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The Washington times., 1915-12-05
PEACE Now a cRIME--JOFFnE.
Germany Drunk With idea OF DOmI-
nation, SNya French Commander

Germany Drunk with idea OF DOnIi-
nation, Says French Commander.
(From an tnterUiou1 tCith General JOf-
ire on Ot0cn johnson, it Golfers
Weekly
Peace today would be a crime toward
posterity 1t would only be an armis-
lice In which every nation would con-
tinue feverishly to prepare for war.
The French nation Is too intelligent
to deceive itself or to be deceived. We
are not fighting a nation with the same
ideas as our own, but a nation drunk
with the idea of imperial domination, a
nation which believes that i'm the prog
ress of the world there is no peace
Tor little nations, The decision as to
whether Europe will continue as free
and individual will be made in this
war alone Either we win the right
now TO continue democratic and peace
iul, or we surrender Europe to the inn
position of an imperial idea.
You Will find, wherever YOU 60, that
the French people know this. You will
lind them absolutely OF one opinion.
/ They are prepared for anything. and
thcy know what the Issue Is. We DO
not need to lie 90 our soldiers. No mat
ter how long the war lasts. It VIII be
fought Out until we have conquered the
right 20 leave a heritage OF peace %
our children.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
"JAPAN'S POLICY FACES
WEST AND NOT EAST"
Chances OF War with United states
Have Become I'erceDtibIy Mere


The Panama exposition number Of
the Japan Advertiser, Tokyo. printed
partly in English and partly in jap
anese, publishes the following:
Japan's policy faces west and not
east. 1t is in Asia she must seek her des-
tiny. This is Increasingly clear, and
some Americans begin to be troubled
by the fear lest Japanese and AmerI-
can policies should clash in China
Japan's recent demands upon China,
harshly framed, surrounded by mys-
IiGcation. and pressed forward when
almost all the rest of the world was
epgrossed by the tremendous strus-
gle in Europe, made a profound i'm
preston in America. These demands
fell into two sections.
One. in substance, merely secured TO
Japan the reVersion of those Russian
and German interests which she had
acquired in two wars. The treaty of
Pehng, 1915, Is a codicil to the treaty
of Portsmouth, and the realization OF
the German assets at Tstngtau. The
second section was the famous group
w, wherein Japan advanced claims
which, II granted, would have given
her far-reachinE powers in China,
powers incompatible with the main
tenance of China's independence and
WIN lne dectrine OF the open door
Tor which America stands,
During the negotiations Il was report
ed that the Washington Administration
had found II necessary TO call Japan's
mcnt to the ot-Takahira agree
ment which provides inter ALA, for
the defense of the principle OF equal
opportunity for commerce and industry
In China" the. obvious implication be-
ing that the United states would not
recognize the validity of any proceed
ings by Japan which violated that
agreement. Group V was dropped and
general relief and satisfaction was eN-
was left as the residuum. Had Japan
| laid the lines of policy in China
which sooner or later would clash with
American interests? The question re-
| mains and the future will answer II.
We make no pretense that the possl-
| bilities OF trouble have been eliminated,
| but there are several considerations TO
be set down on the credit side. The
storm center has shifted from America
| TO Asia II has become clear that ia
pans policy is an Aslatlc one. The
| California incident. always trivial, u
| seen TO be trivial SO far as the rcla-
| tions OF the two countries In Asia are
concerned we have not a clash OF rights
| as In California. but a possible clash OF
| commercial interests. In short
White there remain possibilities OF dis
| grccmcnt to which Il would be folly
10 shut ones eyes. the chances or war
have become Pereepu5iy more remote
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
DRIVING OUT THE BOY.EDS
AND Won PAPENS

