Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 174, 5 May 1919 — Page 12
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919. DISILLUSIONMENT FOLLOWS LEAGUE PLAN IN EUROPE BOWMAN SLATED FOR STATE JOB, REDS EXECUTE PRINCE the bodies which were unrecognizable were three that had been decapitated They are believed to be thoseof the Countess Westarp, Councillor Dallarmi. who has been known as one of Munich's benefactors, and Prof. Franz von Stuck. AMERICAN COMMITTEE IN FRANCE TO PLEAD FOR IRELAND'S FREEDOM (By Associated Press) PARIS, Saturday. May: 8 Only three of the hostages executed at Munich by the Communists before they were overpowered could be recognized. One of ' them was Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis. Among SAYS OBSERVER K Prognosticator Tells of "Gen
AGE TWELVE
eral Movement Underway Among Republicans." According - to a leading Indiana
Battles Fought in East While Covenant is Adopted League is Lifeless. By FRANK H. SIMONDS. (Copyright, 1919. 3y the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) PARIS, May 5. A -week has passed now since the plenary session at which the covenant of the League of Nations was adopted. In that time I have talked with scores of people who were present 01-. whose opinions would otherwise be Interesting, and the single clear impression as disclosed for those who were presnt and for others is the clear sense of tragic disappointment and equally manifest disillusionment. It is necessary for a moment to recall the circumstances of that session. "When President Wilson had ' completed his statement, the voices of Japan, Belgium and France were raised in immediate protest, while the vacant place of Italy was even more eloquent testimony to facts as they were. Moreover, for those who were present, there was a conscious
ness that while the Paris conference
was thus adopting the League of Nations which carried with it no power
to enforce its decisions, actual war i was raging from the Gulf of Finland ; to the Crimean Peninsula, that . the
Roumanians and Bolshevists were i fighting In the Dniester, the Rouman-
ians and Hungarians along the Theiss, : the Poles and Bolshevists on the front
i from Vllna to PInsk, and the Jugo-
j 81avs and Italians were facing each ; other in arms on the shores of the
Adriatic. League Without Power.
In the session itself the atmosphere
was unmistakable. Correspondents of . journals of countries all over the al
lied world equally testified to the
' same impression of disappointment
While the formal phrases of the
covenant were adopted, there sounded
in the ears of those who heard the
phrases the guns of a score of armies still fighting on European soil, and there was in their minds the realization that one of the great allies had already left the peace conference on the question of national ambition, while still another was daily threatening to take the same course. Moreover, for a third for France, as for Italy and Japan, there was plain warning in the words of the Bourgeois that the covenant of the League of Nations had become a dead thing because no power had been bestowed upon the league to protect the members against attack coming from without. There seems to be an impression in America that opposition to the League
of Nations comes from reactionary j quarters in continental Europe, and that the mass of people in all countries believed in and accepted this document. This was the obvious belief of the president when he appealed to the Italian people over the heads of their government, but today the response of the Italian people is unmistakable. They have followed their government with the same enthusiasm and unanimity that the German people marched with its government in the crucial days of July, 1914. There has been revealed again how impossible it Is to rally a country to abstract justice when national aspiration is rebuffed. Moreover, it is now clear that if conservative Europe always distrusted : the League of Nations, Socialist and radical Europe is now equally oppos- ' ed. "Humanlte," speaking for the Socialists of France, says today: "We : declare, then, once for all, that the proletariat affirms its bitter disillusionment. We are not astonished that the
International Socialist conference at this moment meeting at Amsterdam aleo unanimously rejects this society of nations." ' Guarantee Demanded. I am convinced that If a measure of hope for the future of the League of Nations survives in Great Britain where conditions in a degree recall those of the United " States, since Great Britain, like the United States, is separated by an ocean rampart from khe continent, that on the continent I the covenant of the League of Nations has already become as meaningless as
the agreements at the Hague. The I &
