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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
Everybody Seems Happy.

Everybody seems happy. Sweeter
than the sound of bells, the joyous
thunder of cannon saluting the sign
ing of peace echoes away under
soft gray sky.
The ceremony in the Galerie des
Glaces was unimpressive. There were
too many dele gates. too many dis
tinguished visitors, too many secre-
taries. and I had almost said too many
journalists OF these last there were
from 500 TO 500 The famous hall is
almost a block long, but il is not
nearly wide enough to contain all
these people with dignity. Premier
Clemenceau opened the proceedings
by stating that the allies and the
Germans had reached an agreement
on the terms of peace" and then there
was not single other official word
until the interpreter an hour later
announced that the ceremony was
concluded. Group after group of del
egateS edged their way to the center
of the hall and silently signed.
everybody seemed to feel that he was
missing something. The secretaries
kept bobbing up and down. distin-
guished visitors kept edging along
the side walls and the journalists
kept raising cameras above their
heads and clicking them wildly in
midair. As for the allied and asso-
ciated delegates. they whispered.
talked and smiled continually among
themselves. and within a few minutes
everybody except the Germans was
doing likewise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
By BEN HEIGHT.

Special Cable to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1919.
BERLIN, July She comes amiably
drifting into the hotel bar. where
American officers gather at odd mo-
ments to recount their adventures
social and military-and where occa-
sionally foreign correspondents sit
full of dark secrets and stroking their
boards.
We'll. see the gang is all here"
he eXclaims. Some of those present
have seen him before and nod in re-
spouse. He draws up chair. He
orders drinks-vile decisions of gin
and water. He talks English like an
American. interspersing his remarks
with curious slang-the slang of four
and six years ago. His German. how
ever. is excellent. in fact too excel
lent for an American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06

points at one end connected with cop
per wire. IL was brought in q bucket
Of water to fire headquarters for
animation by Inspector owen EaSan.
explosive expert of the IRE depart
ment.
1t proved to be a block OF wood.
reinforced with wires. The police
believe II had been used as A floating
mark for A launch'S anchorins place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
Thrill as Victors.
CASHIER FOUND DEAD.
ALBANIAN Kills Self, Authorities
Say-U. S. Examiner at Bank.

FORT PAYNE. Ala. July 5.-John
G. Boiling, cashier Of the De Kalb
County Bank here, was found dead
in his room today and the authorities
stated be had killed himself. pistol
was found on the floor beside the
body. the police said.
The bank has been closed some time.
pending further instructions from
the state superintendent of banks.
and federal bank examiners are in
vestigating its affairs. 1t was said.
Boiling was a native of Brooklyn,
n. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
What She Wanted.

Woman-I want to get Alimony from
my husband.
lawyer see; do you want an alb
solute divorce or just separation pa
pers?
Woman-why. II can get the ALL
mony, I don't care particularly for
any separation at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
VERSAILLES SCENE OF WILD JOY
/ WHEN SIGNING ENDS WORLD WAR.

