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New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Confusing Explanations

In his speech on dominion, colony and
dependency representation in the league
Of nations Senator McCumber scarcely
solved the treaty puzzle. He says first
that neither the council nor the as
scr1bly "decides international disputes at
all" This statement is then amplfied
as follows: "The only jurisdiction which
either the council or the assembly can
have over dispute between nations is
the right to investigate and report what
the true facts are concerning the dispute
and make recommendations in regard
thereto"
The Senator thus assumes that recon-
mendations do not amount to a decision
that the conclusion reached by the
council is not morally binding on all
members of the league; yet Article XIV
says specifically that if the council makes
a unanimous report (the representative
or representatives of the litigant powers
being excluded from voting) "the mem
bers of the league agree that they will
not go to war with any party to the dis
pute which complies with the recon-
mendations of the report"
If Mr.. McCumber is right in his con-
tention that the council and the assem-
bly, act merely as referees, without
power of decision, Article XIV needs to
be clarified.
The North Dakota Senator says that
"the British EMPIRE being a member of
the council, which consists of nine ma
tions, has but one vote in such council,
and that as neither Canada nor any other
British dominion or possession has sep
arate membership in such council, of
course neither could have a vote therein"
Yet President Wilson, Clemenceau and
Lloyd George signed an opinion assuring
Premier Borden that there is no oobstacle in
the provisions of the covenant to the cleo
tion of Canada as a member of the
council.
Again, Mr.. McCumber says: "A dis
pute between one country and another
country composed of dominant power
and its dominions or possessions is a dis
pute with each and every part of such
country, and hence in a dispute between
the British Empire or any member
thereof and any other country all parties
to the dispute would be excluded"
He thus accepts President Wilson's
theory of the diplomatic unity of the
British Empire as represented in the
league and holds, in so far as the United
States may be involved in disputes, that
we can have none with the British EN-
pire as distinguished from its domn-
ions, colonies and dependencies, or with
any of the latter as distinguished from
the mother country. Yet he acknowl-
edges in his speech that the empire and
the dependent parts would be entitled to
vote severally in dispute between
other members-between Serbia and
Rumania, for instance. Then they would
also be entitled to vote in a dispute be-
tween Serbia or Rumania and the United
States.
Here the failure Of the covenant to de-
tine the real status in the league Of do
minions, colonies and dependencies is
clearly revealed Are they full members
or only limited members? That is a
question which must be faced and which
only clarifying reservation to the cove
nant can solve.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
No More Obstruction

Our neighbor The RerieU is right. The
country, tired of delay, wants the treaty
ratifed-ratified with clarifying and
safeguarding reservations, so drawn as
to secure prompt acquiescence abroad.
Senator Hitchcock plays politics and
makes threats, but his politics is child
ish and his threats are feeble bluffs.
The case has been heard, and SEN
ate and country have made up their
minds. Never was there chance that
secretly prepared document would be
accepted without reading or examination
on any ones say so. 1t has long been
manifest, if new machinery is to be set
I'D at all, that it is necessary to have
reservations. To oppose reservations
thus has been to oppose ratification.
The preposterous "sign here pro-
eramme brought from Paris colided with
a Constitution which provides that
President shall submit his treaty work
to the Senate for approval. The Constl-
tuition, according to it's habit, refused to
bulge. 1t was certain the Senate would
not yield to dictation when to yield
meant to consent to the making of
vicious precedent which would be pointed
to by other Presidents as they sought
to avoid democratic control of foreign
relations Even though the covenant in
itself had been unobjectionable, the de-
bate was keyed so as to make some sort
of pro for7nu change essential to vlndi-
cate great principle.
But the Senate dealt not with per-
feet instrument, but with highly i'm
perfect and ambiguous one. Point by
point the "sgn here" advocates have
been beaten in the argument At last
even the President admits the propriety
of interpretators. His contention has
recently had no more substance than
that he objects not to what is proposed
but to the way it is proposed to do it.
The White House seems to think the
outside world can be kept ignorant as to
our construction of the covenant pro-
vided we do not express our construction
in the resolution of ratification. Obvi-
ously, the only honest course is openly to
declare our understanding of the obliga-
tions we enter into.
AS to the covenant itself the public
has gained an adequate comprehension.
1t painfully disappoints the hope Of the
world. 1t fails to provide the safeguards
Of peace that were expected. But, insult
ficient as it is, it secures the assembling
Of periodic international conferences to
talk over disputes, and, although there is
no guarantee of action or agreement,
the country, hoping for the best, is will
ing to have the conferences assemble.
So it would not wreck the whole instru-
ment--would save what good there is in
it. This saving is provided for in the
resolution which the Foreign Relations
Committee has recommended for pas
sage.
Ratification with reservations! No
reason exists for postponing action. Sen
ator Hitchcock and his colleagues should
desist from further obstruction
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
The Vanished Americans
From the Tribune Paris Bureau

