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Evening star., 1919-03-20
special Wireless to The Evening Star
anu the Chicago Daily News.
4 txr Copyright, 1919.

BERLtS, Germany. March Is (de-
lay yed-~Having finished writing his
memoirs Gen. Ludendorn is today
about the most idle man in Germany
Not even the dubious glamour of the
Kaiser i'll exile surrounds him. He Is
To be seen walking in the streets of
Berlin, an erect figure in civilian
clothes. no different from the thou
sand and<one erect figures about him.
With every other correspondent in
GermapyI paid a visit to Gen. Budenz
dorfs home. At present he is living
as a guest of his former adjutaut
capt Broecker. AS l spoke with Mrs
Kroecker, the American wife of the
Prussian officer, Gen. Ludendorf sat
in the adjoining room bent over
table fussinE with the proof sheets
at His memoirs. All efforts to involve
HIM in the conversation were futile.
liuring the talk, however I learned
that 1t was better not to. mention the
Evening star., 1919-03-20

firm was trying 10 make contract to
nut I.uder,dorff on lecture circuit III
the United States, but that the gen
era1 refused. declaring. 'The people
would come to look at me as some
thing out of the ZOO
Evening star., 1919-03-20

MRS. l.. o. DOUvA1.
A French girl who was captured
by the Germans and imprisoned for
thirty months has come to America
with her husband, Lieut.. L. O. Douval
of the United States Army, to try to
forget the horrors through which she
passed Lieut. Douva1 rescued her
when the Americans took the town of
Ncyne, his only weapon being a
wrench. Soon after her release Lieut..
Douval. who has two French decora-
tions and one Belgian. pressed his suit
and they were married in Noyne.
Evening star., 1919-03-20
Special Dinner Dance

SpecAol DINNER Dance ~
at the Wardman Park Hotel Saturday,
March 22, pm. Reserve tables now.
.
Evening star., 1919-03-20

Medical kcRAareh, Dr.. WickiifPs Rose. |
director general Of the International !
health commission; DE-. Livingston |
FArfand, DR.. 0arvin, DR.. william p. |
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
GERMAN MERCHANT.
FLEET DEMANDED.
Terms for the Extension Of
Armistice Approved
ACTION OF WAR COUNCIL
Supreme War Council Says Germany
Must Hand over To Allies Cargo
Steamers To Assist In Revic-
tuaIing Of Germany.

Paris.-The economic terms ap-
proved by the Supreme War Council,
to be imposed for the extension of the
armistice with Germany, provide that
Germany shall hand over to the Allies
all her cargo steamers in German and
reyictual Germany and such adjacent
countries as may be decided upon.
The terms also require the restitution
of all manufacturing machinery, etc,
taken from the invaded regions which
it is possible to identify. This was
decided on in the view that it would
bring about quicker revival of eco
nomic life than the payment of an
equivalent in money.
The financial clauses concern the
gold reserve of the Reichsbank and
the issue of money by Germany.
Marshal Foch, when he meets the Ger
man armistice delegates, will make
suggestions regarding the security of
government monetary deposits and
the means of issuing bank notes. Guar
antees will be required regarding any
removal of the Reichsbank's gold from
Berlin in view of Bolsheyik activities.
The naval conditions demand strict
compliance with the requirements of
the original armistice concerning the
handing over of submarines which
have not yet been complied with. No
question was raised regarding the oc-
cupation of German ports by the AL
lies, as had been reported.
Examination into the question of
Allied Intervention in Poland against
the Bolsheviki was postponed by the
council.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
BIG RELIEF BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Acts Upon Wilson's Renewed
Request For Speed
TO BE HURRIED IN SENATE.
Warning Given That Delay IN Pas.
sage OF Measure Might Jeopar-
die Progress OF The Peace
Negotiations.

