The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 August 1919 — Page 2

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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Nearly Two Score Are Killed in War Between Whites and Blacks in Chicago. STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT Street Car Men Strike at Same Time —Urgency of Action to Cut Living Cost Impressed on Government—Status of Peace Treaty Contest. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Race riots and strikes made Chicago the news center of the country for the week, and the'news from it was sensational and plentiful. Starting in a trilling quarrel over the “color line” at a bathing, beach, a real race war sprang up with startling suddenness and quickly spread throughout the South side of the city, where most of the negroes live, and thence to the downtown business district, with sporadic outbreaks in oilier regions. Before the authorities got the situation under control nearly two score persons had been killed and several hundred wounded. For several days the mayor insisted the police could restore order, but realization of his mistake was forced on him and he called on the governor for assistance from Hie stale militia. Several regiments at bhce occupied the “black belt.” However, the establishment of martial law was avoided and thus the city “saved its face.” There is no doubt that the casualty lists of the race war were kept down by the fact that the strike of the .street car men was coincident with the riots. Not a surface or elevated car was running and it was comparatively easy for the authorities to keep out of the riot district the trouble and curiosity seekers. The strike,' which had been impending for some time, was precipitated suddenly by the radical element in the car men's unions, a compromise offer of the companies, approved by the state-and city authorities and the heads of the unions, being rejected. Though seriously hampered in getting to its work and in transacting business, the public took the situation good naturedly and made its way to the business district and home again with rather remarkable facility. All manner of motor vehicles were pressed into service and the steam roads exerted every effort to carry their many thousands of extra passengers. The demand of the car men for a heavy Increase in wages did not ‘have general sympathy, for it meant a corresponding increase in the fares charged. - There have been many bitter complaints lately to 'the effect that the government Was not doing what it might to reduce the cost of living by selling to consumers the 1 immense surplus stores of food held by the war department. On Thursday the war department put on sale about 341,000,000 pounds of those foodstuffs, including canned vegetables, corned be'ef, bacon, <roast beef, frozen meats and poultry. The marketing, was done through local postmasters and mail carriers, who took orders from buyers, received the cash and delivered the goods. The prices obtained represented the cost to the government plus the postage. This sale was es-

FEW DEAD NOT IDENTIFIED Almost Every Gravje of a Soldier Who Fell in France Aas Been Properly Marked. Fewer than one-half of 1 per cent of the American soldiers who died on the battlefields of France were burled unidentified, according to Col. Joseph S. Herron of Cincinnati, commander of the 15,000 troops who Interred the fallen Americans. The men under Cob onel Herron’s command removed the

pecially well patronized by the people of small towns and rural districts, and it was predicted that the supplies would be disposed of within a week. Os course such a measure as this is only a drop in the bucket, and it is being more and more forcibly impressed on the government that it must do something to make the cost of life’s necessities square with the incomes of the people. The advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers took up the matter directly with the president, presenting to- him a memorandum which he characterized as an “impressive document” and ordered made public. The board appealed to the president and cabinet for government action to increase the purchasing power of the dollar, failing in which, it said, the engineers would have to ask a further increase in wages. The memorandum asserted that the spirit of unrest existing among all classes, especially wage earners, was hue “mainly to the conscienceless profiteering by the great interests who have secured control of all the necessaries of life.” The engineers are wise enough to see and to admit that increasing the wages is but temporary relief so long as prices continue to soar. Just before the engineers visited the White House Democratic National Chairman Cummings reported to the president on his political inspection trip over the country, telling Mr. Wilson of the growing importance of action to reduce the cost of living. What form that action will take, when it comes, cannot be conjectured * even from the fact that official investigations of various kinds of alleged profiteering are under way or proposed. The immediate result of till this was a conference of cabinet members and heads of bureaus called by Attorney General Palmer for the purpose of discussing the situation and possible remedies. The government will seek to stop and punish profiteering, to determine the contributing causes for high prices and .to devise remedies for immediate relief for the public. The administration is gravely concerned over the manifest discontent of the American farmers, which conies just at a • time when the official estimates of the nation's wheat crop have had to be greatly reduced. The farmers have been dissatisfied with the system of grading fixed by the bureau of markets of the department of agriculture, and now, as Chairman Barnes of the government grain corporation told the president, they are protesting against an order from the corporation fixing a schedule of discounts for the lower grades of wheat. This, they assert, deprives them of an unreasonably large part of the guar-’ anteed price of $2.26 per bushel, the amount received being in some instances as low as $1.45 per bushel. The Franco-American defense treaty was submitted to the senate, ami at once became a subject of dehate in the committee on foreign relations, along with the peace treaty. President Wilson, in asking its approval, said he considered the treaty with Germany and the covenant of the League of Nations gave France full protection, but that he had been moved to the treaty by considerations of frierrdship and gratitude to France. Opposition senators protested that this pact violated the constitutional right of congress to make war, to which the president’s supporters had the obvious retort that if created no precedent, similar action having been taken in numerous cases in the past. The foreign relations committee did an unusual if not unprecedented thing in holding public hearings on the peace treaty. Bernard Baruch was the first

