The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1920 — Page 2

PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War? NOW WEAK AND HEARTBROKEN In Mourning and Poverty She Counts Her Dead and Looks With Eyes of Sadness Toward the Threatening Future. Article 11. By FRANK COMERFORD. August 1, 1914. was the (lay. On that day Germany declared war on Russia. The tire alarm rang around the world. Peasants in the field straightened their backs, listened and looked into the sun confused, wondering. Flags were unfurled, bands played, faces were white, tense and serious. Men left theiif work and talked in groups on the street corners. Women laid down their brooms, put aside their washing, and talked in whispers; sad lights were in their eyes. Children stopped playing. Something had happened. EviP things were ahead. August 3 and 4 found France and Great Britain mobilizing their sons. The torjth was sweeping Europe—the fire of death had started. For four long years—heart-sicken-ing years—-the world ran red. Men waded through mud and blood, fought, suffered, cursed, prayed, while back home do »he manless houses women ana children worked, cried, prayed, and waited. The world was mad. Deatn\poisoned every breath the people breathed. s It is over now, it is finished. A stunned, numbed, weak, heartbroken is again sitting in the sun of peace. Europe is in dirty black rags. The black is mourning, the rags are poverty. Her face is deeply lined — trenches made by suffering. Her eyes are downeast and dead. Hope flutters weakly in her breast; faith has faded from her soul. Her home is a house of darkness. The fire oii the hearth has turned to cold gray ashes. The kettle no longer sings, it moans. Her mind is weary, her body is wasted. Hanger has robbed her of her strength. Her stockingless, shoeless feet are blue from the cold. Her lips wear starvation color. Ice in the winter’s wind lashes her shivering, half-naked body. She mumbles as she stares vacantly into space—she is tired, so tired. As I beheld her it seemed to me that a face so troubled and sad must never have known a smile. I listened to her mutterings. I found that she was counting. Over and over again she counted on her thin, tired, worn hands —she was counting her dead. Thinking of Her Loss. She was thinking, rfer eyes looked over the hundreds of thousands of square miles of war zone, slashed with trenches, pitted and’pockmarked by shells. She sees where they fell. No tears are in her eyes, *Long ago the hurt had reached the point where tears dry up. Row upon row, line upon line, mile upon mile, whitepainted wooden crosses mark their graves. For the most part they were her youngest born, her most beloved, who dug deep in the soil to sleep forever in the dark dugouts. As they fell bleeding from steel and, lead, choking, from gas, writhing in agony from fire, they proved in the dying word they spoke that they were mere boys, as they had shown in their fighting that they were brave men. To the poppies they intrusted their message, and the red poppies remember the last word of Europe’s dying sons, who went out into the great beyond with this last word on their lips, “Mother.” She has finished counting; an ache shudders through her bent bodjy She sighs and sobs. “Seven and a half million of my sons are dead.” Her thoughts turn to the living, her arms open to receive them, she holds them to her heart. They have come, but how? Some with sightless eyes, doomed to grope through the world in a neverending darkness, a night without stars or moon; sunless, black, hopeless days, and these, too, young men in the very morning of their day. Others sentenced to silence—deaf and dumb. Never again will she hear their voices nor will they hear hers. Still others in wheel chairs, dwarfed, legless. More hobbling on crutches, limping on canes. Some with empty sleeves. Many with great scars, where once was a handsome face. She sees them all, her heart bleeds; the twisted, the mangled, the torn. She is counting them, the 12.616,017, the wounded of the war. War’s Frightful Cost. Her voice is husky, her hands are tired, but she must count on. and a half million of her sons were marked “missing and prisoners” in the official war score. Many of these have come back to her, but she does not question them —she dare not Their faces tell of the unspeakable horrors they endured. She sees in their eyes a depth of pain that is unfathomable. She is a mother —she knows. The war is over, but she is not over the war. Must she never stop counting? Is there no end to her losses? The graveyards are crowded. Her