Washington Appropriation of $780,
100000 for famine relief in Europe
outside of Germany was approved by
the House, which passed the admin
istration measure after its enactment
had been urged anew by President
Wilson as the only effective means of
combating the westward spread of
Bolshevism The bill now goes to
the Senate, where its early passage is
planned.
Party lines were effaced in the
House debate and vote, and despite
energetic demands by opponents of
the bill for more specific information
regarding the proposed expenditure,
and criticism of the President, Her
bert C. Hoover and Vance Mccormick,
chairman of the War Trade Board, a
special rule reported by the Rules
Committee was adopted and afterward
the bill was passed, $40 to 70.
The only amendment accepted was
one by Representative Sherley, in
charge of the measure, which permits
use of part of the fund for relief in
countries contiguous to Europe. This
would make it possible to aid the Ar
menians and other suffering peoples
in the Near East.
President Wilson's urgent appeal
that the appropriation be authorized
to aid in the consummation of peace
was sent to Senator Martin and Rep
resentative Sherley, chairman of the
congressional appropriations commit
tee, and was read on the floor of the
House by Mr.. Sherley. 1t was supple
mented by a report to the State De-
partment from Henry D. White, Re
publican member of the American
peace delegation. Both messages said
the problem of supplying food to the
distressed peoples recently liberated
from the rule of the Central Powers
was one Of paramount Importance in
obtaining return to normal condi-
tions.
Food relief is now the key to the
whole European situation and to the
solution of peace" Mr.. Wilson said.
~Bolshevism is steadily spreading
westward. 1t cannot be stopped by
force, but it can be stopped by food"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
BRITISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT
Steam Heating Plants and Heavy
Overcoats Never in Demand In
That Part Of the Earth.

British Honduras keeps its Christ
mas in the shade. From its position,
pretty near to the equator, and wedged
in between Yucatan and Guatemala, it
it is always hot in that country, and
especially so when 1t is midwinter
with us. It is land of costly woods,
innumerable semivarieties of them, and
Of lovely flowers. 1t is one of the ma
tive homes of hummingbirds and gor-
geous butterflies. In fact, nature is
rather more gaudy than neat in that
part of the world. English people
settled there from Jamaica as long
ago as in 1857, but it was not until
over a century later that treaty ar
rangements with Spain made their po-
sition secure as still inhabitants of the
British empire. A good deal of the
country is marshland but the Cocks
comb mountains which run into Hon
duras from Guatemala are in places
1000 feet high, and wherever really
dry land is found the ground is won,
derfully fertile. Mahogany grows
there to perfection; so does the log
wood used for dyeing, also bananas,
plantains and coconuts. The capital
Belize, is the chief port of entry, and
the center of the rubber industry.
which depends upon regularly tended
plantations.
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time. They told me of another time
when more than 10000 boys Of from
fourteen to twenty years of age had
been carried away to Germany. When
/ was in Lille on October % it had
very few inhabitants except old peo-
pie or very young children. Among
the few exceptions were girls of from
seventeen to twenty years OF age nurs-
ing babies. which they told me We're
the offspring of German fathers, and
the pathos of the situation of those
young girls is something ] shall never
forget.
And this condition at Lille is the re-
suit of German ambition for world
domination, an ambition fostered
among the German people through
years of training, the ambition of
people whose boast has been that
might makes right"
am sorry to say have heard peo-
pie attempt to excuse this looting Of
Lille on the ground that it could be
shown to be a war me&sure-the need
of Germany for this machinery and
for the labor of the people deported
to Germany But these people cannot
find any reasonable excuse for the war
itself, q war that was started only for
the selfish purpose Of selfish peo-
pie.
Shall Germany not pay for this con-
dition at Lille? Shall she not pay for
the machinery that was carted away
or destroyed, for the people that were
deported? Shall she not pay for the
years of idleness of these factories,
for the years Of idleness of the en-
ployees denied the opportunity of prof
table employment? Shall she not pay
for the markets that have been de-
stroyed and which it will take years
to re-establish if 1t can, ever be done?
No, Germany will never be able to
pay for all of it. She will never be
able to pay, and no sum of money
could pay for the anguish of those
mothers who were forced to stand
aside and watch their sons and daugh-
tiers carried away into virtual slavery.
She will never be able to pay for the
anguish, the wrecked lives. of those
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
WASHINGTON