who found the description apt. But
with the booming of the hrst cannon
interest revived. Every one began
looking toward the high western
windows. They fired no regular salvos,
but in spaces like seemingly spon-
teries fired almost in unison and now
one gun at time. And they seemed
suddenly to lend tremendous ror-
tent to what until then had certainly
to many of the spectators appeared
to be a dull and empty ceremony.
preted this crowding together of
black coated men in that gilded,
glittering hall. And out here on the
terrace where their momentous voices
still roll above the discreet cheering
of the select crowd I think I UNDER
stand what they would say.
Speak of Tragic Memories.
They speak first Of tragic memories.
They recall the anguish Of 1914. the
glory of the first Marine, tie disillu-
sion of Arras and the Champa gnc, the
bloody grandeur OF Verdup. the dis
heartening war Of Picardy and Flan-
ders. the failure Of the Aisnc. the
grim Chemin des Danes and finally
the dramatic Campaign Of 1918 when
the allies after coming in March and
May so close to losing the war turned
1t in July and won in November what
should perhaps be regarded as the
greatest victory of all times; and lest
in our triumph we forget the lonely
anguish of four long years of trench
eS, black days. red nights, bodies
mangled and hearts broken, they tell
of ruined homes. of cities racked with
horror and of refugees fleeing in the
darkness.
They toll the knell of Europe's count
less dead and then their voices rise
There is grimness and stern justice in
their thunder. They speak Of the pres
ent. They roar forth over the chaos of
devastated Europe. They dwell upon
the famine. pestilence. hatred and
misery which the war has leaKued to
this sad continent, They vibrate with
warning. Let those who have wrought
this evil behold and beware.
Thrill as Victors.
They thrill with the strength of
victors. Let those who are guilty at
tempt no escape from justice imposed
upon the vanquished. Let their hearts
quiet their stubborn minds and sub
due their pride. for this Justice Is in
exorable and resistance vain.
The old men have paused beside me
They wear the ribbons OF veterans OF
1870. Their sunken cheeks are flushed
and their dull eyes almost glow again.
IF only the shade Of Bismarck could
see this"' quavers one.
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Likely Gift.

Graves-Young Percy Spendthrit.
is celebrating his marriage and also
his birthday. wonder what the
wealthy bride viii give him for a
birthday present?
Toomhes-Likkely her bank book
with the sentiment. Always yours"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06

William B. Walker formerly a banker
in Chicago, has died at his residence,
Highwood. one Of the largest estates on
the Massachusetts north shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
Not Unlike a Commencement.

Tho man next 10 me said that the
whole performance reminded him OF
the comm enoement exercises In
high school. and there were several
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
Kaiser's 'tBid" a Souvenir.

Then he shows a card Of invitation
to the Imperial sotree at the kaiser
schloss in 1915" less than year ago.
This is a memento of happier days.
Under its influence our amiable
stranger loses some Of his amiability.
Memories overpower hin-memories
of the wrong America did Germany
by entering the war principally. He
becomes for a moment very bitter.
He RACES against President Wilson
and paves the way to do you happen
to know any member of the American
embassy at The Hague?"
IT is a dream that not even the
visilant State Department In WASH
ington can deprive him of-this
dream of going home
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u. S. RENEGADES IN ''HUNDOM'
X PLANNING TO GO HOME SOON
Kaiser's Liickspittles Have Changed From
Slurring America Before She Joined War
to Saying Germany Is Ruined.

enough for them when the war start
ed. Its neutrality was blot upon Its
fair name.
Don't be impatient" they assured
the foreign office in Wilhelmstrasse.
America will join in a few months.
England is our natural enemy and
France is held in contempt as de-
generate nation. 1t is only ques-
ton of time" For which cheerful in
forma ton the foreign Office in Will
Wrote Violet Articles.
Encouraged by this gratitude to
further effort our amiable stranger
in the American bar wrote violent
articles exposing many things. busted
him self with organizing an Irish bri-
gade recruited from Irish prisoners.
held passionate interviews with dis
sruntled Hindoos.
And Then America COINED"
Finally America joined-but on the
wrong side, and our amiable stranger
CRASHED his teeth and cried out in
the columns of the Continental
Times, a newspaper published in Eng
lish in Berlin, that America was a
dollar-mad monStrosity, and that j.
P Morgan had forced the nation into
war.
There were trips to Amsterdam,
Copenhagen and Bern, all financed
by the foreign Office in Wilhelm
strasse. And our amiable stranger
worked twenty-four hours a day and
achieved quite a reputation; in fact.
ended by getting his name on the
books of the American State Depart
ment Those were the good old days
when William wasn't going to stand
any nonsense from the U. S. A. and
,vhen Iudendorh experienced an un-
controllable desire to laugh at the
mere mention Of the American Army
in France"
How Things Change.
How time flies and how things
change with the flight of time. None
can tell so we'll as our stranger If no
would. Germany, the supernation, IS
quite a bore Berlin isn't what 1t used
to be when the bands played and red.
white and black flags few heroically
from every window. Yes 1gnatz. its
all wrong. and he wants to go home.
talking to American soldiers and Of
ficers, ferreting out correspondents
and limiting at passports and steam
ship bookings.
l have been to his house and have
seen his autographed picture of DR..
Michaelis and his letter from a close
personal friend Of Hindenburg. He
ceau. This goes on until his Wife
he usually has a wife-interrupts
and says: "Well. anyway. that is all
past now. My husband and I, you
know. have been thinking OF going
home" Quite right" says the
husband. Germany is ruined-quite
ruined"
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Talk Turns Toward Home.