Italian "gesture which has produced the crisis from which we have not yet recovered was a final blow. Wars now going on in the East were an unanswerable illustration of the incapacity of the peace conference to deal with Bolshevism. Continental Europe, conscious that Its necessities, its Age Long traditions, its pecuiar problems, have not been understood, is unmistakably In the throes of reaction against idealirtlc solutions for what it regards as totally practical problems. The French are demanding from their British and American allies a guarantee in military fact against a new German attack, the Italians are taking root on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, in Flume and Dalmatia, In defiance of the appeal of the president, and in obedience to the dictates of the nation's security. The Poles are invadinc t lthinnl and nreoarlnc to attack
Germany to possess themse'ves of territories the conference of peace has alotted to them. The league of Nations represented -before all else the conviction of the president and those Americans who share his views that all men of all nations, without regard to ancient rivalries or contemporary differences, were prepared to rally to the new paspel to overturn their governments if their governments refused to heed the new voice and pursued the old pathways. The last four months have clearly and unmistakably demonstrated that the peoples of Europe quite as much as and perhaps more than their governments are controlled by old conceptions of national unity, political security, individual economic existence, and development. They have demonstrated that France will accept no League of Nations that does not carry with it the specific additional guarantee by Great Britain and the United States against a new attack by Germany, that Italy will not resign national aspirations and sacrifice Flume, that the Poles accept no compromise t in or out of the League of Nations u-hloh dpnrivpn them of unouestioned
ownership of Dantiig. that Jugo-Slavla
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Three prominent Americans of Irish homes in America, convinced as
ancestry have arrived in France "to
voice the sentiment of the vast majority of American citizens" that the delegates selected by the people of Ireland to present the case of the Irish Republic be heard at the Peace Conference. Failing that, the deleprates will attempt to obtain audience for themselves at Versailles. If they fail again, they will return to their
Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the delegation phrases it, that "we have
no other function than to tell tne world that the pledges made regarding the rights of all people for self-
determination have not been carried
out
Former Governor Edward F. Dunne of Illinois and Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia, the other American
Michael J. Cyan
delegates, stated on their arrival that America has always spoken for small nations and as she spoke for Cuba she now speaks for Ireland. Mr. Walsh, principal spokesman for the delegation, said: . "We are American citizens and wo give no allegiance to any other nation, and yet we have come to France to ask something for another nation which has sons and daughters all over the world. We represent those people in America who believe in all the pledges made by this country when we went into war. "Technically Ireland is represented, but we shall ask that she be represented by the delegates chosen by her people along the lines laid down by tne United States when our country declared a state of war to exist. If that is denied, then under tha terms by which we applied for our passport; at Washington, we shall ask for the right to present their cause at Versailles
prefers another war to any compromise along the Adriatic. It is the growing realization of these facts which created the atmosphere in which the League of Nations covenant was adopted. It was the realization of these facts which led so many of those who were present to describe the session as a mockery. At all events, however, permanently accurate the contemporary conception may be, no one can mistake Paris judgment upon the present state of the League of Nations, nor measure the extent of disillusionment and disappointment for all
those who saw in it a partial cure for the evils of recent days.
Score Of Indiana Counties
In Need Of County Agent
According to T. A. Coleman, of Pur
due university, state leader of county agents, Wayne county is only one of
a score in Indiana which are in need of a county agent, says County Superintendent C. O. Williams. The local vacancy may not be filled for some time, because of this fact, said Williams. The opportunities are so great in practical farming that young men who are expert farmers hesitate to go into a moderate salaried job like that of county agent, the purdue authorities claim.
TOWNSHIP PUPILS GRADUATE WEDNESDAY
Italian Poet Leads Finme Demonstration
PERU Glen Chaplin, night watchman, and Horace Weible, armed with shotguns, routed three cracksmen who tried to blow the vault of the Farmers'
Bank at Mexico, five miles north of this city.
