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The Washington times., 1918-02-21
3D|STRICT MEN
JAILED FOR FIGHT
AFTER WILD RIDE

Arrested after a wild auto ride
from Baltimore and a fist night with
Sheriff W. Wesley Beall and Deputy
Thomas Garrison. three Washington
men will be given a hearing this al
ternoon by Justice Alfred Il. Bailey
at Bladensburg Jail. Charges OF JOY
riding. drunkenness and diSorderly
conduct, operating a nautO while un-
der the influence Of liquor and with
out a Maryland drivers card. and as
saultinE an officer will be preferred.
The trio are Walter Winfield Jor-
dan. OF 1929 Twenty-siXth street
northwest: Joseph Storrs. same ad-
dress. and William Howard Smith, of
224O Ontario road.
Had Ofncer's Machine.
The machine. an eight-cylinder
touring car. which is practically I'M
damaged. is the property OF Captain
George p. Scott. L. $. y. Of lTl9 II
street northwest. who went to
Hyattsville this morning. identified It.
and drove it back to Washington.
Jordan. who IL said To- have been
driving. Is held in bonds Of $1,000.
Smith was released after his half
brother. George Smith. with whom
he lives. had put up $500 and a like
amount was furnished for Storrs.
Scene of MIShnps.
1t Is alleged that Jordan, Storrs, and
Smith had gone to Baltimore in the
machine. and that they there became
intoxicated The officers declare
hat. returning on the Washington
baltimore pike, the car hit a wagon,
the owner OF which has not been iden-
titled, and demolished 1t. rhe men put
on more speed, it Is said, and reach
ing nyattsville at 100 p. m. yesier-
day, smashed the Baltimore and OHIO
abroad gates, which were down. ana
passed through. Then E"all and Car
rIson boarded the automobile and
made the arrests after an encounter.
The Washington times., 1918-02-21
CUMBERLAND
THREATENS OTHER
POTOMAC POINTS

The Potomac river has risen
three feet at Chain Bridge In the
past twenty -four hours, and Is
still rising slowly, with an IN.
usually rapid current.
Reports to the Weather Bureau
indicate that the crest Of the
Cumberland food Is reaching
Harpers Ferry, where the stage
was twelve feet at noon, q rise Of
six feet In tWenty-fOur hours
The river here will probably
continue to rise slowly for the
next tTenty-fOur hours or longer.
CUMBERLAND, Nd. Feb. 21.-Thil
city today IS recovering from q flood
which covered four city streets for {
distance OF a quarter OF q mile last
night The Western Maryland rail
roa Is threatened by the swollen
creeks, several washouts having al
rtady taken place.
The Listonburg Coal Mining Com
pany, twenty-five miles west Of he. {
has suspended operations for ten days
The bridge connecting the mine with
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad wls
washed away at Addison near Grants
Willie Nd
Al Piedmont. W. Va. thirty miles
above here. Pratt street was und ~
water last night. The water ross
eight feet in six hours. Damage to
prog erty could not be ascer aimed
today. but 1t Is be. eveG that Il was
slIsht.
1t is said that four coal mines on
The Chaffe railroad. converting the
Western Maryland at Wind x, have
been compelled to close down l. will
takG a month 20 estore the bridges
that have been washed away, IL was
said
Today the Potomac Is about eight
feet above normal here. 1t IL ve-y
cold. The river has been steadily -
ceding all the morning.
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Mu.t Boil Water At Carr.

CAMP MEADE, Nd, Feb. 21.-ThS
Patuxent river Is today swollen int
a wild, muddy torrent. The medical
authorities have given emphatic or
ders that no man Is to drink any
water that has not been boiled. This
rule is to be enforced rigidly.
The danger OF a flood here IL not so
acute since engineers detailed from
the camp two weeks ago blasted n
spillway, thus saving the reservoir.
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-wTIIamspOrt, Nd.

