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New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Quick Peace Terms
Seem a Necessity

Coincident with this beginning is the
development of a profound conviction
in all quarters in Paris that it is now
necessary to make at least provisional
peace with Germany, to serve prelimi-
nary terms upon the great enemy now
regaining her strength and retaking
her old tone Of defiance; and the pres
ent indications are that within very
brief time under the terms of the new
armistice, which permits the Allies to
denounce it on three days notice, a
complete set of preliminary terms will
shortly be served upons Germany.
These terms will compel the dis
armament of Germany absolutely.
They will abolish all German hope and
agitation for the reconquest of AL
SAGE Lorraine by a preposterous pleb-
scite. They will establish the funda-
mental principle that the costs of this
war must be borne by Germany to the
last dollar possible, supplemented by
payments in kind in coal and in cat
tie.
Copyright, 1919, Mcclure Newspaper Syn
1cate)
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
League Called
Pact for War
By yPoindexter
Sees Danger That America
May Be Summoned to
Arms to Aid Foreigners

EAST ORANGE, N. j., Feb. 23.-Un-
der auspices of the Peoples Forum of
East Orange, in the rooms of the Wo-
mans Club, United States Senator
Miles Poindexter, OF Washington, and
Major George Haven Putnam. of the
League to Enforce Peace, this after
noon, debated the subject "The League
Of Nations" Major Everett Colby pre-
sided.
Senator Poindexter criticised the re
quest made by the people of this
country to maintain silence when Will
son reaches this country. He said:
prominent citizens urge that we
should not differ from the President.
It is three months since the fighting
ceased and Europe is still wrecked by
war. The issue presented to us is
whether we should have peace. | am
not only for future universal, perpetual
peace, to be derived by some unknown
well-detined method, but am for pres
ent peace, the bringing of the present
war to an end, and the bringing home
of our soldiers.
Declares Peace Issue Neglected
"Devcte efforts at the peace table TO
fixing new boundaries and setting up
new order instead of allowing CON
tinued Bolshevism that is wrecking the
country The peace conference, con-
centrated on course for future gov
ernment, has neglected to dispose of
business Immediately in hand for d
quarter of year
Washington said Keep out OF Eu-
ropean affairs. Monroe said Keep out
of European affairs When the Mon
roe Doctrine ceases to be American, IL
ceases 10 be the Monroe Doctrine, and
they propose to turn it over to the ad
ministration of Europe
Il am not in favor of peace at any
price. We might have had peace in
1875 with the price of liberty. or in
1850 at the price Of the Union. I am
In favor of continuing an agreement
among nations to maintain peace. but
| am not IN favor of surrenuering the
independence of the United States.
Great Britain. which will dominate the
league, Will probably say, 4 shall keep
our present navy under section eight,
and other nations can't have any navy
except half the size of Great Britain's
lsay we shall decide it for ourselves.
Calls 1t League for War"
"1he people should have a say as to
this programme of disarmament and not
submit 1T TO an alien alliance. Under
section 10 We would find ourselves
going into war for the defence of every
other country in the league. 1t is not
league for peace; it is league for
war
Under Section u we will submit to
compulsory arbitration any question
that effects us any imaginable con-
roversy that involves our rights. 1t is
taken out Of our hands and submitted d
to tribunal composed of foreign ma
tlons. But we would fight for our
liberty regardless of the league, and il
would only place us in the position Of
repudiating the league of nations as
the people VIII not submit to any alien
tribunal"
Major Putnam said;
The league of nations as worked
out IS an agreement between the people
Of the world who still have the con
trolling voice. Every arbitration is the
surrendering of something that pre-
vlously belonged to you. We are asked
10 surrender nothing more than any
other nation, but we must give up Ger
tam privileges of individual action"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24

