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New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Secret Pacts ReveayeeJ
Before Enjoys Met
.4r'aos Pincssof Ia Amazed Lv
Presidents Statement re
knesu Nothing about Y'hey,

Amos Pinohot yesterday wrote to
senator Borah expressing amazement
Ut the statement by the President before
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions that he know nothing Of the
content Of tho secret treaties OF the
Allies untN ho reached the peace CON
forence. Mr., PInchot says that long
before the conference WAS called tho
text Of these treaties was published in
American newspapers.
"Ihese secret treaties" he BAYS in
part, were published in part in Eng
nnd not long after our entry into the
war, The Pact OF London was de-
scribed Ia The New York Sun Of De-
conbor, 1917 Tha fun text OF the
secret treaties was published serially
in The New York EvoninG Post begin
ging January 20, 1913. and thereafter
widely distributed in pamphlet form.
THE reading Of the Pact Of London
IN tee Italian Chamber OF Deputies in
February. 1913, was described in The
New York Globe Of Fohruury l8. 1918.
Associated Press dispatches regarding
the treaties were publianed during this
period in the United States.
The subject of the secret treaties
was taken up with Colonel House by
Lincoln Colcord. Of The Philadelphia
Public Ledger in September 1917. and
uary "a, 1913. Mr.. Balfour, in Julv
lVl7 Was asked by Colonel House to
forward the secret treaties to the
President.
Ut seems astounding that MIR. Vii
son should have remained in the dark.
II, indeed, the President Of the United
States did not learn of the treaties
until his arrival at Paris there is i'm
piled failure in Intermediates aud a
neglect Of American interests that re-
Quire further explanation.
III the British press and public, the
Italian Chamber Of Deputies. the Rus
SLAMS, The Evening Post, The Sun
''he Globe and thousands of their
readers know about the secret treaties
how surprising it is that Mr..
Wilson made no effort to obtain the
secret treaties but remained in iguo-
saAce unt'l dizzy were disclosed at the
peace table and was able to answer
when you and Senator Johnson asked
him If ne had any knowledge of them
before he went to Paris:
No, sir; | can confidently answer
that question, no. IN regard TO myself
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Weiy,anr Gets Bill
70 Enforce Treaty

BERLIN, Aug. 20 (By The Associated
Press. "a bill providing ways and
means for carrying out the peace terms
has been presented to the National AS
sembly at Weimar, with the approval
of the Imperial Council 1t is far
reaching measure, the purpose being
to set definite limits and establish
control al all sorts Of activities in
commerce, finance and industries in
order to meet the sponsibilities laid
upon Germany by the conditions Of
peace.
1t empowers the government, for IN
stance, to demand and enforce indus
trial, mercantile and forest work
closely concerned with the work of
paying indemnities. The government
is authorized to demand information
about wages and material and may in
spect books, papers and business docu-
ments Of firms. rs we'll as fix prices,
adjust labor conditions and supervise
the efficiency Of industrial equi ipment
1t also imposes penalties up to three
years imprisonment and fine OF
10000 marks for Illegal payments of
money.
AS result Of the continued down-
ward trend of the German MARI. the
food controller has ordered the dis
continuance of purchases in Holland
aud Denmark. While the action is os-
tensibly based on the pretext that sup
plies already under contract meet most
urgent needs, and that these sources
of supply may be temporarily dispensed
with, in view Of increasing arrivals Of
overseas shipments, official concern
over the exchange situation is held to
be directly responsible for the order
Newspapers, in discussing the prob
lem, declare the western frontier has
virtually ceased to exist. in view of
the unchecked influx OF American n,
English and French commodities across
the Rhine. Illicit traffic through "thc
hole on the Rhine" is said to have as
sumed such proportions as to preclude
the possibility of customs or other con-
troll. As the volume of trade increases
the amount Of German money REQUIRED
10 finance II moves upward at an ac-
celerated pace and results in the fur
ther depreciation of the mark, which.
1t IS alleged, is being slaughtered by
spectators, smugglers and others seek
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Greeks i'm Caucasus Ask
Protection Against turk

SALONlCA, Aug. 20 Delegates
claiming to represent 10000 Greeks
living in the Arabian district IN the
Caucasus.according 70 the Athens News
Agency, have teiegraphed the peace
conference at Paris an appeal for Al
he'd protection against bandits and the
Turkish military, who. they asserted.
have pillaged the country ard mas
sacred Greek inhabitants
The dispatch was quoted as saying
these forces operate from a base at
Erzerum. The dispatch directed at
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
China Not 10 Negotiate
With Japan on Treaty

