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New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
France Long Protector
OF Christians in East

For period of time stretching back
10 the Crusades France has exercised
certain half real half shadowy protec-
torate over the Christians of the Near
East, and particularly those of Syria.
This has had its practical value, but
tury and in the present there has
grown up a measure of economic de-
velopment in Syria-for example the
French railroads and harbor works at
Beyrout In clear fashion Syria has
been marked as future field for
French occupation territorially and
otherwise when Turkey should dissolve.
In 1916, England and France signed a
treaty, secret then, but known generally
now, which, in substance, recognized
that France should have in Syria for
the future precisely the status which
England was shaping for herself in
Mesopotama. The language was. per-
haps. veiled, but the purpose of the
document was unmistakable.
Somewhat later, the British entered
into a second treaty with the Shereef of
Mecca, now known as King of the
Hedjaz, by which Great Britain rccog-
nized the sovereignty of the King of
the Hediaz over the Arabian East, in
GLIDING Syria, already promised te
France. On evidence of this agreement
the King of the Hedjaz Joined the AL
lies and contributed material, if not
decisive, aid in Allenby's great cam
~.;-. 6 Ioet
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

Weimar until the city is filled to over
flowing. Yet so thorough and careful
had the arrangements for the Assem-
bly, been made that virtually every
one who arrived had been given ac-
commodatons by night all yesterday.
Each person not only had his living
quarters definitely assigned to him in
advance, but his eating place as well.
Weimar fortunately possesses an
small, hotels. Virtually all of these
were requisitioned by the authorities
entrusted with the task of making the
preparations for the Assembly. They
took similar action in the case of many
private houses and spare rooms in
residences.
How Guests Arc Cared For
The Wcimar "Wohnungsrath,' or
Residence Bureau, then took up the
task and allotted living quarters to
specified groups, such as the minis
tcrial party, the members of the As
scmbly and the spondcnts. keep
ing each group together as nearly as
possible. The bureau, after assigning
the visitors to the hotels where they
will live for the next several weeks,
then designated the eating places for
the city's guests. These places were
hotels and pensions where the meals
con costs more than five marks and
the supper more than four marks; the
hotels and pensions where the meals
cost from three and one-half to five
marks, and the smaller eating places,
where the prices range from two
marks to three marks (ffty pfennig).
Each guest is obliged to eat at the
place assigned to him, for the hotels
are under the strictest orders to fur
nsh with food and lodging only those
guests who present the proper cards
calling for such service. First of ALL
there is a pink card allowing the dele
gates and newspaper men to enter
Weimar and assigning them to their
places in the Court Theatre, where the
National Assembly will be held. Then
comes a gray card, assigning the lodg
ing place and stating the exact price
to be paid for the room. Next comes
yellow card, indicating where meals
may be eaten.
In addition, there are booklets of
pink, blue and green slips, represent
ing seven breakfasts, luncheons and
suppers, respectively, and gray, red,
brown, yellow, maroon and blue tick
cts for bread sugar and other things.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Nv ar Nerves. Beneficial,
DIR. e. L. Fisk Asserts
Director of Life Extension In
s,itute SAYS Strain Cured
Manv Imaginary Ills


rs I'D 0Eo~ wtolesome sn 0af effect ct on 9nS ind
viduals, says DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk,
medical director Of the Life Extension
Institute.
MANY men who went into the war
as cowards,' he says, "came out of it
men Many who had no self confidence.
lacked initiative and imagined all
sorts cf dread ailments trying 70 end
their existence. underwent a remark
abe transformation. They made good.
ned il were forgotten.
Their extreme sensitiveness Mas over
come They went over the top new
men.
I'VE may have to face more nervous
disorders for a time, but these will be
the serious cases and not those due
to exaggerated self thought on triflng
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
German Hospitals in
CobIenz Are Run by U. S.
Electrical Supplies Left Behind
by Enemy Used to Cure
Americans