His talk turns toward home. toward
a little town in Texas. with side lights
on Omaha feminine society and bit
of New York politics. The major men
tions good old Philadelphia The cap
tain laughts nightly thereat and
pulls a gag about having spent
week there one Sunday. In Boston. y
says the captain, we've got one Of
the finest subway systems.
At the sound of the name Boston
the lieutenant from Chicago sees At
to howl derisively.
So the talk of home continues with
much local boasting and plentiful
joshing. The stranger who seems to
be quite fall guy" by this time. he
having already ordered two rounds,
announces that he is good for an
other. The drinks come. Taken by
his generosity the courteous captain
raises his glass to the stranger and
proposes your health. sir" the cap
tain being from Carolina. The
stranger beams and then in an Off
hand voice remarks. Il hope to drink
to yours again in the states. You
know I am thinking of going home
soon"
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Symbols of Triple Alliance.

They would perhaps have liked to
think of themselves as symboliZing
the new triple alliance which they
intend now TO propose to their peo-
pies and of the tranquil, beautiful
landscape as symbolizing the lasting
peace they have tried so hard to give
the world; but the crowd presses too
closely. They are forced to edge
their way forward in single file
first Clemenceau. then Wilson and
then Lloyd George. They are smil
ing, and although somewhat discon-
certed by the jostling. seem happy.
Overhead In gay delirium airplanes
are Swimming and dipping. Detach-
ments OF ernch troops placed artis-
tically about the terrace stand at at
tention. a young Frenchman in
fashionable attire. dancing on chair
beside me, keeps waving his cane and
shouting, "Vive Clemenceaur He
wears a ministry decoration in his
buttonhole. His face is distorted
into CHASTITY caricature by the
scars of an old shell wound. but he
seems to be happy.
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"Going Home Soon.

Going home soon, The correspond
ar one another. Among the dark Sc
the stranger with the breezy manner
and obsolete slang represents. Going
home, indeed!
The stranger is bit embarrassed
by the silence which greets his words.
He explains. His home is in New
York or sometimes in Chicago or Los
Angeles. He was travelling in Ger
many when the war broke out Bust
ness interests kept him there. He
goes on explaining in an offhand yet
eager ma amer. He ends with the re-
mark: Yes, now that peace is signed
I would just as soon wind up my
business. I guess I'll go home. The
good old U. S. A for me every time"
The poor amiable stranger is the
tragic little good fellow of the Amer
lean bar in Berlin. 1t isn't fair to
single him out by name since there
are SO many of him; every day an
other always is guessing that III
go home now that peace is signed"
Renegades and Traitors, Too.
The renegades and traitors who had
their hey day when Ludendorn and his
general staff were inheriting the
earth are among these men. One OF
them is man who was once an
American newspaper correspondent.
Another served under Roosevelt in
the Spanish war and a third was the
head of a large business in New Jer-
sey and so on. America was not good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
Renegades and Traitors, Too.
z BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER-
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