very complicated system if you would find
your subterranean way. In the last eighteen
months I suppose that have travelled over
every section of their many lines, and (here
is the point) never without seeing Ameri-
can or Americans descend or get aboard at
every station But to-day, on the Metro and
the Nord- Sud, the American is the exception
where he used to be the rule.
In the Metro
Listen to q story OF the Metro which dates
back to August, 1918, which you will remem-
ber to have been time of terrible anxiety.
The train full it moved between the
Etoilo and the Place de la Concordc, even the
spaces between the seats being crowded, when
there entered two youngsters in the uniform
of Uncle Sam, one Of whom carried his arm
in q sling.
There is in France a pleasant custom,
which is more than a custom, for it is a law
of the Medes and Persians. wounded
man is entitled to a seat, no matter who may
be occupying that seat, and if he is grand
blesse you will see every man, woman and
child call to him to take their places, eager
for the honor of making way for him, of con-
tributing what little they can to his comfort.
Our young American was not by any means
grand blesse but he was a wounded man,
and that enough for little old French
woman who sat near the door by which he
entered. She was prim little old lady, who
somehow made you think Of New England
and the stories that Mary E. Wilkins used
to write. She had little quick movements,
she had little bright eyes that darted and
peered like birds, and she hoped from her
seat like nervous little sparrow and waved
the youngster to her place
The French Code
She was q woman and she was old--and
the lads code presented these facts as two
immense and overwhelming reasons why he
should not take her seat. Obviously, he had
forgotten his wounded arm and he made a
shy motion which spoke of thanks and re-
fusal. 1t had about as much effect on the
little old lady's determination as a shadow
has on rock.
She touched his bandage genty--very
gently-and "Je vous en- prize, monsieur" said
she, once again indicating the empty place
The boys embarrassment was painful to
behold. He was red from the neck to the
scalp, and he looked piteously at his pal
But his pal (also red but not from embar-
rassment) had chosen that moment to make
study of the roof Of the carriage and there
was no help. The little old lady knew no
English, and It was clear that the boy knew
no French. He reached for his cap, made
the little old lady a salutation that was some
thing between nod and bow and sat down
The little old lady's pleasure was DELIGHTFUL
to witness. She stood beside the boy. she
positively bridlcd, and she looked about her
with an air that said "This I would have
the assembled company to know, is mn
wounded American. lie belongs to ,uc. He
Is sitting In tho place that gave to him.
Touch him at your peril"
And the lad! His cap was still in his hand
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Maid Virtue
(Frotn Colour

(From Colour
FRAGILE and slim and pale is she,
And cold as cold virginity.
She cannot feel the passionate pain
OF dreaming hearts, that dream in wass'
The crimson pleasures of the Wise
Only fill her with soft surprise.
Fragile and slim and pale is she.
And cold as cold virginity.
e. p. CRANMEA
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
THE DRAGON FESTIVAL,

is something wrong with my Calendar?
The streets are all ablaze with flowers
And paper lanterns swinging to the bres.a
Big dragons looking in at the windows
Little children have money in their hands.
This must be the Dragon Festival
And yet in all this world of light.
see the triumphant moon.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
JINGLE

Eight times bow towards your friend.
Hail, brother! come, brother,
Eight times kneeling swear your friendship,
Come, brother; Ho, brother
AS liver and gall in mutual relation
The eight bows seal our brotherhood,
Thus brother friend-brother
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
FOREIGN INVENTIONS

NHESE strange things which barbarians
l. have
have dcvll-bellies which make them go.
But we are happier people
Who do not ally ourselves with the devil.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
CHERRY BLOSSOM

The garment and the flesh of the winter
world
Are torn, and here and there amid the opened
wounds
The blood comes bursting through.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