There can be sympathy for the
officials of the Hamburg American
line who have been sentenced to
prison terms for committing a fraud
against the United States Govern
: ment. There can be question
whether the letter of the law should
be vigorously enforced or mitigated
by clemencv.
Those men violated our national
statutes in the way they sent and
tried to send supplies to German
warships. But .they were not tried
for sending the supplies. They were
. not convicted because it was a crime
to send the supplies. They have not
been sentenced to Jail because of
that at all. They are to be pun
ished for deceiving and for conspir-
ing to deceive the Government--with
false manifests-as to what they
were doing, though it were proper
enough to do the thing itself.
Let us make the point clear with
this illustrations An exporter, COM
plying with the Federal rules and
regulations, has perfect right to
ship guns, explosives or whatever
he pleases to any destination he
wants to reach and can reach. But
nobody has any right at all to ship
under false manifests even food and
medicine to famine sufferers in the
peaceful West Indies.
1t was not the shipment, it was
the fraudulent manifests which
brought the Hsmburg-America Off
cials to the bar. And since there
probably was the intent of deceiving
the United States Government mere
ly to deceive the armed enemy how
ering off our ports, those shippers
now sentenced to prison terms,
though they knew they were doing
wrong, very naturally can stand and
do stand in a better light than if
they had committed their acts with
no other purpose than to cheat or
rob or otherwise iniure the Govern
ment. So there will be large com.
miseratipn for those men, and there
might reasonably be charity and
mercy.
Not so with Captain Boy-Ed and
Captain Won Papen, attaches of the
German embassy, who are virtually
dismissed from this country. Their
offenses are different in an unquali.
fiedly reprehensible and absolutely
objectionable degree. Official guests
Of this nation, they plotted deliber,
ately to involve its neutrality. Rep,
resentatives of the German govern.
ment, bound by code not to betraS
our hospitality, they were, in effect
making war here on our soil not only
against powers with which we are
friendly but against the American
people themselves.
OF all the hideOus crimes-arson
dynamiting, murder-committed in
'aip country in 4 laWless and c9W.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Wednesday,
MISUNDERSTANDING. 10 \.

Mssonic-Harmony, No. Il: King Solomon
No. 81: School OF Instruction. St John 3
Mite Association; Columbia, No. /, Royal
Arch Chapter; Naomi No. 3; Brookland,
No. H.. Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows Eastern. No. Z; Harmony No
3; Federal CITY, No. 20; Columbia, No. /,
Encampment.
Knights OF Pythias-Coiumbia. No. 26; Mt
Vernon, No. .; Hermoine, No Il: Union
No. q; Washington Company. No. /. Uni
form Rank.
Sons of veterans-cushinE Camp Fife and
Drum Corps. practice.
National union--P. o. Department Council
Interior Council
Independent order Of Red Men-VVhite Fs .Ia
Tribe, No. H.
Knights, OF COlumbus-ChoraI Society. re-
hearsAl
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
GREATEST BUSINESS WEEK

Bank clearances for the country as
a whole aggregated last week just a
little under five billions Of dollars.
Such figures mean little to the aver
age person; but significance becomes
obvious when it is added that no
such total was ever touched before
in any week of the country's his
tory. Never in the best times Of
1907, or any other period of phe-
nomenal prosperity, was last weeks
record nearly equaled. For the
country the increase is about so
per cent over the corresponding
week of 1914, and for New York
city, whose clearances were consid-
erably more than half the country's
total, the increase was about 100 per
cent.
Comparisons with last year are, of
course, misleading, because from the
opening Of the war business was un-
der extremely depressing influences
for several months. The stock ex-
changes were closed or doing a very
limited and closely restricted busi-
ness. But the comparison need not
be made merely with the depressed
period of a year ago. The world
never saw such business activity as
engages this country now; and the
; United States never before was en-
gagged in such a wide variety of
financial, industrial, and commercial
operations. Our exports are greater
than ever; the railroads are unable
to handle the tonnage offered to
them, and the time is not far distant
when this congestion of traffic will
! find reflection in the business fig
ures, unless measures can be de-
vised to overcome bad conditions.
Investment has entered new fields,
and placed America far in the lead
of the worlds financial factors.
There is no indication of a slacken-
ing; rather, signs point to the pros
pect of persisting, steady increase
! for many months to come. The
| fashion in which this country has
risen to it's opportunities, becoming
banker, investor, merchant, factor,
manufacturer, and general facto-
tum to the whole needy world, is a
performance fairly without parallel
in business experience. Nobody has
been more surprised than the Ameri-
can people at the latent capacity for
great things that this country has
demonstrated. 1t is the more remark
able, because before the war began
the country was in a commercial and
industrial position of depression,
from which recovery was going for
ward at discouragingly slow pace.
There was lack of confidence such
as business is wont to feel when
the country is under the domination
of the party now in power. Then the
hour of opportunity and of pressing
need sounded; and America rose to
the demands that a whole world
made upon it. 1t is one of the most
wonderful incidents of the whole
realm of new experiences that the
war has brought to humanity.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
"BOcHI2" 4 NEW EPrTHET.
Figures Frequently Ga French Court
A Term OF Abuse.