governed, the protection of their natu-
raj rights and interests, the develop
ment of their resources, and their con-
tribution to the sum of human happi-
ness and the worlds prosperity. Even
if conquest be acknowledged as giving
one people thu right to rule another.
England has forfeited that right by
centuries of continuous misgovernment
and injustice. which are practiced by
the English government to-day as re-
lentlessly as at any time in the past
and in utter disregard of the opinions,
wishes and protests of the Irish people.
"The condition of Ireland, which is
the direct result of the deliberate ac-
tion of the English government. is an
international scandal and a constant
menace to the worlds peace. Three
times during the last 800 years her
to aid her people to overthrow English
rule. So long as England holds ire
land by military force and denies her
right to govern herself, the Irish peo-
pie will continue to assert their rights
by every means in their power. In
1916 they rose III rebellion. and on Jan
nary 21, 1919, their elected representa-
tives, supported by the overwhelming
majority Of the people. met in the ma
tional capital, issued a declaration of
independence and proclaimed an Irish
republic.
"This action was followed by an ap-
peal for recognition to the free peo-
pies Of the world. They elected three
delegates to plead their case at the
peace conference, two of whom, with
thirty-nine other elected representa-
tives of the people, are held in English
prisons, without trial, and with no
charge formulated against them.
State of War Exists
"a state Of war, therefore, exists
between England and Ireland, which
in the interests Of the peace of the
world the peace conference cannot ig-
more, and President Wilson's great
task Of establishing permanent peace
will not be completed until the Irish
question is settled on the principle of
selfdete termination, to which he has
uneouivccally committed himself and
the United States.
owe therefore, in the name Of the
many millions of American citizens of
Irish birth or lineage who have con-
tributed their full share to the winning
of the war and with the approval and
sympathy of the overwhelming ma
jority of the American people, now de-
mand that President Wilson place be-
fore the peace conference and support
with all his powerful influence Ire
lands right of self determination and
secure for the elected delegates from
her constituent assembly to the peace
conference the same status and recog-
rition which have been accorded to
those Of other small nations
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
z German Ships Seized

FAIRS, Feb. %. --- The French de-
s'toyer Orifamme on February 10 capt
Nrsd In the Baltic the German steamers
s''se and Berger, which were navigat-
TX Without permission. The destroyer
~ hcs prizcg into the Kiel Canal
- n'e nay 70 the nearest French port.
sssfnan authorities closed the lockS al
~.,<.anabEseei. :. holdjnG that the captures
fa 'ilegaL Energefic protests from
Il. ..s psss3arnne'g commander resulted in
fss 2rlzes being allowed 10 proceed 10
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24

resolutions setting forth their right tc
self determination, and the purpose oil
the $4,000 Greek inhabitants of those
districts to unite themselves with
Greece.
N. Kiriakides declared Greece saved
civilization and Christianity in the
past, had revolted against her rulers
to throw herself into the arena on the
side of the Allies in the present strue.
gle, and did not ask self dete rminatio
as gift, but as a right.
Other speakers were Professor Ca-
rol II. Brown, Of the College of tn
City Of New York; Joachim Alexopolos
DR.. S. Dadakis and S. Nikolopolos.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Must Block German
Pathway to Power

The first task of the league of ma
tlons will not be to organize Asia
Minor or Africa. 1t will naturally be
to erect in Europe on g basis of self
determination various middle Euro
pean states which, by expanding and
by becoming strong, will block the
German pathway to world power and
thus, by evolution if by nothing else,
bring the Germans out of their poll
cies of the past.
To very considerable extent this
gigantic task has been postponed SO
far by the Paris conference. We have
sent commissions to Poland, to War
saw. We have sent commissions to
Rumania. Every great problem that
tion Of commission, with inevitable
postponement of action, and in every
one of these prospective states in
ternal chaos and external menace have
resulted.
Now at last, confronted by the Ger
man threat to invade Poland at once
the Allies have taken action They
have fixed the line which in principle
establishes the policy that the Poles of
Germany will hereafter be Joined to
their brethren Of Russia and Austrian
Po,and. They have prcventd German
act ION against the Poles along the
Vistula under threat Of Allied .nva-
sion Of Germany east Of the Rhine
They have drawn provisional line OF
demarcation with far more considera-
ton of German claims than Polish
rights, but at least they have made a
beginning.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Greeks Appeal to Wilson
Urge Freedom for Race Under
Bulgarian Rule

Greeks from northeastern Thrace,
now living in New York, formulated
protest yesterday to President Wilson
and the governments of the Allies
against the retention under Bulgarian
rule Of the districts of Agathopolis,
Vassiliko and Prodvo. The meeting,
in the Palm Garden, Ffty-cighth
Street and Lexington Avenue, adopted
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Assailed by Germans
and BoIshevist Horde