DEATH BY HANGING. In onswer to a physician who asks what is the cause of death in hanging, and how soon it ensues, a medical journal says that if the knot be properly adjusted, instant death from breaking the spinal cord Is produced, but in a majority of cases asphyxiation is the cause of death. In this th# man may retain consciousness for from a few seconds to a minute and a na'f and m:ty retain life for from 15 to 20 ‘ '

thoughts turn to the dead who. while they did not die in the war, died piecause of the war. Those who went out in battle left life tn a burst of glory. Others there were who fell in their tracks—exhaustion, broken hearts sent them “west.” She has not forgotten how the home flank suffered. The stay-at-homes were not all slackers. They fought hunger and cold, bent their backs beyond the straining point. Worst of all, they waited. It Is estimated that 20.000.(100 civilians died from weakness., fatigue, strain, broken hearts—the horror of waiting destroyed resistance. These were ths underfed older men and women, the scared, undernourished children. Is there any wonder that Europe has a death look In her eyes? Death has been her morning thought. It has been her night sob, and for four years made up of months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds death has been her Nemesis.' She Is now totaling. The figures are appalling. They stagger her imagination. It is easy to write them, impossible to understand their full meaning. The mind can’t grasp it; the world is bewildered by the number. It is too stupendous, too horrible for understanding. Think of it, seven and a half million young men. for the most part between the ages of eighteen and thirty, the youth, the strength, the spirit, the man power of Europe, dead —twenty million from civil life dead, over twelve and a half million wounded. Who can measure this loss? War brought death. It did more — it stopped birth. In the devastated regions of Belgium, France, Italy, Poland. parts of Russia and the Balkan countries, the birth rate fell to almost nothing. In England and Wales the birth rate, in the last part of 1915 was 19.5, the lowest on record. Mallett calculated that the birth rate had fallen 12 per cent in England and Wales by 1916. The Journal of Heredity quotes Savorgnan as having estimated that it will Sake England at least ten years, Germany 12 years', Italy 38 years and France 36 years to recuperate their populations. These calculations by Savorgnan were made before the fearful losses of the campaign of 1918. A village in France. Blerancourt. tells what the war has done to the man power of Europe. This village, which is in the Chateau Thierry-Soissons district, had a population of a thousand people before the war. Its losses have been tabulated. Twenty-six soldiers from this-village were killed in the war. Ninety-seven of the villagers died from war privations. The total of 123 is the death foil of a village of a thousand. The figures ! have quoted from the calculations of Savorgnan and Mallett were made before the war was finished. Since the war, estimates have been made, and these estimates show the situation to be even worse. In France I was told that 57 per cent of the men between twenty and forty years were listed as dead, or incapacitated for work. Further, that It would take France over 70 years tc/recover her normal population. < It is said that it -will -take Italy 50 years and England 25 years to regain normality of population. The human waste of the war is more than sad memories. The loss of man power makes a grave problem. It has thrown out of balance the domestic scheme of the world. It will be felt for years. There are a great many more young women than men. Home life is bound to suffer. There will be fewer; marriages, fewer children. Statistics only tell part of the story. (Copyright, 1920. Western Newspaper Union) European Tarantula. An eminent authority in such matters, in remarking that the tarantula is a spider, says of that terrifying >reature that it is the Lycosa Tarantula, a species of spider found in some of the warmer parts of Italy and Spain. When full grown it is about the size of a chestnut and of a brown color. Its bite was at one time supposed te be dangerous and to induce a kind of “dancing disease,” but now it is known'Uot to be worse than the sting of a common wasp. It is an old fable, extending to remotest times, that the bite of this spider would produce epilepsy or a strange dancing mania in its victims and that this epilepsy or madness could be relieved only by a particular kind of music. The tarantula of Italy and Spain—and it is found in those countries today—has hairy legs with black markings eh them. America’s Debt to Jews. Jews figured very prominently In the discovery of America by Columbus according to Rabbi David Philipson of Cincinnati. The first man who stepped on the shore of the new world was the interpreter of the expedition, Luis de Torres, a Jew. Bernal, the ship surgeon. was also a Jew, as were several members of the crew. It is also now said to be established that the long-credited belief that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to furnish Columbus with the funds for the trip is a legend. These funds, it is said, were furnished by two Jews, Luis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez. A letter by Columbus to Sanchez is still extant, In which he gives some account of his exploits. Who Knows? A friend of mine called upon a newly wedded pair and I happened to drop in. The bride had been a widow. My friend remarked to me, ‘You introduced them to each other, didn’t you?” “Why, yes,” I tactlessly blurted, “I introduced her to her first and second husbands and who knows but what I'll be the one to introduce her to her third one?”—Exchange.

SUBJUGATE. When an army was conquered 4n Roman times, tt was obliged to "pass under the yoke” as an evidence of defeat at the hands of the enemy. This “yoke” was sometimes made by setting up two spears and putting a third across the top. Our English word subjugate (derived from Latin “sub,” or under, and “jugum,” or yoke) thus contains in its composition a spectacular custom from tjie military life of the Romans.

