A. Mitchell Palmer, who became attorney general on March 4. Mr. Garvan's investigations into alien enemy holdings in every field of American business have laid the basis for much of the activities of the alien enemy property custodian during the past year.

Memories of Old

A teacher was trying to impress upon her pupils recently the fact that history repeats Itself and that many

things which happen today are the counterpart of similar things that happened years and years ago. "Now, will any one tell me of anything new of importance that has happened during the last twenty-five years?" inquired the teacher. "Me," answered one of the pupils.

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The Richmond Water Works filed articles with the Secretary of State to increase its capital stock from $250,000 to $375,000. Allen Jay spoke at Earlham on his experiences as the guest of the Frys ad Cadburys, the great cocoa manufacturers of London. Eighty persons attended the roll call meeting of the Oriental Encampment of Odd Fellows. The Whitewater lodge of Masons held an old fashioned egg supper. Lawyers said that no race could be made for city treasurer in Richmond under the revised Thornton bill which they said abolished the office.

( Signs of Spring ) "The feel of the air Is the only sure sign that spring is here, says City Building Inspector John Pinnick. j You can have warm days In winter, J but someway they never feel right, j But when the genuine article does come along you know it in an Instant.

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U.S. ARMY SCHOOL OPENED IN FRANCE, WflRI ITS RRFoTFXT

NEW YORK. March 10. The American Army university, the largest university in the English-speaking world, has been opened in Beaune, southeast of Paris, it was announced here. Fifteen thousand soldiers have enrolled for the three months course. The faculty of 500 members, chiefly drawn from the American Expeditionary Force, is headed by Col. Ira I. Reeves, formerly president of Norwich university in Vermont. The buildings now serving as study halls and dormitories were used durj ing the war as an American hospital. A farm of 600 acres is used as the main agricultural college, while former workshops of the hospital supply quarters are being utilized by classes in engineering. The American Army university is one of the four features of the educational system Introduced for the benefit of the expeditionary force. The other features are post schools in all organizations for elementary work, corps and divisions for vocational training and general Instruction in high school subjects, the detail of officers and soldiers as students at the French and British universities. Post schools give instructions in the regular common school subjects. Emphasis is laid on geography, study of which is being supervised by Prof. Reginald Aldworth Daly of Harvard. In each army division there is also

a high school giving both regular and vocational courses. When troops are In devastated regions, the training in certain trades, such as masonry, can be made of direct benefit to the localities.

WEAKNESS REMAINS LONG AFTER Influenza

Reports Show That Strength; Energy and Ambition Return Very Slowly to Grippe Patients.

After an attack of Influenza, doctors advise that nature be assisted in its building-up process by the use of a good tonic one that will not only put strength and endurance into the body, but will also help to build up and strengthen the run-down cells of the brain. One of the most highly recommended remedies to put energy Into both body and brain is Bio-feren your physician knows the formula it is printed below. There's iron in Bio-feren the kind of iron that makes red blood corpuscles and creates vigor. There is lecithin also; probably the best brain invigorator known to science. Then there Is good old reliable gentian, that brings back your lagging appetite. There are other ingredients that help to promote good health, as you can see by reading this formula, not forgetting kolo, that great -agent that puts the power of endurance into weak people. Taken altogether Bio-feren is a splendid active tonic that will greatly , help any weak, run-down person to regain normal strength, energy, ambition and endurance. Bio-feren is sold by all reliable druggists and is inexpensive. For weakness after influenza patients are advised to take two tablets after each meal and one at bed time seven a day, until health, strength and vigor are fully restored. It will not fail to help you and If for any reason you are dissatisfied with results your druggist Is authorized to return your money upon request without any red tape of any kind. Note to physicians: There is no secret about the formula of Bioferen, It is printed on every package. Here It is: Lecithin; Calcium Glycerophosphate; Iron Pep ton ate, Manganese Peptonate; Ext. Nux, Vomica: Powdered Gentian; Phaxrolnhthaleln; Olearsln Capsicum.