PhKING Aug = BY The Assoc atea
Press mandate declaring war wit
Germany a. an end will not be issued
until the treaty with Austria IS signed.
IT was announced to-day In the mean
time the government "a considerinf,
what measures viii be taken when +he
mandate is issued. such as wheth >
Germans Will continue 20 enjoy the
right Of extra territoriality.
The government. Il is declared is
still determined not 20 sign tho Ger
man treaty. No decision has yet been
reached as to the Chinese attitude
toward proposals for mediation re-
garding the signing OF the German
treaty he government it ls sCdel.
is determined not TO negotiate with
Japan concerning the peace treafy
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Nelson Against Resolution

Senator Nelson. Minnesota-The res
servations must be part Of the res
olution of ratification. Action such as
proposed by Senator Pittman would be
of no value,
Senator Kellogg. Minnesota-If we
are going to make reservations. WHY
not make them effective by including
them IN the instrument by which we
ra'i1y the treaty. favor reservations.
and not worthless INTERPRETATIONS
Senator Spencer. Missouri The res
oution proposed by Senator Pittman
never will be adopted. 1t is Impossible
The sooner the President realizes that
he must get down to real, genuine.
American protecting reservation and
not. jeopardize the treaty further. the
better 1t will be. Every day hs delays
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
japanese Transport Sinks,
10 Are Reported II.

LONDON. Aug 20 The Iana,e.
transpor. shi.iki Naru struck :. 80 -os'
and foundered on August Is. aon,b :,
ogashina. according 10 Nay.s..
disfatch received by L,osds
One hundred and ten or those o
board ere reported missing
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21

1t has been rapidly fixing q firm hold
on many widely separated parts Of the
country.
=, 1T should be added" explained DR..
ferguson, that the railroads acquired
IN Mongolia are not commercially use
ful at present; they arc strategic lines,
with reference to future military op-
erations."
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21

in particular the United States re-
eerres it's right 10 act in accordance
with the Monroe Doctrine with the
same freedom and effect AZ f this
treaty had not been made
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21

tention 70 the fart that fAe neon, -,
the Ardahan cistrlct already -.
severely during TIE wa- becaaae ~ -
Turkish and Rrssian operations -,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21

LONDON. Aus 20 The Rre.
steamer Ashanti has been totally 4.
strored hv tre d, Dakar. We. Afric,
according - sage received b
Lioyds
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
II. s. Enjoys Atitutie
Protested by Thracinns
Proposal to Ctpe BuIgarians
Control Of Their Affairs
Is Opposed Ly Kef,sgees

The jollowin0 cable msssage from N.
Kyrtaktdes, president Of the Union Of
Thracian Re(uoees In Greece, has been
received by The Tribune:
ATHENS. Aug. 20.--The attitude OF
the American peace delegation on the
Thracian question Is causing profound
establishment and dismay to The Greeks
the very principles for which President
Wilson and the American people s'and
the right OF every people to self de
termination and condemnation of the
old diplomacy by which lands and
populations were disposed of without
any regard for the wishes Of the people
affected
1t is a well-known fact that of the
total population of Bulgarian and
Turkish Thrace the Turks and Greeks
together constitute 85 per cent The
Bulgarians comprise only 6 per cent
and the latter are nowhere in compact
groups. Nevertheless, the American
Delegates are obstinately insisting,
against the unanimous opinion of all
the other members Of the Supreme
Council. upon putting this absurdly
small minority in control Of the coun-
try against the avowed will of the ma
jority on the plea that Bulgaria needs
an outlet on the Aegean Sea
But TINS outlet can be provided
without giving Bulgaria political con
troll OF any tracian territory. as Greece
offers to furnish every facility for Bull
garian commerce, not only at Thracian
but also at Macedonian ports This
outlet can be absolutely secured by
solemn international guarantees
WASHINGTON. Aug, 2o.-The Amer
fcan Peace Commission was asked to
sustain the claims Of Greece before
the peace conference in opposition to a
proposal to grant certain privileges in
Thrace to Bulgaria in a cabegram ad-
dressed to the chairman of the com
mission to-day by delegation of the
committee of the Friends of Greece.
representing 50o,ogJ Americans of
Greek descent. which now is in Wash
ington to urge their claims before the
government.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21

Ing to remove their fortunes from the
surveillance Of Matthias Erzberger. Min
lister OF Finance.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Cummins Against Amendments