dead from the temporary graves dug for them under fire or at night on the field where they fell and laid them to rest in concentration centers. Each cemetery is surrounded by a painted fence and the grass On the graves is kept green and cared for by a detachment of soldiers left on duty* as caretakers. The largest is at Romagne, where He 22,000 Americans who died In the Argonne and Meuse sectors, and the next largest Is at Thlaucourt, where 4,300 soldier* who died at St. Mihlel and Toul are burled.

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witness and was questioned especially regarding the reparation and other financial clauses. President Wilson postponed the start of his speaking tour of the country probably until August 15. and continued his efforts in Washington in behalf of the peace treaty and league covenant. He called in more senators to conference, both Democrats and Republicans. and appealed for unqualified ratification of the treaty especially on the ground that reservations or amendments would necessitate its resubmission to Germany, which he said would be humiliating to us. To Senator Fernaid of Maine Mr. Wilson said he had assumed there were at least sixty’ senators who'would take a world view of the situation. “There are sixty men in the United States senate who take a world view of the situation.” Senator Fernahi replied. “Fortunately, they include in their view the best interests of the United States of America.” Other senators told the president that while they recognized the fact that reservations would cause delay, they considered the protection of American interests of greater importance than speedy ratification. There is no doubt that both sides to the controversy would be glad to find some dignified way out of it, but neither seems to have made any converts. The help which the administration expected in the way of a formal declaration by Japan that it would restore Shantung to China was not forthcoming and that, grab clause remained a sore spot. Official dispatches from Maj. J. C. Green, director of the American relief administration's work in Turkey, calls attention to the imminent peril of the remainder of the Armenian nation. The Turks have reorganized their army and they and the Tatars tire advancing on the Armenians from three sides, cutting them off from all relief supplies and threatening their extermination. . Unless military protection is afforded the Armenians at once, says Major Green, the disaster will be more terrible than the massacres in 1915. In Paris it Is said the peace conference’s hands are tied until America decides whether or not it will accept a mandate for Asia Minor. Germany’s commissioners named to attend to the delivery of live stock to the French and Belgians, and to the transfer of the Saar coal mines has arrived at Versailles and gone to work, and in other respects the Germans seem to be trying reluctantly to carry out the provisions of the treaty. But their array’ in Letvia remains obdurate and General Von der Goltz and other officers have become so insolent in their endeavors to prevent the Letts from establishing a stable government that the supreme council of the allies has ordered the immediate expulsion of the German troops from Letvia. Austria was given until one o’clock in the afternoon of August 6 to consider the terms offered her. Her press and public men have declared the terms are impossible of acceptance, and on Thursday it was announced that the cabinet, headed by Dr. Karl Renner, had decided to resign. Though America was not at war with Bulgaria, it was decided that it should sign the treaty with that nation. This treaty was completed with the exception of some of the territorial clauses. All the Allies except America were in favor of awarding western Thrace to Greece. Undersecretary of State Polk, who has taken Secretary Lansing’s place on the council, was taking an active part in the discussion of this matter.