When Germany and Austria were de-
featcd the Poles Of Russia and of Aus
tria at once proclaimed their indie
pendence and began an effort to restore
Poland. But they were at once as
sailed, both by the Germans and by
the Bolsheviki; they were also at
tackled to the south by the Ukrainians
with whom they have had an age-long
quarrel over Lemberg, and finally there
arrived a dispute between the Bohem-
ians and the Poles about upper Siesia
Recognizing that Poland was, after
all, the cornerstone of the new Euro
pean system, the most important de-
tail in the programme of liberating
the enslaved peoples, it viii be seen
. how great has been the apprehension
in Paris over the constantly worsening
condition in Poland AT the present
hour the Rolsheviki hold Wilma. the
Nkrainians are bombarding Lerberg
and the Germans were invading Poscn
when tho terms of the new armistice
we're served upon them.
Al bottom the Polish situation is part
Of the great problem as to whether
Germany shall be able again to attack
Europe, not alone with her own
strength but with the unwilling aid
Of millions of subject peoples.
In 1914 some sixty three millions of
Germans in Germany, holding seven
millions of Alsatians, Poles and Danes
and twenty-five millions Of Germans
and Hungarians in Austria, holding
thirty millions Of Slavs and Latins at
tackled France and Russia Thus Ger
many and Austria together were able
to employ against France and Russia
the military resources of thirty-sever
millions Of subject people, a population
nearly as great as that Of France But
for these resources Germany woulc
have been beaten in the first two years
of the war by Russia and France.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Trotzky Warns Films TO
Keep Troops OFF Frontier

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23-Leon Trotz-
ky, Bolshevik Minister of War, has is
sued a proclamation at Petrograd de-
claring a desire to maintain peace with
Finland but warning that country that
the Soviet government will take coun-
ter measures if the concentration of
Finnish troops on the Russian from
tier continues.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Planned to Dominate
Entire Middle Europe

The whole scheme OF Mittelcuropa
was that seventy-fivc millions of Ger
mans in Germany and Austria, together
with ten millions of Hungarans and
five millions OF Bulgarans. should
dominate an empire containing at least
one hundred and fifty millions Of
people of various races and use sub
ject races as cannon. fodder for con-
quest
To-day Germany has been beaten,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Faced by Intricate
Polish Question

The Polish question is one of the
most intricate and at the same time
one of the most vital which confronts
the peace conference Russia is a
chaos beyond the capacity of the AL
lies to deal with They have recognized
this and practically have abandoned
Russia to Rolshevism Nothing seems
more certain than that Boshevik Rus
sia and Germany will ultimately draw
together and that the vast resource es
of Russia will be ordered and or
Polish barrier state is placed between
the Germans and the Bolsheviki.
To make strong Poland, it is es-
sential not only that the Poles of Aus
tria and of Russia should be united,
but that there should be also included
in the frontiers of the new state four
or five million Poles of Germany and
that this new state should have the
old Polish port of Dantzg on the
Baltic.
But the creation of such q Polish
state is clearly undesirable for the
Bolsheviki who are seeking to overrun
and for the Germans who would not
only lose direct access to Russia but
also see their Eastern territories
mutilated and that condition restored
which led Frederick the Great to en-
gineer the first partition of Poland.
While they were victorious the Ger
mans created out Of Russian Poland a
state. which, like the Baltic provinces
like conquered Rumania, was to be d
creature of Mitteleuropa. Between
Germany and AUSTRIA up to the down
fall of both, there existed bitter CON
troversy as to whether this new Poland
should be united with Galicia to make
part of the Hapsburg empire or not.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
w arsaW Sees
Ebert i'm Plot,
Against Poles
Scheme TO Trick the Allies
lncubated at a Secret
Conference i'm Berlin