WILLIAMSPORT, Nd, Feb. H.
The Potomac here is about I'VE feet
above normal today. The weather Il
cold.
River men expressed little fear to-
day that the Potomac would rise here
much because OF the upper river
floods. There has been no rain here
since Tuesday night.
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WITH
PRESIDENT CALLED
OFFBY lands
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
CONTINUED from First Page.O

from flISA dEF-J
their respects" especially his friends.
but his burden is unprecedented and
every second is valuable.
1t isn't that Mr.. Wilson must work
at 100 per cent speed, but It is the
interruption Of relatively uniThportant
matters and engagements that take
his mind from the tasks that require
prolonged elaboration and freedom
from bother.
The President this week has been
head over heels at work on three
things--the labor problem, which is
by no means adjusted as yet. even
though there are no new developments
to chronicle: the Legislation pending
in the Senate for a consolidation of
Government bureaus. especially those
in the War Department, and the gem
eral question OF reorganization occa-
stoned by the resignation of Dan W.T.
lard as chairman Of the War Indus
tries Board.
When Mr.. Wilson picks a chairman,
undoubtedly he will give him virtually
all the powers which Il minister Of
munitions would have.
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President Waiting.

It IS thought possible that the
President is waiting for the passage
OF the bill before instituting his plan
OF reorganization, though in some
quarters the suggestion il made that
an announcement Of prospective plan
would help materially to push the
measure through Senate and House.
Judging by the leisurely way in which
Congress Is acting, the latter course
NAV become necessary any day. II IS
now more than two weeks since the
President first requested the lcgisla-
ton t. enable him to cut red tape and
coordinate his executive bureaus.
The bill has yet To pass the Senate
and IL haSsn't even been reported
from "A House committee. Mr.. Wilson
: meeting meTU brrs Of Congress every
lay IN an effort to get action. Besides
hat, he H.. OF course, watching events
I'm Russia and Europe generally He Is
concerned. too, over the labor ques;.u
and the shipping program. That ~
why Judge KenesRw Lands deserves
conspicuous mention today. lie didn't
DO her the President because he found
1t absolutely unnecessary. II only
hundreds Of others would do likewise.
III Wilson would be helped immeas-
uIabiy.
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HARPERs FERRY. Feb. 21.-Th

HARPERS FERRY. Feb. 21-Ths
river here showed a steady rise this
morning. The rise Is in the PotO-
mac, the Shenandoah remaining about
the same. The Potomac was eleven
feet above the low water mark
There IS no danger OF q flood here.
rivermen asserted today, but points
down river may suffer from the rains
OF last night and yesterday. The
mountains are still covered VITA
snow. The weather is freezing.
The Washington times., 1918-02-21

HANCOCK. SIdy Feb. 21.-The river
IL only slightly higher than usual to-
day. There are no indications of
sudden rise.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01

the Reds gain control join hands with the Russian
Reds and then shall have the old situation OF rival
Now much of this is familiar ground There is moth
ing about the League Of Nations and after long
and exhaustng general war men have before sought
insurance through International combination
Thus when Napoleon defeated the soveregns OF
Europe combined in a Holy alliance. They united
against what they conceived to be the peril to
their time namely republican ideas They included
France in the alliance because they able to place
themselves, duly authenticated king. the
French throne.
But in facing the same difficulty that must now bs
faced again the Of Napoleon far
logical than the viotors OF the hour They de-
sired to outbreak like t.ss French revolu
ton with its 20 odd OF consequent But they
realized this would be impossible II they under
took 10 write treaty which imposed upon France any
such burdens would awaken permanent resentment
minds of the French people Therefore they
rihced their claims against France in the main, giving
the French people almost complete immunity from
punishment a bride to win them to the new order.
SUMMING UP
THE SITUATION.
Actually, the situation was this: For more than 20
years French armies had Europe, making
foreign countries, ensting the subjects, requison
ing the funds The revolution, and Napoleon after It.
had made the expense Of the enemy, and France
free from debt the hour when the emperor alb
dicated Here was a clear warrant for indemnIties
clear chance for rerbuve justice, but the
deliberately aside. They deprived France Of her
conquests they restricted practically the limits
Of 1889 but there they left IT. and the additional bu
dens placed upon the nation after Napoleon had re-
turned and regained power only to fall Waterloo,
were, in fact Insignificant
The result that France for the ent accepted
Louis XVIII and the Bourbonds No permanent
sentiment engendered against the conquerors OF Ma
pOleon result of the treaty of In
the Bourbons, then the Orleanists
returned to the BOnapartes and then exed Napoleon
III but the only notifications OF the territorial ar
rangements Of the Napoleonic settlement, far
France was concerned the acquisition OF Savoy
and Nice by of the inhabitants and the loss OF
Alsace-Lorraine by conquest The Holy Alliance q
failure IL effort to turn back the tide
of human but the treaty its founders framed
with France stood the test OF time
it would be conceivable that should the vctors
the present follow the example Of those OF
century before remit to Germany their just claims for
ndemnties. themselves with taking for France
Alsace-Lorraine and distributing German colonies
they chose they might successfully establish
derby in Germany and, in negotiating with il,
formulate constitution OF League Of Nations Re-
member not for single moment suggesting this
a right, just proper course. On the contrary it
would in my Judgment, sngularly inequitable ani
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01