The advisabiliyt of bringing the American dead back from France was questioned by Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, member of the French senate, who sailed for France after a brief visit to this country. Baron de Constant, referring to the proposed removal of the war dead of the allied countries said: “In this time of confusion It would not be wise to attempt to remove the dead. There would be terrible mistakes made. In any event it Is better to wait until times are mor* settled.**

PUNISH OFFICERS WHO WERE CRUEL CASES OF BRUTALITY FEW IN PROPORTION TO NUMBER OF MEN IN ARMY. “A. W. 0. L.” SERIOUS OFFENSE Tendency Among "People of United States to Belittle Charge, Because They Do Not. Realize What Offense Really Means in Time of Battle. By EDWARD B. CLARK. t\ ash.nylon.—,X special committee of the house, of representatives is investigating the charges of cruelly to American soldiers in France who were confined, to the guardhouse op various charges of bad conduct. Six American soldiers, now discharged from the service, have testitied that they were brutally treated while under arrest. It appeared at the hearings that several oiticers who were accused of cruelty to prisoners have been convicted and tied others are awaiting trial. Os course the statement that American soldiers who were prisoners in our guardhouses were cruelly treated is on'e to arouse the anger-of the American people, but it ought to be remembered that the eases of alleged brutality are few and that 2,000,000 men were serving the colors in France. Army officials believe that the mothers and fathers of the soldiers should know that these cast's are isolated ones; that every charge of ill-treat-ment had been Investigated, and that those proved to be guilty of cruelty to the men have been brought to justice, or are about to be so brought. There are two sides to every question, as are to every question in civil life, but the tendency of the American people as sitown by the Washington records, is to believe everything ill that is spoken of the army. There are many guardhouses in France. There had to be places where the unruly, the mutinous, the shirks and others charged with military offenses could be confined. Small in Proportion. The number of prisoners charged with offenses was large, but it was very small in proportion to the number of men in the army. There has been a tendency among the people of the United States to belittle the charge known in the army as “A. W. (). L„” otherwise “absent without leave.” A good many of the guardhouse cases were men charged with this offense. One hears frequently in Washington, as apparently elsewhere, how shameful a thing it is to lock a man up simply because he has taken a day or two days’ leave without permission. Doubtless fathers and mothers of many, American soldiers feel this way. How would the fathers and mothers of some of the soldiers killed on the battlefield feel today on this subject if they knew that perhaps their sons’ lives were lost because the sons of other fathers and mothers had shirked their duty, and had gone “A. W. O. L.” at critical times, thus necessitating service in the first line for men who already had served there and were in rest billets? So it is that “A. W. O. L. - ’ on occasion means much more than people think it means. Cruelties to prisoners, whether they absented themselves from their commands at a critical time or not, is something that the American people will not stand for, but the expressions of sympathy for well-treated prisoners s mply because they tire prisoners is sometimes misplaced. It is no lie to say that some American soldiers lost their lives while doing the work which it was the duty of other soldiers to do. The special committee of the house of representatives is investigating charges of cruelties to guardhouse prisoners in France. Any officer or noncommissioned officer who is cruel to a prisoner, no matter what his offense, will be punished, for such always has been the way of the military authorities in the field, but so far as sentiment and sympathy concern themselves with legal punishments for men v\ho shirked their duty that others might do it, the American people in many cases, perhaps, justly might stop sentimentalizing and sympathizing. Senate Debate Not Convincing. The senate of the United States these days is literally an international debating society with a national setting. The representatives of a nation are discussing proposed relations with virtually all the other nations on the face of the earth. The senate is an interesting place, but admittedly it is a place where one cannot get the full light of conviction. The man with tin open mind on the subject of the League of Nations who goes into the senate galleries to get the illumination of conviction has his troubles. Within an hour the League of Nations covenant first will be pronounced the world’s greatest document, “marking the beginning of a new and better order in world's affairs,” and then denounced as “a pact which if given the life of law will undermine Americanism, destroy nationalism -and bring war and tumult into the world.” Men have come to Washington to listen to the debates of the League of Nations and gone away saying: “We must make up our minds for ourselves.” It is a huge subject, this League of Nations, and no one knows It better than those devoted ones who

