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Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08
BAVARIA DECLARES
SOVIET REPUBLIC
Munich Ministers Join Com
munist Movement; $50
Arrested

RATISBON, Bavaria, April THE
soldiers and workmen's council today
reclared itself for a soviet republic.
There was only one dissenting vote
Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08
END FIGHT
NOW ED|CT
Of WILSON
Allies Told Neutral Zone Pro
posals Unacceptable to Sow
let Government Leaders
Communists Offer Counter
Project; Demand Right to
Govern Occupied Territory

PARIS. April 7.-CBy the Associat-
ed Press)-President Wilson remain.
ed in bed most of the day. Steady
improvement in his condition, how.
ever, is announced by the attending
physicians.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08
COL. ANSELL
To REVISE
ARMY LAWS
Leader in Controversy Over
Courts Martial Assigned to
Provide Remedy for All Ills
Baker Asks Officer Who Crit
icized System to Better 1t;
Draft of Bill Is Requested

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Lieuten-
ant Colonel Ansell, former acting
judge advocate general, and one of
the leaders over courts martial pro-
cedure, has been directed by Secre-
tary Baker to prepare and submit a
bill, which in his opinion would cor
rect deficiencies in the exciting mill
tary justice system. The secretary's
order under date of April 5, was made
public today by the war department.
At the same time announcement was
made that Secretary Baker had refus-
ed for the second time to make pub
lie the recent communication from
Colonel AnseI. replying to statements
made by Major General Crowder,
judge advocate general.
The secretary's order, which is in
tn eform of a regular departmental
communication, signed by the adju-
tant general through which it was
transmitted, follows:
Secretary's Order
1.-THE secretary of war acknowl-
edges the receipt through military
channels of the first paragraph of the
endorsement made by Lieutenant Col
onel Ansen under date of April 2.
dealing with the subject of proposed
changes in a system of military JUS
tice. The suggestions made by Lieu
tenant AnseI are entirely apparent in
form and substance and merit earnest
consideration, which they will receive.
With many of the suggestions the sec
retary of war finds himself in hearty
concurrence, if in fact existing statute
law is defensive in the particular sug-
gested by the proposed change.
'In order that the subject may be
fully considered and views of Lien
tenan tColonel Ansen adequately stud
led it is directed that Lieutenant Col
onel Ansell prepare and submit to the
secretar yof war at the earliest possi-
be time the draf tof such a bill as
would, in his opinion. be adapted to
carry into effect the ideas expressed
in the first paragraph of his endorse
ment.
with regard to the second para
graph of the endorsement which calls
for this memorandum, the secretary
OF war declines to receive officially
the communication herewith returned.
The communication in question has al
ready been published, and there is.
therefore, no point in seeking to use
the secretary of war as medium of
publicity. The resort to personal COM
ment in connection with this subject
matter was not begun by General
Crowder. 1t plainly would have been
more fitting and appropriate of never
begun by anybody.
at has certainly been carried far
enough by everybody. The secretary
of war assumes Lieutenant Colonel
Ansell's earnest desire to concentrate
public attention and official attention
upon the improvement of the syestem
of military justice, and is quite sure
that single-minded and unbiased
consideration of that subject can best
be assured by the abotement of fur
ther personal discussion and unani-
nifty of effort to work out the best
results for the system which we all
desire to improve"
Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08
BRITISH PLANE TO
START TRIP APRIL I6

ated Press.)-The airplane Of the
Shortt brothers, one of the entries for
10000 pound sterling race across the
Atlantic, will start from Ireland for
Newfoundland on April 16, weather
permitting. The sirplane is expected
to make the journey in 20 hours.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08


