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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
ARMOUR STILL ON STAND
Chicago Packer Advocates Establish
ment of Central Agency to Control
Shipments of Meat Animals.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Appearing
for the second day before the house
interstate commerce committee, !.
Ogden Armour, president of Armour
d Co. today advocated esta ahlishment
of central agency to control ship
ments of meat animals, as a means of
stabllizing prices and preventing gluts
in the market. He said, however,
the supply was not the only factor in
hX1ng the market price for live stock
ing demand for meat
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
According to Sen. Jones, Presi-
dent Wilson Is Entirely at Fault
ALMOST CRIMINAL" HE SAYS


WASHINGTON. Jan 22.-President
Wilson'S failure to remove restric-
tions against the constructions IN
American shipyards OF steel ShlpS
for foreign account was criticized IN
the senate today by Senator Jones or
Washington who declared it unjustltl-
able and almost criminal'. Such d
policy, he said, not only compelled
shipyards to suspend operations
throwing thousands of men out of en-
ployment but resulted in these con-
tracts being awarded to firms in other
countries.
Mentions "Nystcrious Methods"
I'VE are asked" said Senator Jones
''to give up our just rights in the
Panama canal to help the president
solve mysterious problems between
this country and another country. We
did it and to this day no one knows
what benefit it was to us. After the
armistice was entered into and the
war was practically over Secretary
Redfeld recommended that the
United States should stand back and
allow other countries to have the
first chance at the worlds export trade
in order that they may rehabilitate
themselves. And now when we are
confronted with the perpleXing prob
lens of peace the president himself
refuses to permit our shipyards to
take contracts to build steel ships for
foreign account.
American Yards Idle.
Foreign shipbuilding contracts are
sought in American shipyards. These
yards cannot take these contracts be-
cause they cannot get permit to do
so from their own government.
American shipyards are closed.
American labor is idle. Am erican
resources are unused. Hundreds of
millions of foreign capital wanting to
come here Is directed to foreign
countries Why? Because an Ameri-
can president, using the power given
to him to carry on the war refuses
for undisclosed reasons to permit our
people to take those contracts and
build these ships. No reason is given
to justify the action. None can be
given to Justify it.
Wants to Safeguard Business.
'It may be all right to try to
rectify all the wrongs suffered by
any country or people in Europe 1t
udy We nectSSdIy 10 appropriate
millions of dollars to enable the
president to consummate a peace IN
harmony with his idealistic hopes
and aspirations, but while we are
doing this we have a right to ask him
to have some regard for the rights
and interests of our own people,
Other peoples and governments are
looking after their own interests
They expect us to look after ours,
and our people have the right to ex-
pect and to demand that ali Ameri-
can policy be followed, protecting,
safeguarding and promoting the
rights, interests and welfare of the
American people, labor and indus
tries.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
WATERBURY, MANUFACTURER
DIES AT MIAMI. FLA.

Waterbury, Jan. 22.-Word was re-
ceived here today that Lewis A. Platt,
64 years, months, president of PIatt
Bros. 81 Co., and treasurer of the
Patent Button Co., Waterbury, died at
Miami, Fla, on Tuesday noon, after a.
long period of i'll health.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
LEAGUE OF NATIONS TALK
Oscar S. Straus Will Represent Amer
ica at Conference to Be Held lii
Paris Next Week.

Paris Jan. 22-The associations
advocating the formation of a league
of nations will get into touch with
one another next week. Leon Bour-
geois, head of the French organiza-
ton, Viscount Bryce of the British,
and Oscar s. Straus, representing
America, will confer for this purpose.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
NEW YORK GOING DRY.
Little Doubt Empire State Will Ratify
Federal Amendment.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. pa vote On
ratification by the New York state
legislature of the federal prohibition
amendment was brought nearer to-
day when the assem- bly, judiciary COM
mittee reported favorably a resolu-
bon to place New York il the dry
column.
Subsequently the taxation commit
tee reported the ratification resolution
EaVorably by a strict party vote.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
S5OO,OOO FIRE TODAY
Will>es-Barre Coal Breaker Destroyed
and $500 Men Are Thrown Out of