Forty-one young people of Wayne
township, outside of the city, will receive diplomas of graduation from the eighth grade, at the exercises in the High school auditorium at S o'clock Wednesday evening. Arthur Edward Johnson will deliver the address of the evening, on "America's Message;" C. O. Williams, county superintendent, will presenc the diplomas, and music will be furnished by the Collegian Chautauqua orchestra. The graduates are as follows : District 1: Helen Hoffman, Clarence Brees; District 2: Ethel Wilson, Jessie
Tice, Ruth Ulmer, Sheffle Shaffer; District 5: Ralph Nickens, Grace Nickens, Elma Weiss, Helen Haisley, Cecil M. Ruby; District 6: Naomi Shutz, Stella Albright, Paul Markley, Theodore Hartman, Harry Worley, Gladys Burns and Wesley McCoy; District 9: Raoburn Finley, Helen Adkins; District 10: Alsie Minor, Mildred Wilson, Jean-
ette Toschlog, Herman Rausch. Ruth Plankenhorn, Thelma Kendrlc, Mam'e Etta Gross, Byrl McConaha, Agnes Crawford, Harley White, Floyd Rich; District 11: Donald W. Semler, Esther Bosworth, Helen Smith, Myrtle Baker, Mao Ellen Gilmore, Theodore Sparks, Lucille Pickett; District 13: Gladys Raynolds; District 14: Clifford Beach; District 15: Beatrice Livengood.
(By Associated Press) ROME, May 5. Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Italian poet, who wai a speaker at the Augusteun: today, was taken ill with fever following his address and was forced to go to bed. He hopes however, to be sufficiently recovered by Monday to lead a demonstration parade of Romans to the capltol to proclaim the annexation of Plume and Dalmatla to Italy. Reports from all Italian towns describe manifestations similar to that held today in Rome. The municipality of Brescia, which had decided to present President Wilson with a copy of its famous statue of Victory, cast in bronze taken from the captured Austrian cannon, have revoked the decision and will ask Signor d'Annunzio to present the statue to Fiume.
political prognosticator, the election of L S. Bowman of Richmond as
auditor of state is one of the objectives of a general movement under way among Indiana Republicans under the guise of helping a harmony program for the good of the entire party.
He lists the objectives as follows: 1. The election of an Indiana delegation In behalf of Governor James P. Goodrich as a candidate for the presidential nomination. 2. The nomination of Chairman Will
H. Hays, of the National committee,! for Governor. j 3. The renomination of Senator James Eli WTatson for the Senate, a position he has been told he can take or leave, as he desires. 1 4. The re-election of Edmund M. Wasmuth, of Huntington, as chairman of the state committee. 5. The re-election of James A. Hem-
enway, of Booneville, former United States Senator, as national committeeman, if he cares to accept. The movement extends to the makeup of the state ticket, he says, for which the following selections have been made: 1. For secretary of state 'Deacon' Roach, of Delphi. 2. For auditor of state L. S. Bowman, of Richmond. . For reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts Will H. Adams, of Wabash, present incumbent in the office. "It not only is possible, but probable that the movement will extend even further," says the prognosticator, "if the higher-ups conclude that it is in the Interest of the party. It is expected denials will be made that a plan of such far-reaching proportions has been considered, but it has and it practically is the same as outlined above. The deal is larger than any attempted in the palmiest days
or tne late Fairbanks-Hemenway-Goodrich organization, which ran the party to suit its whims and purposes until the Bull Moose wrecking crew appeared on the scene In 1912."
Indiana Builders To Meet In Liberty May 13 The May meeting of the Indiana Builders' association will be held at Liberty, Ind., May 13. - The program has not been announced. s
Contest Will Determine Speaker For Exercises A contest, in which the pupils of the Richmond schools will take part, will be staged soon to determine the person who will give the Lincoln Gettysburg address at the memorial exercises May 30. It has been the custom of previous years to put on such a contest in the schools. J. H. Bentley, superintendent of schools, said Monday that the same thing would be done this year.
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