An increase from Ave to ten cents
in passenger rates between East
Liverpool, Ohio, and Chester, w. Va,
over the Steubenville, East Liverpool
and Beaver Valley Traction line was
approved by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Conferees on the War Revenue Bill
agreed to eliminate the House provi-
sion levying federal horsepower Ii
cense taxes on automobiles.
A warning against extravaganza in
appropriations was voiced in the SEN
ate during discussion of an amend
ment to the Census Bill.
A vote by the Senate on the woman
suffrage resolution will be indefinitely
delayed in view of the rejection by the
New Hampshire Legislature of reso-
luton to instruct Senator Moses to
support the measure.
Orders directing Major General
Leonard Wood, now commanding
Camp Funston, Kan, to proceed to
Chicago and take command of the Cen.
trail Department were issued by the
War Department.
The authority of the National War
Labor Board to enforce its DEGREES,
now that hostilities have ceased, was
challenged by counsel for the Bethle-
hem Steel Company.
A Finnish commercial mission will
leave January 20 for France, England
and the United States to discuss com.
mercial relations with Finland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
TO SCREEN
PEACE CONFERENCE
Americans dnd English Cores
pOndents Raise Row
QUESTIONS TO BE REOPENED
Announcement That News For Public
Is To BE Confined To A Daily
communique Brings Expio-
sion OF indignation.

Paris.-The question Of whether the
Peace Conference is to be secret or
wholly open to the eyes and ears Of
the world, the settlement of which
has been long awaited, was brought
to a focus when it was announced that
an agreement had been made to CON
fine the information given to the pub
lie to daily official communique, and
that a gentleman's agreement pre-
vailed among the delegates not to dis
cuss or in. any way give information
of the meetings in the Foreign Office.
No written official announcement of
this purpose was issued, but word was
passed out to this effect, and it was
followed by an explosion Of protests
which quite drowned out the doings
OF the peace commissioners.
The understanding is that the Amer
lean and British delegates opposed this
decision, but that the French, Italians
and Japanese, voting together, pre-
vailed.
The British newspaper correspond
ents Immediately Joined in a memorial
of protest, which they put before
Premier Lloyd George. The American
newspaper correspondents united in
what is virtually a round robin to
President Wilson in which they pro-
test in measured terms against the
decision, and reminded the President
of that one of his fourteen points
which specifies open covenants OF
peace openly arrived at"
The memorial was before the Pres
ident, and there is every reason to
believe that such a storm has been
raised as will force the question be-
fore the meeting again.
The question whether the meetings
are to be open or closed has been
smouldering for several days. 1t is
associated with conditions which have
surrounded the lack of method in
making public what has actually been
going on in conference for the past
month. The American newspaper cor
respondents, of whom there are about
100 here to report the peace proceed
ings, have been received in daily audi
ences by the American commissioners
under the stipulated conditions that
what was developed was solely for
their guidance and not to be reported
as bearing the stamp of authority or
coming from the mission.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
GERMANY MUST PAY
Boche Entitled to No More Sym
pathy Than Any Criminal.
WRECKED CITIES AND LIVES
Many Girls in Lille Are Mothers of
Babes Whose Fathers Are Ger
!, mans-Punishmen Cannot
Be Too Severe.
By WRIGHT a. PATTERSON.