A. Term OF Abuse.
The word "boche," a new one I'm the
French language, introduced since the
beginning OF the great war as a desig-
nation to be applied to a German. is re-
garded as a most offensive expression
when applied by anyone to u French
man or woman, according TO the Indian
dpOliS NetUS.
II now figures frequently in French
courts as q term of abuse, for which
the user sometimes pays a money pen
atty or as much as eight days of Inn
prisonment.
Recently nine women We're brought
into court and the complainant, a man
asked for 1900 francs as damages be-
cause these danes had called him =
''boche." One definition of the word
says that Il is a shortening OF the word
''caboche." which. interpreted into Eng-
lish, means a dunderhcad. a nincOm'
poop. O blockhead, a numskull, an ignU,
ramus. a mutton head and several OthCi
things which tho German is not. II Is
In no wEy related 10 the American word
"kibOsh," which has not yet been &C
eepted by photographers.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Tuesday.

Masonic-NatlonaI. NO. Il; Armlnius. No. sS;
Alyron NJ Parker, No u: King David
No. -; hithras Lodge OF Perfection. Scot
usn Kite; AiEpah, No. s; Fidelity. No ~.
. Eastern star.
ODD FelIows-Mount Pleasant No %. Wash
lnBton, No. s; Golden Rule. No, 2I; Ami,y.
No. "a fldenty, no. Z. Rebekahs.
knights or I'ytmas-WsDsteT, No. I: Excel
sior. No. IL; capital. No. "A; Myrtle No .
National Unlon-DistTict OF COLUMBIA CabI-
net class initiation Pythian Temple
Jr. u. L. A. Accommodation Council No.
80. -''
knights OF Columbus--Carroll Council.
Daughters Of AfneTica-F1delity Council
L, >. w N.-Gen: Nelson A. Miles Camp,
No. !. Perpetual Building
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Friday.

Masonic-St Johns. No II: Hope. No. 20;
Capitol, No. II, Royal Arch Masohs; Ia
koma, No. l2; Cathedral No Il; ST.
Johns Lodge. No. IS, Eastern Star.
odd Fellows-Phoenix, No. n; Central, no.
]; Dorcas, No A. Martha Washington, No.
3, RebekRhs.
Knights OF Observation-Disclosures Superior No.
20; Syracusians, No 10; Rathbone Temple,
No. s. Pythian Sisters
Daughters of America Progressive Council
- Georgetown Council.
Royal ArcanuVl-Analostan Council.
knights Of Columbus--Joint meeting Keane.
Spalding and Potomac Councils.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05

In a sharp interview given out today.
Senator McCumber OF North Dakota,
who is a member of the Senate Finance
Committee, criticises the plans of Secre-
taIy McAdoo for the raising OF adGi-
tiOnal taxes.
Senator McCumber saws the Adminis-
tration ought not to be so fearful of a
bond issue as the "hole in the Treasury
vaults" will have to be filled. and the
fact cannot be concealed from the
public.
Discussing the condition Of the
Treasury and Mr.. McAdoo's sugges-
tions. Senator McCum5er said:
Financial Lever Needed.
''As to the extent we are in the hole
there seems to be q difference of opinion
between the Secretary and the Demo
cratic leader Of the House. Mr.. Kitchin
declares we are In a worse condition
than the Secretary's statement would In
dicate, but they both agree that we
are in bad, and must devise some kind
of a financial lever to pry ourselves out.
'"rhe last Republican Administration
was not only paying all the ordinary
running expenses of the Government
without devising new and additional
methods of taxation, but was also meet
ing the heavy demands due to the con-
struction of the Panama Canal, and
still maintaining a good surplus IL the
Treasury. With the enactment OF the
new tariff law began the process Of
rapid depletion OF the Treasury. Un-
doubtedly the war has played some part
in this work, but war or no war, a
deficit was certain.
Criticises War Taxes.
"Our revenues for imports declined
rapidly before the war and pointed defi-
nitely toward either a bond Issue or ad-
ditional taxation. The Administration,
fearful Of the influence OF a bond issue
uDon the coming elections, chose to i'm.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Saturday.

Masonic-Acacia No IS
odd FellOws-Canton Washington, No. l.
PRtriarchs Militant.
National Union-Columbia Council Nonpareil
Council.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Tomorrow.