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
OCCUPATION, Jan. 10 Correspond
ence Of The Associated Press) One
of the most modern hospitals in Europe
to-day is in Coblenz, operated by the
medical corps of the army of occupa-
ton. The hospital is combination of
American and German advancement in
this line. During tho war this hos
pltal, now used for surgical cases and
known as American hospital No. 6. was
q part of the garrison Of Coblenz.
When the Germans withdrew they left
all the modern electrical appliances,
and the Americans brought with them
the latest improvements in hospital
equipment which was used in furnish
ing No. 6.
For other hospitals, under American
supervision, are being operated in Cob
LEM, one of them with 1900 beds.
Within the occupied area there are nine
American hospitals. including the five
in Coblcnz. Two of these are in Trier,
one in Prum and another in Mayen.
While these are known as evacuation
is functioning as a base hospital, being
located in buildings either used by the
Germans for the same purpose or in
cid German army barracks The hos
ptal stafIs consist of about forty Off
GERS each. Approximately 100 nurses
have been assigned to each of the nine
hospitals, in addition to large num-
Der of enlisted men.
The medical corps of the Third
Army is headed by Colonel J. w. Girls
singer, Of Philadelphia, as chief sur
geon, with Colonel II. c. MadduX, of
Orange, Va, in charge of the hos
pitalS.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
British Are Placed
In Peculiar Position

In this situation the British position
became difficult. The French demanded
that the agreement of 1915 become eff
fectve. The King of the Hedjaz, with
equal emphasis called attention to the
British commitment to him, and sent
his son, Prince Feissel, TO Paris, accom-
panied by very interesting young
British officer. Colonel Lawrence, in
some respects one Of the most a,trac-
tive figures in Paris to-day, to plead
the cause Of the Arabs.
Meantime, England and France, in
November Of last year, uttered a joint
agreement, pledging themselves not to
annex territory in the near East; but
this meant much or nothing, as one
chose to take the French or the Brit
ish view. What is Of Importance is
the fact that British policy has de-
cided to support this Arab commitment,
and has pitched itself formally on that
part of Mr.. Wilson's fourteen points,
which demands self-determination for
small races and peoples.
Now the fact of the case seems to be
that left to themselves, the majority
Of the Syrian people would not choose
French protectorate. They would
seek some form Of independence guar
shtsed by one or more protecting ma
IONS. Therefore, it will be seen that
the present British policy, which would
exclude France from Syria, falls in
with President Wilson's policy; but for
the French, at least, there is a sugges-
aon that the Presidents principles
aave pulled the British out of a bad
hoIe, and bid fair to exclude the French
from Syria.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
European Diplomacy APP
pears To Be Unchanged

You may believe in Paris and find
ing has been changed in European
diplomacy and methods since the days
of Machiavelli or Mctternich, and you
may find proof of it in score of ques-
tions of which the Syrian and Adriatic
problems are perhaps the most impress
sivc. You will find many people i'm
pressed by these things to the extent
of believing that the taint of the old
order runs through everything in the
new conference. am sure that volumes
of testimony will so back to America
that nothing honest or real can be en-
pectcd in this Paris atmosphere
But by contact it has now become
reasonably certain that the people of
Syria will be permitted to decide their
own fate, which never could have hap
pened at the Congress of Vienna or at
the Congress Of Berlin. 1t is becoming
fairly clear that all the little politi-
clans with their petty bargainings arc
going to miss the big prizes and that,
IN word, things that they arc work
ing for are not coming off.
The bargain which the British made
with France, and then abandoned to
sell the same goods to the Arabs, does
not express the present spirit or tenn
per of the English people; nor do I
believe for single moment that the
demand made by certain sections of
Frenchmen in the matter of Syria ex-
presses the real character of French
spirit at the present day.
do not see much difference between
the French and the British aims in
this respect, except that the British
have been fortunate enough to fortify
their policy after the event, by the fact
that it falls in with the new PRINCIPLES
But the big thing seems to me first
that the job isn't going to do done, and
second, that this is the first time in
the world that it could have been prc
vented.
The thing that I am trying to sav
my American readers is that the world
peace conference, like a national politi-
cal convention in it's day to day proce
dure, particularly before the main tasks
are undertaken, does not give any true
index of the real forces which arc go
ing to control it or the real results
which are going to be achieved.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Murder and Suicide Here
Showed Decline i'm 1913
Shooting Caused Greatest Num-
bcr OF Slayings, Gas the.
Most Suicides