Cummins Against Amendments
Senator Cummins, Iowa - am for
strong reservations as part of the rati-
flying resolution. | have no doubt that
such reservations will be adopted, but
! expect to see all amendments de-
feated
Senator McNary, Oregon think it is
unreasonable to ask that those reserva-
tions agreed upon by some of US should
be adopted outside of the treaty. They
should be part Of the body Of the
treaty. have talked with several Of
my colleagues who favored these
reservations and | am suro that the
Pittman resolution will not be salts
factory to any Of them, although wish
to speak only for myself
Senator Colt, Rhode Island-i am
inclined to agree with my colleagues
who favor reservations. that they
should be included in the resolution
of ratification. I think the President
exaggerates the danger Of our insist
ing on reservations intended to pro-
tect Americas interests. For my part.
1 would vote for reservations ! thought
necessary to protect Americas inter
ests If fortytive nations objected /
am convinced from the temper of the
Senate to-day that the treaty will never
be ratified without reservations and |
DO not wish to endangcr it, ! do not
think the President should take such
an obstinate position.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Calendar of Exhibitions

American Art Galleries, Square, south-From February
lection of paintings formed by e. Monoss and apes
trles furnishings and embellishments
February 49, the b ra % AXenPe and ffah StreeFrom
hnal part of the Herschel " Jones library
Arden Studios, Avenue-Panngs by John G. Johan
to February 26. - -
Ardsley Studos 40 Columbia Heights Brooklyn-Japanese
prints and paintings, to March
March 6. " " '''' "
nrs b @ 3obnso heagu 2 West Fsexsnh strsP
lean artists to February -
League West Fiftv-seventh StreetPanncs
by Haley Lever, to February 22
Babcock Galleries. 10 East Fortyninth Genre
painters, to March
Bourgeois Galleries. Fifth Avenue-Pannqs and drawings
by Jennings Toe, o March !.
Civic Club IA West Twelfth Drawings ehngs, liho-
graphs watercolors by New
Daniel Galleries. Stree-Recen work by
Daniel Halpert to February 22.
80 Enrich Galleries 7o Fifth AvenueFrom February March
early American portraits to Nlarch 6.
Ferargi Gallery "a East Fortyninh sreetWork by E. L.
Redheld, through February.
Folsom Galleries. $50 Fifth AvenuePantngs by William Mac
Gregor Paxton to March
Gmbel and Widenstein, SAT Fifth
artist soldiers of France to February 18.
kn@dler Galleries. 556 Fifth Quinn
and Daniel c. French, to February
decorative
panels by Vincent Tack, to February
Mich Galleries. Fiftyseventh February
l8 to March l, paintings by Jerome
Macbeth Galleries.
American artists to March
Montros Kenneth
Miller from February 18 to March 8.
National Arts Club Street-Amercan Water
color Society," to February 28. ~ ""'ei-
Paint Galleries. Washington Square soutbpsvcIo
by Engers Kennedy ~ 'o'"'omes'
Renhardt Galleries. colors by William
Jean Beauey, to March -' ~ '''AA'
The Cosmopolitan East Fortieth Streetpar+,cs M
Maurice Fromkes, to March 1S. ''e' ~
Whitney Studio Club lat West Fourth Street-Wood envrav
artists, to February 27. ~ ~ ~ pe oS group OF
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

Another challenge from the modern
lst camp is heard from at the Bourgeois
gallery, this time advanced in draw
lngs and paintings by Mr.. Jennings To-
iel., lie explains himself in q preface
to the catalogue, always a perilous
experiment. An artists works should
say all that he has to say to the pub
lie. Mr.. TofePs atfirmations in color
and in black and white are, unfor-
tunately, obscure. He covers a canvas
with curious swirls of color and calls
1T "Out of Silence" or "Love in a Gar
den" and we wonder why. His symbol
cal subjects, in fact, strike us simply
as so many inchoate dthyrambs in
color. He is little more persuasive in
his painted portraits and in few can
vases that seem like vague echoes of
the late A. p. Ryder. In these there
are pleasant hints of romantic senti-
ment and there is some charm of color.
But Mr.. Tofels art is as yet essen
TALLY tentative. He seems to be feel
ing his way rather than to have ar
rived anywhere, and this view of the
matter, inspired by the paintings, is
doubly confirmed by the drawings. In
color he recalls Ryder. In black and
white he points, dimly, to the possible
influence Of Blake. In neither does he
make the conclusive appeal of really
interesting artist. interesting in idea
and in craft.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