PARIS. June % (delayed).-1 am
writing these notes TO the booming
of guns on the terrace Of Versailles.
The German delegates, pale and ST.
lent. have just been hurried away
through a side avenue in French
military car. Premiers Clemenceau
and Lloyd George and President Will
son are coming out of the palace. A
select crowd of well dressed people
admitted 10 the inner gardens are
thronging about them. men cheering
and women throwing flowers from
their girdles- 1t is only with diff
Guilty that a squad of police is able
to clear way for them.
The three leaders would doubtless
have liked to stroll quietly arm in
arm to the top of. the great marble
stairway and look out together over
the massed greenery, tall white
fountains and smooth lagoons of the
magnificent park of Louis XIV.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23

the original proposal which was accepted by official representatives of the operators. Further than that, authentic reports from St. Louis quoted President Brewster, of the operators scale committee, as saying that the settlement of the strike in accord with the compromise offer made by President Wilson was entirely agreeable to the oper- atorS and that notices would be posted at the mines ordering the necessary fourtcc per cent advance. It Is also fact that the advances were posted and are being paid. Whether or not the executive committee was consulted or agreed to the settlement Is of little import because the fact is known to the public that the operators did accept the terms of the settlement before the strikers agreed to them and the terms are being carried out.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
FRELINGHUYSEN
 CONDENNS GOVT
 FOR AGREEMENT
NEPUBIICAN SENATOR SAYS BE LIENES THAT GOVERNMENT IS PARTY TO SECRET DEAI.-IN CONNECTION WITH STRIKE SETH IEMFNT.

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 22. lPt
 Senator Frellnghuysen republican. tonight intimated that the public may not have been fully informed about all the processes or details in the recent settlement of the coal strike by a compromise effected between the government and the miners The senator is a chairman ol the senate committee Investigating the coal strike. but in his statement this even ing, he declared that he was speak ing for himself alone and not as a members of or for the committee
 He stated that in the governments negotiations there must have been some sort of a secret understanding or deal made in addition 10 the signed agreement upon which it was an nounCed that settlement was made. In any event. declared Mr. Freling huysen, the public must look for an increased price for coal or another strike. He called the postponement of a complete showdown loaded dice for the American people" The sena~ tor had nothing to show for his be lief of secret deal
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
COAL OPERATORS DENIAL

The denial of the coal operators ex- ecutive committee that it agreed to the method of strike settlement is more tech nical than an actual statement of facts. It could well be that 1t was not even consulted in the compromise in view of the attitude of the operators representatives at the Washington conference.
 The offer made by Fuel Administrator Garfield for an increase in wages to the strikers of fourteen per cent over the old scale was accepted by the operators This acceptance was formally and publicly announced at the same time that the re fusal of the workers to agree to the offer was published. The settlement made be- tween the government and the strikers is based on nothing else but the original Gar field proposal It gives the unions nothing material that was not provided for in the Garfield offer and it requires nothing from the operators that was not also required by
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
THE KNOX RESOLUTION

The introduction of the Knox peace resolution Just prior to adjournment Ill the senate Saturday indicates that the repub- ucau leaders have probably united on q course oI action devised to obyiate the rati- ucauOu ot the treaty at least Ill the Iume- Uate future. Ii such resolution were passed leaders of the treaty opposition might easily claim that further action by the United States Is unnecessary. This would Ill effect make the treaty the main Issue Ill the national elections of next year, since there would be no recourse except to the people.
 The new resolution of Senator Knox Is the third attempt to get around the treaty and at the same time accomplish tech uctI return to peace status. One of these have been made by Mr. Knox. Shortly alter the peace treaty had been submitted to the senate by President Wilson and prior to the report of the committee on 1t the Peuuoy yanian introduced resolution declaring war with Germany to be at an end. 1t was never acted on by the com uIJtce and has never been heard from since Il went to the committee. The second attempt was made Ill d similar resolution introduced by Senator Lodge and 1t like wise Was never reported out of committee. In the third tlIal the opposition was able to get favorable report from the foreign relations committee but only ten members oI that body took part Ill consideration of the resolution which was rushed thru in a matter of an hour or two when similar resolutions have failed after weeks of study.
 The new resolution presents a strange experimentation of ideas for consideration and adoption. It is first of all things an open attempt to dodge the responsibilities engendered by the peace treaty and grow ing out of American participation in the war. It is public admission and notice to the world that an effort is being made in America to have the country lay down on its job But at the same time, after re pudiating any liability incurred under the terms of the treaty, it declares that the United States must retain any material benefits conferred by the treaty. Further more, says it's author, unless Germany agrees to let us keep those benefits we will prevent the reopening of commercial rela- tions between the two countries.
 There isn't must chance that the reso- lution will pass the senate. It advises and would effect an action toward the allies of the United States for which ''desertiOn 7 would be too mild a term. For the senate to adopt such a resolution would be to brand the nation as quitters of the most contemptible class which is further than even Senators Lodge, Borah and Johnson dare to go in their defiance to the wishes of the majority of Americans.
 COAL, OPERATORS DENIAL,
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
SIX VOTES" TO ONE
(By Dr. Frank Crane.)