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have read it as one Unltea (states senator was said to have read the Bible, “from kiver to klver.” When a printed copy of the covenant and the peace pact is read section by section, and an application is had of the multitudinous national interests involved, it is easy enough to understand why criticism should pass concerning the length of time which it took the conference in Paris to reach its decision. Fail to Get LightThere are persons who go into the galleries of the senate to listen to the debate and who come away unilluminated, and who because of the tortuous paths of the arguments are willing to leave the following of them to the senators, apd to shift the responsibility from their shoulders to those of the men who are intrusted with the business of making decisions in high matters of state. The galleries of the senate today are interesting places, interesting in part because of the diversified natures of those who attend the daily sessions. 'Scores upon scores of men and women go to the galleries for one day and leave-with the decision not to return. There are s> ores of others, however, who return day after day to listen to the senators on this side and to the senators on that side, enjoying the debate for the very warmth of it arid probably hoping that some day a spark wilt fly which will supply light sufficient for the siallery student to see his own way clopr to an opinion on tins world pact. Perhaps it is the fact that enfranchisement has come to them in so large a degree recently that makes the women journey to the galleries in tar greater numbers than the men. It has been noticeable in the senate, and in the house, too, for that matter, in recent months that the women are showing a strong interest in matters of legislation ami of government generally. Wrath Hits Them, There are in the gallery day by day many men and .women whose minds already are made up. They are the ones whose enthusiasms get away from them once in a while, and who by their demonstrations call down upon their heads the wrath of the vice president, or the president pro tempore, whichever happens to be presiding. It is against the rules of the senate to evidence vocally or by hand clapping or foot-stamping, approval or disapproval of anything which is said or, the floor. Once in a while the galleries are cleared by order of the vice president because of these demonstrations. “Day of Glory” for France. “The day of glory has arrived.” It was , with these words that a dispatch describing the Bastile day celebration in Paris began. The arrival of this message stirred Washington. It quickened the beating of the pulses of all the soldiers here, the ablebodied and those others in the hospitals who, with their comrades sound of body and of limb, helped to make possible the day of glory in Paris. The French know how to keep fete days. They have a genius for such things. It is innate with them. They do not have to study to produce effects, because every Frenchman personally is an effect-producing factory. On Bastile day soldiers of every one of the allied and the associate nations in the war against Germany appeared in the parade which was what the French planned te make it —a pageant of glory anil yet a pageant of simplicity. The Arc de Triomphe. as usual, was made the apex of the triumphant demonstration. Immediately after the entry of the Germans into Paris in IS7I the French drew chains across what may be called the gateways of the Arc tie Trioiuphe. Those cltains never were to be taken down until French armies could pass through them returning triumphant from the fields where victorious battle had been waged in behalf of free France. Chains Come Down. On Bastfie day the chains were down and representatives of the triumphant armies of France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Serbia and the United States passed through. Every American soldier who saw Paris sajw the Arc de Triomphe. Their footsteps passed along the wonderful avenue of the Elysees to the point where the avenue radiated from the Arc to make the star. The lesson of the Arc de Triomphe was borne in upon every American soldier who stood under its shadow. When the treaty of peace was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the palace of Versailles the French officials, with that keen perception of the eternal fitness of things, had invited to be present delegations of enlisted men of all the allied nations. It was a peculiarly French conception. To be present there were the dignitaries of the great nations, but the French with that keenness of perception which is their own saw that the bulwarks of freedom, the plain manhood of the countries, must be represented to make the occasion logical, complete and, yes, dramatic. It was in this spirit that Bastile day was celebrated. It was a celebration not in honor of the president of France, nor even in honor of the great generals who commanded the armies .of ..the allies, nor yet even in special honor of the poilus and the doughboys and Tommies who had made victory certain, but in honor of a world freed from the peril of militaristic domination, and of freedom once more triumphant .’ have seen several celfbratidns in Paris. The same spirit imbued all of them. They were dramatic and yet simple. It was possible to read a lesson in every detail.