ed Press)-President Wilson remain
ed in bed most of the day. Steady
improvement in his condition, how
ever, is announced by the attending
physicians.
PARIS. April 7.-(By the Associat-
ed Press.)-The peace conference has
apparently reached the turning point
between definite and speedy results
and further prolonged delays. The
indications today were toward action.
but new doubts began to appear as
to whether the desired results could
be accomplished within a fortnight as
Premier Lloyd George and Colonel
House have predicted.
The council of four was to have
met at IL o'clockthi morning at the
white House." where the president
still is confined to bed, but able to
consult with his colleagues in emer-
gencies. 1t developed. however. that
Premier Lloyd George has been af-
fected in a similar manner as the pres
i6ent which has confined him also to
his bed. A morning session of the
council was therefore impossible.
Lloyd George Sick.
1t was then determined to have the
council meet at Mr. Lloyd Georges
residence. so as to be near him. aud
here the session began at $3.50 this
afternoon with Premier Clemenceau.
Premier Orlando, Colonel House and
all the technical experts present.
Reparations was again the chief is
sue, and it was settled in the main
principle.
One of the American experts
summed up the situation as he left
the meeting, saying: "The chances
are favorable to an agreement, but
we have not agreed yet"
The principles which seem to be
settled are that reparations and resto-
ration shall he in accordance with the
presidents seventh and eighth points
and the allies reply to the presidents
note and also that the actual damage
and destruction shall be the main
basis for estimating the damages and
that the commission shall formulate
categories or classes of these dam
ages. Payment is to be spread over
a period of years, without specific
total being fixed and the initial pay
ments probably will be required with
in the first two years.
No Agreement Reached.
At the close of the councils session
it was stated that no agreement had
been reached on reparations or other
subjects and that discussion on repar-
ations would be resumed with Presi-
dent Wilson possibly present.
Extreme tension was evident as a
result of today's discussions and it
is believed throughout the conference
that another critical stage has been
reached. One of. the most respon.
sible authorities associated with
President Wilson said that he would
not be surprised if American parti-
cipation was brought to an early
close if the delays over details were
carried much further. The differ
ences remaining on the subjects of
frontiers and reparations are COM
paratively slight. he added, and yet
these slight differences are so per
sistently maintained as to threaten
to create prolonged delays, which the
president and American delegation
are not willing to accept
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Outside Of those in New York, most Of
the chief theatres in the land were nor
mslly dark" The strike thus resembled
an anthracite coal tie-up in midsummer,
carrying a threat, but not immediate and
widespread inconvenience. Though we
may shirk from admitting It. time is a
standard solvent. Even the world war
ended.
Every day OH which the managers cry
"No compromise" every day OIL which
the actors, more skilled in the sheer
artistry of defiance, hiss "Never!' is
bringing the date of eventual agreement
closer The stride of September peril
nently emphasizes the loss to producers,
players and that long and patient suf-
ferer, the general public.
It has been said that theatres arc not
necessities, and yet all the major belliger-
ents in the war zealously supported stage
entertainments at the front, If they
are luxuries they are at least in univer-
sal demand Public impatience at the de
ferment Of the amusement season is
pretty certain to be effective as the op-
portunities for outdoor recreation lessen.
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POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM

IT WAS when men were being drafted
for the new army that ward politics III
America achieved the ultimate depth of
debasement. In almost every community
there were a few towards who tried to
sneak out of the service, to play false
with the country and with better men
by avoiding a plain duty with the aid of
a petty boss. Only few succeeded. The
character of the American people as it
was reflected in the service boards was
proof against this sort of corruption.
It is not surprising, therefore, to hear
George W. Long, who was chairman of
one of the Philadelphia draft boards,
charge Ware lieutenants with completely
in behalf of ward favorites who evaded
or tried to evade, military service. Such
efforts were to have been expected. Sig
nificant as Mr.. Longs charges are of the
mental squalor underlying sections of
the organization, they are not to be ac-
cepted as an exclusive indictment of the
Ware method. The indictment is broader
than that. 1t fits the whole ward system
of municipal control as it is now organ
lied in most American cities.
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WHERE ALL THINGS WAIT

A Ii peoples and all governments have
invariably found, after trying every
other method, that reason alone can set
tie their troubles and adjust their differ
ences. Wars and violence never seemed
sb futile as they seem now.
Resolutions to provide for an indus
trial conference such as President Wilson
mentioned in his statement of yesterday
are already pending" in the House and
the Senate.
Why should such resolutions "pend"?
1t seems to be the desire of the Presi-
dent to have a full and fair representa-
tion of labor, capital, people and govern
ment in a conference called to settle
wage questions and the question of pro-
duction by the only method that ever
solved anything.
Will Congress withhold its support in
this instance, too, until personal spite
and party issues are disposed OF on the
floor?
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THE AUSTRIAN ANTlcLIMAx

T,HE completion of the Austrian treaty
= occasions only the most insignificant
ripples of public interest. Yet here is a
document determining the fate of an
empire which territorially was second in
Europe only to that of Russia and of a
nation which, ostensibly, provoked the
world war. Important new states are
carved from its former domain. The
map of central Europe undergoes more
changes than even those imposed upon it
by Napoleon at the height of his power.
The general Indifference to these really
momentous negotiations suggests two
fold explanation. Germany was the
main enemy factor in the universal con-
fict. With her status determined, other
arrangements take on the nature of an
anticlimax.
And then the brigade of special cor
respondents in Paris has virtually dis
banded. Awful crises may have marked
the course of diplomatic dealings with
Austria. II so they remain uncabled,
unhonored by picturesque description
and the public is unwrung. 1t is quite
impossible to be excited over the fin
sshed treaty which never gave us a thrill
while 1t was in the making.
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OUR coNGREssMEN ABROAD

s CONGRESSIONAL Investigations are
~ like charity. They ought to begin at
home. If there is anything of Importance
TO be learned about our conduct of the
war it can best be learned in Washing
ton. The spectacle of committee of
the House shopping around European
battletields and letting itself in for a
snub from General Pershing isn't a
pleasant one.
If the gentlemen of the House intend
to muckrake the army and the admins
tration they will have to muckrake the
high commands of other countries, and
even some existing governments, before
they can present to the American people
fair review of our errors and achieve
ments, since all things are relative and
the war with Germany was a matter in
which ordinary rules ceased to run.
The records of our work in France are
now complete in the War and State De-
partments. The travelling committee
seems just to have learned this Now
will it have sense enough to come home
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occasion.
BACK HOME