Wilkes Barre, Pa, Jan. 22.-Fire
today destroyed Breaker No. of the
Delaware and Hudson Coal company's
mine at Larksvlle, causing damage
estimated at 100000 and throwing
2,500 men out of employment.
The fire resulted from sparks from
motor. The burning out of the
breaker deprives Larksville Of it's only
industry.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
PREDICTS REDUCTION IN
FREIGHT THIS YE.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Dire4
General Hines said today that pre-
indications pointed to a, reductionA
freight traffic this year and cor
quently he did not expect any I'll
reduction in the general level of rs1
during the year.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22

Denver, Col, Jam
meat packing firms o34s
States were declared by Selaaf d
driCk of Wyoming here today.
such q control over both the, pr8
ing and the distributing markets tha4
they have the power ''to commit all
the abuses with which they are
charged, and more" regardless of
whether there is an actual combina-
ton in trade when representatives
meet regularly to agree on prices.
The senator, addressing the Ameri-
can National Livestock association
convention, described a bill which he
introduced to regulate the meat indus
try, and said it ought to be posi- BILE
to bring about a free market that
would make it possible for producer
and packer and consumer to work
profitably together.
Packers Dominate Industry.
cit is perfectly obvious" he told the
convention, that the packers abso-
lutely dominate the meat industry of
the country
with all the interests involved and
under the circumstances which sur
cult for them to do otherwise than to
work in unison and it is scarcely nee
essary it seems to me to attempt to
prove that the packers agents meet
daily or weekly or monthly to deter
mine prices. It is only necessary to
point out that their common interest
would naturally tend to make them
act in a common manner.
E'av0rS Government CoutroI
There is no class of the population
that is not vitality interested in proper
governmental control of the meat
packing industry because it has grown
to such proportions that it may now
be termed the nations food industry.
1t is of tremendous national import
ance that congress should establish
some sort of control.
The bill which ] have introduced
is intended to secure this end with
the least possible disturbance to any
interests. 1t aims merely to apply to
this industry the principles which
have been applied to every other bus
mess engaged in interstate commerce.
We do not ask that the government
take over the packing houses nor
even that it should operate the stock
yards. We ask only that the packers
shall no longer be permitted to own
and control both the producing and
the distributing markets. To this end
my bill makes provision that will
compel the packers to dispose of
their ownership of the stock yards,
just as a few years ago congress
compelled the railroads to surrender
the ownership of coal mines. 1t fur
ther provides that refrigerator cars
shall be subject to the Interstate Com
merce act in the same manner that
all other cars and telephone facili-
ties are subject to it.
Finally the bill provides for a Ii
censing system for meat packers for
commission men and for stock yard
owners so that the government may
keep its fingers on the pulse of the
industry
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
NEW ZFAIlANDERS LOSE ONLY
As PRISONERS; 16,5OO KILLED

Wellington, n. T., Jan. 22.-New
Zealand's casualties in the war to-
tailed 1892, of whom only IS were
taken prisoner. The number killed
was 16, 500.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-22
To Send Mission to Poland.

Z
The supreme council of the peace
conference has considered the Polish
question and decided to send mis-
sion to Poland. This announcements
was made in the official statement OF
the proceedings Of the conference.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
No Easy Matter to
Reconcile All Races

10 solve the Austro-Hungarian
problem by faithful appreciation of
the right Of self determination
would be to create a crazy-quilt. To
settle it on the basis of economic in
terests would be to perpetuate
chaos by continuing mixture Of
races, and yet some solution, some
settlement, must be made.
At the present moment we have
seer the whole progress of the peace
conference threatened by the dis
pute Of the Jugo- Slavs and Italians
over Fiume. A temporary compro-
mise for this question may be
found; a solution remains, practi-
cally speaking, impossible.
There is not a well informed OBJ
server in Paris who docs not be-
lievc that war between the Italians
and the Jugo- Slavs is a moral GER
tainty within the next decade. We
have removed the peril Of Italia IT.
rcdenta, but, despite the best inten-
t;ons Of the Paris Conference. a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

is trivial. Actually, in creating half
a dozen new states we have raised
twice as many new problems. Ex-
actly as the liberation of the Greeks,
Bulgars and Serbs led to immediate
rivalry between these three new
states, a rivalry which provoked at
least two wars between Serbia and
Bulgaria and one between Greece
and Bulgaria, we now have prepared
the way for similar conflicts be-
tween Poles and Czechs, between
Poles and Ukrainians, Czechs and
Ukrainians, Rumanians and Ukraini-
ans, Magyars and Rumanians, Mag
vars and Czecho- Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs
and Rumanians, Jugo-Slavs and
Italians and Jugo-Slavs and Aus
TRANS.
In all this welter of conflicting
national aspirations a single solu-
ton is discoverable, although it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Hoped to Crush Serbs
And Cow Slavs at Home