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WHERE BEGGING IS AN ART Syrians. Are Adepts, and Thieving in , All Branches Is a Flourishing Business. «• The well-fed German out here (in Syria) used to call the Turkish soldier ; an “artiste de faim.” The poor Syrian , is a genius it it. Begging is the most flourishing trade in Syria, and the only one at which the craftsman gets a proper apprenticeship. Interspersed among the real starvers you. will find child actors who would win a furore in London. They lie in an attitude of death in a woman's lap, their wellrounded limbs carefully covered with vepminous rags. You will see them ten minutes later, when mamma has gone home for lunch, playing touch. Thieving in all its brandies —piracy from off-loading ships, fraud, smuggling of stolen goods, pilfering and pocket picking—had such a boom on the arrival of the British as was never known in the best Turkish days, though now it is waning beneath a somewfiat determined police surveilance.. Animals? They talk ar home of selling army horses out here. Well, the Arab and even the Syrian knows the value of his horse and tlult while he is in working order it pays to keep him so. That is the utmost limit; and as to work horses, or any other animals, it would need all the staff of the free of eyesores.—Anglo-French Review. The Miracle. “The miracles of high finance always remind me of the milk boy,” said Samuel Gompers the other day. “A milk boy entered a cake shop with his can. “ ‘Gimme a cake an’ a glass of water,’ he said. “The shopkeeper,: filling the order, asked: “ ‘What do you want with water on a cold morning like this, son?’ “‘To pay for the cake, of course,’ said the milk boy, and he emptied, as he spoke, the water into his can jf milk.”

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The Way of It. ‘‘Talking about this shortage of coal—.” “It is getting to be a burning issue.” Dr. Peery's "Dead Shot" is not a “lozense ,, or “syrup," but a real old-fashioned dose of medicine which cleans out Worms or Tapeworm with a single dose. Adv. HAD FORGOTTEN HIS PART But Mr. Newnich Was in Evidence at Dramatic Performance, as He Had Insisted. Mr. Corpulent Newrich offered to finance the performance of his daughters’ dramatic society, and his announcemen was received with acclamation. But when he added the provision that he paid the expenses on condition that he was given a part the joy diminished. Mr. Newrich was well endowed with wealth, but ais vocabulary did not include a single “h.” They argued. bu,t Mr. Newrich stood firm. “No part, no money,” was his decision. At last they hit on a plan. He was to come on in the second scene and just say “Silence!” He eouk. not go far wrong with that. Mr. Newrich was satisfied. He would be in evidence at the performance. The great day arrived and all went well until the curtain ose on the second scene. * From the wing strode Mr. Newrich. Holding up his hand, b e uttered one word: “’Ushl” —London Answers. Turning Over the Soil. “I take it that you follow agricultural pursuits.” said the new minister tq a myn of his-congregation. “What made you think that?” asked the man. ■ “My wife told me she saw you the other day turning over the soil.” “Oh, I was hunting for woriuS. I went fishing that day.”—Yonkers ■Statesman. A A man thinks that there i only one man in the world whose whistling is not a nuisance.