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- sn fir iISRSSW- ■. - J I —Remarkable airplane photograph of Niagara Falls taken from an elevation of 350 feet. 2 —Stills owned and operated by the government as part of the laboratory for testing the alcoholic content of drinks. 3—Great German submarine testing tank that is now owned by the British.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Britain Hurrying to Put Up a Barrier Against Bolsheviki in the Caucasus. MAY REQUIRE 200,000 TROOPS Holland Unwilling to Surrender Former Kaiser for Trial—Admiral Sims’ Sensational Charges Against Navy Department —Administration Organ Booms Hoover for President. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Soviet Russia’s threat against Persia, and consequently/ against all of southern Asia, as was foreseen, has so alarmed the British that they are hurrying to the defense of their great interests in that part of the world. Naval forces from the Mediterranean already have been sent into the Black sea and troops, probably about 10,000 of them at first, may be dispatched to the Caucasus at once. Batum, at the eastern point of the Black sea, is their first objective, and from there they will undertake to occupy and hold the line of the Tiflis-Baku railway running to the Caspian. Georgia and Azerbaijan, the two new republics which make up the peninsula between the inland seas, have asked assistance against the soviet forces, and the barrier against Trotzky’s armies must be built there. According to dispatches from Paris the supreme council believes that ultimately at least 100,000 troops will be needed, in the Caucasus, and perhaps the estimate will be doubled later. France, of course, because of her interests in Syria, is concerned only in a lesser degree than is Great Britain in the advance of the bolsheviki toward Asia Minor. As her share, it is understood, France will relieve the British of all participation in the military work in the plebiscite area in Germany, the official announcement by Marshal Foch being that the British troops are “not ready.” They had been waiting at Cologne for months for this duty, however, so it is fair to presume that they will be hurried to the near East. The British already have small forces in Persia and have begun the organization of the Persian army, but the native troops canhot yet be counted on to any great extent. Aside frofn protecting her broad avenue to the Indian frontier, Britain is vitally interested in saving the immensely valuable oil fields of which' Baku is the center. Moreover, under the secret treaty negotiated last summer, Great Britain is boiind to protect Persia. Another move to check the bolshevik! is reported from arsaw, where it is rumored that the Roumanians are preparing to occupy Odessa and organize its defenses against the soviet forces.

Preceding these developments came the news that the supreme council had lifted the trade blockade against soviet Russia, and the bolshevist leaders hailed this as a sure sign that the allies were about to make peace with them. Their belief appears to be unfounded, though the disposition to withdraw from all intervention within the boundaries of Russia is growing mightily. Even the Japanese announce that they are about to quit Siberia, where, however, their protege, General Semenoff, has just declared himself supreme ruler because Admiral Kolchak has disappeared. The Czechs are still along the trans-Siberian railway in the Lake. Baikal region and bloody conflicts between them and the Semenoff troops are said to be frequent. The essential weakness of the Kol-chak-Semenoff opposition to the bolsheviki, as of the movements led by Denikine, Yudenitch and others, lies in the fact that all these leaders are recognized as representatives of the reactionary and monarchistic elements. Thus they cannot hold the support of the great mass of the people, who, if not bolshevlsts, are social revolutiontits and social democrats For this

Each Had a Reason. A neighbor who had been working hard aH day decided she wanted a little recreation, so she remarked to the family at supper that she was going to a show tonight, just to get out The little 3-year-old daughter looked up and said: “I’m going to the show just to get in.” Ninety Sumatran Volcanoes. The Boekit Barisan, a series of mountain ranges running the whole length of the island of Sumatra, near