AuuIehh' MISE Saine hopWoou' 81 Jonn's 3
Meeting. washington Kennel Club. gro.to
room, 7i2 Twelfth street northwest D. m.
Discussion, '''rhe Truth About Preparedness, -
at meeting OF woman'H Single Tax club
Public Library. D. m.
Address on the Mission 20 Leperg DIR. J. w
byterian ministers. New York Avenue Pres.
byterian Church. II q. m
Illustrated lecture. g" Denmark" Dr.zH. w.
Foght, Home Club s D. m.
Bazaar and Christmas sale. All Souls
Church. New willard. afternoon and even
ing.
Smoker. Junior law class Catholic univer-
Convention, Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage, formal opening Of national head
quarters, reception Of ENJOYS from far
West, and visit to the White House. during
day.
Address. Thomas Mott Osborne. before Ma.
tonal Civic Federation. Rauscher's. IL a.
Meeting. Mems Club of Christ Church parish.
Georgetown. D. m.
Meeting, Guardians OF Liberty. Court No. /,
Perpetual Building. p. m.
Exhibit. National Association Of Portrait
Painters, private view, CorcOran Art Gal
Concert United States Marine Band Or
chestra. Marine Barracks, $50 D. m.
Meeting. Baltimore Reunion Association OF
washington Lodge. No. l5. b. p. o. E..
Song recital. National Library for the Blind,
i72s II street northwest, 1880 p. m.
French. No 15 Anacostia. No "a Pen
talpha, No. 25 Mount Pleasant. No. 33;
Orient, No. g. Knights Templar; Ruth. No.
]. Eastern Star.
odd Fellows-Upion. No. IL; Beacon, No. Is:
LanGdon, No. &c; Naomi No. !. Ruth. No,
?. RebekahB
| Knights OF Pythias-Amaranth. No. 2s; Cen
tury. No. 80: Friendship Temple No .,
Pythian Sisters
Sons OF Veterans-Lincoln Camp. No. 2. cleo
tlon.
Uritsd Order OF Golden Cross-St John 8
Commandery, meets with Mount Vernon
Commandery, S4 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast.
Woman's Beneft Association OF the Mac
eabees-Rally. Old Masonic Temple
knights OF Columbus-Washington General
Assembly. fourth degree
Address, Vital Issues OF the Hour. Inciud-
ing the Buenz Case and the Recall OF
Capts. Boyd and Won Papen," Miss Janet
Richards. auditorium. Woodward 10th
roD'a. i0:a5 a. M.
| l.. s. w N.-Semper FidelIs Camp No IL
| Marine Barracks
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
HERE DURING WEEK
Many Interesting Events Of I'm
portance Are Scheduled
For Capital.

Socialist meeting and lecture. 81 street
northwest. s y. m.
Reception TO Congressman Courtney w
Hafnlin, OF Missouri. BY Mems Bara "a
class leaders. Metropolitan Baptist Church,
Memorial services cOAfederats Memorial
Home, 1Ss2 Vermont avenue northwest, !
D.
Anniversary services. Hebrew Congreaatlon.
Mass meeting OF volunteer helpers OF war
sufferers, New Masonic Temple thirteenth
street and New York avenue, also D. m
Debate. should CaIltal Punishment BE
Abolished7" by members OF Judah p, Don
jamin Law Club. Sixth and l streets north
west. y. m.
Memorial services. Columbia Typographical
Union. No. lol. O'Clock. 42s q strest
Concert. United states Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall, 6:45 p. m.
Baptism, Fifth Baptist Church. 1880 D. m.
Address. Judge Willis Brown, Eastern Pres
byterian Church. 1880 D. m.
Election OF officers, Alliance Of Young Peo-
pies Organizations. Y. M. G. A., 1880 D. m.
Addresses on the Mission to Lepers. Miss
Bertha G. Johnson, at vesper services, Y.
w. e. A., D. M; DIR. j. W. Mexican, Mt.
Pleasant Congregational Church, 8 y. M,
and ". NJ. Danner. Gurley Memorial Pres
byterian Church, D. m.
disqualification OF third degree Washington
Council X. OF c., In hall. 3 D. m.
Memorial services, Washington Lodge u.
p. o. f., Elks' Hall 3 p. m,
Memorial services Columbia, No 101, Typo
graphical Union, at Temple. 423 O street
northwest, y. m.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Conservation Impossible

The umber-holding corporations were
regarded as natural victims for assess
ors and tax collectors. Their real po-
sition was that they wanted to hold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

The extent Of the immigration that may be
expected at the end Of the war may be gath
cred from the following letter | have received
from a prominent and reliable Russian pub
licist, thoroughly acquainted with the prob
lem:
1T is my opinion and the opinion of Jews
who are interested in social problems and have
visited Russian Poland recently that directly
after the war the Jews will begin to emigrate
from Russia in streams There will be an
exodus unequalled in Jewish history. | estl-
mate that in the first stream of Jewish emf
grafton there will be no fewer than 100000,
not counting the 900 Jewish emigrants who,
under ordinary circumstances, leave Russia
every year.
1T may be that all the emigrants will not
be able to leave at once; but nevertheless they
will swell the tide that will break loose at the
first opportunity, even under the worst condl-
tons. We cannot help them now in Russia, and
after the war will be too oppressed to accom-
plsh anything of Importance So our hopes
are at present with our American brethren
The Jews of America are confronted by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