Murder is slightly decreasing in
New York. SO is suicide The 1918
report of Dr. Charles Norris, chief
medical examiner, showed yesterday
that there were 273 homicidcs in great
or New York last year, seventeen fewer
than in 1917. There were ISL suicides
IN 1918, decrease from the year be-
fore.
Shooting remained the favorite meth
Cd of killing. Homicides were com
mitted as follows: Shooting, 165; as
sault, As; stabbing, 80; burning, /;
poisoning, 2; Illuminating gas, 8;
dragged under train, /; thrown from
window, /; strangulation, 2; infanti-
eide, II. In 1917 there were only seven
infanticides
Last year, as usual, asphyxiation by
Illuminating gas was the method of
suicide most commonly sought Sui
cldes were: By asphyXiation, 311;
jumped from buildings, 119; shooting,
92; hanging, 88; jumped under trains.
10; cutting, 43; drowning, 2S; poison
ing. So.
The medical examiners Office. which
under Mayor Hylan takes the place Of
the Coroner's Office, Investigated a
total Of II S05 cases last year, an in
crease of 421. OF these 5000 were vio-
lent deaths, 6,970 natural deaths, 130
abortions, Of which sixty-two were
criminal, and 500 deaths that were re-
ported as "no cases." The office re-
ported 511 cases to the District At
torney and held 1881 autopsies.
Traffic accidents last year cost 1928
lives, of which 42O were children
There were 125 deaths from acci-
dental poisoning, an increase of fifty
over 1917
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

they have done it, and from one quarter
therefore. we have an insistent whisper
that the French have become Chauvin-
istic, and from the other. still, the rel
atively old whisper that the British
have remained hypocritical. And out
Of exactly this sort Of mixture grows
the impression one gathers over and
over again in tho American press, that
the Paris conference is, after all, a
gathering place of the old reactionary
apotators and diplomats who, behind
a facade of idealsm, are doing the
same old thing in the same old way.
This, after all, is part Of the Syrian
mess.
But it is worth recalling again that
the Paris Conference is very like an
American political convention-that at
just as all party bosses used to gather
and still do gather, just as political
bargains of machine character are dis
cussed and contemplated, these things
happen in Paris. Yet, more often than
not, and always when public sentiment
is awake, a convention, in spite of ma
chine politicians who have the appetite
but no courage, nominated good
tickets and adopted god platforms, and
side by side with all this bargaining
Of which the Syrian episode is an OK
ample, one can feel and ono can count
on an infnitcNumbcr Of cases in which
the claims OF the old sort. greatly
pressed in the beginning, are being
modified or abandoned. Practical prin-
ciples are being formulated which if
they ever are adopted, as believe they
will be, will in the future limit exactly
the evils of which | have spoken.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Machine Politician on
The Job in Paris

1t is great pity in Paris, as it is a
great handicap in national conventions,
that the machine politician is in evil
dence and doing his job In sense it
is pity that the preliminary reports
of the conference, like those of a con-
vention, must be replete in this kind of
detail; but if one exaggerates it in
either case one loses the proper per-
spective, and adopts a dangerous
cyncism.
Copyright 1919. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndcafe)
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
British Rail Payrolls
Iump 78O Millions i'm Year

LONDON, Jan. 2.-Thc steady rise
in wage rates and the granting of the
cight-hour day to railway workers and
to the engineering industry have been
the outstanding features of the indus
trial year, says a labor correspondent
of "The Yorkshire Post"
The advance in wages from January
to November so, affecting 5,557 900
workers, totals s10,591 500 weekly. In
addition, advances have been granted
to other workers. making net in
crease of $15,0OO000 weekly or $780,
900 900 a year.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

selves for enrolment at each school
on the opening date.
Special attention is to be given 20
instruction in drawing, q knowledge
of which it is considered will be of
greatest value to workingmen in many
branches of the trades and industry.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Professional Diplomats
Have Found Fertile Field

Gtven this material to work upon, it
u easy 20 see how the professional dip
'0nats Of the old order would borrow
ana dig and mine and manipulate; and
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
First Cuban Night Schools
Are Opened in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 6.-Four night
schools for the education of working
men, the first of this class ever estab-
lished here, have been opened by the
ncHartment of Public instruction.
More than thirty men presented them
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26