(Dy LIT. [ rank crane.
 One of the smoke screens the enemies of the League of Nations are putting out | that Great Britain and the self governing British dominions are to have six votes tt our one.
 1t is difficult and requires almos Superhuman powers of sef-restraint t( treat calmly and judicially an argumen whose animus and proponents tend t' arouse only swift Scorn i'll the minds O honest men, yet we know that epithct convince nobody, and, therefore, summon ing all our powers of restraint, we shall try to make the matter plain to any who ar, desirous of seeing.
 1. The Assemly of the League of Ma tons, ill which Great Britain. Canada. Aus traLia, New Zealand, South Africa, and In dia will each have a voice, Is a sort O Imcheon-conference. In the proper sens' of the term it does not "vote' except fo new members of the League
 Only when it is unanimous in it's opn ion does 1t even recommend to the COun cil of the League. It's Junction. with on .or two unimportant exceptions, IS mercl, to discuss and 'resolute
 It is the Council that decides, and il the Council the British Empire and thu IU. S. A. have one vote apiece.
 9 Instead of objecting to the pres ence around the conference.-the of self governing democracies that speak ou tongue, we ought to be glad of it. They arr our kind of folks.
 Canada and Australia and the othe English-speaking nations will come neare having our point of view on world matter than will Italy, France and Japan.
 Great Britain's offshoots are neare Jus, in their feeling, than they are to Eng land They have governments formed af ter our model, not after England. If Ou country and England should differ on matter before the Assembly, 1t Is more than likely they would see things from ou viewpoint.
 3. Great Britain is the best friend WI land our institutions have in the world. Sh saved us from the German navy in the out set of the war We were glad to go ove and fight by the side of her soldiers agains the common enemy. Her men and ours i' side by side, dead in Flanders, drowned ill the seas. The attempt now to arouse suspicion and hate toward Great Britain i Icontemptibe beyond words.
 This does not mean we defend Eng land $ course in all she has done She ha | bundered; so have we. But 1t means tha for the welfare of the human race, and for the common cause of humanity and all tha fertilization stands for, no conceivable things is so necessary as that English speaking peoples within the British Elm pire should stand side by side with the United States, in mutual trust and good Iwill
 In fine, the very heart, core and gis of any League of Nations that will be eff Ificient, must be the English-speaking peo Iples.
 If they fall out, it means a world de- Ilvered over to the ''old order,' a slumI once more into the hell of preparedness ano Im]itarism, and the basis laid for the Next War which will be higher in horror anC IdeeDpr in damnatiOn than the last
 I
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
DANCE PLANNED
 FOR LEAP YEAR

According to an announcement made yesterday afternoon, the ladies' Eagle club is making arrangements for dance to be given on Saturday night. January IF, 1920. The hop will be held at Eagle hall and the best music obtainable will hold forth The members and officers of the Eagle club, which was recently or ganized among the feminine rela- tives of Eagles. are busily engaged with plans for the affair and more detailed announcements will be made later The dance is to be of the Leap Year variety and promises to be a real hit.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-23
OREGON HOPES TO WIN.
ARMY OFFICER COMMITS
 SUICIOE-iLL FOR SOMETIk

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 22.-P)-Lt. Col. Andrew Smith, an officer of the United States regulars, killed himself in his apartments at a local hotel this evening, Colonel Smith had been ill and suffering from nervous ail- ments for several months
 Christmas Gifts in PyraIin Ivory Toilet Articles such as Dressing, tosh & kubons.