The Austrians challenged the
Serbs, because the ruling race be-
iieyed that if Serbia were crushed
the Slavs within the empire would
be cowed and forced to abandon sep
aratist aspirations. Germany sup
ported Austria, because German
hopes and ambitions rested squarely
upon tho preservation of the existing
rulers in fthe Austro~ Hungarian EN-
pirc.
When Russia took up the cause Of
the Serbs, when France and Great
Britain were brought inevitably into
the struggle, when Italy finally
enlisted, then it became clear that
whatever were the other issues of
the war only German victory could
save Austria. With the fall Of Rus
STA, Allied plans for the partition of
Austria-Hgngary we're temporarily
laid agide,o bat with the sudden
change in the situation last summer
and the collapse Of Austria at Pave
last autumn the Hapsburg monarchy
suddenly Dissolved, it fell apart into
fragments, and now it ig the bust
neas M the Paris conference to de-
t@rnnine tho frontiers between these
frazments.,.
The collapse Of 80 great an en-
pire must nccessarily produce CON
sequences TOO far reaching to be fully
appreciated at the moment. Five
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
1He Ne1u Balkan Problem:
The Division of Austria

new Irredenta has been created on
the Adriatic.
Moreover, the old tendency toward
combination is reasserting itself.
Italian policy and Rumanian policy
march toward a common alliance
against Jugo-Slavs, since Rumania
claims all of Banat and Italy the
Jugo-Slav regions on the Adriatic
A similar drift of Hungarian policy
toward Germany is inevitable, since
Hungary will find herself without
natural frontiers and reduced from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Empires Fall a Signal
For Rise of New State

Thereupon there arose and en-
dures almost an indescribable chaos
Of new questions. Poles and
CzechoSlovaks dispute the possess
sion of the region of Teschen:
Poles and Ukrainians both claim
Lemberg and East Galicia; the
Germans of Bohemia demand sepa-
ration from the Czechs; Rumanians
and Ukrainians are at odds over
Bukovina; Czecho-Slovaks and
Ukrainians over the Slav regions of
northeast Hungary; Serbs and Ru-
manians are quarreling over west
ern Banat; Serbs-that is, Jugo-
Slavs-and Italians are at daggers
drawn over Fiume and Dalmatia:
Austrian Germans and Jugo- Slavs
are contesting the possession of the
districts north of the brave.
Here, then, is a situation defying
diplomacy. There was the old Aus
tro-Hungary question between the
Serbs and the Hapsburg monarchy,
and between the Italians and the
Austrc-Hungarian Empire, but to-
cay, with the Hapsburgs gone and
the empire fallen, twenty questions,
each threatening the peace of the
world, have arisen.
Nor is it possible to solve these
questions by the simple application
of the fourteen points or of any
other formula.
An example: Banat, claimed by
Hungarians, Serbs and Rumanians.
is actually inhabited by half score
OF races no one of which is in the
majority. There are more Rumani-
ans than Serbs or Hungarians, but
there are several hundred thousand
Germans. Further, any ethnologi-
cal division would result in eco
nomic paralysis, since it would give
one country a larger part of terri
tory, but another all railroad and
river outlets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Austria Long Held
To Be a Buffer State