reason, too, the presence of the Japanese in Siberia has been a constant source of trouble. Correspondents pay high tribute to General Graves for the way in which he has handled the American troops in Siberia in all this mixup. ’ ■# The conference of the Baltic nations closed with the appointment of a commission to work out a plan for a defensive alliance against soviet Russia. Contrary to expectations, there was not even discussion of the question of making peace with the bolsheviki. Lithuania wanted to form an alliance with Esthonia and Latvia against Poland, and when this was rejected the Lithuanians virtually withdrew’ from the conference. It is intimated that Lithuania may make alliances with both soviet Russia and Germany, which w’ould make the position df Poland even .more uncomfortable than it now is. Jugo-Slavia, at this writing, is standing pat on its claims to Fiume and its consequent refusal to accept the settlement of the Adriatic question adopted by Great Britain, France and Italy. It w’ill hold to this position, said a Serbian diplomat, as long as President Wilson supported it, and would then be willing to submit the entire question to the League of Nations. The supreme council on Tuesday sent a note to Belgrade which, it was said, gave the Jugo-Slavs four days to reconsider their refusal, and threatened that if they persisted the principles set forth In the pact of London would be applied to the territories in dispute. This is more evemthan Italy now’ is asking. The long awaited demand on Holland for the surrender of the former German emperor was AliKpatched by the allies, a&d near the end of the week the reply was received by the supreme council. Though at this time the reply had not been made public, it was generally understood that in it Holland refused to give* up the refugee fAr trial, considering that this is her international duty and bearing in mind the fact that the Dutch constitution forbids extradition. The Dutch press denies that feelings of sympathy or antipathy have anything to do with the course adopted by’ the government. <_ the sanctity of William’s refuge is to be preserved one wonders how Lloyd George can carry out his pre-election promise to him to justice. The possibility of trying and condemning him by default has been considered. Politics, especially in a presidential election year, sfeizes on nearly everything for its own uses, and that is the fate that has befallen Admiral Sims’ scathing criticism of the navy department and its chief, Secretary’ Daniels. It is being treated as a partisan matter by the senate, whose naval affairs committee has it in hand. The Republicans—excepting Senator Borah —are supporting the admiral, and the/Democrats by the same token have rallied to the defense of Daniels. The most sensational charge made by Sims was that on his departure for England a high official of the department said to him: “Don’t let the British pull the wool over your eyes. It is none of our business pulling thejr chestnuts out of the fire. We w’ould as soon fight the British as the Germans.” Secretary Daniels flatly denies having said this, or anything like it, and the admiral said he would tell only the committee the name of the man w’ho did. More important wdb the general charge that Sims never w’as given whole-hearted and efficieit support by the department in the prosecution of the war at sea, and tha|: the cost of Daniels’ policy, or lack of policy, was the loss of many lives and much shipping. All of this was contained in a letter from Admiral Sims to the department, w’hich the admiral made public at the demand of the senate subcommittee investigating the matter of naval decoration awards. The whole scandal will be given a thorough airing, and the Republicans will not overlook the additional material it may give them for the campaign. The sensation of the week in domestic politics was the announcement of the New York World that it was for Herbert Hoover for president, on any ticket, “on a platform representing the kind of government which Mr. Hoover has exemplified in his public career.”

the western coast, splits in the north into parallel chains which encircle the broad Karo-Batak plateau and the vast area of Tuba lake. In these partially explored ranges there have already been discovered 90 volcanoes, 12 of which are now active, the constructive and destructive forces of Sumatra’s formation.—Melvin A. Hall in thp National Geographic Magazine. Gets Shaken Into Place. “Occasionally,” said Senator Sorghum, “a man starts as a leader and

Since the World has been the leading metropolitan organ of the Wilson administration this aroused great interest and some excitement in the Dem<r cratic camp. The important question, of course, w as whether or not it meant that Mr. Hoover was the choice of Mr. Wilson. No ope could answ-er this officially. Some of the Southern Democrats said they would not favor Ho<> ve * because they considered him a Republican ; some of the members of the party’ from the West thought the farmers would oppose him because he put a fixed price on wheat and let cotton soar. Mr. Hoover himself maintained a dignified silence. The secretary of the Bryan league says Colonel House is responsible for the Hoover boom. There has been some talk of Edward I. Edwards, the wet governor of New Jersey, as the Democratic nominee, and there, too, Mr. Bryan comes to the front. He says he would oppose any such movement and would not be a delegate to the convention if Nebraska should instruct for Edwards. Furthermore, if Homer S. Cummings favor! Edwards he will never again 'be national chairman of the Democrat!! party if Bryan can prevent it. S< there! . While the federal prohibition agents are seizing millions of dollars’ worth of liquors and the bootleggers oh the borders and the moonshiners everywhere are making small fortunes, one wisp of hope is held out to the wets. The Supreme court of the United States has granted to Rhode Island permission to institute in that court original proceedings to test the validity of both the prohibition amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead enforcement act. - The suit is brought by direction of the Rhode Island legislature, which refused to ratify the amendment. It is alleged that the amendment is an interference with the state police powers and a violation of the fifth constitutional amendment, and is “usurpatory, unconstitutional and void.” A generally overlooked feature .of the prohibition law’ which is of immense interest to thousands of property owners was brought to public attention last wepk. This section imposes a fine of not more than 82.000 or a prison sentence of not more than two years on the owners of property upon which are displayed signs pr posters advertising liquors which are intoxicating. . < "• The first cargo of radicals deporteo from the United States was landed in Finland and on Monday of last week the reds crossed the border into Russia, where they were greeted by boisterous crowds of their brother bqlshevists. Emma and Berkman were the last to cross the frozen river between the two countries. Preparations to send over a lot more of that ilk are proceeding and arrests are of daily occurrence. In Chicago William Bross Lloyd, the millionaire communist. and 34 of his fellows were indicted for conspiracy to overthrow the government. Despite the severest kind of criticism from many eminent citizens of all parties, the majority in the New’ York assembly insisted on the suspension of the five Socialist members-elect, and they are now on trial before the assembly judiciary committee, charged with disloyalty. Some of the best lawyers the Socialist party can boast are engaged In the defense, but the committee excluded the New York City Bar association committee, headed by C.K Hughes, from independent participation in the proceedings. That association was among those that condemned tfle action of the assembly. Morris Hillquit, chief counsel for the defendants, said if the decision was against them it would “let loose the violent revolution which we Socialists have always endeavored to stem.” Defeated for the presidency of France by Paul Deschanel, M. Clemenceau has retired from public life with the plaudits of his associates of the allied nations ringing in his ears. Millerand, a strong man, succeeds him as premier and as president of the peace conference. Clemenceau’s downfall was not surprising, for, despite his splendid conduct of affairs during the war, he had a host of bitter enemies In France. The new government does not hold out to Germany any hopes of more lenient treatment than did th# ola.