rAhlS' Feb. 23.-The Polish author
i''es' according to Havas dispatch
from warsaw. have obtained ahso1n+o.
~ reliable information from Rerl;n
that President Ebert. Chance1lo,
0cheldemann, Foreign Minister Won
nrockdorH Rantzau, War Minister
Noske and Herr Landsberg. at secret
meeting. adopted a plan to deal with
the follsh question by which Gcrmanv
wn'le promising to make peace with
foland. would give orders to the Ger
man troops on the frontier to continue
thelr operations against the Poles.
IN addition, 1t is declared, the Ger
man leaders agreed to get in touch
with the Russian Bolshevik govern
ment with view to Joint action
against Poland. 1t WAS planned also
the dispatch continued, to let the Ger
man troops remaining in Lithuania
become infected with Bolshevism so az
to facilitate action against Poland. II
was agreed it would be announced III a.
the leaders no longer had control over
these troops.
WARSAW, Feb 90 (By The Associ.
ated Press. - Poland within three
months will introduce new nano,
money, unit of which will have the
same value as the French franc, unde,
an act now before the Diet.
The reason for the step is the feel.
ing that Poland should have it's own
national money and also a monetary
standard which could be quoted abroad
since at present there are three or fou,
different kinds of foreign moneys ir
Poland, all varying in value. This
makes it difficult for Poland to make
necessary foreign purchases. The
money will be issued by new national
pank, "hich may possibly be tcrmend
the "Fatherland Bank" when the di-
VISION of lands has been decided.
The new Polish money probably will
be replaced later, or readopted. wher
the peace conference settles the cues
ton of the money standard to be
adopted.
A crowd apparently made up OF
persons out of work and led by
Bolshevik agents made a demonstra.
ton yesterday before the Hotel Bristol
where Premier Paderewsk and the
lnter-Allied mission to Poland have
their headquarters. The Premiere
automoblle was stopped as he was
leaving the hotel and NJ Padorcwsk
was forced to make a speech to the
crowd. He promised the demonstrants
work as soon as possible and appealed
to them to disperse because of the i'm.
preston their attitude would make or
the foreign mission.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
A Collection, Of
Oriental SiTks

gorgeous IN coloring and
rlch IN weave, some in
tinltcly fine, others 50
substantially woven that
they crunch in the hand.
Scintillating brocadcs. ;.
great velvet motifs that
stand out in relief against
a silk ground, damasks,
glltterlng metallic silks
offer their charms of
color and design in close
rivalry. THESE ARE
GROUPED AND OF
FERED AT RIDlC-
u l. O SLY Low
PRICES.
S4.96 to SlO.74
Formerly priced S5.24 10
S21.7+.
MlgWS upholstery Department.
Fourth Floor, s5th ST., Rear.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24

but on all edges of Germany are these
various races, Poles, Czechs, Ruma-
mans and Southern Slavs. Unless the
conference at Paris can achieve for
this block of nearly fifty millions of
people independence, security time to
organize, Germany will destroy them
as. one eats an artichoke, leaf by leaf.
At the present moment Poland is
practically isolated, assailed on all
sides, and until terms of the new
armistice were proclaimed facing i'm
mediate threat of German INVASION
At the same time the Bohemian
Czecho-Slovaks are confronted with
probably the union of the German
provinces Of Austria with Germany,
which will leave their own state al
most all island in the German sea,
without economic outlet, and it is also
confronted by difficulties raised by
some three millions of Germans within
its own frontier.
The Southern Slavs are engaged in
a bitter battle with the Italians, who
possess their own seacoast; and Ru-
mania finds herself still unable to
escape the menace of the Hungarians,
who for centuries have held millions
Of Rumanians in terrible bondage and
still resist the liberation Of their
slaves.
Must Set UP
Strong Poland
If we can at Paris create a strong
Poland to mount guard over the Wis
tula against German expansion and
penetration of Russia, if we can erect
to the south strong Bohemia, an ad-
vance sentinel of the Near East, and
Jugo-Slavia, joined in alliance with a
greatly increased Greece, we shall
have automatically abolished most of
the hopes Of German imperialism, both
in the direction of Russia and in the
direction of Asia Minor.
When they had broken down Russia
they began at once to create frag-
ments of states and to involve these
fragments Of states in difficulties with
each other. They stimulated the Boil
shevik movements against Poland, they
melted the Ukranians to demand
Cholm and Lemberg, and, to the north
they fomcnted jealousy between the
But all this Germans saw long ago.
Lithuanians and the Poles. In the
meantime, when they had lost the
war and the Allies had mounted guard
upon the Rhine, they transferred their
armies to the eastward and undertook
to attack and crush Poland.
Poland and Bohemia, in the nature
Of things, are practically isolated from
the Allied world. Both have made re-
markable progress in the direction of
achieving unity and cohesion, but
neither one Of them is capable of re-
sLming national existence without
great and continued protection by the
Western powers.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Practical Peace Problems
By Frank H. Sim0nds