intolerabIe But II the League Nations chief
concern the peace congress this would offer a way,
think the only conceivable way. Of bringing Ger
many into IT
IT, by contrast, proceed 20 frame demands and
impose them upon Germany, Alsace-Lorraine Schles-
wig, Prussian Poland, with Danzg, the German col
a indemnity of 10 TO 20 billions, in what
spirit will the German people be with respect to
League Nations organized by their enemies who have
just imposed upon them this terrific sentence? And
granting that Germany succeeds in establishing
OF government which sends duly authorized deo
gates to Versailles, will that government able
obtain ratification of its treaty from the German
pie. will it and the treaty both be repudated?
CALL THIS
FATAL DILEMMA.
This to my mind, is the fatal dilemma which grows
out of the combination of two wholly dissmilar OBJ
jectives Versailles 1t the dilemma faced by the
conquerors Of Napoleon, who were
of today to insurance against the
terrible CONFUSION which had shaken Europe for
80 months. but for % years. They solved 1t by
arating two detectives. They made prompt peace
the treaty of Paris and in this treaty
they deliberately surrendered their material claims
against France that France might not be left in a
of suilen and enduring resentment which would
make q new war almost inevitable.
Having this they to Vienna and there,
a real congress-, undertook the reorganization Of
Europe and of international relations OF the world
which expressed in the treaty of Vienna, fortified
by subsequent agreement made between kings. AT
Vienna appeared equal, and. represented
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01

by Taneyrand reasserted her old influence IN
abomination. They contained the seeds of
told and revolutions but this does lessen the
strength Of the argument that only by the separation
OF the detectives could any have been
made, and had the Vienna document been good
II bad would have been possible II the vctors
OF 1914 and 1915 had pursued toward France the
bound 20 pursue toward Germany.
In and peace, in all human relations it Is
equally essential to fix upon the objective. Is the Yer
sales gathering be primarily for the purpose OF
compelling Germany, at last conquered, make just
restitution and PREPARATION for past sins against hu
manty2 To make her the French and Belgtans
what she has stolen seized, destroyed? If II is
frame treaty which does these things. and have
the power to enforce this repayment, however long
and intricate may be the We have liberated
French Belgian soil and reclaimed Lorraine;
the German colonies in hands, is the Ger
navy and the weapons Of the army. We Oc-
cupying the left bank Of the Rhine and
tinue to occupy it until Germany just Ger
soldiers stayed IN eastern France until the in
demnity of 1871 paid
WHAT WILL BE THE
COURSE OF GERMANY.
if our first objective is to reorganze human
cety international society by creating League of Ma
which all peoples willingly the right
power settle their international differences
organization which in the nature of things will be
a guarantor OF things as they are. the map made
Germany, bleeding from the wounds OF settlement
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01