then has to to with all his might to keep at the head of his own procession.” How She Heard. Mrs. Flatbush —I am certainly very glad to meet you. I have heard so much about you. Mrs. Benspnhurst—Oh, indeed! Then you are the woman who has been stealing my servants from me! The guy who figured out the equipment we must take to France with us.

.THE FISHING PLACE. Wast—Where are you going on your vacation, old ,j Crimsonbeak—l’m going fishing ih a little lake up- in Maine. “Why don’t; you go somewheres?” “What do you mean by somewheres?” “You’re viasting your time fishing in a little lalTe. Statisticians tell us that Lake Erie produces more fish to the square niile than any other tiody of water in the world.” Cheerful Giver. “Brain work is not always well compensated.” “Brairf workers,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “is mostly too generous. Every summer boarder we had was willin’ to give me advice by the hour on how to run the farm, and never Charge* me a cent.” Realism. The Star—The author of this play is a stupid stickler for realism. 7 The Manager—l have noticed it. The Star —Why he objects %o my wearing diamond rings in the scene where I pawn my hat to buy food for the children.—Tit-Bits. 'SUMMED UP. “Os what does a shad consist?” “A backbone, a wishbone, a funny bone and then some.” The Employment of. Time. What do we gain when discords lurk In such illogical array, When people who decline to work Are in no mood for rest or play? Taking Things Easy. w as he excited when the burglars entered his house? Detective Sergeant—Well, in away, he was. He bawled them out for waking up the baby. A Warning. “Sir, I come, to ask you if you will give me your daughter’s hand.” “Willingly, my dear boy, but be careful not to put it In your pocket.” Those Dear Girls. Margaret—He sure is light on his feet Stella—Yes, he’s evenly balanced. He’s also light in his head. The Main Thing. “Did the operation you underwent cost you much suffering?” “Yes, but it was the money it cost me that hurt.” Place Nearly All Right. Mistress (nervously)—l do hope the place will suit you.* New’ Maid—Well, the house is not bad, and I rather like the looks of the policeman on the beat, but if I stay here you’ll kindly take them horrible pictures down.—London Tit-Bits. ' Stingy! “By the way, George, w hat shall we get Mabel for a w edding present ? She gave us that plush upholstered chair that’s in the attic, you know.” “I don’t think we’d better send her anything, dear. Why not let bygones be bygones?”—Life. Extemporizing. “That meeting of actors led to some confused discussion.” “Yes.” replied Mr. Stormington Barnes. “After all, it is best to» call in an author now and then to help out with the dialogue.” Both in the Same Boat. Beggar —Mister, I’m in trouble, and— Pedestrian —Don’t bother me. I’ve got a second-hand automobile, too. — Judge. The Early Bird. Mr. Diick—Seems to me your voice Is kinda husky this morning, Mr. Pelican. Mr. Pelican—Well, you see, I went fishing earlier than usual end got a frog in my throat.—Cartoons. Before the Happy Day. Doris —She believes every word he tells her. Lilian —How long have they been married? Doris —They’re not married. They’re going to be. —London Answers. The Practical Problem. “Make hay while the sun shines,” said the offhand philosopher. “That kind of advice is easy,” commented Farmer Corntossel. “What you want to invent is some method of gettin’ a crop in during three or four weeks of steady rain.” Improves With Age. Hewitt —There’s no fool like an old fool. Jewett —Os course not. The longer you are a fool the better fool, you get to be.

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