AT the Whitney Studio Club, 147
West Fourth Street, group of four
artists is exhibiting wood engravings.
monotypes. charcoal drawings and
color plates. G. Watt, as a wood en-
graver, loses nothing of the subtleties
of the famous paintings which he re-
produces. He is particularly success
full in "The Apple Gatherers," after
Karl Anderson, and "The Trousseau,"
after Charles Hawthorne. The mono
types by Salvatore Anthony Guarino
show a charming delicacy of color.
Aubrey Beardsley has influenced the
work Of Miriam Gerstle. She shows
weird imagination and effective color
ing in "Sea Monster and Nymph" and
elephant Dance" Charles P. Rising
uses his medium in a sympathetic man
ner. His charcoal drawings have much
poetic value in their softened lighting
effects. A portrait group in brown
crayon by Joseph Sub is included in
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
7 THAT FRANCE WANTS FROM GERMAN

exhibition at the Anderson Galleries
prior to their sale by auction, begin
ming tomorrow at the Anderson Gal
lerics. Among the collected sets OF
first editions are complete collections
of Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Bret
Harte, George Meredith and Bernard
Shaw. Association books are repre-
seHted by such desirable items as a
presentation" copy Of the "Vicar of
Wakefield" and a first edition of
"Thucydides," with autograph and
manuscript notes by Milton. Rare
Americana are numerous and include
n considerable collection of the scare
NIathers, Eliot and Penhallow, also rare
Colonial and Revolutionary tracts
pamphlets and broadsdes. A portrait
of Charles Dickens by w. P. Firth will
appeal strongly to Dickens lovers and
the complete collection of engraved
autograph portraits of the Presidents
of tho United States, from Washington
to Wilson, will also be included in the
sale.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
First Steps in the Agitation
For an Artistic Indemnity

add, can there be any criticism of the
scheme which M. Marguillier sketches.
France in Germany
1t concentrates upon French works
aiming in the first place at those paint
lngs and sculptures in the imperial
palaces of Prussia which belonged spe
cifically to the former Kaiser. The
enumeration is edifying. The eigh-
'eenth century French school is por-
tentously represented. There are no
fewer than thirteen paintings by Wat
teau, thirtyseven by Pater, twenty-six
by Lancret, four by Natter, four by
Chardin, seven by De Troy, and by
Pesne the examples are simply "innu-
merable." Other French masters to be
reckoned with are Poussin, lie Brun,
Coypel, Largilliere, Raoux, the Van
Loos, Mignard, Rigaud, Boucher, La
Tour and David. There are sculptures
by Bouchardon, Coustou, Pigalle, Le-
moyne, Vase, Houdon and others. 1t
was the ambition of Frederick II to
create in the depths of Germany a
little corner Of France, filled with its
architecture, it's gardens, it's furniture,
paintings and books. His emissaries in
France, Count Rothenburg and the
architect Knobelsdorf, served him we'll.
and he had French architects, artists
and sculptors at hand to carry out his
wishes. M Marguillier fixes a relent
less eye upon what they left behind
them. 1t is time, he thinks, for that
corner Of France to be moved back,
and he particularizes.
He wants to hang beside the great
"Embarkment for Cythera" in the
Louvre not only the famous version of
that masterpiece in the Kaiser's col
lection, but the renowned sign which
Watteau painted for his friend, the
picture seller Gersaint, one Of the his
toric gems of the period. He goes after
the French treasures Of the house of
Hohenzollern with chapter and verse,
carefully naming names. For example,
there is the "Bonaparte" of David. He
explains, bluntly, that it is the one
which was taken from the chateau of
St. Cloud by Bliicher in 1915 He Is
disconcertingly ready with these re-
minders, as he is with the essentially
French associations which seem
doubly to invoke the return of divers
works now held in Germany Obvious
ly LIE Bruins "Portrat of the Banker
Jabach and His Family" belongs among
the Jabach pictures in the Louvre
which Colbert bought for his king. And
where but in Paris should hang Mi
gnard's portrait of Marie Mancini Ma
zarin's niece? The mention Of these two
canvases recalls the fact that the in
qusition is in no wise to be stopped
within the limits of the Kaiser's pal
aces. AS we have pointed out in sur
veying Germany's resources for the
payment of an indemnity in works of
art, they embrace famous museums all
over the country.
For Old Sake's Sake
The LIE Brun and Mignard just cited
are in the Berlin Museum, which has
also some notable examples of Wat
teau, Lancret, Largilliere, Poussin, Cas-
pard, Doughet and Claude. At Munich
the great gallery would yield important
works by Clouet, Philippe de Cham
pagne, Jouvenet, Vivien, Poussin,
Claude and Boucher. There are French
works at Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick
Schwerin and Karlsruhe. And M. Mar
guillier is careful not to omit the re-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