It has been said of Austria in the
olden times that if there were no
such state it would be necessary to
create one to preserve the peace of
Europe. The truth of this observa-
ton is being brought home again
when the Paris conference is strug.
Cling with the conflicting national
aspirations Of the inhabitants of the
old empire with the full realization
that even were insoluble ethnologi-
cal complexities satisfactorily adj
justed, economic problems even
more serious for the future would
remain.
1t is no little operation to divide
100000 square miles of territory
and 100000 of people belonging to
at least a dozen races in such fash
ion as to satisfy the people thus sep
arated and preserve for all of them
some semblance of economic posi-
bility in the future.
In the old Austro-H Hungarian En-
pire there were Germans, Magyars,
Rumanians, Italians, Czechs, Sloveks,
Poles, Slovenes, Croats and Jews.
In the long course Of it's history the
-Hapsburg dynasty had acquired ter
ritory in all directions, inhabited by
a population incapable of fusion,
and these populations, through CEN
turies of oppression, had acquired
animosities and hostilities indescrib
ably acute.
When Austria Hungary fell there
were Immediately formed certain
number of states. In the north the
Poles in Galicia made common cause
with their brethren in Russia. The
Czechs of Austria joined hands with
the Slovaks of Hungary; Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes united with the
Serbs to the south; Italy laid hands
upon her lost provinces; Rumania a
little less promptly occupied Tran
sylvania, Bukovina and other re-
gions inhabited by Rumanians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

years ago the three great empires
occupying Central and Eastern Eu-
rope were dominating factors in all
European calculations. To-day Aus
tria is a mass of incoherent frag-
ments, Russia is in state of an
archy and Germany, for the moment
at least, lies PROSTATE. In all three
great states dynasty has disappeared
and republics have replaced royalty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Natural Barriers DEFY
All Rules of Existence

In uniting Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthe-
mans and South Carpathians the
Paris conference has liberated large
numbers Of Slavs, but the new state
It has created defies all rules of ma
tional existence. 1t extends trans
versely across mountains; railroads
and highways uniting east with west
do not exist and cannot be built, and
If the Czechs and Slovaks have been
united Of their own wish the Ru-
thenians will clamor for unity with
the Ukraine.
Besides the solution of the Aus
trian problem the German question
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

seems to-day impossible to realize
the reunion of at least portion of
Austria Hungary in economic If not
political federation, the association
of Czecho-S lovaks, Hungarians, Ru-
manians, Jugo-Slavs and German
Austrians. This may lead in time
to the creation of a situation of
peace and cooperation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Italy and Germany
Are Two Big Barriers

But two great powers will set
their faces against such solution:
Italy, which fears that such a fed
Grafton would contest it's supremacy
on the Adriatic; Germany, which
hopes to acquire Austria and, by
preserving anarchy to the south
ward, keep alive the opportunity to
recreate little Europa, which was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

her dominating ambition before and
during the war.
1t must be apparent that the
treaty of st. German, which we are
presently to make with Austria, and
the subsequent treaty which we shall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
TheGeyn,un Treaty.
WasaSin,pleM Mat
ter Compared to
the Present Issue
at Versailles
Races. With Riualries a
Thousand Years Old
WM Be Released by
tI,e~Liquidation Of the
Old Hapsburg Empire
~!
hFrank II. Simonds

me- Paris, May 81.
Willis The Germans are still de-
batting tfe peace terms served upon
them the Austro- Hungarian Empire
is in IT, 1 :. turn passing before the
Conference of Paris, and, in fact,
submitting to final dissolution. No
single change following the war can
have more far reaching effects for
the future in Europe than the total
liquidation = Of that empire which
only 9 few brief months ago was,
next to Russia, the largest in area
on the Continent, and, next to Rus
STA and Germany, the largest in
population.
To-day, as result of the settle
ment which was made in the treaty
of ST. German, the Austrians and
Hungarians, who combined to rule
an empire Of 100000 square miles,
with population of more than 3D.
100000, will find themselves re-
stricted to an area of a little more
than 100000 square miles and a
population of hardly fifteen mill
ions. This population and this area
vr,s11 ho ir1x o1-oy1x, Ii1,1G0G hn
tween the two ruling races Of the
cid Austro-Hungarian Empire, the
Germans and the Magyars.
Complete Disruption
OF & Powerful Empire
We have, then, complete disrup-
ton OF one of the great empires of
modern history. A hundred years
ago at the Congress of Vienna,
Austria, represented by Metternich,
had decisive influence. For forty
years thereafter this influence re-
NAMED prior to the Congress of
Vienna France and Austria for two
centuries had been rivals for the re-
birth Of national aspirations among
the subject peoples of the Hapsburg
Empire. Above all, the Pan-Slav
aspirations of the Serbs, Poles,
Czechs, Cfoats and Slovaks have
combined to, destroy utterly what
has been one of the most powerful
forces in European history.
1t is worth recalling again that
this world war which we are now
liquidating had its occasion in the
assassination of the Austrian Arch
duke at Sarajevo just five years
ago. 1t is worth remembering that
this war; had its origin in the con-
viction held alike in Vienna, Buda-
pest and Berlin, that the result Of
the Balkan wars had doomed the
Hapsburg edifice unless preventive
war could postpone the evil day.
The majority of the subjects Of
Francis Joseph were Slav. At no
distant time this majority would
assert it's right and change the
whole course Of Austro- Hungarian
policy. Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand himself, foreseeing the newt
able change, was preparing to ad-
nit the Slavs into the new Austro-
Hungarian federation when an as
sassin's bullet terminated his life,
and the last hope of salvation for
the empire which would have been
his.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