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also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
WILD DUCK IN FLIGHT

The wild duck scatter, afraid.
II only 1 could fly as my thoughts dy,
] would have q rich supper Tonight
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Chinese Coolie Songs

tFron To-do,p
laken down from the lips of Chinese coolies with
.ne q. r. r. in France and translated by A.
;;.eVile j. Whymant Ph. u Iitt D. late
lieutenant of the Chinese Labor Corps
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
GUARANTEE

You purchase merchandise advertised IN tnI
TRIBUNE With absolute safey-for II dssatsaeto" 10
suits in TRIBUNE guarantees 20 paw your
money back upon request. No rod tape. No du'oo""s
Wo make good promptly II the advertiser does not-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
wv 1HERE are the Americans?
wv "Where," asked that engaging rascal
and great poet, FRANCOIS Villo

and great poet, FRANCOIS Villon,
"are the SHOWS of yesteryear?"
The Americans have melted away from
Paris as the SHOWS melt, leaving here and
there like the SHOWS, little trace. But as
a rushlight in a tunnel serves only to make
darkness visible, so these forlorn men in
khaki, drifting where recently hundreds
moved, throw the change Of the last few
months into sharp relief.
Once there was current the story Of the
remark with which an American woman took
leave of Paris. She had lived at the Ritz, she
had driven in the Champs Elysees and in the
Avenue du Bos de Bologne; she had shopped
in the most expensive street in the world
the Rue de la Paix; she had dned at Voisin's
or the Cafe de Paris; she had arrived late at
the theatres Of the Grands Boulevards and
everywhere she had met people who were
known to her. To all intents and purposes
she never had come abroad at all, and as she
went she said:
The French Tenth
"I've had perfectly wonderful time, and
I think Paris is simply too sweet. But
told tfe story to an American yesterday,
and he commented laughingly French
quarter? Why, it's not so long ago that the
French didn't even have a tenth"
1t was true--or at least it seemed true to
those who lived in Paris in those days. The
in khaki. the girls in the gray Of the
Y. NJ c. A. uniform, or in the more sombre
dress of the Red Cross, were everywhere.
And now? Hens teeth are not more scarce.
A taxi is not more difficult to find
Turn into the Cafe do la Regence, diago-
nally opposite the Comedie FRANCHISE. 1t Is
the great chess centre Of Paris, and they will
even show you the table on which the great
Napoleon was wont to play There, in the
section given up to the game, not so long
ago you could see, at any chance visit, three,
four, round half-dozen American lads try
ing their skill against the French habitues
Last night there was not one.
l moved into the room on the right as you
enter, where the names of past masters Of
the game are blazoncd on the walls and one
lonely and aged American colonel was the
only representative Of his country at the
dining tables, where no longer ago--it seems
than yesterday you might have seen ten
or twenty.
On,nipresent america
AS In the Cafe de la R6gcnce, so every
where, for the Americans did not confno
themselves to that big cosmopolitan area
which radiatcs from the Opera. You met
them in every part of Che city, moving back
and forth on their lawful OCCASIONS Tho
Metro" gave you the measure Of the COM
pletencss of their occupation Of Paris.
The capital Of Franco is fat, round city
not long and narrow, like New York. Its
subways-the Metro and the Nord- -Sud-cir-
Gle and wind and criss-cross about below
ground, and you have got to get tho hang Of
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

Entered the Pos,onice at York Second Glass
Mail Matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
SENATORS TO Fight !
LEAGUE TREATY
Declare They VIII Defeai
Treaty Unless Amend
ments Are Made
SO VOTES NE.EDEl
President Wilson Said to Have an
nounced That He Cannot Accept
Proposed Changes.