sponsibility, and means of repayment,
to be ascribed to Vienna. He talks.
suggestively, too, of bringing back from
the enemy countries the things that
belong to France or Belgium for old
sake's sake. In the course of the war
DR.. Bode, it appears, took to Frank
fort from Lille an "Assumption Of the
Virgin" by Piazzetta, which had orig
inal1y adorned church in tho German
city. If that is a good idea, when
worked to German advantage, DR.. Bode
ought to be the first to see how justly
in the circumstances, it might be made
to serve the French. Let Saint Omer
have back from Berlin the wings now
there which Simon Marmion, of Valen-
ciennes, painted for the retable in the
monastery of St. Bertin in the fifteenth
century. Let Melun reclaim from Ber-
lin the "Etienne Chevalier" of Fou-
quet When the Van Eyck panels are
returned to Ghent let Berlin and Mu-
Mich send to Louvain the paintings by
Thierry Bouts which belong there; let
Frankfort give back to Belgium her
paintings by the Maitre de Flemalle,
and Dantzic her Memling, while Vienna
restores to Antwerp the three great
compositions which Rubens painted for
the Church Of the Jesuits in that city
There are, indeed, scores and hundreds
of cases in which certain pictures in
gium, would only be coming home after
what we have called before nothing
more nor less than exile. Reparation, as
we insist upon repeating, in season and
out Of season, cannot be expressed in
this case simply in terms Of cash
There must be such reparation as is
possible IN the world of ideas. To
bring back to France and Belgium
works of art created in those countries
and long held, for one reason or an
other, in an alien atmosphere in Ger
many, would go far to secure such rep
aration.
/. NJ Marguillier knows only too we'll
the nature Of the people with which
the conference has to deal. In a foot
note he revives the story of how Ber-
lin contrived to buy the celebrated
Elaboration of the Shepherds" by
Hugo Won der Goes, from a Spanish
convent. When the Spanish govern
ment sought to interfere with this pro-
ceeding on the ground that the picture
formed part of the national patrimony
Germany threatened to withdraw her
ambassador from Madrid. The pur-
chase accordingly went through. And
Eyet, with this spirit to remember, M.
Marguillier nevertheless stays his
hand, as it were. In our own survey
of Germany's artistic treasure we
noted masterpieces of all the schools.
This magnanimous Frenchman practi-
cally ignores them. He would like to
see in the Louvre the -Four Apostles"
of Durcr from Munich, but his de-
mands adhere to French art, and in his
restraint he makes, after all,
weighty point. His plan of reparaton
but gains in logic and practicalty, as it
rests upon the eternal fitness of things.
French art for the French-that is
surely persuasive argument to put
before the peace conference. And let
it not be forgotten that no matter how
fully the plan might be accepted and
carried out the debt Of Germany would
still be paid only in part. 1t is not
only for theft, but for immeasurablc
! destruction that she has to atone.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

The exhibition of pictures which Mr.
.Wllllam NJ Paxton, of Boston, has ar
ranged at the Folsom gallery might be
described as one more tribute to the
cult OF Yer Nicer, as was most con-
splcuously popularized when Mr. Tar
bell put forth his Girl Crocheting"
some years ago. 1t is the cult for hu
man life treated as still life, for pretty
women posed IN state of immobility
IN simple interiors. Mr. Paxton brings
family dramatic atmosphere into
some of his motives "The Other
Door" and "The Telegram" are both
illustrations of something more than
graceful ideness. But in these, as in
all the other canvases, the important
thing for the artist is technical virtu-
osity, certain "prccious' quality in
color and in surface. Mr. Paxton has
sound composition and he is smoothly
efficient, If in no wise distinguished in
draughtsmanship and modelling. Where
he fails to reach his goal is in beauty
of color and particularly in that fine
ness of surface, combining suave pol
lsh with transparency and depth, which
we associate with Yer Nicer. His
tones are commonplace, and in the
manipulation of them he is not so much
suave rs sleek. Quality, the one trait
which pictures like these should have.
is the one trait we miss.