manufacturers 10 buy their wares
II Is that. and far moro than that,
The true perspective of It's magnitude ramihcations
and FesPsnsibttleRare suggested the expenditures
Of the dvlsisn, Up TO Aug. /, 1915 single depart
meRt had purchased 900 of supplies Re
cent expenditures OF another department week
amounted 20 nearly 100000. while tho purchases of
a third department. were little s4,5O0,O00 for
the week,
When il taken into consideration that the large
dsbursed by this division everything from
s'soo-heFsePewer engines to the frying in the
galley and that all equipment not only must be
dueed AGAIN and again. yet always in time to meet the
requirements or approximately 200 shipyards
Maine to Oregon, becomes apparent that the supply
division has real job
But what goes into q shp7
a little bit OF almost everything earth.
Not including part of the structure of the hull
there are approximately aooo groups of things thai
make up tho completed ship
WHAT GOES INTO SHIP.
Each Of these 5000 groups is made up Of a varying
number Cd items While srnokestack ordinarily
sptices for a cargo carrier, there may 500
the engine outfit.
All these items may be grouped as follows;
Boiler Observation-Disclosures. spare parts for boilers,
fire brick. tagging uptakes and stacks. bulk
heads cook and hreroom outfits, and ventilators
Engine Department-Engines. spare parts and tools
and ladders and hand rails thrust shafts thrust
bearings shafng line bearings shaft engine
outfit, stern tubes and propellers, gauges. and
steam whistles.
Electrical Generator SETS sv,itchboards
searchghts, light fixtures radio sets interior
ications lights fans bulbs teegra ph
conduits, fittings, all electric wire cable
electricians tool boxes, lamps and lanterns
Pipe and Valve Departmental valves piping, pipe
covering. sea wales and connections.
Auxiliary Observation-Disclosures. winches capstans,
steerers, and all tanks cOndensers all
pumps evapOrators, feed water heaters oil filters
jectors, distilIers hosts;
chimes and induced draft fans
Anchor and Chains-Anchors. cables, hawsers and
warps davits feboats life RATS boats running
rigging blocks (spare). ships bells.
stack
Miscellaneous Equipment Departmental canvas
flags navigating outfit L. S. inspection outfit,
miscellaneous outfit deck outfit, all ships stores up
hosery cutlery and plated ware glass and chnaware,
bedding, linen, furniture. lockers
stewards outfits.
Now, these things needed for ships and ship
yards staple articles manufactured stored
quantities Of requirements and railroad
agents were begging freight consgnments.
former years il would still big job matters
are not in that shape As a result there in the
home office Of the Emergency Fleet corporation a 10
employees OF the supply division, efforts
are concentrated upon providing ship material and
equipment needed. while other Of the
try this supply division has about thousand more
employees working I the end.
HELP PRODUCERS To PRODUCE.
Helping producers TO produce is part OF the work
many and far-reaching byways
For example. a single week brought requests for
sstance obtaining fuel from firms in New York.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01

The approach OF the hour when the representatives
CT the various nations which have for more than four
years. been at VIII al Versailles 10 frame
document restoring peace has served concentrate
the attention OF che world upon possibilities and the
probabilities OF what prove the most momentous
International assembly since the congress OF Vienna
And yet, despite the intensity world interest the
problems and the difficulties which must be surmounted
ere as yet little understood particularly United
States.
We have had since Nov II one OF the most dramatic
and astounding pageants in all human history have
seen the surrender OF nation battle field
followed by the swift revolution within that country
which has swept away all the old landmarks all the
familiar forms Of government And while the great
enemy Germany surrenderng transforming it
self, Austria Hungary has resolved into chaos
or races At the moment when the discussion OF peace
Is imminent not in the that we shall
have in the case OF the larger with which
we nave been at any recognized government speak
ing with the sanction Of the German people or any
conceivable group Of representative collectively speak
ing for what was month the Hapsburg empire.
And this Is the first and greatest obstacle which lies
IN the pathway OF the Versailles congress Germany
shall now eschew Russian pathways find swift and
satisfactory methods OF restoring domestic tranquility
ana attaining such governmental unity
to send TO Versailles delegates speaking for the Ger
man people and authorized and bic binding
German people TO the agreement there made. the
oertakngs In the way OF territorial cessions and A.
nancial reparatOns, then the task will be smplihed
Sut what evidence have yet 70 warrant belief that
this will be possible? Moreover is not how car
We In feet achieve peace with recent enemy at
Versailles?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01
CITES EXAMPLES
FROM THE PAST.