tary proves by the excitement 1t aroused.
Not only was war a formative and develop
mental social force of the first Importance
among early men, but it was comparatively
free from the disadvantages which warfare
later on developed; the hardness of their life
and the obtuseness of their sensibilty reduced
to a minimum the bad results of wounds and
shocks, while their warfare, being free from
the awful devices due to the devitry of modern
man. was comparatively innocuous; even If very
destructive, its destruction necessarily
limited by the fact that those accumulated
treasures of the past which largely make civil
ization had not come into existence. We may
admire the beautiful humanity, the final de.
veoped social organization and the skill in the
arts attained by such people as the Esquimau
tribes which know nothing of war, but we must
also recognize that warfare among primitive
peoples has often been progressive and deve-
opmental force of the first Importance, creating
virtues apt for use in quite other than mill
tary spheres.
The case is altered when we turn from saw
agery to civilization. The new and more COM
pick social order while, on the one hand, it
presents substitutes for war in so far as war
is a source Of virtues, on the other hand rem
ders war a much more dangerous performance
both to the individual and to the community,
becoming indeed progressively dangerous to
both. until it reaches such climax of world
wide injury as we witness to-day. The claim
made in primitive societies that warfare is
necessary to the maintenance of virility and
courage, a claim so fully admitted that only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

"Of course, we could not expect a different
behavior of the Russians, in spite of the hero
ism displayed by the hundreds of thousands of
Jewish soldiers fighting in the ranks of the
hosts of the Gar. But public opinion in Amer
lea ought to make it clear to the government
and press Of England that they have moral
duty to bring 10 bear influence upon their
Russian allies so as 70 obtain of them a mini
mum of decency, humanity and self-control."
In the confagration of Europe the house of
Israel has been set on fire in every land. The
Zionist organization abroad has been parayzed
si.cc the outbreak of hostilites. The practical
dreamers Of Israel, the inspired builders of
Israels future among the nations, have found
themselves divided by the boundaries of the
enemies. In this grave crisis the Zionist organ
zaton that has been working energetically and
enthusiastically for the restoration of Israels
old home to the people without home, for the
regeneration of Israel's gories and the develop
ment of Jewish culture upon Israel's own terri
tory in the land of his fathers-the Zionist or
ganzaton that has been working for this has
found itself broken down abroad, and the eyes
Of the Jewish people of the world are turned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

A little while ago rumor wa circula'e'
in the press to the effect that Spain had mace
an official appeal to the Jews inviting lmnn
grafton. 4 number of enthusiastic edltoras
have already been written about the return o.
the Jews to Spain, about the new welcome thS'
has been extended to the Jews by the lan'
where their forefathers were tortured g
the Inquisition. But the stories Of this othe@
invitation have proved untrue. The SPANS,
Ambassador to America informed me seVet~
days ago that his government had extended ~
official invitation to the Jews but tns' y
merely replied to a correspondent in answer !"
an inquiry that there were no restrictions uP''
Jewish immigration to Spain.
The Jews of America are confronted W .
colossal task. have the feeling that II Pre-
dent Wilson was right when he said that w
mission of America is to serve MANKIND wv.
the mission of American Jewry Is surrey
serve their unfortunate brethren in EuroPe'
whatever land they may be suffering
It seems to me that if the Jews OF Ah'ei ~
will exert all their efforts calmly ana oe"s
erately and wisely they may at the e'0S'
this calamity succeed in solving tha' NV.
painful problem known as the JEWISH w
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
Continued from first page.

in special orders, and scattered widely, the
great mass of the Russian people Is melted to
militant anti-Semitsm. What will happen to
the Jewish people in Russia at the close OF
the war if this conspiracy is not checked Is too
terrible to imagine The Russian government
is trying to blame the Jews for whatever de-
feats they have already suffered on the battle
fields. and as a result Of this, wholesale eX-
pulsions have been ordered from number OF
neutrality-suspicious. of entire Jewish COM
munities.
That these prosecutions and wholesale expul-
sions will have a direct effect upon this coun-
trv there can be no doubt. While emigration
from other countries may be comparatively
small after the war, because every country
will need all the men that will be left to help
in the rebuilding of cities and towns and vii
lagos that have been destroyed in the readjust-
ment of the industries that have been para
lyzed, the Jews Of Russia, threatened with
wholesale massacres, will be driven by despair
TO these shores in quest Of shelter and of equal