GUR1OUSLY enough, in time that is
- supposed to be filled with intolerable
strains of relative impoverishment, no
one has been heard to complain about the
high cost of taking vacations-though
more people took vacations this year
than ever took them before. There will
be gloomy backward surveys, Of course;
wonder tales of the dizzy price of 'this
and the dizzy price of that encountered
away from home. But that will be later,
after we have had time for thought
habit that isn't fashionable in hot
weather.
Meanwhile the return trails are
crowded with people who have dim
sense of convalescence after riotous
fever. They are getting back to the
same old town to find it unchanged after
what seems an age; to the same old City
Hall clock, the same old Mayor and the
same old restful job of work. Vacations
have one supreme advantage. They help
to keep a vast part of America normally
appreciative of the place called home.
In the regions where good times are Of
fered for sale you rush out and in. You
go to bed in gasping haste in order that
you may speed away from it in the morn
ing. A queer world it was outside, full
of noisy waters; of stuff that ought to be
in cans growing mysteriously on bush and
tree; of clouds that sailed grandly over
head and did not fall of cows that
seemed to have been born wise, SO fixed
were they in austere and distant calm.
Against the astonishing background
there flowed a limitless multitude of
faces, most of them pretty and, alas
highly colored, that must seem, in retro
spect, like swift fight of moths in the
twilight of recollected things.
What were the crowds after in the
strenuous pursuit? Rest and peace, they
said. They didn't find it. That much is
plain to any one who meets them home
ward bound. We are young people and
we shall have to grow some centuries
older, it appears, before we learn that
peace and the ease that goes with it
aren't to be had on vacations alone or
from Republicans or Democrats, Con-
crosses or Presidents, bylaws or edicts.
Peace is little like fame. 1t is attain
able only after you cease chasing after
it. 1t is wisdom. To be really wise you
must be old. And you may remember
that old folks usually remain at home to
open the door to those who stagger
wearily in after vacation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

puted even by his worst enemies. He
knows the subject through long contact
with il. He has political acumen enough
to be aware Of the Importance If offering
a solution of the question before the next
presidential election. II he can devise
system Of indirect taxation which will
raise the necessary revenue and distrib
ute the burden over the whole country,
on farmer and manufacturer, on cotton
grower and wool spinner alike, he will
receive that credit which is due to every
man who has done that which the nation
wants done.
II will not be an easy task, for enor-
nous sums must be raised this year and
next, and for years to come the annual
expenditures of the government will be
double and treble what they were before
the war. The interest OH the war debt
will be billion dollars a year and an
other billion at least will be required to
meet the ordinary expenses on a peace
basis. There must be heavier taxes than
in the past or new sources of revenue
must be discovered. The Democrats
have proved their inability to handle the
matter with fairness. to all business in
terests. If the Republicans cannot do
better the country is in a bad way.
More campaigns have been won on the
taxation issue than on any other, There
never was a time in the history of the
country when it was SO pressing as it is
today. 1t is up to the leaders in Wash
ington to get busy and prove once more
that when it comes to dealing with big
financial questions they are equal to the
occasion
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EactIess and
Incomplete

When the Federal Re
Tactless and serve Bank of this
Incomplete district declared that
if labor demanded
fewer luxuries it might result in a reduc
ton in the cost of living it said something
wholly tactless and only partly true. 1t
was tactless because labor has a growing
belief that it is entitled to the best there is
1t is only partly true because the workman
is not the only offender; because labor ex-
pended on the production of luxures is only
wasted when it impedes the production Of
necessities, and there is no evidence at
present that candymakers and milliners and
jewellers, for instance, if not engaged in
their present business would straightway
go to work in the fields. the mines, the
mills and the factories and because 'it
amt So anyhow. Prices will never in the
world go down to their former level; and
the one thing that will stabilize them at
place where a pay envelope may take a
look in on them is production, and more
production and then, as a flip, still more
production. And that production can be
had without taking any one man from his
present occupation.
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LOTE is NOT BLIND

r Owe is not blind oh, no With vision
IL keen W
1t gazes, and It's friendly eyes
Pierce through the outer wells that mortals
wear y q,
And recognize through each disguise
brother travelling on life's broad highway.
Loves eyes, with sympathy and trust aglow,
Seek only good and dnd it, too;
Beneath the outer garment soiled and stained
They see the robe of heavenly hue,
And smile in cordial greeting to friend.
Josephine NJ. Fabricant, in N. Y. Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02
Answers to Yesterdays ouIx