In the past the beaten nation coalition Of nations
IN the great Of history have survived with their
national integrity undestroyed. France after 1870,
changed from empire to a republic the repre-
sentatives OF the third republic spoke with full and
unquestioned authority, signatures TO the pre-
Frankfort were honored by their countrymen un-
challenged by their foes When Napoleon abdcated at
FOntanebleau in 1914. his conquerors placed Bour-
bon on the French throne and made peace with him.
This peace for the moment suspended by the return
from Elba. nevertheless repeated new treaty
Of Paris after Waterloo and honored alike by
and her Conquerors.
BY contrast after Russia fell and the boshevk rose
10 power there with whom the Germans
could satisfactorily conclude peace and we had the
amazing spectacle OF TrOtz1y his associates quitting
Brest-Litovsk refusing a treaty which they
could not refuse to accept Since that time
there has been condition Of anarchy in Russia
no man could or can clearly understand what is the
situation. German armies have occupied Russian
rtory and organized Independent on old Russian
soil. but the Germans recognized long before
they finally yielded TO the western nations that
settlement Of Brest-Ltovsk settlement
We then the clear possibility that what hap
pened in the OF Russia will the
OF Germany. The revolution in the former
pire may rapidly slowly march the chaos which
has existed in Russia for than a year and a
half. II IL does occupy portions Of the
German territory choose Germany is helpless:
make such provisional arrangements may
please us but come the German nation,
we cannot settle anything cannot do moro than de-
eide such measures the nations,
may collectively deem necessary protect
cupy such German provinces as may are suf-
cient to guarantees Of a future payment by
Germany the claims hold against she
does achieve national refrigeration.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-01
AUSTRIAN QUESTION
DAN BE SETTLED.

With respect to Austria settle the question
several nationaIities into
which the Hapsburg empire has resolved itself These
several states act nations and the
ritorial changes They, together with Bulgaria and
Turkey will DEFINITE entities. they in turn N
part. succumb sociastic bolshevik revo-
buttons; or declining allied arbitration fight anon,
themselves. in part, succumb to socialistic and
lighting.
But it is with Germany that we must really make
peace for It IS the German who has great
enemy with him we have to make the main settle
rnent- And II Germany resolves itself Russian
anarchy then can only choose between waiting at
the Rhine until anarchy has passed and sending
armies into Germany restore order and reorganize
nation against its viii This the problem be-
fore Us In the case OF Russia and seems very far from
solution
Such then Is the first great obstacle in the pathway
OF those who 90 meet at Versailles Nor it less
clear that though Germany presently achieve
national political refrigeration such refrigeration
permits her 10 send representatives to Versailles able
and authorized speak people and itself
capable OF observing the decisions accepted
rGsenatives there is bound 10 be considerable
loss or tine. So from prompt settlement and a
speedy signing Of treaty of peace the best hope
lie that after serious delays but without temporary
adjournment until German revolution has passed
Germany VIII be able 10 send delegates having the
potentialites those of Britain. tho
United States
SECOND OBSTACLE
ALSO IMPOSING.
oud only imposing At Versailles things
sought and they by no means TO harmonic
We the conquerors Of Germany. going to impose
upon Germany the sentence the civilized world.
ARE going 10 make her pay her crimes I'm two ways
are going deprive her of certain provinces in
Habit by people who German. by their
wish but by the decision Of the sword in the past
We are going free the Danes the Poles and the in
labltants OF Alsace-LOrrane In addition, going
90 compel Germany 70 anywhere from 10000
coo 600 S2O,OO0o00oo0 reparauon for wanton in
i1ries done in OF the accepted rules OF
This Is number the program. But in addition.
we with the Germans 20 frame interna
touaI system. OF nations which is 10 regulate
ell international relations in the future, serve
tuperstare. with police power and with many other
powers over whole body OF nations, such have
heretofore exercised only by the central
,rent within separate states And unless Germany is
willing and sincere partner in this enterprise the
eale of Nations viii failure. for its success must
rest upon uni. srstlity. With Germany out 1t IS
10 moro than "a perpetuation of the existing alliance
HEAiDst Germany. Moreover, Germany may easily, II
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DANCER OF 4
PRICE TOO HIGH.

But If the condition and the only condition. ~ :
League OF Nations be 20 make q peace with GERMANY
which VIII make the victims OF German aggression ard
violence past four years the eventual bur
dens OF that aggression then seems % that the
high. And the danger is real. Eor
danger that may be brought % the posi-
OF seeking % lessen the effectiveness in Brltair
hands OF the weapon which victory in this
war depended. namely. the British navy. operating
regard 20 conventions regulating the free
dom OF the seas"
ed-handed murderer 70 have immunity from the
consequences Of his recent crimes merely because ne
had changed his his employer More than this
hear much today o. a healing peace and cer-
tainlv every hopes that shall have this bless
ing. But healing peace must be designed drs'
20 heal wounds OF the innocent victims before Il
strives 20 the wounds OF those who injured
seeking murder their neighbors And " any one Is
TO bleed death follow the figure OF speech t GER
tainly should the and chndren OF Francs
and Belgium.