make with Hungary. will in fact
settle nothing. To liquidate the
Austro-Hungarian Empire will at
least be as complicated and difficult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Amid Thousandfold Frocks for Summertde Is
THIS NEWEST MISSES SILHOUETTE
ADMIRABLY ADAPTED TO THE RESORT SEASON

7HERE shall go" greater question Of the moment
w than What shall wear? And the Misses Gown Shop re-
spends with suggestions thousandfo is only through
selection OF the widest appeal that the Miss find the right gowns
tor the multitude Of Summer diversions for which she has planned
In the little nicetes design that lend the authority fashion without
addngt these Sumnere roc present character that the de-
mosee will bequck for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Auteuil and Lon8champs Seal
The Newest Misses Silhouette
AS FULL SKIRTED AND SHORT SLEEVED

4 RETURN Of the full skirt forecast in the newest
vogue OF Paris. Mayhap reflective Of the prod8alty
of the t1eperhap only reaction from the sterner stuff
of to the fenny Of peace but whatever the reason
the silhouette shown first by the Individual Shops re-
vea the generous skrulness Of the periods that have
followed the GREAT conflicts Of history The calendar turns
back Grandas day and the Miss shares revival Of
the 5ories OF which comfort WED with ingenuity in
producing Genuinely feminine fashion.
Spring Paris watches the Of Aueu of Lon8chanps
with intensity than Gotham this season turns it's
chances toward the favored by fashion for motifs that
destined determine the mode for months to come This
silhouette awaits the Miss who aims to si8raze her
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Continued on mert page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Evening Gowns for the Resort Season

Evening Gowns for the Resort Season
HIS blhesome Sunertde peace demands ea
crate feminine fashions bringing evening Gowns Of
adorable sotness and a]lur1na charm
An air a8ty and delcacy feminine beauty de luxe
maas-sheer and oae used fashion these frock all is
not lett to the materials the designing brays art every nethe
whr and swirl OF dperles the Of scnatn8 silver acthe
dash and Of sasand the coquety cosae Of French
flowers, all add their charm
TAFFErA GOWNS MORE GOWNS rru1r roun,c
LACE SATIN GOWNS c1nrro> cCv1>c
oH0N'c'i1 oOWNo NET GOWNS
Teventynne Fifty to Nne1yeiqht Fifty
Daytime Frocks for the Resort Sea son
kOCKS planned for THIS Summertde differ widely from the froks
OF yeseryear-th silhouette deenso the seeve-he sash
and collar arran8enenthe embroidered application Of
aces and the drape and shape Of the sktsa newa different
The Of essentially feminine fashions Dives tousandod opnor
tnes for pictorial Effects While the inspiration for manv these
new Gowns from Ronney and Guborou8h pnnas art is
adds another charming and original picture the aaer
GE0RGETTE FR0CKS CHARMEUsE FROCKs ORGANIZE Fpocxe
Anrrnn rKNSko CREPE METEOR FROCKS DOTTED FROCKS
f0oAANo FNooNo lNCOLEIIE FROCKS SHEER FRCCKS
Tsteny1aine Fifty to Ninetycight Fifty
MISSES GOWN SHOp-Second Floor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

a state of 100000 to an insignif-
cant republic Of 100000. German
Austria already has demanded union
with Germany.