Thirty-five Senators have banded
themselves together to defeat ratifica
ton of ehe peace treaty unless radical
amendments to the league of nations
covenant are accepted.
Thirty-three votes against would
prevent ratification. The character of
amendments insisted upon by these
Senator's is such that acceptance of
their suggestions, according to the
view Of President Wilson, would leave
the league without vitality.
The President has informed those
Senator'S with whom ne has conferred
that he cannot consent to consider
such amendments, which, in his iuGg-
ment. would defeat the purposes CT
the league and make it's acceptance
by ether nations, as amended, extre-
mely doubtful.
In response TO this declaration from
the President, the Republican oppo-
nents cf the league have sert rim
word that unless he does consent &c
the amendments which they think nee
essary and proper, the thirty-five
votes WIN cast against ratification
Inan effort to reach a compromise
with the Republican Senate majority
wGrd was conveyed to the leaders by
the authorized representatives Of the
President that he would consent to
certain "irterpretative reservations. '
This suggestion has been rejected
by the leaders of the opposition, be-
cause, under the decisions of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, in
telprctative reservations do not be-
ccme part of the treaty and are rot
binding.
An impasse appears to have been
reached. The President has no inten-
ton of v:ithdrawin" the treaty, and
the Senate 10 intention Of ratifying
it. The President is indisposed, to ad-
nit failure, and the. Senate majority,
apparently, is just as determined not
to confess defeat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
DRYS STILL IN THE SADDLE
Attacks cn Drastic Provisions of En-
forcement Bill Prove Futile

Washington, July 21.-Attacks on
drastic provisions of the prohibition
enforcement bill fell down again Sat-
turday in the House, while the dry
forces, still in supreme command,
rcmped through the measure section
by section and put the lid on debate
at nod from their leader.
II was great 1d,!d day for The
drys. They took control at the star.
refused to permit House leaders to
take out five minutes fer considcra-
ton of an important money measure,
and kept on al work tonight in az:
effort to pass the bin at one sitting.
While the House was knocking
down amendment after amendmen. de-
signed to libera.ize the measure Rep
resentative Igoe,; Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, announced he would offer "a
/ substitute that coul dbe enforced
"withcut the, annual expenditure ;ot
50,QGO,O00. ard WITHOUT a standing
army ! -.
There is no provision in the lGot
bill for enforcement ofzwar-time pro-
hibiaion, ntr daes;sit define iiiI.oxca:
ing liquors. and persons manufactur
ing, selling. importing or exporting
liquors would be subject to $500 fin;
and one years Imprisonment for tn:
.rst offense.
There was the utmost confusion a
times during the day and often hall
dozen were asking recognition with
so much c,atter some members com,
planned they did not know what thc
house wos doing. Several amend
ments offered by Chairman Volstead
of the Judiciary Committee in charg;
CT the Bit, went through.
The House also accepted one b!
Repres cntative Miller Republican
Washington, requiring doctors issuing
whisky prescriptions at drug store.
Offices to have maintained such cilie
fer period of one year prior to pas
sage of the bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
FUNERAL OF MRS. DEMAINE

The funeral of Mrs. William II. De-
maine, who died Thursday night took
place at . O'Clock this afternoon from
her late residence, S19 King street.
Services were conducted by Rev. DR..
E. V. Register, pastor of the NJ. E.
Church South, and Rev. Dr.. J. w.
Duffey, cf Rockville, Nd, formerly
pastor of the NJ. E. Church So~th
this city. Burial, which was private
was in Ivy Hill cemetery. Palfbearers
H. Marvin Demaine, Windsor W. De-
maine and Capt Ernest NJ. Damaine,
sons of the deceased, and Messrs. vii
liam NJ. Wheeler, James D. Wheeler
Robert L. Wheeler, Wellington, Va;
William wilkins and Carlin Richard
cousins cf the deceased.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF
Philadclphian FIRES THREE Bullets
Into Body of Wnman-Two
Into His Own Brain

Philadelphia, July 21.-Interrupt-
cd as she was dressing for the
evening, yesterday by hearing :
noise on tg,e lower floor of hcI
home. Mrs. Annie Young, the pro,
prictress of second hand furniture
store, at 5O43 Market street, hu-rie%
to the kitchen. When she opene}
the door she was mot by a fus!a"
of bullets from pistol in the hand
of her husband. from whom sf
was estrargcd. One of the shot
entered her head, another lodged i
back and third penetrated rs
right leg. A fourth went wild an
the remaining two in the chamAe
of the pistol were used by the hus-
band to end his own life. He sep;
them crashing into his brain
through the roof of his mouth.
Mrs. Young and her husband, Fred,
erick Young, were married abdft |.
years ago: according to neigh3ors
At the time MIS-. Young was :;
NEE girl Of not more than twrnt'
yeas. Her husband was Writ al!
twice as old and divofcee. whos.
first wife obtained separation O!
the grounds Of cruelty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
BAILED FOR GRAND JURY