are four weeks old. in addition to the
above dry mash. give as a scratch
feed In the litter. three times a day
the following mixture: Three parts
corn, one part wheat, one part hulled
oats. one part barley or buckwheat.
ground to a granulated sizo to suit
the chicks and sifted.
From four weeks old to six weeks
old continue the dry mash in hoppers.
and feed twice a day, mornings and
evenings. as a scratch feed a mix
tur of equal parts whole wheat and
cracked corn and one part hulied oats.
After this period continue the dry
mash and feed as a scratch feed In
the litter twice daily . mixture Of
equal parts of whole wheat and crack
ed corn.
A food for fattening cockerels for
the market In suggested in the follow
ing: EQUAL parts Of corn meal. wheat
middlings and ground oats, with Is
per cent meat meal or Underground
beef scraps. mixed with buttermilk
to a rather soft mash, and fed twice
a day all that they will eat up clean.
A small amount of powdered charcoal
added to this MIXTURE will improve its
efficiency.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
jAPS COLONIzE
BRAZIL 7 YEARS
Colonies Are Established
immigration Has Been
Going on Steadily.

Buenos Aires.-Japanese colonization
in Southern Brazil, which attracted
attention recently with the grant Of q
large area for development, has been
going on for seven years.
There are already well-settled colo
nies OF Japanese in the interior of the
state OF Sac Paulo.
The first group OF Japanese to settle
there consisted OF twenty-five families
which were allotted seventy-nve acres,
A japanese company took grant
from the government of 125.o0o acres
and set out to place 1000 Japanese on
the land. But disputes with indi-
viduals over titles prevented carrying
out Of the full program.
Rice growing is the principal indus
try OF the japanese immigrants.
In Sac Paulo City, japanese have
proved more satisfactory as dock la
borers than have the Italians or Span
ish
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
GERMANS SEEK
U. S. ARMY JOBS
Applications So Numerous
Discouraging Circular.
Is Issued to Them.

Beriin--Having seen what militarism
did to their own country. Germans
are eager to try it on another nation.
At least, that is what Americans OK
the missions in Berlin say.
The report is passed around among
Germans that the Americans want to
hire German officers and soldiers tc
instruct the American army. Hun
dreds of Germans have called on the
missions or stopped American officers
in the streets to apply for jobs.
The applicants became so numerous
that Gen. Harries had the following
form letter printed to facilitate turn
ing away Prussian applicants. 1t said
The widely circulated rumor that
German officers and enlisted men can
enter the military or naval service os
the United States is absolutely with
out foundation.
No enemy alien can have place
in the service of the United States
and the temper of the American
people is such that naturalization
viii henceforth be permitted only
after prolonged and severe scru-
tiny: meanwhile it will be impos-
sible for any unnaturalized person
to receive consideration in any
phase of our official life.
we shall guard most closely the
honor and privilege OF American
citizenship. Nevermore will we
lightly admit to its responsibilities
and benefits any aliens whose ma
tional thoughts and methods are
noe In harmony with those for
which our soldiers have fought and
died in France"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26

A railroad in England supplies
toys for children taking long jour-
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
Yes; S. S. S. Is Purely Vegetable
Natures Safe Blood Treatment

chronic dyspepsia and often en-
tirely running the health.
S. S. S. is made entirely Of gen
tle-acting. healing, purifying roots,
herbs and barks. possessing prop
critics that build up all parts of
the system, in addition to re-
moving all impurities and poisons
from the blood. S. S. S. is a safe
treatment for Rheumatism, Ca
tarrh, Scrofula, Sores and Ulcers,
Skin Diseases, Blood Poison, and
all disorders Of the blood. Il
cleanses the entire system and it's
permanent. Get S. s. S. at any
drug store today. il is a stand
ard remedy, recognized every
where as the greatest blood anti
dote ever discovered. II yours is
a peculiar case write to Medical
Director, 2oI Swift Laboratory,
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The Washington herald., 1919-04-26