AUSWoTp 70 IootcEudye GuIE
1. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan were tie
only soldiers in American history
who were made full generals.
2. The real name of Petroleum v. Nasby,
the American humorist, was David
Ross locke. II
8, Berne Is the capital of Switzerland.
4. Captain Isaac Hull commanded the
Constitution when she captured the
British warship Guerriere on august
10, 1912.
5. Coot is the name of several swimming
and diving birds, especially the bald
coot, a web footed bird, with the
base of tho bill extended to form q
white plate on the forehead.
6. John Sleeper Clarke was a celebrated
- American comedian. His dates are
1888 1890.
z. The shah of Persia has just Cancelled
his plans for visiting the United
States. -.=s
s. Kelp; certain large kinds Of seaweed
used for the sake of carbonate OF
soda and iodine.
o. Euclid was noted Greek geometrieian.
lie Aourished about 800 II. @.
TO- Belgium has raised its American miu-S
istry to the rank Of embassy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

ward on Springfield road, through thickets,
where the sunlight quivered in golden shafts,
toward the comely submits of Chestnute
Hill. Let Madrigal have the last word, for
he has known and loved this bonpiest Of
creeks for forty years: u
There earliest stirred the feet of spring,
There summer dreamed on drowsy wing;
And autumn's glories longest cling
Along the Wissahickcn!- vi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02
The CALENDAR AND ACTORS

THE most convincing argument for the
= settlement of the actors strike started
10 operate yesterday, when the theatrical
season throughout the country failed to
begin. II is doubtful if either the asso-
fission of managers or the union of play
crs can take extended liberties with the
calendar.
Conditions we're otherwise in August.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

The British House Of Commons b
favorably considering bill for the punish
ment of the profteer. 1t ought to be easy
to catch him-over there. He hasn't far
to run.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

To those who inquire how it is possible
to make Pershing a full general when the
country is dry it may be pointed out that
prohibition has not at all affected the we'll
known full moon. 2,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Facts and figures from Honduras sug
gest that the revolutionists in number tote
up to about the size of a French front
Kamerad party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Taking cognizance of the high cost of
costumes and the necessity for the eschew-
ing of luxuries New York laboring men cut
out the parade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

There are people who have a great
faculty for putting two and two together
and making twenty two.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

A piping hot time was had at the
Washington monument, where Plumb met
the plumbers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Any government regulation Of prices
must fail unless 1t can also regulate the
turnover" and the Overhead" ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

If the Joker" who is sending in false
alarms is ever caught by the local firemen
they'll give him cause for the genuine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

The Minnesota, with Rear Admira
Welles on board, carries though 1t does nc
fly the Jolly Roger.
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What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. What is Jolly Roger?
2 When did Rome become the capital Of
united Italy? 2
8. What is the second largest city in the
Hawaiian Islands?
4. What is the meaning of the expression
"a Roland for an Oliver?
s. Why is a spaniel so called?
6. To what century do legend and tradl-N
tion assign the outlaw Robin Hoodf
z. What is the real title of the" Shakes
pearean play often given as Loves
Labor Lost?
8. What two cities figure most promi-
nently in the tales of the Arabian
Nights? M
8. Who painted the famous portrait Of
CharleS-I of England?
10. How long has the actors strike con-
tinued?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Munich is under martial law. 1t is the
only way the Bavarian capital has of draw
ing interest
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Report has it that prices are beginnipu
to drop. Theirs is temperate decline :
they can't take drop too much
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Rent prodteering is given ctimulus b,
the bricklayers strike.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Any shutdown of production in the
face OF the worlds present need is worse
than criminal; II is foolish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

Old II. C. i. increases in girth witt
every lessening of production.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

TT WAS upon the occasion of this visit to
Philadelphia, ] am informed, that Con.
gressman Ware proudly announced to Mr..
Roosevelt that in the previous nat;onaI
election his Congressman Wares. district he 4
given the largest majority against Mr. Roose !.
welt of any congressional district in the
United States.
From the utterances of Theodore I}oose
velt quoted above it is evident that Congress- :
man Moore and not Thomas Robins is sctiny
as Mr.. Roosevelt would have him act
The regrettable feature of il all ;s I,
reports and current gossip are true. that
the heritage of great mans friendsbin
should be made commodity to be bartered
in the political market place for thirty pieces
Of silver in the form of congressional seat