Arthur and George Welch were
brought before the Police Court this
moring charged with having in Their
possession about two hundred dol
lars worth cf goods alleged to .havc
been stolen firm c. and o. cars.
Leather, coffee, and shoes we're
among the articles recovered. They
were found in an ark near the cloc-
tric railroad bridge over Hunting
Creek ard under a shed. The ar
rests were made by members of the
city police force and railway de
tectivcs. The accused were bailcd
in the sum of one thousand dollars
each for their appearance before til
grand jury. Harry II. Simpson be-
came their surety.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
BIRDS AND NATURE EXHIBITS
Miss Katherine Stuart, This City, in
Charge of Exhibit at u of V.

Miss katherine Stuart, This City, in
Charge of Exhibit at u of V.
The Audubon Bird and Nature Ex-
hibit now being held in Peabody Hall,
Room 6, University of Virginia, un-
der the direction of Miss Katherine
Stuart, of Alexandria, leader of the
bird study class, is attracting con-
siderable attention. The people of the
community as we'll as students and
professors of the Summer School are
often to be seen there in close !exam-
ination of the rare bits of nature.
The exhibit is neither particularly
large nor exhaustive for its main pur-
pose is merely to stimulate serious
interest in these subjects with refer
ence to the training of ornithGlog:sts
foresters, and the like. A sympathetic
of bird life is also one
of it's chief aims, that better care may
be taken Of the songsters.
The morning bird walks are row
conducted oy Miss Stuart every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday, starting
at $50 a. m., fro mthe north steps
of the rotunda.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
FOURTEEN DEAD
Houses Are Swept From foundations
Ard Children Into River by
Heavy Rain

WHIT cling, w. Va, July 21-FCur-
tecr persons are reported dead as
the result of one of the worst .torms
in the history of Wheeling, Hhich
strrck this district Saturday night.
For three hours rain f2ll :"
steady torrent without the slightest
let up. Streets became cagsing
l,:cts and many houses were swept
from their foundations,
Thirteen bodies were reported to
have beep recovered at .W!egee. creek,
twelve miles south of this city, ,;on'
tn Ohios side,--, following a cloud
burst which arried away. the home
of steve %.Moxie, q: foreigner, and
hurled the building against bridge
Early reports were fragmentary,
owing to the fact that the sceno. OF.
the tragedy was. made almost mac,
essible by the flood and all phone
wires, were, blown.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
SEES ILL OMEN IN TANGLE
Peace Conference Work May Have to
be Done Over Again, Says DR..
Edmunds.

San Francisco, july 21.-Fear that
the work of the Peace Conference
would have to be done over again in
two decades unless Cbina's prctest
against the award of Shantung to
Japan were settled now, was ex-
pressed by DR.. Charles K. Edmunds,
president Of the Christian College of
Canton, China, in an address yester-
day. :,' .; &' !:
"In the Chinese-Japaneseo situation
is duplicate Of the, recent Situation
in Europe,'with a milfaristic Pris,
sian party in control and the popu-
lace in favor of democratic party.
It must be our concern to fasten tc
and said4the right. party in the fu-
ture,ns hea said. $50,
"Thes situation is the. remnan: Of
the, whoae international attitude to-
ward Cflina. Japan only takes hel
one from other Western Powers
which showed her in the past how
they treated China. China looks tc
the United States for help. We
should in the Orient apply the samf
principles of righteousness as we ap
piled in Europe.
"I have seen large forces of Japa
nese troops in the capital of Shan
tung provinces. When the Germans
were in possession they kad only
small :sectioni of; Kao-chau, and! tn!
Japanses forces I saw were in. tht
heart of ,shanbung far away from th'
former German possessions"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-07-21
NINE DEAD IN CLoUDBURsT
Bodies of I Victims of Ohio's Satur-
day Storm Recovered.

St. Gainesville, Ohio, July IL
Search continued throughout today
for the bodies of the victims of Sat
turday nights cloudburst, which
swept Belmont and other eastern Ono
counties. Nine persons are known to
be dead, but reports that four Others
were drowned could not be verified.
Seven hcdes have been recovered.
The victims, who were drowned IN
Wegee Creek. comprised almost the
entire families of two miners.
The power plant Of the Webb mine
of the Cambrai Coal Company was
flooded. The mine. the largest in Oh!o
viii be idle several weeks. it was
said.