When a robber breaks into your
house and steals that which he can
carry away and then destroys that
which he cannot steal, you expect that
when caught he will be punished both
for what he stole and for what he de-
stroyed.
So it is with Germany.
The German army, acting under the
orders Of the German government,
stole everything it could carry away in
the invaded sections of Belgium and
France, and what it could not carry
away Il destroyed.
was in the city of Lille very short
~ after the retreating Germans had
evacuated it. Before the war Lille
had been one of the busiest and most
prosperous manufacturing towns in all
of Europe. Its great factories, pro-
ducing linens, cottons, velvets, ribbons
and wooden goods, had patrons all over
the world, and its sugar and chemical
plants supplied much of France with
these products.
For four years, during the German
occupation, the factories Of Lille had
been idle. They are idle today. and
they will be idle for many months to
come. The reason is that Germany
stole the, machinery from all Of these
factories, or in the very few cases
where actual theft was not possible or
profitable, they destroyed the machin-
cry. The people of Lille told me that
this theft of machinery had been car
ried to such lengths that the Huns
even invaded the homes Of the people
and took from them their sewing ma
chimes. I,
Germans Fathers OF Their Babes.
The German army looted this beau
tiful French city Of more than 200.-
600 population. 1t stole not alone the
machinery from its factories and its
homes, but even its people. French
mothers told me of how 5000 young
girls of twenty-five years Of age and
under had been carried away at one
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24

girls with German babies. Money VIII
not pay for these things, but money
and work can in some small degree
pay for the wrecked factories and ru-
ined business Of the city of Lille, and
through the payment of this money
and labor the people of Germany will
learn that might is not right, and that
war for the purpose Of gratifying
selfish ambition is not profitable.
Why Lille Was Not Destroyed.
The German retreat from Lille came
near the close Of the war when the
Germans knew they were beaten ana
they would have to pay, and for that
reason the city itself was not de-.
stroyed. But the fact that it was not
destroyed is but another evidence OF
German selfishness rather than 0f vir-
tue.
There are hundreds of cities and
towns that have been destroyed after
being looted as Lille was looted; hum
dreds of towns where even the mate
rial of which they were built has been
carried away that 1t might be used in
the construction Of Notifications be-
hind which the German army might
defend itself and its ill-gotten gains.
For all Of these Germany should pay
now, and for generations to come.
No sympathetic pardon board should
sit on Germany's case. No sentiments
alist should have voice in deciding
her punishment. There is no more,
If as much, reason for leniency in fix
ing the punishment Of Germany than
there would be for leniency in fixing the
punishment of the ruthless slayer OF
your son or your daughter. Germany
must pay all that the present and fu-
ture generations can pay, and she will
even then have expiated her crime only
in small degree.
Any Demand Not Too Great.
/ am sure / know the desire Of the
American people for fair play In all
things, including the settlement with
Germany. They would not wish to do
the German people an injustice in the
demand for reparation. AS rode mile
after mile over the devastated fields
Of Belgium and northern France, as
passed through town after town that
had been destroyed because of mad
craze for loot and world domination.
I felt that could the American people
but see the things was seeing, they
would feel, as felt, that any demand
that might be made could not be IN
fair. Could they have seen the ruins
of the beautiful cities Of Ypres, Ar
mentieres, La Bassee, Peronne, st.
Quentin, Noyon, Lens and many hun
dreds of others, they, too, would
say with one voice: Germany must
pay"
The boche will appeal, and in fact
is appealing, for the sympathy of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
British Official Machinery Lille
linen Completely Wrecked by the Germans

world, but the boche is entitled to
just the same degree Of sympathy that
the world accords to any other GRIM
inal. We feed and clothe the GRIM
inal that he may live to expiate his
crime, and we will feed and clothe the
German people that they may live to
expiate their crime, and that after
they have done that they may again
be entitled to the place in the worlds
civilization that only those who are
cleansed may occupy. Germany is en-
titled to nothing more than this. and
this is fair play.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
HUN HELMETS TO BOOST LOAN.
$4,000 Captured BY Yanks Will Be
Sent To United States.

Washington.-Eighty thousand Ger
man helmets captured by General
Pershing's troops-some new, taken
from storehouses behind the enemy
lines, and some battered relics of the
battlefield-have been ordered by
Frank r. Wilson, director of Liberty
Loan publicity, for distribution in the
Fifth Liberty Loan campaign The
helmets will be allotted to Federal
Reserve district headquarters on the
basis of their respective subscription
quotas and will be used as prizes for
campaign achievements under rules
to be formulated by the district man
ayers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
THE WHOLE NATION
IS VOTED DRY.
Nebraska, Bryan's State, the
1hirty-Sixth to Ratify
APPROVED BY 20 STATES
Drought Begins July I And May Never
Observation-Disclosures Act To Be
Superseded A Year From
January IS.
APPROVED BY 20 STATES
TEXT OF PROHIBITION
AMENDMENT.