PARIS, Feb. 23.-In the new arm
istice terms, which have just been ac-
cepted by Germany with every show
of reluctance, the first step has been
taken in the direction of dealing with
the practical problems of peace. For
more than a month the Paris confer
ence has been wrestling with that
whole series Of questions which ex-
tend from Prinkipo to Paradise, and at
last it has undertaken to deal with the
creation Of one of the new states which
must be the foundation of future peace
in Europe.
1t is hesitating step that the AL
lies have taken in respect to Poland.
In tracing the line about the city of
Posen, beyond which the German
armies may not pass, the Allies have
recognized in principle the claim of
the Poles upon various districts in
Eastern Germany, in which they con-
stitute the majority of the popula-
tion. But they have not by any means
made this line include all the Polish
population, even in the Province of
Posen, and they have still avoided the
great question, which is, whether the
Poles shall occupy the left bank of
the Vistula from the old Russian from
tier to the Gulf of Dantzig and thus
obtain window upon the sea and an
economic independence absolutely es-
sential to existence of a strong Poland.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Yards and
yards j.!

of wonderful, rich,
shimmering silks for
almost every article Of
apparel in a Spring
wardrobe, Silk Ling
erie, Glove Silk Under
wear, Silk Ribbons,
Silk Dresses, down to
Silk Handkerchiefs,-
a marvellous array of
Oriental Silks too, in
The Week OF .Sitk
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At This Store
OF COURSE, LOVERS
OF THINGS ARTS
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but we also call the attcn-
ton of Interior Dccora-
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Actresses and Motion Pic
ture Artists to
The Monticellonian., 1919-07-18
ELECTED PRINCIPAL OF
 PILLAR SCHOOLS.

Prof. Dan W. Gill who has been teaching at Redfeld for d number of years has resigned his position in that city to accept a position as principal of the Til lar schools. He is spending this summer at the George Peabody College for Teachers. There are about l20 Arkansas students at Peabody of which five are from this county. In a letter to the manager of this office, Mr. Gill goes on to say. Drew coun- ty has about the best representa- tion of any county in the state. In addition to myself there are four others from old Drew as follows: Misses King and Bal lard of TilIar, Mrs. Allen from Collins and Miss Este Tomilson from Wilmar.
 In all there are about 1900 (estimated) students enrolled here. It is a great school and any teachers efficiency will certainly be increased by attend ing here.
 MT. Bond, State Saperintend- ent of this State, delivered an address on The Problems of Rural School Supervision and State School Administration. As MT Gill expressed it, it made quite hit" <"
 The many friends of Mir. Gill will be glad to know that he Is getting along so nicely in his chosen field of work.
The Monticellonian., 1919-07-18
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUNG
 MEN AND WOMEN.

l am pleased to announce to the young men and women of Drew county that l am authoriz- ed to appoint 15 students as ben eficiaries in the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. These appointments entitle the holder to free tuition for four years.
 The University is state sup ported institution, maintained by the taxpayers of Arkansas for the benefit of the young people of the state. In addition to the usual literary and classical courses offered in colleges, it comprises, as a part of it's organization, the State Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering, and is the only institution i'll the state giving complete college courses and degrees in these important industrial subjects.
 The University has also d College of Education, whose graduates receive diplomas en- titling them to teach in the pub lie schools for life.
 For the young ladies there are complete courses in domestic science and the graduates of these courses are in great demand as teachers and as coun- ty agents in canning club and home economics work.
 New courses recently added to the curriculum are journalism, public speaking, stenography, typewriting, and accounting. There is a Reserve Officers Training Corps for training army officers.
 For admission to the Univer- sity as an unconditioned student, one must be a high school grad uate. Those who do not live in towns having high schools may obtain appointments and enter the University Training High School, where they may prepare themselves for the Freshman Class.
 Complete information about the University may be obtained by addressing the Registrar of the University at Fayetteville.
 H. w. WELLS, County Judge.