and the giving Of the food is entirely
I'D to the feeder. It is hardly possible
to give with certainty of success a set
of rules tor the proper feeding of all
kinds and all classes of chicks
1t is possible. however, to make
suggestions upon these topics thai
may lead to a system OF feeding
chicks that will prove satisfactory
and profitable to the breeder.
Feed that the chicks may live.
At first the subject is delicate and
should be treated accordingly. The
start the chicks make Is the founda-
ton on which they are to build their
future bodies. A weak start makes
many obstacles to overcome, while a
good start for the first two weeks
of the chicks life means everything
to its after existence and develop
ment
When chicks are forty-eight hours
old they should be given as a first
feed bread crumbs. cracker crumbs,
or rolled oats, either fed singly OF
mixed as a mash, in equal proper
tions, and fed five times a day, al
they will eat up clean at a feeding.
This food should be given in pans
troughs, or on boards. never on thu
ground, and the chicks should be al
lowed to eat all they will to satisfy
a quick. sharp appetite.
II preferred, this feed may be mois'
tened with sour milk. butter milk
SKINNED milk or water, to "a DIR!
crumbly state, never sloppy.
When the chicks are twenty-foui
hours old, supply chick-sized grit ir
hoppers. and scatter a small quantity
in the litter on the floor of brooder tc
induce exercising.
Carefully watch the youngsters al
this period and note results each day
II the chicks are not progressing a:
they should search for the cause and
try to remedy the shortcoming.
without going into the subject sci
entifically. it may be said that corn
wheat, oats, barley and buckwheai
are the accepted grain foods for
chicks when ground properly and pre-
pared to suit the size and age of the
chicks.
Fomulas of balanced rations for
chicks are various in proportions as
well as in ingredients.
A good formula for feeding the
chicks is made OF the following: One
part wheat, one part rolled oats, one
part buckwheat, two parts corn. and
one part meat scrap. Mix these pro-
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
WILSON TO FIGHT
iON FOR LEAGUE
viii Carry Issue Before
Voters IN Next Cam
paign If Necessary.

President Wilson'S decision To carry
his fsht for ratification Of the league
of nations directly to the people. WI
be pursued. II necessary. clear through
70 me 1soO elections. In the opinion OF
political leaders here.
Under the constitution. one more
than a third OF the Senate can defeat
ratification of the league covenant
One third OF the Senate will be elected
In 1S1O-and n the covenant fails OF
ratification, II Il believed certain that
the President will campaign to return
Senators IN I9eo who will approve II.
a. wnt Reelection.
with the exception Of Senators
J Lodge. Poindexter and Knox, every
Republican Senator conspicuously ae-
tive In hghting the league IL up for
reelection in 1870. They include SEN
ators Penrose. Pennsylvania; Cum
minis, Iowa: sherman. Illinois; Len
root, Wisconsin; Wadsworth. New
York; Jones. Washington; Smoot.
Utah; Harding. Ohio: Gronna, North
Dakota: Watson, Indiana; Curtis,
Kansas; Spencer. Missouri; Dilling-
ham. Vermont; Moses. New Hamp-
shire. and Brandegee. Connecticut.
The Democrats who will be up for
reelection and who have opposed the
league ara Senators Thomas. Colo
rado. and Gore. Oklahoma, while
senator Chamberlain. oregon. has not
been enthusiastic in his support Of fl
Recently some OF these Senator
notably Cummins and Lenroot-
have apparently decided they can
support the league. II IL carries the
amendments they havs advocated.
In looking over the list. IL may
be forecast where the President
will speak IN his coming campaign
to have the treaty ratified. He may
be expected to address meetings in
chicago. New York. St Louis. Kan
sas City. Denver. Los Angeles OF
san Francisco or both, Ohio and
Pennsylvania points
II. the President fails In his pro-
posed forthcoming trip to swing
sufficient pressure into line to force
tie league through. Democrats say
that it will be made an issue in
1920.
William Jennings Bryan recently.
when discussing the subject of the
league, the possibility Of its not being
ratified. and the probability of 1t be-
ing made a great campaign issue next
year said:
''Remember-it Is probable the wom-
en- Will vote in 1870; and woe to the
man who talks war to the women who
have passed through the anguish of
the last two years"
Republicans are aware OF the league
hSea as a possible issue and leaders
among them today were Of the opinion
that the amended covenant would get
the required two-thirds majority in
this Senate, thereby eliminating 1t as
a possible bone OF 1870 contention
The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
Known for 50 Years as the Best
Remedy for Rheumatism, Ca
tarh, Serofula, Skin
Diseases.

Scientists have discovered that
the forest and the field, are abun-
dantly supplied with vegetation of
various kinds, that furnish the in
gradients for making a remedy,
for practically every i'll and all
ment of mankind. Medicines made
from roots. herbs. and barks which
Nature has placed at the disposal
of man, are better than strong
mineral mixtures and concections.
Mineral medicines work danger
ously on the delicate parts of the
system, especially the stomach
and bowels, by eating out the
lining membrane, producing