Article XVIII, Section !. Aft
er one year from the ratification
of this article, the manufacture,
sale or transportation of intox-
icating liquors within, the inn
portation thereof into, or the ex-
portation thereof from United
States and all territory subject
to the jurisdiction thereof for
beverage purposes, is hereby
prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and
the several states shall have con-
current power to enforce this
article by appropriate legisla-
ton
Section 8. This article shall
be imperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amend
m'ent to the Constitution by the
Legislatures of the several
states, as provided in the Con-
stitution, within seven years
from the date of submission
hereof to the states by the Con
gress.
The amendment becomes effec-
tive one year after its ratifica-
ton by the thirty-sixth State.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
MILK PRICES TO DROP.
Relief For New York Consumers
Promised.

New York-New York consumers
will pay prevailing prices for milk this
month, but will get a reduction in Feb
ruary and March, according to an an
nouncement by Robert E. Bowling,
chairman of the Milk Commission
named by Governor Smith to settle
the strike directed against distributors
by the Dairymen's League Mr.. Dowi-,
ing failed, to state what reduction may
be expected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
u. $. AND JAPAN IN PACT.

Agreement For Joint Control OF Trans
Siberian Railroad.
Washington AN agreement for con-
troll of the Trans-Siberian and Chinese
Eastern Railroad by an inter-allied
committee virtually has been conclud-
ed, and Ambassador Morris. at Toxic
has been instructed by the American
Governor to proceed to Vladivostok to
participate in the working out of de-
tails. The Interallied committee will
be composed of one representative
each of China, Japan, the United
States, France, Great Britain, Italy and
the Omsk Russian Government in ST
IBERIA and will be under the presi-
dency of the Russian.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
1000 KILLED AT pRzEMYsL.
Ukrainians Bomhard GaIician City BY
Land And Air.

Geneva. - Two thousand persons
have been killed at Przemysl, Galicia,
by the Ukrainians, according to dis
patch to the Neue Freie Presse. of
Vienna, copy of/which has been re-
ceived here. TIE Ukrainians have
been bombarding Przemysl for several
days past by land and by air. and
conditions in theAtown are described
as terrible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
A. P. DENNIS GOES TO ROME.

First Commercial Attache At Ameri-
can Ambassy.
Observation-Disclosures of A. P.
Dennis. of Princess Anne, Nd, as the
first commercial attache at the Amer
lean Embassy in Rome was announced
by the Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
tic Commerce. Mr.. Dennis, graduate
of Princeton, is wholesale lumber
dealer and has written extensively on
economic subjects.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
TO STUDY RED CROSS WORK.
Headquarters Committee To Expedite
Listing OF Wounded.

Washington. Possibilities of i'm
proving Red Cross service in the 43
general hospitals of the army, espe-
cially to facilitate the listing Of
wounded men on arrival in this coun-
try, will be studied by an Official com
mittee from national headquarters
which will begin tour of the coun-
try this week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
GARDENS SAVED ss,ooo,ooo.

Denver Plans To Cut Vegetable Bill
Further Next Year.
Washington saved $s,000,-
600 on her vegetable bill, says re-
port to the National War Garden Com
mission. Seven thousand three hun
dred free water permits were issued
by the Denver Union Water Company
during the campaign, and Prof. H. L..
Clarke is planning an even greater vic
tory garden campaign in 1919.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-24
GERMANS FREE sss YANKs.
War Department Informed Of Return
To France.

To France.
Observation-Disclosures of 1888 enlisted
men of the Army reported to have re-
turned to France from prison camps
in Germany were made public by the
War Department